Denver labor bulletin., 1918-02-02
SUBJECT DISCUSSED AT A
TRENCH DINNER" IN
WASHINGTON.
World Fast Moving to Social
State of Democracy, and Out
of This Baptism of Blood
Will Come the Great
Brotherhood of Man.
By LAURENCE TODD
Especial Representative The Denver I~r

BuIIetinJ
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-The
masses of the workers, in the United
States quite as much as in Europe.
are going TO reorganize human So
ciety after this war. They are 90
ing to rule the world for the workers
Inc doctrine proclaimed by revolu-
tlonary Russia in the midst of civil
war and economic chaos is to be an
Piled' oy the wealth producers every
where, as rule of common sense.
That was the message of the chief
speakers at the trench dinner' given
here the other night under the aus
plces OF the National Popular Gov
ernment League. A trench dinner,
rs a meal served by army cooks, on
the ordinary mess-kit of a common
soldier. This one cost 16 cents, and
consisted of roast beef, mashed pota-
toes. gravy, corn, rice pudding, coffee
and bread Secretary of the Navy
Daniels, Assistant Secretary of La
Dor Post, Assistant Secretary of Ag-
riculture Nrooman, Francis J. Heney,
haf dozen senators and a score of
members of the House were among
those who went up to the mess
kitchen, located for this occasion in
hotel dining hall. had their tins
hlled, and then went back to a plain
board table and ate the meal. No
body got any better treatment than
anyone else, and everyone was clearly
given to understand that if he had any
prejudices against democracy he had
better stay away. There were $50
persons, half of them connected with
the government, at this mess 1t was
arranged as sort of back-fire against
the standpatter campaign which has
been in progress in Washington for
the past month.
New World Arrangement
Secretary Daniels made the first
reference to the new world that is
coming out of this war.
We have moved farther in demo-
cratizing this country in six months
of war" he said, than in the past
twelve years of peace. We are going
to have new arrangement in this
world. There is going to be equality
of privilege and of reward Military
caste will be ended forever Kings
and thrones will be mere relics. Lib
eralism, new ideas, are no longer GO
ing to be looked upon with hostility"
for labor?" was asked and answered
by Samuel Gompers. His answer was:
"Disenthralment from every vestige
of wrong and injustice"
mo longer" he said, SIS the worker
to be looked upon by human society
as the type of the man with a hoe.
No longer is his back to be bowed. his
thought narrowed to his task The
workers of America are standing
erect. A new concept of brotherhood
is abroad among men. The age-long
A II H~
is to be answered by the war, and
it is going TO be answered in the
affirmative.
The Bloody Baptism.
THE workers are fighting today.
whether in the trenches or in the in
dustrial plants, for the advancement
of democracy. We shall make every
sacrifice, however terrible, for this
sacred cause of human brotherhood.
To conserve and exalt the human. to
establish the responsibility of service
this is worth to US even the bloody
baptism for which the democracies
are called. But while the workers will
sacrifice all - everything - for this
cause, they will not sacrifice anything
for private profits"
This was the spirit in which the
head of the American Federation of
Labor expressed himself just after his
return from the convention of the
United Mine Workers of America at
Indianapolis. He demanded that all
the fruits of this war shall go to all
the people-the working masses-and
none to private profit.
Business After the War.
William Kent of California, one of
the real liberals who has the ear of
the President at times, spoke of
Business After the War"
Things can never again be as they
have BEEN" he said. Business must
be considered as a social interchange
and emphasize that word social
social interchange of goods, of serv-
ice and of life. All business, hence
forth, must be everybody's business.
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