South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-23
Failure of Spies
to Crack Labor
A Bitter Pill

NEW YORK, Feb. 23-The bit
terest disappointment OF the war for
the Prussians has been the shatter-
ing OF the "fatuous belief that the
labor of the United States could be
stampeded ~ "insiduous propagau-
da," Sec'y OF the Navy Daniels
declared in an address here Friday
night
Speaking with Samuel Gompers
at a patriotic mass meeting arrang-
ed by the American Alliance for
Labor and Democracy Mr.. Daniels
predicted that labor will not swerVe
from the patriotic ideals which have
actuated il thus far and that when
the war is over it will have won its
own fight as we'll.
II make no appeal TO labor as a
class he said. but tonight speak
TO men of labor organizations be-
cause they are a mighty force in our
national life and are taking the lead
in patriotic celebration OF this holi-
day i'm the national metropolis. In
deed the day for appeal 10 any red
blooded American has passed. 1t
! is a time rather for q thanks 10
those who are engaged heart and
soul and 10 point out not why they
should serve but how and where
| they can make their efforts tell most
| for victory.
Pays Tribute To All.
I'VE have been warned by Great
Britain not to make its mistake of
| sending Its workers and ship build
ers i'm the field, but TO counsel them
that the nation needs them most 10
fashion munitions and TO hasten the
/ production of ships. | pay tribute
alike tonight TO the men who in the
/ biting cold have driven rivets in
/ hurrying needed ships, along with
/ the men who, knee deep in mud in
/ France. withstand onslaught Of the
! Huns and the men on navy ships
! giving their lives to abate the sub
/ marine menace.
They are all alike serving their
/ country and entitled to its gratitude
The need of the hour is ships
1 The hammer that strikes a rivet $
/ every bit as effective as the machine
gun on the firing line itself. Not
only ships for the navy. but ships
/ for the merchant marine. Our sol
/ diers must 20 across the sea. sup
/ plies must go with them and %
1 those nations fighting side by side
/ with us against the imperial German
government must be sent the food
/ that is absolutely vital TO the main
| tenance Of their military strength.
/ Every man who fires one shot at
/ the enemy when he might use a
machine gun, every man who fails
| 20 be on the firing line when the
\ need is soldiers and every man who
\ drives one rive, when he might
drive two. is "A Benedict Arnold in
/ his heart ard in his soul for slack
! ing. delaying and sullen indifference
/ is a treachery that may cost the
! life Of our brothers and our sons.
I'm the factory where guns are
moulded and munitions made, in the
/ shops where clothes are cut and
shaped in the forest where stands
I the virgin timber for our ships and
/ airplanes-there as we'll as in
\ France are the battle fields where
| the workers of America must prove
/ themselves heroes or stand ashamed
| before the world as traitors.
Must Think of Future.
Let no man forget that he must
/ live with himself-that he must also
! live with the children who will
I question him in future years-and
! how will he answer his sons If he
can only confess neglect and coward
] ice in an hour Of trial.
/ Never before i'm the history "
/ human struggle. have the reactions
\ of war been guarded against so
| carefully as in this day when Amer
\ lea fights for her life. There is
/ not a single body with any execu-
\ tive power that does not have upon
I il a representative of labor sitting
side by side with the representatives
/ of the employers and having eQuas
voice in oil those decisions that are
/ concerned with the human element
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