The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07
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person suspected of spreading Hun
propaganda this question: where
did you get your facts?"
Wolfe Makes Stirring Address,.
The principal speaker of the day,
Frank E. Wolfe of Chicago, concluded
showers and overcast skies, delivered
a stirring appeal to union labor. MI
Wolfe was unable to finish his speech,
and through The Labor World, wishes
to send this message to union labor in
Duluth:
EVERYWHERE in the United States this
week were held great gatherings SIM
liar to the one held in Duluth,
where the workers celebrated the day
toll. There were over 5000, 900 organ
lied workers who gathered in similar
meetings where they discussed the
two great topics Of the hour-tne war
is labors part in the war? we'll it
is simply this-labor is fighting the
war and labor is feeding the war. [
mean feeding in the broad sense of
the, word feeding with food yes; but but
material needs of the men at the
front, YES and supplying some Of the
spiritual needs in that they unhesi-
tating voice their determine ion to
back up the boys at the front with
the last dollar and with the last ounce
of strength of their bodies.
Labor is fighting the war in most
has $4,000 men in the ranks: Others
Federation of Labor should decide to
fly a service flag with VIII. even a tiny
in the ranks there would be a robbing
of the CONSULTATIONS of heaven, a
stripping bare of the milky way.
ton or DELAY: Union men from every
walk of life are in the trenches Those
mine. Back Of them labor has stood
and with the determination that moves
mountains. Back of our great Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson, labor has seood
again steadfast and firm and labor
prosecution of war, will respond to
every call
These are Of the greatest days in
the history of organized labor. This
@ to 20 snow loyat it s to 2 fhe
principles on which this republic was
tuilt and is maintained. Labor has re-
ceived Grea er recognition at the hands
the war began than all the fond period
Of it's struggle in the days gone by.
Since the first days of. the war labor's
place has been recognized and it was
placed on the board of the national
council of defense that grand old
leader Of labor, Samuel Gompers. Since
tia that hour, through its accredited az rep
every step taken in the progress of
the war.
Listening> to the wise counsel Of
these representatives boards have been
6nDOlntnH "a ~,
has strong representation. No greater
step forward has been taken than. that
OF the appointment of the war labor
board composed of the representa- ves
of the employing class of labor and
of two neutrals. The latter are the
Honorable Frank P: Walsh and former
President William Howard Taft. The
recited here but it should be said that
labor has gained greater genuine con-
quests under that board, in the way
Of ,o1oI shortened hours. increased wages;
mistic Of us had daied dream
,; abor,S part in this t,l great strggg1e
THIS is our war though we did not
seek it. The people of the United States
did not want to participate in any
as it, was thrust upon the nations Of
7Europe-thrust upon the world by a
merciless, powerful. ~dehuma nized au-
tocracy. Now that we are in the fight
we are here to win-and we will win
and we will make the victory so, COM
plete. so decisive and the peace terms
SO plain, so clear, and so certain that
never again will one nation dare to
make war on another nation without
first exhausting every appeal to the
OTHER powers of the world. Autocracy
will never dare look across at democ-
rscy when the final word is said in
this .controversy-and it will be said
at Berlin. But will there be- any au-
tocra cies? Will they not be thrown
on the junk heap and pass into the
dim limbo Of things that were?
We are at war, with the most des-
potic, most cruel and most arbitrary
ard best armed and prepared nation
that ever went fexth to assassinate
the liberty of the world; a. nation
that deliberately planned to seize