New Britain herald., 1918-02-25
Condition Must Change or War
 Will Be Lost, He says
''BOLSHEVIKT" IN AMERICA
North Dal>otan Charges Government Officials With Being Directly Re- People to Be BIed by Crooks.

Washington, Feb. 25.-Denouncins the BolsheVik surrender to Germany Senator McCumber of North Dakota told the senate today that "Bol- SheV1kl' sentiment in America was of no less danger to the cause of de- mocracy against autocracy. Profiteers, labor slackerS and government off, cials who fail to stand against them were assailed by the senator in vi'gor- ous terms.
 Unless conditions changed, he said only collapse of the Central Powers can save the Allies from defeat
 Search the worlds history" de- c1ared he, land nothing can be found even to approach this most damnable treachery to the faithful and bleeding Allies-this blackest treason to the country and national honor.
 See too, we have seen the effect of this Bolshevik sentiment. more still more, always more regardless of justice, regardless of patriotic duty in the sham eful delay in ship con- struction on which the very life of a great world principle depends, and we are told all munitions plants every line of industry on which the life of the government depends, soon will be reduced to the same condition of impotency as the ship building program"
 In supply profiteering, the senator said, he would name only one ship yard, Hog Island, Pa. The founda- tion of that yard, he said ''is laid on graft" and the cost of construc- ton, he said, will be three or four times the governments original esti- mate, adding, this single hold-up of the government probably will cost not less than $30,00O,000."
 Mulcting the Public.
 Like conditions prevail" he con- tinued, throughout the country Wherever speeding up production has become necessary. Contracts of the most atrocious character, always against the government, have been O. K.'d by government officials. The government pays every dollar of ex- pense for raw materials and yet pays individual S enormous profits. Men who never saw a shipyard, men who had no capital, have been given con- tracts to build ships and they, in turn, have contracted to sub-Iet those contracts, thus retaining big commis- sions. Banks have charged immense
 
 their customers and all this within the knowledge of, or easily obtain able by government>official
 Despite the fact that the nation needs ships as never before in order to transport troops and supplies abroad and notwithstanding the pa- triotic fervor of Mr. Gompers, union labor in our snipyards is stacking in a most shameful and disgraceful manner" he declared.
 Just how long the American pee- pie will submit to being robbed. first by the material men, then by the laborer and then to having both robberies encouraged and acquiesced in by the government the Lord only knows.
 ''If the country is being robbed it is the fault of officials in charge and not because of lack of power to pre- vent it.''
 The death of every American SOL dier abroad by reason of delay in hindering the government in it's eff forts to speed up construction is chargeable not alone to slackers and idlers but to members of congress as we'll, Senator McCumber declared.