Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-29
AMERICAN LABOR
REVIEWS PLEDGES
TOL|BERTY'S Y'SCAUSE
Accepts Challenge TO German Mil
itarism; US, Delegation Guests of
Information Ministry in London.
WORKERS LEADER PRAISED

Bv Associated Press to Every Evening
London. April 29-The luncheon gwen
Yesterday by the Ministry Of Information
10 the American labor delegation now
visiting England says the Daily Mail,
emDhaSizcd the effect of common suffer-
ing and endurance in the struggle for free
dom against tyranny in bringing the
British and American nations closer to-
gether Ii adds.
This is. as Sir Campbell Stuart said,
.'the God given hour for learning 10 know
each other better On each occasion pi the
alliance has come IN turn the bitter bur
den OF this war on France. first, then on
Ttalv and now upon Great Britain whose
efforts in SO many fields, naval, shipping
industrial financial and military, We hope
We NAV sav without hoaSung, have not
fallen below the standard Of our past.
The United States Is now preparing 10
intervene in force and as France patiently
held the ground for us on the land IN
l9l4-l5 untli our new armies could arr Fe
so We. with France and Italy, are now
holding the ground for the American army.
They have not yet struck except IN
small bodies but they are crossing the
Atlantic as far as ships can move them.
The German admission that the submarine
is the surest tribute TO the magnificent
work of our navy and the American ships
which today are sharing Its duty.
The Times says:
In his address at Whitehall Palace the
snokesnap Of American labor, james
wilson. president Of the Pattern Makers
League OF North America, who rs head OF
the delegation readirmed the acceptance
by his fellow citizens of the challenge to
human freedom which German mIlltarlsm
has flung down The Englishmen at home
and the Engishmcn in New England were
one people when this structure Was Great
ed asserting in different ways the nights
which they inherited, IN common with
their fathers The speech which Mr..
Wilson made yesterday IS fresh proof that
they have handed on the torch and that
their descendants are indicating the same
rights today.
''The American people and the British
people have gone into the war IN the
same temper and in the same temper they
will fight it out They were equally loath
10 draw the sword. but having drawn 1t
thev are equally resolved not TO sheath 1t
until its work is done They are IN no
doubt about the character Of the war.
They have no doubt they will Win It. They
know they must win ii or see the rising
liberties Of mankind wther beneath that
deadly blight This is q people, war to
their countrymen. the delegates tell US, as
il is to ours. because the American people
know as We know, that the real purpose OF
Germany is 10 break down and cas-, INTO
the dust our common ideals. Against this
purpose the american people are united
AS they never have been united yet.
Germany has challenged the world by
attempting 80 impose upon It domination
based tIpon sheer force That raises the
struggle high above the plane Of any
merely national war The fight, rs President
Wilson said. is not the fight Of Belgium or
France or the United States; it IS the
contest of the free peoples Of the world
'"To GeT4nany's challenge they can give
but one answer. Force must be quelled by
force, cold relentless, adequate, as Secre-
tary Baker expresses 1T. America has been
making ready to apply this compelling
force for so long a time.
f'Ife method IN which ! W0,O 900 OF her
organized workers put aside all industrial
sauabbles in order to concentrate upon the
war is a signal indication Of their resolve.
1t runs through the whole people, from the
men in the treachcs to those at home who
know with sorrOwful hearts that Mr.
Baker is telling right when he reminds
them that they must undergo the conse-
Grafton of the sacrifice which he has seen
and reverenced in France and England.
They are undergoing it already and we
know that it must exercise the same
austere and ennobllng influence upon them
which it has had upon our allies and our
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