The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-05-11
ENGLAND ASSEM- BY AMERICAN
Chester M. Wright Gives Graphic Account Of Sacri-
fices BY British Workers to Win War-Labor
Mission Creates Better Understanding. 80.
BY NJ.


LONDON, April 16.-(By Mail. j.
The American Labor Mission now in
England is demonstrating the value
of face-to-face talk. 1t is giving the
English workers a better understand
ing of American Labor's firm pur-
pose and fixed resolve and it will r.
turn to America able to clarity a great
many matters of which America has
not had a clear understanding.
It will return, too, with IL thorough
understanding Of waht it means to
be 100 per cent at war. The English
people are at war in a way that
Americans do not know of-in a way
that can scarcely be understood I'M
less seen. The people Of England are
consecrated to this war-and what is
more, they are demonstrating the
reality of their conservation by un-
RENTING physical effort.
Men, women and children are at
work. Everyone who is not at the
front is at work. Within four hours
after the mission landed at a British
port Melinda Scott stood speaking be-
fore an audience of 600 working wom-
en-. talking to them as they ate their
cheers were inspiring. The spontan-
eous expression of friendship was a
revelation. AS we left the great
plant hundreds of women and girls
pressed around every member of the
mission, stretching out more hands
than could have been shaken in a
half day.
Women at Work.
Again we saw women building
great machines of war. Neither the
plant nor the work can be told of
here, but the women were there doing
the work of men as machinists, .,er-
ating huge travelling cranes, tending
forges-doing everything that is to
be done where big machines are built
And William H. johnson, president
of the international Association of
Machinists, testified to the high quail
ity of the work done. It has to be
Of high quality-the very highest, for
the lives Of brave men depend upon
their handiwork.
'See everything: we have nothing
to conceal" said George Barnes at the
luncheon given us by him in the house
of commons. And we are seeing
other civilians have been permitted to
see. America will benefit by this, for
the members of the mission will re-
turn to tell the story of wars load
when it is heaviest and the story of a
peoples determination when it is at
it's highest.
Butter and Sugar Scarce.
Butter, sugar and meat are to be
had in small quantities by card. No
card no butter, sugar or meat. We
dined at Warwick castle-and there
was no sugar in that famous old place.
In the hotel where we stop there is
none. Now and then one may get
a bit Of saccharine for his coffee,
but none has fallen to my lot thus
far. A druggist told me today
he might have some in two or three
days. Meanwhile coffee Is as medi-
cine. But nobody complains about it..
1t is a trifle. 1T is better here tnan
in some Of the other countries" they
tell you, and let it go at that.
Few good clothes are seen. Pat
terms are standard. Taxicabs are al
most extinct. Typewriters are for
the government only. Because I am
Ill A1ucIlCtiu quest ldV0 OIlc LOuuy
for a. half day.
But with all of the death and des.
olation and hardship, the British peo-
pie are unconquerable-thei spirit
will not be broken. AS long as a man
lives the fight for freedom will go on
Victory must come-and will come
Confidence in victory is everywhere
And every American face increases
that confidence.
Admire Americans.
The English look to America as tc
brothers; they look upon Americans
with affection. And their admiration