The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07

where they saw fit to combine in an
effort to better them conditions
through collective dealings with the
eqm'nsa me unSn s %sbk
seemed in fact just as desirable as a
union of the employers and the en-
ployers have always. maintained their
rights to form their unions under
whatever name they might call them.
We are in this war to win. Need we
go into the causes of the war? It
might serve good purpose here If
we might briefly review some of the
events leading up to the outbreak Of
the conflict that has bathed the world
in blood. For a long period the United
States preserved officially strict neu-
trality. Every. effort to avoid the con-
flict was made by our President, who
than anyone, what the awful .conse-
quences would be. Later, he saw that
there was but one course Sc to pursue ni
! whether the United States should be
branded a country of poltroons and
towards, or. should take and hold its
place as a free nation.
There were long, anxious. months Of
/ waiting, Then came the sinking of the
Lusitania, an unarmed ship, sunk
without warning and without chance
save their lives-denying them the
last right. even conceded by savages,
the right to surrender, No more
sneakng cowardly asSassiaation eye eyer
but those who persisted there did NOT
the Hun. shall feel the talons.
changes nse A Of letters '0 and notes: More
promises made by the tricky and dis
honest foe-made only to be broken.
Followed then a declaration that the
United States might be permitted to
sail shin week that ocean
that had always been free to all ma
tions: We might sail one ship week,
eousse laid down by our German mas
ter and provided that we paint that
ship like a zebra or a silly barber
pole! Think of that, free people: Had
France and England. were doomed to
defeat and our turn would have come
next One ship a week! Well, we have
sailed humdreds Of ships ship a., week ken on
sand before we are through building
them. We have painted them the way
we wanted to paint them and we have
sailed them past, through and over
over a million and a half Of the finest,
cleanest. bravest boys that ever went
stricken world from a monstrous de-
stroyer. We have proclaimed the free
dom of the seas and we will reclaim
the freedom OF the lana.
I say the United States preserved
an official neutrality but the people
were not all neutral. Some of US night
have thought we were. Neutrality is a.
kind of a fight. Personally, 1 find
myself always partisan. Even at. an
impromptu dog fight one always picks
a favorite and it's usually the bottom
from the hour when Germany declared
war on Russia on the east, but hurled
her army to the west at the heart of
France; when she threw her hordes
ing. when she mercilessly marched
PROSTATE body, of little Belgium my
trail that I didn't care who licked Ger
mans. Now 1 want our fellows to, at
least, take large part in. the good
tyr's death: What more HEROIC figure
in all history than little Belgium.
would be her fate? What more splen-
King, 20 Who ~ when the Prussian auto-
Gratis faced him and commanded that
he stand aside with his army and per-
nit the destroyers to march through to
'road!
Then for a brief span that must
given give him terrible anxiety. for week eek
the brave Belgians held the, gray
wolves at bay while France modified
her army hastily and as well as she
might and went forth to battle for her
life. And we'll had she fought on a
thousand fields. Then came the hour
when the all too thin line of British
soldiers fought it out not man to man,
but outnumbered at Ypres and other
fields and beat the boosted shock
them and outgamed them. Then that
grand old French fighter, General
Joffre with his undaunted Blue devils
and poilus hurled back the invaders
from the Marine, defeating and demor-
alizing the greatest army ever sent on
a tour of loot and rapine
Now again the Huns have crossed
the Marne. doing double goose step.
backward, their speed accelerated con-
sider3bly because the American ma
rines were so impetus in their on
rushes. Lately we have heard strange
complaints from the kaiser's soldiers.
They whine because the Americans viii
not surrender when surrounded and
that the Scotch advance, go over. the
top in broxd daylight. Then they call
the marines the devil dogs because
they don't know when they are licked.
hope they never know it. Why the
American engineers were helping the
British over. there and the, Huns rush
in: and the day was lost. Everybody
was licked but ,thOAA~ CanAdiana and