Arizona republican., 1918-02-23
SECRETARY DANIELS PREDICTS LABOR |S
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 NEW YORK, Feb. 22.-The bitterest disappointment of the war for the Prussians has been the shattering of the United States could be stampeded by "insidious propaganda" Secretary o fthe Navy Daniels declared in an address here tonight.
 Speaking with Samuel Gompers at patriotic massmeeting arranged by the American Alliance for Labor and De- mocracy. Mir. Daniels predicted that labor will not swerve from the patriot ic ideals which actuated it thus far and that when the war IS over, it will have won it's own fight as well.
 T make no appeal to labor as 9. class" he said, but speak to men of labor organizations because they are a mighty force in our national life. h. deed, the day for appel to any red bl1oded American has passed. IL is a time rather for thanks to those who are engaged heart and soul and to point out. not why they should serve, but how and where they can make their efforts tell most for victory.
 Warned by Great Britain
 We have been warned by Great Bri- tain not to follow its mistake of send ing it's intuition workers and ship builders fin the field, but to counsel them that the nation needs them most to fashion munitions and to hasten the production of ships. I pay tribute alike to the men who. in the biting cold. have driven rivets in hurrying needed ships, along with the men who, knee deep in mud in France, withstand onslaughts of the Huns. and the men of the navy giving their lives to abate the submarine menace. They are all serving their country and entitled to its gratitude.
 "The need of the hour is ships. The hammer that strikes a rivet is every whit as effective as the machine gun on the firing line. Our soldiers must go across the sea, supplies must go with them, and to those nations fight ing side by side with us against the imperial German government must be sent the food that is absolutely vita to the maintenance of their military strength.
 Every man who fires one shot at the enemy when he might use a machine gun. every man who fails to be on tht firing line when the need is sorest. ant every man who drives one rivet wher
 
 mold in his heart and in his soul, fol stacking. delaying and sullen indiffer ence is a treachery that may cost tn, life of our brothers and our sons.
 Tn the factory where guns ar molded and munitions made, in tn shops where clothes are cut ant shaped, in the forests where stands tn virgin timber for our ships and air planes-there, as well as in France are the battlefields where the work CTS of America must prove themselve heroes or stand shamed before tn world as traitors.
 Must Live With Future
 Let no man forget that he must liv with himself-that he must also liv with the children who will question hir in future years-and how will he an swer himself, how will he answer hi sons, if he can only confess neglect an cowardise in an hour of trial?
 Never before. in the history of hu man struggle. have the reactions ( war been guarded against so careful as in this day when America fights fc her life. There is not a single bod with any executive power that doe not have upon it a representative ( labor, sitting side by side with the rep resentative of the employers. and ha equal voice in all those decisions tha are concerned with the human elemer in industry.
 Tn the next few days the first of series of historic meetings will be hel in the office of Secretary of Labc Wilson at Washington. Five repre- sentatives of the great employing ir terests and five representatives of tf workers of America will meet in a honest effort to agree on principles an policies which shall govern relation between employers and workers dul ing the war, in an effort to set dow a program that shall safeguard evei right and defend every duty.
 Real Hope of Prussians.
 "The real hope of the Prussians tn; America would never be effective this war lay in it's fatuous belief tn; labor could be so irritated by insidiol