The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-28
SCAb IS AN Industrial.
PAC|f|ST, DECLARES RUBIN
Kaiser Must Be Defeated Before Industrial Quarrels
Of Capital and Labor Can Be Aired in Pub
lie, Declares LOyalist Orator.

measured his strength too soon. Had
he waited some ten years more he
might have found much easier his
task Of whipping the universe, for
the world was falling asleep at the
portals of peace, but had not yet
dozed off completely.
What the World Has Learned.
This is a great war in that it has
brought the world to a realization
that without the workers the war
cannot be won. England tried it and
she suffered irreparably during the
first two years of the war. AS soon
as she entered into partnership with
organized labor, however, she began
to win. England's message to this
country was a warning to guard
against the mistakes she made at
first and as result the nation has
recognized labor, has placed its lead
ers on the various war boards, has
created the War Labor board and has
declared for the national labor pol
icy.
The mandate is for the winning
of the war and whoever stands in the
way Of a complete realization of the
national labor policy, irrespective Of
how philanthropic he may otherwise
be, stands against the war.
The way railroaod presidents were
eliminated and the salaries of the
railroad men raised makes for the
new kind of Socialism that a fired
railroad president learned about the
other day when he was asked, "Do
you believe in taking money away
from the rich and giving it to the
poor?" II certainly do" said the rail-
road president. II believe that the
ammunition workers and mechanics
should be willing to divide up with
the railroad presidents.
Not a Capitalistic War.
This is not capitalistic war. If
it be a capitalistic war, it is on the
side of the kaiser; surely not on the
side Of America. Our sole motive is
to save humanity. Granted, even,
that the war may have been capitals
tically conceived in Europe, it GER
tainly will be democratically finished
by America.
If this be a capitalistic war the
blame must lie with the Socialists in
Germany, for, with the exception of
Liebknecht, who today fingers in a
German prison for daring to oppose
the capitalism of the kaiser, they
have in the reichstag consistently
voted the kaiser the sinews Of war.
"Workers of the world, unite. You
have nothing to lose but your chains"
has been German snare to all pro-
letariats of the world save those in
Germany. The Socialists of Germany
have been standing for war in Ger
many, but talking peace for foreign
consumption, and working for an in
ternationa1 conference of the workers
of other lands, that the kaiser might
repeat his peace with Russia. So we
find the Socialists in this and other
countries crying out for peace. That,
of course, is the work of the kaiser.
Some seek political ACKNOWLEDGMENT
out of this cry for peace.
The German Socialist has been the
1oudest in his preaching Of interna-
tionalism, but has, in this crisis,
proven himself German first, for
wants everybody else to be an inter-
nationalist.
The workers who believe in Amer
lea, in humanity take their inspira-
ton, not from the St. Louis platform,
but from their conscience, their pa
triotism, the love of freedom of man.
J kind, ~and for their peace go, not to
those who seek office at any price,
but to our great and valiant Presi-
dent, woodrow Wilson to their Amer
lean Federation of Labor. and it's
leader, Samuel Gompers, who are
leading us out Of the Egypt of our
plight, away from the plague of au-
tocracy and Imperialism, into the
Canaan of eternal and beneficial
peace.
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