The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-03-01

will not do its part in this war;" he
said, coming to the burden of his
address. 81 do not believe there has
ever been time in history when
labor and the employers of labor
We're more closely united than at
present.
"You read of the strike of 10000
men and become alarmed But you
forget that, while 10000 men are
striking, 100000 of oothers are
working-are doing work which the
pessimistic critic would never think
of doing. In the coldest days which
we have just experienced, tens of
thousands of workmen were out in
the open, driving rivets for our ships
while the critics were staying warm
in there homes and offices doing no
thing
Labor Can't Be Paid.
You can't do the work necessary
at a banquet table criticising labor.
l personally witnessed 10000 men at
work in the OPEN during the coldest
day of the recent spell, running the
risk of pneumonia and death, repair
ing ships that food might be sent to
our men in France Labor can't be
paid for this work in money There
isn't enough money to raw for it. 1t
is their sacrifice, and they are MAX
ing it willingly and nobly.
IF now and then men strike for
higher wages, let US not forget that
men of capital have held up the Gov
ernment for profiteering. But l
thank God that now 90 per cent of
capital, as well as 80 per cent of
labor, is standing loyal and true.
when the Industrial Workers of
the World raised it's head," contin-
ued the Cabinet officer, who hit the
head first? 1t was Samuel Gompers.
Yet every time we hold up organized
labor to scorn because of men quit
ting work when the weather is so
cold the critics won't even venture
out doors, we are striking down the
/ influence of such men as Samuel
Gompers and William B. Wilson.
who are up to the hilt in work in
this war, and who will continue to so
work
Labor is 95 per cent good. The
way to make it 100 per cent is to
have faith and to work without criti-
cism of the men who have done
wonderfully well. Faith and the
American spirit will win the war
Let US have that faith.
when the Industrial Workers of
the World raises it's head let US draw
the full picture, but let US differen-
tiate between the Industrial Work
ers of the World and the men who are
working to win the war.
Glory the Sole Compensation.
There is no compensation for the
tragedies of war, except the illumi-
nation and glory that comes to a
people out of sacrifice.
Tonight, in more than 100 homes,
there is that unspoken, indefinable
sorrow that comes from the loss of
men torpedoed on the Tuscania. But
no man ever loved anything he would
not die for, and Americans love lib
erty more than life.
eve have committed ourselves to
the consummation of victory Out of
the 100000 American people there
are 100,000,000 who would willingly
die before they would stop the war
until liberty has been achieved for
the world
when the boys in the army
marched through the streets of New
York recently the people Of that city
gave them the homage due to men
who offer up all they have and all
they hope to be-
Il thought the young people of
America were so given up to pleas
ure and sports that they had lost the
stuff of which their forefathers were
made. It is great compensation
in all the tragedy to find America
today is the same America it was in
'76 and '63.
"And though there has come a
shadow over some homes in America
there isn't home where that shadow
hasn't with it sorrowful pride. There
is not man in America who doesn't
feel the spiritual Notwithstanding
] new that has taken him out of him