The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
"Win the War" Prevailing Sentiment Labor Meeting
 Held at Capitol Park
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 izing the man power of the country ere ated the United States employment serv. ice as a bureau in the department of labor and called him to it's head. He | told of the chaotic conditions in the la bor market. of the shifting of labor, | competition of one department of the gov 1 ernment against another for men, the l demoralization and then under the gud- 1 ance of himself and his assistants of working chaos into system, of the in ] creased efficiency and production and Of the stabilizing of labor conditions. ."The message I bring to you, said Mr. Densmore, 'is that you continue as you have each and every one of you, in the sacrifices that you have already made and are making for the sake of our boys Nothing in the history of the world equals that which America has done Tn the last year. The sacrifices you have made averted an overwhelming disaster. and your sacrifices made it possible for | the 1,6O0,000s American boys under Gen eral Pershing to smash their way on 1 to Germany as you read this evening l that they are doing
 | He appealed to the employers and te employees to look ahead to the 1uture i when the was is over, to confer ana | consult with each other, for sympiainF and Understanding. He said conIilcts between capital and labor are growing l less and that now all troubles are set tied before they reach the strike stage.
 APPEAL FOR HARMONY l His was a strong appeal for employ | CTS and employees to get together ana settle whatever difficulties may arise | in a mutually sympathetic and Just l manner He said there had never been a time when organized labor made greate sacrifices than now, that labor l had it in it's power to take economic 1 control of the country, but had refuseu I to do so in this great crisis in the ha- l tions history.
 'Tt is inconceivable that any man. employer or employe. could think ot the things going on over there ana 1 fail to do all he can to provide our boys with the things they need" he said 'Tn other times there were re- fusals to arbitrate, but employers and employees have got together now Tor ! the first time, and sitting down tor gether they talked matters oyer anu lhelped each other. All are pulling to- gether on the biggest thing the world has eyer seen They are pulling to- gether so that our boys can finish up the work over there and come back next summer"
 Harris Dickson said that America was slow to awake. but that she IS now awake, and that she has advanced more in three years than has any other country in cen<uries;s that we are not | thinising the things we thought three I years ago: that we are no lonrer | +hinisin~ of thiS an isolated ~afio1 Mir Dickson ,Sspent sometime in France in war work among the soldiers anJ told of their conduct in battle.
 I HELL UPSIDE DOWN
 IT. is not luck, it is not pluck. but 1t is by hard work that they will win I he said. '"The boys over there spell war w-o-r-k, and over here you must spell it the same way. Over there they work IA hours a day, and it is by intelligent work they will push their way to aBer- lin. Billy Sunday said that if he'll were {, turned upside down on the bottom would be seen made in Germany ] promised myself that would never accept anything made in Germany again except one thing--peace: peace must be made in the ruins of Berlin Not one American boy will cem- marching home until the job |. finished"
 ] STICK TO THE FINISH
 Joseph Mitchell Chappell editor of tn. National Magazine. began with 4'We'l stock to the finish" He said he saw seven cars of wounded coming iron Seichprey, and never look of regret ol discouragement: that but one thing I. uppermost-we must win the war. H' stressed the necessity of work. of sacri flee. and urged everybody present tt write to the sons and the brothers ovel there. He told of one boy who went tt the postoffice II successive days without getting a letter As lie would leave the postoffice he uttered, ~ hey have for gotten me. He went out to battle ana was killed. His body brought back. two postal cards coming in that day, were placed on his breast. The cards were from mother and sister and on them were written: Too busy to write.' N bol il killed because his people were too busy tt write to him." he said. They are hungry for letters from home. They have plent, to eat. they have everything they need but they want letters from home more than anything else,'
 PART LABOR IS PRAYING
 Jerome Jones' southern representativ, of the American Federation of Labor who came here at the request of Presi dent Gompers of the federation, who i in Europe on government mission spoke of the part labor is playing in thu war, of it's loyalty and it's sacrifices say ing that never in the worlds history hat labor been recognized as t is recog
 nized now. and that now is ho time fo cavilling or stacking He said that Presi
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