Denver labor bulletin., 1918-05-18

IL 10 WoilueIlui oppoI tuiiily ioi
service in defense of human rights
now presented to the wage earners
of America. We hear it said that food
will win the war, that ships will win
the war, that men and munitions will
win the war Men, munitions, food
and ships are all absolutely vital to
victory-but we can reduce it all to
one thing. when we say that work will
win the war. To put the strength of
our great nation on the battle front
in France, to back up the men who
have been called to the colors and
who are now giving their lives that
democracy may not perish from the
earth, we here at home must work
as we have never worked before.
With our hands and our brains, by
toll and sacrifice, we must produce
the ships and destroyers and aero
planes, the guns and ammunition, the
food, fuel and clothing, all the in
finite variety of war necessities, with
out which our armies will be power
less. Millions of our people are now
toiling on the farms, in the factories,
and in the shipyards to produce the
cargoes and the carriers to be sent
across the Atlantic. This is the great
work that must be carried on by the
army that stays at home-the army of
the workers.
Every Mans Work Counts.
The work that one man does here
at home may seem to hi mvery small,
too small to be measured on the bat
tie front, but it is only thru the toll
of individual workers, each doing his
part, that the big job can be done.
Take the building of cargo ships, for
example. In a shipyard the indi-
vidual workers output is less than a
ton of shipping in a fortnight, but
$4,000 men in a big yard will turn
out in year a million tons, or a
great fleet of 1875 S,000-ton ships.
So it is with savings. Each one
Of US must save in order to produce
the great savings the nation must
have. The purchase Of a 25-cent gov
ernment thrift stamp seems a very
small thing when we read that the
war is costing US $50 1000, 900 or S40,-
600 900 a day. But every thrift stamp
will pay for driving six rivets in a
ship, and two United States war saw
ings certificates carrying forty S5
stamps (now costing S166.40) will
build ton Of shipping. Already the
treasury war savings campaign has
collected more than S240, 1000, 900 from
AAtSt HAAiaAA savings. Inns - tllolbll
to pay for the building of 100000
tons of shipping to carry our men and
food and munitions to Europe.
Opportunity for Wage Farmers
Every member of the industrial
army here at home-every wage earn
er-has before him a great opportu-
nifty and a great duty. These are
the things he can do:
First-Do his part in speeding up
the production of all the materials of
war now so urgently needed.
Second-Help save labor and mate
rials in order that those who have
gone .'over there" may not want for
anything.
Third-Help the government finance
the war by investing his money saw
ings in United States securities-war
savings stamps and Liberty bonds.
On all sides are countless evidences
that men, women and children are
eager to serve the country and the
world in this hour of supreme peril.
And our people are serving nobly, but
there is still much to be done which
it is easily within the power of most
of us TO help to do. The campaign for
the conservation of food has met with
n very considerable degree of success,
but we are not yet appreciative of
what it means TO deny ourselves
sharply in order that those on the
fighting line and those who have suf-