The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-28
By r.. w. RUBIN
OF the American Alliance for Labor
and Democracy.

OF the American Alliance for Labor
and Democracy.
A traitor is scab to his nation
| and the scab is a traitor to his trade.
A traitor is political pacifist at
any price. A scab is an industrial
pacifist at any price.
There are three kinds Of scabs-
those who scab upon their homo,
those who scab upon their craft, and
those who scab upon their nation.
Bad as are the first, rotten as are the
second, the third are worst of all.
I am not a warrist. I love peace.
But it is the peace that I can enjoy
in the fullness of my manhood and
not in the Bonded drudgery of a slave:
There is an there can be no peace in
slavery. The only peace is that which
comes with eternal vigilance, tho
price of liberty. The struggle for
democracy in itself is the: striving to
| attain peace.
One may pray to make a bad man
good, but when the bad man is after
you with an ak or a gun, that is not
| the time to pray for and with him.
Take his ak and gun away from him
and put him where he will be harm.
less. Then, if you are still religiously
inclined, pray as much as you like.
Time and Place for All.
Everything has it's proper place and
| time. A wise couple do not settle
| their quarrels and their differences
In the presence of company. They
wait until the company departs and
then either in peace or in strife. bring
their disputes to an end. It is the
keep all his troubles and complaints
| to himself. Surely, no one relates
his personal wrongs to an enemy. If
at all, he confides them to a friend,
and so the grievances that labor has
| against capital, and they are numer-
Gus, must not and will not be adjusted,
peacefully or otherwise, while the
kaiser is warning upon us. In time
like this, marching side by side, shar-
! ing each others sorrows, sharing each
! others joys, capital and labor must
lay down their differences and fight
| the kaiser until he is licked. Once
he is out of the way, I promise you
that we shall return to the adjust
ment of internal affairs. I urge up
on no toiler, no worker, the surren-
t der OF his inalienable right to strike
| or walk out. to give up one prin-
| ciple for which labor stands. But
| in time OF war, face to face with our
common enemy we have single
| task which dividedly we cannot &C
complish; unitedly we will.
This is a worlds war-a war for
1s1>
master hand. There is only one way
! in which, as nation with but one
thought and one hope, we can back
the boys lover there" and that is by
! working here as they fight cover
there" without any profiteering.
A man who would resort to strike
now, unless every other means posi-
BILE had failed. should suffer punish
ment and Imprisonment. On the other
hand, any employer in this war who
profiteers and for profit permits a
! strike or causes lockout, should be
stood against stone wall and shot.
: The nation takes your boy and my
! boy and musters them in, sends them
| across, puts them upon a fixed ra-
ton. and for $50 month makes them
i fight and chance their lives for the
country The men lover there" can
not fight unless the men here make
! the things wherewith to fight, and
why should the men "over Their" risk
all without .profiteering while men
here are profiteering, and all without
! any risk whatsoever?
| Germany is fighting to- dominate
the world; we are fighting for a
worlds humanity. We seek not an
inch of ground from any nation; we
ask no indemnity from any country.
We are pouring in all our youth and
all our resources for a worlds last
ing peace.
! This war has worked wonders.
First, it has uncovered the hypocrisy
of Knltur, under whose lighted will
of-the-wisp wings the world waa
slowly sinking into the insecure bog
Of 2 militarist oligarchy. The kaiser