The state herald., 1919-12-26
MOST ELOQUENT
SPEECH OF war
Credited by Baruch to Don!ln,
President Of the Building
Trades.
LITTLE TALK CLEARS THE way
Was Made In the Dark Days Of the
War When the Cry From France
Was 1Men, More Men"-Never
Got Into Print

Washington.-The most eloquent
speech made during the war, according
to Bernard NJ. Baruch. former chair
man of the war industries board, new
er got into print. 1t was made In The
dark days when the cry from France
was ,"Men, more men," and the supply
available In the draft was running
low.
General Crowder." says Mr.. Ba-
ruch, SERVED notice on the board that
be must have something like 100000
men, and the question was where they
were to come from. The draft had
taken out everybody available. and
the only way was to take men from
Industry. Hence the appeal to the
war industries board.
1--WE put men to work on It, and In
due time plan for wedding men out
was presented. Among other things 1t
put the private chauffeur out Of busi-
ness. as well rs statesmen and men In
the white goods trade. This would not
have been enough. and the placing of
women In mems work In the trndes
had to be considered-a real dilution
Of labor.
Labor Called In.
"The scheme was all right, but when
II came to US for approval we found
that everybody except those most Inn
portant had been consulted. ! mean
the representatives Of labor. So they
were called In and the scheme, as well
as the necessity back Of 1t, were ex.
planned to them.
"As might be expected, there was a
lot Of opposition to putting women in
the mems trades and the putting of
the men thus released into uniform.
During II nll one man sat still, giving
not the slightest indication Of what he
thought Of the thing. After about
everybody else had had his say he took
the floor.
"'Mr. Chairman he said. this
thing is very simple. II / am going
home Saturday night with my weeks
pay In my pocket and a guy steps
up and tries to take 1t away from me,
am fool II keep my left hand on
the wad and try to beat him OF with
my right. II I do that the chances
are that he will get me and the wad
and get away clean.
"If take my left hand Of the wad
and 60 after him with both hands.
IN save the wad and get him.
uss osth Hsnda
"'Now. Mr.. Chairman, that's the
case here. This German guy IL Just
around the corner II we keep one
hand on our wads he'll get US and our
wads. too. II we use both our hands
wen save the wads and get him. Un-
less we get him. II he gets us. our
wads or anything else won't be worth
much. So say. Mr.. Chairman. let
as take both our hands out Of our
pockets and get after him. So far as
I'm concerned. you can have every
man In the building trades that can
pass the doctors. and the boys, I'm
sure. will back me up
"John II. Donlin. president Of the
building trades department, was the
chap that did the talking. His little
speech settled the question. and all
the way was left clear to us to weed
all the men out Of industry that might
be needed.
Fortunately. - II happened, We
did not need to dilute labor. but
Donlin's little speech took % over
what was one Of the nastiest situa.
tons In the war. Il was the most
eloquent speech made during the war
and one Of the most effective"