The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-11-06
LIBERTY OR HE'LL?

Shall we have liberty or hell in America, is thu
caption of an editorial appearing in the Manufac
turers Record. Says Mr.. Edmondson: The peopl
Of this country must answer promptly
The armed forces of Germany are ostensipiy
unarrned but her most subtle emissaries OF dis
aster. her propagandists, are loose and they are
continuing the wrecking method pursued by
Ludendorff and his unspeakable associates IN
their retreat through Belgium.
- The AmaIganiated Meat Cutters and Butcher
workmen's Union has been trying to force rec
ognition of the closed shop by tying up the en-
tire meat packing industry of the east.
strike was ordered in Baltimore last week.
In It's account of the opening of the strike, the
Baltimore Evening Sun says the hand of Ger
man aliens, who during the were restrict
ed to barred zones, and In cases were
vouched for by the very employers they
turning against, seen in the OPEN
ing of the strike, which resulted in clash
III the northeastern section of the city,.
The who figured in that clash was an
alien enemy during the So of the
chief organizers of the strike. who was given
the privilege of barred zones during the
instead of internment solely because his
ployers vouched for him. Others leading the
strike included according to the Sun. "a
named Rocco. said be radical from New
York. and German named Mainhardt-"
When the Sun reporter went to get state
ment from the strike leaders he greeted
by bitter denunications of leader who became
excited that he could scarcely understand
his broken English
The press used to say that there hell in
Pelgium. There will be hell in America if the
prazen opponents of industrial disruption, with
the German philosophy of hate stamped deep
all them. permitted to freely about
the country, stirring up strikes. preaching rev.
olution and hooking American institutions by
employing them as masquerade under which
they work their nefarfous designs.
want the Hun civilization
and sent millions Of and billions of
dollars to Europe to drive it back into its
habitat and utterly wipe it out from the face
of the earth. America did not
nomic philosophy made in Germany" to pene-
trate American Industrial institutions and
wreck them. But that is just what is happen
ing.
1.-TWO patriotic work hours every day for every
German." That is what the Hun breaches and
practices for himself home. Two hours a
day less work, less work per hour and
pay Is what the Hun breaches for the work
men OF other nations. and his fellow Huns
march the streets of American cities in perfect
safety. spreading that philosophy and actually
inducing gullible Americans-a few of them
and thousands of aliens--to accept their phi
losophy.
Who won the war? Nobody knows now and
nobody will know for twenty years but while
native American boys winning it on the
battefie1ds of Europe lot of profiteering
aliens were doing what they could lose it in
the workshops at home to the extent of stag
ing something than 5000 strikes in the
space of eighteen months and running up wages
until their bellies fairly bulged with stuffing.
They put load on Uncle Sans back that they
thought would break him. 1t did not, so with
the CHARACTERISED effrontery and cunning of
the Hun. these alien elements, unleashed
and mouthfree are engaged in sapping the
very foundations of government and industry
FOR LIBERTY
Already plans are underway to make the ARMS