Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-04
SOLVING OUR MosI IMMEDIATE DIFFICULTIES

IMMEDIATE DIFFICULTIES i eaIs in labor or the reactionaries in capital represent their respective classes.
 IT do not believe that any policy can be devised, in the present unsettled condition of the world. which will work successfully for any length of time in any large area But should be untrue to my deepest convictions were to close this statement with i out frankly saying a few plain words about certain things that must be done here and iE America at once if we, are to escape economic chaos and serious suffering. .-.e~.
 1 : In the first place, employers and employees have got to get together on basis of national service. It is plain treason for either labor or capital at fhe present time to advance their own interests by destructive and reyolu- t16nary strikes or cunning financial Manipulation. The progress and pros perity of both depend upon the we'll being of their country as a whole. Ev-- erybody must quit> thinking in terms 6f a class and begin to think in terms 6f the na ton. We must work for En- 6}and just our soldiers and sailors fought for England eLt us face the fact that we never can go back to the old times; and let us find a way of all working to- eether for the common good. This new altitude of mind is absolutely alien to the class hatred and materialistic madness that have come out of Rus sia to infect and bedevil the world We need a spiritual awakening. You cannot make a permanent society by tying bundle of selfish folk togeth- or with some rotten string of class or. self interest. The destiny of man is in his soul, and must find some way of driving out suspicion. envy, hate and i'll will before we can create just and reasonable social relations The cure for ill will is intelligent self discipline in a humane and moral con-
 of a small idea is to put big idea in
 its place.
 Let us tell the truth to each other.
 The normal Englishman or American
 has no more use for "proletarian dicta torship' than he has for the rule of dangerous lunatic. And much of
 the backwaSh from this madness is
 alien to the best ideals of the Eng Iish speaking workingman it is re-
 pugnant to his intelligence. If were
 a workingfnan now as I was for many
 years of my life I should be deeply
 depressed by the desperate efforts be-
 ing made at the moment of my coun-
 try's need and danger to reduce my
 life to the stature of a weakling. I
 should be ashamed to be put in the
 position of asking for six-hour day
 surrounded byan entanglement of leg
 isiative safeguards for fear that I get
 a smoeeh of coa1dust on my nose or
 soil my fine linen by sweat. A man
 who must be protected by law from
 working more than six hours a day
 is too delicately organized to wear
 trousers. He ought to be garbed in
 petticoats and have a nurse to stand
 between him and the rude realities of
 8 workaday world
 A mine owner is simply a trustee
 and servant of the nation. mine
 worker is exactly the. same. Every
 business is a social service. otherwise
 it's profits are got by fraud. Every
 worker is national servant other
 wise ne has no right to demand wages from the nation for his work. A coal miner will risk his life without a mo-
 ment's hesitation to rescue drown
 ing child from the river; but the same child may die of pneumonia this win
 ter because the same miner for some inscrutable reason is permitted by his union to work only few hours day This theory and this practice really have nothing to- do with the needs, rights or wrongs of the worker. They are the expression of a wild revolu- tionary purpose, which has its source outside Engfand to destroy the so- called capitalistic system by reducing hours and output to minimum and increa sing wages to maximum. If the English speaking peoples. through cewafdice or inertia or ignorance, per init this program to develop they will richly deserve the ruin which will overtaSe them.
 The supreme need of this hour is for every one to quit talking and go to work. Let us take on faith. if we cannot believe it otherwise. that you cannot get more meat out of an egg than the.>ss in. it. Wages and profits both arc paid out of production. And production is our only salvation to- day. For five years nave been destroying materials and men. The worlds stock of food and goods is at it's lowest ebb. It will take eTears of the most strenuous effort to get back | to normal let alone to create a sur plus. There will be more than enough ] work for everybody. and everybody | must work Pinch off the social para | sites whether they be eooties or hum 1 ming birds and put them to work.
 Let those who are most skillful in | preparing programs for the salvation 1 of the workfnsman change over and | take a turn with the pick or blow If 1 we make everybody earn what he gets 1 it is reasonably certain that he will | get what he earns. England won. in the war Can she now win in the peace? I believe she can a'Nl will. and she will do it as she has C<le so many | great things befnre-ty hard. honest ! work and square deal to every square man.