The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-07-02
Huns in America
Shall We Have Liberty or He'll in
America? The People of
This Country Must An
swer Probptly.


1914.
The armed forces Of Germany are
ostensibly unarmed, but her most
subtle emissaries or disaster, her
propagandists, are loose and they are
continuing the wrecking method pur-
sued by Ludendorff and his unspeak-
able associates in their retreat through
Belgium.
The Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butchers Workmen,s Union has been
trying to force recognition of the
closed shop by tying up the entire
meat-packing industry OF the East.
A strike was ordered in Baltimore
last week. In its account of the
opening of the strike. che Baltimore
Evening Sun says "the hand of Ger
restricted to barred zones, and in
some cases were even vouched for by
the very employers they are now
turning against. was seen in the open
ing of the strike, which resulted in
one clash in the northeastern section
Of the city,"
The man who figured in that clash
was an alien enemy Turing the war.
So was one of the chief organizers of
the strike, who was given the priv
ilege Of barred zones during war in
stead of interment solely because his
employers vouched for him. Others
leading the strike included, according
to the Sun, "a man named Rocco,
said to be radical from New York
and a German named Mainhardt."
When the Sun reporter went to get
a. statement from the strike leaders he
was greeted by the bitter denuncia-
ions G leader who became so ex-
citoI that he could scarcely under
st~,* h:S own broken English.
The Press used to say that there
was hell in Belgium. There will be
hell in America if the brazen ex-
ponents of industrial disr,rtion with
the German philosophy or h" te stamp
ed deep all over them, are permitted
to run freely about the country, STIR
ring up strikes, preaching revolution |,
and mocking American institutions by !,
employing them as masquerade un-
der which they work their infarious
designs.
America did not want the Hun
civilization and sent some millions of
men and billions of dollars to Eu-
rope to- drive it back into it's own
habitat and utterly wipe it out from
the face of the earth. America did
not want an economic philosophy
American industrial institutions and
wreck them. But that is just what
is happening. |
"Two patriotic work hours every
day for every German!" That is what
the Hun breaches and practices for
himself at home. Two hours a day
less work, less work per hour and
more pay is what the Hun breaches
for the workmen Of other nations,
and his fellow-Huns march streets
of America cities in perfect safety,
spreading that philosophy and actually
inducing gullible Americans-a few of
them-and thousands of alens-to
accept that philosophy.
Who won the war? Nobody knows
now and nobody will know for twen-
ty years, but while native American
BOYS were winning it on the battle
fields Of Europe, lot of profteering
aliens were doing what they could to
lose it in the workshops at home, to
the extent Of staging something more
than 5000 strikers in the space of
eighteen months and runnin" up
with stufing. They put loal on
Uncle Sans back that they thought
would break him. 1t did not, so with
| the characteristic effrontery and cum
ming of the Hun, these same alien
elements, unleashed and mouth free,
are engaged in sapping the very
foundations of government and indus
try. They even move in the open;
they have dared not to conceal their
activities. Immunity has emboldened
them. They defy Washington and
mock congress, that congress which
has before it all the evidence un-
arthed in the Overman investigation,
that congress to which has just re-
turned the committee Investigating
the steel strike with report that in
place after place about Pittsburgh it
couldn't get any testimony because
the men employed did not speak
language they understood, nor they a
language the workers" could compre-
hcnd-they mock that congress be-
cause it, with full record of the case
in hand, with full information of what
the Huns are trying to do, merely ex-
tends the wartime immigration re-
strictions, but is afraid to enact Leg
islat,on that will preserve the fruits
OF bloody victory in the field and save
American industry from threatened
disruption.
While the Industrial Conference in
Washington is talking about "the
closed shop" Congress itself ought to
be talking about a "closed country"
That is the real issue.
Here in Baltimore we have aliens
blackjacking good Americans who