Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-05
YANK sHIPYARD5
PURE AMERICAN
ORGANS INDICATE
FOmentors of Discomfort and
Preachers Of Anarchy Come
in for Scathing Attacks By
Editors,

~ NSNN'No JOURNAL EPPcIRL NEASED WIREl
Washington, May 4-Fomenters of
discomfort and preachers Of anarchy
come IN for scathing denunciation in
Contributions by workmen appearing
recently IN various shipyard papers.
Revolutionary agitation has evoked a
verltable avalanche of letters, articles,
poems and quips from men whom the
agitators sought to influence. in which
the writers arraign imported doctrines
in no uncertain terms and demand
100 per cent American!sm" of every
man working on the ships which will
fly the United States flag.
compendium of the various ar
ticles makes a vigorous, common
sense manifesto" according to a state
ment today by the shipping board
quoting the verdict of the workmen.
The American citizen is ready at
all times to render justice when JUS
tice is due. but if the BOlsheviki in
this country cannot see the American
point of view, they are liable to feel it
on the way outn asserts Speed Up,
published at the Newark Bay N. j.,
yard of the Submarine Boat corpora
ton,
Lincoln's opinion on the rights of
property is quoted by a writer in the
Compass. of'the Chester, (PaD Ship
building company. in refutation of
communistic agitation The quotation
reads:
Let not him that is homeless pull
down the home of another, but let
him work diligently and build one for
himself-thus by example he will be
assured that his own will be safe from
violence"
A committee of the workmen asked
for page in the Riverside Review of
the McDougall-Duluth company, Du-
luth, Mimi, and ran on it a denuncia-
ton of some of their fellows who had
been scattering radical propaganda.
When we want a revolution, we
can get it with our votes. their state
ment said. I'VE are out and out.
from top to bottom, and through and
through, against Bolshevism and the
L. w. w. When you find one. don't
wait. Lead him to the gate and tell
him to go. We will back you"
From the south also come many
protests against agitation which might
cause the loss of important advantages
gained by labor during the war.
Labor, organized and unorganiZed,
has gained more substantial recogni-
ton and progressed further during
our year and a half of war than it did
in several previous decades" de-
clares the Moshico Log. of the Mobile
(Ala.) Shipbuilding company. The
permanency of these forward steps
will in large measure be determined
by labor's attitude in the next few
months toward the controversies that
are bound to arise. In the main. labor
has acted very fairly thus far in the
REIMBURSEMENT period and, barring the
outbreaks of a few Bolsheviki and l.
W. WIS in its ranks, has played
| fairly" ...-t
Virtually all Pacific coast shipyard
papers denounce radical propaganda
quoting experiences in the recent Sc
attic strike as support of their argu-
ment. The question from the stand
point of the men who built the ships
necessary for victory, the shipping
| board statement says, is summed up in
a paragraph printed in over the Top
published for the employees of the
G. M. Standifer Construction COM
pany in Seattle and Vancouver. The
paragraph asks:
What was the use of building
ships to feed the world and save civil
| li2ation, if we are to have paralyzed
industry, plundered and ruined homes,
| famine, pillage, rapine and u riot of
| lust, in America ?"