The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-07-19
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l" Where with our
roo Little Hatchet we
tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly. Sometimes fiippantly,
sometimes recklessly. -.

sometimes reckleSsly.
War looms nearer. Nearer than
most are willing to believe.
Fact is: Actually the United States
is in the war now.
Technically, not, but actually, yes.
Danger to this continent, or this
hemisphere? OF COURSE and don't
let any google eyed persons tell you
there isn't.
Labor has got to learn to think in
terms of INTERNATIONAL AT
FAIRS, like it or not.
TODAY there is "a tremendous
propaganda, and actual organization
for offensive purposes, in most of
Latin America, by Nazi Germany,
Fascist Italy, Communist Russia, Die
tator Japan and Falangist Spain.
There are thousands of alien agents
ready for action when the bosses say
the word
And when they start, WE START
ALSO. A joke? Not on your life.
That is such deep American policy
that we have to stick to it.
Self-seekers may think they can
duck the issue, play their own little
games as long as they like.
BUT THE BIG ISSUE LOOMS
the life or death of the American
kind of civilization.
The American labor movement is
the only free labor movement of any
consequence at all left IN THE
WHOLE WORLD.
Doesn't that mean something? 1t
ought to.
One thing it means-yes, it might
as well be said out loud-is that the
American labor movement better do
things that will crack it up or give
it's enemies chance to crack down
on it.
WE SHALL NEED THIS LABOR
MOVEMENT MORE THAN ANY
PEOPLE EVER NEEDED DE-
FENSES AGAINST DESTRUC-
TION.
Can John L. Lewis, among others,
possibly understand the gravity of his
own part in giving labor's enemies
something to shoot at?
Whether racketeer or disruptionist,
there's a heavy responsibility resting
in those who make labor target
for the foes of freedom.
Lewis will, in time, run his course.
His ego is even now leading to the end
of his power.
A desperate man, he combines the
sound and fury of a windmill in a
storm with the cunning of a clever
brain almost at bay. For short time
many things may happen, but soon
the end OF power Will come.
Maybe it will be SO with some 9TH
ers.
But an aroused membership MUST
know that labor's unity AND CLEAN
Illness, in this world crisis is above
price and above the welfare of any
one person.
AS these weeks roll on there will
be great demands that labor yield,
here and there. it's just and hard
won gains.
Only sound reasons and a united
labor movement can prevail against
those demands as they begin to roll
up.
Government will have a concern
that will lead to it's preoccupation
with more dramatic issues.
Labor will hold only what it can
hold with reason and with unity. With
out either one of those it MUST LOSE
too much.
If by some fortunate, but now SEEM
ingly impossible miracle, we remain
free from actual, technical embroil-
ment, we shall still have to face the
warfare of the coming peace, which
will be as bad and maybe even worse
than the clashing of the warfare of
arms.
For in Europe there is a revolution,
as we'll as war-and that revolution
will send us it's devilish and fiendish
echoes long after the guns now firing
are silenced and forgotten.