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her allies, the Fascists, Communists
and japanese Imperialists, in invading |
one country after another, confiscat-
ing their wealth and properties and in
placing their people under complete
subsection despite the fact that these
people and countries have strictly OBJ
served the most punctilious neutrality.
Regardless of all other points of
view the present war is a revolution
ary war. 1t is not merely the un-
scrupulous terrorization of civilians
and the brutal and unrestricted meth
ods of warfare followed by the Nazis
that distinguishes this conflict as rev.
olutionary, but it is as well the funda
mental aims involved in this contest.
This is a war that heralds a world
war revolution in which is being laid
new foundations for the twentieth
century and the next millennium. 1t is
supported by fantastic faith which
despises the liberalism and individual
ism achieved in recent centuries. 1t
calls for a new collectivism founded
on racial prejudice, based on an iron
discipline and predicated on a ruthless
sacrifice of the individual for the
benefit of the collective whole-the
ruling caste.
This revolution is directed not
merely against the "plutocracies" or
the tyranny Of gold," against free
world trade, capitalism, or even
against democracy and liberalism.
What its supporters hate and despise
and seek to destroy is nothing less
than civilization itself. Its fanatical
leaders have no limitations to their
aims. These grow with new conquests
and always reach beyond them.
At first Hitler professed to seek
to unity in the Reich only people of
German blood. Since then he has
reached out and taken over one nation
after another. He now declares that
his aim is nothing less than the de-
struction of the British Empire. AL
ready we are hearing of the fanciful
dreams Of complete control of the
Old, if not Of the New World, by the
rulers of Nazism, Fascism, Com
munism and japanese Imperialism.
If successful in the present con-
tlict and tremendous project in hand,
who is there to hesitate in the belief
that there will be no stopping the to-
talitarian forces until all will have
been conquered or destroyed. Hitler's
whole character, and that of his allied
associates, their aims and methods
are such as always to look about to
conquer and lay waste new fields.
The world, including ourselves, must
take every step necessary to avert the
dangers, destruction and subjections
involved.
To the men and women Of Labor
this conflict has brought with it one
tragedy after another. Wherever to-
talitarian influences have reached, de-
mocracy, social justice, racial equality,
religious liberties, free institutions Of
labor and of every other sort have
been suppressed or destroyed or made
to serve the purposes of the ruling
dictators. Regardless Of system in
volved-the Russian, the German, the
Italian or the japanese, the rights of
workers have been totally ignored and
the organizations of labor ruthessly
crushed and by the most hideous and
terroristic methods.
Leon JohauX, the Secretary of the
General Confederation of Trade
Unions of France, in his appeal to the
French workers and as well to our
own workers, just preceding the fall
of France, eloquently though tragicaI-
~ expressed the unquestioned truism
when he said:
"Hitlerism and free trade mionism
cannot live in the same world" Since
Hitler's march into Austria in the
fateful February 1898, 100000
trade unionists in eleven countries
have been liquidated, their leaders inn
prisoned or murdered or driven from
their lands by handful Of irrespon-
sible men.
Today but one great labor move
ment exists in the fortress of Britain.
There, together with all other British
citizens these men have won the adj
miration Of the world by the manner
in which they have withstood the
senseless but ruthless pounding Of
the fanatical would-bc invaders.
But Labor in Britain is not merely
behind the government. 1t is a part
of the government in its heroic strug-
gle. The workers in Britain know full
well that the liberties Of the common
man would not survive a totaitarian
victory. 1t is this that has prompted
British labor together with all sec
tlons Of the country, to place them
selves upon the altar Of the nation
and the allies" to quote Ernest Bevin
the Minister Of Labor, labor man.
One Of the first acts Of the Winston
Churchill government in May was to
pass through Parliament a law pac-
ing labor, factories, private business,
in fact everybody and everything un-
der the direct control of the govern
ment. Naturally we are watching the
progress Of this experiment to see to
what extent the democratic system, in
an hour Of national crisis, can match