Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-07
Our Editorial For Today

labor leaders in Geneva, they delighted IN
telling you how all-powerful France was
and how impossible it would be for Ger
many to again bring about an invasion OF
France.
Again the sin, or the crime, of over
confidence.
The truth of the matter is this: that If
Hitler and Goebbels and their associates
hadn't bundered after completely over
running France even before the date they
rad set out to do so, they could have gone
right on into England,
While it would have been difficult to
subdue the British, who will fight even
after the last man is wounded, Hitler
could have conquered England. But he
blundered by delaying. He was too con-
fident.
Again let us remind you of the crime of
government leaders feeding themselves
on the propaganda that they cannot be
overcome or conquered. This same con-
dition obtains among 95 per cent of the
American people today. 1t may lead us
all to danger.
Of course we do not want to discour-
age the American people. We like them
to have a certain amount of confidence
in themselves We ourselves believe that
we will win this war, but it can only be
won by careful planning and by endless
toll and suffering and by constantly
watching our every move, TO the end
that there will be nothing left undone
Then and only then can we win this war
and save our nation and the world.
No one can make me believe that if
truck drivers or coal miners fully under
stood the danger of stopping work be-
e tbat tha,y ,upnl1
stop work and risk the lives of our men
who are defending our country and the
world on innumerablo battlefronts.
The price we are laying now is great
er than we paid onv year ago, in lives
and suffering, as we'll as money. Money
is the least thing to be considered in this
war.
Yes, our Indebtedness will pile up and
it will take perhaps century to pay off
the debt, but if we lose the war we do not
need to worry about our debts or our
money or our property. The enemy will
take care of that. =.
Those reports are not exaggerated.
There are many of those cases that you
have never heard of and perhaps will not
hear of until the history of this war is
written.
You saw in the papers the other day
where 60 of our bomberS did not return
from one single raid made on Germany
Each of those bombers carried at least
10 men whom it had taken months to
train for such dangerous work This is
happening every day =.
This is only a drop in the bucket COM
pared to what is going to happen and the
price we will have to pay. We will be
extremely fortunate if we come out of
this war with not more than a million
lives lost and perhaps 100000 wounded.
How then can you on the trucks, or in
the fields, or in the factories, or in the
mines, stop work for one day and thereby
prolong the war perhaps six months or a
year longer than it should last?
But worst of all, how can you stop
work and by so doing deprive those fight
ing heroes, the flower Of the world, many
of them your relatives, 100000 of them
your brother union Teamsters! How can
you stop work and endanger their lives?
Think seriously before you listen to
agitators and some willful, disloyal
Americans, ambitious to get control of
your union.
Don't stop work! Bear your troubles if
you have any. Your troubles are insig-
nificant compared to the sufferings and
hardships of our men "over there"
TELL THE RAT WHO ADVOCATES
STRIKES THAT THE BLOOD OF
THOSE YOUNG MEN ACROSS THE
SEAS FIGHTING A FIGHT FOR OUR
FREEDOM WILL NOT BE ON YOUR
HANDS OR YOUR CONSCIENCE.
And when this conflict is ended you can
look into the eyes of your children and
into the faces of the mothers whose sons
did not return and tell them you did not
help to kill their boys by stopping work.
Rv r WILLIAMS