The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
Comment on
World Events

The end of the "cold war" came
early in July of this year when the
United States of America decided
to intervene in the Korean civil
conflict, between Communists to
the North and those who were try
ling to maintain a democratic form
of government to the South, in that
troubled country. Both nationally
and internationally nothing is
more vital to advance the prin-
Iciples Of democracy and freedom
than the work of our labor move
ment. 1t is especially important to
let the world see its operation in
time of war.
In Korea wage earners have been
the object of infiltration and COM
munistic propaganda and some
thing concrete should be done in
the field of American propaganda
to counteract this evil program.
The free trade unions of America,
better than any other group, can
demonstrate to these people, and
the peoples of the earth, that total
itarianism is not interested in their
welfare. The entire American labor
movement is a living, breathing,
fighting protest against the COM
munistic philosophy of absolutism
which makes human beings slaves
of an all powerful state.
Our free trade unions are the
best agency to illustrate or demo-
strate to oppressed people of other
lands that the democratic highway
of freedom and not the communis-
tic blind alley of oppression is the
road to independence and economic
betterment. Democracy is a potent
force. 1t is the machinery of free
dom's government. 1t is universal
in it's appeal and can solve the pro-
blems of a war-torn world. Now is
the propitious time for trade union
lists everywhere to rally with every
ounce of their strength to the de-
fense of the United States of AM
erica in our country's determine
tion to assist democratic Korea
maintain her independence against
communistic forces of evil and op-
preston.
Information seeping through the
Iron Curtain indicates that Russia
itself, the country which gave birth
to this form of spastic government,
is seething with agitation. Free
dom-loving people throughout the
Soviet nation are tanning indigna-
tion into a hurricane of rebellion.
They have found that their dicta
torship arrangement is worse than
their former monarchy of the Car.
No free government was ever des-
troyed by revolution. Revolutions
are the nemesis of monarchy and
dictatorship. History fails to re-
cord a single instance where anyl
lIIlpOl IdilC IlCC SONClHlllCliI was
destroyed by a rebellion. History
does record that war and economic
conditions cause the people to vote
themselves into slavery under the
delusion that an all-powerful COM
government would be their
protection. This is what happened
in Russia.
The usual remedy for contagious
sickness is to isolate the patients.
The government of the United /
States is trying to accomplish just
that by throwing a quarantine
around the nations infected with
the plague of communism. In this
tremendous step to protect the bal
ance of the world from the spread
of such a poisonous and dangerous
disease the government of the
United States is entitled to coop II
Grafton and support. 1t will bell
forthcoming from every memberlI
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