, 1951-04-05
Workers Want Right To Live!
(From Butcher Workman)

(From Butcher, Workman)
In the early 18th century the warrior Mongols, UNI
der Genghis Khan, were sweeping the earth in a mighty
conflagration. There was no thinking in t those days, except.
the thinking of the great Khan, no law, except that his.
millions had to keep their tongue in cheek or suffer the
penalty of a rolling head.
Even under such tyranny the seeds of liberty will
always take root. The people of Herat in Afghanstan had
the courage to revolt. The Khan sent 1000 men to teach
them a lesson. The city was besieged for six months and
finally fell. The massacre which followed lasted a week;
only 40 lived, 1900, 900 died.
The United States Department of Defense recent
ly reported that so far the U. S. has suffered 52,448
casualties in Korea and that ere long the one-millonth
man to die to keep America free throughout all it's history
will shed his blood probably on Korean soil.
1t is~too terrible to think what will happen to the
human race if the peoples of the earth engage in an all
out war against each other. Few will deny that most wars,
until recent generations, were sometimes planned. IN
smoke filled rooms by banker gentlemen who desired to
extend their financial controls over additional peoples and
nations. Some strongly contend that even our First World
War could and should have been avoided.
The will to rule as Lord and Master over others
exists today in the minds of modern Genghis Khans as
much as it existed in the cruel brain of the original Gen
ghis Khan and his hordes in the 18th century. There are
not many, except the military brass hats OF the nation,
who will stoutly uphold the American position in Korea.
The terrific unrest and the threat of war in the world
today is not so much the bankers desire for expansion
but rather a clash between two ideologies which too many
feel cannot i've peacefully IOSolIcI Ill CWe ooAiC "oIiN'
After nearly a year in Korea, representatives OF four
great nations recently met in Paris to pave the way for
a greater meeting which might re-establish, for a While
at least, peace. Thousands suggested such a meeting OF
the groups prior to Korea. 1t was not held because OF an
atmosphere of huff, puff and bluff, each side thinking
that the other would old up and take it on the chin. This
did not happen and it won't happen, and it won't hap
pen.
If our nation puts 100000 men in uniform, as
it intends to do, the likely result will be an about war.
For what? The right to rule over the earth's teeming mil
lions who want only to live and enjoy life?
American industrialists, by their present action in
the nations crises, in attempting to use the emergency as
an instrument of profit to the detriment of the workers
who produce all the wealth, are in a way RELYING the
desperate tyrannical ideas of Genghis Khan. These in
dustrialists would be content to massacre the wage rates
and working conditions of the 6~4,O0O,OOO employed toll
es of the United States if in doing SO more profits coulo
be gained for the giant industries they represent.
AL that the working people of this nation and the
world want is the right to live happily but war, or no war
like the people of Herat, they will rise in revolt agains
anything less than a fair deal. Has not history writer
this indelibly on its past CORY pages.