| Show DANIELS LAUDS LABOR OF US U.S. Predicts That in Winning inning r War Tar ar It Will rill Have I r Won on Its Own fn Fight as Well feU New York Feb 22 The The bitterest t dl disappointment ef the war for the Prussians Prussian ha hat has been the shattering of or orthe the fatuous belief that the laborers of ot the United States could be stampeded I Iby by Insidious propaganda Secretary of OC the tite Navy Xavy Daniels declared in an address here hero today toda Speaking with Samuel Gompers Gompel's at a patriotic mass nicotine meeting arranged b by the American Alliance for fOl Labor and De Do- Mr lr Daniels Daniel predicted that labor will not swerve from the patriotic Ideals which actuated 11 it thus far far and that lint when the war is over o It will vill have won its own fight a as aJ wellI wellI well I make no appeal to labor as a class ho said but speak peal to men o of labor organizations because they the theare are area a ml mighty might ht force In our national life We Wc e have o been hen warned varned by Great Greal Britain Brit Brit- ala ain not nol to follow tollow its mistake of sending sending send send- ill ing Its workers and shipbuilders shipbUilders shipbuilders ship ship- builders In the field but to counsel Ih that t i II i. i nr li ni e 1 LIV t to i fashion sh munitions n 17 and dt to hasten i lh the production of oC ships I pay par tribute alike to the men who in the biting cold have ha driven rivets in III hurrying needed ships alon along with the men who in mud mull in France withstand onslaughts on lall of the Hun and the tho men of or the nav navy giving 1 their lives to abate the thc submarine submarine sub Hub marine menace The They are alo all serving their country and entitled to Its Us gratitude grat grat- I d e. e Tho need of ot the hour hour- In lis ships Tho The hammer that strikes a rivet is every ever whit hit as effective as tho the machine gun un unon on the firing line hue Every E man who fires Ires one ono shot hot hott at t atthe atthe the enemy when heit lie lo might ml ht use nse a machine machine machine ma ma- chine gun bun ever every man who falls fails to be beon beon beon on tile the firing line when tho the need is 18 sorest and CI C every man nina who drives one rivet rl when he might drive two Is a ri Benedict In his learland In his lila soul for or slacking delaying and sullen Indifference is a treachery cher that may may- cost co t the lives of our OUI brothers and our sons soils Samuel Gompers s said the American people would hot permit lermit itself to be I lulled into a fancied security and a un under tin un- I Iler der the guise e of oC radicalism go o hack back a hundl hundred ell years ears years In treating with German Germany Ger Ocr man many through international conferences confer confer- In the name nama of American labor Mr lr Gompers declared I sa say You c cant can't nt talk p peace acc with us now you now you cannot talk International confer conferences Either you OU smash your our autocracy pr pI r well we'll smash it IL for Cor you yuu Get out o of France Franc back from Belgium lum back from froni Serbia i and back to Germany German then you ou can talk peace Resolutions were adopted by the 2000 union men present pledging opera co cooperation cooperation tion In war work and a greeting was sent to the first contingent of ot American Amen Ameri can wounded to arrive hero here from I France |
