| Show Wake Up Mr Congress TEN MILLION WIVES A AND MOTHERS SPEAK By LILLIAN 13 B. MORRISON By LILLIAN B. B MORRISON Yes wake up or the just wrath of wives and mothers will descend upon you ou We are losing this war we the American people because of lost labor labor laor la- la I bor or and you ou who could halt these delays in production argue over labors labor's la- la bors bor's rights while husbands and sons are arc fighting and dying in those off far-off jungles Fighting with super-human super I courage born of their faith in Americas America's Americas America's Amer Amer- ica's iea's might that will rescue them and save their priceless heritage And you Mr Congress you ou and others in n authority allow waste time-waste that would save savo our boys and our freedom that hat they are sacrificing their lives Jives to o save Is it because you ou are afraid of losing votes Why not demand from labor the same adherence to duty that our fighting lighting men obe obey Labors Labor's persistent demands of conditions that are not feasible for out all-out production production pro pro- and financing could be stopped stopped stop stop- ped toda today by you We plead with ith you ou to speed the war effort to the uttermost Brook not one moments moment's I delay If you Ou do not clamp down now we will lose loso this war var One hundred and thirty millions of us will wallow in the same slimy despond of failure and despair that has fallen to the lot of most of Europe For three months we have been soothed and calmed with assurances u of out all production of war sup sup- plies The factual record shows that thousands of hours have been lost lostin lostin in labor stoppages while one defeat after another has been scored against us Pearl harbor Guam Wake Vake island Atlantic merchant ships sunk sac and I now the exhausted starved boys bays who have been at their guns for three t months on Bataan are prisoners because they had noth J left to tc tofi fi light fight ht with Those who vho are l left ft may ma still bo be cut down by the mad men roes 1 who surround them and you OU ou our r lawmakers sit in the seats of power powe C and argue Since when has one class or group grou p been able to dictate the policy o othis of pf f this great nation to our congress congress' Not until now Surely among you ou there must roust b be be bemen bemen e men with the stamina and backbone e and leadership to stop delays Musa Must Mus t the wives and mothers riso rise up a in a their agony of minds and hearts an and 1 sear search h for them This is war And the same orders order S that ke kep p our boys at their battle Se e stations day and night should apply appl y equally to the men op on the assembly y lines in well lighted factories safe e efrom from bombs and machine guns This is war The groups who de de- mand pay-and-a-half pay for overtime a and nd double pay on holidays are filching the very life blood of our country c Those extra millions paid out for overtime are the dimes and dollars sent in by the wives and mothers for scrimping and saving Those extra dollars are made up of nf t the he dimes and quarters pared from daily budgets saved from every meaL These funds are sent to Washington to buy war var materials and not to overpay overpay overpay over over- pay men who are making more than thau they have ever made before Wives and mothers as a class are woefully uninformed politically but we are fully awake to the grave I danger that threatens our hearthstones hearthstones hearthstones hearth hearth- stones and menaces our boys who who- for weeks have faced the screaming demons in those hot infested jungles jun jun- and faced horrors we cannot picture The wives and mothers are meeting every task assigned to them Frugality budgeting for health Red Cross saving sa forwar for forwar forwar war materials buying war stamps and bonds In the early history of Amer Amer- America ica lea wives and mothers molded bullets and loaded the guns today today today to- to day we hold weapons in our own bands Votes We are told to be patient unquestioning unquestioning unquestioning when we all know that parasites parasites parasites par par- and leeches that have sunk their beaks into the economic structure structure structure ture of our own nation are allowed to greedily suck at the very substance sub stance stanco of our financial safety There is desperate and instant need of a crusade against congressional congressional congressional inaction that thumbs its nose at u complete and every hour every hour all out effort by allowing labor to dictate dictate dic die tate in these perilous days when and how hoWit it intends to work This same indictment applies to those in authority who have allowed millions of dollars to be paid out in excess profits in hi war contracts For three months the wives and mothers have been lulled into false false- security but we are on the alert We cannot fail fat those brave boys who who- marched off to war war marched marched away with ith an absolute faith in Americas America's power and greatness an absolute faith that the folks at home would do their part So we warn you Mr Congress wake Congress wake up and strike down eve everything thing that impedes out all pro Slash to the death everything every every- thing that stands in the path that le leids ds to our boys in the fox holes of Bataan in hi steaming jungles and sun sun parched parched deserts Our boys who I are searching the skies for the arrival ar rival of Old Glory |
