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Show i III LEI1T urn ill the SUPPDRTOFWAR Patriotic Demonstrations to Be Held in More Than 100 Cities Today to Inaugurate In-augurate Loyalty Week. NEW YORK TO HAVE FIVE BIG MEETINGS Secretaries Wilson and Baker to Be Among the Speakers; Gompers Extols Ex-tols Work of Lincoln. NEW YORK, Feb. 9. Patriotic demonstrations dem-onstrations in more than one hundred cities of the United States will be held tomorrow to inaugurate national labor loyaJty week, a campaign of the Alliance for Labor and Democracy "to unify the working people of the country in support of the war." Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor and of the alliance, in a "message to America" calling call-ing attention to the purpose of national labor loyalty week, says: "It will be observed by the working people of the United States as a week in which the acting loyalty of labor is to be demonstrated in order that unity among all of our pecple may be obtained in the prosecution of the war. Proclaimed, by Labor. "This week has been proclaimed for labor loyalty demonstrations by the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy. De-mocracy. In the more than one hundred cities in which the alliance has local or-:a.nizfc or-:a.nizfc lions, muss meeui.cs and other demon?! rat ions will be he 1.1. It wilt be r pw prse of Ttios demons:: Hons to , snrel the in'ring incjsi-'fl o: Ameri- ; c.:, to drive home the conviction that d .'orracy must be (xr.iiplt-'tely victorious in this great struggle against autocracy j and that every lover oi ire-lc-.n must stand readv ar.i wil'.in:; to make the last sacrifice for tie idetls of our $rj.t re- , puMic." . "O". the anniversary o Abraham Lincoln's Lin-coln's birth the message of the great liberator wi'l be cr.rriod or.ee more to our people gathered in mass rr.oe tir.es throughout the nation. The world holds no more inspiring message than that left to ;:s by the noble Lincoln a message o: liberty, a message of sacrifice for our ideals, a message calling for a united nruion in support of the maintenance of the principles upon which democracy is founded." Principles Vital Today. ! "Though a half century h3s passed slr.ee Lincoln lived and toiled for hu-; hu-; inanity, the principles for which he ! srrove are as vital todav as then, his inec-'s are as truly expressive of the as-P:rr.Tions as-P:rr.Tions of our civilization. ' We shall strive in this week to gain new strength from the rich heritnee left to us by Lincoln, the great servant of the people, and the apostle of democracy. The American alliance for labor and democracy de-mocracy proclaims anew the righteousness righteous-ness of America's cause, the Inspiring no-bhity no-bhity of America's crusade for human freedom and a train calis upon all the people of America to concentrate thm-ves thm-ves in the spirit of Ahr? ham Lirv-oln to the cause of Ameri-a and the civilized j ecples of the wcrid." Five Mass Meetings. Five b:g n:ass meetings will open th r-'e brat ion in this city. Xewtnn De-tl Knker, secretary of v.-as, and W illiam B. W'is-on. ser-tary of labor, are on the programme of speakers at one of th ni. j Former President Tnft. tn approving 1 the idea of "loyalty week," wrote Mr. : Gompers: "Loyalty to our country is loyalty to ! the world. Such a demonstration should serve notice upon the rulers of i the German, people that we are fighting S for a principle and will accept only such I peace terms as establish safe and perma-1 perma-1 nent foundations for the future of civilization." civili-zation." Forty-two civic and patriotic organizations organi-zations are co-opera tiny with the alliance alli-ance for the success of the "loyalty week" idea. |