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Show LABOR PATRIOTIC. The British labor party has once more placed itself "squarely behind the government and will continue to aid in the prosecution of the war until the objects as announced by President Wilson Wil-son and Premier Lloyd George are attained. at-tained. According to the views of the British laborites, it is now up to the central powers to follow the example of the president and premier and state their war aims in a straightforward manner. This the pan-Germans will not do, according to tho general belief. But if they should by any chance make a declaration through Von Hertling, who is scheduled for a speech in the reiebstag, it '"'ill not afford a basis for peace negotiations and the war will go ou to a finish. The British labor j leaders know that if the victory is j not won their country will go down i and they' will go down with it. They I know, too, that, every German workman work-man has been trained as a soldier and is more or less imbued with the militaristic mili-taristic spirit, 'with abounding faith that the whole world cannot decisively defeat the kaiser. Consequently the workingmen of England have acted wisely in taking their stand. In this they are in line with the labor element in the United States. The present pitiable pit-iable plight of Russia has had a sobering sober-ing effect all over the world, and the ranks arc closing up for the desperate struggle ahead. |