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Show ORGANIZED LABOR ALL AMERICAN ' Tie Bolshevik Movement Seeking to Control Labor in This Country Is to i Bo Fought by the American Federation of Labor and by I All Loyal Trade Unionists. (Leading article in the May issue of the Union Labor Advocate. Chicago.) ORGANIZED effort that has been carried on by the patriotic workmen of this country to overthrow the Boltheviki and the I. Y. W. element is one of the promising signs that American labor is becoming aroused to the menace of the lied propaganda. At this time, when there is so much ifnrest and Eolshevik disturbance going ion in various parts of the world, we cannot refrain from emphasizing the fact that as real, true Americans we should do everything we can to uphold the one flag that stands for righteousness and liberty in the world. Wo have room for but one flag, the American flag; and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality. In a country with universal man suffrage, aud soon to" have universal woman suffrage, there can be no justification for revolutionary agitation, aud those who indulge in it are prompted by ignorance or malevolence. Great armies of industry and reconstruction, building and operating railroads, rail-roads, harnessing rivers, and sending American products into every corner of the world, are little different in organization from the mighty army raised by the United States to fight on fields of France. The highest efficiency is neeessary to both. The energy of war is being put into the pursuits of peace. The country is fundamentally on a sound basis. There is a big demand tor everything that wo can manufacture and produce. There is ahead of us large business prosperity. We may hasten or retard its progress, depending upon our attitude. If we avail ourselves of the opportunities offered we will succeed. We must bo resolute, reso-lute, fair minded and confident. We must apply the spirit of co-operatiqu whenever when-ever practicable. We must have faith in ourselves, in each other, and in our country. .National hates and prejudices, like all other hates and prejudices, are a menace to democracy. Tho world will not be safe for democracy until the people everj-where are free to be happy and useful and noble. Tho bonds that, will safeguard safe-guard democracy are the bonds of human sympathy and brotherhood. This sort of thing is the cure for Bolshevism, an argument which gets the better of all I. W. W. agitators. After all, the matter of gettiug along in this world with each other is very nearly solved after we know each other 's difficulties and how to help eradicate them. J. Ogden Armour expresses it this wav: "The greatest need we face today is that of understanding. We have had too much talk about 'masses' and 'classes' and too little recognition of the truth that in the main all men are very much alike; that they are actuated pretty much alike by the desire to live and to get the joys that life should be made to provide. Mother Nature makes no two things exactly alike, and yet she sees to it that the man with the hoe is little different, from the man of wealth. If we but had a better appreciation of the other fellow's problems it would make for greater contentment content-ment and greater progress." |