Show What Kind Kine of Men Are We SOME COME of west coast industrial industrial industrial in in- plants manufacturing war equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment didn't work Monday because their union leaders would not permit them to work on the holiday unless they were paid double time If their average pay was 7 a day the the extra extra price they demanded for work on the holiday would be I At San Pedro union leaders ordered shipyard workers wor ers to quit work after eight hours instead of finishing their hour 10 shifts shUts for the last two hours of which they were paid overtime and a bonus Union spokesmen spokesmen spokes spokes- men said members of the union voted at ata ata ata a meeting Sunday to limit work to eight hours they want three hour eight-hour shifts a day in instead instead instead in- in stead of two hour 10 shifts declaring sufficient sufficient sufficient suf suf- men are available to fill all three shifts What price patriotism In one case extra effort for effort for perhaps in extra pay In another no extra effort at any price Wonder if the boys under General MacArthur MacArthur MacArthur Mac- Mac Arthur got double time for their work on Monday Wonder if the men on the cargo vessels carrying supplies to the far Pacific and the men on the destroyers guarding the I convoys quit in the midst of their tour of duty Wonder if the American airmen blasting blasting blasting blast blast- ing Japanese warships and transports off Java stopped fighting at the end of eight hours or refused to go go out on a holiday unless they were paid a fat bonus borms for giving up their leisure Of course not all Americans put a price upon their patriotism The vast majority of ofus ofus ofus us in all ranks of life are loyal and anxious to do our part to win this war For instance while some of these Pacific coast workers egged on by their sighted short-sighted leaders refused refused refused re re- re- re fused to put out the extra effort asked of them workers in the coasts coast's aircraft factories and in most of the shipyards worked through the Monday holiday holiday and and undoubtedly many of the workers in plants mentioned 4 above who were idle would gladly have worked if their union leaders had permitted them to do so What kind of people are they who can put dollars above duty and profits profits above above patriotism Are we the sons of the patriots and the pioneers who reckoned not the cost to themselves as they suffered and bled to establish preserve and extend this great free country Or are we some illegitimate offspring offspring offspring off off- spring who have usurped a heritage to which we have no right by birth or or character Are we worthy to be free men men fortunate fortunate citizens of the most favored country on the face of of- the globe Are we worthy to keep our privileges and our fortune There is the test test and and this is the test For if we are not worthy worthy worthy-if if instead of being the sons of freedom freedom freedom free free- dom we are freedoms freedom's illegitimate weak- weak kneed offspring then offspring then we are headed straight for the conquest and bondage which we will richly deserve |