Show EUROPE SALVATION I IS S HELD TO BE E WITH UNIONS n r X I. SlEn x- x lal I u l L A A. A e t Nev en Staff start SAN FRANCISCO Oct 22 It If If continental continental continental conti conti- be bo b be because because be- be Europe survives i it will cause oC or two things thingS the the trades union movement and the cooperatives This is the diagnosis by California's California 8 labor b lead leader r Paul r head of the state stale t l federation a foh of labor who has JUSt returned from the bedside of or orthe the sick old world With only two bright spots Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland Switzer Switzer- land a arid and d Belgium Europe across the channel presented to a dismal picture of of Sha waning hOI hope and nd social ration ra- ra tion Here is his of what the war did IV JUST r ST I lU ass fight tight is just begun With only marble as a natural resource Italian workers will will- will soon soon find it one thing to seize a factory and another thing profitably to run it The leaders leaders leaders lead lead- ers have known for tor a long time that they had the power to seize the industries industries indus indus- tries but they have rave been holding the workers off orf until direct rail cation to Russia could be established to get raw materials I believe the workers broke away from the leaders If It France and England England England En En- gland blockade Italy she cannot last lasta a month She must havo o foreign credits and raw materials to keep the wI eels going Where the Italians Italians' 1 have built up cooperatives s with their own capital instead instead of seizing seizing- them 1 1 1 think there is hope as in the case of five rive bl big steamers owned and run bythe b by bythe the sallo sailors They hy will get et nowhere by Marching In with the the- red r flag ag I 1 V U Fit r. r CH WAH I v Fr noc is st still l r rR 1 Ce e R a n g. g 1 t e 0 ex x r J i it rc t J h tl r P a th h r F n e i M l I. I iJ I. I t T tP M i 1 lh c J t 13 n J d ahl 1 b F h e C R x h r i r s Paris is far tr from irom a cit of ga gas abandO aban aban- dO don Germs Germ Germ v is going to the bad There they sem sen to o be getting read for or another another an an- other wa with France l No Nt German thinks t jermany ermany T will pay tJay the indemnity and they say they'll welcome an invasion n so that they the can get food like the Rhine provinces have hu Everybody is operations on rations and only the silk sick get white bread The Socialist movement ement Is split in ill two and the old crowd clowd is running the government The only hope is the trades trades union movement which has liaR grown from to in number r Im Im I'm afraid there are bitter and sad days ahead ahe-ad for tor France and Germany German In in England things are different The English working class is building on the solid foundation of tr try tary n and l' l England will sell survive I anything to come The cooperative e movement in England is inspiring The rhe same is true true of Switzerland a and nett nd DelI Del Del- glum where the people are contented I and happ happy I 1 wish concluded that every American workingman could go through Europe It Is a great object lesson It shows that orderly orderly- evolution 6 will vIII save the world violent revolution re will destroy it It |