Show PROBLEMS FACING STRICKEN WORLD shall chaos or reconstruction in europe follow the great world war MEN CHANGED BY BATTLE soldiers have learned what can be accomplished by the use of force sternly and efficiently applied article IX dy by FRANK COMERF onu making it 11 soldier out of a does more anoro than alinn change tho the clothes clot liui lie wears it changes the man ale men who hall never owned a revolver or alile who had find never even shot ono one orr iff who ila had never killed anything lit in their lives were given firearms they ivere drilled taught might to shoot taught to kill the education was thorough and fi I 1 J 1 scientific they learned leardi d to look l d down i the sight of a rifle pick out a bunian heart for a target fire and eogerly watch for tho the man to full fall ihly they trained to rush madly at a wall of human beings and drive bayoneta bayonets into anens heads bends and bowels many of these men a few years before would havo have fainted lit in a stock yards where catan were being killed kor for four years they have been in a human slaughterhouse not only as spectators but as aa part of the place it steeled these inen many of them contracted tile undertake rm point ot of view towards lite life a fatalism without fear in battle taught them tile tie inclining of tho the word force thiry discovered that hat tile the individual way was only important and effic efficient tent when lio acted in concert with a grent great group depended upon team work 1 men carried unit that a group of well mm in harmony with nervo nerve and rifles with fired bayonets could do 10 wonderful things they could take an objective in ili other words take tho the thing they hey wanted and needed when men ilion canto hack back into civil life and took ort olt khaki find and put on over nils ills tho the taking oft off of tile the khinki and tho the putting on ot of mufti did not erase front from their minds this lesson tho the war had taught them tills this lesson leason tin hua borno borne fruit tile men inen look tit at tile employer ns as nn an enemy the employer thinks of them thein ns as a commodity lindred la Is cordial tile tho vion want something thoy they demand it the alio employer refused re fusei i their objective Is to got tile thing they want and need tile war taught them there Is it way it weapon force today in europe men inen reason it wo nye cant got what we want and need wo we must taho it wo have tile lio force inai ag grown habited to suffering accustomed cus tomed to blood and death they look with indifference on the question ot of di dinager of price they saw that when nations could not agree they re ic sorted to force they discovered that victory generally wont went to the nation possessing the lie greatest force threat of direct action in ili tile labor movement of europe wo WID have elilu ahlo idea in what Is called action direct action Is nothing moro more or less than applying plying tip war nic methods thod to peace conditions it la Is tin nn effort on the part of great groups of working men to compel recognition of their demands thoy seek to secure their heir objective by force awal no n lowance Is made for the fit fact t that flint methods justifiable lit in war anro re not right in pence row few people w will it deny that war la Is tile tho sup supreme renio ex expression of force many inon ilion got their liehr first of fresh air and docent decent food while lit in tho the urmy tinny very property properly tile alio allied governments ern ments gave tile the best of everything to tho the men lit in tho the arni armies fes it dilli cult to got accustomed to good food and fresh air it Is liard hard to go back to poor food and tile tenements hack home bome many of tile de mobilized I 1 zt d sol liters tire not outing eating as well or ns all much na as they ato during their service notwithstanding tho the oriald discipline of aminy life men are treated as aa inen the humblest man annit tit in the ranks tins has rights that must bo be respected this ls Is not always tile the case lit in civil life then too while in ili uni uniform forin tile tha pil ynte was anade much of class distinction lon was iia wits was looked upon ns as ono one of ills count rys defenders since ho fie tins has been demoll hied lie he has been forgotten and neglected this tins lias soured hint him ito iio resents it social distinctions havo conic como back ile HB la Is only a working mini man now low another causo ot of unrest adiong the working i man ilion of europe grows out of 0 tile tho war mobilization took millions of mon men from their jobs agreatt shortage ot of labor resulted were forced to compete to got get men ilion tho the usual competition was among men to got get jolts jobs tile tho law ot of supply tind demand affected ito ho labor went up the soldier went on off to war while ho he in ili the ho trenches 4 tile wages angea buck back home were high ills pay was small our fighting men inen avre not Inter interested esteil in pay they the went to fight for n principle with tho the ng of peace a largi quantity of labor was the market tile tho nw inel rushed for employment Coni ruile competed for jobs the sagoo old did jav a pt supply anti demand sent the number of wanted jobs job was much th than in the he number of places it available afla bl the returning soldier seeking a job arav wa offered a much smaller vinga age than hi h know was waa paid for tile tho sa earno 0 wo work while lie had been fighting it t incensed k him no ile figured that hot he had given four years icara out of ills his life had find come home tired wid broke lie ale looked upon the decline lit in wages as aa a positive against rist him comparison Comp arlBon breeds discontent everywhere I 1 have heard these fliehe men say 0 wo o tire are out of luck the alie hands bands played and wo we were applauded when we left to fight while we were gone tile wages anges went up ye Q dont bp begrudge grudge the men who stayed at home the they got but its damn funny that when we come back down own go the cost of living dont go down own I 1 guess were out or 0 luck lock I 1 round found two phrases inseparable in the speech of tile discontented the high cost of living the profiteer workingmen with whom I 1 talked freely admitted that sonic of the lie high cost of living was the legitimate result of the grent great demand for everything and tile the natural shortage lint but in the iho same samo breath they insisted d that lillich of it was lite duo to tile the mercenary ghoulish profiteer I 1 i tile profiteer took blood money during the worlds gica test tragedy lie he exacted usury from froin tho the toiler at gioino and tile the fighting man at n tile tho front lie drew dividends out of tile tho fears cure and walls of brokenhearted broken hearted women and fright stricken children lie iia rilin minted ted lits gold out of agony starvation heartaches lie he stands standi today tile judas of the war the most do dc malsed man of earth tho the profiteer Is not an lIng englishman lishman n frenchman Ital italian inix or american ile ho Is found lit in every country of the world a man inan without nationality without conscience without humanity ile iio Is tile the pimp of civilization lie ile Is still on the job the profiteer lias has given tho the united states a terrible black eye A coil common comment of 0 kurono Is the united states made money out of the ho war these people to do rot pot refer to the alio money wo we mado made legitimately they point to mhd fact it fact that lins has been given grent great publicity in fu eu F u lope that in august 1014 there were nvere about nebout millionaires in tho the united states while tit at tho the time of the signing of the armistice it was estimated tile the millionaire colony had increased by making a total of millionaires in the united states tile the profiteer Is still on oil tho the jot job lie ile la is holding up tip tin lie world a 1 l starving cold world profiteering case in point under late of november 17 1019 J 8 bache co members of tile new kew york stock exchange in their financial letter say in mercantile llo circles thero there Is prodding nt at the present a enst ast amount of speculation on it a very largo large scale in commodities an ali incident Is cited to us its of one concern that la Is carrying worth of vegetable which are in great deni denland and and tho the concern Is holding atheni for higher prices this la Is a distinct damage to the consumers and keeps living prices pi ices in these things used dully daily nt lit top and increasing inci easing levels speculation of this kind Is 13 a rent real detriment to tho the community it y tile tho pair of oc shoes lie workingman once hought bought for GO are now 8 and 10 it Is true that tile cost of labor and material gono gone up tip but not enough to warrant tiny any such exorbitant prices Ilu alness men ilion have hac taken advantage of tho tha situation and justify tiby their larcenies larce nies on oil the hu ground of 0 tile tho law of supply and deni tind A r hoo man mail walh alth a prominent chicago firm n man long lit in tho the bli business siness told nit that tho the present unwarranted and outrageous price of shoes was aa due to the fact that american shoo manufacturers could got almost any price for shoes from uio kho barefooted people of N it rope government 4 tire are blamed for not dealing with tills this species of liol hol holdal dup dul discontented risk ask why profiteering treason why hy these bagans be sent bent to tile envall all with il a urine firing squad as nit an escort copyright 1620 1920 western newspaper Naw paper union |