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Show OMSIKI riOMSI'S, LOOK OUT! It is an undeniuble fact that th entire country with a hearty food will follows every direction issued b) those who are conducting the Ameri- can government and prOMOQtinR thei war. When the President asks tov five million men to fight and die. if need be, when he asks for taxes I gregating eight billion dollars, when he asks for control over all railroad. and essential industrial plants, win n he asks for restriction on the eon sumption of sugar, wheat, coal, meat, when he asks the atutomobile indus try to shut down, when he requests the press to cut down circulation and reduce its paper consumption, he need, not ask a second time. The only part of the American fore es which did not yield implicit obedience, obe-dience, which had to be denounced and publicly threatened by the President, Pres-ident, consists of certain elements and groups among the trade unions. Some, time ago the Piesident had to lash tin organization of carpenters into line; a few weeks ago he was compelled to threaten the machinist's union of Bridgeport, Conneticut, with a social and economic boycott, with the revo-' cation of industrial exemption, before' the union could be brought to reason. And strikes, despite the elaborate ma-' chinery for the rapid and equitable ad-1 justment of labor disputes, are still a daily occurrence. Kven after the President's Pres-ident's scathing denunciation of (If Jlridgeport machinists' union certain radical elements among the Oakland, California, shipbuilding unions advocated advo-cated a strike in order to force the1 federal authorities to act more ra'nd-ly ra'nd-ly on their demand for a basic ware of a dollar an hour. The president has proved more than onee that his patience can be succeeded succeed-ed by rapid-fire action. Despite the pronounced labor sympathy of the President and his advisers, they will j ride rough-shod like a tank in action over any group of radicals or conservatives con-servatives daring to interfere with thc' successful prosecution of the war. From the November Subset. |