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Show M l American Alliance I I The locnl chapter of the American !lianco for Labor and Democracy will fold :i' 'ias' ,wo meetings each month ia the City hall, ai which all members, and nil loyal, patriotic citizens arc I -.-.quested tn be presrnl ;.re en uring 'ipn a campaign of education alone patriotic lines, and expect to have speakers at each of these meet-,'nr- who will speak upon some phase l the alliance work. Our next meet-jnc meet-jnc will be held in the City hall. Tuesday Tues-day evening at 8 o'clock, April 23rd. and on the second and fourth Tuesday! evenings of each month thereafter non t fail to be present. HANDS ACROSS THE SEA, The American Labor Mission is I nr.mnc the shores of Europe. They ram' with them a message from the workers of America 10 the valorous people r,f France and England, a mes-of mes-of soul-filled admiration, a nies-pge nies-pge to "carr on" for freedom and f universal justice until America in the! jrnith r,f marvelous power is ready to give that assistance which no mil i - j tar power on Gods earth could sub-I due. To the hard-pressed allied armies ,y )i people haek of the fir-j ing lines and to the loyal workers in (fee industries of England and France! I tbe comine: of the American Labor1 ! Mis10n w'11 pp an inspiration of strength and encouragement Then will they get first -hand knowledge of the "feeling" that has swept over thel American people, and particularly the I American workingmen since April 6, 1917, when America hurled def iauce in to the teeth of the arrogant autoc-rac autoc-rac of tho Central Empires It is the veriest sort of rot. the silliest sil-liest kind of sophistry on the part of certain propagandists to imply that! American workingmen are disinterest - I rd m Mi- war cnuse of the nation. Sev-I Sev-I oral spasmodic industries disagree-B disagree-B ments have been the basis of the in-5inuaion in-5inuaion When the message of the mi.;? en is riven throughout sunny ce- I France and Merrie England those nst I stout-hearted folk will get the prop-iri prop-iri er perspective of American working- I jr.' I men's loyalty to the great fight for: ion democracy. ,p The message will be that every j re. mother's son in mine, factory, ship- jjf yard, field and forest on this side of: the great waters have determined in-, e. dustrially to duplicate the moral vie-)u vie-)u i tones of Bunker Hill. Valley Forge,' rer i Gettsburg. And the carriers of the j. j message are men and women who all 0. j tteir lives have lived in shoulder touch with the matchless Drawn of this nation na-tion and, therefore, are in a position' to know whereof they spea... an A cursory glance at the personnel L of the Labor Mission speaks for lt- u' self. Concentrated in the group are " men and women who because of their' touch with industrialism in the United, States are in possession of a perspective perspec-tive of no mean merit Here are their names: James Wilson, presidenl Pat- tcrnmaker.;' League of North Ameri- I ca; John P. Frey. executive officer I International Molders' Union of North America; William Short, president. ! Washington State Federation of Labor; La-bor; Miss Mehnda Scoit, president Straw Hat Trimmers and Operatives' union; Miss Agnes Nestor, vice-pres- Idem Glove Workers' International un- ! ion; William H. Johnston, president International Association of Machinists; Machin-ists; George L. Berry, president International Inter-national Printing Pressmen and Assistants' As-sistants' union; Chester M. Wright, member of the Typographical union; i Martin F Ryan, president Brotherhood, of Railwa Trainmen. And the message of America's Labor La-bor Mission will do more than carry a tale of America's "speeding up." it will cement the natural Lies of fraternity fra-ternity which hitherto have not been knit as closely together as possibly they might have been. The message will join us all together togeth-er in tho great work ahead of us HI the work of making the worlc of to morrow safe for Labor and Democracy, i And out of the maelstrom of war! will come the das dreamed of by dreamers, sung of by poets, prophe-sized prophe-sized bv men of vision and earnestness earnest-ness the clays of human emancipation, emancipa-tion, the days of the Universal Brotherhood Broth-erhood of Men in its truest sense. And when the Labor Mission has I finished its work and returns to the' 6hores of the home land it will leave! behind it a message of a better un- i derstanding between the men of Eur- I ope and the men of the United States brothers in arms, brothers in blood, brothers in common aims to make the world free and happy. WAR LABOR NOTES. Reading, Ia. Operators from a number num-ber of counties recently held a conference con-ference here. Seward E. Buttons, new! chief of the department of minc-s of j Pennsylvania, presided. Problems re-latint; re-latint; to winning the war and elec-1 trification of mines were discussed. A j I resolution complimenting the union miners on their loyalty to the nation's war cause was adopted. I Pittsburg. Pa.-Forty thousand j workinsmen in the ronneiisvillr steel j district will benefit as the result of ttfte announcement of the H. (' Prick interests that a wage Increase of 16 j per cent will be forthcoming on April 15 The (Vntral Iron company of : riarrisburg. Pa . announces a similar increase. The not if jeations of the wage increases state that the co-operation of labor on the preat war output out-put is partially responsible for the actions ac-tions of the corporation. Fishermen along the Delaware river have offered to assist the Government on espionage work during the shad season They ask for the chance to aid in weeding out suspicious characters charac-ters who may go into South Terse, as alien enemies under the guise of fishermen fish-ermen tn trv to damage munition and shipbuilding plants. The United States employment sor-Uce sor-Uce has established office- in all states except Idaho, Kentucky. Vermont Ver-mont and West Virginia, and arrangements arrange-ments for offices in these Males are boms made. More than eighty branches bran-ches hae been opened and state and national offices hae been Federated in twenty-two states The service is now operating Ml labor exchanges. An increase of 1,426,000 in the number num-ber of women employed Bince V) is shown in ficurrs announced recently recent-ly bj the bureau of labor statistics. The greatest increaso was in industries, indus-tries, which took in 530,000 more women, wo-men, but the largest proportionate increase in-crease was 214.000 additional women1 taken into government Beryice Worn- n, have replaced 1 413,000 men since' 1914, Industrial and government work have taken 400,000 women formerly employed in domestic service or in dr E -making. Ever since the beginning of the war the official German Socialist party Ins fallen deeper and deeper into the mire of Kalserism, Yet even tuc most socialistic Reichstag district of Germany Ger-many (Nleder-Bamlm) this Faction secured se-cured a few weeks ago twice as many votes as the minority faction Thus1 the pro-war. pro-Kaiser Socialists I constitute at least two-thirds of the entire Socialist movement of Ger-many Ger-many The other faction, the Minor- 1 ity Socialists, also favor a sort of German Ger-man peace, but offer a feeb!' and ineffective in-effective opposition to the continuation continua-tion of the war. No wonder their op position is feeble, for the Niedc-r Bar-nim Bar-nim election indicates that they represent rep-resent less than 10 per cent of the population of Germany. Wc must also remember that this tenth is beyond question the weakest tenth of all. The degeneration of the Majority-party Majority-party is portrayed by the New York Yolkszeitung, the daily organ of the German Socialists in America. The Yolkszeitung begins with a confession of its own incurable op I timism in having placed any hopes whatever on the German Majority1 party. Rut without such hopes there j can be no prospect whatsoever for a j revolution in Germany for years to come without the overwhelming de- feat of the German armies. The Yolkszeitung Yolk-szeitung says: In the German Reichstag the treaty; between Russia and Germany has been i ratified. It was supported by all the, parties except that the Independent) Socialists voted against it while the pro-government Socialists abstained from the vote. "Wc rnnffSK niiriflvr'; p-nittv nl incurable optimism and acknowledge that we really expected that toe Scheidemann party would oto againsl this infamous treaty obtained by force. But as it came to the last read - j ing Herr Scheidemann declared that his party would abstain from tho vote beeause the treaty had the virtue of j ending the war in the east. "That the German army in spite of this peace treaty is continually march- ' in further into Russia does i.ot disturb dis-turb this patriotic hero soul in the least. Too cowardly to vote against it this contemptible degenerate Dranch of the Socialist movement did not have the courage to place itself openly on the side of their lords and masters." But in the same sitting of the Eleit tlStag this faction did another peculiar pe-culiar thing. They voted in favor ofj the war budget Herr Ebert, who has; often been named the successor of Bebel, had undertaken the task of showing that the Brest -Litovsk treaty with its policy of conquest, was in entire accord with tho Socialist declaration dec-laration made on August 4. 1914 (that Germany was merely defending itself in the present war). The Socialist declaration of August 4th was as fol-j lows: "There existed at that time for our people and its free future the dan j ger of a victory of Russian despotism.. It is necessary to protect ourselves from this danger and to make safe eillization and the independence of our own country. So we announce as we have announced, before: We, shall not forsake our fatherland in t li hour of danger. In this we feel ourselves in accord with the international which has recognized the right of every pi o-pie o-pie to self defense and to national independence in-dependence At the same time we condemn con-demn all wars of conquest For th reasons we vote in favor of the war credits demanded by the governm- n' The Yolkszeitung proceeds to make the following comment upon ihe use of this obsolete statement by Eberi ai the present date: "And now after Russian despotism has long become a thing of the past, after German and Austrian militarists have done and are doing everything possible to drown out tho Russian revolution in blood, after the right to national Independence has been trod under foot and a shameless pollcj Of conquest adopted before the whole world- the German Social Democracy still appears as a champion of this highest perfection of capitalistic brutality. bru-tality. Herr Ebert declared In the name of his faction that German was still pursuing a war of defense in the west, and announced that for this reason rea-son the faction was forced to grant the war credits "The tragedy which is being enact -ed on the Field of battle is not the whole of the tragedy " Tin- uikszeitung is certainly right. If we take into account the entire scope of the world-wide German propaganda, pro-paganda, especially in Russia, Italy and America, we can well reach the conclusion con-clusion that the kaiser's armies have not accomplished so much for kaiser -ism as the kaiser's Socialists Supported by the o ei whelming ma-ority ma-ority of the German Socialists 1 ho j kaise r's armies are now engaged in a I desperate and temporarily successful assault on what remains of democracy and civilization in the world The! Yolkszeitung, an organ which has sup-ported sup-ported every form of German peace propaganda, including that of the Bol- j Bheviki Is unable to deny its fears that a victory of kaiserism would mean the annihilation of what remains of German Ger-man Socialism. The Yolkszeitung fur- ther confesses that even the partial, advantage just gained by the German armies spells an enormous setback for Socialism in the fatherland. It says: i "If the rulers of Germany believe that the advantage hitherto won in; the recent battle or even a complete victory in all battles would bring them j nearer to a victorious peace they are deceiving themselves." What now follows? fol-lows? One mighi suppose that the Yolkszeitung would continue its false and childish predictions of revolution,! or that it might rely upon the imagin- I ary armies of Trotzk: ' But no. thel Yolkszeitung has waked up after near- ! ly four years of war to the fact that J the only hope for democracy and for' genuine Socialism (which Is a branch of democracy) lies in the entente! armies. The editorial therefore con tinues "The means of the allies are almost inexhaustible. The campaign of conquest con-quest of the Hohenzollerns in the heart of Russia has changed even tho views of many former pacifists in the allied countries .... and the worst' result that this greatest battle of the world has produced is the decrease of' the idea of peaco among the German I people which this battle will undoubtedly un-doubtedly bring about " In other words the Yolkszeitung agrees with President. Wilson that in proportion to the .- u, -cess of the German armies all love of peace, justice, and humanity tends! more and more to disappear among the German people, including the Socialists. So-cialists. This is a good time to recall once more Rebel's saying that defeat was preferable to victory for an unfree1 people like the Germans, helpless tools! in the hands of an aristocratic military, caste. oo |