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Show uo WHAT AN AMERICAN SOLDIER SAID. There are Bolshevik! outsido Russia, Rus-sia, as the following from the Now York World proves: British conscription of labor resulted result-ed in crowding the munitions factories factor-ies with pacifists, and it is this element, ele-ment, flavored to a largo extent with Bolshevikism, which is now on strike In Coventry and Birmingham. Tho incident Is disquieting on this account, for, as the utterances of some of the labor leaders show, the demonstration demon-stration is political rather than Industrial. Indus-trial. "The more munitions you make," says one striker, "the longer the war will last," and "it Is our duty," says another, "to hold lp munitions and compel Lloyd George to make a decent peace." Trotzky and Lenine had no improvement upon this formula. But, without regarding the movement move-ment too seriously, ttie women workers work-ers and strong trade-union influences being arrayed against it, thp United States will be confirmed by it in the policy adopted here of treating pacifists, paci-fists, excopt on well-established grounds of religion, like everybody else. Wo do not herd our slackers in the factories. We make soldiers of them, and if they fail in their duty we make convicts of them. They do not in any capacity undertake to intimidate government It is related of a young American soldier on leave in Paris that, on reading read-ing in an American newspaper of a labor disturbance in his home town, he said, "This is a hell of time to strike." We commend his sentiment to all worklngmen In self-governing countries as both pious and patriotic, but Bolshevik! can't be ruled by sentiment. senti-ment. nn |