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Show MUST BE UP AND DOING. Issuing a warning to all interests that now is not the time to loaf on the job. the New York World says: It is no time for idleness in any nation lately at war. It is no time for agitation or strikes in reduc-lion reduc-lion of the working-day to an unreasonable un-reasonable extent or below the point of maximum production. A British peer recently arriving home from the Lntted States talks of American hustle and says that "every man, woman and child has got to work, and work damned hard." if Great Britain Is to overcome over-come its after-war difficulUcs and recover any part of its old position posi-tion in competition with tne United Unit-ed States in the markets of the world. And when it appears that American coal can now bo iient to England and sold there at a profit, as is actually being done with American steel, it becomes obvious that unorganized as well as organized or-ganized British labor must stop striving to Bee how little it can do to increase the total industrial e product and how much more than ever before It can increase its own share in that product. There will be no industrial product to share at all if recent tendencies are to continue Germany in these respects is of course worse off than Great Britain. Bri-tain. The speech of Finance Minister Min-ister Erzberger to the National Assembly, elsewhere given, strlk ingly shows in what a terrible economic predicament that country coun-try has been placed And Great Britain is much worse off than the United States. But the United .States Is in no position to loaf on the job. It has a war debt of over $20,000,000,000 to pay off before it can ever say that the account has been settled or that tho war has ceased to be a burden upon industry in-dustry It is a commonplace of observation obser-vation how quickly modern nations recover from the devastations and burdens of war. But they have been able to do this only in being stimulated to work the harder by the existence of those devastations and ourdens to be overcome The thing cannot be done otherwise nor can labor increase its dividend from the total industrial product by measures operating to reduce isat totaL j |