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Show AMERICAN UBOR 10 HELPW1N WAR FEDERATION INDORSES AIMS OF UNITED STATES AS SET FORTH BY THE PRESIDENT. The World's Workers Vitally Interested Inter-ested in Crushing Autocracy, Says American Federation of Labor Council in Statement. Washington. American labor's endorsement en-dorsement of war aims as stated by President Wilson, and recognition that the war against rrussianism is a working man's war is recorded in a declaration issued Sunday by the executive exec-utive council of the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor. The declaration says the peace parleys par-leys between Russia and Germany have shown tlie futility of diplomatic negotiations until tlie German militarists militar-ists are convinced they cannot superimpose super-impose their will on the rest of the world, and that spontaneous uprisings in Germany have demonstrated that the military government still is stronger than the movement there for emancipation. A gigantic struggle lies ahead and now is a time when all workers must soberly face the grave importance of their daily work, says the declaration. One passage of the declaration says : "The hope of labor lies in opportunity for freedom. The workers oi Aniens will not permit themselves to be deceived de-ceived or - deceive themselves into thinking the fate of the war will not vitally change our own lives. A victory vic-tory for Germany would mean a pan-German pan-German empire dominating Europe and exercising a world balance of power which Germany will seek to extend ex-tend by force into world control. "Prussian rule means supervision, checks, unfreedom in every relation of "Prussianism has its roots in the old ideal under which men sought to rule by suppressing the minds and wills of their fellows ; it blights the new ideal of government without force or chains political or industrial protected by perfect freedom for all." |