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ST. HELENS MIST. FRIDAY OCTOBER 12, 1917
Germany is working, by every scheme that ingenuity can de
vise and money can put into operation, to make American
workingmen traitors to their country in its hour of need.
doth it Profit a man hC SCndS h'S SnS 3nd Mothers t0 tne battlefields, and after
he gets them there he betrays them to the enemy by stopping
the industrial home work without whiclf they can neither win nor escape?
The course of nations the lives of millions are changed by very small events. Had the Monitor not been ready
for the Mcrrimac exactly when she wai, the Union fleet would have been rendered useless and the Civil War might have
had a different ending. Had someone then succeeded in delaying transportation while the Monitor was under construction,
what would have become of the whole Union fleet of wooden ships which was blockading the Southern ports?
Germany wants us to be unready or confused when a si nilar crisis comes.
Our whole nation is preparing for the turning point in this war which is to determine whether every man shall have
a chance to work out his destiny, or whether he and his country are to become subject to the dictation of a Prussian group.
If we are not fully ready when the test comes it will be easier for German armies and German ships, German submarines
and German aircraft, to kill the men that go out from your community to protect you and your rights.
Whoever from any motive delays work bearing directly or indirectly on the war will be an accessory to the murder
of his fellow Americans.
Every strike in the United States, while this war is in p ogress, is a blow in favor of Germany.
What doth it profit a man
to increase his wages or decrease his working hours if by so
doing he contributes to the victory of a nation that makes
slaves of white men and scourges them as they work?
The condition of the blacks in America before the Civil War was far better than the condition of the whites of Bel
gium who today are carried off like cattle, are overworked, underfed, beaten and- sick or well, must labor incessantly, often
under the fire of their own guns. . . .... .. . .
What doth it profit a man
to aid a monarch who in this manner has shamelessly re-established
the slavery of white men? The workingman in America
who obstructs the cutting of wood, the mining of fuel, the weaving of cloth, the turning of wheels in factories or on rails
while this war is in progress he is helping the slave masters, the destroyers of civilization, the murderers of women and
children. ....
What doth it profit a man
who has lived in a land of incomparable liberties, of advant
ages unparalleled in all the history of the world, to contribute
by any act, however small, tp the success of an autocracy to whom a. common man is but a clod of earth?
The workingman who stands faithfully by his duties day by day, allowing no person and no thought to get between
him and an honest performance of his work, is rendering the highest kind of patriotic service to his nation and to his family.
What doth it profit a man
to sell his manhood, his self-respect, perhaps his soul, for a
little selfish gain in such an hour? When life's services are
measured up at the end, those who have faithfully labored through the war shall be entitled to their credit as well as
those who have led the charges in battle. .
. who wants to improve the condition of laboring men if he
Vyhat doth it profit a man gaing a little but in so doing prolongs the siavery of Belgian
workingmen, who now cannot gain their freedom but by death, or through the victory of the Allies?
STAND BY YOUR WORK FOR YOUR OWN HONOR AND SAFETY, FOR THE SAFETY AND SUC
CESS OF YOUR FELLOW COUNTRYMEN WHO GO FORTH TO FIGHT. AS WELL AS FOR THE. SAKE
OF WORKINGMEN WHO ARE NOW IN ACTUAL SLAVERY BENEATH GERMAN SLAVE DRIVERS.
Issued by the
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL PREPAREDNFS8
(Paid Adv.)
HT. HELENS BHIPliriLDING X)MPANY