SATURDAY EVENING, American Labor Many of Our Millionaires Were Once Workmen. In Russia there is no advance for labor. All men there must work and you cannot quit your job. The boss has authority to beat you and to even kill. You must obey orders rigidly. You receive paper money called rubles which was made by a printing press, but you cannot buy much with it. People go from the cfities to the country to get food and the poor peasants have very little, because their surplus is taken from them by force. The factories in the cities can not run if people are hungry. If nothing is produced, there' is nothing to distribute. The agitator sits close to the money and the men who are clinging to power. You will be butchered without trial if you protest. Bolshevism and Socialism are similar theories and are children of autocracy. They spring up in defeated countries where great hunger exists. They appeal best to those who have nothing to lose. In America we cannot understand the hatred for government that you see in immigrants from despotic countries. Americans Cannot Feel Bolshevism Our workers are well paid and many of them own their own homes. The foreigner who becomes naturalized and learns English soon becomes efficient and like the rest of us becomes adamant against breeders of discontent and unrest. One-third of the population in our industrial centers cannot speak English and very little attention lias been given to these workers. This has been a fertile field lor anti-government agitators and I. W. W. to recruit a following. Effort should be made to Americanize these a liens. The Spirit of Americanism is the best antidote as we are all citizens of a great and free democratic nation and do not want class distinctions. Employers and employees are getting closer together and the workers are participating in industrial affairs more and more every day. ♦ Now is the time to put your shoulder to the wheel and help adjust things so that we can get hack to a peace basis as quickly as possible. / This Article is one of a Series—Be sure to read them all.—"America First" Publicity Association. Bulletin No. 3. (Copyright, 1919.) EJLRJRISBURG TF.T .FGRATK MAY 3, 1919 13
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