Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...return of the American Labor Mission, which, representing the Federation of Labor, has visited Great Britain and France, marks the completion of an errand whose importance can hardly be overestimated. Both as to the character of the delegates and the manner in which they carried themselves, sometimes under great provocation, our principal organization of workingmen is to be congratulated. No trained diplomatists could have done better. No other Americans in any walk of life could have exhibited a loftier patriotism...
These men had something more to say to the trade-unionists of Great Britain and France than that organized labor in the United States is pledged to the last man and the last dollar in support of the war. Their mission abroad comprehended also the assurance to working-men everywhere that there is no sympathy in this country with the extremists and visionaries, deriving their inspiration chiefly from German sources, who hope by an inconclusive peace to instigate a war of classes and repeat on a larger scale the follies which in Russia have protrated industry and for the time...
...turning out vessels at a rapid rate. A fair investigation assures a proper reconstruction of aircraft production. We now have 700,000 men in France, with prospects of a million by July, and a million and a half by December. The latest draft move will effectively divert labor into productive channels. Our finances are good and our people have learned something of the spirit of sacrifice. The whole nation is recovering from the hysteria and feverish but often misdirected energy of the last year...
...manufacture non-essentials in time of war is to deprive essential industries of supplies and to withdraw labor from more necessary occupations. It is the most effective method of competing against the Government, both in forcing up prices and in limiting the wherewithal for prosecuting the war. Under these conditions the War Department now puts into force a measure which will effectively limit such production, and which will draw men into useful trades...
...Drafting labor is theoretically as sound as drafting an army. Practically it meets with the overwhelming opposition of the nation's entire public opinion. It is for this reason that the Government has diverted labor into more essential channels by means of the military draft, a method devoid of the repulsiveness of more direct labor compulsion and yet equally effective in practice. In threatening immediate military service for those not employed in essential industry, a real incentive is supplied toward securing a more perfect war organization. This measure means the elimination of idlers of all types. It recognizes that while...