Wright, of the
for Labor" who wrote for a number
of labor papers:
"Labor in America is today as it
has been. It is the same today as it
was in the trying days of 1917 and
1918. The same men and women are
at the work benches, at the machines,
in the mines and the mills and the
shipyards and railroads."
He is right. The same bunch that
struck in the shipyards when the
United States and her allies needed
ships to win the war; the same bunch
of railroaders who threatened to
American Alliance
strike and stop the shipment of arms,
food and ammunition to one million
American soldiers who, without these
would have been massacred by the
Huns; the same bunch that threatened
to strike in the coal mines and
close our munitions factories, our food
the railroads and factories, tie up
stop ocean traffic for want of coal—
a threat far more dangerous to the
United States and the world than the
German submarines, if it had been
carried into execution—the same old
buch is still at the same old jobs and
trying the same old methods.
During the war they were helping
the enemies of the United States by
trying to prevent food and ammunition
and supplies being sent to our
soldiers. Since the war they are
enemies of the United States, fighting
against the interests of the men who
fought and saved the world from
tyranny and the common people who
suffered and sacrificed to win the
war.
The leopard cannot change its
spots. 