A people in want finds a nation in need. Not the classes, but the masses, not the millionaires, but the persistence of you million of men hold our country's fate in time of war.

The nation can better war without its millionaires; in peace the nation can better prosper without its financiers, but you are indispensable at all times.

Witness that those who gather the profits of war while you bare your breasts to the cannon-balls, are those who gather the profits of commerce while you bend your backs to industry.

The best fighters in the European war are not the unorganized masses of Russia, Austria, Belgium and Turkey, but the union men of Germany, of England and of France.

Unionism, in your industry, inspires you with all that is necessary in your nation.

The spirit of the scab is the spirit of the slacker.

The treachery of the strike-breaker is the treachery of the traitor.

If you are a union man, why not be a union man in all things, in your craft and in your nation?

If you are apathetic to the one, you will prove cold to the other. Why not enlist in the cause of both unions? That is true patriotism!

REJECT SMALL INCREASE. Kansas City, Mo.-The local traction Company has failed to impress the Street Car Men's Union with a wage increase of 3 cents an hour and no reference to improved working conditions. The union was recently organized, following a successful strike. Then the company made its offer and began a newspaper advertising campaign calling attention to its sensational generosity.

The union demanded that changes be made through the regular channels and that its committee be recognized, which has been accepted by the company.

TRADE UNION LOGIC

USED BY MEDICAL MEN.

They Believe That Wages Have a Most Important Bearing on the Mortality of Any Occupation.

The United States public health service has issued in pamphlet form a report on "Occupation and Mortality," compiled by Dr. Shirley Wilmotte Wynee and Dr. William H. Guilfoy, of the department of health, New York city.

The following portion of the report sounds like a trade union argument:

"We believe that wages have a most important bearing upon the morbidity and mortality of any occupation, because, where real wages are high, the standard of living is correspondingly high, housing is better, food is more plentiful and more nourishing; and, in short, conditions are more favorable to physical and mental well being, which results in greater resistance to disease, more recuperative power, and a healthier enjoyment of life, all of which stimulates the worker to preserve his health and make him more alert to guard against accidents; whereas, when wages are low, home conditions are of necessity unfavorable, and if, in addition, shop conditions are bad, as they frequently are, the hazards of any occupation are increased manifold.

"There still remains another important factor that must not be overlooked, to-wit, the mental condition of the employe. If he lives and works in squalor and semi-darkness, he gradually loses his self-respect, grows careless in his habits, becomes discouraged, and in short, lacks incentive to conserve his health, and, therefore, because of his mental attitude, becomes a hazard in any occupation."

OUR FRIEND TO THE LAST. If we lost friends in this world

They can be replaced by another; But there's one can ne'er be replacedOur only true and tried friend

Mother.

MILL OWNERS DEFY U. S. Los Angeles, Cal.-The Southern California Mill Owners' Association has notified the government, through mediators connected with the federal department of labor, that it will, in effect, handle its own affairs and that the mediators are "buttin' in" in a strike caused by higher wage demands.

In reply the mediators - Harris Weinstock and Charles T. Connellforwarded a sizzling letter to these employers, whose executive committee, the mediators say, takes this position:

"That the government has no business to butt into your private affairs through unsolicited mediation.

"That you as employers propose to increase wages only whenever the conditions, in your judgment, warrant such increase.

"That under no circumstances, either now or hereafter, will you operate on an eight-hour day unless the whole country adopts an eight-hour basis."

Then the mediators say:

"If the government has the power in these days of war, as a matter of national preservation, to fix prices for your wares and mine; if it can commandeer your plants and mine; if it can put a musket into the hands of your sons and mine, if such sons are physically fit, it certainly, in the interest of national preservation, has a right to butt into your private affairs and mine, through the medium of mediation, when such mediation is in the interest of industrial peace."

INJUNCTION JUDGES

IGNORE PEOPLE'S WILL. Seattle. Trade unionists in this State are aroused over a disregard of the people's will by injunction judges.

Two years ago the Legislature passed an anti-picketing law but organized labor secured a referendum on the measure, which was beaten most decisively.

Last July the State Supreme Court ignored the people's declaration and

in the so-called St. Germain case not only ruled against picketing but held that a union and its members may be sued for damages.

Unionists are now discussing a recent ruling by Judge Boyd J. Tallman, of the Superior Court of King County, in an injunction case instituted by the Stimson Mill Company against its striking shingle weavers. The company asked for an injunction against picketing and for $50,000 damages. The workers proved so conclusively that they had not picketed the plant that the Court was compelled to dismiss the case.

Instead of censuring the company for its false statements, Judge Tallman proceeded to lecture the workers and air his views on picketing in general.

"If just one man was to walk back and forth in front of a place without saying a word," said the Court, “I would be compelled to call that picketing and punish it as such."

With the St. Germain decision in mind trade unionists say that if Judge Tallman's decision stands it means that a Danbury hatters' case is prob able. This prospect is being used by the workers in a vigorous campaign against injunction judges of this State.

UNIONISTS DEPORTED.

Salt Lake City, Utah.-Four officials of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers' union appealed to the county attorney for criminal complaints against a mob of vigilantes who drove them out of Bingham, this county. The mob styled itself the "Citizens' Protective Association."

Organizer Goggin says the five men who notified him that he must leave Eingham included a foreman of the Utah Copper Company, one of the company's guards, a banker and a doctor.

Mrs. Brown-Oh, Bobby, your pants are torn!

Bobby-They are? Gee, I wondered why I was gettin' so cold.