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The people of the United States have much to be thankful for, even though the war trumpets are calling its best young blood to the colors to face a desperate and treacherous and matchlessly organized foe, with a consequent toll of wounded and dead that only the future days can record.

And yet the great soul of America can in logic and in faith give thanks with reason and sound judgment.

Thanks for the opportunity of living in the most crucial days in the history of the human race; thanks for the giant opportunity of writing on the walls of the nations of the earth the great, democratic, basic principles of human freedom; thanks for world service such as never before has been given to any race of men; thanks that they have been favored with wealth, power and manhood to save the tottering world from the autocratic darkness of medievalism as personified in the marching legions of the Central Powers.

One glance at the record of suffering and devastation in unhappy Servia, crushed Poland, vanquished Rumania, demoralized Russia and the stress and strain on the nations facing the Fighting Hun is enough to awaken thanks in our breasts that our beloved children, our wives, our mothers and our friends have not as yet been called upon by the fates of war to pass through such terrible ordeals as is encompassing the peoples of these unhappy lands.

Out of the crucible of war also has arisen the spirit of an economic prosperity such as the toilers of the Nation never before have experienced. Out of the necessities of business in its varied ramifications and the urgencies of the Government a call for labor came forth that almost over-night advanced the earning power of some of the people treble what it was in the times of comparative peace.

It is also true that the cost of living has kept pace with the advance in wages, yet it is patent to the casual

observer that it has not endangered the general standard of living in America; rather it is witnessed that during the terrible deprivation of the rest of the world the American people are living in comparative security and plenty.

But greater than all else to labor men is the momentous fact that conditions created due to the "world being on fire" have made for the full and final recognition in the structure of our government of organized labor as one of the potent factors of our modern civilization.

The war of the nations has brought trades unionism into its own. The future affairs of State will be tempered in its action by the economic needs and rights of those who have made this nation great through their toil and the marvelous dexterity of their brain and brawn.

Organized labor will be a consequential part of the national compass by which the Ship of State will be steered in the wonderful days that are to arrive after the war drums are silent and men and nations have turned their weary feet into the paths of a glorious peace.

It seems to be one of nature's laws that progress develops through the pain and the agony of the human race. The pages of history are replete with this painful fact. Out of the terrible cataclysm torturing the woria today nations and men are being purified by the fires of attrition. The world is finding the depths of its soul. Out of the catastrophe will eventually come the blessings of liberty, justice and the dreams and ideals of humankind will find fruition and the ports of happiness will be opened unto the people of the earth.

Aye, we have much to be thankful for in these grimy days of war!

We have cause to be thankful this Thanksgiving Day that the tired, old world at last stands upon the brink of human freedom.

Thankful that the sun of liberty is about to break on all the shores of the seven seas and with its beautiful

rays illumine the nations of the world.

Only in broken gleams hitherto hath the light of liberty radiated the world. But a fractional part of its glory has been comprehended by our indolent minds.

Lo, when it shines forth in all its gorgeous magnificence over the mountain-tops men will fall down on their faces and weep tears of thanksgiving and joy that mysterious Providence spared them to see the dawn of the New Day for the human race.

By all means give thanks. This is the greatest Thanksgiving Day in all the tides of times since the world began.

Read again the President's message, and see therein a powerful message of the coming emancipation of the people of the earth!

A HELPFUL SUGGESTION. "Here's a woman correspondent who wants to know how to get rid of red ants."

"Oh, tell her to dye them blue."

The Price of the New Emblem Button Remains the Same

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The style and design are the same as the original button, proportionately reduced to one-half inch diameter. Solid gold (guaranteed),

Price 75 cents

Orders taken by the Local Secretaries.

Labor Scarce Only Where 1914 Living Standards Prevail

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"For the past several years, up to the year 1917, employers of labor in this territory have simply had to say, we want a given number of men at a certain price and under certain conditions, regardless of price and conditions, and their order could have been readily filled. This condition was brought about by the scarcity of work and the dread of unemployment, and its attendant train of evils, and not at all due to the fact that there was any very great amount of available labor, more than at the present time.

"We have at this time, and, in fact, during all of this present year, as many men applying for employment as in any of the years since 1914, but we do notice this change in condition of men: They use a great deal more discrimination in the selection of the job. Owing to the fact that work is more plentiful, men will not sign up for employment unless the wage and other conditions are reasonably satisfactory, but will wait until something better offers.

"During the early part of the pres ent year, certain associations in this territory, having in mind the possibility of an upward trend of wages, raised the hue and cry of labor shortage with the object of attracting

workers from other districts to this territory.

"My experience has taught me that the average large employer of labor figures that in order that wages may be maintained to the point of his satisfaction, that there should be two workers for every job. This condition is to him ideal, as the 50 per cent. unemployed can be used to keep down the wages of the 50 per cent. who are in employment, and can be made to bid against their more forunate brother for the right to work and live. Whenever the percentage of unemployed, for any reason, becomes less than 50 per cent. and the worker refuses to bid against his fellow in already underpaid positions, the em ployer cries labor shortage,' as he is not accustomed to a condition where men may dare to refuse work at whatever price may be offered them.

"We can positively state that at no time this year have we been unable to fill any position offered where the wages and working conditions were at all reasonable. We, however, had considerable difficulty in filling positions at the 1914 wage scale in view of the cost of 1917 living conditions.

"To our mind there has been shown absolutely no reason why the 10 hour work day law, protecting women, should be set aside. On the contrary, we think that better service might be given were this reduced to eight hours.

"We have seen no reason why the age limit protecting children should be reduced.

"We have seen no time, regardless of the tremendous activity in ship building on this coast, where plenty of mechanics could not be secured. As an illustration, we will call your attention to the fact that no particular difficulty was experienced in securing several thousand mechanics for tem

porary employment in the erection of the army cantonment at American Lake during the very height of the ship building season. Hence, we fail to see the necessity of the dilution of skilled labor by unskilled.

"Summing up, I agree with you fully that there is no labor shortage. There is, however, a shortage of men willing to work under unjust, un-American, and improper conditions and for wages less than will produce and maintain a decent standard of living.

"I agree with you, that this movement to create the idea that a shortage of labor exists is a movement on the part of those who would destroy 'the American labor movement, from the A. F. of L. down, and would welcome a return of the old conditions from which these bulwarks of modern democracy have served to rescue us."

You cannot afford an automobile? Don't worry. Neither can half the

folks who have them.

STATE HAS COSTLY KITCHEN.

A pawnbroker would not advance very much on the kitchen utensils of even the wealthiest householders in the United Kingdom; but should the Shah of Persia desire to pledge his kitchen requisites he might realize $2,500,000.

Every saucepan of this monarch is gilded inside, and the dishes which appear on the table are of solid gold, as well as the spoons, knives and forks. The handles of the latter, moreover, are ornamented with costly stones, and some are worth as much as $500 each.

In preparing lunch for the Shah none but silver spoons can be used, and any covering used for keeping cold meats must also be of silver.

His Majesty has a staff of more than thirty chefs, and altogether those employed in his kitchen number nearly 120. Their wages amount to $2,500 a week.-Tid-Bits.

JENKINS INTERLOCK MANUFACTURING CO.

926-28 Mountain Street, Philadelphia

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PATRIOTISM

By W. B. RUBIN

The Coast Seaman's Journal.

We hear talk of patriotism at every turn. The papers are full of it. Now even good shows wave the flag, where formerly that was left only to bolster up a weak play. At restaurants and other places, visitors are stirred by patriotic music, and the blood runs red with patriotism.

We are no longer asking ourselves: "Is this country right or wrong?" "Was our President justified or not?" We are at war. Enough! The flag, the President, the country is ours, and we are for them to the very last.

"Enlist" is the word uppermost on your lips, and "enlist" is our direction to the youth. Clubs, even, are being formed by women and men to promote enlistment, and to "knock" the "knockers" who "knock" enlistment.

The Union is ours, and we must be one and hold. We must be together.

"A nation divided cannot stand," and a people who disagree cannot fight for a common cause.

Go to it, fiery and ambitious youth! Serve your country. Forget your present needs and wants. Make all the sacrifices for the future. You have our blessings!

Go to it, fair and winsome maiden and wife!

for so only can man and nation defend themselves against their worst enemies.

Now that your patriotism is running high and your blood is sizzling hot with eagerness to fight and die for your country-now that you realize the necessity of a union, one and inseparable, of an undivided whole, of a people and a spirit of getting and staying and fighting together if the glory of our nation shall remain unsullied-now that you feel that it is part of your manhood, that it is all of your Americanism to make sacrifices that the future may be better than the present-won't you, yes, every one of you, and particularly you, Mr. Worker, who laid down your tools, who walked out of your shop, who gave up a pretty good job and a comfortable home for the sake of enlistment, for a smaller wage, for the uncertainties and misfortunes of war, just because you felt and knew that it was your patriotic duty to be a union soldier-won't you please stop and think what close similarity, what twin parallelism there is between slacker and scab, traitor and strike-breaker?

Do you know what a foreign nation at war with our nation is to our naSo is the boss at strike with his employes to his employes.

tion? Urge on your loved one to join the ranks, and forget the pleasures of present happiness, that the future may be better, bigger and broader. You, too, have our blessings!

Who is he that stays behind when his country needs him? A slacker.

Who is he that would betray his country for the money that the enemy would give him? A traitor.

What do we do with the slacker? We shun him.

What do we do with the traitor? We kill him.

Thus our conduct is founded on the law of nature, the law of self-defense,

Would you decline to help your country? Why decline to help your craft?

Would you fight for the enemy against your country? Why strikebreak for your boss?

Your country depends upon the manhood of this nation; the manhood depends upon its homes; the homes depend upon the physical, the mental virility of the people; the physical and mental virility of the people depends upon the economic and industrial independence and patriotism of the people.

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