DISSTON CRUCIBLE PRICE 10¢ PER COPY $100 YEARLY IN ADVANCE This is the Filing Room of the Dare Lumber Company, of Elizabeth City, N. C., equipped with Covel Mfg. Company's machinery. Resaw, capacity 128,000 feet, every ten hours one hundred and twenty-five thousand feet. who Mr. G. Litchfield, the one in the picture who is sitting on the swage stand with his leg crossed, is the head filer, and Mr. J. M. Barns, VOL. VII JUNE, 1918 No. 5 EDITORIAL CHAT Backing Up Our Soldiers You HIS is not a government entering into negotiations with you. are the government. You have got an interest in this concern; it is yours as much as ours, and I want you to help us. Should Germany win, God help labor! It will come out of it worst of all. "I am not saying a word about trade union regulations during a period of peace; I have no doubt they were essential safeguards to protect labor against interference with its rights and prospects. But many government and business regulations have to be suspended during the war because they are inapplicable in the emergency, and the same thing applies to many union rules and practices. "First are those rules set up, for very good reasons, to make it difficult for unskilled men to claim the positions and rights of men who have had training. We must appeal to the patriotism of the unions to relax these rules in order to eke out, as it were, the skill, to make it go as far as possible, in order to turn out the munitions that will win a speedy triumph. The same thing applies to the work of women in factories; if there are rules forbidding that, they should be suspended for the period of the war. "Some of you men seem to think this war is a passing shower. It is the deluge! It is a convulsion of nature. It is a cyclone which is tearing up by its roots modern society and wrecking some of the flimsy structures of civilization. It is an earthquake, upheaving the very rocks of European life. It is one of those seismic disturbances in which nations leap forward or fall back generations in a single bound. All this chattering about relaxing a rule and suspending a custom is out of place. You cannot haggle with an earthquake! "The nation needs for munitions and equipment all the machinery, all the labor, all the strength of every one to the utmost. I say to you workmen and employers: When you turn out shells you are not turning out something merely to kill the enemy; you are turning out something which is to save the life of a comrade! Millions of them are going to face the foe, most of them from working-class homes. Every shell you turn out is a life-guard for some of those gallant fellows."-Extracts from the speech of David Lloyd George urging co-operation of employers and workers in England. Quality |