Labor and the War: American Federation of Labor and the Labor Movements of Europe and Latin America; from the Proceedings of the Conventions of 1914-15-16-17-18 American Federation of Labor and from the American Federationist and Labor's Book of All Colors as Pub. in the American Federationist, November and December, 1916, January, May and November, 1917, and April, 1918American federation of labor, 1918 - 288 من الصفحات |
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... nations that are sending the flower of their manhood to meet almost certain death . The strong , the healthy , the fit leave the work of the nation to the old and the very young , to women and to children . For centuries the nations ...
... nations that are sending the flower of their manhood to meet almost certain death . The strong , the healthy , the fit leave the work of the nation to the old and the very young , to women and to children . For centuries the nations ...
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... nations . But the war has shown that war can not be stopped by paper resolutions and that war can not put an end to itself . Wars will cease only when society is convinced that human life is really sacred and when society establishes ...
... nations . But the war has shown that war can not be stopped by paper resolutions and that war can not put an end to itself . Wars will cease only when society is convinced that human life is really sacred and when society establishes ...
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... nations a public sentiment that will not tolerate waste of life , and by estab- lishing international relations , understanding , and agencies that will constitute an insuperable barrier to policies of force and destruction . With ...
... nations a public sentiment that will not tolerate waste of life , and by estab- lishing international relations , understanding , and agencies that will constitute an insuperable barrier to policies of force and destruction . With ...
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... nations of Europe fall most heavily upon the wage workers and their families ; therefore , be it Resolved , That the American labor movement through the convention of the American Federation of Labor express its earnest desire for the ...
... nations of Europe fall most heavily upon the wage workers and their families ; therefore , be it Resolved , That the American labor movement through the convention of the American Federation of Labor express its earnest desire for the ...
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... nations for the purpose of main- taining at a point of mechanical efficiency the tremendous engines of destruction designed for use in war , thereby affording a perpetual temptation to the rulers to put into use these weapons against ...
... nations for the purpose of main- taining at a point of mechanical efficiency the tremendous engines of destruction designed for use in war , thereby affording a perpetual temptation to the rulers to put into use these weapons against ...
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الصفحة 60 - The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind.
الصفحة 10 - Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be sent to the International Federation of Trade Unions, to all national trade union centers throughout the world and to the President of the United States...
الصفحة 60 - ... for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included; for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy.
الصفحة 58 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it...
الصفحة 60 - We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in such a Government, following such methods, we can never have a friend; and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the democratic Governments of the world.
الصفحة 61 - They are, most of them, as true and loyal Americans as if they had never known any other fealty or allegiance. They will be prompt to stand with us in rebuking and restraining the few who may be of a different mind and purpose.
الصفحة 60 - German people toward us (who were, no doubt, as ignorant of them as we ourselves were) but only in the selfish designs of a Government that did what it pleased and told its people nothing. But they have played their part in serving to convince us at last that that Government entertains no real friendship for us and means to act against our peace and security at its convenience. That it means to stir up enemies against us at our very doors the intercepted note to the German Minister at Mexico City...
الصفحة 60 - Just because we fight without rancor and without selfish object, seeking nothing for ourselves but what we shall wish to share with all free peoples, we shall, I feel confident, conduct our operations as belligerents without passion and ourselves observe with proud punctilio the principles of right and of fair play we profess to be fighting for.
الصفحة 58 - Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power...
الصفحة 58 - It will involve the utmost practicable cooperation in counsel and action with the governments now at war with Germany, and, as incident to that, the extension to those governments of the most liberal financial credits, in order that our resources may so far as possible be added to theirs. It will involve the organization and mobilization of all the material resources of the country to supply the materials of war and serve the incidental needs of the nation in the most abundant and yet the most economical...