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zenship, its percentage of foreign born and unnat- 

 uralized being the largest of any class, has been grow- 

 ing, until at the present moment, the Nation is con- 

 fronted by conditions fraught with gravest dangers. 



In a recent speech in the House of Commons, Chan- 

 cellor Bonar Law is quoted as saying, " The extent of 

 America's cooperation is not limited by transportation, 

 but rather is limited only by the extent of her man- 

 power. This is the one great fact of the war." There 

 is a shortage of man-power throughout the civilized 

 world, and while the great mass of the American peo- 

 ple are giving up wealth, comfort, ease yea, their 

 own sons, that their blood may be offered as a sacri- 

 fice on the altar of liberty at the dictates of organ- 

 ized labor Congress is considering the Anti-efficiency 

 Amendment to the Naval Appropriation, the aim and 

 purpose of which seems to be to prevent any possible 

 stimulant being offered to increase efficiency on the 

 part of the laborers in the employ of the Federal Gov- 

 ernment. It is alleged that although it has been dem- 

 onstrated that one man and his helpers may drive .over 

 4,800 rivets in a day, the arbitrary ruling of organized 

 labor makes little more than 25 per cent, of this a day's 

 work; and that extra bonuses must be paid for all 

 work done over this restricted amount, and for all labor 

 over eight hours in any day. 



The press is everywhere justly clamoring for pun- 

 ishment, swift and severe, for the I. W. W.'s. Yet 

 the utmost accomplished by their malignant work is 

 insignificant as compared with what must follow as a 

 result if such sentiment dominates labor in our war 

 industries. For at this critical juncture in the na- 



