" We are all enlisted men," was the gist of
President Wilson's Labour Day message to his fellow-citizens--'a day supremely significant in relation to America's national 'enterprise of life and death. " Every tool in every essential industry is a weapon, and a weapon wielded for the same purpose that an Army rifle is wielded . . . if we were to lay it down, no rifle would• be of any nee." The war, Mr. Wilson reminded his people, was much more than a war to alter the balance of power in Europe ; it was a war of emend- pation, to enable men to breathe freely at their daily tasks, and to know that Governments are their servants and not their masters. The war, therefore, was one which labour must support to make the world sate for labour ; and one which industry must sustain, joining hands with the .Crusaders. in France, who "fight with solemn joy and are invincible," for great and immortal ideals which will lead the world to a new and better day.
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