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...TIME for April 21 you quote William H. Davis [vice chairman, National Defense Mediation Board] as saying, "When you pass compulsory legislation you make the workingman a slave, and there is no use producing defense materials for a nation of slaves, because if there is anything certain in history, it is that a national establishment which has to depend on slaves to produce its materials is inevitably destroyed...
...agree. But I would like to know why the same does not apply to the conscription of young men in order to use those defense materials. If they are drafted and paid slave wages, then they are slaves. And a national establishment which has to depend on slaves to do its fighting for it "is inevitably destroyed...
...works against his will, he is a slave. But what is the man who has a job and wants to work at it but who is prevented by force and violence? Isn't he a slave? Are only strikers to be preserved from slavery and the non-strikers sold into slavery...
...came one calm voice. The owner of the voice was William Hammatt Davis, vice chairman of the National Defense Mediation Board. He spoke to the House Military Affairs Committee, but his words were for the whole U.S. Said he: "When you pass compulsory legislation you make the workingman a slave, and there is no use producing defense materials for a nation of slaves, because if there is anything certain in history, it is that a national establishment which has to depend on slaves to produce its materials is inevitably destroyed...
...with Standard, but he never knew for how long. His wife, plain-faced Lavinia, had stooped to marry him. Later she developed a heart ailment that enabled her to wield an invalid power that she had never known in healthier days. Asa's conscience is her slave. Sometimes he succeeds in sneaking off to spend Sunday with Kate Oliver on her river farm. His hope is that some day Uncle William will die and leave Lavinia a legacy. When that happened, Asa meant to leave and go to Kate. But when at last it did happen, it was already...