Now they are voting war loans and fighting in the armies.
The labor organizations have long proclaimed their opposition to war.
The war is on, and they are apparently giving little attention to it.
Again and again it has been declared that kings make wars and the people fight them.
That is all very true, in the past and in the present, but once more the people are doing the fighting.
We have been told that the workingmen of the world have power to stop war.
No doubt they have, if they would use it, but they will not do so.
While this greatest of all the world's wars was brewing, the workingmen were busy manufacturing the machinery of destruction.
And they are still doing it.
And they will keep on doing it, as long as wages are to be earned that way.