in our own labor
unions and in our own factories. Then we will whip German militarism in
industry out of the markets of the world.

If the quickest way for the American people to get a decent world--a
world we want to do business in, is to whip German militarism in
industry, and if the quickest way to whip German militarism abroad is to
whip it at home, why is it we are not everywhere opening up our
factories, calling in our money and our men and settling down to work?

What is it that is scaring capital and labor away and holding back money
and men?

The fear of the United States Senate.

The fear and coma of war in all nations, among the men who furnish money
and men who furnish labor, while awaiting for the United States Senate
and other governments not to be afraid of war.

The first item on the business schedule of every nation to-day is to stop
this fear.

The first way to stop this fear we have of other nations abroad is to
stop our fear of one another at home, is to watch people we know all
about us, at desks, at benches and machines on every side, who all day
every day are making peace work between classes, better than war does.
Making democracy work in business is the first condition, for America and
the world of having any business.

It is not merely in behalf of other nations, but in behalf of ourselves,
that I am advocating the direct action of the people welded together into
one mass organization, to secure by the direct daily action of the three
classes together the rights of industrial democracy for each of them. The
Air Line League is proposed not as a bearing-on organization but as a
standing-by or big-brother organization guarding the free initiative, the
voluntary self-control of labor and capital and the public, the team work
and mutual self-expression and self-fulfillment of all classes.

The whole issue is all folded up in this one issue of industrial
democracy--in proving to people by advertising it to them and by
dramatizing it to them that industrial democracy works.

It is because the Germans believe that men who have been forced against
their wills to do team work, are more efficient, can produce more and
compete more successfully than enthusiastic and voluntary men doing team
work because they understand and want to, that Germany is a second-class
nation and that the German people have had to put up for forty years with
being second-class human beings. They have a ruling majority