UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1918, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

PRESIDENT WILSON TO VISIT EUROPE. London, Sept. 1. President Wilson, in a private letter, confirms the statement that he is visiting England and France on a special mission in October. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. MESSAGE TO LABOR. New York, Sept. \. President Wilson has isued a Labor Day message. After reviewing the German aims and methods, he says: "The world cannot be safe, men's lives secure, .or their rights asserted, so long as Governments like those which drew Austria and Germany into the war are permitted to control the destinies of men and nations. "It is a war in which industry must sustain the army, and the laborers at home are as essential as the fighters in the battle. To fail to win would be to imperil everything that Labor nas 'striven for and held clear since freedom first was had. '■' Let us make this day a consecration lin which we devote ourselves without pause or limit to setting our country and the whole world free. The nation is of a single mind. It is taking counsel with no special class, and is serving no private or single interest. We realise, <as we niver realised before, that we are comrades dependent upon one another —irresistible when united/ but powerless when divided—so join hands and lead the world to a new and better day."—Aus. N.Z.. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. , Received September 2, 8.50 p.m. Washington, September 1. The President tells organised labor that every tool is a weapon which, if abandoned, will render the rifles useless in France. This war is as much a workmen's war as a soldier's war. Soldiers at the front know this is so, and the knowledge steels their muscles. They are the crusaders.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc.