Imperial Valley Press

As Americans, we feel that President Roosevelt was understating when he said that "in the midst of a war calling for the supreme sacrifice of many in the ranks of our armed forces, it is shocking to the nation to discover that any group within our citizenry would impede, for a single moment, the production of materials of war needed for our war effort."

But if we were Germans, shocked by reverses in Russia, by utter defeat in North Africa, by the demonstrated impotency of our Italian ally, by the obvious pessimism of our Balkan satellites, by terrific bombing of our industrial centers—if we were Germans, anxiously wondering where fateful invasions of the European continent would come, and how long, we could resist them—

If we were Germans, the news that Lewis' miners are getting away with sabotaging American production at its tap-root, while rubber workers, automobile workers and others sap the life out of its branches, would give us new life, new hope, new courage to resist to the bitter end, to kill and maim a few more hundreds of thousands of Allied fighting men.