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Updated: May 24, 2025
Can you not see all these men, made up of every type in the life of the British Isles, suddenly transported to the Continent and thence into the zone of fire of massed artillery which put each man to the supreme test of courage, demanding the last strength of his soul? Some of them had been slackers, rebels against discipline, "hard cases."
You've got about fifteen minutes to shed that Stein & Bloch suit and jump into something that will never need pressing again, your working clothes. I'm doing you a kindness. That gang out there won't stand for slackers. If you're wise you'll take my word for it." He was turning away when Nicklestick intercepted him. "What do you think they would do, Mr. Percival?" he inquired in some agitation.
Shall we be deserters or slackers! We ask no man to fight with us if his loyalty to any other corps is stronger, but to fight somewhere to do his part for God and his fellow-men wherever he can do the most effective service. We are not Unitarians first. We are not even Christians first.
Now don't be peeved, Sammy," replied Pepper. "If there's any kick I'll take the blame. What's got into you that you can gamble and drink' with slackers?" Dalrymple jammed his hat on and stepped toward the door. "Dare, you said a lot. I'll beat it with you and I'll never come back." "You bet your sweet life you won't," shouted Swann. "Hold on there, Dalrymple," interposed Mackay, stepping out.
Under the law a "voluntary army of workers" signed up as ready to go anywhere their labor was needed, and local munition committees became labor courts endowed with power to change wage rates, to inflict fines on slackers, and on those who broke the agreements of the "voluntary army."
"They gather us together but they separate us!" cries a voice from the past. If there are some who escape through the meshes, it means that such "slackers" are also influential. They are uncommon, in spite of appearances, as the influential are.
The boys in my company have had a college education and they have taught me bravery, truth, self-sacrifice, kindness and chivalry. I have learned more in two months at the camp than in all the rest of my life put together. The companionship in my company and in my camp have saved my soul." It is this that explains the redemption of the slacker. Slackers versus Heroes
A free nation has the right to look to the leaders of business, of labor, and of agriculture to take the lead in stimulating effort, not among other groups but within their own groups. The best way of dealing with the few slackers or trouble makers in our midst is, first, to shame them by patriotic example, and, if that fails, to use the sovereignty of Government to save Government.
"Don't you begin to see that the fact is that, instead, you're really moral slackers who'd let the world go into the devil's keeping provided you didn't have to be made to do something that you don't want to do? I won't say you're physical cowards, for honestly I hardly think you are, but aren't you at least moral slackers?"
"I have been away fighting for liberty and justice and I don't know what's been going on in politics at home. I don't know anything about politics." "Nor I, Joe, so let's not try to discuss 'em. What else?" "They've got three machine-guns up in our State House. What for? They are going to put in them sissy slackers " "Let's not call names, Joe.
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