French Factory Worker (1910)

Imagine you are a French factory worker in the year 1910.  Would you be in favor of a war with Germany? Why or why not? Make reference to specific historical events that happened in Europe in the last 50 years.

If I was a French factory worker in the year 1910, I would not be in favor of a war with Germany. A war with Germany would mean there would have to be a draft for soldiers to fight in the front line of this war. When they draft men for the military, they look for the lower class guys like me because the capitalists that own the factories we lower class guys work for honestly wouldn’t be fighting in the war. I mean sure we have better, faster and conveniently smaller weapons thanks to the Industrial Revolution, but I’m 100% against war. I wouldn’t have it in me to be planted in the center of pure gun-shots & blood. Being in war with another country causes demand to rise, which equals more work for my fellow factory worker friends. I seriously wouldn’t want to go through what the young men of Napolean’s Grand Armee had to during his many strenuous wars. I would rather just keep working for barely any money than die in a war (even though it does sound very honorable). 

   1910: Armaments factory in England