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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of hi. labor, or as
a early as possible. Is a worthy object o* any good government."—
Abraham Llncola
Address all Communication, to Daily Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phoae, Black 194.
Nome, Alaska, June 6, li>17.
SUMMARY.
Any person who has read recent
dispatches cannot fall to have been
impressed with the fact that the
authorities have freely threatened
that the person or persons charged (
with fomenting anti-draft agitation
will be compelled to face a treason
charge, for which the penalty is
death. *
How' the death sentence can be
imposed upon this action or how- it,
can, constitutionally be charged as
treason, from the text of the consti
tution, we could never discover.
But that only shows what a wonder
ful document it has become when
any sort of an official interpretation
can apparently be placed upon it.
The definition of treason is parti
cularly clear in the constitution, as
is the explicit right of Congress
alone to adjudge the penalty for the
doer of treason. If the authorities
mean what they say. they evidently
are taking it for granted that what
they say is treason will be considered
treason, and what they say shall b?
the penalty for treason, will be so
adjudged.
However if opposition to con
scription is to be considered treason
able, we may be quite sure that
some very good Americans will have
to be charged with this crime and
served with this penalty, for those
who have been most active in anti
drafting circles have been some of
the ablest and most prominent ot
the men of the land and that for
two whole years.
SIGNIFICANT.
.Quite a number of publicists who
have had occasion to consider the
question, viewing the enormous
strides which government owner
ship has made in Great Britain
since the war began, have come to
the conclusion that private owner
ship in most of these industries ever
again is simply out of the question.
That the government had to elimi
nate private ownership in the muni
tion industry is a fact not generally
known, and today the government
owns or controls more than five
thousand establishments turning
out cannon and munitions of war
exclusively.
The old tenets that taught that pri
vate ownership was essential to effi
ciency got a severe jolt iu the. war,
and nowhere more significantly and
effectively than in the British mu
nition industry.
The private owners could not
handle the proposition, and could
not meet the needs of the occasion,
and except in a few instances where
government ownership did not im
press itself as essential, were pri
vate owners allowed to remain in
control.
Furthermore the workers’ unions
which before the war had little over
50,000 members in the various me
tal industries, have now not less
than 2,500,000 members engaged
in the same industry.
These are practically solidified
and the government has been com
pelled by their power and unity, to
take care that some degree of
equitable treatment, frankly, here
tofore, not possible in Great Britain
was served out the employees.
Mainly because of the unionist
strength have the workers been
able to maintain their wages and to
prevent the same utter degree of
exploitatlpn was formerly the vogue
in that industry in Great Britain.
Before the war there were two
great organizations in England.
These were the coal miners and
t)ie transport workers. In the lat
ter we may include the affiliated
Amalgamated Society of Railroad
Servants. Those organizations are
still powerful and still intact but
their power is now Incresed by the
munition workers organization, the
organization of thq metal Industry.
In the world of capital when great
aggregations in any industry spring
up to control, say that particular in
dustry, as Standard Oil in the petro
leum, and the Tobacco trust, and
the Morgans in the railroad indus
try. they are always more or less,
even when with working agree
ments, operating against one an
other to branch out and secure
further control.
In the world of labor it is differ
ent. When a great organization
springs up in any industry and be
comes very efficient therein, it im
mediately makes comon cause with
all the rest. It adds to the strength
of other industrial organizations,
and instead of craft jurisdiction
squabbles the solidarity is strongly
marked among all.
Accordingly the unionization ot
the industries in Great Britain, it is
a fortunate thing, has been going
right ahead during the war. There
have been occasioned frictions ana
factions, when the workers were de
nied a wage which would meet
even half way the higher costs ol
living, and there never was an ab
sence of economic discontent due tc
the same old causes of disconteni
in any and all industries.
None the less, just as the govern
ment lias been more and more ex
tensively displacing private owner
ship. so have the unions been mori
and more effectively organizinj
their industries.
These two steps, oy two contrasted
spheres of sitial activity, are vtrv
significant of a coming revolution
that any person who fairly conqu
ers the matter can see.
Aftet the war \ ill follow a period
of reconstruction. It is impossible
to believe that the soldiers who
fought hard wil go back to his war
rens in the slums and that he will
be content with the same dismal
fare and the same industrial sordid
ness as before the war. It is im
possible to believe this whether we
take stock in the fact that the work
ers are organized or not. But the
main thing that makes these suppo
sitions wholly out of thinkable pos
sibilities, is because of the fact
that the workers have kept their
organization intact.
No doubt the workers had to pay
a high price. They had to submit
to somewhat irksome conditions of
living. But they looked to the end
of the war and if they come out
of this war with their industrial or
ganizations intact they will be on
the high road to accomplish a great
industrial revolution. They have
seen the government eliminate the
private owner and they can ’elimin
ate the private government and de
mocratize industry. That is the
neat great step in the social evolu
tion.
THE STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE.
The fact that the Hungarian de
legates to the Stockholm conference
told the representative of the United
Press that the radicals of central
Europe were planning to demo
cratize the institutions in those na
tions does not indicate as American
and British stuthorities held, that
the conference was dominated by
the Kaiser.
For that retison that it was more
or less of a grievous exercise of ar
bitary authority to prohibit Amer
ican socialists attending the confer
ence is somewhat in evidence. The
American socialists could have been
relied upon to offer opposition to
any plans which might have been
submitted which would commit the
delegation at the conference to the
support of autocracy. And it can
be further asnerted with confidence
that not one of the socialist dele
gates from the neutral nations
would or will lend themselves to
such a plan.
Those socialists in Germany who
have made their cause almost iden
tical with the continuance and the
furtherance of the alms of the Kat
ser are now in a weaker position
not only throughout the world but
in their own country. It is far
from thinkable that the others will
therefore fall with alacrity in with
any plans looking towards a bolst
ering up of Kaiserism.
It is possible however that they
may regard with no kindly eyes the
establishment of a Kaiserism in any
country and that the German brand
of militarism is any worse than
any other when adopted in other
countries may not perhaps appear
to those delegates who attend self
evident.
It has been quite notorious that
a large number of Swedish junkers
have been heart and soul with the j
Germans in their imperialist aims
and it has also been notorious that
the Swedish socialists have set them
selves with determination and with
a courage their comrades in other
countries do not posses, against
the realization of such junkerdom's
aims in Sweden.
Socialists in Sweden may be
trusted to betray no such interna
tionalism as it is being betrayed In
other countries today, although they
fall for the imperialist aims of
one just as little as for the imperi
alist aims of another.
Surely a conference of this kind
attended by men like the Hungar
ian delegates as they told their
story to the United Tress corro
spondent, could do no harm to Am
erica's position.
It is too bad that the Americans
should not have been on hand to
take a part in showing lucidly and
clearly the attitude of the American
social'sls in the war if they could,
and this might-not be so easy a tas);
at all.
SOLIDARITY.
The main essential just now is
labor solidarity. It is the only thing
that counts. Everything else is as
nothing. The need for it is para
mount now in time of war more
even than in time of peace. Greai
associations of capital are tireless
now as they are tireless during
peace and they have a greater op
portunity than ever to render laboi
that is not organized and has no so
lidarity more powerless and help
less than ever.
These are critical times. The;
are times when the man of wealtl
and the man of wide economii
power is coming into his own witl
ease and dispatch. They may be
the times when Labor can be com
pletely crushed or Labor can be (
completely triumphant. It depends j
entirely upon Labor itself. If Labor |
can manifest solidarity through j
organization. Labor is safe; if not
the worst may happen.
If there is any such a fallacy ob
tains credence as that companies or
ganized for profit are willing to
forego their profit during the war
for the sake of the nation, that
should be speedily dispelled. We
see higher rates charged, we see
higher prices sent sky high by spe
culators, we see the rush for the
spoil of 'contracts on every hand.
In this melee, the individual j
worker is more than helpless. He j
will be compelled to still more com
pletely subordinate himself. It is
therefore above all important that
the worker organize so that labor
solidarity will be a real conception
and a real condition as well.
We have no doubt that outside
conditions will tend greatly to bring
all the workers together. We be
lieve that within the nest few
months and the coming years, the
tendency in economic thiugs will
be to rapidly cause a readjustment
of labor organizations to meet more
fully the Labor needs. That is to
be taken advantage of. That doubt
less will be and Labor, nowhere
can afford to neglect the work of
organization.
The interests of all workers in all
times are common interests and
today as well as yesterday. Labor j
solidarity is all that the workers
can turn to as the present help 'in
thes times of stress and turmoil.
United, the workers can stand,
divided they will be surely crushed.
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