Bezug Nottur— Indiustrial Æoxkers
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ttJy Nome Mine Workers’ Union, No. 210, International Union of Mine,
Mill anti Sin elter Workers.
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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.''—
abraham Lincoln
Address all CommuhTcatlcr.a to Dally Nome Industrial Vsorkov,
Box £10 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 1X».
Nome, Alaska^ Stpfeml r .”, !' 17.
S \.M . • Ml*! !':s.
Sam Gotnpers is occupying a
unhiue position just now. He is
the Advisory Count il and lie is
advising.
vie has given his consent to many
vd-tngs that have astounded labor,
tiii-l brought about a rapproache
ment with many elejnents in the
world ot capital that have shocked
ns w«l! as astounded workers in
many industries.
He has the habit since his eleva
tion to the advisor.- council of
st. ':,.. :g tin ..! vci.tng t>* »
mai.’st" at any "Ho <io -*.«•-» hi#
price r .. A- r. if i - l.cen a
a! ■ , vet; tic tit. ..iittougli
i:is ate : it, that r»sped has|
vie- :i : . aat . ■■■:
, t; . in- il over olive branch
es to tl, .'it t labor union erusU
ing org.uiiztfi-jns and men in tlie j
countrj pro pi I to ''if1 t he
aJiffertiios between them while the
war was on. Tin y met him with
opett arms tint1. prt)cct*(led to secure
tontruct- for scab firms and to in
sist mote stolidly than ever upon
ih. ope:, shop. While rompers was
insisting tpen keeping the wage
..standard unchanged dating the war
- triple:-■ seeking profitable con
tra- ts irotn ilit' government insisted
boot ting thosi profit quit
eJ» a-high.
" !,i American labor worl-1 is tlie
aost complex of all. Its complex
ity arises from the fact that it
made up of all classes and races
of workers and tradesmen. The pe
culiar craft autonomy that hinds
American Federation of Labor af
filiations together is exceedingly
elastic and certainly not calculated
Jo promote working class solidarity.
Withal it is in control of the labor
movement; and for if Gonpers in
sists upon being its spokesman.
The confidence of the govern
ment in his ability to handle it
must now he somewhat rudely
shaken. Industrial unrest is com
mon all over the country and the
strikes reported were never more
numerous or more ; rious. The
American Feilera' n of La’or offi
• i lls have been deport ■.! from Ari
v.ona mining camps with as scant
ceremony as thi nvmbers ef the
Industrial Workers of the World,
and many of them have been threat
ened in Butte. In the coal fields
there is bitter fighting, and right
no a1 the Garment Workers, an im
mense ar.d powerful union, is up in
arpis wiai i ue I'uiurau iui umiuiiu.-.
bay been given to notorious scab
tirms and sub-contracted to sweat
«hops and the poorest classes of
tr.-neir.ent workers who are all
sweated.
As we see it Gompers is a man
wLo has outlived the usefulness
which has been his. He has not
kept pace with the industrial
changes which have taken place and
instead has stood still preaching,
pledging and advising when strong
er and more specific action was
nee.ded.
The labor movement just now
is in a very peculiar condition due
to the policy of Gompers. Gom
pers autocratically controls the
machine The American Fedeia
tion of Labor is lacking in respon
sive democracy of government.
Its executive officials and an
enormous number of petty organi
sations with further officials are
an encumbrance, but one which is
iYot easily removed.
tin consequence the masses of
the unskilled workers, are being
wYtowed to drift into the Industrial
Workers of the World, antiwar agi
tation and other lines of activities
from which they hope to reap bene
fits and certainly to obtain improve
ments from the stifling conditions
industrially imposed upon them.
It is little use berating the in
*3mtrialists. It is much more prae
ti al t o ii!i; iiro why they are |'
spreading. a: i why they a,* in-j
creasing in power and influence
every.vIn.re. It is worth while to in
quire for example why the inde
pendent miners union in Butte re
fused to have any thing to do with
our organization and why the him- .
her workers arc turning from the
International Urion of Timbernnn.
It is worth while to inquire why
it is that the coal miners are chok
ing with dissension over the indus
trial <■' tious and why the activ
ities in the advice and conns-ds
of Ci • rs are falling upon so
m iiy . n d - if ears.
It
sit ion
i’l.ii
the -
the in
of tan
he d<
would
an uuthinl
t tin v.orkoi : ; '
s could join hands with
a, lit and dtdarc that
: :i - will 11 ■ v. r he short
that out] nt would not
id. that the in liicliuty
o of intensified capacity
durine the course of the war. It is
not unthinkable that each and
every worker in the country would
fed his full individual responsib
ili'y in maintaining industrial effici
enev at the highest -point possible
sc, ;h . i Hie wur would lack for no
thing' that labor could supply.
1; 1i:i< mitl
then is no reason why it should
In- unthinkable in the I'nited States
It in h jU'YtT frankly impossible
.;u ow ami isi't it worth, inquir
ing wHy?
Take the average man ami he
-ays it is German money. Now
< wryone knows that Germany has
go* all it can do to keep its money
at home and not squander bitlionS
in industrial agitation here. More
over federal agents are*too numer
ous and active not to know where
and how evety cent of German
money is spent for Germanist pro
paganda and they have said they
do.
Another class of people will blame ]
the labor agitators and the I. VV.
W. traitors. But 'why agitators i
and why traitors? Men are not
“agin" the employer or against the
government without some reason.
Certainly not as a mat’t of .prin
ciple.
In reality the facts yvill only he
found in the position taken by em
ployers towards employees since
the war began.
We want to call attenion to the
fact that in those industries where
men met the issue fairly and
squarely there has been no trouble.
Where the employers determined
that conditions existing in the eco
nomic world would have to be met.
there has been not the slightest
wage difficulty. But where th>
employers pursued the san e polic
ed' bias against organization and
against labor demands, there have
been all kinds of troubles.
Sam Compels as head of the lab
or committee on the Council of De
fense approved the declaration that
labor should not try to affect the
existing standards of wages and
hours of working. That seemed
reasonable.
But it was only reasonable when
no change was made in other work
ing conditions. Wages have an ac
tual and a nominal value. They
have the value interpreted in dol
lars and cents and the value that
those dollars and cents will buy.
Now had it been declared that labor
would still receive the equivalent
of tlie present purchasing of their
wages, in wage;;, while the war
lasts, there would have been cer
tainly tittle ground for opposing
the proposition.
On the other hand Gompers pro
ceeded iut if the employers h; 1
sin .1 : i mseivaj ir < ravii .
for profits and if the prices had
stood stock still, and the laws ot
political economy were to stand
as the sun stood for Joshua, luring
[ the course of the war.
A wiser leader would have been
one who had fuller grasp of the
economic, situation. With such as
were his drawbacks, AIr. Henderson
who recently resigned from the
Lloyd George Cabinet was one. Hc
kept closely in touch with the
changing economic situation caused
by the war and he accomodated
lin.iself thereto. He did not do so
with complete success, but he did I
so with such success as to reduce
labor troubles in industry to a mi
nimum in Great Britain.
Even if Gompers were an actual
member of the cabinet of President
Wilson he could not be of such
practical value as Her.dersen be- '
cause his egotism has far outstrip- <
ped his intelligence as his years
advance, the inevitable result of ■
His control of the autocracy that j
runs the executive board of the Am- j
in Ft leration of Labor. And j
tor this reason Gompers is a poor ]
ret : in these times when the Pie- j
; nt ne Is a v• ry i re ■■■ h< Ip. j
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