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Nome, Alaska, October 19, 1916.
I.ABOK A PLAYTHING.
Roosevelt charges that Wilson to- j
<lay is using labor as a political j
plaything. That’s quite possible and j
not at all improbable. But which j
of the politicians high or low would ,
not and does not do the same thing* j
Teddy? It is to laugh!
Bl'NCOMBK.
When the traction trouble was at
Rs height in the great city of New
Yorkt there was held a meeting in
Madison Square Garden and thereat
that leading socialist and prophet
of the new order. Morris llillqnit,
spoke the following in the course ol
his address:
“All the workers of this great
city, all trades and industries, of all
races and creeds, are today united
in spirit and sentiment. They are
one in the consciousness of their so
lidarity as a class, one in their com
mon struggle against the arrogant j
and despotic master class.
T.iey have begun to dream tut
beautiful dream of a universal broth
erhood of labor. They are beginning
to understand the deep meaning of
the redeeming labor motto “An in
jury to one is the concern of all’ .
And how beautiful and inspiring is
that new vision! Imagine at the
scheduled day and hour all orga
nized labor in New York simultane
ously quitting their jobs as a pro
test against the perfidious traction
magnates and their retainers in pub
lic office and the public press. Not
an arm is lifted, not a wheel is
turned, not a stroke of work is
( one. The silent giant Labor lolds
his mighty arms, calmly demonstrat
ing hi- all conquering power, while
the nar.t.-.iti-s of industry
and finance awaken to the sens’* ot
their own insignificance and weak
tie- What a triumph of labor;
what a liumilation of its enemies!’’
\ socialist paper says that talk
a as inspiring. Tf so it was inspiring
It differ;, very little from the stuff
that the old line politicians peddle
when courting the favor of the lab
oring vote. And its most distinguish
ing characteristic is that there is not
a word of truth in it. In New
York the religious, national and po
litical agitation lias simply buried
deep the solidarity possibility that
labor might otherwise display. Such
organization as exists for the most
part in New York almost renders im
possible any such solidarity as Hill
«;uist glibly speaks of. The workers
are rent asunder by organized fac
tionism in craft and vocations that
are as ridiculously ineffective as
Their own hopeless jurisdictional
squabbles.
Under Heaven there never was
such a pitiful spectable as this per
sistent habit of leaders of the Hill
«iuit type peddling to themselves
anent the power of Labor, when La
bor is utterly prone and helpless.
Labor is not a giant; for the ab
stract conception of Labor standing
with folded arms, a giant in its
passive and all conquering strength,
can only come through labor united
and solid and unified in one big
union.
The New York traction strike and
especially that part of it which
sought to secure the co-operation ot
the rest of organized labor, was a
most remarkable success in demon
strating that there is absolutely no
•such thing as labor solidarity in
New York organizations; it was a
most astonishing success in proving
beyond the possibility of a Hill
quit Yea or a Hillquit Nay that the
workers in that city refused to ac
cept the redeeming motto of all true
organizations that "an injury to one
is the concern of all”.
The traction strike literally and
figuratively stuffed back that rotten
political buncombe that Hillquit
remitted, as all bull of the worst
and most unwholesome type, posi
tively misleading in stating things
that were not so and can never be
so, just as long as the disuniting sy
stem of organization for which Hill
quit stands, remains in vogue.
Craft unions have succeeded in
distinguishing with great success the
Interest of one union from that of
auother. They have impressed upon
the individual members that provid
ed they can gain conditions for
themselves, what happens to the
other fellow is no concern of theirs.
The Big Six could not see that its
interests are in any way affected by
the interests of the longshoremen,
or vice versa.
These craft unions have failed, do
fail and will fail to realize that the
motto an injury to one is the con
cern of all, is not merely a potent
slogan sounding nice, and embody
ing a high ideal, but also containing
within itself sound and inevitable
economic truth.
There is not a working man anv
where at any time belonging to a
section of the workers who is not in
terested in what the other fellow is
being paid. The lowest paid set oi
workers is the standard for all the
rest, and if one set is dragged down
to low wages below a certain stand
ard, then also there will there be a
general tumble in wages paid. Not
is this all. Bet employers reduce
to submission employees in one in
dustry. and it is only a matter ol
time until they reduce the unionist
activities of practically all to a
nullity.
Because most of the A. F. of L.
organizations have stood by when
one affiliated union lost out in a
struggle, for want of the co-opera
tion of the rest, the entire power for
good of all the rest has been re
duced to absolute zero. They arc
no longer feared; they are despised
Conductor Garretson, of the B. 11.
C'.. when the railroad trouble was
on. said in Washington that they
had to have the railroads fear the
brotherhood's power or they would
j get nothing and gain nothing at all.
That is the truth. Wherever a la
] bor organization is feared and hated
it is dollars to doughnuts that it it
functioning effectively. Whenevei
j it is damned with faint praise and
killed with cunning Civic Federa
i tionized leer, we njay be well surt
that it"s dead and damned it ouglu
I to be.
nil.!!*
organization like the A. \V. O. is the
universal hate with which it is
greeted everywhere by those who
must employ its members. That
shows that it is accomplishing some
what and is being hated for its ac
complishments.
Just as long as the railroad
brotherhoods allowed themselves to
be hoodwinked by Erdmann Acts
and got nothing, every paper in the
country held them up as models fot
all other organiaztions to follow.
The organiaztion therefore that
trims its sails to gain the breath ot
an employer's favor does so because
it hopes to still further prolong a
comatose existence. Four fifths ot
the labor organizations in New York
city are wholly useless; they are led
many of them, by a bunch of high
binders and politicians; some of the
leaders are in slimy alliance with
Tammany and others are openly ex
isting to further a religious cause.
In any event among them there is
no such thing as solidarity. Hill
quit knows that. He knew it when
he spoke in Madison Square Garden.
He is no fool; he could not be a
lawyer and a politician without be
ing conversant with the facts of the
movement in the metropolis. Doubt
less in a holy political rapture this
man delivered himself of a rousing
"whid”, which is buncombe froij) be
ginning to end.
But what is the use of such stuff?
This is even a worse danger than
all the compelling drivel about the
intelligence of lpbor that Hillquit's
democratic or republican brethren
purvey about this time. This is well
calculated to deceive and it is ex
ceedingly well calculated to have
the workers place their confidence
in the present inefficient forms ot
of organization and not try as they
must sooner or later, to mend or end
them.
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Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
Lena Morrow
Lewis
Socialist Party Candidate.
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR ATTORENY GENERAL
TERRITORY OF ALASKA.
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Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR SENATOR:
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For Re-Election.
Election, November 7, 1910.
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John Sundback
Republican Candidate
Election, November 7, 1910.
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Election, November 7, 1910.
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Election, November 7, 1910.
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Election, November 7, 11)10.
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Election, November 7, 11)16.
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Election, November 7, 1916.
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Election, November 7, 1910.
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Election, November 7, 1910.
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Election, November 7, 1910.
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Election, November 7, 1916.
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Election, November 7, 1910.
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Election, November 7, 1910.
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