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Nome, Alaska, February 25, 11)1«.
An exchange prints a statement
to the effect that white labor in the
canneries may supplant that of
Orientals if sufficient whito labor
can be secured. This statement does
not enlighten very much because it
docs not say under what conditions
white men can be secured and
whether or not they will be secured
for the same rote of pay as are the
Orientals.
The cannerymen employ the Ori
entals mainly because they are con
tent’ with smaller pay, less com
plaining as to treatment and more
docile in subordination.
The cannerymen have devoted
considerable sare to their control of
labor conditions end have seen to It
that they control the situation In
this regard absolutely. They do not
want white mon butting in lest they
have labor troubles, and they main
tain a strictly unorganized condition
of peonage.
Although they apparently turn
over the matter of thoir labor sup
ply to agents who secure tho con
tracted labor for them, ,t must not
for an instant be thought that they
arc very indifferent on the subject.
They understand very woil when
they thus contract for labor, that
labor will* he forthcoming and they
IV fiances.
Jiu^fas long ns they can securl*
oriental labor that (3 cfBcioat, lowly
paid, contented and very docile, they
will employ orientals. When the
orientals become dissatisfied witli
conditions and want hotter pay they
will turn to whito labor.
Therefore if the cannerymen are
thinking of Supplanting tho orientals
with white men, we can ho reason
ably certain it is bocuse the Ori
entals are not proving so docile and
easily driven after all—at least they
are not as efficient in proportion to
the wages paid as would be white
men. Hiring men is a business pro
position with the canneries. Thoj
are net in tho labo-- markets seek
ing for good material to build up a
sturdy peasant folk in Alaska or foi
llio purpose of aiding in tho settle
ment of adjoining districts with
virile American citizens.
They have jv i-' • r- o'” in
existence. Their ivo is o> pay the
owners profits and hiring employees
is based upon that single mind 'd
vl 'wpoint. If any of the officials
who have been endeavoring to in
duce tho cannery interests to employ
white men instead of orientals tan
show the cannery 'men v/horeui
they could increase tho gains by so
doing we can ho sure of !t the. can
nerymen would make ‘ho change to
morrow. This up-lifting stuff makes
no such appeal. It falls on deaf eat^.
Profit is tho main thing and without
profit the canneries close.
Nothing is more interesting than
the attack of Sam Gompers upon
the effort made at the American
Federation of labor convention to
force through a resolution in favor
of labor legislation such as tho eight
lionr day, Gompers sneered at this
political action in just tho same
vigorous manner as those who
have urged the smiting of the ballot
box with an axe.
Gompers action would lie reason
ah'. intelligible and passingly logi
cal were it not for hts labor lobby
at Washington; wore it not for his
support of policies such as pre
paredness, were it not for tho fact
that he favors the appointment of
labor leaders (like himself) on po
1 or legislative bodies.
As it is. it is senseless and the
extremity of unprincipled anarchism
supported not because It is anar
chism, but because such avowed la
bor legislation might interfere witn
the schemes of the Federation’s po
liticians.
The Gorman efficiency l.i due, we
are told, to the collective getion ot
the nation: to its practical adoption
of the principles of state capitalism
or state socialism.
It unquestionably owes it3 exist
ence to the unity of action which
the German nation displays, and the
collective action wherein the indi
vidual will is completely suppressed
for the attainment of the imperial
ends.
And supporters of this condition
urge that because German industries
have been conducted in a manner
wherein the collective wor.l even ot
the workers as potential lighters In
the groat national militaristic ma
chine had to be considered, the na
tional benefit in the national effici
ency is obvious. Out of the entire
war, we can hardly select a more
difficult question than arises from
the different social virtues which
obtain from such governmental col
lectivism and national individual
ism.
Moreover both represent condi
tions of thought which are in them
selves to one another directly anta
gonistic and which must finally fight
it out in the scheme of things.
The next step from state social
ism is an industrial democracy but
whether it will be ordered along
the lines of individual independence
or collective control is a question
J^iich cannot very well be off hand
MB determined.
The one theory of government !•>
represented by Jefferson’s succinct
phrase that that government is the
best which governs the least, and
the other is that which holds that
the best government is that which
governs everything.
Individualism as represented by
the former viewpoint is rampant in
England and Amorica. There has
been an entire absonco of anything
like state control of any of the so
cial activities except whore such
wa3 absolutely essential. Yet in
both countries that viewpoint is
changing. In Amorica now there
are those who advocate every form
of activity being controlled by gov
ernmnt from the railroads and tele
phones to what wo eat and what we
drink. More than one prominent
politician wants railroads regulated
and prohibition of intoxicating li
quor is general in a large section of
the union.
Old age pensions, child Ichor le
gislation. minimum wage laws, em
ployers liability and state insurance,
mothers Insurance, unemployment
insurance, anti-smoking ordinances,
anti-treating ordinances, and a
vorioty of other subjects show that
government is getting it3 work in
j legislatively even in America on al
most every human endeavor and al
most every human activity.
And all of these things are op
posed by a class of people who de
clare that the more laws only mean
the more law breaking; that the
more government concerns itself
with industry the more the people
become corrupted and the more they
| also become enslaved.
In England such an entry on the
! part of government to control and
legislate on matters tlieretcfore un
heard o'f, was resisted with the cry
of Spencer against the Coming
Slavery.
It is this war that has brought
things to a head. In the German
government ownership of railroad
strict factory inspection, unem
ployment insurance, municipal
lodging- houses, government control
of steamships, railrords and facto
ries, is aso witnessed by expert so
ciologists the German bupremacy as
contrasted with other nation's incili
ciency.
With the government army system
rigidly removed from individual will
and vested in the state by compul
sory service we see this system in
striking contrast to the British and
American system of voluntary -en
listment. No army man* has any
doubt as to the efficiency of the
latter .system, although, many ex
perts will differ as to the social su
periority of the one orer the other.
The individualists resist all the
arguments for government control
and all the urging for an extension
of its functions by pointing out that
every man is a different individual.
No two men are allko and hardly
any but have radical dlffernces.
They point out that the public
school system has been chiefly a
failure because it taught all child
ren by the same methods and made
no especial effort to consider indi
vidual ldlosyncracies. They point
out that German efficiency is based
not upon its industrial collectivism
but upon its industrial , individual
ism. German industrial undertak
ings with no government support but
built around the individual genius
of the German chemist and the Ger
man technician is where the supre
macy of Germany lies. It is be
cause of the care given the educa
tion of the individual scientist and
the number of scientific laboratoris
where individual scientists can
without any collective assistance be
yond the more technical details and
formula, work out the problem?
which confront thorn that Germany
is really so great.
They insist that while state con
trolled and strongly governed Ger
many is showing an unquestioned
supremacy and efficiency in this war,
it owes everything not so much to
such state control, on the contrary,
they owe it to the industrial effi
ciency of the country far. removed
from any such control, to the ability
of the individual German chemist,
scientist and technician, and the in
dividual genius of Germans applied
to the problems involved in the war.
They further insist that as far as
individualistic countries like Eng
land and America arc concerned,
they have failed because the entire
system of collective education is a
failure; that the authorities in con
trol have measured all natures with
a standard yard stick, metca out
the same standard text books, the
same dosage of lessons and instruc
tion, as if the impossible could be
achieved and all natures trained in
a uniform humdrum way. That this
collective system of education is the
dry rot that accounts for the lack
of so many attainments among indi
vidual scientists, and only where
these methods are rejected and in
dividual education usurped the place
of the public school standard curri
culum has any particular class o:
Americans shown marked superior
ity. That ' class is distinctly in
mining and ore reduction, the supre
macy of the American mining engi
neer and metallurgist being unques
tionable.
Moreover they go further than
this, and they insist that if the ar
Kliments applied to German effici
ency as shown in the German army
are correct, they would also be
equally clearly demonstrated in the
matter of the German navy and that
they simply will not stand examina
tion. On the contrary, woful ineffl
ciency is admitted even among the
Germans as most disappointing in
even the best ships, and some very
candid talk along this line in a
German newspaper at the time cf
the Bleucher's sinking quickly se
cured suppression.
On the other hand the British
navy created by individuals in the
happy-go-lucky pattern . that has
characterized that nation’s method of
dealing, has shown itself wonderful
ly proficient in construction, gun
fire and personel.
So the arguments for and against
pile on. Maybe it is an academic
uuestlon which will settle itself But
it is an interesting and important
one. It is certainly one that v?ry
soon will remove itself from th*
category of an academic question
and there will be many who will be
come so strongly imbued with the
Jeffrsoniar idea that that is the
best government which governs the
least, that it will invade not only
the domain of national politics, fer
it actually has done so under one
guise or another and under one pre
text or anothrr, but it will gieatty
effect the workers in their methods
of organization, in their tactics and
their ultimate end and aim.
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