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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
•early as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
Abraham Lincoln
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Nome, Alaska, July 20, 1010.
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THE VIEWPOINT.
It is quite apparent that no good
word is to be said in either the Post
Intelligencer or the Seattle Times
for the striking longshoremen.
The efforts of the men to obtain
their share of the much heralded
prosperity meets with no approval.
Bat that may have been expected in
Seattle.
The other day upon the arrival
of the mail, a Juneau exchange
was opened wherein nothing but
denunciation and belittlement was
directed towards the longshore men.
And in the same issue of the same
paper was the telegraphic announce
ment that the steamship companies
had increased their rates one dollar
a ton to Southeastern Alaska. But
that did not elicit anything in the
way of the denunciation and the
bitterness the longshore strike
aroused, although it was protested
very mildly that already the rates
were high and the increase hardly
justified.
Labor's efforts to better its con
dition meet the same direct anta
gonism anywhere. And when they
ask for higher wages, to meet the
undeniable increased cost of living
they are met by growls and grumb
lings and disgraceful misrepresenta
tion which is calculated with due
premeditation to arouse public opi
nion against the workers. But ron
sider the fact that when a steamship
company increases its rates it does
not ask the shippers if it meets
their approval. The steamship com
pany insists upon its right to demand
what increase their business neces
sities require. When they say a
dollar or a ten dollar rate will he
enforced, that rate goes. There is
no getting over it. But with the
ease of the workers when they ask
an increase as individuals they are
fired and when they ask for an in
crease as an organization they have
to win a strike to obtain it. There
is no dictation tolerated. Dictation
is the privilege of the corporations.
Indeed, the attitude of the press
towards workingmen when they en
deavored to obtain more of the pro
fits which' their labor is creating is
that of Mr. Bumble to Oliver
Tfwist wheti he asked for more soup.
The idei Of it is regarded as shock
ingly audacious and that is precise
fV the attitude of the Seattle papers
and papers published elsewhere to
the longshoremen’s demands.
The time is coming when the
workers must be wholly indifferent
to this manufactured sentiment,
and that can only happen when they
rise above what the other people
*ay. They have to work out their
own salvation for themselves and
separate their movement from any
other influences than those which
arise within their own efforts to
wards industrial freedom.
There can hardly be any question
tout that what retards the labor
movement so enormously and su
tiiat it travels “like a weed clogged
wave” in so many places, is because
oC the fact that so many are sus
ceptible to outside influences and so
amenable to forces which do not
and never can affect their movement
for good. They allow themselves to
toe subject to opinions which are
artificially stimulated by adroit
press stories and by skilfully mani
pulated news service, by misrepre
sentation and by the exertion of in
sidious and perverting expressions
of opinion so that their minds are
held captive by the bonds which
have been woven for that express
purpose by powers which are fight
ing the workers daily and weekly
aril yearly, lest they realize their
own economic might and take up
the position not' of asking with
bated breath and whispering humb
leness, but demanding and making
their demands being prepared to
enforce them.
As we see it under the present in
dustrial system when some arj ex
ploiters and others are exploited,
there is no getting over the class
antagonisms which arise. And men
must take sides with the working
claSs or against them. There is no
golden mean. When the Latin poet
declared that there was a medium
in things he had no conception of
the class struggle. It is impossible
to carry water on both shoulders
or to straddle two horses, be one
ever so adept. This labor movement
predicates this condition and only
when it is thwarted and becomes
inefficient for good can it be poss
ibly held that there is a community
of interest between employer ana
employed. There is not and there
never can be. The more wages paid
the greater will be the sum drawn
from the pile that otherwise would
lie distributed as profits. It is to
the employer’s interest to get as
much work done and as profitable,
for as small wages as possible. And
it is only the height of absurdity
for the workers, therefore, to per
mit themselves to be influenced by
that section of the press which
when labor and capital are involved
in any question will always espouse
the cause of the capitalists.
The kept Press fights always on
the side of the biggest bank ac
count. That is its function: to mold
a perverted public opinion that will
aid in that bank account growing
more and more plethoric.
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