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Nome. Alaska, December 7. 181<>.
WILSON'S INDUSTRIAL POSITION
President Wilson’s message to
Congress on Tuesday is most inter
esting in the recommendations which
lie makes with regard to strike le
gislation.
Briefly and fairly put. he advo
cates legislation which will prevent
a stoppage of the industrial pro
cesses as due society in the matter,
being a safeguard against the abrupt
termination of the means whereby
the social wants are adequately sa
tisfied.
Ii seems a reasonable proposition,
does it not, that any action tending
to work a social hardship shoulct
be prohibited by legislation: strikes
no iess than anything else?
Society as at present constituted
consists of a number of industrial
operations all of which are supposed
to be devoted directly or indirect
ly lo the satisfaction of human
wants. Without these collective ac
tivities, the wants would continue
unredressed and the needs unsatis
fied. It is highly important there
fore that every and all means be
taken whereby the continued satis
faction of the requirements of so
ciety would he assured. That seems
reasonable, and it upon this stand
that Wilson advocates strike legis
lation.
He advocates the introduction of
strike legislation which will prevent
any national interference upon the
part of large bodies of men with
those industrial processes which are
devoted to the satisfaction of human
needs.
Unfortunately Wilson has begged
the question. Who can say with any
sort of elementary correctness and
justice that the industrial processes
are devoted to the satisfaction ot
human needs? Industry at the pre
sent time is carried on only for the
production of profits. And there is
not an employer in the world who
would continue the industrial pro
cesses. as far as he is concerned, il
those profits are not forthcoming.
Indeed there have been times when
owing to business depression, which
is another way of saying that in
dustries has ceased to be money-mak
ing and were closed down, when the
industrial proceses suspended all over
the nation. And they were suspend
ed all over the nation not because
there were no wants no needs and
r.o requirements which society need
ed to satisfy, but beeause there was
no money in it.
Experience has taught us all that
industry is conducted for profits not
for the satisfaction of human
needs, and that supreme necessity
of money making which is the sine
qua non of all industry, involves em
ployer and employee in a continue
-wrangle over the portion of the pro
duct that will fall to labor in thr
form of wages and the portion that
will otherwise fall to the employer
in the form of profits.
But tlie employer is the man whe
has the entire say whether or ont
Hu; industry shall be continued
And usually he judges that by tin
-continuance of his profits. If thr
lodger shows a balance in the red
the works are closed down unti
such time as conditions grow bettei
in industry and money is to br
made by a profitable circulation ol
commodities.
On the other hand the employee!
face such conditions as give the em
ployers virtual control of the indus
trial situation. Owning the tools
-and machinery of production hr
seeks in tlie labor market the penni
less and propertiless who must work
and work by having access to thr
tools he owns, so that they can live
He needs a certain number of mer
to carry on the industrial process
He finds in the labor market a very
great surplus of men over and above
those whom he requires. The work
ers knowing that If they do nol
take the job when the Job offers.
someone else will, the employer is
the man who practically dictates
the price. And although the barg
aining on the labor market seems
as dignified and legitimate as that
when a hank of onions or a crate of
spuds are bought at the corner gro
cery, in point of fact that bargain
ing is nothing of the kind. The em
ployer holds over the workers al
ways the lash of hunger and this
drives them to accept such condi
tions as he will allow to them in re
turn for the privilege of making
money for him.
Reduced of all the drapery of ci
vilized intercourse, that is the ac
tual condition of things in the labor
market.
Now, then, confronted with such
[ conditions, the workers in turn ally
; themselves together in order that
| they will not always be worsted as
' they are always worsted in individ
j ual bargaining. They unite and bar
J gain collectively. They form labor
I organizations: unions. And whether
they are at work or whether they
are out of work, they are always
! subject to the economic compulsion
I which drives the worker to labor for
i another who owns the machinery of
I production.
Hence it is that they find that iu
their struggle for better conditions
they have time and time again to
cause a suspension of work on the
job so that by causing a complete
i interruption of the profits of the em
| ployer, the sole reason for the em
j ployer operating in the industrial
processes of the nation, the employ
er is brought to time. To be successful
a strike requires absolute organiza
tion within the industry: it must
find a complete cohesion of all the
different labor units; and it musl
give the man who is struck against
no time whatever to prepare. II
must come like a bolt from the cleat
sky and it must find the employei
unequal to meet the emergency b;
other workers who will take the
places of those on strike and thus
enable the employer to continue his
profit making, the very thing that is
to be prevented by the strikers.
Society is not safeguarded af any
stage of the industrial pri cess
against the movements of any kind
which are initiated by the employers
And it cannot be just as long as tht
reason for the industrial process
is not the social welfare but tht
making of money. When Wilsor
based his anti-strike recommendatior
upon the social welfare because an)
intt rruption of the industrial pro
cess would injure the social units
he took it for granted that the social
welfare was the supreme end of in
dustry. But it is not and it nevei
has been. The social welfare ha:
j nothing whatever to do with it. It is
j just an accident that' when the pub
i lie is better served an industry pros
P« rs in doing so. If the public is nol
better served by the continuation ol
the industry, it will continue any
how, just as long as it is profitable
Socially it is impossible to con
ceive a more immoral and anti-socia
activity than the great industria
process of munition making. It cat
be justified by no sort of argumeni
and in fact its effect upon the coun
try has been completely demoraliz
ing. But the industrial process in
volved. to continue to use Wilson’t
academic expression, is one that lit
erally seethes with profits. The)
are, and they have been and the)
will be, enormous. Hence quite re
gardless of the social effect that in
dustry will continue. Or considei
another industrial process: the dis
tilling business. The effects of thal
industry are written in human blood
are shaded with human rags, art
stained with human hopes, are black
ened with human shame. But be
cause the stills produced enormoui
profits for the owners, it has beer
favored and protected and placed
under the saving wing of the gov
ernment itself.
In truth social welfare has liter
ally nothing to do with industry to
day. It is profits. Farmers in Illi
nois are favored with a particularly
fine potatoe crop which clogs the
market on the commission men.
Thirty carloads at one dumping are
thrown into a quarrypit filled with
water so that the price could be
maintained although thousands
starved that very winter in that very
state. Coal is piled high at the pit’s
mouth while the cities clamor for
coal and its price is incended in res
ponse to the clamoring because of
this artificial shortage. Coffee is
yearly controlled by a board in Lon
don which allows just so much "raw
Rio" to find its way into the market.
Sugar is stored in the plantation
warehouses until the refineries ad
vise that the market demands can
be easily met, quite regardless of
any human want. Hundreds ot
mills closed down in the textile in
dustry in 1S94 and in 1907 when
the panics beset the country, and
men wore rags while the looms were
still and refused, because of the lack
of profit to supply human need.
The damnable hypocrisy of the
Wilson attitude is simply founded
upon this fact, that the industrial
process is carried on for gain and
net for the benefit of society. That
society is benefitted by it is an ac
cident and because of that accidental
consideration, Wilson bases his
whole theory of labor legislation.
That labor legislation would be
justified were the same measures
taken to see to it that under any
and all considerations whether the
owner found it profitable or not the
machinery of production and distri
bution was used to satisfy human
wants.
There is no morality at all in such
j legislation which denies the indi
vidual the right to have access to
the means ot production in order
to gratify his immediate needs and
yet prevents the collective mass
from interfering with the profit
making process in o"der that they
can make ends mt - out of their
pay.
Wilson claims that .trikes should
only be admited after investigation.
He knows that this means that after
due notice has been given employers,
after they have been able to build
up the machinery for breaking the
strike, after they have got ready to
replace those who will walk out,
consent is then graciously extended
the men to strike.
That is the condition of things in
Colorado and that is precisely the
condition that has followed the in- j
ception of similar anti-strike legisla
tion to that which Wilson proposes j
to make national.
However undue importance need
not be given any strike legislation.
The economic struggle between the
exploited and the exploiting classes
will not diminish in violence one
lota by reason of any such legisla
tion. The worker will strike just
the same. The fact that such
strikes will be then illegal will not (
alter the situation any. It will mere- j
ly make the industrial situation j
more acute. Wilson’s proposal to |
weigh down the safety valve with j
laws so that the industrial system j
may carry higher pressure of social
discontent will have the result which
might be expected from any such a
generally resorted-to and generally
I fatuous measure: it will intensify
' the explosion which will follow, that
is all.
Moreover, it will do what the ex
1 plotting classes least desire. It will
j compel industrial solidarity. It will
make imperative massed action and
: it is to bring about a general strike
' which might 'ever so much longer
otherwise be delayed. The men who
I fear to hang individually are not
i daunted when they are united with
men who are prepared to hang to
gether. The effect of the anti-strike ;
law will be just precisely that it will |
i insist upon the supreme need of in
I dustrial organization and so indus
i trial solidarity. The law can be re
garded therefore with no unkindly
eyes. The more, the better.
Safety first. You miners coming
in from the creeks look up the ad
vertisers in your paper before dis
posing of your patronage.
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Dr. A. F. Heimlich
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
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