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Nome, Alaska, April 17, 11)1(1.
With car.'ful -publicity that must
redound to the profit of some print
ers, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. J
; ends through the incihj its usual
bulletins. The company has no in
tention of hiding its tight under a
bushel by any means but1
will take care that every j
010 knows it litis achieved
the last word in “democracy in In-j
dustry”. Having laid down rules for j
the observance of its employees it
celebrates the acceptance of the1
same by its wage workers as the j
very last tiling in the solution of the
eternal labor and capital question.
We think everyone should know
that over the memories of the re
cent strike and the ashes of Ludlow
rises like a Phoenix a new system
which establishes the Golden Rule—
the dawn of the niillenium in Amer
ican industry. And it Is mor.t satis
factory to know that the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Co. is taking pains
to circulate news of the achieve
ment. throughout the 1 ngth and
breadth of the land. The impossible
lias 1). I*'! achieved, and peace reigns.
However business is still business.
Says Hie Colorado Fuel and Iron
Co's bulletin of January pj, 1S1G.
“Thin plan does not mean that dis
cipline lias been abandoned”. Hell,
no. “Those who refuse to abide by
the rules will lie dismissed!'", and
pence will r ig'.i. There are going
to he no labor agitators in Colorado.
"The man who is not Satisfied with
conditions and with the industrial
r les laid down will Have to get cut.
That's dcniceracy in industry with
the boss laying down the rules an l
the workers getting to blazes out of
ii; re if tliey dont like it.
Ami that’s the system that ' go
Vig to obtain in industry under the
i .uail’dations of which the C. F. '
! Co. is merely a part and a smo.1'.
part. The management cst,ibli:di''s
certain conditions and insists the
the employees agree therewith. They
make tilings ns pleasant P.3 possibb
fee the representatives of the em
ployees. They adjourn to Turkey
and gravy and mashed potatoes
after they discuss clicchr.rging em
ployees. They photogaph the em
ployee's representatives and show
them democratically sitting or taml
ing with the bo.-. They i> ■ :;g Ui
the V. M. C. A. and christianize the
bunch so that they will accept whit
the companies give them and duti
fully obey tlieir masters.
nomocracy lias evolved to strange
stages in its rampage throughout
,1 • world, but the climax has been
reached in Colorado. The Colorado
Fuel rnd Iron Co. has done it. It has
established the millenlum and the
entire, system is now accepted de
lightedly by the employees. They
realize that their interests and the
■employers' Interests are identical
almost anything is por.siblo to con
coive where employees representa
lives attend lunclioens whereat
turkey and gravy and mashed po
tatoes are served up.
O, this old world 'is moving aolng,
moving along, people. And It takes
a Ro&efeller to give it a real boost.
11 takes a RockefoUer company to
establish an industrial serfdom—
complete efficient and thoroughly
controlled—to establish an industri
al serfdom and make the serfs say
they like it, to accompany it with the
priestcraft of tho Y. M. C. A. to
teach that servant", should obey th Ir
masters, for any how if they dor.l
they have to bo fired at:d at the
same time to pull off that stunt lti
the name of democracy.
Possibly there is just one objec
tion. All those things arc done, not
in the interest of tho company or 2e
Hrpadway, but in the interost of em
ployees. It Is the wollfare*of the ora-'
ployees that the' offlcbrs of the com
pany really consider.. What suits
tho workers is the policy that is
-adopted; they want them spiritually
aad morally elevated under the in
fluence of the Rockefeller brand of
•democracy applied by \yelborn to
their hides—they want the era
ployees to be made happy.
That s roally why the <Colorado
F and lron*Co. exist;.. It has no]
other reason. At least so we giea.i ;
from tlie careful pages of the Bulic
tin. It is trite that incidentally the.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. makes
profits, but that's a dotail. With that
the company has nought to do except
as a secondary function. The great
purpose of the company is to make
happier those who arc employed by
it. No details overlooked. The
company has established even gar
ages for the benefit of is coal dig
gers and charges a dollar a month
to the auto owners" whether they be
coal diggers or superintendents".
I That is in the Bulletin and it must
I be true. The conditions have al
ready reached an elysian plane. Hap
piness reigns supreme, miners go to
work in autos and conference
luncheons consist of turkey ana
gravy!!
The Rockefeller company sent the
1 Industrial Worker the Bulletin to
further its “publicity, -and we would
j be failing in a manifest duty if we
did not do so. Democracy in In
dustry—By the Eternal, what crimes
are committed in the name of Demo
cracy !!
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Rudyard Kipling, still relentless
in his opposition to Germany ann
abating none of his bitter antagon
ism because he lias lost his only son
in the fight but rather all tho morn
determined that Germany sha’l
never be victor, summarizes the si
tuation with a confidence that is al
! most cynical in its sincerity.
Nothing abashos him. Perpetual
war is welcome in preference to a
German victory.
Rut he is riot even disturbed with
the possibilty of financial loss. And
I when an imperialist, especially a
British imperialist like Kipling
scorns financial loss and refuses to
consider financial profit, he must be
determined indeed.
| llis remarks upon the war debt
wire however illuminating. "f ima
gine that in England where small
subscribers are not nunietous, a
certain proportion of the do't wilt
lie simply effaced, or repudia ed, a
very just reason being that men be
ing rich enough to lend moneys to
the state are rich enough to lose
them. It is immoral; hut we sliouid
only laugh, so should even the rich
men forced to lose. Perhaps they
would receive a title of nobility, a
compensation that would be a prac
tical and admirable apotheosis for
our national snobbery.Those
who labor and till the soil after the
war will be rich; those who do not
will be poor—but there will be no
Germany.”
It would have been simply imposs
ible to imagine Rydyard Kipling
speaking in that strain before the
war. But now it is different. There
is but one issue the successful pro
secution of the war, and neither
wealth nor class should bo allowed
to stand against it. Everything,
honors, wealth and social pooltloi
are to be thrown Into tho melting
pot so that there may be nq mor?
Germany.
“Allah has decreed that sho shah
perish by her own act, from the
consequence of the law she protosses
and through her own temperament”.
One is In doubts about Gormany
perishing. But it is significant that
much more than any of tho belliger
ent nations is perishing in thlp war.
Kipling's covert Insinuation, as tc
a repudiation of the war debt i>
without doubt most significant. And
what an Ideal has perished there!
For what have the human codes been
but to protect that property and en
force the payment of liabilities to
property?
Blackstone said that law was
made for proporty and how can pro
perty defend itself whon its right to
enforce paymont of money loaned is
repudiated by the people.
Into this desperate melting pot are
being thrown we say all kinds of
age-old principles and moralities
and codes and social conventions
and ideals and statutory enactments.
They are being re-smelted and It is
not ’ likely that the dross will evei
again pass off as the refined metai
that people have been esteeming .t
because the other follow sr.id so.
“It's immoral of course, but we
laugh”. Indeed yes, but it i3 not j
the Kiplings nor the snobocracy that!
arc going to laugh any more than !
the Park Lane millenaries nor the]
Teuton militarists. The war’s eD- ]
franchisement of a thousand j
thoughts and the War’s inspiration j
to a thousand acts may give little j
occasion to imperialists# to rejoice
about. Lucky for a few here or]
there that will be “as brands j
plucked from the burning".
Hope springs eternal in the human
breast said the Poet Campbell and
another man not a poet but quite a
prosy economist opiivs that hope is
the very mainspring of individual
and national progress.
All of which ha: been also doubt
ed, and one of the oldest proverbs
i: that he who live on hopes slia’i
die farting.
Pome day men will get down to
cases and direct their actions wit i
something with a more intelligent
gleam than Hope. They will follow
out their course guided by the laws
of cause and effect, but that is not
possible yet. Psychologists are
grappling with the problems o'
men’s actions, but so far have not
but merely scratched the surface
and the time is not yet when it
would be possible to say that there
is any wider scope to be placed to
a knowledge of what takes place
within the mind of a man, than the
j limitation placed by the prophet of
old that “God knoweth the heart".
Yet it is striking that national as
j well as individual hopes have their
j obvous characteristics and these
j could be discerned by a careful sur
vey did one take time to subject
1 them to analysis.
It’s important that we should.
Then we could discover the motives
that underly certain policies with a
definiteness of aim and inform our
selves accordingly upon what was
right and what was wrong to sup
port.
Here’s an instance. One cannot
take ui) any of the magazines or
newspapers which have attained
solid importance in tho estimation
of the great interests, without noting
tliat all of them are for an immedi
ate and eollosal extension of Amei
1 ican trade. Organization to that
] end is urged by hundreds of men
'prominent in financial, commercial
'and industrial circles. They demand
a super-organization of all indus
try so that the United States might
capture the markets of the world
That is their HOPE. It springs
eternal in their breast,- and it is the
one that dominates practically four
fifths of tho political activities to
day. It is responsible for the gospel
of preparedness according to Wilson
and according to Ropsevclt. It is
responsible for the demands to sus
tain national “honors” when nation
al honor is a flag covering a ship
laden with shrapnel shells or cannon
or poisonous gases. The ideal ot
any rate is worth knowing. It is
worth knowing that it is even now
being profoundly considered how
best the nation can become the su
preme figure in international trade.
Anyhow that is the ideal set be
fore the country as the greatest at
tainable. It is not concerned with
the welfare of the millions, but the
world dominance of the world trade
by the few. It has set its heart
upon that, and the people are ex
pected to shut their eyes to every
thing else but that.
• There is no other end worth at
taining. Dreams about freedom
about democracy, popular liberty, in-,
tellectual advancement, mental
emancipation mutual aid, co-opera
tion, industrial independence—what
are all these things but the worry of
ants beneath a million suns conr
pared to the tremendorfs ideal that j
Big Business is forcing upon the j
country—compared to the hope j
that Big Business feels expanding its '
breast to the exclusion of all else.
That's modern Americanism as
expounded by Big Business, it is
summed up in wo"Id trade which in
turn is summed up in the piling
higher and yet higher of sacred dol
lars and cents.
The stars are gone from the Flag
in this dream, and exist only as in
a dream—instead there are dollar
marks, myriads of them, ’upon the
blue field. It is wonderful however
the way that the Hope of Big
Business is identified also in the
minds of ttie people with ideals cf
patiotism, democracy, freedom and
the rest. And that’s tho witchery
of it.
j The Lid is off, but you will not
| be gambling if you take advantage
| of that fact. Bring real money
with you as chips dont’ go. From
now on till the time of stock taking
I you can get two for one at Darling
& Deans. You can buy a pick
; for fifty cents—do you get it?
j Bargains along all lines.—Adv.
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