Batlg Nam? Snimatrial Worker.
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ANOTHKK (ONVKNTION.
Another convention oi tiie American
Federation of Labor has passed
and gone. This convention re-elect
ed officers. resolutioned quite a bit
and becomes history. For many
annual periods 'hat has been the
way. But as far as work accomp
lished. new milestones erected mark
ing the progress of Labor, there
has been nothing done.
We may peddle to ourselves about
the advance which the labor move
ment is making, but it is mostly hot
air. The proper thing to do is to
•compare what is done by the labor
ites with that which is done by
tlios" who employ labor, and the
contrast is as startling as painful.
The great aggregations of capital
are coming closer and closer to
gether. It is not enough that ca
pital is centralized in its natural
development so that , as in the
United States today one per cent
own more than the other ninety
nine put together, the capitalists
have been tireless in their advocacies
of policies and tactics which will
continue their control and continu
ing their control also intensify
ilieir exploitation.
Industrial preparedness which is
the very keynote of the modern ca
pitalist expansion, also contains
within its doctrines the elementary
one of complete labor subjection.
Leagues, associations, combinations
and consolidations have been effect
ed along industrial looking towards
the perfect realization of that pre
paredness policy on the industrial
field.
The solidarity of the capitalists is
no legend. It is a fact. It is in
■evidence everywhere, and we have
numberless examples all over the
•country of extraordinary and persist
ent efforts to make that condition of
solidarity permanent.
Against these activities, tireless
and wonderful, what does orga
nized labor as represented by the
American Federation of Labor pre
sent? Practically a helpless state ol
theoretic discussion, an exceedingly
expensive office holding, and a quite
useless excess of craft unions keep
ing the workers sipa-' in Fa- name
industry. Labor solidarity far from
being a reality is just a piece of jaw
smithy work; inane and vacuous
noisiness.
It is quite true that a man with \
the extensive public functions that !
consume the time of a Gompers, |
has hardly any opportunity for ;
keeping labor solidarity before him
as the sole really effective method,
of labor organization. In fact ho •
has ;.<> many calls upon his time as i
n prominent man that it would he
c>o much to expect that lie lias to
devote it ex< iusivoly to labor.
There are Civic Federation activ
ities of enormous and elevating
scope which receive luster from his
personal connection therewith: there
are the conferences which the Demo
cratic Administration upon labor le
gislation at which he must shine In j
all the refulgent splendor of ma 1
terialized wisdom; there are his ;
functions as a member of the pre- j
paredness league which protects the j
home and fireside. He has labor day ^
speeches to prepare; articles to
write, addresses to compose and j
while much of this may be done by j
proxy without any serious know- j
ledge getting circulated around, as ^
a public functionary whose opinion
Is sought as one of authority, natur- j
ally the main matter may have to
.be neglected now and then, \
In any event, it in absurd and un- j
just to saddle Gompers with respon- |
sibility if the American Federation j
of Labor is not as efficient as it
should be for labor purposes. It is ;
with the rank and file that the res- :
ponsibllity lies and it is upon them
that judgment must be taken.
It may be quite correct that the
-entire machinery of the craft orga
nizations and the entire officialdom
which exists by reason of such craft
divisions, are in open opposition to
industrial solidarity. It may be
quite true that on this account it i>
too formidable a task for the rank
and file within the organization to
regard that reform towards indu
strial organization as within
the bonds of possibility. Hut
that view is not suflici
ciently justified by the facts. That
view finds itself condemned by the
reactionary tendencies which not
only in t lie past, but more so in the
present have found their realization
in the rank and file of radical un
ions so called. The most radical or
ganization within the fold, judging
by the tendency now displayed, be
comes more reactionary than craft
unions themselves, and there is a
general and an unchecked tendency
to back track over the well marked
trails of progress.
That is the fault, immediately and
directly of the rank and file.
If the question that is before
labor is faced fairly and squarely,
we can surely take a proper ac
counting of work done and whethei
for the price paid returned value
received.
In fact for the past two years in
dustry in the United States has been
uniformly active. Never before in
any of them have such conditions of
briskness been noted. The unem
ployed have been reduced exceed
ingly low. Immigration relatively
can be considered to have stopped.
The crying demand for labor is in
satiable in the east. Work is admit
ted to be exceptionally plentiful ana
both skilled and unskilled can ob
tain employment if they are normal
ly employable.
That is the condition labor faces.
It lias as many trump cards in its
hands as it will ever hold. Certain
I lv more than it has ever held before
| and likely enough than it will ever
hold again. Under such conditions,
labor should make giant progress.
| and the strikes should not even be
l necessary to enforce better condi
tions. But where there are strikes
they should be victorious and accom
panied by much better conditions.
Now in a few places machinists
made gains, isolated gains and neg
ligible. In some places the garment
workers went back with higher
wages according to the figures, but
relatively lower according to the
purchasing price of that scale paid.
In New York the Interhorough de- I
fled all efforts to organize the., trac
tion employees. And that effort
was beaten flat into putty while
every other union looked on with
folded arms. The Lonshoremen oi.
the Pacific coast went down into |
abject defeat under ideal conditions j
for victory, while union sailors j
stowed freight and worked along !
side of strike breakers.
In one camp the miners went on
strike and the union pumpmen* were
kept at work to help out the em
ployers by keeping the mine fit foi
scabs to operate.
And taking all the gains and all
the increases which labor has made,
it has not made gains equivalent to ;
the higher costs of living at all, but j
its scale of wages represent less
food, less clothes and worse rooms
than ten years ago could be pur
chased with their pay. ,
These are facts that may not be .
disputed. They cannot be. They are '
to be read in black and white and
cannot be explained away. We need
not attempt to peddle to ourselves ■
at all. It is quite useless. ,
It is true of course that the Am- ,
eriean Federation of Labor has ac- (
compiished a whole lot by preven
tion. It is absolutely true that the
organizations have prevented many
worse conditions being inflicted 1
than might be the case had such un- ‘
ions not existed. There is no ques- '
tion that wages would have been re- •
duced and the, standard set might .
have been lowered and that condi- ,
tions would be very much worse 1,
than they are, did these craft orga
nizations not £Xist.
That is true enough. But the
union that simply holds on is actu
ally going backwards. The union
that only prevents itself being torn
to pieces and its members paid peon
ist wages is pretty near reaching
the minimum of efficiency. It is
not a standard that should be set.
It is a standard that should bt
wiped off the map.
Labor organizations must accomp
lish definite victories. Labor mi’ot
do that through recognized solidar
ity. If the logical fact in connec ion
with organization is that it gives
one man the strength of all, then an
injury to one must be the concern
of all. It is a historical fact that
you can only realize the ’Hasses’
strength in the realization of the in
dividual’s strength and that can be
brought about only by solidarity.
Solidarity only means complete
union: unionization of aim, of ac
tivities, of energy. It feimply means
that all will work for one and one
will work for all.
The employers are realizing that.
Never before has industrial pre
paredness been proclaimed with such
a universal and uniform agitation.
And never before has industrial pre
paredness been built upon capitalist
solidarity making an injury to ona
employer the injury of all. They are
carrying out this policy slowly but
surely ail over the country. They
are carrying it out not in resolutions
and addresses and mutual admira
tions at conventions, but in hard re
ality in their associated shops and
organizations looking towards com
plete unity of action.
And. it is certain, until the work
ers follow suit, making working
class solidarity a reality in fact, on
and off the job, without frittering
away useless time upon useless ac
tivities, they will be aB they are
quite helpless to accomplish any
thing except here or there a per
functory revolt against entirely ob
noxious conditions.
It is difficult to expect that reform
will come quickly even in methods
of organization any more than in
any other social activities. It is
quite apparent that there will have
to be considerable discussion before
discussion in itself will move the
organization ahead any. It is more
than likely that the very methods
| and the very conditions which will
! follow the utilization of those
methods of employers, will force the
workers into industrial organiza-,
tion.
The consequence of being com
pelled to await such a condition is
obvious, and it is reason the more
1 why industrial organization should
! be insisted upon and agitated for at
1 all times. If efficient organization
! is realized as the keynote of success
for capital, it is positively true that
efficiency of organization, an indus
| trial organization, is all the more re
I quisite of Labor.
Anything in the line of job work
| »t the Industrial Worker Office.
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