Baily Name Industrial Markt-VI
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Hr Nome Mine Workers’ Union. No. *40. Western Federation of Miners.
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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government. —
Abraham Lincoln
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
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Nome, Alaska, September (>, lit Hi.
i.VIMUl DAY.
If ali the Labor Day speeches
were eliminated from the scheme
of things the labor movement would
he none the worse. It simply pro
vides now and then a great Labor
Leader an opportunity of throwing
Off steam and boosting politically his
friends and unionistically himself.
Leaders in the labor movement are
as prone as others to take their
own personality as the center from
which all ac tivities radiate.
Gompers is a type. Labor Day
he relieved himself of a lot of
drivel concerning Wilson and a lot
more about Hughes. Now it does
not, as a matter of hard fact, mat
ter an iota whether Hughes or Wil
son will be the next president as
far as the rank and file of labor is
concerned. It is possible a Gompers
may be less a persona grata at the
White House if Hughes is the suc
cessor of Wilson's first term, but
that is a loss can be borne without
tears by the working class.
But in none of these speeches is
there any effort made to preach the
required solidarity of labor without
which union action is a joke. Nor
can we be so blind as not to see
that recent increases in wages have
been due not so much to union ac
tivity as to the fact that the de
mand for labor has increased. More
over it should be insisted upon that
while to some extent wages have
been increased, they nave not kept
upward pace with the steady rise in
food and other necessaries.
it is ridiculous to claim these in
«rcases as great achievements lor
labor organizations when as a mat
ter of fact, it is al! part of the ope
ration of economic laws over which
as yet little or no control is exer
cised.
And it would lie well to realize
that the reason why no greater
achievements are to the credit ot
craft unions is because of the lack
of solidarity and reactionary lead
ers who fail dismally to realize that
an injury to one is the concern of
ali.
Gompers is ludicrously astral in
his idea that the passage of the
eight hour day is by any means a
triumph for labor, because other
wise the brotherhoods would have
went on strike. The real reason
why the eight hour day is passed is
in order to avoid the public incon
venience and the political loss of
prestige which would follow even a
temporary tie-up of the roads. The
main thing that stimulated action
was the convenience of the shippers
and the success of the democratic
party rather than any such thing as
the intention to better labor be
cause labor was determined to be
bettered. *
On the contrary, the railroad
brotherhoods have got an act of
Congress. A toy with w’hich they
may amuse themselves until it suits
tlie companies to take it away from
them through the courts. They
yielded the penalization of over
lime, an essential to the enforce
ment of the eight hour day, and
the railroads will be enabled to ac
comodate themselves for the present
to the change.
The striking fact in connection
with the railroad crisis is the lack
of solidarity. Where were the
switchmen, the telegraphers, the
carshopmefi, the section hands, the
bridgemen and a host of others.’
They were to continue assisting the
railroads to operate, just as the
union engineers, firemen and con
ductors aided the railroads to ope
rate when the federated shopmen
went out on strike some years ago.
Here’s a good subject for a labor
day address. Instead of flattery and
bull peddling, there ought to be so
much more humiliation that Labor
which produces all wealth, and
Schwab himself admits it, that is
so powerful and so numerous, is so
divided into petty factions and so
dominated by petty officials that in
stead of controlling industry, the
strongest of fheir craft unions can
, be defiantly challenged as by the
railroad presidents, to a fight to a
1 finish.
All this highly elevating political
slush is rot more or less. The re
forms which have been accomplished
have been accomplished only be
cause an increased efficiency de
mands that they be instituted. It is
for that reason the eight hour day
is accepted in so many industries
and it is for that reason that so
much more attention is being paid
to labor improvements generally.
It is not because this labor leader
or that lias had the sagacity to take
a sane and conservative course
which brought him and his head
quarters in touch with control ot
the job, as the boss wanted it con
trolled.
The real facts of the movement
are that it lags behind; that it is
driven by inefficient, archaic machin
ery; that it gets there only after in
dustrial progress has left the spot
years ago.
We are still organizing craft
unions, sub-dividing labor into as
many units as might be required
under the system of crafts. We are
still failing to observe that in these
days of gigantic consolidations in
industry something more strong
than petty sub-divisions of labor
will be anything of an adequate
force to confront the massive orga
zations of capital which control the
industries.
But. we have to admit, that after i
all the rank and file share equally I
with the leaders the responsibility j
for this inefficient system of orga
| nization. They refuse to recognize
j the logic of the situation and force
I upon the men whom they have
| elected the necessity exists for
! greater solidarity of labor tbrough
an industrial union of all workers
in each industry and in all indus
tries. Only because the rank and
file allows itself to be hoodwinked
by such ludicrous generalizations as
to the triumph and the power ol
labor, is it misled.
Yet on all sides, the facts are
compelling. Defeat after defeat ot
the workers even in these days ol
favorable action—defeat after de
feat ot the workers mainly because
some of them tailed to give concert
ed sympathy and follow this cp by
concerted action, are to be ob
served by him who, runs and can
read.
There is not observable a sin.r'.e
phase of dismay upon the part of
employers that labor’s strength Is
growing and that there is the
slightest need for such concern. In
fact facing even the perfectly orga
nized brotherhoods, the employers
were confident that they coull con
trol the situation. They know.
They are not misled by political
generalizations or self flattery. They
are after facts and they get them.
That is why they are on top. They
do not attempt to deal themselves
out large parcels of buncombe and
expect their fellow employers to
swallow it whole. They are in con
trol of the industries because they
are organized to control and syste
matically efficient in their organiza
tion. They are adjusted to the re
quirements of the industrial system
and they subject themselves to the
need of such adjustment. They are
not flim-flammed by industrial
chiefs who obtain large salaries
and are hopelessly unequal to the
task of delivering the goods. Their
managers are capable and efficient
and well informed and subjected to
an intense criticism. Xnd the
whole industrial system runs like a
well oiled machine, suitable to
counter any likely disturbance In
men, material, machinery or man
agement.
It Is not pleasant to contrast la
bor’s inefficiency with that of the
employers. But why should not
labor be Just as exacting and just
as critical in the demands of its or
ganizations?
GO TO NEW LONDON.
NEW YORK, Sept. B.—The Mex
ican Peace Commissioners left to
day for the quarters prepared foi
them at New London, Conn.
ADMIT STRENGTHENS WILSON.
NEW YORK, Sept. 5.—Even re
publican Gotham papers reluctantly
admit with some surprise that the
passage of the railroad eight hour
law strengthens Wilson.
GERMANY CONFIDENT.
!
BERLIN, Sept. 5.—Von Hinden
berg sends back a report from the
west front that he is convinced
more than ever that Germany is
invincible.
TACKLE FOOD PROBLEMS.
LONDON, Sept. 5.—It is stated
that the Government is now pre
paring to tackle seriously the rising
cost of food.
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