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nearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
Abraham Lincoln
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Nome. Alaska, .July U>, l!U7.
\ tool! DICTATOK.
Surely i: is ;i peculiar tiling, in
5 1ns democracy of the United States
o! America that such i thing shoultl
, veil he necessary, let alone he aetu
fually demanded, as a Food Dicta
tor. For. reasonably if a food dic
tator. why not a clothing dictator,
a. home dictator, a dictator in politi
cal life as well!
is the American people unable,
hv representative government to
control the food situation without
creating a dictatorship which, re
moving the power from the people
or the people’s representatives, will
dictate conditions for them?
In point of fact, then is the Am
erican nation, unable as a nation ot
Tree citizens to control their own
food situation and give marching
orders to the speculating sharks
who prolit by the country's need?
IN AKIZONA.
The mining situation in Arizona
is not pleasant to consider. The
workers ar> divided between sup
port of the organizations known as
the Industrial Workers of the
World and the International Union
of .Mine. Mill and Smelter Workers.
Yet when such dissension prevails
among ilie workers themselves, it is
•Vitttcult to see how the time can be
i ousidored opportune lor a strike.
This sort ot' labor solidarity is only
ridiculous and foolish and even tra
gic enough.
The Miners Magazine, the official
organ of the latter organization,
when commenting with some bitter
ness upon the tactics of the I. \\.
W. in the mining camps declares
with emphasis that the organization
while it may have broken up the
Western Federation of Miners, left
behind it nothing to take the place
of the Union which it disrupted.
it is impossible to regard this
fact without some misgiving when
considering the situation in Arizona,
and frankly when the miners are
divided into two camps,, favoring
two organizations and two distinct
policies, we fail to see where any
gains can be made for labor.
It is preposterous to loud that
any union is better than the union
which the I. W. W. would displace.
That is raw buncombe. The union
is what the members make it, and
we know enough about human na
ture to fully understand, that it
the membership was reactionary
under the older charters, they are
not going to be the more advanced
.so ini'
particularly healing grace
from a few extremists.
We may believe that contracts
are foolish; that the check off sy
stem is iniquitous. Hut so is the
■wv\ge working system generally,
and these are merely details which
the rank and file can if they want,
remove any time.
Moreover many members within
the affiliated Unions of the A. F. ot
Li. have been agitating for a number
of years for reforms and while the>
have not achieved very much re
suit--, they have at least established
absolute freedom of discussion in al
locals upon them.
Common sense refuses point blank
to think that it is a desirable policj
to break up one form of organiza
tion in Arizona and substitute an
other when even if the other was
established it would still be merel.
d difference, at the best, of Tweed!?
linn and Tweedledee.
Suppose for example that the I
W. W. were successful in hreakins
np the locals of our organization it
Arizona, and sutyose tout they werf
able to completely organize th<
workers in their organization. W<
know and they know that the\
would have to take in all members
They would have to take in the eco
nomicallv ignorant with those whe
were class conscious; the radicals
ajtd the reactionaries alike. If Mu
radicals did not control to sin-li
sufficient extremes the I'nions tn
Arizona before their arrival, is it
to be believed that merely by chang
ing tin name, the continuous wui\
of rag-chewing upon various econo
mic subjects, tiie miners en masse
would lie changed?
Now no person can imagine any
such tiling. On tiie contrary, lie
cause the majority of workers are
not radical, and continuous educa
tion is required before they will
even assimilate radical ideas, tiie or
ganizations whether they went i>>
the name of I. W. W. or Western
Federation of Miners would be ex
actly the same.
It is not, and it is a myth and
outrageous fallacy lias been perpe
trated upon common sense of tiie
people to say otherwise, the leaders
who are responsible for the poli
cies ot the rank and lile. it is tiie
rank and file itself. The rank and
file tolerate Gompers, tolerate labor
fakirs, tolerate this, that and the
other tactic which many others
within the union reject.
The very history of the Industrial
Workers of the World is practical
proof of tliis. That organization has
scoffed at the notion of leaders, hut
just the same they have those who
were just as much as the executors
UI lilt Will 17 1 till IllUJtl ll.l , l III linn
who endeavored to shape those poli
cies in line with their own views.
Doubtless the same thing exists as
exists in every organization, denials
to the contrary notwithstanding
Rut it is remarkable that some of
these men and women hold on to
official positions which may be tlie
reward and measure of their merit
and ability and capacity, but which
possesses a permanence indicating
that they are leaders in the accepted
sense of the term.
Moreover, this has led into vari
ous dissensions in the ranks ot the
1. W. W. itself. Factionism re
i suited in that organization sunder
! ing into sections which either re
| su'ted in the formation of another
I society or organization or was -e
| moved bodily into the outer dailt
I ness.
There are things which leave
much to be desired in all unions ar
liliated with the American Federa
tion of Labor. Some of the leader,
| should have been placed upon the
! shelf long ago. Many of the tactics
i .ire especially deplorable. Hut they
have been done with the approval
and sanction of the rank and file It
is an absurd idea to imagine that
this same rank and file is rigidly
excluded from absorbing the truth
as propagated by the Industrial ■
Workers of the World. They are
not; they come in contact with radi
cal Ideas such as they purvey al
most every day oi their lives. But
they remain reactionary. They are
reactionary on the job and olf the
job. And they would be the same
whether they would be members of
I a union affiliated with the A. F. of
I,. or a union affiliated with the 1.
j W. W. The charters do not count.
, The men do. And it is merely a
! form of tactical superstition to be
i ieve that there is some especially |
saving grace in the gospel as propa
gated by on I. W. W. and none in
such as is propagated by the others. ,
This paper believes firmly in in
dustrial unionism. But this paper
can no more compel the workers to
accept industrial unionism from its
standpoint as one can get a man
to delight in something which hr
regards front a totally different
point of view.
These who believe that by joining
the I. W. W. the milleniunt will be
hastened are welcome to that view;
those who believe that any thing
can be accomplished before the ma
jority are ready to act and believe
as they act, may as well forget it.
That a militant minority can do
many things, and can control, ive
know is correct. llow can we be
lieve otherwise with capitalism fore
ing the masses to accept things day
after day which is not good for Use
masses, which is actually and vitally
against their interests?
But this has to be pointed cut
that this very condition is the rea
son why there can be no perma
nence to the capitalist system, and
why there has so far been no per
manence to the good work which
the I. W. W. has accomplished in
places. It is nothing but silliness
to pretend that the workers are be
ing led by reactionary leaders like
Gompers against their will. They
are not. They are being led with
their eyes open. They are adopting
systems of contracts and check off's
and craft unionism because they
honestly believe that those systems
are the best. That they are not the
best cuts no matter of figure. They
will believe as they believe until
shown otherwise.
To conceive that the change in
the organization will bring about a
change in belief is absurd and un
sound. The facts of the I W. W
are on this so clear and convincing
that even its most friendly and sym
pathetic critics can not deny. It
started off eleven years ago. It was
torn with factior.ism within a year.
Reaction and radicalism parted as
was generally believed. In four
years it had again been disrupted or
disrupted itself. Men brought with
them their ideas as previously con
ceived and did not change with the
change in name of the organization
The Detroit organization, the Inter
national Industrial Union, refused to
budge an inch from its principles >
of the S. V. and L. A. of other
years.
Socialists and anarchists within
the I. W. W. later can.c to acute
faction fighting, and syndicalism
parted company with the organiza
tion and re-inserted itself with ihe
A. F. of I,. These are facts. But
refer again to Butte. Suppose,
which is doubtless correct that
Butte No. 1 was rotten with re
action and corrupt officialdom.
There is no doubt about that. The
Industrial Workers with persistent
agitation caused the final destruc
tion of that organization. The field
was open to them for the past sev
eral years since the overthrow and
anihilation of Butte No. 1, W. F. M.
What has happened? Merely that
reaction triumphed and instead of
such poor unionism as prevailed •
there was none at all, and the si- „
tuation was infinitely worse than
before.
That it may change in the imme- :
diate future with the I. W. W. in
control is possible, but the reac
tionary elements will be a mighty
indigestible morsel which will defy
any more effective assimilation.
All of those things make the out- |
look in Arizona not very bright. We ]
dont think that the I. W. W. will
make much progress unless it
brings about an immediate change
in the sentiments of the vast major
ity of the miners, and that is highly i
improbable, to our notion imposs- ij
ible. 3
OXMAN’S SECOND MOVE
TO FORESTALL A TRIAL
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SAX FRANCISCO. July 1!> —
Oxinan, the now exposed perjurer
amt crook, made another desperate
wriggle to forestall his trial for con
sjttraoy. He is also playing in con
siderable luck as he is to appear be
fore Judge Dunne who is now ad
mittedly opposed to giving the de
fendants against whom Oxman
framed up any sort of a square deal,
and he will be prosecuted by as
sistants from the office of Fickert
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with whom he is charged with colla- -
borating. The Defense . League
charges that he might as well try
himself. He appeared before Judge
Dunne and pleaded not guilty in
his arraignment for conspiracy and
he asked for six more weeks to de
lay his trial. Notwithstanding the
fact that he has now delayed the
trial by several months, Dunne
granted him two weeks for the pre
sent delay.
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