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Nome. Alaska, March ft, 1010.
In Juneau quite recently they at
tempted to form a union of car
penters, but when the contractors
assured the men they would keep
up the going scale of 60c. an hour
the. Idoa was dropped.
It is extremely interact'eg to read
in one of the papers that “one of the
tradesmen after the meeting stla
he wanted it to be strictly under
stood that in the recent attempt to
organism a carpenters' union there
was no disposition to dictate to the
mining companion; In fact, in fact
it was expressly understood thav
the mining companies would be
strictly independent of the union".
The tradesman might havo savea
himself a whole lot of wii'to-Uvered
breath. The mining companies are
truly independent of tho caipcnters.
Thoy are independent of every one
in Juneau and the Junoauito- know
it. They depend for their existence
upon the continued dominance 01
the mining copr.nlos, and they can
lie relied upon to be dutifully de
pendent upon those in control.
The "tradesman" who was so
anxious to have it clearly understood
that the carpenters intended no le3e
majeste incidentally revealed the
state of economic subjection that
prevails throughout the Alaskan
capital.
ft is to bo hoped that the mining
companies will not regard tho ill
timed and disloyal efforts of the
carpenters with vindictive disfavor.
The question of individualism or
co-operation is being forced to the
front by the war. A good many
heretofore n<jver gave -tho subject
a tnougni are now Bumuiaiuu iu a
consideration of the problem by the
great success which has attended
the German efficiency, due boyond
any doubt to organization and co
operation.
in tho last jnalysis of course this
organization is controlled by a lieaa
who is more or les3 a bureaucrat,
and who as an individual has been
a directing force in the manage
ment of his department, but without
co-operation between tho individuals
in each department and between the
heads of each department, success
would not have been possible it is
now generally claimed.
The complexity of the problem is
increased by reason of the fact that
the individual initiative is seriously
affocted by departmental action,
and it is a serious fact that num
bers of men of talent and genius
are cowed and cribbed and confined
in tlieir little spheres so that they
may subordinate themselves to the
■ efficiency demanded in even moasuri
only, front subordinates by the
bureaucrat.
No one can pretend with any dt
gree of truth that the l’ost Office
is better managed by reason of its
being a government activity, involv
ing the greatest co-operation be
tween the individual units, because
ia the first place no kind of bureau
cracy has attained any such measure
of successful management as has
the private corporation.
It is very certain that the indi
viduals making up the postal service
torce are allowed much less inde
pendent action, less spontaneity and
lees initiative than If they were em
ployed in an effectively managed
corporation, and it’s only a near
socialist bugaboo to pretend that
the world is better manage! when
managed by a government than
when managed by a private cor;m
ration, or a private firm.
Not only that but the field of
labor is greatly restricted as to
freedom in ail government branches.
While theihigher-up* are up to their
eyes in politics, and the entire or
ganization is controlled for politics
J»y , politicians in the person of the
bureaucratic heads, labor.is rigidly
restricted.
While the civil service employees
may not join organizations, write to
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congressmen to better their condi
tion, take any active part whatever
In the government,of the country or
be active in any way in the politics
of the nation, every head is a poli
tician,obtaining his office by reason
of the fact that he was a politician
: with pull with some other politician
with bigger pull.
Such a system of organization is
in direct conflict with every concep
tion of human liberty. And it Justi
fies every criticism that every oppo
nent of government ownership has
ever said against it.
Quite a number of socialists have
an idea that government ownership
is socialism. Certainly it has come
to that, that what is called state
socialism passes muster as an Indus
trial democracy when it is strictly
now and always will be a political
bureaucracy.
The post office is so governed
from the top, and as a specimen ot
bad government it could be hardly
i excelled.
The tendency moreover of such
bureaucrats as may be politically in
control to operate their departments
for the political betterment of their
own economic class is vividly illus
strated by the tendency to suppress
publications which they regard with
! disfavor from a passage through the
mails.
I That the government of the people
should have turned over such an ex
ercise of power to the bureaucrats
in control of the post office can only
be explained by the craving for
power that these political bureau
crats lay claim to.
The right to disbar any paper
rrom circulation oy ueuymg iw »
right to pans through the malls, un
questionably Interferes with the
liberty of the press. Although the
courts may not see In this an Inter
ference with that constitutional
right, no man in his senses can help
observing It and admitting it.
That It is being abused admits
of no doubt. We see cases time
and time again where publications at
the instance of politically strong
bodies are denied passage or are
prosecuted for sending matter ob
jectionable to such bodies, lest an
unhampered passage interfere with
the political well being of the bu
reaucrats.
And that is what government
ownership amounts to. It ends in a
political bureaucracy in which demo
cracy has no part, in which the peo
ple exercise no diroct control and
wherein liberty of action invariably
suffers curtailment.
No sano man but realizes tlyai
social organization and co-operation
is necesary to the well being or
society, and no person will very
seriously question, unless a doctri
naire pure and simple, that such an
organization entails a certain
amount of discipline.
But any time that discipline Inter
feres with the natural demands of
individual liberty, with Individual
initiative, with individual happiness
and suppresses the natural alms ana
Impulses of the individual, that
discipline and such an organlzatlor
becomes in Itself a Russian tyranny
It is impossible to regard society
an applomeratlon of living units, as a
machine where every man has a
place to remain, and every human
cog must maintain its function with
endless routine.
That government ownership will
extend is almost a certainty.
In tho first place it will take away
from corporations the responsibility
of handling labor demands for betr
ter conditions and more and more
of their product. In the Pont Office
a demand for higher pay with con
certod; action on the part of any
numbor of employees wguld be fol
lowed by their dismissal and if they
persisted probably a conspiracy
charge would bo levelled against
them anti penitentiary sentences
metod out to cool oS tholr ardor
When the taxi men struck in. New
York end the transfer men employed
by mail contractors wanted better
conditions, they got them, in Sing
Sing penitentiary.
Thun if the public utilities are
transferred to the government, the
government is under an obligation
to return the interest upon the
bonds issued to acquire such utili
ties by purchase. The capitalists
who financed the bonding have no
thing to do but lie back and clip
their coupons and the ideal of ca
pitalistic feudalism will have been
reached.
There is no reason why this con
dition does not appeal to the big
capitalists just now except that
huger profits are securable in inde
pendent ownership. But the time Is
surely coming when all the water
the stocks will hold will have been
injected and very modcrato interest
(or profits) will be the normal con
dition. Then the government will
step in buy out the private owners,
and establish a political Bureaucracy
to run the affairs of the nation.
Such a system of society is how
ever by no means a democracy. It
will have resolved itself into a con
dition of state capitalism wherein
the bond holders and financiers will
be assured under all conditions that
they will receive an unearned incre
ment upon "investments”.
That it will in many respects be a
more efficient system than at pre
sent prevails may be argued as true.
It is reasonably debateable. But it
certainly will not be an extension of
the principles of human liberty and
human liberty is synonlmous with
active, progressive and happy human
life.
That’s no mere phrase. We are
creatures of our higher feelings
just as much as we are creatures
of our material wants. Every senti
ment and every impulse and every
ideal is as food and drink to us.
Victor Hugo said that a
man cannot live without bread
and he cannot live with
out bread and he cannot live with
out liberty. You cannot make the
individuals compromising a society
well behaved automatons without
any sentiment, without any activity,
without any initiative, without so
ciety becoming dead to ail intents
and purposes.
The life of society depends upon
the vigor of the individual, depends
upon the health of mind and its
initiative and spontaneity of action
We demand room to brqqjjie ,and
our opinions our beliefs our ideas
demand also freedom of expression.
This war will glvo an effective im
pulse to state capitalism, in this
state capitalism is being forwarded
greatly by many so called socialists
who see in state capitalism theii
Ideals of socialism.
It is immaterial that the most ef
ficient co-operation and collective
action is that which denies the in
dividual the fewest activities, assists
in developing the individual's initia
tive and enlarges the view of the
.collective action by enlarging the
i view of the individuals composing
; that collective unit,
i We do not for one minute believe
that the German efficiency depends
upon the state capitalism which in
t. moderately developed form there
in exists. We see ho reason why a
co-operative commonwealth admitt
ing each individual the highest poss
ible expression and expansion In an
industrial democracy would not be
far more efficient than the bureau
cracy in Germany. If it is held
that the bureaucratic system is
more efficient, then indeed the days
of democracy are numbered.
But when a state capitalism is
contrasted with an anarchisic capi
talism sucb as prevails greatly In
England, in Russia and even in the
| United States, with industrial chiefs
! dominating society for their own
lends in many instances, defying the
welfare of the exploited social
units of the nation, state capitalism
unquestionably is an advancement
REPUBLICAN CALL FOR
DISTRICT CONVENTION.
A District Convention of Republi
cans, elected in the various pre
cincts of the Second Judicial Divi
sion of Alaska, at the primaries held
cm March 11 tl; 1716, to attend as
Delegates to the- Republican Terri
torial Convention at Seward, Alaska,
on April 19th, 1916 Is hereby called
for the purpose of adopting plat
form Resolutions, endorsing Dele
gates to the Republican National
Convention to be held at Chicago on
June 7th 1916 and for other party
purposes. The said District Conven
tion will be held at Hunter Halt,
corner Hunter Way and1 Front 8t.
Nome, Alaska, at 8 o’clock P. M. on
Saturday, March 18th, 1916.
By order of the District Commit
tee, Second Judicial Division fh s
I the 7th day of March 1916.
GEO D. SCHOFIELD.
Chairman
W. M. EDDY
Secretary.
F. A. DANIELS.
A. A. ALLAN.
J. C. KENNEDY.
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at the Industrial Worker Office.
Satisfaction assured.
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