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NOME, ALASKA TUESDAY, JULY, 2.1, 1S)18
IIASTV COXCLUSIOXS
An American labor del« gation, ap
pointed by Mr. Gomners, visited
Europe at the express Invitation of
the British government.
The choice of members to com
prise that delegation was not neces
sarily made b; cause of their radical
views. On tlio contrary most of
them were men who thot and act
ed conservatively. They were well
received in Enurope and they were es
pecially emphatic in urging a strong
war policy.
Thereupon, one Pierre Mille, a
well known publicist writing a week
ly article in the Observer said that
the “attitud of the American labor
delegation spells the temporary and
perhaps permanent bankrupey of in
ternational Marxism.”
He explained that “Russian Marx
ism is sinking into anarchy. Ger
man Marxism, social domocratie, ha3
shown it was only German im
perialism annexed to the dynasty
of the Hohenzollerns. Before the
war German Marxism directed.
European socialism, today the pow.i
passes into the hands cf the Ameri
can labor organization whose doc
trines are not those of Marx and
whose attitude he believes does not
differ from the British labor party.
Briefly international socialism which
was Gorman i3 becoming Anglo
Saxon.
It’s not very clear what Mille
intends to convey. That the social
ists of Germany proved imperialistic
When the war crisis occurred does
not affect the Marxism which was
tho mainstay of their socialism.
Hots of people when they find the
choice lying between conforming
and persecution in other countries
than Germany cheerfully conform.
Tho whole history of religion . and
especially religious persecution is
wide open argument cn the head.
Tho spirit may have he; n willing
and the body weak.
And everyone taker a r lqp social
ism those days. It’s out of fashion
and the socialists find that tho
freedom of expression may have
been theirs .at one time is not so
universally prevalent nowadays.
But take the real Marxists: the
men who were its ablest exponents,
tho men who stood like a stone
wall against tho revisionists: the
Kautskys. the Liebkneehts and the
Zetkins in Germany, they were not
the tail of any Hohenzollern kite
now or at any time.
And have the Bolsheviki failed?
What eeonomie faith would succeed
where they are struggling to suc
ceed? Tlieirs is the strongest gov
ernment In Russia even now. Com
pared with the German-approved
burgeoiste of the Ukrania they are
stability Itself. It’s not in Russia
but in Ukrania that anarchy pre
vails and the bourgeoisie had every
thing in their favor. Soviets are
confronted with foes and those who
are friends lack sympathy. In Rus
sia when the Tzar was removed the
wealthy and the prof ssional came
into power. They hrd laws and
tunnies and courts and judges and
the usual paraphenalia that makes
a government permanent. It fell
into complete anarchy and the So
viets took crntrol and have it yet.
It’s regrettable that everyone to
gratify tho natural capitalist opposi
tion to ah industrial democracy
should take a fling at the Soviets
who aftfr all have established what
has been the only stable control in
Russia since the revolution. Nor
Is it wonderful that this Bhould be
so. It was the eighteenth century’s
end that saw the French revolution
open, it was the end of the nine
teenth century before the revolution
ended in a stable republican gov
ernment. '
| But why should one suppose that
| socialism should become Anglo
Saxon where it had been German.
Where it failed, it failed because
it was nationalistic and not Marxian.
Where it remained Marxian it wa3
always true to itself..
And besides will some person nail
that expression Anglo-Saxon for the
mythical concept it is. England nor
Scotland, nor Ireland today is Anglo
j Saxon much less is America. Gael
and Norman and Frank and Briton
i and Saxon and Colt and Scot and
j Piet and Scandinavian and Slav and
Teuton are all mixed up in the
I blending of the nations that make
up America just as they are to a
great extent in the blending that
! makes up the nations of the United
■ Kingdom and its colonies,
i The war has made people think in
I terms of nationalism; peace when it
I comes upon the larger vision of the
new democracy will bring us closer
to the brotherhood of man.
But Pierre Mille is strangly unin
formed when he can affect to bo
| lieve that the American labor or
j ganization is not different to the
I British Labor party. On this head
there can be no such opinion. If
there i3 one thing that the Ameri
can Federation of Labor opposes
it is the establishment of a labor
party and no man has done so so
successfully a3 Mr Gompers him
self. t
For that reason the program laid
out by the British labor party with
its ultimate aim at socialism radi
cally differs from the fundamenta's
that guide the American Federation
of Labor, even tho Mr Gompers lays
no limits to the industrial goal which
labor s eks, but always on the eco
nomic field.
There is no doubt, that Marx ap
proves political action and that po
itical action in a political democ
racy is a necessity few Marxists
d nv. But there are many who ac
cept the enonomic theories of Marx,
surplus value, value standards, soc
ial evolution along the lines of th >
bread and butter question better
known as the materialist conception
of history who agree that economic
action is all sufficient. That’s nei
ther here nor there The import
art point is that these views are
confined to no nation and to no
people and arc held by different
nrm in all of them.
Temporarily the war causes a cus
I pension of tho facts of tho class
struggle in tho national struggle
| After tho war that strug
I gle will rc-op<n with an intensi
fied momentum. The main thing
is when peace does com after the
objects of the war are attained,
labor, rot Anglo-Saxon not German
labor, but labor from all natipns
should be presented at the peace dis
cussion. It is only in that way
that the real purposes of the war
will bo accomplished.
THE S. S. FAITH
In the Month of May. coming up
in the heaviest ttorrn of a year from
San Francisco where the steamer
was built arrived the goed ship
Faith. The Faith wa • built of (Con
crete. Built with a wheel barrow
and shovel and with the requirement
cf very little skilled labor at ail in
its construction. The concrete mix
ers, the dumpers. t.h» tampers, all
require hardly any skilled atten
tion.
Expert opinion reports the ship
a success in every way and engin
eers go farther and declare that it
is the ship of the future.
These are days when the un
expected is developing but who ex
pected a ship built of conglomerate
stone and to expect that it would
be the ship if the future?
Yet after all that is not the most
important consideration; it in ,n the
displacement of steel as the moans of
steamship construction that one d:s-1
covers the most important matter ]
worth thinking about.
Stsel ship building is undoubtedly I
a highly developed and a highly >
•technical work. The men engaged1
therein have to be years at the work
before they can be considered first:
class skilled men. They have on'
that account highly specialized
trades and highly specialized trades
that automatically protect them
from competition with the vast
massfs of labor.
But with a concrete ship, that’s
another question. The concrete
ship is built with little skilled labor.
It is built with a shovel and a
wheel barrow and there is neither
arte nor skill required very much in
the manipulation of those tools.
Gradually the skilled man is be
ing displae d. He is being dis
placed in almost every industry.
Mechanical contrivances, most of
them an automatic type take hi3
place. But here is an invention
which if carried to the point which
its boosters declare it must roach,
will displace the most important
industry in Am rica today, ar.d
displace the greatest number of
skilled men in any industry in
America today.
The craft union that would con
trol the steel shipbuilding industry
has a good excuse and a substan
: tial reason for its existence.
Anything other than an industrial
organization controlling the concrete
I shipbuilding industry would be an
I absurdity, in the latter the most
important men are the skilled
men. They want no craft organiza
tlon and could qualify for none. Bu
their labor is the really essential
. labor in the industry.
Concrete is the coming fabric. It
is displacing structural steel alike
for bridges and for buildings. Now
adays in building great edifices tho
concrete mixer and not the structural
iron worker is the most important
adjunct. Th? brick layer is being
passed by. The stone mr.son is
rarely required.. They are trades
of a by-gone day. Today cement and
sand and gravel in varying portions
build and ornament the various
structures that adorn or will adorn
the cities of today and of the future.
So of tl'.o ship building industry.
The steamer Faith means a whole
lot. Its success is matter replete
with significance. If it can be
shown that in ail respects the con
crete ship is the equal of the steel
ship, the future is with concrete.
Over in Europe every once in
a while one comes upon a gateway
at a park entrance, made of wrought
iron of exceptionally beautiful de
sign. It was wrought by hand. Its
complicated and exceptionally ar
tistic lines would defy tho ablest
blacksmith of today. The nun who
worked upon It were artists of the
caliber of these names great In
painting and sculpture. Yet with
al there is none who could under
take that work today, a mechanism
in a Pittsburg factory will turn
out a more beautiful, more artistic
and more complicated design in 1 ss
than three hours, literally while you
wait And the man who operates
tho machine simply turns a crank
and adjusts a lever with the same
monotonous system as the shoveller
fills his barrow.
Modern industry is abolishing tho
craftsman with tho same certainty
that evolution killed the dodo. The
future is with the unskilled in and
outside industry and with that the
control of industry.
And why not?
NEWS NOTES
Captain. Martin Anderson, the
well known trader and explorer, ar
i rived up from Safety last evening on
the Anna Olgo which has been re
fitted and repaired thruout ready for
the trip to the Arctic. Captain
Anderson wil leave tomorrow or a
day later for his groat journey to
the northern latitudes. He is ahead
of his schedule for he had figured
that it might take h.m until August
;to get his boat ready when he ar
rived on the Victoria. He will not
come out this year and will probably
make an extended sojourn in the
Arctic where he has spent so many
years.
Captain Peterson of the Herman
holds the record as a navigator thru
the ice. At the end of May while
other boats were approaching the
ice with f*ar and trembling, Captain
Peterson was in the middle of it at
the Diom.ed.es and bucking it right
into the Arctic without any unusual
feeling on his part. Not only that
but when within fifteen miles of an
ice field from Point Hope he bent
| his propellor blades and these he
! straighteed out right where he was
land finished his trip to the Liebes
I station at Point Hope. Ice had no
j terrors for him. Up north they
1 had a fairly good catch of mink and
fox, reports to the contrary arriv
ing during the winter notwithstand
ing, and the Herman is shipping out
side a large consignment of valu
able trading goods such a furs,
skins, bone and ivory.
Captain Peterson of the Herman
proved a welcome visitor to many
of the Nome storekeepers. He has
cleaned up many of their stocks and
at prices which th()y had little hopes
of receiving. With business dull
owing to the unfavorable nature of
the season, the purchasing drive of
the Herman’s skipper proved a real
boon. '
Nels Swanberg has been in town
from Osborne creek where the water
supply is rather low.
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