Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-07-09
Sl,969 II Si.969 II
EDUCATIONAL. FUND.
ORGANIZATION FUND.
APROPOS The
nMENDMENT.
He Objects,

TOLEDO, OHIO, June %, lS9~.
As to the amendment proposition |
wish to say:
/. 1t ought to lie thoroughly dis
cussed in INDUSTRIAL FREEDOM before
any vote is called for. All the facts
which led to such a call should be
fully and frankly stated.
,. Then [ substitute for that
amendment an amendment which
will authorize the national-or some
other body elected by the whole
Blotherhood-to admit members into
the colony when they prove them
selves to be qualified. etc.
,, argue this proposition. because
a. the colonies must be under the
general control and management of
the Brotherhood or the very object
of its existence will be defeated.
Collective ownership WITHOUT COL
LECTIVE OPERATION of the means of
production and distribution would be
absolutely useless. What benefit
would it be to the operators of a rail-
road or Il great productive enterprise
to have collective ownership of those
plants, if they did not operate them
collectively? 1t is the orderly and
scientific operation of the great
trust plants that makes them success
full. 1t is not the mere owning of
them by their possessors.
(B) Without this collective. orderly
and scientific operation of these col
MES by the Brotherhood. the owner
ship of them would be a nuisance and
damage. The Brotherhood would
be financially responsible for the
failure of any of these colonies that
might fail, and yet would have no
power toprevent the causes of failure.
The moral effect would be bad on the
hood would. of course. be blamed for
all such failures. Then colony failure
would be much more liable TO occur
under individual and independent
management. The Brotherhood could
not render substantial aid TO such
colonies
BY no manner of means should the
/ brotherhood own and be espou9ible
for any colony, unless Il can nave the
general managemcntof Il t. operation.
&c. Not only does the best eco
monte success of the colonies demand
the cooperation of each other under
a general management, but the best
development of the spirit of brother
hood demands it, A spirit that can
not cooperate In a genera manage
ment for the best good of all
certainly cannot be trusted to har-
monte on smaller plane. i'm an
individual colony. n spirit that is
afraid of bossism in an equal brother
hood, where he h;l, an equal voice
with all others is liable to the suspi-
cion of wanting To- be a boss himself ;
OF wanting to g ct into some little
circle where he can boss others. The
best possible a. ,re TO such spirit is
to keep him c IL the larger plane of
the general b Brotherhood, and a spirit
that cannot be kept there until is
cured of its selfish bossism. ought to
be be eNorc lsed.
NJ The' argue further for my
that il is i'm the line of
our origi nal Brotherhood plan. and
that tn It plan, as set forth in our
Hteratr re is popular with the masses,
beyond any new proposition ever
made 1t is spreading like wildhre
amor & the people. No one objects to
the theory Of it, Most people who
he; r of it are anxious to see il
y" lrked out,
(E While anarchy, which is the
sole antagonist TO our plan, is dis
lgu,ting and offensive in the extreme
to all the people, il IL the direct
opposite to our proposition, and tc
have our Brotherhood mixed up with
anarchy. even to the limited extent
of owning a colony site, occupied ano
controlled by anarchists. would com
promise IL to very damaging extent
If did not destroy it.