Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-12
UUIIUV VI InVU
ON CAPITALISTS.
In His Speech at Labor Hall He
Advocates Industrial
Republic.
HIS THEME WAS UNI0NlSM.
Say, Struggle Ia Better Conditions Has
Been % Long and Bloody Ono
Political Action Needed.

W. :. Dalton, IN speech at the
Federation of Labor hall last evening,
advocated the creation Of an Industrial
republic, and the crushing of capital
lists.
The Right and Wrong OF lrnionism"
wos Mr. Daltons theme lie said in
part;
THE history of labor unionsm il
the record of the struggle of the work.
ing class TO better their condition.
This struggle has been not only a des-
perate, but blind and bloody one.
Carried on In the beginning by the
skilled trades. with no thought for the
betterment of their unsklled brothers,
its main object at times appeared to
be to build up a monopoly for "A fow
mechanics and To- bar ont all others.
But the development of the labor-saV
Ing machines tends more and more la
strike the armor Of skill from the
breast OF the mechanic and 10 place
him on a level with all other workers,
so we find the union extending it's
scope and taking under its banner
vast numbers of workers who had no
place in the old guild system Of craft
unonlsm. In this, as we'll as In other
things, the machine has proven itself
the great social revolutions Those
who obey It's orders and adal them
selves to the changes II Institutes VIII
survive: those who oppose It, be they
labor unions or nations, will be
crushed and destroyed.
LONG BLOODY STRUGGLE
"As unionlsm grew and extended so
also did its aims and objects enlarge
and change. Craft unionism fought
for a few dollars more and few
hours less, II accepted the wage sys.
tenn, that Is, the buying and selling OF
labor power, as hnality. II had no
higher vision o. the working class
than that of permanent merchandise
which sold itself In the modern slave
auction called the labor ma,ket,' and
got the the best terms possible ITS
weapons were as futile and foolish
as its ideal was degraded The strike
means pitting empty stomachs and
slim purses against full stom1chs and
millions. Not only did the unorgan-
lied workers scab on the strikers. but
the rest of the unions promptly turned
their members into 'scabs by contuu-
ing at work producing and carrying
material, helping strike breakers, nil
litia and police to shoot the strikers
into submission and I'm general aid .
ing the employers to crush the strik-
ers.
Those unions that depend today on
the old fashioned strike and refuse 10
learn the lesson taught by the ma
chine, are as surely doomed to extinc.
tion as the savage tribe in the face OF
an oncoming civilized race
THE battle for the universal unioT
shop, miscalled the closed shop,
can never be won by the tactics of the
old craft unionism: industrial union
ism alone is capable of winning sucl
a victory.
Every victory for the eight-houl
day has been won by disregarding the
advice of the fakir leaders to keep out
OF politics.
industrial unionism regards the 80.
called strike as criminal nonsense ~
worse. II teaches that Il Is almost as
foolish for the single union to pit it4
slim resources against the employees
as It Is for the individual workman ia
go out alone on strike This does no.
mean that the Industrial Workers Of
the World will not resist the masters
of the bread but we shall choose the
battle-ground and select the weapons
guided by our experience I'm the class
war and our knowledge Of the power
We possess as citizens.
OVERTHREW WAGE SLAVE SYS
TEN.
"For the disrupting aud dividing
principle OF an 'aristocracy OF labor 81
which craft unonism is based, We sub
stitute the uniting principle OF the
solidarity Of labor, which declares n,
section hand u brother to the engineer
| In place If blind struggle FOR the full
| dinner pail. We rally the producml
| class of the nation into one grand army
| OF labor for the complete overthrow
OF the wage slave system and the es
| adjustment Of an industrial republi
wherein the worker viii receive tn
: fun value of his product.
The Old-styla craft union could win
| Victories against competing employe
who would not organize, but it goe
| down To defeat when IT engages m
| struggle with the organized trust, TIL
| civic 70 lerltion attempts to s1oth
| tho dying moments OF craft unlOnisn
| with cheap ulatitudes about arhitD
! ton and Cancellation. The s,ruggl
| between freedom and slavery can neNe
| be arbitrated. The producers nj thi
nation must own the trusts or tn
trusts will own the producers.
"rhe Industrial Workers VI the Worl'
az an organization is not aihlitte,
with any political party. We plaiul,
| proclaim our ultimate object TO be u
| take and hold that which we produc
| by our labor We mean by this tina
when the voters IN the exercise o
| thelr political rights shall decree tina
| the machinery OF production must b'
| restored 90 the people the Industrial
| Workers of the World will back nj
| that decree in the mill, mine, shop an,
| railroad and crush any attempt Il
| treason ON the part OF The usugpini
capitalist class by locking out the div
| idend drawers and making the indus
| tries OF the United states a close
! shop against parasites and exploit
| eiT.
IAN students Of social conditions an
| agreed the next great social chang
| will be the conquest of greater eco
| nomic freedom. As the battle for re
| ligious liberty resulted i'm secular, po
| htical government, So the battle 20
| economic freedom viii result in chang
| Ing political government into industrial
| administration. The Industrial Work
| ers of she World Is today the embryo
| the foreshadowng of the form OF tn
| future society. where politics viii reall
| mean the science of production, an
| where fraternalism will take tho plac