Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-04-25
WHAT THE |. W. VI. STANDS FOR
INITIATES TILE ANARCHSTlc MOVEMENT In EUROPE
KNOWN AS "SYNDICALI5TS", AND IS An ORGAN
IzATl0N AT VAR WITH SOCIALISM
SOCIALIST WRITER TELLS OF ITS PLAN
SOCIALISM AND LN. v. REALLY ENEMIES, THE LATTER
NOW ONLY AWAITING Time AND OPPORTUNITY
TO FIGHT TIE FORMER

The accompanying article on
''Syndicalsm" is not from any
Capitalistic" newspaper or auy
press harridan, but comes
straight from that pure and IN
tainted source of ali wisdom and
I'll knowledge and perfect free
dom-a Socialist organ. The art
iCle appears in the current num-
her Of THE Coming Nation. and,
as that paper states. is by an
authority, Shaw Desmond. He is
the British correspondent OF the
Coming Nation who. according
10 that paper. lis, closely connect
ed with and has a thorough know
ledge of the European, and espe-
cially the French and English
labor movements. where these
tendencies are most evident"
Summed up the conclusions OF
this writer are:
The Syndicalist is an enemy OF
''the state"
The large proportion OF the
Sgndicalists are anarchists.
The Syndicalist believes in 'di-
rect action" strike after strike,
autonomy for the workers in each
particular industry, Sabotage
aud allied features.
The Syndicalist has no clear
idea of what he hopes to accom-
plish.
Syndcalism and Socialism are
deadly enemies.
They will ultimately fight it
out between themselves.
Desmond's description of the
Syndicalist and his methods in
evitably calls up the Industrial
Worker of the World and his
methods and aims.
Whatever the latter may say
about it and whatever he may
declare his plans to be, they are
one and the same with those of
TIE Syndicalist. The |. w W., in
TACT, has copied his strike system,
sabotage" industrial demOcra-
Cy.' autonomy for each industry,
which reduced to its logical con-
ClusiOn means autonomy for each
Individual, which, in turn, is an
erchy. from the Syndicalist of
Europe The /. w W. merely
lnasquerades here under a differ
ent name.
50 much h0t ar is being give
)ff N various directions in regard t.
5Yndicalsm, "direot action" the gen
'rai strike, etc, by both Socialis ant
capitalists, that it is time the air wa
cleared. Not one man in 80 under
stands what Syndicalsm really is
Not one man in 1000 who talks ao0u
he new forces in society has eve
net Syndicalist leader. o. seel
Syndicalism in its special home-th,
ATTN countries. AS | happen to have
Interviewed some of the European
eaders, and have seen something .
his new force on the continent,
speak of that which ! know.
In the first place. Syndicalism i
lot the general strike, though th'
general strike is part of SyndicaliSm
Again, the Socialist may believe il
he general strike-that is not to sa,
lie is a Syndicalist.
Socialism and Syndicalsm are enc
nies-deadly enemies.
But the Socialist and Syndicalist d'
and will find themselves inevitabl
IS allies in the present transforms
ion stage of society.
Look at the position. Both the Ney
and the Old Worlds are being swaye
by two live things-Socialism an
oyndicalism. On the continent c
Europe the live men--the workers
find themselves divided more clearl
ever more clearly-into either tn
Syndicalist or the Socialist CAM
Germany and Britain sway toward
and political action-Ital
France and the rawer countries
the International-lik Spain-swa
towards direct action-by means {
the general strike and. to certai
extent, towards Syndicalism proper.
What is Syndicalism?
Syndicalsm aims at the destructiC
of ''the state" in any form by the us
of the weapon of the general strill
through which the mines are to
taken over and administered by Il
miners, the railways by the railwa
men. and so on. throughout all i
dustries. 1t is absolutely opposed
all political action. which it regart
as palliative and useless, it is again
all administrative machinery CT go
eminent, it aims at decentralizatio
and complete autonomy. not only f
each industry. but even in the ca
of those Syndicalists who are pure a
archists-which is true of large pr
portion-of even the fractions COZ
posing those industries.
In effect, it says, TO paraphrase
famous diotum, "L'etat-c'est lie
uemi,
Socialism aims at the administI
ton Of the means Of life, Of the IA