The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-06
BOMB PROVED To
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the mine owners of Butte to such
degree of docility that they sign
ed an agreement allowing the unions
TO have representative take their
stations at the moths of the mine
pits and bar all men not il good
standing, as shown by union
card, from the workings. This is
about the acme of collective bar
gaining" and the zenifh of union
ism.
But the l. W. w has discarded
collective bargaining and sneered at
the right to let only union men into
the mines.
The mines are the workers" say
the i. w. w. They not only be-
long to the miners, but the miners
actually have them in their hands.
All they need TO do is to take posses
sion and keep the so-caled owners,
or capitalist class, out altogether"
So when section of the Butte
miners revolted against the Western
Federation of Miners and the card
system, these malcontents announc-
ed their intention of affiliating with
the I. w. w.
But right here was to be noted a
curiosity or perhaps a step forward
by the L. w. w. The l. W. w. has
divided all mankind into the CAPT
Italists, the unionized, skilled labor;
and the ignorant and non-unionized
often alien, non-skilled labor. To
the third class, or the masses. has
been the T. w. w. appeal. Their
leaders have declared the l. w w.
mission is to show this vast bulk of
workers their strength.
But in Butte Americans have just
seen large number of skilled mine
workers declare for the /. w. w.
The /. w. w. seems to be succeed
ing in its plan to begin at the bot
tom of the industrial order and
work upward.
Perhaps the side of the T. w. w.
doctrines which appealed to the
miners was their vastly greater de-
mands as compared with those of the
bargaining trades unions.
These people are not looking for
wages, they want to own the fac
tory" declared an astonished Phil
adelphia manufacturer in the early
years of the /. w. w.
So they do. The T. w. w leaders
tell their followers they will strike
. and demand / 5 per cent of the pro-
ducts of the factory; then strike
again and get a further Is per cent
and continue the process until labor
has the whole 100 per cent
The owner of the factory will take
his place at a loom or a wheel and
receive the same proportion of the
returns as the other workmen.
! Writing more than two years ago
& Charles Willis Thompson, who has
made study of labor questions, de-
clared the I. w. w. ''is the most
serious menace the present system OF
society has ever been called upon to
face.
In these two years many things
have tended to bear out his predic.
ton The l. w w. strikes come
with increasing frequency Many
leaders of literary talent and deer
powers of thought, such as Boucl
White, Lincoln Steffens and Uptor
Sinclair, have been drawn to the l
w. W. from other systems of socia
reform. A few leaders have made
. mistakes, and caused the T. w w
to appear ridiculous, as in incident!
N of the last few months in New Yorl
4 City, but the general movement ha
l been broadening, constant stead.
\ increase in strength.
At the present moment there is no
a center of population in the Unit
ed States where large numbers o
cheaply paid men and women ar.
employed which is not WATCHING
with real concern the l. W. w rum
blings of the proletariat, or alread.
has felt the effects of the organi
cations methods.
It is the very formlessness of tn
/. w. w. which makes it so mucl
o to be dreaded. 1t is an intangibl
? thing. There is no president-th
. l. w. w fears a Gompers-no treas
! ury and no organization that de
, serves the name. 1t is merely
. theory which some have identifie,
J with the syndicalists of Europe, blu
2 which is broader and deeper.
The T. w. w celebrated its tent
) birthday not long ago. In the win
: ter of 10000 less than two scor
> men who had fought in the rank
) of the trade unionists and were dis
satisfied with the results, gatheret
in Chicago and here the Rev. Thoma