The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-12-04
UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Judge Eunnel of the Fourth Judi.
 cial Division after burning the
 midnight oil, after the midnight sun
 went down. has been able to discover
 9 flaw sufficient ill the eight hour
 law which would justify him in de-
 clariug it invalid
 It is no use 9 layman discussing
 the relative merits of judicial decI-
 sion These later day judges have
 theoiogian Of the middle ages who
 used to write volumes as to the
 number of angels could stand on top
 of the head of d pin, beaten Q city
 block when it comes to splitting
 hairs, and the only interesting fea-
 tura o. the matter is that the sue cessful hair splitting on the bench is generally performed when some
 labor law is to be thrown out.
 All of which tends to show the
 workers that not III legislatures, not in courts or ermined justices but in themselves must they look for labor reforms. They can only do these things through their labor organiza
 tions, and when they do it there, it is final: absolutely final.
 If the workers make up their minds that eight hours is long enough to work and will only work eight hours, and they have achieved sufficient economic solidarity to do so, what judge can declare their act unconStitutipnal2 lie has to be ap- pointed and he has to be appointed from supernatural material that now does nor manifest itself upon earth.
 These decisions like Bunnell's, these foolshly drawn up laws which the Bunneils tear up so easily, serve to show the worker that such scraps of paper are just scraps of paper and no more, when the eco- homie power behind the legislators and the judges will have them so act. But when labor organization eXerting it's economic might and through the legislation enacted in the Union Hall. passes it's eight that all the judges from hell to breakfast cannot tear with their long lean claws, try they ever so hard.
 And it is up to the workers them | selves. If they will only organize | the latent power Of Lahor through | the solidarity comes from industrial ! organization, they can have their eight hour law neither legislature | nor court can affect. It will be per manent. Nay, the eight hour day would in itself be merely a beginn- ing in the endless possibilities that open up like a golden vista to the workers. should they resolve to ma- teriali2e that enormous and uncon- querable power which may be theirs,
 There's no law enacted which pre- cedent cannot be found to smash to pieces if the economic power says to the judges that it so wills. One can take the decisions of the Su- preme Court and realize this com pletely. The Supreme Court was all for slavery when slave holding was the chief power, and all the other way about when the aboltionists finally dethroned that power. There is an acid truth in that declaration of "Mr. Dooley" that the Supreme Court follows the elections, as ap- piled to all courts. They follow the dictates of the economic power
 The economic power is not with labor. It never has been and will never be until labor intelligently or sanizes itself. intelligently masses Y, the individual power for social pur- poses and renders itself then the |; supreme power in the economic { world. It will be then goodby the paper solons with their paper laws, md paper judges with their paper ', decisions. The joker, that helpmeet !, ,f the political crook, will be rele- ,atcd for ever and a day to the imbo of things that have been.