The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-11-08


 The liberty of individual Initiative
 which had been crushed under the
 machine leadership of the craft
 unions, was paying the price or its
 borning, but eventually the indus
 trialists found that not in the
 straddling their backs with economic
 dogma and unionistIc orthodoxy, demanding excommuncation if chall-
 enged but in more mental liberty
 was the hope for the future. In
 other words, they proved the old
 truth that the cure for the evils of
 liberty is more liberty.
 It is not without instructive inter-
 est to note that one of the most
 serious attempts to destroy the or
 ganization was made by the anar-
 chists whose mental digestion failed
 wholly to assimilate the true signlfl-
 canoe of French syndicalism, and
 the anarchists found haven of rest
 again within the folds of the Fede- ratlOn DOSSeu ny OolhPOiS' "ii ~
 ardent advocates of individual l1ber-
 ty and anarchism proved the most
 ardent in supporting the most reac-
 tionary of all policies within the A.
 F. of l.. There is hardly capital
 ist writer more vindictive in his
 animosity towards the l. w. w.
 than anarchist Foster or Jay Fox,
 of the anarchist Home Colony in
 other days. Anarchism in any event is merely working class reaction under a radical mask.
 Men. institutions of men. codes
 and formulae of all kinds are sacred only where the mind approaches
 them with a veneration abhors any } such thing as serious examination. Naturally then, with minds open and unclaimed by superstitious re- yerence, many of the things which the majority of the people, workers included, regarded as sacro-sanct were now subjected to an unreveren- tial scrutiny with quite alarming re-
 suits for these men, institutions or men. codes and formulae which long l enioyed a position quasi-divine ln the popular minds. Hence the astonishing attitude of lndustrlai : Workers on many subjects pained' , outraged, insulted and maddeneo men who clung with tenacious wor- shipping to a good many things } were very far indede from deserving any kind of respect at all.
 : The result of this has been lnevit- able First and foremost being con . cerned with bettering the condition
 of the workers, the l. w. w. ran counter to many great employing ln- } tersts which never for moment l. misunderstood the purpose or the 5 new organization. It requires no very great economic sagacity to pen | citrate the fact that with industrial . solidarity an accomplished fact, as if can be accomplished by the In dustrial Workers of the World ana in no other way, the job controi and the economic power or the owner of the machinery of produc-
 tion and distribution would be 3 placed in jeopardy. They fought : them on the economic field, but they fought the industrialists far more l fiercely on what one may term the ? sociological field. They denounced the red flag, they attacked the lack , of patriotism, the insubordinatlon' ? the contempt for the village Dog l berries and the agitation to main : tain free speech and assembly. Ihey 1 represented them as criminals req 3 with senseless murder and blacKeo
 with purposeless arson. And they handed this out from pulpit, rom . press. from platform and had every : respectable in the land demanding l blood and iron to eliminate them from the scheme of things. They r were met with methods not much different Every constitutional right was suspended as far as the indus , trialists were concerned. They were arrested and charged with murder and the resources of state after state : were placed at the disposal ol the ' prosecution to convict. Some were , convicted. Innocent men, like Joe : Hill, were executed without a s shred of real evidence. Arrested