The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-02
sNTi-STRIKE LAW =.

made rl.aaI uHHt ah l-Fes1lsa'l9a ID -,.s= +- laltsratGoa ot the most .r-s-... nature eyer hes hsln pre- sar+aa for the consideration of Con s,r.s- It ls a most deliberate at' ,a,.ot r3 destroy the personal free 5oal af one set of people in favor ot rnotser set. and is so obviously . ,Iass legislation that anyone can u"- derstand it as such. IL is especially interesting to 00- serve that it is introduced by Ere sident Wilson in whose support 'ne 1aadirg laborites of the country worked over time, and in whose cause Sam Gompers himself was Ill., defatigable.
 rbaro is now no question but that the reason that Wilson will sue ceed himself next March is because of the labor vote, and almost before ba is ready to take the oath for an other term. he is working might ana main to strike labor one of the deadliest political blows that any executive has ever struck with the help of Congress.
 Ii is fair to Wilson to say that ne made no secret of his predllec'loh for the concept of compulsory arol- tration, and that if he got the laoor vota ana the labor leaders worked with might and main for his sup port. they did so knowing full well what his attitude was upon this question. :. The entire question of strikes IS o,o that will well repay careful cor sideration.
 strike is massed actl"l nnon the part of the workers on the economic heid ol rectlv. without the interposition O any political action. A strike IS struggle. And like all struggles VII generally be victorious to those wh' have the best. and who meet thu least, preparation.
 Obviously the more sudden spoh taneous and more general a strlk is inc more likely is it to win 10 the workers. If a strike mas LII onnIovers unprepared to meet tn emergency which it calls forth II takes the employer when he is busi est and with least warning II II airactad against every possible sourc of activity in the industry things will assuredlv contribute t its success.
 The strike and the power to a'FlN is the power to unite labor Tn on orqanized effort to better conditions Ii is in fact labor's only weapon. labor try to improve it's condition o the political field instead Of on LII economic field, it simply produces burcb of parliamentarians and pol ticians who have much more to q with matters that do not conceI the workers. than with those thing that do. The individual worker bclpless. such power as he h' got fs only such as control over h labor power gives him. If he hl inc orly labor power in sight ai a dozen men were hunting him to work for them he would be in position of very great power and II nortauce. But it is just the reVers The worker finds that for every J there are hundreds and thousan looking for it.
 The very existence of the worKe depends upon their ability to uh their individual labor powers pether with one another, and to la common action in the matter of
 disposal. With such an organlz unitv of labor power, the former despised workers rise to positions considerable power which can Il expression in the strike.
 That power to strike is theref' the only way in which the work can make their economic power f' and to remove that Is to submit workers, helpless and in industr bondage to the over lords of
 dustry.
 Historically that has been
 which in the course of capitalist
 velopment the various nations h.
 tried to effect in the interest of
 pital, and it has already become
 law in many countries, and for
 same alleged reasons that it is to