The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-08-28
MAYOR ROLPH'S REBUk kE.

The rebuke administered by Mayor Rolph tao Big Business in San Francisco no doubt was well de- served.
 Big Business is incurably ignor- ant and stupid i'll dealing with the workers Big Business still thinks that the only way to do things with strikers is not to meet the demands, not to consider their right to orga- nize but to bulldoze through their operations by sheer expression of force in the form of gunmen or po- lice and to hell with the living con ditions of employees.
 They insist upon their own right to organize, 10 consolidate and de mand full freedom for the.r dnan- ciaI operations and toas, the demo cracy which sanctions that condl- ton.
 But they view as helots without right to have any say in the wages paid those who are employed by them.
 Mayor Ro,ph, a very rich man and man who is not any way stu Did. who sees as fer as any man who understands industrial condi tions as few men in business, is well aware that labor is neither SC docile nor subordinate to the in dustrial overlordship as in years gone by. He is not blind to tht growing solidarity that is mann Tested in spite of archaic forms oi unionism, and he realizes the ful sfgnifcance of all these facts,
 Big Business is controlled by meT who have the ideas of the quarter deck of q buncko ship or an olt time man O war where the cat O nine tails was a speedy remedy fol insubordination and walking tho plank was the cure for mutiny.
 Serve God and honor the em blower is the text of some, but whel Gods service and the employer conflicts, naturally every rlgh minded employee will serve th' employers.
 Big Business still thinks in term' of violence. It believes that it. position is maintained by crush ing display of force. It depends greatly upon armorod autos an( upon machine guns ami a'E@ger armed with billy and with gun.
 Hence when a strike occurs, it l ulaving right into their hands whel a little trouble breaks out. It the excuse for guns and bayonet :.nd for a general beating up.
 It is able through it's official whom it has helped to elect often times to take the law into it's owl hands and railroad or deport thos who st2nd in the way.
 There is no such thing so vii as to be infamous when crushing strike and the peace it insists upo is the peace of it's own industria absolutism
 It is extraordinary how little l known of actual conditions in tn industrial life of the nation. Some times when editors let themselve go in lofty patriotic articles, W wonder if they ever stop to realiz actual conditions in industry. Whe the writers take a whirl eXaltin democracy abroad and for the worl we wonder sometimes if they eve think how severely democracy Ina been pressed at home
 And they grow justly indignal about it If they are rebuked, fo they are both thoughtless and ignol ant and stupid as the bosses whol Mayor Rolph stigmatized as such.
 No man, for example, could ris from a perusal of the report of tn Industrial Relations Commission without keenly feeling that ther are some places nearer home tha Europe that need to be made saf for democracy. Yet how many req that reporto How many have req it? How many have given theI time to analysing the tremendou forces which have been working fo score ana more years to brin about in industry a condition of 1T dustrial absoutism?