The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-02

pr0tec. commerce.
 We. indeed, hear great deal ! about prot otiaz commerce. The ad- mfntstradous and majority parties
 have never at any time allowed any person to doubt the fact that Amer jcan industrial chiefs, American
 financial and commercial chiefs were those whose interests must have
 first attention
 Tn point of fact the proposal to .
 establish compulsory arbitration is
 to secure profit makers protection 1 against any exertion of the DO" CT of labor organizations to compel those profit makers to concede bet ter conditions. And the main instl-
 gator of it all is Sam Gompers, Tor
 Sam Gompers is the man that wild eyed called upon the workers at the
 first as well as at the eleventh hour
 to rust1e to the aid of Wilson on the , political field.
 Compulsory arbitration proposes to make a legal strike hereafter illegal. It will directly further the } general commission of crime. Ana if will lead to consequences which , will be much more serious than will
 he apparent to the Solons who are 6 inspired only by the single idea Of I protecting interstate commerce. . Ii may be laid down as an axiom r that every effort to curb individual d liberty of action on the economlc T. field. is accompanied by consequent Il ces which are more hurtful than S otherwise to those who make such
 efforts to destroy the personal H. s berty of others.
 :; The strike has not been altogether
 weapon which has always been II successful. It has not always been e free from disorders either. Hut al l. that. the strike was a safety VaVe )t which allowed the workers an open a obvious and public effort to better Il their condition. If that is to bt 10 taken away by one power or another le if this open activity is to become Il
 legal. it will not prevent the work h. CTS resorting, as they will be com le pelled to resort, to covert method 0r of improving their conditions. Ina le has been quite general eXperlehc le and compulsory arbitration ha it worked out to little advantage any 3i- where where it has been tried. It l is true that government has succeede' ce in making great and sudden strike SC unlawfu! both in France and Ger to many. But one of the very best an
 most impartial authorities on tn ke war says that beyond yea or ma! ne the growing discontent of the pee IS. pie in both those countries compelIe If the ruling classes to regard Wa on with far from unkindly eyes, an he hence is one of the contributln
 a causes of the war which may not | li- lost sight of.
 do The compulsory effort to prevel I'll strikes made the worst war in tf gs history of the world more acceptab is than the probable domestic cris .as which would have to be faced his those nations engaged therein. ad We do not believe that this Ia nd will seriously prevent strikes. I'm up have such laws in Canada under u ] name of the LemieuX act, in Au m- tralia and in New Zealand and ( 'se. those countries have been torn wi Job distracting strikes as if there we nds no such laws at all.
 Moreover, it is highly improbab CTS that a single effort will be serious lite made to observe the law upon t to- part of the great majority of t ake organized workers. They can W it's consider the circumstances und zed which the law is being passed. erly is being brought in to protect e ; of ployers, whatever the alleged Il find tives may be, who as employers
 fuse to obey the Adamson law. fore There is no talk of punishing lers railroad companies which fail felt, obey the law. They delibei at the spurn the action of Congress, III rial body over which the people hs
 in no say whatever shall say whetn
 in their estimation, it is to De obe! step at all or not.
 de- The excuse that the mattrc is nave litigation is quite immatefisi. It
 ca the law of the land until Gec'a le a otherwise, and 1t is being fouted the cause the railroad companies are o be powerful that none dare decl