The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-17

from the quotations above referred to, to offer any resistance. but to go with the tide, organizing for in- dustrial control so that what has been gained may, during the wal
 be held, and what is held as the ideal end of the movement. after the war may be additionally gained.
 It is perplexing question wheth- CT the labor leaders who have enter ed heart and soul into the govern ment operations in the European war among the European ho!!iger. ents have helped or retarded the la
 DOT movement. It is question whether for example Carl i.cgicn oI the German labor movement of Carl Llebknecht of the revolutionar so. cialist movement. have advanced the cause of labor the more in Ger
 many. It is debated among them selves
 Iii any event, it is to ne admit.
 ted that considerable arpument can
 be urged in favor Of the attitude ot the uHioniats )f whatever brand
 they be. It is idle to speculate how
 much is sheer common sense and
 h.w much is sheer compromise
 fff bably m2lr wiIl hnl consider able satisfaction in using these very arguments to be war mad cuthusi- dsts and to deprecate the enthusiasm of those who would fanatically sacri-
 flee themselves in an anti-war agita-
 ton which would do no good. In any event if the organized workers realize, as they needs must that the exercise or display of force is quite sufficient to assure the sue cessful carrying out of every plan of the government to prosecute the war, with no organization compe- tent to resist such an enforcement successfully, however distasterul war may be, the position of the edl- tor of Solidarity when he declares that it would be waste of time to sacrifice working class intereNts for the sake Of few impotent para des or anti-war demonstrations, is intelligible.
 The socialists wrongly regard war as d catcIysmic condition. changire over night the economic system and substituting force as the final arbiter. In point of fact capitalism exists by reason of force, and war is as logical a manifestation of capital ism as any other of the economic which the workers seu around them and which they endea- vor to mold to forward successfully thelr designs. Military necessity differs only in degree from industri. al necessity. and is merely another name for the exploitation of the workers. That being the case is why the urgings of the New Re. public look reasonable to Solidarity That is that the workers having ih any event to acquiesce in conditions as they are, will be well advised tC waste no time carrying on anti-war agitation which will get nowhere, i but rather to organize more ana | more strongly than ever to control he job, so that eventually they will | have job control and after the war be in a stronger instead of a weake. ! position |
 It is astonishing how ably tha | British unionists have held job con | rol during the war. and the de- ielopments that took place in the 1 var while often meaning the elimi lation of the union concessions have been only properly enforced where organized labor was without any orce, had no organization and haa ts places substituted by the unor ; mixed women
 There are objections to this con. lition of compromise, but their orce without doubt is blunted by eason of the present time lack oi abor solidarity. The workers are in 10 position to offer a resistance to he war plans. Neither are the so- ialists. They may not feel inclined 0 support them, but obviously the 'isest course is to recognize things s they are, make the best of them nd continue organizing to still , urther strengthen labor. (