The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

but they are cure-alIs for social, politi- cal, and economic diseases.
 
 With the first one, which stands for socialism. we are fairly familiar, and it is not my purpose to take up much time l in discussing it, for the name covers such a wide range of thought that it is almost impossible to discuss it as a whole, and hardly fair to take any one school of socialistic thought and make it bear the burden of carrying the onus attaches to it in connection with the socialistic vagaries of George Huddles- ton.
 You will look in vain for a definition of the second one, syndicalism, for it has not yet made it's appearance in the dic- ! tionary, although it has gotten into ra- Frenca stranger in our language, with no registered abode as yet, but the thing itself has made an unsavory name for it. self in the west and in some of the great industrial centers in the east. 
 It is known in America as the Indus- trial Workers of the World, and when White Gibson was talking about it at the meeting of the Patriotic League of Jefferson county on Thursday night, in attacking George Huddleston for his vote against the explosives bill, he spoke of it as the I. w. w. and read from some of its red-bound volumes showing the dangerous doctrines being advocated by them in this country.
 Now, get this in your mind: The syndi- calist is poles asunder from the socialist in method. and method, it has been said by an English publicist of note, counts for everything in the process of social change The socialist believes in q action; the syndicalist believes in trade union action alone; the socialist appeals to the whole body of public opinion, the syndicalst considers the working classes only.
 am not opposing George Huddleston merely because of his votes against ad causes which go deeper; for I believe his utterances are liable to encourage a class war after peace has come on the battlefield, and that whether so intended or not by him, his printed speeches further estrange employers and employees
  bridging the chasm which separates la Dor and capital.
 I do nos charge that he is a syndical- ist, but I do affirm that the beginning of all syndicalist theories and actions is a belief in a class war. It is the con- tention of the syndicalist that society is the exploiter and the exploited. All other differences sink into insignificance before these. They alone are fundamen- tai. Because of this belief, the syndical- ist rejects political action. He stands for direct action. It is death struggle be- tween classes.
 Macdonald briefly sums up the case between the socialist and the syndicalist. The socialist brings about his changes by legislative mouldings; he uses the organic state to transform itself by mak- ing such alterations in its own mind and circumstances as must precede all per manent change; the syndicalist, cutting himself off from these organic formative influences, has to fall back upon force, either the passive force of social paralysis or the active force of riots, to effect his changes with revolutionary suddenness.
 
 A socialist is a peaceful, law-abiding citizen in comparison with a syndicalist, and it is manifestly unfair to the for mer to connect him with the latter. Syn dicalism is anti-state, anti-militarist, anti patriotic. This is why the I. w. w. got in bad with the government and why it's headquarters were raided and its pro- German literature was taken over. Rev society for it's chief tenet is that mod ern society is wrong Fundamentally, and therefore is out of tune with the government and unwilling to defend it even in the present war against autoc- racy.
 come to the third S., which stands for sabotage. Knowing that both the word and the thing for which it stood was new, awhile back I wrote for this column several articles about it, but for fear that you failed to read them, or hav- ing read them, have forgotten what 1 said about the thing which had it's birth overseas among the revolutionary socie- ties of workingmen, I will sum up briefly a few salient points about the un-Amer- ican doctrine of useless destruction CT the putting out of commission machines. merchandise and industries, which is troubling us even in the midst of war. Writing a preface from Sussex jail for Pougets work on sabotage, Arturo Giovanitti says that Sabotage is noth- ing more or less than the cn1oroforming of the organism of production, the knock out drops to put to sleep and out of harm way the ogres or ssce1 and fire that watch and multiply the treasures of King Capital" l suppose that he and his tribe of anti-Amercan disloyal- 1 ists and destructionists would gloat if every mine, furnace, and steel mill in l the United States were closed, and Ger. | many victorious, if only reign of law 1 lessness could be inaugurated in which l the scum of America and the scourings | of Europe could paralyze the nations in | dustrles and cause this proud land of