The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-16
TRUE AND FALSE DEMOCRACY.

the outcome of the conference to be held here in next
month"; what is to be the footing? All sorts of sug
gestions have been thrown out since the President made
his cryptic statement He has not vouchsafed any in
formation regarding his proposals, if he has any.
The ideas of volunteer labor reformers range from autoc
rcy anarchy in the industrial world and NEST OF them
may be dismissed without discussion being absurd
that not even sefespcctng anarchstc if cny there be-
would indorse them.
One mischievous plan masquerading under plausible
name has support from individuals who do not
to have the faculty of understanding the quality of
liberty industrial democracy" is the decent and at
tractve which masks the feminist scheme which is
winning some advocates in this country If industrial
democracy meant true democracy in industry and did
not tend destroy democracy in civil fe-that is, if it
did not strike at the equality that is the foundation of
lberty-it would properly take its place with democracy
m government, democracy in dress, democracy in art
and other worthy democracies.
But that is not what the disturbers of the industrial
peace mean by industrial democracy. What they are
after not democracy at ALL but class autocracy They
would call certain class democrats and for their benefit
and advantage they would condemn all other classes to
hardship, discrimination and prison and DEATH
Who are the workers." certain class in Russia
sets up the assertion that they alone the workers
and the fasehood has been used to stir up the blacklist
passions of human nature Appalling crimes have been
committed against the most populous white nation in the
world through the attempt to create class autocracy
under the name of industrial democracy.
IL p,e,;o +bo IF Sharnarc dunes which
makes UP the boshevis regime has attempted to estab
lish government that is not based upon the equality
and equal rights of men. In ancient Rome citizen
could say II am Roman" and it known that he
possessed rights which could not be nfringed. In the
United States a citizen say 81 am American
and he has the assurance that he possesses the rights
any other American But in Russia native who should
claim any rights the simple face that he is Rus
sian would be fortunate to escape with his life. His
rights Russian denied. He acquire rights
only by afiatng with persons in his trade, organ
izing local council and sending representatives to
soviet If he be barber he has rights but if he be
merely Russian he has not rights.
The German agents and Russian sharpers who control
the boshevk government take good that democracy
shall not subvert boshevism They permit wide latitude
in the lower levels but the government reaches its
real center of power they eliminate individual and col
lectve rights and gather all power into their hands
Thus few men really control and direct of mil
lions of Russians and send to death those who too
Independent to bow their necks to the yoke That is
truthful picture of industrial democracy practiced
in Russia yet there deuded and mercenary Lennists
in this country who praising the soviet system as
vast improvement upon Americas old-fashioned and
playedout equality and liberty.
The workers of the United States are entitled to
square deal in every respect not merely in wages but
in decent treatment, housing insurance, security of
poyment opportunity for sefgovernment vacations ant
But the workers" are not confined to men who
work with their hands employees of other men, The
workers include employers farmers and farm hands, gov
ernment clerks postal clerks brain workers of all kinds
household servants and many other classes that have
never been organized" The whole American Union il
made up of workers. with few droaes chat the pop
ulaton may be described as human beehive They can
if they WILL establish true industrial democracy upon
the ndestructible foundation of American berty-tht
foundation of equality of men, On that foundation all
workers, which all Americans can be and should
be equal Washington Post
Some men are proeaguers, others antleaguers and