The Alaska daily empire., 1919-11-12
The VictOrs
(New York World)

(New York Word)
 When the 1500 members of the American Iron and Steel Institute wildly applauded Judge Gary's speech explaining the defeat of the collective bargain ing resolution in the Industrial Conference they evi dently believed that the employers had great victory It is true that great victory was won when the Gompers resolution was wrecked, but it was won by the employers. The victors the Indus rial Workers of the World and if there were any sense of gratitude among them it is they who would 5e cheering Judge gGary's speech. TEE ' " The Industrial Workers of the World, like all other associations of Bolsheviki are only, languidy Interested in the principle of collective bargaining What they concerned about is collective dicta torship. They working for industrial order bargaining with anybody. Along with their prole- triat control of industry they expect to establish the logical consequence if their industrial plans be carried into effect.
 The Industrial Workers. of the World can view the wreck of the Industrial Conference with strained satisfaction It vindcates their predictions of the American Federation of Labor for years on the ground that it ineffective agency for dressing the grvances of labor The defeat of the Gompers resolution be brought in evidence another point to sustain their contention that the One Big Union, which will be gigantic labor trust with power to paralyze all the economic activities of the Nation and to club the country into submission by the complete paralysis of production is the only weapon with which the workers successfully fight their battle against organized capital.
 To them Gompers and Gary have been fighting over a dead issue It is like a quarrel about the merits of the feudal system something that may be interesting historically but that has nothing to do with he present and the future When the employ
 
 cause of the egalisic objections raised to it by tain corporation lawyers, they gave the l. w. w. the greatest impetus that it has yet received
 Year after year Gompers and the other conserva- tive labor leaders have been struggling against the ing tide of radicalism in the ranks of organized labor On the whole they have managed to hold it in check but their influence is growing weaker and weaker. thanks mainly tu the assistance that radicalism has received from employers The steel strike is quite as much strike against Gompers against Gary; but the employers group in Washington instantly lined up the side of the l. w. w. and joined in the fight against the conservative labor leaders Why the employers at this time should deliberately play into the hands of syndicalism is mystery that we are quite unable to solve. but it to be of the inherent attributes of Bourbonism it always plays into the hands of revolution.
 Whatever mistakes the labor group made in Wash ington, and some of its bunders inexcusabe, they slight in comparison with the stupendous folly of the employer crowd in wantony destroying its stoutest bulwark against the rising tide tfonary rad1calism The immediate response has come in the refusal of the btuminous coal miners to heed President Wilson's plea and submit their de- mands to arbitration. They longer engaged in collective bargaining They. too have set up the principle that their fiat is law and that there be no peace in the coal industry except by uncondi- ttonal Surrender to their ultimatum