Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-10-16

system British big business was build
ing In 1917. This system was to op-
crate in league with the British gov
eminent all over the British empire,
and the world through government
ministries and employers and traders
declarations. The government was to
subsidize and partially regulate it. 1t,
was to make British industry and
trade world-dominant. Into this sys-
TEN labor was to be fitted, IL possible,
as contented and comfortable serv-
ant and tool. Every precaution was
taken to prevent any possible up
heaval of labor after the war. De-
mobilization was planned particularly
with the view of disarming most Of
the wOrker-sOldiers on foreign soil and
passing them directly to jobs in in
dustry.
System Falls to Pieces.
This fine scheme did not work out
at all as planned, although the re.
dictionaries won the election right after
the armistice by an overwhelming ma
jority. The plans of the big interests
in which they took advantage of la
boris war truce, had not gone UNI
noticed and was not forgiven. AS
soon as the armistice was signed and
the stringent war regulations were
lifted, labor started in at once to re-
cover the ground it had lost and to
build up its system of industry.
Although it had lost the election in
that passionate and hysterical time
right after the war, electing only GO
members Of parliament instead Of the
200 it expected, forces, circumstances
and movements all began to work in
Its favor. The capitalist system was
so badly shattered by the war that it
worked like a broken down machine.
Grasping Imperialism sitting in state
in Paris threw the world into such q
turmoil of jealousy and fear and per-
petrated so many injustices that the
great allied armies were not demobil-
lied as soon as expected. Even at
that the broken down Industrial sys-
tenn could not provide places for q
third of the discharged soldiers. The
war workers, too, were demobilized
and spread over the land in vast
hungry hordes of unemployed. Prices
scared and suffering increased. Wars
growing out of imperialistic intrigue
at Paris loaded intolerable burdens
upon an almost bankrupt nation. The
old government, the old ruling class.
the old industrial order, were demon
strating every day that they were in
competent to meet the new situation.
Labor Strikes Back,
Seven by-elections showed that the
former supporters of the old order
were leaving the hosts Of reaction and
swarming to the new peoples move
ment like rats fleeing from q sinking
ship. From having only fourth Of
the people with them in the general
election, labor began to think it had
the majority behind it. Under such a
stimulus the labor movement grew and
expanded among the trades unions, in
the labor party and among the CO.
operatives as 1t had never expanded
before. While it was expanding bodily,
it was growing spiritually as never
before. 1t was imbibing more pro-
gressive and democratic ideas. It's
program was daily becoming q clearer
exposition Of Industrial democracy.
This growth was occurring In the
midst of CHASTITY failure of the old
Industrial system and the movement
Of the owners of the system backward
into the twilight of reaction, In the
midst Of crushing prices and taxes,
unemployment, low wages and Inn