The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-11
THE VICTORS
(NeW York WOrld)

.plauded Judge Gary's speech explaining the defeat of the collective bargaining reso ution in the industrial conference, they evidently believed that the employers haC won great victory. It Is true that a great victory was won when the Gompers reso- Iution was wrecked, but 1t was not won by the employers. The victOrs were the In, dustrial Workers of the World, and if there were any sense of gratitude among them il lis they who would be cheering Judge Gary's speech.
 The Industrial Workers of the World like all other associations of bolsheviIi are only languidly interested in the principle of collective bargaining. What they are concerned about is collective dictatorship They are working for an industrial order which their fiat will be law and there will be no bargaining with anybody. Along with their proletariat control of industry they expect to establish a proletariat con troI of government. In fact that is the logical consequence if their industrial plans can be carried into effect
 The Industrial Workers of the World can view the wreck of the industrial con- ference with unrestrained satisfaction. Ii vindicates their predictions. They have been fighting the conservative leadership .of the American Federation of Labor fol years on the ground that it was an ineffec- tive agency for redressing the grievances .of labor The defeat of the Gompers' reso- .Iution can now be brot in evidence as an other point to sustain their contention that the One Big Union, which will be a gigantic labor trust, with power to paralyze all the economic activities of the Nation and tc club the country into submission by the 'complete paralysis of production is the only weapon with which the workers can sue .cessfully fight their battle against or ganized capital.
 To them Gompers and Gary have beer fighting over a dead issue. It is like g quarrel about the merits of the feudal sys tenn, something that may be interesting his torically but that has nothing to do witI the present and the future When the employers rejected the collective bargain ing resolution because of the legalistic ob jections raised to it by certain corporation lawyers, they gave the I. w. W. the great est impetus that 1t has yet received
 Year after year Gompers and the oth | CT conservative labor leaders have beel struggling against the rising tide of radi calism in the ranks of organized labor. Or | the whole they have managed to hold it il check; but their influence is growing weak CT and weaker, thanks mainly to the assis tance that radicalism has received iron much strike against Gompers as agains Gary; but the employers group in Wash ington instantly lined up on the side of the l l. W. w. and joined in the fight agains the conservative labor leaders. Why tho employers at this time should deliberately play into the hands of syndicalism is mys tery that we are quite unable to solve, bu it seems to be one of the inherent attributes of Bourbonism that it always plays into the hands of revolution.
 Whatever mistakes the labor grOur made in Washington, and some of it's blum ders were inexcusable, they were slight il comparison with the stupendous folly o1 the employer crowd in wantonly destroying it's stoutest bulwark against the rising tide of revolutionary radicalism. The immediate response has come in the refusal of the bituminous coal miners to heed President Wilson's plea and submit their demands tc arbitration. They are no longer engaged