The Cordova daily times., 1919-03-08
SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1919.
AGENTS OF ANARCHY.

Labor has dreams of sharing in the profits of business by taking control of business and undoubtedly the evo- lution which we see in progress all over the civilized world will culmin- ate in astonishing transformations But labor must rid itself of a deep seated disease of the heart before it can ever engage in those forms of CO., operation it now plants. In spirit of amity labor and capital can achieve prodigies for the benefit of mankind, but if the workingmen continue their hymns of hate" under the direction of foreign agitators, industry will have a setback from which it will not re- cover in many years. The very word cooperation indicates friendliness, but the toilers of the land are working themselves into frame of mind which will make friendly relations with capital impossible and defer the day of genuinely productive co-opera- tion.
 In Chicago, for example, the Fed eration of Labor, has indorsed gen. eraI strike called for April ! the date of the municipal election, and in for mulating it's statement it declared that the workmen would take day off in making profits for the bosses"
 This was a gratuitous insult of a peculiarly stupid kind. It was meant to be ill-natured and insolent It was ger erated in venomous hatred that will produce nothing but cumulative harm. The world has just finished with a terrible war and everybody has voV ed sOlemnly that wars shall cease, that men shall form leagues of nations in a spirit of love and shall cooperate for the general good of mankind. But already a new war has begun in Bol- sheyism, ill strikes and in the hurling of furious words.
 I e notion that profit is something an mplOyer puts in his pocket and kee there is so fantastic that one woud hardly expect intelligent Ameri can workmen to entertain it. Profits ar rtinvested in business and produce incl .ased work and wages for work ingLlen. If the "bosses" made no profit there would be no expansion of bus ness, it is by means of business ex lnsion that increasing population is afforded satisfactory Livelihood
 When the workers take control of business as they plan, when they be- core bosses they will understand how essential it is in the scheme of in dustry to have profits. The Bolshe- wiki took charge of the factories in Russia and, so far from obtaining any profits, they simply used up the profits of the factory owners by bad management When the profits were gone the mills were closed down. . The Bolshevists thought they could get along not only without the owners but without experts. They abolished all kinds of "bOsses' and turned over the factories to the workmen skilled and unskilled, but the workers, with out the expert knowledge of the bosses were unable to conduct the business profitably. The business simply late off it's own head" and died.
 The Russians decided to take, not merely one day but every day off "in making profit for the bosses" They ended by annihiliating their own wages.
 Under favorable circumstances the l workers of Russia could have taken 1 over the mills and operated them suc- cessfully. Granting that economic con- ditions were propitious the workers, had they made wise use of the profits of the employer and had they em- ployed the specialized knowledge of the experts, it is quite conceivable that they might have conducted the factories, for time at least, so as to | produce adequate wages for them- selves and for all engaged in the vari- | ous industries. But to them a "boss" was not the genius who creates and