The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-28

low workers have so successfully done With theirs"
 It is interesting to --ote in connection with Fosters announcement of the establishment of national organ of the "Workers' Educa- ional League that in his book on Syndi- calism he says that the usual French method of organizing is to establish paper devoted to SyndicalisYn. Through the columns of this ~paper they propagate revolutionary ideas, standardize their policies, instigate strike movements and organize their attacks on the conservative forces in the unions. A fighting machine is thus built up which enables the Syndica1ists to act unit and to exploit their combined power
 The basis of Fosters expressed social philosophy is this:
 Although this country is supposed to be the land of freedom, justice and equality, nevertheless whichever way we turn we are confronted with the most g1aring social in- equality. On the one side we see myrads of workers toiling at furious pace, yet suf- fering under a crushing poverty, and on the other side minority of idlers doing nothing useful for society, yet revelling in boundless luxury and wealth."
 These views, of course, are neither orig inal new. They were proclaimed by every Populist orator thirty years ago and they have been scattered throughout the social literature of all countries since the days Of Carl Marx, not to go back to Rous- seau
 Would Regulate Production
 As Well As Distribution
 Fosters remedy is more original. The millennium of universal justice and happi- ness. in his opinion is to be attained through the regulation of production we'll of distribution and the entire elimination of both wages and capital. Under his pro- posed system-an era of science and justice the makeshift institution which we call Government, becoming useless, will shriveI and die War will disappear; likewise the jails and the criminal classes. Everything hn ltrnl nl1nd hxyf ft,es
 The wages system" he says, 4is the most brazen and gigantic robbery ever per petrated since the world began. So disas- trous it's consequences on the vast armies of slaves within its tolls that it is threatening the very existence of society. If society is even to be perpetuated-to say nothing of being organized upon an equi- table basis-the wages system must be abolished. The thieves at present in control of the industries must be stripped of their booty. and society organized that every individual shall have free access to the so- cial means of production. This social reor- ganization will be a revolution. Only after such revolution will the great inequali- ties of modern society disappear"
 Inese doctrines are a hodge-podSe Of Sovietism and French Syndicaiism, and Fosters book Syndicalism bears some evidence in places Of a literal translation Of French literature that subject.
 According to Foster, although many Of the minor details of the orga anization plan OI lle new society can only De guessed at, many of it's larger outlines fairly clear. One of these is that there will be no State. . The Syndcalist sees in the State only an instrument of oppression and a bungling administrator of industry, and proposes to exclude it from the future society. He sees no need for any general supervising gover- mental body and intends that the workers in each industry shall manage the affairs of their particular industry.
 And though the average American may or may not f1out all this as an impossible dream. yet the foreign elements harken to these revelations to the massage of a Messiah. Durir the steel strike many of these foreigners insisted. "No need bosses no need superintendents; committee run mills all right
 Foster told the last Socialist National Con- vention, at which he a guest of the New York delegation, that at the psycho- logical moment the steel and iron workers would strike again; lat they hoped then to have e moral a17 physical suppor@ of general strike of all labor tangent upon their industry.
 ''When the next big strike comes on in the steel district" he said. i've want the rail- road men, the miners, and everybody else to strike with us''-and the applause was uproarious.
 The political parties, Foster says have ac- complished practically nothing for the work , ing class. All suI itantia1 concessions such