The Washington times., 1921-10-24

The Bulgarian war mlnisterk
Dimitroff, is assassinated; yob
hardly notice that. +
The German cabinet breaks > and
resigns in face of the Silesjan de-
cision. which reaches the Ger
man people with the end of the
newspaper strike and the renewal
of information.
The marvel is that any German
government has lasted b week.
How long would a government
last in this country If the value
of a dollar had fallen below two
cents, and Canada, with SOL
diers patrollinc our cities. and
Alabama, Pennsylvania and New
York States taken, leaving our
workmen stripped of raw mate
rials?
In this, as in other countries,
labor strikes, the struggle to hold
high wages that came out of the
war, supply the big problem.
There is only ONE thoroughly
united, persistent, persevering
power in the country, always the
same, always pressing toward the
same end, and that is WE'LL
ORGANIZED CAPITAL.
Labor was never more uncertain
than today. Six hundred thousand
railroad shopmen break away from
the strike. Only the most highly
paid railroad workers, compara-
lively small group, seem firm IN
their stand, and they, very prob
ably. will yield.
The fight is actually, although
not SO called, fight against unions
and for the open shop, to put an
end to labor's control of its own
working conditions, a slight, un-
certain control at best.
The Secretary of War declares
The open shop in the Panama Canal,
Zone. No union control there any
more. The idea is not to reduce
wages. It is mo, 10 be bothered
IN conducting our business" Canal
Zone wages are higher than union
wages in the United States.
On one Louisiana railroad en-
ployes have actually signed an
agreement to give up their unions
and union contracts.
We are far from any end OF
government by financial intelli-
gence. In a book published in lS43
Albert Brisbane predicted the
creation of trusts and monopolies,
the beginning of period OF in
dustrial feudalism" that might last
as long as military feudalism had
lasted and rule as completely.
Industrial feudalism has for its
soldiers dollars that never eat or
sleep, always automatically in
creasing, and for officers corpo-
ration lawyers that direct cum
ningly, without exposing their
bodies to physical danger.
Very far off may be the end
of industrial, financial feudal-
ism. And it may be the best
thing for the nation. Everybody
"a ruled by its brain, except when
insanity occurs, as in Russia. IL
rapitalism be more intelligent
than labor, it will rule. IL tie
great crowd wishes to govern it
self It must EDUCATE itself,
make up its mind what to believe
end stick to II. The mind of cap
( ;tal is THOROUGHLY made up.
III believes that it should rule.
Controlling Government. and 1t
DOES ruie'
One thing is certain: Hesitat-
inc and not really united. the rail-
road workmen ought to think
carefully before they drop two
r,illion Jobs and add themselves
~ the unemployed army.
Owners Of the railroads. pub
i;r highways, national necessities
erl the Government should think
ea ynestly about the coming win.
ter and what it would mean to
t,,a millions Of organized -nen
~ ed to the five or six millions
of iisorganized idle.
europe drifted into a murder
aus International war because no.
bodv had the energy to stop it;
sach thought of his particular
onnrrel: nohody thought of the
peneral result.
The United States somebody
spa't TO think about the general
rosuIts before allowing an indus
rial civil war to start and get
veil under way. II is too late
hen Il nut out the fire.