The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-03
Development Can Not be
Freest Except With Indi-
vidual Initiative
LABOR PARTICIPATES
Council Condemns ku kluN
Khan and Fascist Move
ments at Convention


chise" must be the next goal of the
labor movement, the executive coun-
ell of the American Federation of
Labor declared in its report to
the Federation's annual convention.
Warning of the threat of state
invasion Of industrial life" the coun-
ell asserted that the hour has struck
for "a pronouncement of the aims of
labor that shall more nearly express
the full Implications of trade union
ism
"Thc close Of the war marked for
US Il turning point in human rela-
TONS" the report said, and threw
forth in bold relief the inadequacy
of existing forms and institutions.
Hcnceforth the movement for organ
ization Of the workers into trade
unions has a deeper meaning than
the mere organization Of groups for
advancement of group interests.
"Hcnceforth the organization Of
the workers into trade unions must
mean the conscious organization of
one of the most vital functional ele-
ments for enlightened participation
in a democracy of industry whose
purpose must be the extension Of
freedom, the enfranchisementso the
producer as such, the rescue of in
dustry from chaos, profiteering and
purely individual within, including in
dividual incapacity, and the rescue
of industry also from the domina
tion Of incompetent political bodies.
Individual Initiative
"The largest freedom Of action,
the freest p Ivy for individual initia-
tive and genius in industry cannot
be had under the shadow of constant
incompetent political interference.
meddlesomeness and restriction.
Through the muddling conflict
of groups who still find it impossi-
BILE to conf, together in cooperation
we must look to a future that must
have it's foundation upon cooperation
and collaboration. The threat of
state invasion of industrial life is
real. Powerful groups of earnest
and sincere persons constantly seek
the extension of state suzerainty
over purely industrial fields. Such
ignorant encroachments as the Esch-
Cummins act, the Kansas Court of
Industrial relations and the Colorado
. Industrial Commission act, each a
laundering gesture of government
acting under the spur of organized
propaganda or Of political appetite
for power, are examples of what all
: industry has to fear. The continu-
ing clamor for extension of state re-
gulatory powers under the Nguse of
reform and deliverance from evil
can but, lead into greater confusion
and more hopeless entanglements
Trade unionism may lead the way
for true progress, even at the cost of
being branded as reactionary by
those who do but little save PROFOUND
formulas based upon utopian thought
and devoid of the benefit of exper-
fence and of any cOgrizance of our
fundamental social structure, our
:, indu strial life or our national char
acteristics. We advocate organiza-
. ton OF all wage earners and of all
uoCA ui productive ClCIUeElSs
Helps Shape Life
Labor now participates more full
ly in the decisions that shape hu-
man life than ever before and more
fully in America than in any other
& nation on earth; but our participa-
. ton must be gradually brought to
completion. The purpose of this is
:: not only the commanding of better
wages and better conditions of work,
vital as those are and have been.
Y The purpose that now unfolds is
broader and nobler and filled with
deeper meaning.
For the future industry must be-
: come something Of which we have a
national consciousness. 1t must
cease to be disconnected collection
of groups, like states without a
union. The future demands an Amer
jean industry, in which it shall be
possible for all to give of their best
: through the orderly processes of de-
mocratic, representative organiza-
!. ton.
Are At Work
I "The functional elements in our
: national life must fit themselves to
work out their own problems, era
: dictate their abuses and furnish
:. America with an ever increasing
FLOOD of commodities, both necessary
! and pleasure giving. Industry alone
has the competence, and it must de-
: monstrate that competence through
] organization. The organized func-
stional elements in industry will find
easy Of solution those problems to
which politicians now turn their at
-tention in futility. Industry must
organize to govern itself, to impose
SupQ5l itself tasks and rules and ia
bring order into its own house. In
4dustry must bring order to itself
sconstructively, or it will have an q
der thrust upon it which would Sc
sdemoralizing if not fatal. Our PEG.
sple can not live and thrive unde,
1.-THE regime of bureaucracy tina,
threatens unless industry solves it.
Gown problems.
Industry, organized as we urge i,
must be organized, will begin il
Stru an era of service, rational. ma
1tui4l development and productive,
unmatched by past achievement o.
fancy" 3
Agriculture was urged to join i,
the next developing step, although
the Council denied that Il wished tx
offer "unasked advice to those VIII
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