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Show and organized lubor has always been oppos-d to monopolies of all kinds. Yd ;ho workers son.: of lli'-m, at lea-t aro olaniorin for tho os! ablishiarnt of the most oppressive of all monopolies a Male monopoly v.h.-u they d-mand I hat the railways and Coal mines shall ho nationalize,. The forcefal statement of this Kn-;.'lisli Kn-;.'lisli bander of labor .should be brriek-oled brriek-oled wilh tho declaration made by tho 'devoland con . 01 1 ieil of the coal miners, v, hbdi may or inay not represent repre-sent and reflect tho views of organized labor beyond their own membership. AYOULD INJURE LABOR. The action of the mine workors' comcntion in Cleveland in declaring for the nationalization of the coal mines of the United States brings to mind the lemphatic statement by "William A. Applet on, president of the International Interna-tional Federation of Trade Unions, a great British labor organization, that extremists are leading British labor and industry to ruin. This noted trades unionist says that tho nationalization nationali-zation of the railways and mines would sound the death-knell for organized labor, lu his statement Mr. Appleton said: The false leaders of the people have ranted and raved about non-existent grievances and impossible remedies. They have talked vaguely and loosely about revolution and about the iniquities of th$ capitalist, until tho workers have begun be-gun to believe their words. Direct action, or the same thing under one tf the numerous aliases by which it has been called at various times, was preached as tho one method that would bring the iniquitous capitalist to his senses: ami I he advice has been repeated so often, and with such vehemence, that the truth of the doctrine has been at last ac vp ted by a section of the workers but only a small one. Ts:- extremists confused the issues and complicated the situation. They distorted th.e" facts, in o;dcr to strengthen their own position as popular idols and oh:urt-pions. oh:urt-pions. They did not know perhaps they did not care wrat would happen. They h.v.o called into existence, by their selfish teachings, forces which they cannot control; and in their hearts many iLiese men are now in mortal fear of mis industrial Frankenstein which they have th "m selves created. Nationalization will inevitably entail a very pernicious kind of slavery. - Organized Or-ganized labor has been striving for more than a century to insure the liberty of the workers, hut the day the worker a cnts any system of nat ior.ahzaiion he will fling away tho fruits of all this effort. ef-fort. He will sacrifice his Individuality, and ho will take his place as a mere cog in the state machine. T urg-'- the workers to pause and think before' it is too late. I have no faith In the genuine repentance of tho extremists wa-y have p.-foriv frig"t "wh, that is all. The s e i":at the workers are rady lo act. and tlmv tear the consequences. T'oio in ;j hard saying, but it is true ' terribly ; r-re ! Work, not revolut ion. will , save te country fron the ruin by which i it is thre;i t'-ni'd riid it must be saved by the coojiera : ion of all classes of society for the benefit, of the community. There is, an Mr. Appleton points out, a moral asju-ct to 1 lie situation which would be created by the adoption of ;iii- svstepi of nationalization of in-ousiry. in-ousiry. I'-ut then' arc many other and ital arguments ."gainst such a policy. !eon on: ', fit 1 ly it is unsound. It is enm-j.qiliou enm-j.qiliou which x-'aily controls price-, |