GOAL OF ORGANISED LABOR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 189, 8 February 1912, Page 7

GOAL OF ORGANISED LABOR.

;■ To the Editor. i Sir,—To the question of what will be " the goal of Organised Labor? there is only one answer—Chaos. Labor to-day r ' is like a great army without a general"; . it has no logical principle to guide it, . and it seems to be treading for nowhere t in particular and will probably get there. [ But behind it all there is something more [ than a passing discontent with the things [ that are, fanned into a flame by windpushing agitators. The unrest is universal, and the clouds of discontent are I. fast gathering upon the horizon of the commercial world, Can it be that the revolt of Labor is the forerunner of a new order of things—an order from which all things big will be eliminated? Commercialism during the last century has produced some extraordinary effects upon society. Side by side with its advent came the age of big things. It exercised 9. power in the political, social and economic world hitherto undreamed of by humanity. The power of Organised Capital became a menace to society and to the world's peace generally. " The god of Greed polluted every walk of social life and unless something intervened civilisation must have paid the penalty. But the sweating tendency of Capital forced Labor to combine for its own protection, and the result is that Organised Labor lias become a world's force, a force that nnkes no secret of the fact that its mission is the annihilation of Organised Capital; The demands of Capital and the demands of Labor are justified up to, a certain point, but the question that affects the public is, will either of them recognise the limit when they meet it? They done so yet* and the chances are that they never will. The • late Jay Gould was once propounding a scheme for squeezing a few extra uiilH6ns out of the American people when a timid director asked, What about the ■'public? "The public be d A," roared Gould. There is an axiom that no cprpbration keeps a conscience about the premises, 'and the comprehensive remark of Gould just about sums up the attitude .<j>'f .Organised Labor or Organised Capi-{ ,ta| towards the public. If thje public should happen to be in their line of fire, ' the demands of Labor will force Capital td" 'disband, and the age of big things will be gone and the despotism of Organised Gapital and Organised Labor will •be gone also. The trend of the future wifl''fte; towards decentralisation; it will be dfllage'of small things, and individual "flftl-h will come to his own.—l am, etc., •Vjl't' FRANK BELL.'

"•'TCkb, February 6.