FLORY HOISTING ENGINES STEAM & Adapted for Contractors, Pile Driving, :: :: GET OUR CATALOG AND PRICES :: :: S. FLORY MFG. CO. :: Bangor, Pa. Reading Hardware Co. Vol. XIX. Federationist DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS AND VOICING THE DEMANDS OF THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT Τ SYNDICALISM, "PARTYISM," AND By SAMUEL GOMPERS. HE widespread national and international strikes of the last year, especially in Europe, have brought up in America some more or less. learned expositions of the idea of "syndicalism." The discussion has carried with it a renewal of the controversies over the well-worn themes of "the general strike," "the sympathetic strike," "the revolutionary strike," and various other forms of "direct action." Those who discuss syndicalism intelligently have to discriminate between the radical and ambitious object of the syndicalist general strike and the far different methods and purposes of a wage-strike, even if the latter involves a great proportion of the employes of an industry, or of related industries. The ultimate object of syndicalism as a movement is the social revolution through an all-encompassing general strike of the working classes. The non-wage-working classes are to be deprived of their sustenance, and thus terrorized into acceptance of the new social system which will be imposed upon them by the "syndicates." This system will represent the unified wage-workers of the various industries, who will take possession and operate the natural and other media essential to production. Government will give way to "syndicalistic ownership and operation of the means of production and distribution." Fantastic though the scheme may appear in America, it has its adherents by the many thousands, especially in the Latin countries of Europe. So far as carried out, the aims of the transport workers' strikes of last summer, spoken of by sane observers as "an outburst of syndicalism," |