. Review of reviews and world's work. aders in theUnited States, he says : The American coal miners union, under the leader-ship of Mr. John Mitchell, does not stand on a commonground with the Western coal miners union, which,guided by the platform of socialism, is more progressiveand militant than its assumed ally in the East. Nor isthe American Federation of Labor in harmony with thesocialistic coal miners in the West. All labor leadershave risen from a class in behalf of which they proposeto fight. But when a workingman attains to a positionwhere he holds a commanding scepter at the head of
. Review of reviews and world's work. aders in theUnited States, he says : The American coal miners union, under the leader-ship of Mr. John Mitchell, does not stand on a commonground with the Western coal miners union, which,guided by the platform of socialism, is more progressiveand militant than its assumed ally in the East. Nor isthe American Federation of Labor in harmony with thesocialistic coal miners in the West. All labor leadershave risen from a class in behalf of which they proposeto fight. But when a workingman attains to a positionwhere he holds a commanding scepter at the head ofhundreds of thousands of his fellow-workingmen, he isno longer a laborer. His influence becomes so greatthat even capitalists not infrequently find it impossiblenot to solicit his favor. His temptation often is such asto make him sacrifice even the purpose and interestfor which he had vowed to stand. Presidents Mitchell and Goinpers, the Japaneselabor leader asserts, have sometimes come to 480 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REl^IEW OF J. S. KATAYAMA, THE JAPANESE LABOR LEADER, WHO RE-CENTLY VISITED THE UNITED STATES. a secret understanding witli capitalists, ignoringan interest which they are intrusted to represent,under the pretension of expediency resorted toin order to harmonize capital and labor. It islamentable, indeed, that these gentlemen arecontemptuously regarded by the most intelligentclass of laborers as tools of the capitalist class. TRADE-UNIONISM NOT THE REDEMPTION OF THEWORKING CLASS. That trade-unionism will never be the re-deemer of the workingman, Mr. Katayama believes to be a patent fact. He admits thatthe organization of laborers is of vital importanceso long as the existing social system is in the meantime, he does not lose siglit of thefact that such an organization is simply a meansto an end. Neither is he ignorant of manyanomalous effects emanating from says : The carpenters union of Chicago is the most power-ful of trade-unions
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