The main objective is defined as the thorough organization of
every industry, so as to enable the workers to gain control of and then to administer that industry. "Nationalization of mines does not lead in this direction, but simply makes a national trust with all the force of the Government behind it, whose one concern will be to see that the industry is run in such a way as to pay the interest on the bonds with which the coal-owners are paid out, and to extract as much more profit
as and in order to relieve the taxation of other landlords and capitalists." Accordingly the cry of shareholders for nationalization, as they feel the increasing pressure on their profits, must be strenuously opposed in the interests of the workers. This policy is frankly Syndicalistic, and the Man. Chester Guardian, which certainly cannot be accused of a hick of sympathy with the demands of the miners, pronounces it to be anarchical, while doubting whether it is seriously enter- tained save by.a few enthusiasts. But it is alleged in the Times of Wednesday that the secretary of the "Unofficial Reform Committee," which is responsible for the issue of the pamphlet, and two members of that body are also members of the Conciliation Board, and that all but one of the advo- cates of industrial Syndicalism in South Wales belong to the South Wales Miners' Federation. It is also asserted that the issue of the pamphlet implies no new development amongst the extremists in South Wales, but is merely the latest phase in the Syndicalist campaign which has been conducted for the last year by Messrs. Tom Mann and Ben Tillett and others in the Industrial 'Syndicalist and elsewhere.
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