We must note Mr. Straker's statement that " the mere
grant- ing of the 30 per cent, and the shorter hours demanded would not prevent unrest, neither would nationalization with bureaucratic administration," and that "just as we are making political democracy world-wide, so must we have industrial democracy in order that runt might be free." This, of course, is pure Syndicalism. The more cautious millers' leaders have talked of nationalization as if it meant State control. Mr. Straker, however, objects to State control, or "bureaucratic administration," just as much as to the control of the coadowners who by their capital and enterprise have created the industry. It is an im- portant revelation of the real policy of Mr. Smillie and his friends. The community, under pressure, is to be forced to tax itself, cripple its industries, and make its food dearer in order that the miners may manage the coal industry in their own interests. "It was useless," said Mn'. Straker, "to ask the miners to withdraw their notices without the acceptance of the principle of nationalization by the Government."
