Welsh Journals

history of the quarrels of existing unions is sufficient proof of that. And there are many occupations which it would be hard to standardise and classify- artists and poets and thinkers. One can hardly foresee a state of things when a Central Board will issue an order for so many thousand poems and so many hundred paintings per annum I Yet to such workers there must be secured a more worthy status than that of parasites upon organised industry, so that in the Syndicalist state, they would have to be classified. Again, the Syndicalist dismissal of Government is too facile. There are problems with which the Central Board of Production would have neither the power nor the right to deal. For there are national issues other than simply industrial issues and no Parliament elected in a purely industrial franchise, would have the moral right to deal with them. And it would be a fatal loss to the individual citizen to have his politics circumscribed by his trade. All these reasons seem to justify the view that Syndicalism, so far as we have stated it, is impractic- able, and in some respects is wrong. And there has been recognition of that within the Syndicalist Coleg y BrifysgoL Anwyliaid a phlant I Dowch gennyf fi, O fynydd a phant I balasdai'r Hi A phryder ni fydd, Ond Hawnder a lies O aberthu'r dydd Ar allorau'r tea. 0 gwm a phant, O rostir a dol, Dylifo wnar plant Yn ol, yn ol. 1 gynefinhen REu breuddwydion lu, Croeso a gwen Sydd i'w gael bob tu. movement itself. New proposals have been develop- ed. under the title of Guild Socialism/f combining much that is distinctive of Syndicalism, with a fuller recognition, economic and moral, of the ultimate priority of the State to the individual union, and a more ample provision for other than purely industrial interests. But that is another topic. Meantime, all that need be done is to emphasise the principle which Syndicalism has enunciated. It is the principle of democratic control in industry. We are still far from the realization of a social democracy and the path to an industrial democracy is not less hazardous. When the ideal is realized, it will scarcely be in the form of such a Society as the Syndicalists want. But that need not obscure the fact that it is to Syndicalism that we owe the creation, or at least the re-creation and revivifying of an ideal which may exert considerable influence on the social and industrial future of Europe. H. H. f Reference may be made to two works, National Guilds "a reprint of essays in the New Age and Mr. G. D. H. Cole's brilliant book The World of Labour." Both are published by Bell. TWRF Y TONNAU Yn ol, yn ol Dros y llwybrau gwyrdd, Doeth a ffol Sydd yn britho'r ffyrdd Mae'r eithin yn fflam Ym mhalasdai'r lli, Heb dad ac heb fam Dowch gennyf fi. Waith gemau'r llynn A mererid drud Sydd i 'mhalaa gwynn Yn ei hawddgar dud; A bro ddibryderon Anwyliaid fy mronn Yw priflys y gwymon, Yng nghol y donn. G.J.Wilhams.