The daily Nome industrial worker. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 19??-1918, 1913-08-27

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an opinion as to the guilt or in
nocence of the single mill owner
who has been arrested for CA
spiracy in connection with dyna-
mite explosion which occurred in
his mill yard while the single
weavers were out On strike, but it
is not premature to say that guilty
or not he will never seriously be
punished. That opinion was VEN
tured in connection with the
Lawrence dynamite planting, by
many labor papers, and that opinion
proved to be absolutely correct as
far as the capitalist dynamiters were
concerned.
To explain the Why of this is not
al all necessary any more tn it is
essentially necessary to explain why
it is the capitalist papers grow hys-
terical when any violence is recorded
on the part of the labor unionn. The
dynamite explosion in Ballard re-
ceiyed very careful and prominent
headings in all theca pitalist papers
at the time, and it is safe to say this
later development will be just as
carefully ignored.
We see this kind of misrepresen-
tation occurring every day. 1t is
part Of the business. During the
Potlatch riots the struggle was re-
ported in all the capitalist papers as
having been started by the socialists
and the industrialists. Sworn state
ments prove that il began when
soma drunken coward in uniform as
saulted a woman who was discussing
the suffrage. That action was re-
sented by man who was not an in
dastrialist unless men wearing dia-
mond rings are found frequently in
the ranks of the socialists and in
dustrialists. He asked if the sailor
would disgrace his uniform by strik-
ing woman, and when another as
saulted the man who thus protested
riot became general Further
more the Times reported that a
soldier who was injured in the
melee, sergeant, died as a result
OF his injuries. while the emphatic
contradiction Of that report by the
officers of the fort where he was.
was never published. This dis
patch reached Nome through some
such mental cripple and was publish
ed in due course, the editor of the
Nugget wrote an elaborate screed
upon the subject, but no publication
was made of the definite and official
contradiction which occupied the
front page of one Seattle paper.
The indignation of the capitalist
papers when the dynamite was dis
covered in the house of a striker at
Lawrence knew positively no bounds
1t was almost noble in its virtuous
wrath. But when the real facts
came out, the same papers had never
word to say good, bad or indiffer-
ent, and they let the poison of mis-
representation sink in to the minds
OF the readers to do its deadly work
in perverting opinion. and inducing
the worst possible notion of the
strikers.
Now that sort of thing can always
be expected. There is no way in
which ii is possible to hope that
fair impartial rendering of both
sides will be given, and that the pub
lie will be allowed to develop its
own views concerning matters be-
twixr capital and labor.
With the immense resources
which are at the disposal of the capt.
talists, the interests and so forth. il
cannot be otherwise than that the
misrepresentation Will flourish.
Many OF the papers which might be
expected TO give fair rendition of
the news cannot hope TO do so. The
want certain facts aired, and they
die in the embryo. They are killed
in the offices of the papers. That is
what is meant by the expression the
kept press and there can be no
doubt that the expression is literally
as well as figuratively true.
All matters which might place
capital in a bad light are carefully
suppressed. That is what the liter
airy prostitutes are hired for, and
tina. is their specific work. 1t is
not nice work. 1t is not nice work
to have to pervert ones ability.
great or small, to the views that will
be accepted by a master. 1t is the
dreadful price for a softer existence.
but it is degrading beyond words.
However. like most degraded call
ingg use and the reward make II