The daily Nome industrial worker., 1915-12-11

engine fremen had their engine drivers union or their railroad stoker's brotherhood. Not only that but they had also their different and non-affiliated brotherhoods on different roads. The Northwcstern engineers and the Midland engi-
 neers had no affiliation, nor had any | of the Irish unions affiliation with those the Scotland or England and vice versa.
 Strikes that failed were the severe
 means which natural economic for
 ces chose to drive home the lesson
 of solidarity's necessity. and the
 Amalgamated Society of Railroad
 Servants united all where before
 was craft union chaos.
 l Similarly in the mining industry.
 Every mining field had its own To-
 cal and not only it's own local, but it's own autonomous and non-affil
 ated union. Repeated failures Of
 strikes, demoralization of unionisrl
 and the resultant degrading condi-
 tions to which the wage workers
 were reduced, struck home lesson
 that was sorely needed and soreiy
 appreciated
 The immense power of the orga-
 nization such an Alliance represents
 cannot be over-estimated. This A! liance can tie up the industries in 8 day and with a degree of pcrma-
 hence that cannot be overcome by
 the employing classes. Such an alli-
 ance brings working class control
 much nearer than anything w.
 know of in the labor world It
 brings it much nearer than can any !, political action, much closer than can any other policy which may be
 suggested or even thought of. It provides also for America l unionism an object lesson which it
 ;G safe to say will not be accepted much less an example which may be [ followed. The tendency towards in- , dustrialism in American unions is marked enough, but it is withou. driving power and bends before the , slightest opposition. And the oppo- . sition against such industriaism is , not slight It is so powerful that it
 embraces almost an united official } dom. It embraces one of the mos, . perfect machines that can be ina ' gined.
 It is true that there is nothing to prevent different crafts in onf l industry coming together under th1 l American Federation of Labor as far as any organic law of the orga' : nization forbids. It is the struc. 5 ture that prevents it. Thus every l craft union has a myriad of salaried I officials, all doubtless necessary t. t maintain the interests of that craft
 dustry there are a dozen or so oi : such craft organizations, naturally { and inevitably the whole officia t staff of such craft unionization, Q stand like a stone wall against th, 2 obliteration of these subdivision! = which means the obliteration of th' . of the salaries.
 = One striking experience of indus
 trialism in the various organization c has been that such industrializatios = reduced to minimum the vast S and inefficiency of superfluous off } cial staff. And it $ not to be eX . pected that such an elimination c a superfluous officialdom will be ao e complished without struggle upol c the part of the officials, who refus q naturally enough to perceive tha ? such very useful function as the Il have believed themselves to per
 form, were not only useless bu e wasteful, harmful and exceedingl if inefficient.
 ' The arguments which have just l. fled industrial consultations upo C the part of the captains of industr IS apply with ten fold force to tn J. wage workers organizations. The
 increase the labor solidarity. Tha c is unquestioned. They throw O r. the burden of many salaried inut q lities. That is beyond denial. The $ increase the union efficiency of ls t. bor by promoting industrial solidal IS ity and eliminating useless exper IS diture of the sinews of war. r. If the unions which now exist ,r the one industry would consoidat