The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-10-19
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When the traction trouble was at it's height in the great city of New York there was held a meeting 2n Madison Square Garden, and thereat that leading socialist and prophet of the new order, Morris HillIuit. spoke the following in the course oi his address:
 "All the workers of this great city, all trades and industries, of all races and creeds, are today united in spirit and sentiment. They are one in the consciousness of their so- lidarity as class, one in their com mon struggle against the arrogant and despotic master class.
 They have begun to dream the beautiful dream of universal broth erhood of labor. They are beginning to understand the deep meaning ot the redeeming labor motto An in- jury to one is the concern of all'. And how beautiful and inspiring Is that new vision Imagine at the scheduled day and hour all orga- nized labor in New York simultane- ously quitting their jobs as pro- test against the perfdious traction magnates and their retainers in pub lie office and the public press. Not an arm is lifted, not a wheel is turned. not a stroke of work is done. The silent giant Labor folds his mighty arms, calmly demonstrat- ing his all coaQuering power, while the naughty parasites Of industry and finance awaken to the sense Of their own insignificance and weak ness. What triumph of labor; what Q humiliation of it's enemies!
 A socialist paper says that talk was inspiring. If so it was inspiring huncombe, rather a rare commodity It differs very little from the stuff that the old line politicians peddle when courting the favor of the lab- oring vote. And it's most distinguish ing characteristic is that there is not word of truth in it. In New York the religious, national and DO ltical agitation has simply buried deep the solidarity possibility thai labor might otherwise display. Sucf organization as exists for the mos1 part in New York almost renders i'm possible any such solidarity as Hill euist glibly speaks of The workers are rent asunder by organized fac tionism in craft and vacations that nre as ridiculously ineffective as their own hopeless jurisdictions squabbles.
 Under Heaven there never was such pitiful spectable as this per sistent habit of leaders of the Hill quit type peddling to themselve. anent the power of Labor, when La bor is utterly prone and helpless Labor is not a giant; for the ab stract conception of Labor standing
 
 passive and all conquering strength can only come through labor united and solid and unified in one biz union.
 The New York traction strike an( especially that part of it whicf sought to secure the cooperation O the rest of organized labor, was { most remarkable success in demon strating that there is absolutely nc such thing as labor solidarity il New York organizations; it was ; most astonishing success in proving beyond the possibility of a Hill quit Yea or a Hillquit Nay that th' workers in that city refused to ac cept the redeeming motto of all true organizations that "an injury to ont is the concern of all'.
 The traction strike literally ant figuratively stuffed back that rottel political buncombe that Hillqui emitted, as all bull of the wors and most unwholesome type, posi- lively misleading in stating thing that were not so and can never b, so. just as long as the disuniting .sy stem of organization for which Hill quit stands, remains in vogue.
 Craft unions have succeeded il distinguishing with great success tn interest of one union from that o another. They have impressed upol the individual members that provid