The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-10-03

|, immediate discharge became imposs- ible, subjected to such discrimina tion that the tenure of the job was impossible.
 All men who had shown unionist activities were discharged and the agreement made between employees and the companies under Mayor Mitchell was by the company thrown into the waste paper basket. So much for their word.
 Obviously there was nothing left | for the workers but to fight and that too on as extensive a scale as possible A strike is tantamount in | industry to a war. Employers and employees are drawn up on opposite sides and each tries to beat the | other
 1 If the workers are reduced to | peonage in the traction company's employment in New York city, it is only a matter of time when indus trial despotism will make it's pre- sence felt ill all other employments.
 The cause of one union is or ought to be the cause of all unions New York city can only be reduced to it's simplest terms as an aggregation Of employers and employees. All em- ployees have a common interest. If they are subjected to repression in one field they feel it in all the others. That is an economic fact that cannot be ignored, and for that reason if for no other an in- jury to one is the concern of all.
 4 strike to be effective must be as general as possible. It must re- suit in the most complete tie-up of all industrial activities. If unions strike as is too often the custom, one organization at time, they gener- ally do lose out. It would be i'm possible to expect a battle to be won by the regiments on one side fight ing the combined army of the other, a regiment at time, while the rest looked on hoping against hope that an individual unit might make some gains against the huge army that il opposed.
 The traction company is controlled by Wall Street. Those who control it are in control of every industrial activity in New York city. If they say-so tomorrow they can inaugur- ate any policy that they see fit. They control the political and legal life of the city through their eco- homie control and the only possible means of affecting them is by the workers making a common cause with one another and by general strike causing such an industrial calamity as would result in either speedy victory or speedy defeat.
 The fact that harships would be worked upon some supposed non- combatants is a fact for which the system is re- sponsible. The workers. if to gain industrial freedom they have to in volve innocent by-standers and harmless rubber necks, it is not their concern. A recent investiga- tion in New York revealed the fact that one of the most prominent white slavers had been also a gen. erous donator to great charity and it might be justly argued thai it would be crime to abolish the q white slavery because it would with draw from that charity the support of the white slave king. The work CTS in this matter cannot afford tC think of any others but themselves If they do, they will wait a long time to improve their condition, anJ will generally wait in vain.
 The workers must get out of theil heads the notion that they are called they create by their action such ar industrial calamity as the sensitive long distance heart of the Nugge1 editor dreads. If sentiments of this kind had delayed human action, we would still be in the dark ages wait ing the pleasure of a feudal lord to endorse our actions, before we dared undertake them.