The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-06-24
THE PERSONAL FACTOR.

There is quite a struggle on in the Western Federation of Miners as well as other labor organizations to make clean sweep of the cxecu- tive and to try new blood.
 Needless to say in nearly all the wrangling that has taken place within and without the organizations affected by such a struggle, it is carried on with great energy bus very little regard for the facts at is- sue. Tn most cases it is made per- sonal fight, and the personal factor has become the bone or contention.
 Now if any man is retained in of- flee in any organization or institu- ton where a majority rule prevails; if is simply because the man is suit ed to the wishes of a majority o' the rank and file of such an organi- zation.
 It is impossible to close ones eyes to that fact; just as it is impossible to fasten on any leader who is made a leader by any organization, res ponsiblity for the failures that have attended his administration.
 The Industrial Worker believes Mover made mistakes. That the executive board took many serious mis-steps; that the most serious mis-step of all was the most reac- tionary and that which marked the severance of the Western Federation of Miners from the Industrial Work CTS of the World of which it hat been the Mining Department But although the members of the latter organization are unanimous in blam- ing Mover for that, Mover only fol- lowed that course after the rank and file of the organization had by a large majority formally ratified it
 Mover is declared to be reaction ary. Whether this can be said com pletely of the man who led the Western Federation of Miners in the most aggressive period of it's existence is a point may be well disputed, although, it is quite clear that the organization as it stands today and as it is led by Mover is out and out as reactionary as any body affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.
 Most of the tactics approved, al most all of the principles endorsed and al the doctrines upheld at the Fifteenth Annual Convention are today in the discard. And although the organization has been travelling the road of reaction, it has not been travelling the road of success full efficiency in the labor movement
 It is no use attempting to conceal the fact that a series of hard fought battles ended in defeats of the orga- nization, and that most of these were possible is due to the fact that the industry was not organized as an industry, and that as an industry metalliferous mining contain 'd workers who had no conception O. the labor movement whatsoever.
 It is foolish to blame all this upon Mover; merely because as Pre- sident he ratified the actions of the rank and file. The rank and i'll, have got to saddle themselves with full responsibility, and it is onl2 shirking that responsibility to blame it upon one man who carried out ths orders of the majority and delibe- rately encouraged those views which led to those orders, not wisely but too well.
 As we see it, therc is going to be no improvement by the removal of Mover. Mover will be succeeded by a man, if defeated, who will simply out-reaction reaction. That will only end in the waste dump, as it will surely end there if the or ganization is to continue to pursue the useless and unsatisfactory po- Hey of civic federationized union- ism.
 The only hope for the organiza- ton is to return and retrace it's steps, and to become affiliated with the only labor organization which is organized along strictly lines, with the emancipation of labor as the final goal.
 Compromise of the facts of the