The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-10-19

ed they can gain conditions for themselves, what happens to the other fellow is no concern of theirs. The Big Six could not see that it's interests are in any way affected by the interests of the longshoremen, or vice versa.
 These craft unions have failed, do
 fail and will fail to realize that the
 motto an injury to one is the con- cern of all, is not merely potent slogan sounding nice, and embody-
 ing a high ideal, but also containing
 within itself sound and inevitable economic truth.
 There is not a working man any
 where at any time belonging to 2 section of the workers who is not in terested in what the other fellow is
 being paid. The lowest paid sci o.
 workers is the standard for all th7
 rest, and if one set is dragged dowh l to low wages below a certain stand
 ard, then also there will there be g general tumble in wages paid. Nor l is this all. Let employers reduce 1 to submission employees in one in
 dustry. and it is only a matter ot
 time until they reduce the unionist
 activities of practically all to a
 nullity.
 of l., organizations have stood by when one affiliated union lost out in a
 struggle, for want of the co-opera-
 ton of the rest, the entire power for | good Of all the rest has been re duced to absolute zero. They are
 no longer feared; they are despised
 Conductor GarretsOn, of the B. t,
 C.. when the railroad trouble was
 on. said in Washington that they
 brotherhood s power or they would
 get nothing and gain nothing at all
 That is the truth. Wherever la bor organization is feared and hated
 it is dollars to doughnuts that it il
 functioning effectively. Whenever it is damned with faint praise anC
 killed with cunning Civic Fedora tionized leer, we nay be well sur' [ that it's dead and damned it ough , to be.
 The highest tribute paid to al f organization like the A. w. o. is tn ? universal hate with which it i = greeted everywhere by those wh' : must employ it's members. Tha t shows that it is accomplishing some V what and is being hated for it's ac - complishments.
 Just as long as the railroa t brotherhoods allowed themselves t T be hoodwinked by Erdmann Act { and got nothing, every paper in tn . country held them up as models fo = all other organizations to follow. S The organization therefore tha = trims it's sails to gain the breath o t an employers favor does so becaus 8 it hopes to still further prolong l comatose existence. Four fifths o
 the labor organizations in New Tor, 8 city are wholly useless; they are le - many of them, by bunch of hig : binders and politicians; some of tn S leaders are in slimy alliance wit : Tammany and others are openly eS ,. isting to further a religious cause l. In any event among them there 3 no such thing as solidarity. Hill s quit knows that. He knew it whe !, he spoke in Madison Square Garden d He is no fool; he could not be 8 lawyer and politician without be
 ing conversant with the facts of tn q movement in the metropolis. Doubt h less in a holy political rapture thi f man delivered himself of rousin a "whid", which is buncombe from be l. ginning to end.
 c But what is the use of such stuff h This is even a worse danger tha a all the compelling drivel about tn g intelligence of labor that Hillquit r democratic or republican brethre e purvey about this time. This is we - calculated to deceive and it is e, G ceedingly well calculated to hay C the workers place their confidenc
 in the present inefficient forms C d of organization and not try as the