The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-08-21
WORTH READING.

contains notable article on Labor Organizations which notwithstand~ ing it's academic nature presents a sympathetic analysis of the labor organization as it is in the United States, that is as instructive as in- teresting.
 The writer is Professor T. Cam pion of Albion College, and it is not astonishing that he should show an ability to consider the facts of orga- nization with an acuter and since Ter vision than many of the so- called labor leaders display.
 ''The assumption that all labor organizations may be traced back to some one original form of local trade guild is unwarranted", he says at the very outset and then proceeds to declare Because of increasing po- Dulation, the elimination of free land, rising prices, or other social phenomena, American wage earners have been vividly impressed with the insufficiency of individual bar gaining. Organization is the next step'. Thus he grounds the founda- tion of the economic organization upon the material basis of instinct for class betterment.
 He says very shrewdly that "the American workingman has been DO indiyidualistic to cope effectively with the great and growing combi- nations of capital. To many of them vet clings the restless and impatient vitality and self assurance of the frontier. Surely in Alaska that is self evident. And the great dili- culty in the way of organizing the workers in the territory is the indi- .vidualistic notions that prevail even when those notions are usually most foolish pipe dreams as to future wealth, facts and figures in vain dispute as sensible.
 Professor Campion explains the immense diversity in labor organi- cations which he admits however are often more apparent than req! as due to the fact that "no two types of workers have been subject ed to the same economic pressure, the relations between workers ana employers vary greatly in different lines of business the possibility of displacement by other workers or by machines, varies from trade to trade and from occupation to occupation, and price levels and standards or living are subject to rapid modifica- tion. This complex situation is further complicated by the institu- tional law exhibited by organiza- tions of labor and the influence, con servative or radical, of the capable or aggressive leader may not be Overlooked".
 His argument as to the selfish ness of groups with an allowance for the altruism of individuals is not necessarily so convincing. In dividuals he says may be animated by altruism and ''act contrary to their own welfare and happiness in the interest of others; but groups, classes and nations do not.
 But what is altruism? Oftener than not it is the perversion of selt' but none the less in being based upon the satisfaction of self, even under circumstances that appear unselfsh, it represents selfishness for all that.
 Thus many men have done appar- ently unselfish acts, acts which for feited them the esteem and praise and companionship and honor Of their fellows because they had the qualification of self to discover in another world which their faith con iured up for them. Early christian martyrs are a notable example of that, and modern patriots like the Pearces and the Connollys in the desperate hope of final success and final esteem of their countrymen, show an altruism which ultimately is founded upon the qualification Of the individual ego.
 Yet again the exploiters have been in all ages sedulous cultivat- DTS of this perverted ego in those they exploited. With the promise of high places in Heaven hereafter