The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-04-18

workers and to lower the standard of living and that the standard ot living can be maintained is only through the labor organizations.
 Exclusion acts. immigration regu lation, exclusion from labor organi- cations, closed shops all have been tried and all are more or less in- effectual They have been fairly well weighed and found wanting. Here or there an isolated case may crop up which gives to this or that pana- cea an appareut value that it does not actually posses.
 Fundamentally there is but one of all, and it is only because men find the work of organization ex- tremely difficult and extremely slow. that they grow discouraged ana seek some unnatural or artificial means of combating the evil which they face with despair.
 We contend that a unions policy should be broad and free as the air we contend that a working class movement taking for it's aim the emancipation of the working classes should recollect it's aim IS the abo- lition of classes always. It canno; above all afford to treat any class of them with disdain and contempt and wholesale denunciatlon.
 What brings these men to Alaska is what brings every mothers son ot us. It is economic solely. We come jbcre to better our conditions and to get away from the fierce economic struggle that presses upon those out side That pressure outside is ai- ways there; increasing always ana driving always and extending its force in all directions. 1t was hot amy patriotic impulse to develop Al as6a because Alaska was part oi America, nor with Q view of mak. ing this land be worth raising the American Aas over Americans went with equal interest and with equal enthusiasm to the YuNon amps where the Union Jack aoated
 and many Americans will remember that Canadians referred often
 ao1gh to their entry into that coun- try in the same contemptUous terms that they now refer here to others.
 This economic pressure that sub iects all races of men is itself not affected by race or creed. It can he controlled by no flag waving, aaG is not amenable to denunciation of one class or another. No nation is self contained and the people of nc nation are able to control and direct the economic forces that arise from a system of society is itself oconomi- cally international.
 The struggle against any partl- cular class of workers is as vain as the struggle against any introduc- tion of new machinery and should become just as discredited. All workers have an identical interest and no race of workers is compe- tent enough to work out it's own destiny without the help of those oi other race or nationality. At any rate the wisest policy is always a working alliance between the work CTS of all races so that they can advance the cause also of all.
 The industrial system in the United States is in many respects quite marvellous. Tho gigantic railroad systems, it's tremendous numbering industry, it's mineral production, its agricultural systems, its canncries, it's steel manufacture, ell of these have evolved from relatively obscure beginnings and are just now attain ing a stature that makes American industry bid fair to become the Col losus of the world.
 That industry has been erected sFupcn imported labor not upon Am lerican labor which would have been [hopelessly insufficient for even a tithe of it. Irish, Scandinavians. Italians, Germans, Slavs-all the bo- hunks of a day in the industrial history of the country, have given their lives to the establishment of the immense system of industry that now exists.
 Whatever be the effect of that system. upon the social life of the people, at cny rcte It's evolution to