The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-25

stitute a system which will have but short life and a slender hold upon the minds of the workers, can dc no good but will reap infinite harm
 There are radicals in the labor movement and there are reaction-- ists All the radicals are not by the World nor has any but small fraction of the fighting been done in the labor nov ement by them. Yet the plain fact is that all workers must unite, they must unite in some organization wherein radical and re- actionist can meet and discuss dis passionately their views and theiI policies, allowing reason and III. telligence to do the rest
 The solidarity that will come by that means is the only solidarity that will be worth while. To regard eyeryman who is not ready to eat red fire and to swallow bayonets and sneeze dynamite as crook, a policy.
 The acts of the man far more than his theories are to be the criterion. Some good men have been very con servatiye and some conservative men have been fakirs and croohs. Some of the people can be fooled all the tme and it is still a moot point whether sufficient can be per manently fooled to secure a major ity and then there is little hope. The intolerable vanity and ego tism of man who thinks that his views are the last word in progress and must be adopted without rejec. tion by all and sundry is one thing that will result in keeping the work CTS apart and keep them apart per manently.
 It is in these days that the work of every person regardless of his al hliations should be to secure labor solidarity. Disruption now is sim ply playing the masters game, re- gardless whether it is accomplished in the name of radicalism or safe and insane conservatism.
 It is ridiculous to pretend as is pretended that such an extensive change can over the organizations affiliated with the American Feder- aton of Labor that the fights ill ! Colorado, Idaho and other centers is to be ignored. These things were , done under practically the same or { ganization as exists today. The changes in it's structure are nomin- al, and 1t is only leaving the miners and others prone and helpless to break up the organization which 1 they have got and substitute some thing which will not last.
 With a practically unlimited field of unskilled workers in the East craving for organization: with the many industries totally neglected where the affiliated unons of the h. F. of l.. has made no progress, an open field inviting the work of l. w. w. organizers, it seems a pool piece of work to smash up the min CTS organizations in Arizona or else where in order to establish some substitute which has never been able to maintain it's hold upon the rank and file anywhcre-anywh at any time.
 We believe in industrial union ism. We could subscribe heartily to the principles of the I. w, w. ill this regard But the fact remains that radicalism or conservatism will have to adjust it's pace not to the opinion of the leaders and the Moses, but of the rank and file.
 The fact too is worthy of note. that many labor papers founded or owned by unions under the A. F. oI l.. will more readily be found to subject their organization and its leaders to free and untrammelled criticism than will the papers owned by the Industrial Workers of the World. They live Tn an atmosphere of such super-eXcellent radicalism that all else is vile in comparison.