The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-08-14
THE STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE

' These are harsh days for socialists. Socialists believe that all wars have an economic origin: this war no less than any other They say so in plain language and are prepared to argue the matter with anyone, although as d general rule with remarkable un- animity just as soon as the radicals get down to details, the other fel- lows claim that they are unpatriotic, disloyal, un-Amcrican and what not.
 Withal the war has been unable to prevent a tremendous growth in the international power Of the social ists and the Russian revolution un- occasionally has given an impetus to the growth of that power.
 The real power in Russia tadi V the real vigor, the real vitality of the revolution is the socialist strain that permeates so powerfully all revofu- tionary sentiment. And the sooner this is recognized the better it will be for all concerned.
 The Stockholm conference is pri- marilv declared to be under Ger manic influence and it is a peace conference which has for its object the institution of a pax Germana for the world.
 It was because of the allegation that this was so, that the Administra- tion as rather strained war meas ure prohibited the attendance Of Americans at the conference and threatened with penalties any Yiola- tion Of this interdict.
 .n France and in England the ouestion was discussed with less as- surauce 2s to the nature Of the Stockholm gathering than was ma nifcst in official America, mainly be cause the opinion 2s to it of official America was an eX partc one re- ceived from some one high in the concils of the Entente in Europe.
 In France and in England there fore, opposition either on the part of the government or those few pro war labor leaders whose vanity had been fattered by the elevation to rather exalted positions was not SC . definite and irrecvocable as was to be noted in America.
 We may dismiss as not intelligent the Gompers oppo9.ton. just as we may risn sis the si2rta".t~ C' te2line for labor's well bc,ns which anima- les this rather fossilized incubus on iha labor movement.
 The announced intention of the Labor Party, which heretofore has extended a somewhat forced upport to the government, to send delegates 10 Stockholm from Great Britain, is not alone the matter which gives some standing to the peace confer ence in Stockholm. That in tention in fact acquires it's force from the fact that unofficial Russia stands right at the back or th' Stockholm conference and if one ii to contend that it is a German con ference then assuredly German! controls Russia-manifestly a wrong conclusion.
 According to dispatch published from Chicago stating that The Am erican Socialist, which had been ex cluded the mails because objection able to the postal authorities, tn dispatch appearing in the New Yori Call of July IA. the editors hat gotten out a censor proof edition numerous revisions having to b. made. It is interesting to not that the subject of such revision was to telegrams exchanged in tn matter of the attendance Of tn party delegation at the Stockholm conference, the dispatch stating lob lection was also made to the publi cation of cablegrams received iron Tchcheidze, President of the Rus sian Workmens and Soldiers Dele gates, urging the participation D, the American Socialist party in al international socialist peace confer ence, and from Middleton, secretar, of the British Labor Party, urging the American socialist party talk part in the peace conference of dele gates from the Allied countries. This was tabooed due to he fear of aid