The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-21

ample, has had nothing but a bad effect upon the labor movement. Essentially the idea of organization is that every worker who is worker meets on the same plane of uniform equality: regardless of creed or color, race or nationality.
 Yet it has been so obviously the interest of the employing classes to nourish differences between races, nationaiities and religions, that they have quite subtly imbued em- ployees in every land with notions of superiority which are inately false and in many cases little short of ri diculous.
 Now it is possible to recognize the fact that men feel attachment to the land wherein they were born or wherein they live or wherein they have had pleasant and pleasur- able associations or memories. It is possible that men may take a wholesome pride in the activities of their fellows in one country or an other without being dragged into hostilities on that account Men in one section of the country can have a pride in the achievements of that section as compared with other sections of the same nation without necessarily revolting be- cause of it's superiority, or that pride being anything but the stimu- Jus for friendly emulation.
 The fact of the matter is that there never has been sufficient hu- man association between the work CTS of one country and those of another. They have not been brought close enough in contact. They have not had to share the same difficulties, the same dangers. together, however they may have participated in them separately in their several countries.
 The United States has shown, and espe cially some more open minded labor organizations in this country have shown. that the broth l erhoOd of man is no figment of the imagination, but a fact quite cap able of easy realization. In sOmc American labor organizations you will find every nationality under the sun fighting shoulder to shoulder making the cause of one the cause of the other and of all. In it there will be no questions of superior races, of backward nations, of any thing else but the cause of labor and humanity.
 It is not difficult to conceive a real internationalism which would | unite, the workers of the world within the same association. an as sociation which would be produc- tive of perfect understanding, and that men of any race and all races are very human with merely small and unimportant differences, and all imbued with the same sympa- thes and the same emotions and the same faults and the same vir- tues.
 That some nations have certain admirable characteristics is true enough, but it will be found that the virtues and failings about com pensate in all, so that one is count erbalanced so nicely by the other that there is no such thing as a race of supermen.
 We are all too strongly anchored to cheap, mean and sordid environ ments to present anything so strik- ingly noble as contrasted with the rest of the world, for any race or nation to claim tremendous super iority and when any such is claimed it is claimed merely by some parrot brain that is repeating words which master class has taught him.
 Shortly before the war in Europe a delegation of British workmeA visited the German workers with the express intention of fostering the good will between the nations. But that was begun too late. It could not overcome the campaign which jingoists and chauyinists and militarists and imperialists apd munitionists in these countries had carried on to have both ready at the word to fly at one another's throats.
 Yet manifestly it was step in the right direction and one that is caDahle If infinite extension in inc