The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-10-26
4 VAIEDICTORY.


 this issue sevecs his connection with the Worker avails himself of the privilege Of his position to say a word of farewell by way of no harm.
 To pretend that we quit this job without feelings of regret would be an atfec,ation, to which We will not place ourselves in the position of having to plead guilty.
 One could not be associated so long and so cordially with mon ahd women in this community, who are literally the salt of the earth, with out feeling very genuine bangs ot regret that the many klndneSses which we have experienced from them. We will know no mere. But it will always be a delightful me mory as it has always beel de- lightful experience.
 In Nome, it has been our fine eX- pericnce, there are moro independ- cnt men and women and more li- hcrty loving m2u and women, than in any other section of the country and to meet them and to be their friend las been as high q privilege as we ever hore to obt21n.
 During the ionG time with which we haee associated with the indu3 triql Workcr the work has been such as to have been made casier and pleasanter by reason of the splendid cooperation of the men, bers of the Miners Jnien who have time and time again proved thcpa, selves this editors friend and broth CT in the literal and best meaning Of tho terms.
 The Industrial Worker has had ouito a history in it's over ten years experience and what good it has done and what position it has carved for itself in Alaska and la DOT ncwspaperdom is due to the so- iidarity which the membership owning it has displayed in getting behind it and the genuine spirit of mutual aid with which they have co-operated to make it success.
 To have been editor of this paper has been our pri, ilegc and a privi" lcge which we never have esteemed lightly. While in charge of it's de stinies the trust which the Union has reposed in his capacity and in iis discretion has boon properly ap- precatcd by the outgoing editor.
 During these many years the Workers intimate business rela- tions with many in Nome have been invariably pleasant, and it is to be hoped that those relations will be as cordially maintained during the incumhency of his worthy successor.
 For our<elvIs we have to thank everyone for the many kindnesses which we have experienced at their a2ads. individually and collective has ever been newspaper writer or editor in any section of Alaska has had a more pleasurable eXperi- cnce than has been ours We know very well the numerous shortcom- ings which we have presented to inc public and to the unionmen. II would be impossible did we not dc so.
 But that knowledge all the more makes us the more keenly alive tc the generous appreciation of oul services while connected with the paper.
 The labor movement which the Industrial Worker has sought to in terpret, as wa saw it, in this com munity is however not seriously t' be affected by anything we may dc or anything we may say. It depends upon the individual members ant their solidarity will be veritabl' castles strength which will laugl a siege to scorn."
 Unlike most papers the industria Worker depends for it's very exist ence upon working class solidarity Whatever service it may render t' the workers, the workers can in crcGac in value and in importance by the manner in which they sup port it. Surely during the incumb ency of the position of editor, WI have had no reason to complain The work CTS have been with it ant