The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-09-05
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sam Gompers Is occupying q onique position just now He isl on the Advisory Council and he is advising.
 Jae has given his consent to many a85ngs that have astounded labor, and brought about a rapproache meut with many elements in the world ot capital that have shocked as well as astoundei workers iii many industries
 lie has the habit since his eleya- lion to the advisory council of s04aiag taa flag and yelling z Ger maast9 a 4." ~ao aa##t,ou EisI aras.r Ha H les been a saa .@as.aa# .a..ae# a# sH as- #4st af aa t-= zoses. aaaa ssthoash. zas #aas.a# ia 'aat respect has aata aa# maaaaa.moss.
 & aae.d o4er olive branch cs ta the #Csst labar lstoa crush Ing organizations and men in the country and proposed to forget the differences between them while the war was on They met him with open arms and proceeded to secure contracts for scab firms and to in sist more stoIidly than ever upon the open shop. While Compers was insisting apcn keeping the wage zstandarG unchanged during the war employers seeking profitable con traats rom the eo4ernfseut insisted ,sz.8a boosting those profits quite sas-aigh
 The American labor world is the post complex or all Its complez 1ty arises from the fact that it made up of all classes and. races of workers and tradesmen. The pc vuliar craft autonomy that binds An erican Federation of Labor ai~ fliations together is exceedingly elastic and certainly not calculated 10 promote working class solidarity, Withal it is in control of the labor movement; and for it Gompers in- sists upon being it's spokesman.
 The confidence of the govern ,nent in his ability to handle il must now be somewhat ruGaly shaken. Industrial unrest is com mon all over the country and the strikes reported were never more numerous CT more serious. The American Federation of Labor off, c5als have been depor:eJ from Ari- 1ona mining camps with as scant ceremony as the members cf tine Industrial Workers of the World, anC many of them have been threat pned in Butte. In the coal fields there is bitter fighting, and right nov the Garment Workers, an i'm mense and powerful union, is up in arms that the contract for uniforms has been given to notorious scab firms and sub-contracted 10 sweat shops and the poorest classes of tenement workers who are all Wrated.
 As we see it Gompers is a man who has outlived the usefulness which has been his. He has not kept pace with the industrial changes which have taken place and instead has stood still preaching, pledging and advising when strong CT and more specific action was needed
 The labor movement just now is in very peculiar condition due to the policy of Gompers. Com pers automatically controls the machine The American FedeIa- 1ion of Labor is lacking in respon sive democracy of government.
 It's executive officials and an enormous number of petty organi- 1atiors with further officials are an ercumbrarce. but one which is Tgot easily removed.
 sn consequence the masses of the unskilled workers. are being .aSlowed to drift into the Industrial Workers of the World, antiwar agi- ration and other lines of activities from which they hope to reap bene- fits and certainly to obtain improve ments from the stiGing conditions industrially imposed upon them.
 II is little use berating the in- slnstrialists It is much more prac-