The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-10-24
WILL BE IMPORTANT.

the AmGfiCdH FSueA"'io VI
 which is 10 be he'd next month as R1naio is likely to ba one of the most important ever held,
 .z importance Will be greatly ln- u-.s,i ay rca.oa ot certain factors ... ~5. be te.t to sHepe ".Da.oa
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 Moreover the fact taat "oHa-rs. has f.lt himsea ou unrarGam srodnd within the Federation ;s sisnaLi@od by the establishment or tae Na- tional Alliance of Labor and pemoc- racy. to offset the Peoples Council for Peace and Democracy, Further more this Alhauce has gone out oi it's way to emDrace suci proragand is.s and intelisctuals a: SparSo and Ghcgt and Nusscl and Stokes and others who have been formerly quite openly opposed by Gompers However that Gompers position as President of the organization is as strong today as ill toIm@r years ma- be matter of some doubt none the less that the system o1 re presentation and othes machinery of dominaLec will Le quite strong enough to keep Gonpers where he is, cannot be doubted.
 1t is very interesting to observe that SO re4ctionary an organization as the Bakers usually is regarded at it's international convention, passed resolutions instructing the delegates to vote for the election of the general officers by a refer Cndum.
 This question has been ur before in the organizations conventions. notably at Baltimore, and there MT. Gompers himself spoke partially hi favor of it. At least some of the officials damned it with sufficient faintness Of praise to mako sure of a1
 Nov the ruernni'.m is hardly likely to result in t.y 'i@uge ih A. F. of l.. ofic,aldom, For the re tcrendum where adopted elsewhere has not resulted in any such change.
 Everyone knows t3at the refer vndum was adopted m the W. F. of Nj. after much opposition with the express iut,uro'. of getting rid of the present officials but they are here yet; they are still in control in Denver and tIoae who carried ou .4 active c,mpataa against them t.-re r.~t ou. or fh" organization So the fact .a tnst the machinery 1f election cannot b. effective for reform by reason ef the natural iso- IaHou of thc locals and Information als one from the other,
 The presence ot Gomoors at the head of the American Federation of Labor is likely to continue for the simple reason that the heads of the international and local unions office holders all, want him there.
 The workers still follow theil leaders. And they are likcily to dc so for some time,
 We don't think that we can over look the fact that one of the results of the factory discipline or dis cipline at work is the tendency tC look to some one for orders.
 That tendency is carried into tho labor organizations, and men ar' often Helpless if here is no one a hand to direct them in what to do what to cay, what to write ant what to think.
 It has been notorious that em ployces usually followed the man ner of thinking of the employer and in labor unions we often see ; reflex of this condition in that th' officers are regarded in the sam' manner and what they say goes It goes as much in the election of officials and delegates as it goes ir