The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-24

ly to the fact that the workers were completely and solidly organized to enforce, regardless of the politicians, their demands upon the economic field.
 Direct strike action is different. It has been apparently as frequent ly unsuccessful as political action. but it has been far more ire quently successful also. It, more over, presupposes many factors which do not always exist for sue cess, and it's failure is as often as not due to the incoherency of the labor forces and lac4 of solidarity among them.
 The industrial struggle is on, in effect, between two very powerful factors in the capitalist economy, the employers and the employed.
 Of late the various interested on lockers have been concerned over what they term the public interest Really one side is quite as bad as the other in this. While the en- ployors have scribes ready to pity the public. the workers themselves make interested appeals to the pub lie for sympathy.
 In point Of fact there are only two classes in the economic world. 1 And each of these have an employ CTS or have an employees interest l in every class struggle. Those who are ill between are only in between 1 the two in the befuddled nuts of l the shallow thinkers who are i'm posed upon by generalizations
 We all know that this mysterious entity called the public concerns it. self entirely with the interests ol employers, and fails completely tC take any cognizance of the rights per contra" of the employees. Be cause corrupt and parasitic iniu enccs have assumed the right to sel the heritage of the people for 2 mess of potage, because they as sumed the right to place in office the tools of special interests, be cause they have bartered the fran chises and the privileges of the peo pie to the interested few, they harl back mighty late in the day to this theory of the public interest.
 But the public interest does no concern itself with the vocationa diseases of the poor nor the mutila tions and slaughter in the slave pen! This public interest has never ma infested any concern whatever whel plants close down and men are de nied all opportunity of having access to the means of subsistence. Thi public interest does not show itsel when men stand in breadlineS ant women and children cry for breat that they may live. This public in tercst never once has thought i
  itself about avoidable fatalities ant sacrifice of life in the industries Ths public interest has never fel itself stimulated to action by tn hellsh industrial conditions tha everywhere prevail. But it doe and will continue to exercise itsel especially in legal opinions in tn interest of keeping the worker quiet when conditions drive them t revolt.
 This public interest is merely
 question of economic organization It will manifest itself in favor o the side with the greatest solidarity and because the workers have n such solidarity compared to employ CTS, the dear public and the publi interest shed tears about the in terests while it is blind to the con cerns and interest of labor. The condition may be expecte just as long as labor contents ii self with notes of protest to Gre gory or his successors. But whe labor sees the handwriting on tn wall and organizes and organize right to express it's power. all thing will become easy or achiement: 10 litically and every other way. Thi is stern scientific demOnstrat A bl social fact.