The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-25
AGREEING TO DISAGREE.

failure of the Socialist Party ana the Socialist Labor Party to reach an agreement at the unity confer ence whereby they could both come together. It is readily admitted that It is over the question of the | attitude of the parties towards trade unionism that the two parties maintain their open antagonism and ! that they both agree to disagree
 Factionism in radical quarters is not confined to the political parties but to all associations, and We have in the labor world more directly the unfortunate factionism over the question of craft or industrailism.
 Yet these are question Of tactics all of them. not questions of prin- cipIe and there can be hardly much question that progress is difficult if not impossible where this faction ism occurs.
 dual organization on the econ omic or political field works harm, and we notice that in the long run when hard pressed the workers have been compelled to get together re- gardless of all this plaguing faction ism.
 We have little support for craft unionism. IL is archaic. It is the rudimeutary type unadjusted to modern industrial surroundings. But il is not actually harmful to the eX- tent that it's existence has been ac- companied by no gains, and that II is worse than none at all.
 It has achieved considerable good for the membership in many orga- nizations and we believe that It Is that fact which has secured for such an archaic system of organization .hc support which 1t receives,
 i( is true that the officials t: the ,arlOus locals are interested in the prolongation of that system be- cause it prolongs their jobs. But toI ;.l that they could hO. put their TO licv over on the rank and file were the rank and file not satisfied that their belonging to such an organl- zation was accompanied by sub stautIal benefits. and more benefits than from any other.
 Moreover the fact that organlza- tions have made little perceptiblc gains is hardly a just criterion, The losses that they ayerted are not re- corded. It is a fact that the wage scale during panics was maintained better in those crafts which were organized than in those which were not organized, and they put up long continued and splendid battles.
 The effort to organize dual unions in camps where the Western Feder ation of Miners are now in exist cnce or where the United Mine Workers is still powerful, upon the part of the Industrial Workers ot the World is quite another matter. These unions are organized upon all industrial plan. They are not with out their limitations, but they have been productive of much benefit to the workers. Their work is hamp- cred in every way by the creatioh Of dual organizations and these cual organizations are not able to substitute anything better. anything more permanent or even, as far as we can see. anything just as good.
 We have watched many fine struggles upon the part of the l. w. w. and in those We have always seen the Western Federation of Min CTS and the United Mine Workers and other A. F. of l.. organizations assist with tongue and pen and pocketbook.
 We observe right now that in the Everett struggle the Washington State Feedration of Labor supports the victims of the Verona massacre in their trial. We notice that their labor press assists in giving it all the publicty that is possible and that appeals, we presume not valnly are. issued to the American Fedora ton of Labor organizations.
 We do not see that the I. w. w. in Arizona or elsewhere is going to substitute a better condition than has prevailed there. To create ] an attitude of indifference towards