The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-04
INTERRUPTION.

 will during the war with the Ger man Empire be greatly interrupted if not completely shattered. War time conditions will develop set of circumstances which make diff cult, il not impossible, progress.
 But that is no reason why the work of organization should not proceed. It is true that most of the labor unionists are opposed to the war on general principles. It interferes with the movement to great extent. But it is not think able that just now organized labor can do anything which will have any effect likely to tend towards cessation of the war or the develop ment of peace. while it may easily commit economic suicide.
 That being so, it is both useless and absurd to waste any time Ill vain anti-war demonstrations, agi- tations or the like. The main ques- tion is to better organize, so that through that means labor can be in a position to advance itself so that the obstacles to it's advancement can be removed ar overcome.
 It is vitally essential that labor maintain it's organization, for other wise Labor will be compelled to ac- cept position in public things whereby it will be as thoroughly exploited from a military and war point of view as it has been from an industrial point of view.
 Opposition to war, because war IS more or less quiXotIc. 1t is part Of the general trend of things and may be promised from the exist ence of such an economy as the present. It is not unnatural. 1t was to have been anticipated.
 Even those who committed them selves to the most profound paei- ticist measures long ago foresaw that war was inevitable.
 There has been created gen eral national sense which predispos- ed to the ultimate policy of the na- ton in the great crisis and now when officials like Lansing tell us that we might as well awake to the seriousness of the situation, we may gather that it is serious.
 4,r,ilIo ,nay bn c1cl4 q thought, easily enough conceivable it may be by one beyond military age or unable by reason of physical disablement to fight, it is not with out some show of justification that men have argued that the more are involved, in this war and the more extensive and intensive it becomes the better.
 What is really in evidence be- fore us, is the dread of the supre- macy of one nation self committed to the exercise of violence to ac- complish it's end. This antagonizes those who will accent no such a philosophy of life even when their existence is a proof they unconsci- ously do. For that reason the only .;v,re is evidently an excess of the very thing that is cause for dread, ,ane any nation that wants war should be given all the war it wants.
 Rightly or wrongly the general conception of Germanys intentions is that Of a powerful empire gone mad and running amok, dangerous alike to all and to be controlled by all.
 |. The later events tend to indicate thai this view has more foundation than opponents of the war policy of America would willingly concede and in the successful U boat cam naipu there is seen reason the more for placing such an interpretatloh upon the German acts. It would have been the same were Germany tn he triumphant on any other. field. The success of the application or force upon the part of one running amok rouses all to a greater deter- imitation to effect that persons sup nression. It is always feared that worse may happen.
 Pacificists may be divided right now into two classes. Those who onnose the war because war. and those who oppose It because 1t is