The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-02-17

help due by all was not confined to
 mere sympathy.
 However we are not going to al
 lege that the Pioneers point is not
 well taken on this question of
 garblng news. Nor are We going
 to pretend that labor and socialist publications are not sometimes given
 to writing articles with a decided
 do say that it is done so seldom,
 that compared to the suggestions
 of falsehood through the suppress sion of the truth in contemporary
 capitalist publications, the whole is really negligible. So unfair are these expressions that the Industri-
 al Worker, because the access to
 the facts cannot be had by ordi-
 nary methods Of news gathering, is
 compelled to secure a labor cores
 pondert whose work is exclusively
 devoted to labor and general work
 ing class matters, in addition to the
 services of our ordinary news cor
 respondent
 II was utterly impossible outside
 the labor papers, for example to get
 the facts concerning the Everett
 trouble. and the troubles in various
 strike zones are as a rule so grossly
 one sided that when one pubIshesthe
 account as seen through the views
 of the western labor press cores
 pondeuts it is considered faking pure and simple. by those who know . no better.
 Another instance: Pearson's Ma ; gazine was barred through the Ca . nadian mails and prohibited in the l Dominion of Canada. That was r wired all over the country. IL was followed up by vigorous denuncia- , tious of the Dominion government 3 because the latter was afraid to face ? the truth. It is easy to indulge in
 long distance criticism.
 r But what press association outside . the labor correspondents advised ; that because of criticisms of John } Wanamaker's department store . news stands were shut to the same - magazine in one of the leading ci- } ties of Free America. The maga- zine had exposed the wages paid in I department stores and that suficed = to justify it's exclusion from sub- . way news stands,
 3 The Pioneer is uniformly fair , paper. It has been uniformly sym 9 pathetic on labor questions. Its 8 criticism of the Compensation Act ' was the ablest published in any s paper in the territory. Yet when il
 says that this paper has little sym l pathy with the labor union move . ment. it sadly errs. That President S Sam Gompers. dragging a labor f vote from pillar to post and from . convention to convention, writing l eleventh hour urgings 10 vote fol [ one who stands committed to fois f anti-strike legislation upon the na 1 ton. and to leave labor helpless - and prone before organized capita l is an edifying spectacle, we deny. I s is merely humiliating labor whicl Q is powerful enough, if it would b! ;. industrial unionism and solidarit, l lean upon it's own known strength
 to depend upon itself,
 l. Criticism of junketting trips, feast l. ing at conventions which has to b. s supported by famine on the job, i
 not commendable even though it i II presided over by civic, ecclesiastica $ and political dignitaries.
 n It is hoped that the Pioneer vii s not find these views tainted wit Il fanaticism That there is no poss 2 ible compromise between falsehoo' S and error. between reaction and pro l. gross, between sound tactics and use Il less, fatuous. jaw-working futilit d is not d fang tcal attitude Ther o may be a mean in all things, but i J. questions of this kind, the alterna
 tive between craft unionism and in IS dustria unionism, there can be n 1t hesitancy without being lost. e -