The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-26

will still maintain their union ,orga- nizatiOn They have so much to up- hold that is worthy of upholding and so many interests to protect that are worthy protecting. that they should keep alive the organiza- tion with d charter of their OWL which will keep them still in the labor movement ready to do thei1 share as they always have been, foI the betterment of their class.
 Dime creek will be similar ill many respects to other camps. After union men have established good working conditions there, the scabs ous presence and proceed to destroy where they were afraid to build up. The scabs will bring their tainted and crawling sycophancy for job with them and endeaVored to secure work regardless of what the con ditions may have been which better minded workers have created.
 They should be kept out by rigid union conditions as a matter of self protection, and for the same reason that the skunk is chased as far away as possible from human habitation. And that buzzardlke being, the seabherder, should also be regarded as an unwelcome guest. II is immaterial to this vulture how another man lives. He enters camp and with q total disregard of condi- tions established, proceeds to eX- ploit the workers to the limit Upon such as these no sort ot good opinion can center. They would pollute paradise with their evil presence, and their immersion in even sacred waters would poison the countryside.
 For these reasons and as d mat ter Of self protection the workers in Dime should organize and main tain their organization. They should secure the support oi every union man there or every former member of organized labor to keep their camp as it is, sweet and clean and wholesome and manly. They should organize 10 keep the flty scab yer min cut of it as much as to prevent au effort upon the part of unsavory scabherders getting a foot hold therein
 The Dime creek miners know their experiences in Nome. They know what they went through bait ling against so powerful influences to uphold organized labor They know how some of them went out of Nome. after aiding in its wealth pro- duction since it started as camp, with their blankets only. They saw businessmen whom they had built up in business by their sup, port rustic men for the scab camps while they sat around eating beans rather than live under conditions Of peonage.
 That lesson will surely not have been lost upon them. They have had too much experience with the workers struggles in the past to ai low the same influences which would have starved them here to attempt the same thing down there in their own camp.
 For that reason it is ill their own vital interest to preserve intact an organization of the workers whereby they could mutually pro tect themselves against the many forces used to humiliate and de- stroy organized labor.
 It is a fine thing to live among men. Even the galleyslave chained to his oarbench regretted leaving the untamed spirits that had to struggle in confinement around him. But it is not fine thing to live in constant contamination with the scab and scab herder whose foul presence would necessitate deodor- ants at the pearly gates. It is to be avoided at all costs.