The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-08
ORGANIZATION.

Everyone has heard the story of the visitor who after being shown through the asylum where the most dangerous lunatics were being held in custody, asked the guard if he wasn't afraid that the lunatics might get together and overpower him and his assistants, and Whereupon the guard answered that the most distinctive characteristic of luna tic or persons of unbalanced mlnd was the fact that they never orga- nized.
 And the truth of this is daily in- stanced in the world of labor, any where and at all times. The wise ones organize. The unwise will not, and the trouble too often is that the prudent workers who take sufficient interest in themselves and their class to organize in order to secure better conditions, are being constantly hammered in their work by the ldl- otic indifference of those who have not sense enough to do the same thing.
 There is absolutely no reason why there should be a single worker un- organized and certainly there IS every good reason why any person who works for wages should be in labor organizations.
 The labor organization is one hundred per cent worth while. It is the only organization whose whole thought is directed solely and simply and directly to the improvement and material and intellectual up life of it's membership and has that as the sole purpose of its existence
 Nor can the objection be entered that a labor organization IS oD- iectionahle to the unorganized be- cause it does some things which the unorganized do not like.
 The labor organization to find It. self in all it's fullness. wants to be the organized expression of working class opinion and the naturalization of that opinion in working class ac- tion so it will be whatever the mem- bership makes it.
 No man who is outside a labor organization is really doing himself, and he is certainly not doing his fei- lows. justice. He may have more fraternal organization memberships, but if he falls down on in" crganl- zation which looked after his work ing existence, he is failing positive ly to do the fair and square thing with the rest of the workers. He ia taking advantage where he can ot what the labor organization has done. and selfishly failing to contri- bute by the smallest effort on his part towards benedtting his class and so benedtting the entire com munity.
 In this camp are hundreds of men who pride themselves in being members of a variety of organiza- u1as. And yet they meet in somo of those organizations and upon a plane of dubious fraternity, the very persons who have been trying to force evil conditions on the workers. and to undermine whatsoever good has been achieved by labor,
 We say advisedly tRat the very hr<x hnr equality, and whatever mythical equality may be conceived to repre- sent the real thing. there can be no social or any other equality where | is not absolute industrial equality. That is why the bonds of brother hood reach only their full expression and their greatest strength in iabor
 Therein everyn.an | meets upon the same industria' n,ane. Economically they are all ,rorLing men, all men with only one 5b;np to sell and that thelr iaool mower: with one economic purpose to oct as much for that as they can' .,d with one assured knowledge or an unquestionable fact and that IS that the only hope they have or realizing their labor power anu achieving industrial emancipation Is 4,.rough their labor organization.
 As workers industrlaliy they are .ousl with any other wo:ker or sH' of workers. As workers "ho SCH