The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-06-11
ORGANIZATIONS.

Now that the first feet has ar rived. il is timely to draw the at tention of those who work for liv- ing the necessity of making connec- tions wisll the labor organizations in this camp in whatever lines they will follow in the district.
 And this applies to those who out side carry union cards as well as to those who carry Ro such thing.
 The insistence which affiliated la bor organizations throughout the country have determined upon fol- lowing this matter up is known to all union men and those unionists who come up here and work in and around the mines and fail to put in their cards with the Nome Mine Workers Union will be known when they turn in their cards outside in the fall.
 In the great demand for labor that exists outside, the prime i'm portance of unionism is now more strongly realized than ever and those who carry no card or who have been carrying cords but have worked within the Jurisdiction of other unions without joining will certainly be called to an afoount- ing. The Nome Mine Workers Union Local 240 of the Internal tional Tn4cn of Mine Mill and Shelter Uorkers-formerly Western Fede- ,qtion oI :. l'tls-is dliy chartered ill this can1 to promote the well j,, ihg of all workers in all the var. lous mini z operations carried on, and claims jurisdiction over all such workers.
 It bids all workers a welcome to this camp and requests that they make it their business to become members at once. Labor can only protect itself by organization and organization at the present time is the paramount essential for all workers.
 The wage scale in this camp is maintained only through means ot the unions and it is therefore only right and proper that the wage workers should find first duty ill supporting them by joining them. It is a duty they owe as much to themselves as to their fellow work CTS and it is one that they should not overlook.
 Moreover, time and again, it has happened that many came up to this camp and the anxiety for job carried away their better feelings and they kept carefully away from the Union. Tho matter however in some recent striking instances did not stop there, for when seeking work outside they . had to explain the req son for their failing to turn in their cards while in Alaska and being nn- able to give any had to pay fines for scabbing which practically null tirlied by ten what their union dues during the summer months would have cost them. Such be- come sadder and wiser men, and the real facts of later day organized solidarity brought home to them, and they realize that even in Alaska men are supposed to have some ele- mentary idea of the duty they owe to their class.
 Organization, as has often been said, is responsible for every ad- vance which labor has made. It is the only source of job power It alone enables the individual worker, at it enables the mass of workers to create and to maintain tolerable working conditions. Even those who are unorganized benefit by it in a selfish way, in the fact that when they get good positions of any kind, they owe all of it to the self sacrifice and the collective struggle of the members of orga- nized labor.
 The bars are against no worker in his matter of organization. The doors of the union are aways open. There are no latchstrings to pull. It is always case for men who do half way the right thing, of walk right in.
 If is not locked and barred and