The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-16

, subject. The labor movement with out the labor paper wherein the views of the laboring classes. widely varied, frequently clasling, often needing adjustment, find expression, would lack vitality
 Furthermore without the labor paper. the workers are the butt of every liar. every gross misrepresen- tation and miserable distortion which the mighty powers that are fighting labor so generally indulge l in.
 The re-uniting influence of pa per which opens wide to publicity the disrupting efforts of the ex- plotting forces, is simply incalcul- able and the loss to the labor world would be immense, if they were stif1ed.
 Almost every view in the great, onward sweeping movement of the labor cause in the United States now finds expression in newspapers north, south, east and west and many of them journals which are not equalled anywhere. These pa pers whether published by so-called reactionary elemnts or so-called ra- dical elements within the movement are a credit to the workers and the workers know it. They have been the means whereby in open forum the various views of the masses have found public expression and they have thus served to harmonize where before was discord and tC unite where before there might have been chaos and disruption.
 We know very well that these pa. pers with no unlimited treasuries al their back. with no immensely wealthy advertising patrons to pur chase space and control policies a the same time, are up against { hard proposition these times. Thel have not increased prices of thcil : goods when every other firm around them has been doing so, and they struggle along hopeful that labor will through stress and storm through thick and thin. suppor, them.
 It is therfore always up to labor They cannot see their newspapers crushed without their only means of expression and their only weapon for publicity destroyed in theil , hands.
 This is not an appeal. The work CTS in Nome and the people in this section of Alaska have stood SC stoutly by this paper that for tho Industrial Worker such an appea is not necessary. But we do say it on general principles that tht workers must support their papers support those who advertise there in who otherwise are fair to orga nized labor, if during these strenu ous times the papers are to exis independent of any other interest il the dissemination of the news ant in their editorial columns.
 Some day the workers will on the Outside realize that not only mus their press be supported, but tha the workers shall control the great est daily and weekly organs. No control merely by a financial inter } whims of some other classes; bu by absolute ownership provide tho workers with the days news, un tainted by origin in any capitalis , source, but the news as it reall! is.
 There is a great field for this Some day it will be realized, ant goodness knows the vagaries of tho great organs which were once upor time friends of labor" ought tC prove the truth and necessity oI this
 } It is lamentable that here is one paper today masquerading as the advocate of labor and tomorrow the spokesman of the organizations oi capital trying to crush labor. after such newspaper friends have used their cloak of friendship to secure money upon that reputation to de stroy. We all know such cases. A great. able completely supported la bor daily would render all such i'm possible.
 GET THE NEWS RIGHT. RRAy