The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-06-25
LABOR'S POLICY.

It is very easy to magnify the difficulties and the dangers which the people and especially the work ing classes will face in the pro gress Of the war. It is especially easily to magnify the possibility, and for all that it is possibility, that working class conditions and the personal rights or most of the people may be clipped considerably during the war.
 In the first place that will de- pend upon the workers themselves and if they put aside any tendency to act foolishly and without due consideration and lacking all prudence. fail to realize that their safety lies in strengthening their organization. II is easy to see that many will take advantage of the war and the condl- tions provided by the war to make the workers be the goat throughout it all.
 In this war what has occasioned the huge8t outcry, we observe rom reading our exchanges, where a biased press agency has not the work in hand of collecting the news. are coascription, the censor shin and taxa tion.
 Now it is the most foolish thing in the world to imagine that these three things have not been on hand during times of peace to excite or dismay or discourage, just as much as during times of war, ana there is right now an effort made to ca oitalize all three to provoke many workers to be the catspaws of those who are no more in sympathy with lahor movement now than they have ever been, in order that they the workers-may pull the chest nuts from the fire for those who are pro-Germans and are not now ana never were, interested in the aims of the working class.
 Take this question of press cen sorship. It entails no hardship upon the workers It's scope is outlined in the preliminary statement to the Press of the United States by the Committee on Public Information, and that can be read by any person without feeling that their liberties are circumsCribed in the least
 On the other hand does any one imagine that there has not pre- vailed for all these years a regular press censorship which some of those who protest at the government s present time action never stopped to denounce? Practically all labor matters were suppressed, misrepre- scented, or distorted to a great eX- tent, so that very little of the real facts in any important case ever found publicity at all. Take a quite
 
 people of PetIograd made a hostile demonstration against the American Embassy in Russia. That item was published the world over. It was apparently an expression of opinion. It was occasioned by the fact that the workers of Russia had heard that Tom Mooney of San Francisco had been hung. When Wat appeared in New York papers, the Globe and the Evening Post commneted upon the fact that this was the first intimation they had of such a case, and the particulars con -lerning the OXman frame-up while familiar to Russians were not ia mHiar 10 New Workers.
 We might cite not dozen or a score. but hundreds of similar eases where matters of vital import ance to millions in this country have been deliberately cen sored by the capitalist controllers of news. without as much as by vour leave or without any protest from any now loudly mouthing vehement denunciation of the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness which are now charged with being curtailed.
 We say the same thing precisely about military conscription. The workingman is conscripted all his life whether in peace or war. He has to work in death traps and hell holes and with a total disregard of