The daily Nome industrial worker., 1915-12-10

When the bankers returned from their convention in Seattle they brought with them word that the country was to face an era of un- precedented prosperity never before equalled.
 They said that the country stood right upon the threshold of pros perity and was about to enter.
 We all heard that before; every politician has been saying it ever siace industrial depression set in, and upon the last occasion of his visit west. in spite of ominous crowds of unemployed surrounding him, Secretary Daniels declared that prosperity was not only coming, but was actually here. and that was some time ago May be the shy old lady backed out the door between wailes and is only now getting back to the threshold. But these bank CTS are conservative men not given to seeing a sun burst of prosperity where there is the clouded night of depression and there is considerable and instructive force in the reasons given for their belief Those briefly were four: the enormous and cor- stantly increasing war demands uDon American resources; the re- cord wheat crop with handsome yield in other grain crops; third was the sound financial condition O. the country with total absence of imitation and extraordinary ease of money, and lately there was the uamistakable trend of federal and .rstatss law making away frnqs &e,, di- rection of business hGrassment and towards constructive channels. l. is clearly only a matter of time un- til the activities in the intuition in- austries caused a sympathetic activ ity in other industries due to the fact that there was an increases number of wage workers. The wag2 worker is a social unit which pre- sents two sides in tho capitalist eco- nony. He is the labor producing machine which in the expenditure of that labor power produces Sc much surplus value over and above the wages paid. He is also ma chine which requires certain cost: of up-keep which are automatically adjusted by the machine itself from q fund called wages. Naturally the more of these labor producing ma chimes are bought, the more will be the wages which swell the consump, tive power of the country to main tain those labor machines.
 The intuition plant workers have necessities and some pseudo-luX nr:es which will have to be satisfied and other industries in no way con nected with the war will be busiel meeting the demands made by mu hilton workers. In turn these in dustries active in supplying the mu .nition workers have also human ma chimes supplying labor power whict will earn a maintenance fund called wages and they too in their employ rment increase the consumption ca pacity or rather the consumptlv' power of the nation.
 The great wealth of the countr. expressed in wheat is self evident That wealth does not go to th farm hand nor to the wheat grove but distributes itself very well De tween the brokers, the railroads an' the speculators or storehouae men From the vast pile of wealth thu produced by the application of iabo to the soil, many parasitic socia organizations get their whack, an these will spend liberally to gra,i fly an ever increasing appetite 10 pleasure or for more productiv manufacture and profits.
 The fact that the governmen views with some disapproval legis iation which hampers the corpors tion increased tho confidence of jr sdustrial organizations such as tn trusts. and they re-inyest capiti either to intensity the solidity ( their organization or to promot control in the various industrie They have won their battle that ha been fought by politians and Ill sifters in unholy alliance against tf trusts for the past decade or more
 They have driven the Sherma Act to the limbo of useless thing and they have shown those wf