The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-07-17
THE CONNECTION.

American employers complained in the past, especially when intro during their efficiency systems in the plants they controlled, that the main trouble with the workers Was due to lack of intlnctiye obedience upon the part of the latter. The American worker was poor hand to implicitly obey and was not sa- tisfactorily amenable to discipline until considerable time and trouble were wasted breaking him in.
 Of late they have talked good deal more about this. Because they begin to think that they can assist the industrial development ot the country and especially the develop ment of discipline in the factories by compulsory military service. NO end of general and military experts have insisted that the military training will result In the Amer ican workers becoming more defer entjal. raore attentive to orders, more amenable to dlSclpllhe anu more willing to obey.
 When the war broke out in Eu- rome the pro-Ally press which was associated with the great capital ists of the country, beat their tom toms denouneing German militar- ism. Prussianism was, to hear them say it, the very antitheSls ol Americanism. Today when they have fallen themselves i'll worship before militariSm, called prepared ness, doubtless they would give anything if they could recall all the unkind things they said about con- scription, militarism and compulso- ry service.
 The fact of the matter is that the American employer has never had a very large vision of the scheme of things. His view was essentially provincial. He saw just as far as the nose on his face ana sometimes not as far as that. He lell TOT luc wal Slull hbCNI NNA AA'NN- militarism and now when the war has broadened and certainly clarl- fled his vision, he wished he had not What Germany has done he would do better. He would -militariZe the militarists of Prussia. He wants the military obedience that reasons
 licoin1inp that is nrOmD to do as ordered, the deference that recognizes in the boss a @uperlor caste. He cannot get that in 1n- dustries. He sees unions antago- nize him; he sees laborites aglta' - ing: he sees all sorts of demands made upon him which he does not wish to grant. He gets it in the army. He sees it in the navy. lie sees the officer with his gold braid a superman. He sees that the com mon ranker must recognize in his officer a superior. He sees the de- ferential salute, the rigid discipline, the right to jack up and bawl out as Maior-General O'Ryan claimed for the militia, prevalent as by right divine. He sees that this con- dir,on is co be desiderated in the in- GLs,ries. By this r.eans eftc.ency systems which reduces the workers to automatons, who are obedient disciplined, respectful and in awe C.: industrial authority, can be in' tioauced without trouble and the world will be world of profit pro ducing creatures and peace will reign.
 So he would recall a good many of the hard things which he said about German or any other brand of militarism He would insist thai conscription is democratic; that mi litarism is democratic; that the country is safe only with longer and stronger brand of militarism The connection between industrla and military preparedness is lik, an open book to him and explains why it is that those who have beer most ardent in denouncing the mi litarism in Germany insist upon mi litarism in the United States.