The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-09-26

that any man or woman IS entitled | to work who wants it, and is entit- led to receive the full product or that labor.
 That's the issue. There is no other. Everything else is means to that end if it helps well, if not we'll also. though not so we'll.
 Hartley asks will one hundred million people submit to hold up at the point of gun and the sur render of their flag to a band ot labor union agitators who fatten upon the exploitation of the honest laboring man.
 That's good stuff, if there was any thing to it. But there is not and
 Hartley knows it. We all know it. We all know that one hundred mil
 lion people have got to do as very, very, very small per centage of that
 population say they shall do. They | have got to do as the mill owners.
 the financial magnates, the industri-
 al captains say they shall do. They
 latter think that market conditions
 suggest a close down, the mills, the
 mines, the factories the industrial
 plants of the nation are shut down,
 and the free Americans are free to
 starve now that they are no longer
 free to work, and a band of capital ists who fatten upon the eXploita- ton of the laboring man hold them
 up not with the bludgeon, unless
 the militia is necessary, but by the
 equally powerful weapon know as
 hunger or economic pressure.
 And that is the condition that
 exists today. When the business
 men are pleased to call things
 prosperous, it is because the work
 CTS are allowed to work and quit if
 they want to. When things are de-
 pressed, it is because the workers } can get no jobs, want them they ever so badly.
 And we would like to see candi-
 date Hartley or any other candidate, } republican, democrat or any other, taking up this issue and telling us, that God Helping them, they would } mend or end that condition, so that :, every honest man who wanted work to get his bellyful of food and his body and those dependent upon him properly clad and properly sheltered, without the , say or the let or the intolerance of any man, could by his work supply himself with these things But upon this they preserve ] a golden silence. Upon this issue,
 this real issue of real industrial } freedom they have never a word to } say. They are silent as the grave and as cold and chilly when the sub- ject is preached. Instead they talk } loud words about the tyranny of ) the labor organizations and the } vile crookedness of labor agitators! But-and this is the point-the
 laboring men know and have known that 1t is because labor organiza-
 tions are the only organizations that stand between them and the ruth
 less exploitation by the band of em- , ployers that control industry they ; must turn to the unions. There is no way out of it. They must orga- nize to obtain real industrial free dom and it is only because of this , labor organization that they can ) have any hope at any time of
 achieving industrial freedom in this world.
 } And there is no arguing this } down. This is the straight positive , fact before us today. The workers ) have no control over their jobs and they have no control over their liv- , ing or the living of those dependent
 upon their labor. If it seems good , to the owners of the means of pro- E duction or distribution that the jobs 5 cease they cease, regardless of the t fare or the fate of the workers ? therein. What we want is that this should g be changed. We want it changed | from top to bottom. The workers l want it changed so that hereafter l to every man that works will be the s opportunity to work and the means l of living. We want to see no para
 sitic director controlling our lives : and our jobs. We want the righl 8 to live by our labor and to see tha1