The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-12-07

 the man who practically dictates the price. And although the barg- aiming on the labor market seems i as dignifed and legitimate as that | when a hank of onions or crate of | Spuds are bought at the corner gro cery, in point of fact that bargain ing is nothing of the kind. The em- p!oyer holds over the workers al ways the lash of hunger and this | drives them to accept such condi- tions as he will allow to them in re- | turn for the privilege of making | money for him.
 Reduced of all the drapery of ci- | vilized intercourse. that is the ac- tual condition of things in the labor |, market.
 Now. then. confronted with such conditions, the workers in turn ally themselves together in order that they will not always be worsted as they are always worsted in indlvld- ual bargaining They unite and bar gain collectively. They form labor organizations: unions. And whether , they are at work or whether they are out of work, they are always subject to the economic compulslon which drives the worker to labor for another who owns the machinery ot production.
 i Hence it is that they find that in their struggle for better conditions l they have time and time again to cause a suspension of work on the l job so that by causing a complete i interruption of the profits of the em- ployer, the sole reason for the em- ployer operating in the industrial processes of the nation, the employ CT is brought to time To be successful a strike requires absolute organiza- ton within the industry: it must find a complete cohesion of all the different labor units; and it must give the man who is struck against, no time whatever to prepare. Il must come like bolt from the clear sky and it must find the employer unequal to meet the emergenc% D" other workers who will take the places of those on strike and thus enable the employer to continue his profit making, the very thing that IS to be prevented by the strikers.
 Society is not safeguarded a. any stage of the industrial pro cess against the movements of any kind which are initiated by the employers And it cannot be just as long as the reason for the industrial process is not the social welfare but the making of money. When Wilson based his anti-strike recommendation upon the social welfare because any Interruption of the industrial pro- cess would injure the social units, he took it for granted that the social welfare was the supreme end of in- dustry. But it is not and 1t never has been. The social welfare has nothing whatever to do with It. It ls just an accident that when the pub lie is better served an industry pros pers in doing so. If the public is not better served by the continuation of the industry, it will continue any how, just as long as it is profitable.
 Socially it is impossible to con- ceive more immoral and anti-social activity than the great industrial process of intuition making. It can be justified by no sort of argument and in fact it's effect upon the coun- try has been completely demoraliz- ing. But the industrial process in. volved. to continue to use Wilson's academic expression, is one that lit erally seethes with profits. They are, and they have been and they will be, enormous. Hence quite re- gardless of the social effect that in- dustry will continue. Or consider another industrial process: the dis tilling business. The effects of that industry are written in human blood. are shaded with human rags, are stained with human hopes, are black ened with human shame. But be cause the stills produced enormous profits for the owners. it has been favored and protected and placed under the saving wing of the gov