The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-10-23

lSt measures or the uplifting Cdpl- talist politicians are quite negligible compared to what has to be done by labor. The main proof of the pudd- ing is the eating. sThe main proot of labor progress under Wilson is improved conditions. What improve ment has taken place under Wilson, not Wilson but entirely economic circumstances have had to do.
 Thus there has been an industrial activity beyond ordinary dimen- sions; that reduced the number of unemployed, and reducing the num- Der of unemployed reduced labor's competition from itself. The price of labor went up because the sup ply decreased and the demand in creased. But that was not due to Wilson That was due to the war in it is mighty little Wilson has had to do with that. The intuition and supply orders received from belliger- ent nations caused an intense activ- ity wholly abnormal and Hughes or Taft or Roosevelt have had just as much and just as little to do with that as Wilson.
 The significant fact concerning ac- tual conditions during the Wilson millennium is that notwithstanding it's advent labor has had to fight for every concession. The machinists have had to strike in almost al! shops. Two hundred and thirty strikes occurred in Bridgeport, Con- necticutt alone, before the workers { were allowed to obtain even frac- l tional share Of the munitionist pro- l it's. The Steel trust fattening upon war contracts had to face bloody i strike at Youngstown. before ever a tithe or the hellish conditions ] that there existed would be amelior. ated. Tn the Mesaba range the in, dustrialists had to force a strike be fore even tolera bic living condition: would be offered by the iron range overlords who dominate it. The Adamson bill settled nothing save t( prevent any impairment of this Vii son prosperity which resulted in thu highest costs of living porportiona
 to wages paid. has ever been knowl in American history.
 It is when one gets down to be-
 rock, through the overlying strat;
 of political falsehood and politica
 misrepresentation and actually in
 quire wherein came the bettermen
 of labor due to Wilson, we discove
 absolutely and clearly nothing Moreover, we can impartially sa
 that Hughes is not likely to do an better He is not likely to mak . good where Wilson failed, any nor than he is likely to fail where Vii } son made good.
 Economic laws and economic for
 ces are not to be altered by an presidential intention or any presi , denital ipse dixit. There they are . for better or for worse until labo l itself shall determine upon makin } the change.
 To represent otherwise is to mis , represent and to very viciousl mislead the workers. Granted tha
 Wilson is an extremely high minde,
 man. So is Hughes. Granted tha
 Wilson has endeavored to do tn
 best according to his lights, but re } member that those lights are fe,
 from the same economic powe
 house as will supply the lights fo
 Hughes. They are identical. The have the same ultimate ideals al
 though one may fancifully call hi
 the New Freedom and the othe
 with an equal touch of imagination
 term his Americanism. Both ar
 tricky words to fool the workers
 and likely enough with the aid o
 Gompers and the rest the worker i, will be fooled That has been thei
 portion, and their portion whicl
 they enjoyed during many elections