The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-11-27
MINISTERIAL PREPAREDNESS.

One can take up hardly any tech- uical magazine wherein industrial nrenaredness is not the subject mat ter of special articles or editorials comment these days. It extends too to the daily papers and in more or less yelled and not very clearly ex- pressed language, one gets an idea of what they are all limiting at.
 It is evident that to nothing else except in it's being a Subsidiary or this propaganda. is importance of like magnitude so attached.
 Briefly stated the proposition (and entirely from the employers stand point is this;
 After the war is ever the Amerl- can industries will face a competi' tion with Europe which will become of a most desperate nature ne struggle for the control of the mark ets of the world will be literally ln- tense. Just now America IS behihd in industrial efficiency, and only Dy averv industrial nerve and sinew be- ing directed with single purpose to the conquest of the markets and the defiance of all competition, can suc- cess attend American industries.
 It is not question of better grade goods or of satisfaction of de mand: it is a question of supplying against all others, market demands
 Accordingly to accomplish thls' many industrial experts have been giving whole hearted attention. They have been watching production costs as they never watched them before: they have been studying TOT the Durpose of elimination, efforts which were unnecessary to ethclent productions; they have been con sidering waste in by-products, labor raw material, machinery in use. power. space, management, clerlcai assistance and the like, also with the idea of eliminating any such where possible.
 They have considered purposeless efforts and ill-directed energy under one name or another, and American efficiency engineers have made wond- erful discoveries and worked some wonderful changes.
 First of all they have insisted ri l. of the very latest methods. They have not being doing s1. They h. sist that they modernize their me- chanical equipment, that they avall themselves of a studied improve ment in power forms; and that the various wonderful steps have been made in chemical as well as mecha- nical research be availed to the ut most by the American employers.
 All of that is easy. The experts know that. They know, for example that the American business manager who would make his plant essenu- ally up to date in every particular under normal conditions, can get ample capital to effect those i'm movements. New machinery can De obtained. New power made use o1 New chemical ideas introduced SC that manufacture can be carried or under ideal conditions. And so fal the industrial preparationists are quite explicit in their plans. Bu thev have another point of View about which there is not the same degree of openess. There IS th' Labor factor which is only hintet at in more or less yelled language which however is easily enough i'll telligible if all those articles ar' read with care.
 Still following out the employers viaw point. Labor is as a factor Il industrial preparedness as in all in dustrial activities, the most import ant of all.
 Industry is to be carried out il any country under conditions wher initiative is absolutely abolished and the management is the brain exclusively. It is true that machine ry in modern industry requires certain amuont of intelligence and certain amount of education. bu that is relatively negligible factor and it is certainly minority factor
 The greatest essential of any in dustry they say emphatically, l