The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-11-29
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 Thus we have the Pennsylvania railroad importing hundreds Of Mexican laborers to take the place of Americans on their system. It is quite immaterial what be the fortunes of the labor so displaced; it is certainly not immaterial that the new labor is cheaper and as eff cient for less money than that which has been supplanted.
 Take the case of the Pacific Mail Steamship Go. That line, long on it's unadulterated Americanism and proud of it's competition with other and foreign lines, employed eXclu- sively Chinese sailors and firemen. It was quite immaterial that first class American sailors, good men as ever walked the deck of ship, have to loaf jobless in port while their places are taken by Chinese. It is quite material that the operating ex penses be reduced by the employ ment of Chinese sailors.
 There is not an American mine owner, long on Fourth of July ora tory who gives a whoop in hell what particular nationality he employs, just so long as the profits are forth coming. They will employ Amer jeans, Irish, Germans, Scotch, Eng fish, Scandinavians, Italians, Slav- onians, Turks, Japs, Chinese, Mexi- cans or all of these, just so long as they can be employed profitably and those that can be employed profit ably will be employed.
 There is absolutely no preference given Americans because they are Americans, except in the Army where men employed in that must be either citizens CT have declared their intention to become such.
 When a foreign business sends over a representative here who will scatter investing dollars among the American businessmen, banquets and socials and Chambers of Com merce gatherings make their stay here delightful.
 Capitalists have arrived at the very correct conclusion that profits like every other scientific reality is quite international. There is no such thing as national chemical reaction or national physical law; One cannot imagine a German or an English or an exclusively American law of gravitation. Boyle's law in physics is good in Germany and in Britain and the United States. So the economic laws connected with profit making are common to all countries and hence capitalism it. self is international. It is part ot the function of capitalist educators however to maintain the strict na- tionalization of labor: to pit one na- tionality against the other; to test one against the other, and to make use of that which happens to be the best and handiest.
 The difference between Hudson Maxim and a Hiram Maxim is no1 in their different nationality; it is in the fact that one brother had his profits coming from the British and the other from American eXnloi itation. It is more than likely they changed little or nothing notvith standing that one son of Mane te. came domiciled in the Empire State and the other in the British empire. They obtained their profits different ly only because of certain archaic geographic limitations which are useful in keeping the workers apart so that an exploiter here or all ex- ploiter there can protect his explo- itation field against his rivals.
 Men like Maxim in every country are playing upon the patriotic feel ings of the workers. They make use of the love of country to increase their own profits. It is quite immaterial that white labor is little employed in some countries under this or that flag; none the less it is white labor that will fight to keep this or that flag flying over other than white labor.
 Maxim identified himself with the imperialism of Great Britain be cause that was easily exploitable ma .erial. Had the United States af-