The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-08-09
HUGHES, THE STABILIZER.

Justice Hughes speech before the Detroit employers will be taken by many as a noble plea for labor. It is rather an important discovery to have made that while labor is an economic unit, the worker is also a human being, and must be treated as such.
 We believe that however recent may have been Judge Hughes per sonal discovery of this formula for the stabilization of society, he Is simply re-hashing a point of view long ago promulgated by the own CTS of chattel slaves as the Christian aspect of slave-holding, and 1t was quite the thing with ethical slave holders to preach that the owners should remember that while slave was a chattel, it was also a human being.
 It would appear rather a late day therefore, to come before the Amer ican people with this re-hash as anything in the way of new doc trine. and it almost is a certainty that the workers themselves would much prefer that some positive means were had of curbing the drlv- ing propensities of employers than to trust in the tender mereles of educating them up 10 the slave own ing idealism that after all they were human beings and had to be treated as such.
 We see no reason for an imme' diate cessation upon the part of labor for it's efforts to better itself because Hughes, the social stabll- izer, makes himself the mouthpiece of a renovated slave doctrine of the social relations between employer and employee. And it is very DO sitiyely to be stated that those who do relax their efforts and live upon the hopes of a beneficient employ ing class doing what the workers should do to help themselves, they like as not will die fasting.
 There are few employers who dc not grasp the fact that their work CTS are entitled, as Hughes said, to every industrial consideration short of any such consideration as is likely to interfere with the pro fitable operation of the business And it is within this strict limlta- tion that the activities of an up lifting nature upon the part of em' ployers and employers associations for that end, are allowed to operate
 Neither Hughes nor any man will be able to predicate a state o, society where justice intereferes with the profitable operations of those II control. And usually, there is hard ly an exception, when profitable ope' rations are allowed to be interfered with, it is because such as are would if allowed to continue menace the entire profit system and prudence curtails an otherwise un' restricted exploitation.
 Indeed Hughes himself admits as much, for he intimates that good bushes enterprise and industrial ex- pansion necessitate the workers re ceiving such industrial considera tion. It is elementary prudence tc feed the goose that lays the golder egg and the folly of humanity is typified in the gentleman who kill led the valuable bird.
 Industrial expansion and business enterprise is in reality the reason for all reforms. And the welfare workers when beseeching employers for financial aid or for sympathetic support do so deliberately with tho reason candidly advanced that it 1: for their benefit that such reform: be effected
 But there is no such thing involv ed as justice. No such question i! involved as right and wrong. Blu the consequences are foretold ant it is declared that they may be dis astrous, and the fear of the hell O. industrial revolution is the dictator of reformist action, rather than i' it inspired by the heaven of socia justice.
 It is a question whether or no welfare work will prevent the ulti mate prevalence of industrial and