The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-05-10

means the spread of intelligence and increase in leisure, tho demands Of the working classes are likely to de- preciate the profits of the employers and hence are not to be considered.
 The general theory of modern in- dustrial enterprise in the United States is founded upon doctrines cI efficiency developed by theoretical ex- ports to whom the wage worker 1s just an ordinary piece of machinery to, be, adapted to the production ot profits in the most intensive manner possible. And precisely as 6 machine. the employee is when he has passed the. period of highest and most i'm tensive production. scrappcd like or dinary mechanical junk. Efforts made to, curb this rapacious destruc- tion of human life on the political field are met with judicial decisions declaring ell such unconstitutional by reason of their being an attempt to interfere with the liberty of the indi- Wdual and while, we may say, we hear good deal about the license of the mob when the mob seeks li- berty, we hear nothing at all about tho vicious license that employing interests have as
 sumed under the cloak of constitu- tional liberty.
 It is very well realized that to maintain this system of uncontrolled exploitation in the United States a:t unlimited labor field must be placed ct the employing interests disposal
 Vast immigraton. a constant influx to manufacturing centers from the country. he unlimited right to ex- ploit the labor of women and child ren as well as mcn-all these things are demanded that the American system of industrial enterprise may succeed
 The labor factor is only neglig- ible factor to most of the employing interests, to be shot down or jailed when they strike or revolt end tc be repressed by various oppressive measures under normal conditions.
 Time and time again men of great CT penetration have warned against this condition. They have pointed out that the lack of care for tho physical condition of employees. for the. health and welfare of those who work in industrial plants affects tho efficiency of the workers and that while they may in the present be re- placed on account of the surplus Ia bor in the market, the limits of na- tional labor, efficiency and tho limits of immigrating labor material are to be soon reached. nan s5 s3 taas
 Besides they point out il iIndtlnctrriai conditions, of stress and hardship breed disease, and react upon em" ployers also and make for poos standard of social health which in- creases, in geometracal progression the industrial in, efficiency of those who otherwise might be untainted, But there is, no, listening tp such advice, The employers on the con trary listen to the syren voice or those, intellectual parasites who preach a lower standard of living and a relatively smaller wage scale in order that industrial imperialis r may become an accomplished fact.
 There is no learning, from the les, sons of the past. The employing interests oppose all efforts to curh- their profit making rapacity and the industries of the United States today betray that most astonishing charac teristic, the most reckless disregard fof human life observable in any country in the world during peacefut conditions and numerically conipet- ing quite within measurable distance with the appalling slaughter now marked on the battlefields of Europe.
 In fact, and 1t is an appalling fact, if wo figure out losses due to indus trial disease and industrial accidents and elso those deaths and sickness due to industrial disease directly or indi- rcctly, the figures will approximate the WET losses per annum of any bel.
 igerent nation.