The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-04-04

There are two distinct viewpoints regarding conditions in the various countries after the Great War One of these insists that after the war tho economic exploitation of the workers will become intensified anI conditions from every point will be worse than ever: poorer wages, longer hours. more memorable dc mands upon the labor capacity of the employees, and general reac- tionary tendency throughout. The other takes tho stand that after the war the workers will be less tractable than ever, will demand a moro inn portant share of the government of the country, thoroughly distrust the bcttah classc5' and be instinct with the revolutionary spirit that leads to the overthrow of bourgeois governments, kings, Kaisers ana Tsars.
 The first view is shared by {; number of working class leaders in America aG well as number of eco- nomists of repute. They hold tha; the workers will return from the
 trenches to find themselves ia direct competition with those who have skilled and un0killcd will not be 50 definitely drawn, and women will function very effectively in supply
 ing the demand for cneap labor nov that the war has broken her into efficient service in shop, factory, mine and foundry. They allcge thas the discipline of tho trench will. manifest itself upon tho workers mentally, end instead of building up Q resisting, revolutionary dissati3- fled worker, will make ono more prompt, more obedient, more docilc. and more "commGndCble" by those in a position to command.
 Furtl ermore tho entire military system in every country has, tn ;5s contend, resulted in tho absolute in dustrial control passing into the hands of the government and the government by no stretch of imagl- nation can be described as lGboritc or even identified with tabor That government exercising such 9 despO- tic control of the industrial situa- tiOn will therefore be devoted to h. crossing the national efficiency which the national indebtedness will de. mand; that the debts can only be paid off by productive labor aaG such productive labor 10 be useful to the employing classes as debt relicyers must be highly profitable. must content itself with small wages and the small wages thus incrcasin2 the profit of labor exploitation. tine trade of the world will be won over to the former bclligoront countries by that means. And commercial, industrial and financial magnatcs taking this view have already begun urging upon the workers here the necessity of accepting a lower stand 1 ard of living (that IS smaller wages) so that the country will be able to com. | pote with the intense exploitation | of labor in Europe when its produc l again attempt to control the mark. | cts of the world.
 The other view is the view that holds thet the workers will be pos sesscd of such a revolutionary spirit | that the conditions outlined above are not only improbable but also impossible, In the February Century IS most remarkable and very article by Hendrix Willein Van Loon which most decidedly l the fact that the workers will be more revolutionary and not at all reactionary after the war He goes over the situation in Ger many in England. in France and in Russia and clways is there with the seme answer. Here's a sample:
 Now behold what the war has done for him (the soldier), It has fed him better than he has over been fed before. It has put him into de- cent clothes. A heavy winte coat goes with the equipment of every soldier. and often he never saw such gar mcnt before. Without sufficient food and shelter he is no good as man; hence ho is well fen three times day. He Fixes it. He