The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-04-18

ssazBsxz-.->ssr's-~-'--7-s---s stage wherein it Is adequate for all the peoples needs and wherein 1t can meet every demand by society for the necessary req equirements of life when properly administered and undor more reasonable system, is due to the bohunk l2bor of ore de- ,ade or another.
 It has been accomplished only after infinite sacrifice upon the part of labor and labor, withou, doubt before it comes unto its own, will yet have to make and infinite sacrifices.
 But the share taken in the up building of the industrial system, the development of the productive capacity of the nation as nation, has been libcrally taken by labor that came with a lower standard of living and rose however to what had always been it's ambition for higher,
 | Besides there is no reason why the bohunk should be so dcspised. He is not so easily exploited as most people think Expert opinion on the railroads especially in construc- tion work refuses to any longer en- dorse Greek, Italian, Slav labor un- less where no other cen be sccuret,. i Tho so-callcd moro GdvCnccd races are easier to be led, can be compell- ed to a more quickercd pace and obey more promptly than the rest. They will fight among one another to discover which set of men will get the car filled first or the greatest number dumped. They will struggle like Troians to burn out their com patriots in the interest of the en- ployer, and gang can be pitted against gang so that one does it's best to out-do the other-without any increase in wages. They ask higher wages of course, but they also produce more and the relative degree of exploitation is greater among them than emOng the de- spised bohunk. The latter are not so foolish as they look. It takes a good intelligent slave tc be willing to kill himself for boss's smile anu to perform an additional ten dollars
 c in pay. You cant fool the bohunks that way They may have 37 1-- cent pay but they have nc intention of being rushed into 50 cont gail because the boss divides them into shifts and offers a dollar watch t. the gang making the best record Again and again efficiency expert. dwell upon the unwillingness of the bohunk labor (thcy cell it that tool to speed up along the lines they map out They compl2in that i they are speeding up to a five dollar gait they demand 8 five dollar pay aad then efficiency fails of it's pur pose
 Henry Ford employs quite mum her of them, but when Fords auto 'aat went beyond the speed 1imi Of the five dollar pay most Of then . qult.
 It must be recoEocied that mos Of this class of labor comes 10 thh country with q totally different ide: as to tho valuo of money to tha .Dosscsscd by Americana. In tn country where they como from : , dollar has almost unlimited pur chuaing power, and 1t i6 some tim, before they realize th2t hero it hai not
 One of them hes explained tht disappointment experienced by the steel trust slaves when they a
 length realize that the dollar and |; half q day is not so very high wagei after all estimated in terms of it purchasing power.
 The trouble has been, we have t, repeat, that this class of labor ha,
 been neglected. Where it came il
 union men and especially craf
 union men dropped out with bittel oath at the cheap class had taker
 their place. They couldn't under