The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-05-27
drives directly towards an anarchiss

drives directly towards an anarchiss conception of things, and makes one one lose faith often enough in organized action.
 But manifestly any consideration will solve this perplcxity. For without organization no improve ment can be enforced whatever. Without working class action, orga- nized action, no enforcement can be made of labor legislation, and labor legislation is not enforced because as a general rule officialdom is not neutral rendering strictly alons the even lines of abstract justice, but rendering along the lines or class conceptions of ones duty. There is where the abuse has arI- sen. Men regard it trivial thing | to violate the code where so trivial l class as the working class is con cerned, but a highly serious and vl- cious and immoral thing to break any law for the protection oI tne propertied interests.
 Propertied interests have: been long in control. They originate the system whereby the administration is in their hands, and until an In
 dustriaI democracy destroys the in dustrial absolutism which is indus. trial anarchism, as at present, there will be no enforcement of regula-
 tions for the benefit of those who
 produce the wealth of the world.
 Subject labor laws to any sort or an analysis and one discovers that
 they arc passed with view
 of advantaging the employers as
 we'll as employees, in fact the em'
 ployee's interests hardly enters into
 it at all except wherein it affects
 adversely the interest of an em-
 ployer. iti |:
 Thus we have workmen's compen-
 sation. The older legal theories of
 fellow servant and contributory
 negligence and assumed risk had be-
 come insufficient to protect employ
 CTS who would not protect them-
 selves in these days of speeding up and efficiency. It became essential
 to the we'll ordered introduction ol
 efficiency and speeding up systems that safety first principles and com, pensation acts would also be intro } duced. To a large extent where il is convenient and profitable to nes' P feet safety, compensation acts are dead letters. That is so for ex , ample in steel plants. This is ST
 or has been so in several Colorado
 mines and mills. These depended
 for their labor supply upon practr
 cally an unlimited immigration 1 and hence it was not necessary U l take precautions. Labor was tot I easily replaced.
 Articles have been written show = ing the ultimate loss to employers ' of mining accidents in the coa Q mines of the country, and these al i wont to show that this waste of If | was also damaging to the owners a interests, and it was urged that le - gislation be passed which woul' help to reduce these preventabl f occurrences for that reason.
 Another interesting phase of ca | pitalist legislation of a reformis , nature is that tending to improv |, tenements in order to lessen diseas e Sanitation is insisted upon becaus e the other fellow suffers and occu c pational diseases for the same req
 son are attended to by statute fo @ the purpose of preventing a deter e iroaition of the health of those en r gagged in it, and hence the subjec u tion of employers as we'll to conta e zion or to difficulty in securing em y ployees who would subject them t selves to such.
 e There's no altruism whateve
 about the employers conccdin l. these eight hour and other laws Il Quite the contrary. They have thei e eye upon the balance in their lede @ CTS, and working men at high spec ,. with maximum of efficiency the