The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-06-15

Jure as many as they pleased, and that everything was all right just as long as an unrestricted labor market afforded them plenty ot fodder for their killings.
 So the matter was converted by the doctors into a dollar and cent equation, and placed in that man. ner before them.
 It was quite a learned talk, but in the hurry to make intuition ana war contract profits, the companies have little time to consider it. It is however very interesting to note the fact that a Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad doctor told how his company gave a pink slip of dis charge to all those employees who suffered from any physical taint or ! blemish. Accidents were thus re- duced to a minimum. That was sa- | tisfactory and the railroad doctor whose long sight was about as far as the nose on his face, sat down with considerable self satisfaction. But an annoying man named Dr. i Schereschewsky inquired what be- came of the man who had been fired. That was the rub. What be- came of the men with the pink slip! What became of the men who were maimed and injured and diseased In their work? And the railroad doc tor it is presumed became aware of the fact that his system was not so pleasant as it looked.
 But at any rate the discussion did not take on anything in the nature of a high minded altruistic sort ot movement to better the people for the peoples good. To improve the condition of the workers so that they might be happier and healthier and finer types of human beings. Not at all. The matter was reduced as we said to a dollar and cert equation, and when the conference adjourned they were still figuring it cut.
 Now there's a lesson in all that and it's this. These men are types of reformers and welfare workers. Most of them are ably sympathetic They don't like to observe these euualid lives, these bloody accidenst this indiscriminate slaughter. They hate the filthy tenements and the sordid vices of the very poor toll CTS. They dislike the sour smell ot stale sweat and miserable symptoms of occupational disease. The healthy and strong physically are pleasant to see. The maimed and the di- seased are eyesores. Besides it costs money, real money to look after them that those who have money must pay. The tenements, the crimes, the vices, the degeneration. contagious diseases-all these things are wasteful and costly and should be eliminated. That's where the shoe pinches. Not health and com fort and well being, and happiness and independence and sound minds and sound bodies for their own sake, but for the dollar sake Is what engrosses their time, their money and their intellects.
 It cannot be otherwise. They are not considering their own but an- others fate. They are considering those fates in relation to their own and no matter what pretense high browed altruists may make. the con- meeting link between men and wom- en in society today Is dollar link. It is a dollar relation. It is one that is to be considered in all its aspects as capable of being reduced to the final equation of, dollars and cents-with one exception and tha, is between the workers themselves. Between them there is no such reIa- tion, but the relation of common working class interests and because the workers themselves will do mo- thing; act without solidarity, betray no unity of purpose and macs action in common for their own interests, is too much to expect that othera are going to stay awake nights look ing after their welfare, except as q dollar and cent affair.
 Welfare work is misnomer IL is only another name for efficiency and profit making. And whore well ea .n x,rorlr aan hn dianonaod uuifN