The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-07-06

after paying it's dividend that alone amounts to GA per cent on it's capi- tai stock. The General Motors Co shows just a fifty per cent increase this year over it's corresponding month in 1915. This concern re- ported that it has paid fifty per cent cash dividends and doubled it's com- mon stock without any extra cash payment which equalled one hund- red and fifty per cent which makes 300 per cent for the year.
 Sears Roebuck whose catalog1 come to Nome paid IT 1-2 per cent net profit for 1915 with a surplus on hand, made from selling to the people, uf ten million one hundred and forty one thousand dollars. It's net sales were ono hundred and Six ;;nd e arter million for the year.
 We needn't mention the Du Poni Co. which on single advance pay. ment from the Allies on war con- tract made over sixty per cent pro-
 fit without producing a single grain of powder or fulfilling even a frac- ton of the order It would puzzle the Archangel to say how it was ldone-but Dupont Go. knows all about it.
 Recently an article in the New York Call pointed out that since the Standard Oil company was bust" by the Supreme Court of the United States, it's subsidiary companies have paid dividends of over four hundred and fifty millions.
 Not only that, but these great companies which have been in- creasng their profits so enormously and with such zest for more, are still consolidating, still grasping ana still demanding greater and greater centralization. In any of these Jour nals like the Mining and Engineer ing Journal did you ever see it men toned that these profits were uu- reasonable? That paper said tha. they have been making great profits and added that they shared thcm generously with the workers. Well out of all the companies mentioned granted a half a cent increase with out a strike or a threat to strike. There is no generosity in that. When a man puts a gun in per sons face and tells his victim is hand over his wad, the victim is not usually found boasting about his generous donation. He dropped what he got by the application of | force.
 The strike made these greedy ones dsgorge and they disgorged where they did unwillngly. And when this boom is over, these same py- thons of industry after swallowing their victims whole, will lie dormant in the sleep of slow digestion while they assimilate their huge profits and the workers whose demands are so unreasonable" will be trotting the streets wearing out shoe leather looking for work, or shivering in the bread lines looking for a hot cup of Java that isn't Java at all.
 Now we wonder what th'ell would be reasonable demands upon the part of labor
 We turned for some enlightment to an article by Sam Gompers in the Citizen of Los Angeles. The head of the Labor Movement as eX- empified by the A. F. of L., draw ing a princely salary, Sam ought to know. Sam said "the meaning of the present conditions in the labor world is that the workers are de- manding their rightful share in the increased productivity of industry and in the prosperity of tho nation". But there's no enlightenment there. That's clap trap. That secures the applause of fellow delegates and unionists who think it sounds good but don't know what the devil it means. t5
 It is the same genus of bunk that is handed out by delegates at political conventions or candidates for office in the elections. It listens good" if you don't stop to analyze it.
 What is labor's rightful share? Who is to say what is the rightful share? The worker who decreases by his demands the net profit, or