The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-12-21

hot to pieces so indefinitely that genefal overlapping of the system alone can enable the country to stand upon it's economic legs.
 It is not to say that Great Britain has not sufficient accumulated wealth to pay off these fixed charges, but it is ahsoutely correct to say that these fixed charges cannot be paid and working capital that the eco nomist talk about can be main tained.
 Consequently the first considera ton is to assure the perpetual in creased efficiency of the workers-if they will stand for it. A diminu- ton of the already low standard of living in Great Britain. An abso- lute elimination of wasted capital and the resultant consolidation of all industries in gigantic concern ill each whereby the operations can be conducted with as large margin to spare as possible.
 It is simply and for the reason shown quite impossible 10 revert t6 any such a hap hazard condition Of things as existed before the war, with the competition keen in in- dustries and individuaiism and the sentiment for individual operation running rampant condition throughout it all.
 And no matter whether this IS done quickly as it can only De done safely or done later on and with great danger, it will be at best a makeshift.
 These great accumulated debts are to be overcome by an intensity of 1 labor production that never was 1 known before. There will be poss- | ible for the great owning and ! leisured classes continued existence of leisure and enjoyment only by forcing the work animals from their stalls to the harness and com polling them to toll as they never | toiled before.
 | Fundamentally all wealth comes from the application of labor power to land or machinery, labor power of brain or hand. Fundamentally too, the wealth which finds expression in the medium of exchange for the payment of debts or any sort of na- tional or international financial movements, comes from that labor power.
 That labor power as at present productive is insufficient to restore the industrial, financial or conner cial operations to the normal move ment because of the indebtness of the war, the ineffectiveness of ma chinery of production or the failure to apply labor to really productive fields
 As the farmer sows or as society sows so shall the farmer or society reap. It is plain as two and two are four. And society has been sowing the thislles and the social labor has not been productive labor these past few years.
 Given time, given human repro ducton, reproduction of labor | power among other things, and the waste of these years of warfare will be overcome That is certain, but in the meantime the financial situa- ton always impatient of delay and always intolerable of failure to get satisfaction, will have to be met and it will be met only by labor being reduced to a condition of things wholly intolerable so that it can give literally of it's flesh and blood to satisfy the Shylocks whose greed has been fattening upon the misery of the years.
 And the entire proposition then shortcns itself to this: will the workers stand for it. Will they who have been getting their three squares day and their warm clothing and their smokes and their pay return to the intensified drud- gery of the common worker who hews wood and draws water for an other? Will they who have learned the one insistent fact upon which their lives have depended durng the war that might is right return humbled to their workshops and sedulously and humbly devote themselves to the task of rebuilding 1 where others dasfrnyed and recon