The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-09-16

patton of the most despised calling preferable just so long as within that, one is ones own master.
 The majority of employers fool ishly imagine that they are benefitt- ing themselves by driving their em- ployees. They are, just as long as the supply of labor open to them is inexhaustible. But if there is limit to the supply that can be ob- tained to replace those that have been driven to the scrap heap, this driving policy is the most fatuous in the world.
 Once upon a time, right in Nome, there was an employer who was notorious as driver of his men. From the morning until the evening l he was bossing them and driving them. In the stopes he watched them speed up the carloads and on the surface he tallied the cars with | care. urging faster and faster speed. He certainly got out great dumps that were the wonder and ad miration of every operator in the district, and this employer achieved quite reputation as a director of labor of which he employed an enormous number, from time to time.
 The remarkable fact about his operations was this that they did not pay. His dumps didn't clean up worth a cent. They didn't clean up nearly as the dirt had banned even grab sample. And the reason was known to every working miner in tAe district, and was not a secret with the men who worked for him.
 The miners worked hard all right. They kept their shovels moving un- der the urge of the boss. But they sacrificed everything to get their cars loaded and out to the station to be hoisted. They kept the en- gineers busy; but instead of shovell- ing in pay they shovelled in waste, and let bed rock, in which was the money, go by, while they loaded up with waste the cars. And later on in the very mine which he failed to pay, some laymen who had formerly worked for him, took out big money I and took it out at ease, just by cleaning up the bed rock they knew had been skipped. His work was wasted work.
 A whole lot of jobs would be much more tenable by employees and much more profitable to the employers if there was a greater consideration of the human factor. There is no question that the boss l ing tendency which some love to display soon causes fatigue to deve- Top in the workers; the literal drudgery of the job for which they are hired results in diminished output just because it is drudgery, or the quality of output is below the standard.
 Most of this drudgery is inherent in the system. It is so inherent be- cause the man who works for an other will never regard that work as if he were working for himself. That is utterly impossible. And it is not because a man working for him. self is developing his productive or creative instinct, but just because he has a sense of freedom, life and work are tolerable and pleasant.
 There is nothing In the world will remove a sense of drudgery like a sense of independence. Not merely individual independence, but collec- tive independence, the sense of free dom and equality that comes of CO., operation. After all, the device of the employer who, installs his photographs in his factory to pre- vent fatigue is little better than were he to resort to some anOdyne or stimulant for the same purpose. 1 It is almost certain that there will follow the reaction that marks the use of all such stimulants or mar cotics numbing pain" that the poet mentions.
 l The one anodyne that affords stimulation and destroys fatigue is freedom. Drudgery cannot "spot it's snowy mantle, nor chemic power change it's scepter into iron". It is this industrial freedom which alone will make work a delight for the