The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-07-12

 in the antimony market.
 As anyone can see at a glance, this condition is extending to almos, every line. It is developing in Japan in the iron and steel trade It is evolving in China in the cement textile and other industries.
 China is dumping pig iron on the ! acific Coast With a score of high ly capitalized cement plants along the coast of Washington and Cali fornia, Hongkong is dumping a better grade of cheaper cement along the Pacific Coast which is the despair of competitors.
 It is unnecessary to add details. Anyone that reads with any atten- ton trade journals or the reports as to Oriental imports can fill in facts by the score.
 What then? Chinese exclusion CT other anti-immigration laws are no use to prevent American labor being placed in direct con,- petition with the labor Of the Orient. If the manufactured goods of Pittsburg and Canton meet in the market of South America. | Africa or Australia, it means that American labor which produced those goods meets in competition therein also.
 There is no possibility of getting over this. It is a fact. And the at- tempt of trade unionists to keep out members of oriental races from their organization is only an anus ing attempt to prevent competi- ton that exists and will exist none the less.
 Furthermore just so surely as coolie standard of labor exists in any part of the world, in these days of world trade and world markets, just so surely will the tendency be ito tower the American standard to that of the coolie. We see that actually happen where America comes in direct competition with lower wage scales, and it is witness able in the instinctive demands ot industrial chiefs, educators, econom- ists when they urge the American worker to a cheaper mode of living, thriftier habit of life and a greater contentment with frugal fare. Dieti- cians are urging that vegetable and cereal fare be substituted for meat and costlier foods, so that in turn the subsistence standard being lowered, the wages which as a gen. eral rule hover around tho subsst- ence standard, may lower also.
 Very obviously such condition of things will not be accomplished without a struggle. The workers | in America, slow to move and leth- argic as can be well imagined, will resent the efforts to reduce them entirely to the coolie standard. To. day their instinct rcpels the notion, but their lack of understanding due to the misrepresentation by so-called labor leaders, leads them to support reforms in the way of exclusion and restriction of immigration, to daily with high toriffs acJ the like as il their future salvation rested in any of these things.
 But clearly also, the workers will be subjected to such economic for ces when they know they are the producers for a world market that they will demand better conditions than the exigencies of the foreign market will permit being given them
 The American manufacturer is placed today in peculiar position. His domestic market while the best he has got is wholly unequal to the demands of the industries.
 Foreign markets are necessary 10 his population. He cannot thrive into the millioned class unless hc finds an outlet for his steel, his lumber, his machinery, his tools, his structural iron, his notions of all kinds. Yet on those foreign mark cts he has to compete with nations just as ingenious and just as able as he. And they have their coolie la bor, and it is up to him to make coolies of his laboring classes if he would succeed in meeting his for eign rival on an equal footing. He probably will appeal to the workers in friendly mood to bear with reduced wages from a patri- otic sense, just as the railroad building commission in Alaska sought Alaskans periodically to ac- oo,+ lou uo ooc haoausO tho railrOad