The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-04-24

little price.
 We say to emphatically that the men who employ him are no better than he. They are just as filthy minded and as foul as he is and they are the same mental degene- rates that take pleasure in the use of such a social excrescence. More over. it cannot be doubted that the most appalling symptom is the spread of this spy system throughout the United States. It is impossible to Delieve that the country where such a system is tolerated is making any progress morally or politically; it i, impossible to believe that in coun- try where men are hired to spy and sneak out the secrets of their fellow men for the sake of promoting the interests of few industrial over lords it is anything else but sign of social degeneracy.
 Wherefore we would welcome some criticism upon this feature of the national life upon the part of those dailies which have been deprecatirs the German spy system in high sounding language. That might De very we'll received did we not k LOW how completely the Pinkertonc and the Thiels and tho Burns have pene- trated with their functions the mar row of the national life, That might be all very well did we not know that at least the German spy is a vigorous patriot, nine times out of ten who has fmmolated the cause of self In, the cause of service and did we not knoy. that the industrial spy is. a. sneak. g crook, and a-.virtuoiess liar and outcast. .-
 It is impossible :, to conceive of any mora. despicablo calling than that of the labor spy. The strike breaker Is g man compared to him; the burglar with his jimmy, and his mask hero before. such as; he, t. The Industrial spy strikes at4 the very foundation of, national sincerity .and national ,s honesty. and his only weapon is deceit and. his reward .a few dirty dollars. ..,. The German spy serving. his coun. try with aims however mistaken is a courageous mnn who gains little and dares everything. He may be the victim of a, national sentiment which is to be deplored but he re- deems his calling by hic high valor and his fine daring.
 Now while we have noted many and many paper and periodical de- nounce in unmistakable terms the Germans system of espionage we have never noted one singlo one these denounce the national system of in- dustrial espionage.
 Yet that system is universal. It has been discovered in almost every community and it exists in every in- dustry. It's presence has been shown to exist in every strik, zone while one railroad, president dwelt upon it as one of the most import ant functions in railroad administra- tion. An American traction king stated in open court that without his spotters they couldn't hope to ope- rate their cars although the pay as you enter system. has greatly, re- lieved them of responsibility. It was stated that every transaction cf every local union in Colorado was reported by the labor spies which infested them. This system we say is everywhere, It's hateful hypocrisy spreads its. foul slime over every industrial field and squirts it's pol son into the body polite. ea
 It is outrageous then end hypo- critical beyond words to denounce a national spy system when the life of a nation is at stake and tolerate. the industrial spy sysem at home where nothing is at stake at all but where it is used simply in order to make a few additional dollars for the employers or to prevent any i'm provement in labor conditions by nipping all agitation for that end in the bud.