The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-11-20

1 dollars a day 1 made three hundred bolts working ten hours, now I get five dollars a day and working eight hours make nine hundred and eighty bolts'' Ford expressed himself as delighted. That is how he wanted them to feel, he said, man to man..
 When the safety of employees was urged, social workers assembled sta tistics to show that safety of em- ployees meant saving to employers. proved conditions inside and outside legislative activities
 There is general misconception that nations which call themselves religious have some higher object than the mere development of bus iness Such pretentous speakers as i Roosevelt promote this idea on every occasion and would have the public believe that there is a higher | economic supremacy, at the bottom of it all No nation was really great whose greatness depended upon material prosperity alone IF l point of fact that is the only great ness, the greatness that carries with it power to control others, to ex- 1 ploit, to enrich itself, to conquer and subdue.
 Those who see blind ambitions S ! eradication in the march of the Roman legions and not the effort of l the great patricians to enrich them- selves still further through con- ! quered labor and plundered loot fail l to understand that that slave econO- 1 my was the basis of all those great nations of the classic period. And from the days of the robber barons | to the robber industrial chiefs the i same spirit of self aggrandizement ! has been the animating incentive ot all national life.
 It is ridiculous to suppose that We can discover any real religious or humanitarian incentive in the i imperialism of today when such i finer sentiments or more supersti- i tious, as one may care to regard them, appear but spasmodically or at the close of the human chapters.
 And it is not to be overlooked i that the dollar making incentive, the effort to exploit and obtain greater commercial and hence great er-social pre-eminence and power, is urged as one of the strongest req sons why religions and churches should be maintained.
 In India Great Britain has been able to rule over almost two hund- red million subjects with a handful of men by carefully respecting the priesthood and religions whether Budhists or Brahmins or Mussul- men. The same official recognition is given them all and their ceremo. nies and rites punctiliously observed by the magistrates and soldiers al though the latter be British aristo- crats believing in the Church of the Archbishop of Canterbury, everyone Of them.
 Their attitude is precisely identi cal with the attitude of most of the captains of industry towards the various christian sects in America: a helping hand for them all, for all of them aid in subduing the discon- exploited.
 Indeed, within recent times, an appeal has been made from two of the leading christian sects in this country for monetary assistance be- cause of the protection they afforded against radical views and irreverent ideas concerning the oligarchy of wealth that was ruling from Wall street
 How completely the popular idea of legal equality fails to deceive the exploiters is to be seen in a recent national appointment.
 When to a vacancy on the Su- preme Bench of the United States, Woodrow Wilson saw fit to appoint an attorney and Jew who had some reputation for radicalism. and at least for unconventional views upon wealth accumulation and its distri-