The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-06-03
THE UNEMPLOYED" !"

Readers of the papers may have noticed within recent years when reference is made to the unem- ployed, a new word descriptive enough dealing with q class of men hitherto unclasslfed and termed the "unemployable".
 Recently the head of one of the charity organizations complained that notwithstanding such good times in the East, very little money was forthcoming for them. Ano it was as urgent in good times as in bad times, for they dealt with the unemployable.
 The men included in this class are all the industrial derelicts They comprise the physically unfit the diseased, the maimed, the wasted, the aged the confirmed dip somaniacs, drug fiends and the rest
 They are offsprings of the system which has thrown them into the discard and which is throwing daily many of them into it.
 They are regarded as . serious problem and ways and means are considered for handling such 9 pro- blem.
 The employer of labor wants the physically fit and where possible the mentally alert. He places a pre- mium upon skill and experience by paying higher wages, because he feels that such skill and expert cnce will more than reproduce the outlay in such higher remuneration. But industry has no place for the unfit: the men who physically has past his prime or who has been maimed or diseased at his yoca tion.
 Day in and day out the industrial system grinds out these men who are to be classed as a problem, ana their number is increasing in every country without exception under the sun. Wherever the present industrial system is in it's full blown prime, there we can note these in dustrial derelicts despite preventive measures. They arc numerous in Germany, in France, in Great Bri- tain and in the United States ant they are increasing in the United States in a faster ratio than in any country in the world.
 It is the one astonishing fact about this rapid increase in the of unemployable that ab' nothing is being done to cope with the problem Neither by adequate legislation nor by social work has any really serious attempt been made to do so. The waste of human life in American indus tries is shocking, but the waste by disease due to industrial life is still more appalling. 1t is q matter ae}- dom considered because of the very simple fac, that it is too terrible ta consider.
 Yet 1t is the trail that capitalism lo,vcs behind it: red with maimins and violent death foul with plaques and fostering Hines es wholly 8 social danger thnt caunol os ignored without serious conse luen.es.
 When the proDo5ition of eonsor- ,ation was up before the country and it occupied tho attention of the politicians until they wearied Of such mooolouous tlaything, the question arose what about inc need [ ed conservation of human life That question was not answered II would mean business interference lnd would neceositate paternalism md other unpleasant, and as they said in a high flown insincero pa riouc manner, most un-American ,ction
 Now conservation is placed upon he shelf; the resources of the are being thrown open to adventurous capital for its gorgins md the whole fim-ham agitation luite forgotten. Instead prepara- ion has taken its place, and the question arises as it arose durins he conservation discussion what o. he preparation that began at lome? What of the necessity of sav- ng and protecting human life in !;