The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-01

{ dDle UOpuldrlly at one tune on Mother Earth. It's benevolence was more or less a sham and it was a social imposition at that
 But we are likely to observe the economically powerful proceed along line of industrial feudalism of d 1 benevolent type after the war, with the government the keystone of the system.
 This system of government con trol which now prevails in Great Britain is little more than such a system. That control" interferes in no way with the profits of the con-. panies. Thus "Willians and Robin son, one of the controlled establish ments in England'', says an Eng 1 fish paper, turning out shells at l Rugby for the government, made profit for the past year of Ito per cent upon it's capitalization" v. And similarly gratifying reports are issued of almost all the other ! firms.
 The control is really one sided affair, assuring the companies as much labor as they need under coa
 dtions of wages, etc, which they had a mind to give.
 Take the situation in the south. ern Colorado coal fields where John i D. Rockefeller has established his own labor union. The company has 1 taken the men under it's protecting wings and it is hoped that they will not be subjected to economic dis content If the government, with a system of control, joins hands with the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co.,, they
 might for time be able to devise some sort of a cast iron organiza- 1 ton which would last some time.
 We can have no illusions as to the subject of compulsory military serv. 1 ice. It's advocates have no hesita l tion in declaring that such should ] be permanent, and only the other ] day a speaker in the English parlia- ment said in England conscription had come to stay.
 Of course this means militarism. and militarism that will eventually i be of greater national importance l than ndustrialism-as precisely came about in Germany and to a great extent in France.
 Benevolent laws which will pre- vent the exploitation of the workers i to such an extent that they would i be unfit for soldering would have 1 to be tolerated, for the methods ot 1 Germany in this respect will have | to be followed.
 But even this condition of indus trial feudalism, be it never so benevolent, will avail nothing if the workers feel the shoe pinching as it | is bound to now and then.
 We know of no country immune l from economic discontent and We know of none immune from such severity of living and laboring con ditions as drive the workers directly to that.
 Shortly before he died Lord Rob, | erts who during the Boer war and Tn the early stage of the Great War saw thousands upon thousands ot i British workers rejected and had read the report of the Royal Com mission wherein it was stated that 1 industrial conditions existed in many cities winch lent themselves directly to the enslavement of the 1 people and to the destruction of their health, so that there was a great indifference as to whether they fouhgt or not, even if they could when they could not, pass the army medical examination as to their physique.
 The conditions amid which mil lions of our people live, appear to me to make it natural that they should not care a straw under what rule they may be called upon to | dwell. Recently unimpeachable evidence makes it clear that to tens of thousands of Englishmen en- ! gagged in daly toll the call to sacri- | flee themselves for their country would seem an insult 10 their req son. as the conditions amid which l they live make their lives an unend- | ing sacrifice. Thus spoke Roberts | just before he died.
 It was those conditions which