The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-08-28

very conditions of change that is taking place about them they ignore it: they cannot see it; they do not know anything about it. The change itself is so imperceptible from day to day that only when sudden cataclysm takes place they rub their eyes and wonder in God how it all happened.
 There is something infinitely pathetic in that story of the whin- ing little runt of a Tzar, the Lords annointed and the Lords vicar, sud denly realizing that the tyrannies of which he was the center sudden ly reft him and all the Romanons of their crown and their power. They were so completely ignorant of the trend of things they had never for one second conceived such thing as possible. When the people complained their answer was a Bloody Sunday. CT Siberia or the saber of the Cossack, just as our own industrial autocracy have answered with the gunman and the machine gun. They have replied with Ludlows and Holly Groves. with Bisbee deportations and Little assassinations.
 When the workers demanded q suficiencv they were answered with denial and when the workers struck they answered with their gunmen. They were indeed incor- rigibly stupid and ignorant.
 We say that the failure to under stand industrial conditions and to realize that the workers today are in no mood to be willing to take things as handed out to them by | the employers is merely one of the signs of the times-but it is an ominous and significant sign ana | it would be well to take warning in time, if there is not something much more serious than mere in dustrial unrest and mere agitation and talk festing to disturb them.
 They have denied the workers the right to organize and they are organizing. They have refused the demands for wage increase and they are striking and these conditions are taking place when the price of bread never was so high and the profits in industry never were so gigantic.
 As we see it, there is nothing more evident than that this state of things will not continue long without cracking. Industry is car rying too big a load Something has got to happen and it's going to
 happen when no one expects it and
 no one is prepared for it, This to-
 tai lack of Responsibility in regard
 to living conditions on the part oi
 "n1lCyers, this absolute concertra-
 ton on business as usual and prohts |
 certain precursor of social storm
 that no one can forcsee the end
 ing.
 It is absurd and it is ridiculou: and it is o, so childish and futile
 to blame unions, to blame agitator! , and to blame the l. w. W. and tt } demand oppressive legislation anC , what not to stifie these, when it il
 the conditions forced upon thu , workers by profit-making employ CTS arrogant in the wealth of divid : ends that create just the yer. ; things that are complained of.
 This hap-hazard policy has no ! thing in it but led ruin and blacl terror. It has nothing before i but the Abyss. And it is the wis l man that realizes it in the countr.
 and warns accordingly.
 } Verify for the employers wa } the warning of Mayor Rolph sucl wise precaution. Is there to b } no such thing as the application of the doctrine of Safety First t , the social organism as well as t l the mechanical sections of indus try? As we see it, the cardina r point of safety is that which take , stock upon the consequences o human actions upon human society , Again and again and again " : lhave said that history teams wit
 instances where the failure to takC