The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-31

AoNloi iCo, lAlilSy lulICo, SuOpS, roads, the population is rendered that much less reproductive, and where productive, that much more degenerative physically and it has within it elements of sterility that l it will automatically destroy itself. Owing to the physical disabilities which women have had to suffer, | due to social disabilities for the most part, they are unable to main- tain the strain of labor to which they are subjected. Even now the British and German governments which have permitted such enorm- ously increased female labor owing to the exigencies of the war, are alarmed concerning the health phy- sically and mentally of the women, as shown in hospital records and attempted suicides. Psychologists know that certain functional de- engagements following a work of la Dor for women practically end in the
 
 physical or mental destruction of woman herself. And it is the most characteristic fact of all English and American social work that this most significant and serious fact is never mentioned as a consistent probabil- ity except in very subdued manner that no one pretends to understand. Yet it is the commonest of facts ob- served by those who have to con- slider vocational diseases and indus trial sickness that factory work re- suits in even more serious evils than the hypersexing that almost invari- alby follows. Only when the war burns up the cloak of prudery in the social crisis that insists upon bare facts, have the governments dared to enter into this subject in detail lest those christian souls which have stocks and shares in factories where women labor should know that that same labor which produced so much welcome profit has come through the suffering and anguish and despair of ruined lives.
 It is just as well therefore that it be clearly understood that female labor is self destructive and it can not withstand the strain. It will re- suit in time and within a generation in physical and national degeneracy and few women will be able to work at these laborious employments for any length of time.
 Even with labor saving machinery to repair the ruin of the war capi- tai must find labor. Although in- sisting at all times about the wonderful results of an influx of ca pital, capital itself has found no royal road to increasing itself ex- cept by labor. And consequently in Europe, after the war, labor will be at premium. It may be urged that legislation may be introduced pre- venting labor from benefitting by it's scarcity. There again the period subsequent to the Black Death fur nishes us with a parallel. The Free Masons of England, then a trade guild, were made the victims of laws and which also de- clared against the coalition of work CTS engaged in demanding higher prices, all workers were forbidden to ask for wages above a certain standard, they had a maximum wage law under Henry " and following reigns, yet all of these were just as if they never had been written. The masters themselves in their anxiety to secure money making servants, competed with one another and the had subtle means of evad- ing the laws which they considered 
 So we believe that Gorgas' fore cast of conditions in Europe will be fulfilled. It is what many prophe- cies are not, quite scientific and based upon historic experience. The more important question as to the result of the war upon Amer ican industrial conditions is quite a different matter. Lean years in Europe were fat years for the pro- fiteers in America. but that was due to the war. and during peace when activities are resumed with full force it femains to be seen there will be such a con-