The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-08-16


 paredness and he submits that his business must be protected first ot all and primarily against economic disturbances especially on the part of labor demands.
 He lays it down that his plant and tho industry which he owns is ac- tive in the production of wars ne- cessities. He holds that the product of his industry is as much a war time necessity as the man power that lines up in the trenches and carries the flag to victory. He ia part, in that way. of the national armament. He wears a flag n his buttonhole, he has patriotic texts on his office desk: he has one Way ing oyee his plant and his patriot ism is no exotic that would shrink up and die by exposure to tho pub lie. He has managed to get him self ou the Defense Councils ill wonderful and controlling numbers, and his view dominates practically every avenue of publicity. Accord ingly he is able to have it under stood that any person who inter feres with the natural operations of his busiueGs is lacking in patriotism. Such a one is against this war for tho fundamentals of democracy and as such must be handled with vigor and promptness. It is suggested thst strikes be made illegal during the WAT: that every wage scale pre- vailing during the days when war began should be the regular stand ard. That the workers who agitate should be conscriEtcd and if they fail to return to work that the should be jailed or sent to the firing line. Sometimes the impatience of the press. which he controls, gets the best of the editors and they sug- gest, directly or indirectly. lynch law for the workers who are recall citrant and who in any way aid or abet the agitation of strikes or pro note in any way demands for better working conditions.
 In this way it is believed that peace will reign in industry. In this way the output would be increased, efficiency completely established and profits be greater than ever.
 Whether the system will work or not is for the present no matter.
 The worker on the other hand coucedes no such right to employers as that of making profits out of the war The worker recalls the very arguments advanced in favor of the draft as a democratic system of mi litary service and observes that everyone of them can be employed by him in the matter of both finance and industry.
 The State has a right to demand the unrestricted service of the ci- tizen on the battlefield or in the industry. That was the declaration that was emphatically laid down by all the papers which employers con trolled.
 The workers accepts that declara- ton and uses it in the conscriptior of profits. And he declares further that if the state has a right to the services of the person of the citizen so also has the state the right to the property of the citizen and asks fl not. why not?
 The worker insists that the sine qua non of a continuance of indus try is that out of it, it must supply aitics of life. If it does not do so | if it affords a tremendous portion for the one, and an insufficient foi the many, then that system of in dustry is not performing its sociaI function at all, but is in fact highly anti-social in its operations. If not why not? asks the worker. Furthermore to justify the contin- uanca and the maintenance of the war it is obvious that it must have benefits which will accrue to all in tho same degree. But if the war is tc mean that some must sacrifice their person or their labor, for the sake of already, immensely wealthy pro fteers it is to negative the real purpose of the hoetilities that have