The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-07-11

try. offering the service ot their roads te th. aoyeranont in such ra- trioUc manner as to be neralded broadcast throughoat the country, and at the same time asking loI permission and getting it tCo, 10 raise their rates fifteen per cent The fact that John D. has bought twelve million Liberty bonds is a sign of his patriotism. So the dis patches said In point of fact it was as shreWd as q man could do. If he 5ook this sum from securities pay ing five per cent which would most certainly be taxable and invested the amount in Government bonds at 3 1-2 per cent he has an absolute security and gains in addition many hundred thousand saved by the pa triotiC purchase.
 On the level, a lot of the bunk that is pediled and which they get by with about the patriotism of the great employers is enough to sicken a person of ordinary two by four common sense.
 So skllfully however is the cam pafgn waged, that if a person opens his mouth in protest, if strike is created if demands are made for some action, the press paid by the proftee.s emits a roar that can be heard from Hell to breakfast.
 Nor is it good sound sense that the nation permit these things. The certain fact that efficiency in pro- iuction is best attained under the best standards Of work and wages is fact that has been demonstrated over and over again. In the belli- gerent countries Of Europe, they went through this very experience. Coal mine owners, most patriotic men, and dozens of others who were raking in profits undreamt of in their industrial philosophy before the war insisted on labor "doing it's bit" by working for the same wages as in the antebellum days when costs of living were so far less than during wartime. When the Welsh coal miners went on strike. the out cry from the kept press was fearful and tremendous, but the result was that the government had to step in and change things.
 There is no reason why Profits and the Nation should be regarded as one and the same tihng. They are not-in many ways they are the direct antithesis of one another-di- rectly antagOnistic to enc another and when the profit maker tries to cop off big fat juicy profits from Labor-and it all comes from Labor-during war and because ot the war, they are in doing so i'm perilling the natioc.
 Cannot our industrial KaiGers and TZarS learn something from Eu- rope? Or are they like all their type purblind to the facts? The shame ful plunderlust of the Russian bureaucracy brought shame and confusion upon the Slav nation and the revolution was not only poss ible but inevitable. The day of reckoning that is in store for the Kaiser every organ of the American plunderbund can see, can dilate upon, can forecast with singular perspicacity. They cannot see that when the industrial Kaiscrs bid fair to emulate their Prussion prototype, they too, are sowing the wind and must reap the whirlwind.
 In this war there is no reason why one single labor law should be abrogated or suspended. There is no reason way the right to strike should be curtailed or diminished.
 There is no reason why labor should have it's free expression Of opinion halted by a threat of sedi tiOn prosecution or by sor!e such device so that t,e workers may be delivered silenced and chained to the tender mercies of the pro iteers.
 If it is right to chain labor, to restrict it's rights 10 dir:inish it's freedom of action, to curtail or eIrb its efforts to improve it's condition, they by the Apostle Paul, it is right and just and equitable to abolish the profits that are wrung from Labor. that are gouged from Labor, that