The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-10

gloried in when he could grind with absolute liberty the workers to his own choosing, is wholly re- moved The coming slavery sees to that. They must adjust them 1 selves 10 the war or the war will encompass their complete ruin.
 The entire capitalist system must i be ovcrhauled in order that it may stand the strain, and the irony ot it all is that this is accomplished only by reverting to the coming slavery which Spencer chalked up against the coming of socialism as it's worst drawback
 But it is not socialism. Il is a | slavish despotism of an aristocracy. | It is not democratic even in the re motest degree. It gives the worK- CTS no measure of industrial free
 tion of the principles of militarism to industry.
 What would be thought of the general or the commander who com pelled his troops to such stretch of speeding work that they sooner or latter would collapse. The com mander knows very will that such a system would not last as long as a snowfall in hell. So they very wisely see that their men have good and wholesome food. Not distress ing but wholesome physical exercise. They have doctors to care for them and they have dentists to attend upon them and oculists to see that their sight is everything that 1t should be. They are provided with good and suitable clothing, given comfortable quarters and their health attended to with rigid care. This is quite different to that which has prevailed in industry in the past but nothing different to what prevails now in Great Britain. The man or woman working in mu' milton factory is looked after just as carefully as the soldier is at tended to. He gets comfortable quarters and good food. The gov, ernment sees to that. In proportion to the weight of the labor, the hours are regulated accordingly. Some work as low as four hours q day and others work eight It de- bends upon the onerOus nature ot the labor to be performed. Ere quent rests are provided. Medical inspection is most rigid and the liv- ing quarters are compelled to reach degree of sanitation heretofore unknown, and makes tenement landlords dumb with misery.
 There is no freedom about it. But it is a splendid organization and it is an organization that full fills all the predictions of the learned Spencer as to the coming slavery. It is properly state capitalism: or perhaps it were better to term it an industrial au- tocracy. It is administered by the few and today and yesterday strict ly for the benefit of the few. The workers have no say in the regula- ton of their lives. any more than
 have the owners absolute freedom in regulation of their industries
 Not only that but when the men
 and employers reach an irreconcile-
 able limit over questions of treat
 ment. the government very accomo-
 datingly removes the employers
 from any say in the management
 and takes over the industry holu'
 bolus, as followed the strike of the
 colliers in Wales.
 It is step forward from a socia evolution point of view. All that i' needed is the democratiZation o' the industry now autocraically con : trolled That will be easier. Int
 step is not far reaching. Govern ment is making the road smoother
 and the way easier The difficultie! are many but not serious. The con fscation bogie for one thing ha: been exercised and laid to rest. The autocrats are doing the confisca tion. The war is their justification No other moral reason need be ad vancad The country requires it Society is benefited by it. Life ant property. shibboleths of yesterday cannot stand in the way. It is 2
 war time measure. That is suffici