The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-11-28
THE CAUSE OF INDUSTRIAL
 UNREST.

industrial unrest in the United States due to the fact that the products of industry in the United States are uuequally and unjustly divided. The workers whose lahor creates the wealth of The nation ie-, ceivc comparatively small share of that wealth, while the greater ehare goes to big and powerful captains of industry' who have had no part in the creation Of wcalth. From tCp to bottom of so- ciety," says ,ne report of the com mission. "in all grade O. income are an .nnumerable number of Da- Iasites of every conceivable type. They perform no useful serrice, but drain off rom the income of the producers a um whose total can not be estimated"
 Again we quote the repor. Of the Industrial Relations Commis sion.
 We have, according to the in- come tax returns. A fan4ilie-. with incomes of $1,00O.0G0 or more, whose members perform little or no useful service but WI .e aGGre- gate income, totaling at feast fiitT millions per year, are eGuivlle.It to the earnings of 100000 v;ge earn CTS, at the average rate of f500"
 in accusing contrast t0 the huge fortunes of the rich a"- the moagcr wages of ,he worker,. whose use ful toil is thc staUch and necessary pillar Of society "Uue-foUrth 10 one-thi q of male wo,kers in fac torie. and mines, !S yetIs of age and over. earn less than SD per week, and only ah ut One-tenht cam more than 800 per week. From two-thirds to th:ee-fourtbs of these workers receive wage of les than St5 pa week These figures are based on the rate of wages and do not take account Of the pig factor O. lust time on ac- count of :Hnes-, injury or on forced idleness que 10 indu trial de pression.
 Women Ncrk"r. receive even less. "FroI. two thirds to three IMrths or vun-n worker in fac. -.ries, stores Ilua (Tics and in ln- .ustrial Oc .upation, q Eeraly, work at wages ,f lGSS 'haA S% 6 week Approximd " uu.-.sth ".rn i' ss than S4 and nearlH on'-ht! earn less than $6 week"
 An appalling ana ba''1:Cty |"n- condition is the e"."r ,mcht ol children in mills and !a'torics at crininally low wages. Chill 'o'k. CTS are paid still le thar male or women workers; but the i, lortant aspect of child labor is the fat il has the effect of reducing tle stand ard wages of adult male workers. " in the end the fathers wage are reduced by tho amount that the children earn Examination of the wages in different industries corroborates the theory that in those industries, such as teXtiles. whcr" women and children can be largely dtilzcd. the wages oi men are extremely low.
 This is the condition of the work CTS. Mas, ci in millions, at the ottcr end of the social scale, are fortunes of a size never before dream of whose very owners do not know the extent, nor without the aid of an intelligent clerk. even the sources of their income Incapable of being spent in any Legitimate manner. .hese fortunes gre burdens, which can only be gquardcred, boarded, put into so- called 'hencfactions. which for the most part con tltute menace to the state, CT put back into the in- austrial machine to pile up ever increasing mountains of gold
 Do you wonder that there is an ong the workers a great and growing di, content with these con ditions?
 One-taird of the wcrkers Of the Uritcd States dwell Tn state of absolute poverty Th.s means that these millions oi workers and theil families are undcrfed, i'll clothed and poorly shelt,red; it means that they do not and cannot know the