The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-03

an equivalent value to the product of labor.
 Surely if every man has a trade and has acquired vocational train- ing in some line or another, the re suit will be that there will be no such differentiation in the wages paid skilled and the wages paid un- skilled workers. The only reason the skilled get higher pay is because the supply in relation to the de. mand is markedly less than in the case of the unskilled. The price ot labor power for that reason falls or rises with the demand and supply in the market for that commodity.
 That under the present system when not ten per cent of the youths pass through the High school and not 12 of 1 per cent en- joy any sort of technical training, that vocational training will benefit those who do enjoy the privilege goes "IJHOul SdN lllS
 But why stop at vocational train ing? Suppose it was suggested to teach every youth the practice or medicine and surpery, of law, of en- gineering, of those so-called learned professions, isn't it obvious that the only sufferers would be the mem bers of that profession whose num- bers by being limited were able to
 maintain some degree of excessive remuneration relative to the services rendered.
 Now, it ought to be manifest that it would be as much a waste or energy to make every man car penter as to make every man a 1 lawyer, or to make everyone all l electrician as to make everyone a l physician or surgeon. The waste of energy in society comes not from 1 the failure to teach vocational i training or unskilled to the profits ! of another instead of service to so- cety and the individuals which com ! pose it.
 There is a remarkable and most
 reactionary feature about this de-
 mand for vocational training, which we might have expected to have at- taned a much greater strength ana ] ;r+ 1 this. That is that it springs from the natural reaction against the enslavement of labor by the ma chine, making so many human be- | ings creatures not masters of the
 machine itself, and was to have have been apprehended as inevit- able. That it should find expansion
 in the unduly exaggerated values placed upon vocational train | ing was natural enough especially when that voca-
 tional training made universal vii
 have tendency to lower the rate of
 wages paid skilled to the level of
 that paid unskilled labor, by the simple expedient of increasing the supply.
 There must be supply of trained and skilled men. Industry demands it and society insists upon it no less Profit insists more than either one or the other, but quite regardless of the industrial or social require , ments. The social needs must find
 proper satisfaction in suitable education and the highest education
 is an adjustment to that social need
 We may not all be plumbers any
 more than be all doctors. But we
 must make our work our creature not be the creatures of our work
 Until men find in their work theiI
 pleasure and until in the healthfu 1 performance of it we eliminate the | fatigue of servitude and the degra- 1 dation of the hireling, we can solve no problem by vocational training
 There are mighty few of us at the
 present time ever work at what we like to do. And the main reason
 is because we are compelled to be misfits by the necessities of another
 man for profits. We cannot satisfy our own desires in the way of labor.
 We are compelled to serve, and it is tho servitude that kills. But servitude will continue as long as the profit system exists.