The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-09-01

about the niCetieS of the craft CT the calling which he follows.
 It's not the soldier that's writing fine poetry about this war. It's not the worker who sings fine songs about the Sons of Martha. 1t is the men who look at these things from afar and know neither it's evil nor it's depressing influence.
 Now the average poet writes freely about his poetry. The average author will write and talk about books. The painter has written about his paintings and the sculp- tor loves 10 lecture on his art. Their hearts gre in their work and the great difference between theirs and that of the average producer in society is that theirs fallows the line of inspiration and inde- pendence while the labor of the others is a servile task and per formed under the stress of depend ence.
 Ali kinds of educational propa- ganda by bosses and preachers and | teachers have been carried on in an effort to make the worker con- tent in his labor. Regular systems have been devised to make chain hugging a regular order of things among tho slaves. Vast amount ot educational talk is delivered to make men take an interest in their toll 10 have them taking pride in their ability 10 fell a tree, to handle a muck stick or to tap a drill with care, accuracy deXterity and precision. They have tried to bring about a condition when every worker will take an artists or g craftman's pride in his work and they wonder why it cant be done. They wonder why the first thing l that the worker wants to do is to 1 forget about his shovel, the low drift, the mean stope, swampy woods, the lurking danger ard the petty tyranny of it all. They wonder why he whoops it up when he comes to town as a reaction and will talk for hours about the ladies or the weather or the food or the prospects are his, but never if he can helr it about the low down grind that kept his back bent and his soul as gnarlod as his hands
 The only thing that these edu- cationalists know is that they dc fail. They don't make a bit of headway. They here and there arouse one to become interested and 10 apparently initiate the ar- ti8t's love of his work or the old time craftsman's love of his skill
 But these are few and far be- tween.
 The answer is of course that these things are done under com pulsion. They are done moreover for the benefit of another. Int painter the poet. the author, tht sculptor is his own boss. He work! when the inspiration aeizes him an( when the theme is adjusted to hi
 hearts desire. He is not doing something which he does no
 love. He IS not doing it undel the driving force which says do thi
 or starve. fail in it is at your peril And that makes all the differenc,
 in the world. It is the differenc, between the joyous work of !;
 freeman or the laborious task O the slave.
 When in an industrial democrac. . the compulsion of hings now ex . isting shall be removed. douhtlcs , all work will be a labor of love But to bring this about, naturall.
 there will have to be some otheI : incentive for folks than the driving
 force of the dollar When men dt , that which they know must be don, for the benefit of themselves ant
 by benefitting themselves for tn, , bereft of all their fellows: whel human welfare will be inspiration , of every form of labor and not tn, ! dread Of hunger or starvation tha will result from the discharge b, ) an angry boss that delights to ex , ercise his economic power, lift
 will be an entirely different thing , for men. Nowadays almost al