The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-23
CHINESE LABOR.

idDOT, SuDJeCt tO uepOTidlIOu upou request of the authorities. into the United States during the war, in order to cultivate the fields has been made It has been made by Chinese companies, but doubtless they were inspired by powerful ca pitalist interests in the United States.
 The capitalist interests in the United States have found the labor problems time and again exceeding ly irksome. For some reason not quite clear to these interests white labor has shown dissatisfaction with conditions of living provided for it. They were no sufficiently subordi nate, nor were they sufficiently sub ject and docile to those who gave them employment.
 The white workers very frequent ly refused to see that they owed their living to the good will of em- ployers who gave them their jobs. And they insisted upon looking at it in what appeared to the employ ing interests topsy turvy way of viewing the question: by declaring that the capitalists had to give employment to them or there would be no profits.
 It is fact that the white labor has with degree of stubborness re- fused to see in employers men who by the grace of God were placed in control of machinery and the re- sources of the country, and who were graciously pleased to hire non owning workers at certain wages where those non-owning workers might starve to death.
 Hence white labor has made time and again demands of employers which the latter regard as quite unreasonable and often outrageous, and of later years some workers have come forward with the pre-. posterous notion that labor was actually being robbed of four-fifhts of the product of it's toll!
 In vain have very able eoonom- ists with minds perfectly educated for this purpose in Universities and other academies endowed by men of wealth, tried to teach the work CTS that they were very well off in- deed in being allowed by kind em- ployers who are also land and fac tory and resources owners to labor. In vain have these economists dis covered beautiful theories of politi- cal economy whereby the rights ot owners to take the entire product of the workers and dispose of it at a profit to themselves is upheld The reward of abstinence said one set of teachers, the reward of busi- ness management said another, and the God-given right of stewardship quotes another class.
 So it is that all this being vain work upon the part of employers and many workers becoming exceed ingly rebellious and stubbornly con- tumacious. the employers after a l series of strikes, lock outs and other l lncidentals of modern industrial !, activity, sigh for some solution which will bring back that former happier time when the worker was SOoftented in that station wherein Divine Providence has indeed placed am.
 nsJow with war looming hard upon -ief horizon, the capitalist with ex- -erlsiSs interests, ready to pluck he golden fruit from the luscious rees of profit, needs help that will 'e more than ordinarily doGile. He can look around the world and ee what has been done elsewhere, { nd he will observe that in many , faces coolie labor has. afforded the wners quite satisfactory solution the problem. In the Rand, the I reat mining companies after the ( uTr War found in China plenti" ii field for labor power which I -ould help them out as hut taxes I ad not helped them out among heir former Kaffir peons. In I Iniana, in Fiji, indentured Indians y the hundreds, had brought sur ease of trouble to the planters, [ nd now labor troubles are no I 1ore.
 Reasonably enough of late, Flu V opean and American capital enter I ng the Chinse field has discovered hat the Chinese coolie is the most l satisfactory worker in the world c rom the capitalist standpoint. lie | skilful: he is docile; he is tenn V