The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-09

QO nothing upon lnlS nlS0 costs or living proposition.
 Moreover while~the army and navy plans are heralded throughout the country in connection with the war, it may be pointed out that this question of seeing that the workers get enough to eat in the meanwhile is no less an important question. It is one that will insist upon being heard in any event. It may be all right for the officials to daily along and make their great military and naval preparations, but these pre-. parations depend for their success materially upon a well fed people
 We have before us the prescribed regimen of British intuition fac tory hand. He lives we'll He gets four squares a day, although the last meal is confined to cheese. bread and butter, tea or beer. He gets meat twice, eggs once each day. He never lived so well before Formerly he was lucky if he got a meat ration three or four times a week. Yet this grub is supplied him at a cost of 50.7 cents day or little over twelve cents meal. It could not be duplicated in New York for a dollar-but practically all of the grub came from the United States or if not from the States from Australia or the Argen tine. Why it happens is because the feeding of the intuition work CTS in Great Britain affects their output. If they do not get their food they will not turn out the work and as they have not an unlimited supply of labor they take care ot what labor they have got.
 In the United States the intuition factories need no such action. There are more than enough men for the work. They are easy to hire, And when any man gets backward he gets fired regardless of whether or not that backwardness was due to his inability to keep up his speed because of the fact that the high costs of living also reduced his standard of living.
 With all intensive industry every where urged. the ;inroads upon the available labor that could be inten- siyely driven have been great. The great reserve supply Was afforded by immigration and the next great reserve came from the farms.
 Both of these reserves are being rapidly depleted and there have sprung up complaints as to labor shortage quite frequently of late in eastern section. That is, the usual excess of unemployed was so diml- nished that employers who used that excess to drive those employed are growing alarmed.
 The experiences of all nations at war have been directly that the wars were fought just as much in the industries as in the battlefield and while there are determined et- forts to prepare in military ana naval way, the reluctance to do any thing in an industrial way is strike ing.
 One would think that the national necessity would have turned Con- gress at once to this problem of food costs. It is as important as army and navy organization and only because such consideration would run up against private profit making will it be the last thing con sidered-maybe when too late to avert disaster.
 The German nation led the world in it's foresight in this war, and al though it may have established a military machine better than ali others, it took care that within its resources, the food of the nation would be the nations first thought It is humiliating to think that the profit of few should be allowed to interfere with the settlement ot this problem and the social organi- zation of the food supply in this country. It is of paramount import ance -'t' 'f' ~ ss's. ?