The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-06-25

hlS personal comfort III any Way, shape or form.
 Yet to hear some of those who have loftily approved that system of economic conscription, denounce the draft one would imagine that the workers were always free to do as they please one way or another.
 Moreover with reference to tax ation, the workers pay no taxes. They will hear every peanut pedd- Ter and cock roach business man and haywire operator tell them that they are being robbed while the big wigs are passed by unscathed.
 What the working man gets is enough to live upon and no more. He makes more: he makes enough to pay rent, interest and profit as well as taxes, but the boss takes it, and pays the rent, and the interest, and the taxes. while he absorbs the profit
 If the war should be prolonged, or whether it is long or short. there will be a determined effort to in- crease this agitation against the tax question.
 But the workers are merely being used in this to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for the little business interests whom the big fellows will make as they have been making, pay all they have to save them.
 It is true that in the censorship and in the conscription, the execu- tion of these two measures may press heavily upon the workers But that is up to them. If they are organized and organized for mutual protection, they will get a fairly even break.
 We said before that the evil ones of the plunderbund are lying in the shadows, waiting to completely emasculate the workers of all power 1 And we can be sure they will use every pretext that comes handy tc them to do so. We know from past i experience that scoundrels in the ! industrial baronage have time and time again tried to accomplish the
 biggest of their villainies covered over with much flag waving.
 If, as a socialist party paper states | during the war things which have
 been gained by the people go by | the board, it is not by reason oi | the war but by reason of the lack of power of the workers, their fall
 ure to have a strong economic or
 ganizatiOn.
 To peddle to ourselves that the
 war is responsible for this, that oi i the other thing, is only to blame something else for our own lack of foresight, our own economic in difference, or to rub the salve upon our own pugnacious nationalisn which is secretly pro-German, and because the war is pro-Germar planes everything upon it. | If single one of the rights which men have struggled to gain is cur tailed during the war, men them selves are to blame. If what the workers have been struggling and striving to accomplish is destroyed , it is because they were found un- prepared and without any real or ganization.
 We say that before the war Is over there will be many new eXperf- ences before the workers of Amer ca. It is not to be imagined that this war is going to progress with, out intimately affecting our every day life Far from that is true But it will in the main affect us fortunately or affect us unfavorably according as the workers are them selves organized to protect, to save to husband themselves. It depends upon the workers: if they organize it will be well, if they do not, it will not be well. This war has been ! the means for rich to grow richer and the poor to grow poorer. But before peace is brought about their | will have been a re-adjustment Of things which will prevent that con- dition obtaiping. There will be food control there will be nationaliza' tion of industries. there will have been protection of man-power and conservation of human life.
 This war depends first of all