The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-31
POST BELLUM FORECASTS.

other scientific man, who basing his
 conclusions upon previous historic
 experiences, believes that there will
 follow in Europe after the great
 war a period of great industrial ac-
 tivity and greatly improved condi-
 tions for the workers in those coun-
 tries.
 He argues that on account of the
 great destruction of wealth, and the
 enormous reduction in accumulated
 stores owing to actual non-produc-
 tion, it will require years of inten-
 Sive effort to satiate the social re-
 quirements. On the other hand he
 points out that millions of workers
 will have been destroyed or made
 permanently reproductive and among the able bodied workers who remain competition will be greatly lessened and hence they will be able to command higher wages and better living conditions.
 The vital destructivenesS of this war wherein ten million normal human beings approximately have been killed, wounded, maimed, blinded or permanently affected by disease, has only been equalled by one other epoch in European history. That occurred when the Black Death swept over Europe coming over the Russian steppes and the Asiatie deserts. The tremendous mortality resulted in the golden age for the workers in every country, and owing to their immense economic import ance they won for themselves bet ter conditions than they have any where enjoyed since that time, rela- lively speaking. That is to say they obtained a higher relative status of living conditions, more of the pro- duct of their labor and better treat ment than ever before or ever since that time.
 The argument is put out that Am erica will be fully able to repair the ravageS of the war in Europe and that there will be no necessity for the intensive effort upon the part of the Europeans, at least not until that time when the working popula- tion will have returned to normality and to average conditions of servile dependence upon employers.
 This shows that the most elemen- tary facts concerning international trade have not been grasped even by those wise ones who are advo- eating the world conquest for Am orican commerce.
 To pay for American products will necessitate the very intensive indus trial and commercial activity which many affect to believe impossible. And when American exporters ship goods to European wealth owners, the wealth which will recoup the A lueI lCdI oHippCio VIII CoLIC II oih European labor and from none other. Just as when foreign ship pers export their goods to American the latter obtain the means to pay for them not through their own labor but through the labor of those who are hired by their companies.
 Every Newport extravaganza which is three day wonder for the rarity of its imported profusion, is provided for by American labor of brain or hand.
 European labor will therefore be subjected to the highest point of willing intensity and very high wages will have to be forthcoming. It is estimated that the British working class has been reduced by a million since the war began and there will be therefore that much less competition within the ranks of the laboring men of that coun- try.
 It may be urged that women will be maintained in the factories and in other lines where men have here tofore been employed. But that is. not only social but also physio- logical impossibfiity. Such a condi- ton would be totally abnormal and in the natural reduction of repro- iuction of the working classes will .arry always it's own corrective.