The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-29
NO ESCAPE.

! nGFe IS no escape rom lHS pre- sence Of the machine. The grinding discipline that seems to affect mere- Iy the machine tender affects Us all. IL has neither beginning nor end ing, iu daylight and in dark, the reaseIess process eTerywhere iln- presses as. h takes of our flesh and blood and bone and sinew. T. does more than command our lives. It builds up our minds under the ceaseless pressure of it's influence and compels us to act in the way we do.
 1t smashes down precedent. It breaks conventions. It usurps au- thority It molds laws, opinions, in- stitutional agreements to it's own nature. It drills the human mind along it's own mechanical lines and it establishes it's own entirely novel scheme of civilization.
 The ubiquitous presence of the machine, said Vedlen, the ablest exponent of the machine process, with it's spiritual concomitant- working ideals and scepticism .ot what is only conventionally valid is the unequivocal mark of the Western culture today as contrasted with the culture of other times and places. It pervades all classes and strata in a varying degree, but on an average at a greater degree than at any time in the past, and most potently in the advanced industrial communities and in the classes inn mediately in contact with the ne chanical occupation As the com prehensive mechanical organ2ation oe the material side of life has gone on, a heightening of this cultural effect throughout the community las also superyened, and with farther accentuation of tlsis modern cor.p exion of culture is fair!N to be looned for, unless some remedy is found. And as the coIcCmitant diIcr5 ntiation and speciat'Aation of occupations goes on, a still mere "p- mitigated discipline falls upon ever widening classes of the population, resulting in an ever weakening sense of conviction. allegiance, or piety towards received institutions
 There has been marked tendency throughout the past decade obvious enough to any close observer, to depart from institutional lega- cies" in the form Or conventional doctrines and political theories of natural rights. Opposition to this came from the higher-ups more than any others because of the fact that as owners and proprietors of the machinery, the discipline of the machine process had been entirely different with them to what it had been with the vast majority who merely machine builders, tenders, and helpers.
 To employers the doctrine of na- tural rights, the right of property, freedom in pecuniary sense, or as we say independence" and so forth, still possesses for them the same cultural attraetiveness that they presented to those who formu- lated the doctrine that these were human rights given by God and so obvious and manifest and self evid- ent as to be beyond the pale ot questioning
 The mere incidental fact that even then industrial conditions while liberating property owners were also creating huge masses of "dependents" upon them, did not seem in any way contradiction of their opinions, nor in any way innosistent with the doctrines they espoused. It is the peculiar fact about heridit- ary beliefs that no amount of obviously contradictory experi- ences will challenge those opinions in the minds, of the staunchest up- holders.
 In fact as time went on the ma chine has been molding two entirely different social types: owners and employees. And also two entirely different types of social minds were evolved as we see in the employers and the employees. point of view.