The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-07-11
SOME CONC tRN.

II i- impossible to disguise the taat that org alzed labor .s growing szr-emey suspicious lest the em- uiayeIs in the United States. under the 9rotaxr ct patriotic motives, use 7he war for utterly crushing lahor u0ions
 David Williams an organizer ot the International Machinists voices 1hi5 fear in an article in the New York Call. under the quoted heading of "The Less Valuable Material,
 It is a serious matter, and it is one that labor owes to itself shall be given every publicity that the workers may not become completely enslaved so that the war profits ot the eXploiters may grow even more than they have grown during the past few years.
 We Say right here and now that the workers must look after them selves, and expect no one else to I-k after them, and they have espe- ciaily to depend upon their organi- 1ations now more than ever.
 The idea that any wages can be paid, quite regardless Of the rela- lion of such wages to the cost of liy- ing or the rate of exploitation and inc workers may not strike IS javrr- ed in a good many quarters and Snere is a general outcry against .he working class for disloyalty if there is any effort to improve condi- tIons
 pnrmg the var there is absolutely DO reason why the workers should forego a single, solitary one ot theil rights gained by earnest and pro longed struggling. The organized workers are willing right now to surrender as many things to the nation which the nation needs as any class ill the country. But they are not called upon to surrendel themselves upon the altar of Nam mon in the name of the nation, not withstanding how many powerful spokesmen assert otherwise.
 Let employers of labor fOrcgO their profits, and the workers will assur- edly forego their strikes. But we observe that not any of these great companies that loudly boost their oRn patriotic intentions will do any such thing.
 There is not oI Ie single c.n". rn in ihe Cnited States, We say this ad- zisedIy has sacrificed a solitary half cent of their profits in the name oi patriotism, although they all made much and noisy bones about it when the war began.
 Only the other day Daniels and Lalte assured the coal companies, gouging the public of the last dollar that they would like to see them make large profits, but if they persisted in keeping up the rate ot skinning that they now pursued gov tgnment control would be ineyit- able.
 What is the reason that a Food Control Bill is before Congress, and mhy have metals and other commo- diues been inserted therein? Why simply that the food and other com mercial pirates of the nation, all loud mouthed patriots, have been skinning the public for the past few years until the Public can stand it no longer.
 Yet when the workers make an ef- fort to shove up their wage scale in order that they may get within their range of vision the vanishing prica of food, soaring so loftily. there iS an outcry against their dangerous and degenerate lack of patriotism that they will do these things; that shey are being financed by unseen foreign powers. that the German Influence is visible and that the fed tsTal government must step in and stay tha1r activities.
 Here is the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at it's Locust Point Shops has installed women in it's machine shops as war measure. Why? Why, because by breaking women in at women's wages to do mems work. they can reduce operation eX- penses and increase profits. Here are the united railroads of the coun-