The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-02-13

eration General Du Travail to meet them and to discuss the same pro- blem. And this that official did approvingly.
 Furthermore the well know editor of former radical journals, Gustave Herye, the leader at one time of ra- dical extremists has declared that there will hereafter be an entente between capital and labor.
 All of which doubtless is very significant. But man proposes and economic compulsion disposes and if any of us think that the war has frightened the essentially competitive and cruelty competitive nature oi the system they are greatly at fault Conditions that existed before the war whether social or psycholo- gical existed by reason of things over which relatively few if any had any control whatever.
 There was no personal factor therein. It is fashionable to blame social eruptions on agitators, just as the simple minded Of old blamed volcano upon the Gods whose fur naces were underneath. But the conditions in society primarily and lastly inspired the discontent which drove to eruptive revolt in France, | in England or anywhere else. So degree of quietude that may super vene will depend entirely upon eco- homie conditions. If, for one in- stant it is supposed that the work CTS will go back to their rat holes and dungheaps and there again will labor and toll and hopelessly drudge for master class, with 1 these same elements of social revo- lution sowing the seed of economic discontent, the same old conditions will revive and revive intensified.
 We give credit to American bus ] l Usually they attain their commercial position by sheer ability as we'll and as often as sheer callousness. Quite recently before a gathering of his colleagues, the President of the Ca lifornia Gamers Association return- ing from trip to Europe said that the consumptive capacity of that continent would be vastly increased for the people as a result of the war were in no mood to return to the conditions of privation and depriva- tion existed in pre-bellum days.
 That opinion was based from ex- periences derived from close obser- vation of conditions and doubtless is authoritative. In any event we can be sure of this that if there is any effort made to revert to the fierce economic oppression that ex- isted before the war, there will also follow from such an exciting cause conditions of revolt and class anta- gonism which will be far more fn- tensified than ever before and which will have consequences which none can forsee.
 The hope that quietude will pre- vail and that after peace the work CTS will return to their previous condition an unmurmmuring class of subdued men and women is only to be accepted as possible if we were to deny the obvious fact that economic discontent is the definite, positive and very certain effect of economic conditions.
 And that is nevertheless one of the most frequently disregardeo facts of our time. It Is not recog- nized that the conditions in the labor movement which employers complain of are born right within the conditions that employers them selves provide on the job.
 Very much more depends upon the employers. as to what conditions will exist after the war, than the employers themselves are free to ad- init. They are the first to blame the results of those conditions which they have provided for the workers upon some personal factors as the agitators or union officials when the real agitating cause exists right upon the job.
 It is hopeless to expect that by stifing results and burying effects tho.a oon ha narcnaoact1,, da.kro,,od