The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-02-15

It is manifest that labor taken from productive operations and paid in gold will have to pay more for the products of the farm and field and productive factory than other wise. So apart altogether from monkeying with the supply as so many spectators and trusts un- questionably, do, all food commodi- ties on account of industrial condi- tions must show an increased price.
 There is no such thing as curing this condition. The chief reason there is no cure for this condition is that it is inherent in the capital ist system. It may be improved by wages being raised to meet higher costs of living as does to some eX. tent actually take place. But the system itself responds with a general increase in prices which in turn is proportional to the increased gen eral wage increase leaving the con- dition the same, or the standard ot living for the workers lowered.
 The values that exchange come out of labor. They come out oi labor in the mine in the field, in the factory. The measure of that value is the labor time cost of production. To secure millions for the speculat- or and the trusts however, prices are increased beyond the actual va lues and to produce actual values to pay for these millions, labor has to be intensively exploited. So labor saving machinery does no good. La bor saving machinery leaves the workers pay the same, and ex- pands the employers profits. Those profits are so huge because of an intensively and efficient labor eXplo- itation Prices are maintained that profits may be huger.
 It is because of the wonderful productivity of labor and especially labor applied to machinery, immense profits are possible and immense prices can be charged. It is ali actually unpaid labor in one field or another. Put if the common wealth took charge of the various activities eliminating the necessity for profit, interest and rent the sO- cial requirements would be satisfied with less labor and without waste.
 Suppose the people had the cot ton, the farming, the textile and all other necessary industries in their hands tomorrow. The elimination of the profits of spectators. ot landlords, of privately owned rail roads, of the trusts, the great dis tributors and transportation firms would be assured. With the elimi- nation of these things, one human activity would exchange with an other at it's actual value. The time spent at one industry needed by so- ciety would be promply repaid by the product of the labor time ac- tually taking part in another. There would be no idlers to be maintained Parasitism would not add to the cost of living. Labor of brain and brawn would be equitably rewarded The social leisure now impossible in order to pay the toll of parasitic , idleness would be immensely in creased, and with that leisure, in tellectual and moral progress would be certainty. Giant strides would be a positive prediction in all line: and sympathy and humanity would be the watchword of society. There would be still personal grievances and griefs and family troubles ant I heartaches and trifles of that kind But there would be no poverty an( destitution and inhumanity. Ther' would be no wars. There would b. no insecurity for the future. Olt age would not mean starvation fo
 the toilers. Sickness would b' properly and scientifically minister ed to. The world would become ci vilized. But against this stands tn
 collosus of the Money Power ant Private Property which human be
 ings have erected themselves to hor
 rify and terrify and to prevent req
 Progress.