The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-10
THE COMING SLAVERY.


 be socialism and what whole lot of so-called socialists thinks is so- cialism, the coming slavery. and if the great philosopher, for Spen- cer's greatness is not spurious, had lived to see this day in Great Brl- tain. he would have seen the com ing slavery arrive.
 Today individual initiative is not only a thing of the past, but q pa ternal government directs every thing. It even has big say-so in What one may sat as well as the price one may nav for it. Great industries are established of course, but it is the government that controls them. It says to the textile factory just how much yarn may be spun, how much wool may be woven into garments, how much linen may be produced It directs the ship yard how many and what kind of ships it may build It decides upon the number of boil CTS. autos, mechanical contrivances of every kind the shops may turn out. It says what may be and how much imported. It takes charge ot the coal production and dlstrlbu- ton. It attacks waste and con serves power. In all making for an efficiency ill industrialism that may win wars, providing that efficl- encv is intelligently directed enough to offset the similar efficiency i'll telligently directed by the enemy.
 Just for the time being the quos- tion of profit and loss has been ell minated. Just for the time being the question is to conserve human labor and to increase the productiV- ity of the industries from agricul- ture to transportation. ,.
 The old happy go lucky methods of capitalism when the individual set out to establish his fortune, quite regardless of the social wei fare. have had to be abandoned be- cause they were happy go lucky methods and because they did not take stock of the social result ot the individual activities.
 Great Britain was up against H. Capitalism ran riot there in glorious fashion paying, proftting and carry ing along just as it suited itself. Poor shops, unsantary conditions of labor, unhealthy housing and reckless irresponsibility outside the mere sphere of production, was the marked characteristic of British lh- dustry. In consequence physical, mental and moral deterioration be- came marked and when men were wanted, men were not forthcoming There was no precaution taken that inc pursuit of profits would not seriously affect the health or the masses and then the natural result happened. the health of the masses became below par, First came the Boer war and then came the Great War and in both army surgeons were astounded at the necessity or lowering the standards required to pass the physical examination.
 Today in the stress of war, this is felt more than anything else. To- day the appalling spector of the use less unemployable the foul crea- ture of British responsibility in industry, is menacing the land at every turn and even the wisest oi men are dismayed.
 Compulsion has not remedieo matters. The officials have discoE- cred that you cannot get high voltage from low voltage being, and they have given up the etfort -~Qitb anathemata that such condi- Iions heretofore prevailed. They set themselves to work to make em- ployable those who have been uni emnlovable. and they find that with shorter hours. better nutrition wholesome and sanitary conditions of labor. in time, these wrecks, these miserable effects of past social indifference, can be made just as ef- flcient as other men. But it takes time. There is the rub, it takes time when every moment is precious beyond the preciousness of fine gold or jewels.
 Tn this condition the individual