The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-07-27

| power. which III itself is useless, but
 to the material wealth as well. I am strongly of the opinion then that
 the greatest and most patriotic ser l vice We can render to our country, i our motherland and our allies in l the struggle to preserve our liber- 1 ties and our democrati ies is. OH the
 day conscription of man power is 1 put into effect. we supplement the 1 pledge of the premier, by forcing l the government conscript wealth l throughout the Dominion refusing
 to work for the gain If the private prohteer and offe ting hls service to
 the nation and the nation alone. In
 other words not a wheel should turn
 except for the nation in it's hour of need. Not a mine railway, mill
 nor factory necessary to be operated
 for the successful prosecution of the war, would be operated fOr the pro- | fit of the owners of such, but solely,
 in conjunction with man power. for
 military purposes. to protect the na-
 tion".
 i Commenting upon this, tn" British ,Columbia Federation says To
 whatever extent the substance Of
 the nation is sapped by the profit
 sucking proclivities of useless sc;ons
 of the House of Fat, to that extent | is the nations energy subverted
 from the purpose in hand, that of
 winning the war.
 The position taken is truly un- answerable If the draft oG man
 power is good, because man power
 is needed for the War, therefore also
 is wealth power draft essential and
 good because no less needed
 to carry on the war sue
 ccssfully. In this way victory
 loans become useless and unneeded
 things; the nation in this fashion
 co-operates to the end of victory it.
 self and the people realize a perfect
 equality of sacrifice which becomes
 worth while.
 The Canadians realize keenly how
 truly President Wilson spoke when
 he declared that this was a war to
 make the world safe for democracy.
 Being such democracy can take no
 chances. It must go the limit. It
 cannot hug back a hoard or add to
 its pile by a stealthy process of war profit extraction in Canada. Labor
 says it's willing, but it is not willing
 to sacrifice itself for the private pro htecr. He must go His machinery
 his railway, his land, his mine, his mill his earth must be sacrificed as
 is the workers life in Canada to
 be sacrificed to make the world safe
 for democracy. The Canadian does
 not intend to fight to make the
 world better place for the profit eX-
 tractors from labor. Labor in Can
 ada intends that it is democracy
 shall benefit from the war imme- diately as well in the remoter epochs , following its conclusion.
 They have cast their eyes. in Can , ada, ever the long list of dividend , producing war contractors, the! have noted the way profits have beer mounting high and ever higher } they have observed, in Canada. tha : wages have not even attempted tt keep in sight of the higher costs O r living, and they have remarked tha while there are numbers sunk il the depths of irredeemable poverty there are other Canadians, prolific in tongue patriotism, who are re I yelling in millions they have neve 5 dreamed it possible they could pos ? sess. They note, in Caanda, that fo } some of these interests the war ha { been a blessing; it has stimulated trade beyond all expectations. The, note that the government spent it ? last cent in the treasury and had t' { pay for the goods which their labo 7 had produced and of which labo . got hardly the smell of cent. Ant . they propose, that now when t' . win the war the Premier says tha = conscription is needed, the worker
 in Canada say that they agree, con scription of everything: materia l wealth as we'll as human life. The.
 say the profiteers have wrung abou 7 all the profit they are going tt l wiring out of the body polite anC