The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-10-06
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 being given certain plans long since hinted as practicable in war for overcoming all labor difficulties. These plans have been known as industrial conscription.
 It is rropcsed to bring the work CTS under the military regimen, and as such to be directly under the command of it's officers.
 To command is to be obeyed. scarcity of one section of workers in one industry is relieved by the excess in another. The whole force of toi!ers is registered and directed by governmental supervision. Fail ure to work as ordered is equival- cnt to assertion and a military dis cipline with all it entails is the condition that is to be insisted upon.
 In this way industrial pursuits are brought under the immediate supervision Of the government. Labor is rationed and recompensed as government may determine. La. bor is apportioned among employ CTS as war needs or industrial ne cessity may direct. Strikes become d thing of the past: loafing is a crime punishable by court martial and leave of absence is permitted only after due allowance is made for the workers arguments there for.
 The great benefit, that will follow from this condition are so obvious according to it's supporters, thai they will not admit that any argu- mont can be urged against it.
 They point out the disturb ances have that have of late inter fered with productivity: in the cop per. in the lumber, in the iron and steel and in the ship building in. dustrics. And they say tfat indus trial conscription is the only re- mcdy.
 Of course men are easily aston. ished at such a proposal, But it is not so far-fetched as some ina. zine.
 Industrial conscription has exist ed from time immemCrial and if il did not take on the militarist aspect it's open advocates now demand fol it, at least it has beeN d pow arfu factor in industry.
 Every workingman who sells h'' labor power, even though he is per suaded that his labor is free, k subject to conscription. He has tf find work and he must work to live
 For the man who has neither money nor property, there are onl, three ways of making a living, H' must beg. work or steal.
 If he does not choose to beg hi living. then must he work for f o steal for it. If he will not stea or beg, then to avert starvation for him and his he must work.
 Hence industrial conditions unde capitalism impose the iron nece' sit upon every propertiless and penni less man of working for some em poycr He is conscriptcd, so to sal bv a draft law called starvation that is just as impcrious and just a rigorous as any legislative statut might be.
 He has however the privilege c changing employers Of quittin when he feels like it, of making d' mands. of joining in strikes, of ol garizing for better conditions.
 It is not so long ago when n could do none of these things, hr by patient and persevoring strugsl he has fought and won thoso tight small as they may appear to be
 Now industrial conscription merely q proposal to destroy tho, rights which labor has so hard struggled to attalh' anu u io '" cause these rights run counter the wishes of the employing class' that the war is to be the means curtailing ;hem once md Tor all
 Frankly for an employer indu trial conscription cannot be tt much praised. If there is anythin would fill q long felt want it is ju such a system. Then and there II agitating and the economic d'scoI