The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-14

QrudSeS CT worse, ana now they | have greatly improved their lives.
 That they will be willing to re- turn to the degree of domestic feli- city that capitalist civilization had before ordained for them is to say the least remotely to be thought possible, but to any degree hardly probable.
 It has been discovered strangely enough that women can do many things that men have been doing and do them just as well. It has been discovered still more strangely | that women's place is not necessar- fly in the home any more than in the harem.
 So after the war what is to hap | pen? Naturally because they have made the discovery that women | work, even with all these reform folderols we have mentioned thrown in, as cheaply or more cheaply than men and from them is to be extracted much profits, some em- ployers will have to make an effort to keep women in their employ ment
 On the other hand what about i the men? They will come home from the front in no more mood to return to their miserable industrial squalidity that prevailed before the war any more than will the women. They will want their jobs that the women are doing now just as well and possibly more efficiently than the men ever did before the war.
 A respectable view would be that the women now in industry will turn to the returning soldiers and select from among them @ father for their children, keep house and raise large families for the benefit of the nation in time of war and for the up-keep of industry during peace. This view would have the same methods Of indiscriminate in- dustrialism thrust back upon the nation: the same miserable slum mery and the same poverty and semi-starvation.
 That it will happen about that way is about the last conceivable notion any person who considers the situation fairly will arrive at. IL is true that after the war the first thing soldier wants to do is to get back to the routine of civil able. But this is not alone the re- turned soldiers affair It is the woman's affair as well as the mans. She is to have some say whether or not she will be an indiscriminate breeder of pauperism and the slovenly domestic slave of duh driven brute of toll.
 You cannot very well imagine the legislative and the government al system being changed so that the toiling women could be seized by returning workers as the wife less Romans seized the Sabine women.
 It is more than likely that both i man and woman. the former as a soldier worker and the latter as worker in the factories during war. will join hands to eliminate the useless factor in industrial situa- tion.
 The useless factor is the capital ist. The useless entity is the pri- vate owner. The government has taken over industrial activities by the score. That has shown the way All that is now needed is the indus trialization of society, and the de mocratization of government as in- dustrialized.
 There is to be period of tur- moil and reconstruction and it will not be without bloodshed The pri- vileged classes will no more sur I render their hold on privilege than the American slave holding classes were prepared to surrender their slaves. They possess as. keen a belief in the divine right of own CTS to their property as the kings held in their rulership Its artifi- cial nature is absolutely ignored. Its inutility is the last thing thought of l Its necessity to the scheme of