The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-01
UNEASY LABORITES.

British cabinet and one of them, Arthur Henderson, is the right hand man of Lloyd George, organized labor is quite concerned for the fu- ture.
 Urged under preteXts of patriotism or what not, the labor unions sur rendered their rights and privileges which had been only wrung from the employing classes after centuries Of struggle.
 Now they fear that after the war these rights will not be restored Moreover they see excellent reasons for these fears.
 The government owned and the government controlled munition plants, as all are either one or the other, have introduced child and fe- male labor where heretofore men were employed. The men were or ganized. The women were not, and after the war the women who are 5 not organized are likely to remain. The men are likely to be without a job.
 Besides what has been said about the intuition industry is true of al- most every other industry with the exception of the mining industry and the situation is not regarded as reassuring.
 But surely there is no reason for ultimate concern.
 The fact of the matter is that the rights and privileges which orga- nized labor had in Great Britain amounted to very little, and cer- tainly are not such as to believe they will be worth taking away perma- nentIy. however important they may have been in an era when in- dustry was carried on with cut throat competition and without con solidation and government control and protection.
 The fact of the matter is too, that the reason for unionist agita- ton is primarily due to the condi- tions under which labor tolls, and given the same conditions we may expect reasonably enough the same effects.
 One of the matters that are usu- ally overlooked in the world ot la bor by capitalist employers who would exploit labor 10 the uttcrmost is that the very conditions which they most condemn exist by reason of their own anti-social and at least anti-labor activities.
 One would imagine to hear crlt- cisms of radicals that they were such as they are by reason Of some particular economic Satan tempting them to do as they do. Whereas, the truth is, such men are as they are. by reason of the essentially aggressive and essentially progress i've instinct to resist wrong, to op pose oppression and to strive for Xe- tended liberties. The effort to in- fict permanent slave economy upon human society has been the sole inspiration of exploiters Ill every age and for continuous cen turies. But all the while they en- counter resistance to those efforts which resulted in gains for human ity and for human freedom especial ly.
 No person who reads history with any sort of care but will realize that the instinct to resist wrong, to oppose tyranny and to fight for lib- erty has been the very reason for human advancement And while to the powerful in every age those agi- tators who stimulated the resistance of the masses were extremely repus- nant. the powerful overlooked that they themselves were the cause of the existence of such agitation.
 Hence any attempt to keep the workers shorn of the rights which they surrendered during war time will occasion a revolt far more for midable than the evolution of the labor movement in normal manner
 On the other hand we are likely to notice after the war the powerful proceed in an entirely different man ner.
 There was a system of benevolent feudalsm which enjoyed consider