The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-06-11

In warfare as well ss production gas and electricity
made their power felt The TANK submarine caterpillar
gums and tractors some Of the later DEVELOPMENTS of
modern warfare.
With the development of electricity came the art
of elecrOchemical anasys and syshess known as the
electrolytic processes of industry.
Nickle plating is done by the electrolytic process
as is also the extraction of gases from the atmosphere
the welding of wire and other metals and in fact all
processes Of industry based upon the separation of
electro-poSitive and eectro-negative elements
The rapid development of the automobile industry
together with the telephone the rural free delivery and
the parcels post brought city and country into closer
relationship and drew tighter the lines of the class
struggle in agricultural communities The advent of the
fTver" marked the passing of the paternalistc re-
latOns of agriculture and removed the 'hiredman
from the fireside to the bunkhouse
Cold storage, imitation and adulterated foods now
flood the market with resultant general deteror
alton 1t is medical fact that 90qt of the American
people are today in way afflicted The great pre-
valance OF disease gave rise to the breakfast food and
patent medicine industries.
Concentration of industry led to greater concentra
hon of wealth. and also the concentration of people
into great industrial ceers This raised the land values
and furnished the economic motive for the erection of
the 'skysoraper' and the modern apartment house
The concentration of people in the cities the forcble
separation OF the worker from the SOIL due to the oper
alton OF the wages SYSTEM and private property in land
mus separating vast masses of people from the source
OF food supply, greatly intensified class antagonsms
which In turn developed the public and private police
and penal institution to proportions hitherto unheard Of
Modern concentrated industry seeks to dispose of
its surplus values, which the direct products of the
wages SYSTEM among the less developed people of the
world In the form Of loans and credits Thus armies
and navles develop international police force for
Inc purpose OF collecting the interest and guaranteeing
nTOn nf fhacnl t., IL
resources OF the nations having reached the stage OF
modern industry used as collection agencies for the
modern industrial capitalists
The industrial proletariat developed along with
modern concentrated industry Centralized industry fur
1lshed the economic base for the class or industrial
union The passing of the craft form of industry marked
the passing OF the utility of the craft union The deye
opment OF the class industrial union is due to a con-
sclos recognition the part of the industrial proetar
ian Of his class position in modern society.
Rhe class antagonism growing out of the develop
ment ot modern industry transferred the class war from
tne DOMAIN OF theorlzers and pariamentarians to an
ever increasing begerency the part of both classes
involved The weapons Of this warfare are at first in
telecual on the part Of the dominant class great news
paper syndlcates, endowed magazines schools colleges
universities, libraries, churches and Sunday-school,
theatres moving pictures and lecture platforms are used
to control the mental processes of the workers by
propaganda seeking to Justify the continued existence of
the dominant class
Overuing economic necessity forces recognition
OF the uty Of purely intellectual propaganda causing
the dominant class to develop their forces of physical
coercion such as state consabulary private detective
agencies, hired thugs state militia and other public and
private coercive forces
Intellectual propaganda the part of the dominant
class was met by propaganda kind on the part of the
working class. When the dominant class entered the
field OF coercve force they forced the development of
industrial unionsm with its propaganda of industrial
solidarity.
The arts institutions of the present era are so in
trioatey interviewer with the industrial process that
1T would require space far beyond the proportions of
this volume to enumerate and differentiate them
Wireless telegraphy and telephony and the exper-
iments now being carried on in the transmission Of
wireless power together with the quest for the secret Of
inter atomic energy, gives glimpse of coming
new order OF society based upon the transmission Of
wireless power the unlocking of interatomc energy
The age Of modern Industry began in 1868 and still
continues.
SUMMARY
The epoch Of civilization began with the invention
OF the phonetic alphabet and the adoption of the Solo