The Industrial Unrest

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Excerpt from The Industrial Unrest: Noting the Rise and Forms of Human Government, The Movement for Expunging the Constitution of the United States, With the Cause and Processes of That MovementThis article was almost in manuscript before the outbreak of the existing war in Europe, and I have not attempted to change it in any particular owing to that catastrophe. The economic problems which will be presented in those countries now the theatre of the war, after hostilities are over-as to what shaping effect these will have on the several govern ments, I have not attempted to go into. Such does not concern us in this inquiry. The narrative of the rapid drawing toward the Socialistic State of certain of these countries which was going on at the commencement of the war, as herein shown, may be taken as a condition whose trend is to be resumed with redoubled fury after the war is over, at which time the conditions which have moved the labor element toward the mass strike, will have become highly intensified. Indeed, it is already manifest that when the war closes the world shall have been driven far along in the Socialistic program. It is always the result of war to fasten upon the nations experiencing it erroneous economic policies from which they sufier for years after, the effects of their operations Visiting more injury than the war itself. Our protective tariff system was a heritage of our civil war, and already we have reports of Socialistic schemes in France to care for the people whom the press dispatches tell us are out of work in Paris alone. There are plans to start government work shops and labor yards and far reaching charitable work with vast soup kitchens run bythe labor unions. While in the United States, by reason of a warped and erroneous shipping policy, finding ourselves without bottoms under a ¿ag safe upon the seas in which to carry the commerce of the country, Congress is arranging to appropriate to buy merchant Vessels and start the nation into the commercial shipping business. Enormous sums are appropriated for war materials whose diversion from the channels of industry increase prices and so lessen the opportunities for labor, and intensify the demand and the apparent necessity for the State moving into industry to provide work for the people: Indeed, it may be said that the call for the State to enter industry is due to the fact that the initiative of the people of the nation has been dislocated by erroneous governmental policies, so that it cannot provide jobs for the people itself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.