ABSTRACT
The Industrial Workers of the World, founded in 1905, were still active both in labor agitation and more especially in the nightmares of the business community. It is rumored that a certain number of American statesmen are acquainted with the fact that the war was certain to produce severe unemployment this winter. One might think that knowledge would have cast a slight shadow over the congratulation which the Democratic Congress bestowed upon itself, that it might have received at least a little comment from the candidates, and some concerted thought from the states. Public officials will feel themselves abused for not being able to do what they do not know how to do; there will be a scurry to provide beds and food; a few anemic employment bureaus will lift their timid heads. And all the while the damning fact will remain that the problem could have been foreseen, that the first steps in its treatment are known.
