PW AFFAIRS
On Sunday Nov. 30. at 7.30 P. M.. a
meeting of the members of local Olness
who reside in the vicinity of Fairbanks
was held at Comrade Emil Pozza’s cabin
on Garden Island. A branch of local
Olness was organized to be located on
Garden Island. A. Knowles resigned as
Sec-Treas. and Emil Pozza was elected
to fill the vacancy. A committee was
appointed to audit the books of the re
tiring secretary. T h e Committee con
sisted of: Joe Sala, J. T. Morgan, W. E.
Waugh. The comrades in good standing
who attended are : Joe Sala, Pete Conta,
A. Knowles, Anton Borroje, J. T. Mor
gan and Emile Pozza. One new member,
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W. E. Waugh, was admitted.
A meeting will be held in Comrade
Pozza’s cabin on Garden Island on Sun
day December 7tli, at 5 p. m.
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We are in receipt of Referendum B,
1913, which is : An Amendment to the
National Constitution Proposeil by the
State Committee of Oklahoma, and sec
onded by the State Committees of Mon
tana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi
and Connecticut, under Article 15 of the
Constitution.
Proposed new section to be added to
ARTICLE XII.
Nominees for president and vice-pres
ident shall be elected |by referendum of
the party membership. The call for
nominations shall be made on the first
day of November of the year preceding
the national election. Forty days shall
be allowed for nominations, ufteen for
acceptances and declinations, and sixty
for the referendum. Each nominee shall
receive ten or mop nominations from
ten or more Locals before his name shall
be placed on the ballot. A majority vote
shall be necessary to elect. In case no
candidate receives a majority on the first
ballot, then the two names receiving the
highest number of votes shall immed
iately be submitted to a second referen
dum, sixty days’ time to be given for
same.
Referendum closes on Jan. 3, 1914
The Preamble Address
And
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The Power And Weakness
Of Trades Unions
will be sent to anyone on receipt of
twenty five cents.
Among the many items in the large
estate of Patrick Henry were his slaves !
of which he willed twenty to his wife.
Pat owned many slaves and never let
go of u single one while saying ‘‘Give
me liberty or give me death.” He must
have gotten liberty even though he did
not fight for it himself.—A case of ‘‘let
George do it.”
Andrew Jackson, the boasted friend of
the common people, willed all his slaves
to his adopted son.
And now comes George Washington,
the hatchet man, who willed all his
slaves to his wife. ‘‘Except I give im
mediate freedom to William Lee, a mul
atto, who is cripple and unable to walk.”
What kind of liberty does a slave own
ing class ever fight for ? Liberty for
tlieir slaves ? or liberty for themselves to
get more slaves.
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initted to Congress by the president of
the United States, and if disapproved by
Congress shall be null and of no effect.”
Now, the question arises are those en
actments made at Juneau laws at all?
Or is there some object in their not being
enforced? However, it appears as they
stand that the Territory says we cannot
enforce them and the U. S, Government
says we won’t. That is our first experi
ment in home rule. If I remember right
there were some fifty odd amendments
made to the Criminal, and thirty to the
Civil Code of Alaska. And although they
are bound up in a beautiful volume cost
ing ” ’steen” dollars, they are all a dead
letter now for the want; -of the chicka
mum.
\V. T. Burns informed us, on his re
turn from Juneau, that the first legis
lature of Alaska was “composed of a
very earnest conscientious body of men
that were deeply interested in the future
welfare of Alaska. And if they had made
any mistakes while at Juneau they were
surely mistakes of the head and not of
heart.” It begins to look now as though
whatever might have been the condition
of their hearts, their heads were certain
ly out of whack, and their time was
poorly spent.
It seems strange that there are no funds
to enforce some of the Territorial laws
while others can be enforced very easily.
The poll tax collector is very busy at
present, and acting, we are told, under
one of the acts passed by the Legislature
of Alaska. That obnoxious poll tax we
still have in a somewhat modified form
though a great many of the voting dupes
thought it would be expunged from the
Alaska Statutes. But it appears like
Bauquo’s ghost, it will not down. It is
one of the Territorial laws that can easily
be enforced. It furnishes its own revenue
and adds an additional income to the
office of U. S. Commissioner.
Although Section 11 of the enabling
act expressly provides : * 'That no person
holding a commission o r appointment
under the United States shall be a mem
ber of the Legislature or hold anv office
t
under the government of said Territory
But if you will read any of the poll tax
receipts issued o n Vault Creek for the
year 1913, you will find the name of S.
R. Weiss, Commissioner, collector. But
little things, like that do not amount to
much.
About a year ago we were told through
the columns of the newspapers that the
N. C. Co. owed the U. S. government
about $20,000 in back taxes. That suit
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had been entered in the courts for the
collection o f same. That the company
were protesting the payment, but we
have not been informed as to whether
they have paid the amount or not yet.
It is much easier to collect a poll tax
in any court from a workingman than it
is for a workingman to collect his wages
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in that same court. If the worker does
! not find the four dollars to pay the tax
he will easily find the jail.
DAN McCABE
VAULT, ALASKA.
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This issue of The Alaska Socialist is
several days late on account of an accid
happeniug to our political editor. He
had just got on the track of a political
deal that was said to have taken place
a few nights ago and was in a hurry ao
write his copy when the accident happ
ened. The deal refered is said to be a
fusion of all the old parties against the
Socialists.
If you are a worker you need
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THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS
OF THE WORLD
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from which they get the name of the
“Bummery," to forage wherever they
i could get a chance, but principally in
labor unions and Socialist locals. One of
their theories was that the best way to
abolish capitalism was to go to the very
roots of capitalism and the source of ex
ploitation,— labor. They reasoned: “If
we don’t work the capitalist class cannot
exploit us,’’ and while practicing this
program as much as they could they also
worked many others, not the least of,
which was the one whereby they worked
those that did work and were exploited
by the capitalist class for all there was in
it.
When the capitalist saw this new
aggregation he smiled, of all the curios
that had popped up here was the best of
all ; another Coxey Army, only where
the followers of Coxey were looking for
work, the Bummery had a program that
prohibited them from working, except
E. Z. Marks. The capitalist even contrib
utee when they passed the hat.
HALLELUJAH ON THE BUM.
(Tune: “Revive us Again.’’)
O, why don’t you work
Like other men do ?
How in hell can I work
When there’s no work to do?
Chorus.
Hallelujah, I’m a bum,
Hallelujah, bum again,
Ha^elujah, give us a handout—
To revive us again.
O, why don't you save
All the money you earn ?
If I did not eat
I’d have money to burn.
O, I like my boss—.
He’* a good friend of mine ;
That’s why I am starving
Out in the bread-line
I can’t buy a job,
For I ain’t got the dough,
So I ride in a box-car,
For I’m a hobo.
Whenever I get
All the money-1 earn,
The boss will be broke,
And to work he must turn.
However much the Bummery may
defy the law and however much thev
may spit on the ballot box and advocate
direct action, there is one thing about
them that we must admire and that is
their shiftiness. They are very bold and
bad men unt^l capitalist law lays its iron
hand upon their shoulders when they in
stantly set up the- howl for law and order
and invoke the protection of the law.
(To be continued)
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Dead or Live
To SHAVE
The [ !ead
•of the man who went
into the Fraction Barber
Shop on Frtaday, 8th
Nov., when I was at
Lnnch. A big reward
I
will be paid and no
questions asked for the
Return of the razors.
Signed
FRACTION
BARAER SHOP
TO THE ALASKA SOCIALIST :
On or about the 1st day of March, 1913,
j Road Overseer, John C. Woods had a
j pipe dream that he reported to his sup
| erior, John F. Dillon U. S. Commissioner
j at Fairbanks, the same being published
' in the Fairbanks Times of March 1st,
! 1913. The said John C, Woods handed in
his dream to said John F. Dillon as a
preliminary report of his stewardship as
Road Overseer for the year 1912. Said
John C. Woods dreamed that during tne
summer of 1912, he had expended in
actual construction and repair of
roads between Ridgetop and Vault;
$229 of public money, and $271 of
public money between Vault
and Treasure Creek, n ojn e o f which
the residents of the creek know
anything about.. He is certainly a very
smooth workman that leaves no trace of
■his work. The people who have lived
here since the year 1906 are not aware of
any work being done done between
Ridgetop and Vault, or between Vault
and Treasure during the summer of 1912
other than such as was done by the res
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ESTER CITY
Carries gents furnishings, socks,
drawers, top-shirts etc,
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WORKINGMEN!
Our Prices Are Lower For Your
Clothing, Boots and Shoes
THAN ANY OTHER STORE IN TOWN. GIVE US A CALL AND
WE WILL TREAT YOU RIGHT.
MAMMOTH CLOTHING STORE
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS!
EVERYTHING IN MEN’S WEAR
THORNTON a CO.
FRXSS’ COFFEE HOUSE
Thoroughly renovated aud rebuilt
FIRST CLASS BATHS. FURNISHED ROOMS. LUNCHES,
READING ROOM AND WRITING MATERIALS
Electric light and all accomodations. The worker’s home
Pioneer Hotel
Oldest And Largest Hotel
In Fairbanks.
Warm Stables And Dog Houses.
__DAVE PETREE, PROP.
idents themselves in working out their
road tax. yet according to Mr. Woods’
dreamy there had been expended over
$500 of money in actual construction and
repair work.
It looks to the people in that vicinity
as though Mr. Woods had done niore
bookkeeping than roadwork.
The Grand Jury now m session at
Fairbanks would do well to make some
inquiry into that dream, and have Mr.
Woods explain just when and where the
money that he speaks about in his report
was expended, and who performed the
work. $500 will make considerable im
provements on roads. They should be
plainly visible to the eye, but in this
case they are invisible.
Therefor it is my opinion that if John
is interrogated by the Grand Jnry he
will make considerable correction to that
report or dream.
DAN McCABE,
^AULT, ALASKA.
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