THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO S MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Marat'*r
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A FIGHT TO THE FINISH
The calling of the maritime strike last night at
midnight, on the Pacific Coast, leads one to believe that
the fight now begun, will be to the finish. It has been
brewing for over two years. The signed agreements
of the spring of 1934, between ship owners and employ
ces, while at first thought to be sufficient to end that
strike, did not bring the settlement of the issues in the
dispute to any definite conclusion. It merely postpon
ed a final reckoning. Whether this strike will result
in a fight to the finish, is really unknown, but all indi
cations point to that belief.
Possibly one of the greatest arguments involved
in the present dispute, is the question of the hiring hall.
Shipowners submitted in 1934 to the operation of thisj
type of hiring. They have smarted under that signed
necessity for the past two years, and in the present dis- j
cussions which have taken place since early in Septem-1
ber, they have been adamant in their contention to ab
olish this feature. However, waterfront employees
have been just as stubborn in working for the inclu
sion of that principle in any agreement to be signed.
The effect of the present strike will be even more
severe than the one in 1934. The ramification of inter
ests at this time, and development of ties during the
past two years, has made it one of national interest.
Coming, as it does, just before the national gen
eral election, there can be little doubt that it will prove
a serious issue with voters on the West Coast.
As regards trade conditions and commerce, its eff
ect on Alaska will not be such a detriment to the coun
try at large as if it were called in the spring of the
year, when Alaskans are depending on each day to
aid in the mining of gold and other minerals. But, it
will prove extremely serious to points in southeastern,
southwestern and central Alaska where the ordering
of food, clothing, supplies and equipment of all kinds,
is ordered and delivered by the week. Already it has
been stated that Alaska has seen its final Alaska Steam
ship Company, boat at Seward, until settlement in some
way is effected.
Another angle, one about which there has been
much conjecture, but little opinion, is “what is the gov
ernment going to do about it?” With the establish
ment of the Federal Maritime Commission, a tentative
federal policy became known, that hindrance with the
transportation of U. S. Mail, and the resultant failure
in complying with ship mail subsidies, would not be
countenanced. What the government will do about
it is seriously a big question. Rioting and other forms
of force were employed in the last strike, and the near
approach to radical behavior frightened the people on
ce before. Let’s hope that the situation wdll not reach
that stage.
One alternative faces Alaska, if marine transpora
tion is taken from it—that is the Airplane. If the need
of adequate transportation for passengers and mail be
comes serious enough, if food supplies become too low,
then will see the airplane employed for airplane trans
portation to the state from Alaska, and return.
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MUSSOLINI REACHES TOWARD AMERICAS
Word fr m Rome is that Mussolini is preparing
to spend 60,030.000 lire to convert 6,500,000 people to
Fascism. They are people of Italian antecedents who
live in North and South America.
He plans, according to the Rome dispatch, to buy|
Italo-American newspapers, send them editors from
Rome, dictate their policies as he does those of Italian
papers, and send Roman officers to head Italian societies
in every large Italian community in America.
Thus he hopes to develop unanimous Fascist senti
ment among Americans of Italian descent, and to teach
them to “put the fatherland first.”
The spectacle of a foreign dictator making such a
bare-faced attempt to win the allegiance of millions of
Americans, many of whom no doubt are being support
ed on relief by the American taxpayer is disheartening.
Mussolini thus dares to take advantage of that Am
erican freedom of the press and of expression which he
does not grant his own people at home.
Americans will not attempt to deny him that free
dom, for we believe in it so strongly we do not fear ev
en its abuse.
But every person who reads such Roman controll
ed propaganda should remember with every line he
heads that if conditions were reversed and Americans
were running a number of papers in Italy booming
democracy, they would get short shift from the black
shirted men, who would smash their presses and impris
on their editors.
Nothing like that will happen here, because we be
lieve American citizens have the right to say and think
what they like. The rights of imported and trained ag
itators who are not citizens, who have no intention of
becoming citizens, or even of remaining and casting
their lot with this country, are less well defined.
A country such as the United States, built of im
migrants who naturally retain an affectionate interest
in “the old country”, has always had this problem of
foreign influence on domestic problems. The wave
of French sympathy which swept the United States in
1793, and of British-French sympathy in 1917 are ex
amples of times when foreign ties of sympathies of
Americans profoundly affected our policies.
That is dying slowly. There is every reason, bas
ed on the known record of millions of loyal, patriotic,
truly Americanized Italo-Americans, to believe that
Mussolini’s 60,000,000 lire will fall on fertile soil. Am
ericans of Italian descent know too well what America
and democracy have done for them.
To have sympathy and love for the fatherland and
its people is admirable and splendid. But to work act
ively for transplanting its momentary political ideas
to America, or to divide loyalty, with “fatherland first”
is unthinkable.—Exchange.
The people of Greece are hoping that their na
tion’s new strong man, Mr. Metaxas, does not live up
to the middle syllable of his name.
Two days from the electric chair, a Sing Sing in
mate asked that the prison radio be turned on, since he
can’t have music wrherever he goes.
A Texas machine tells a man the mistakes he mak
es in driving. The subject must find it hard to refrain
from saying “yes dear.”
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With a the crop of stage amateurs all ready for the
coming season, it is easy to understand why the Haw
aiian pineapple trade is booming.
To make sure of a clean campaign G. O. P. mana
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Bulletin.
The person who is content to have the government
feed and clothe him is on a par with a satisfied slave.
COUNTING SHEEP
TO BE REAL JOB
TUCSON, Arizona, October 29
—Counting sheep is usually con
sidered a sleep producer, but for
est rangers expect they v. ill have
to be very wide awake indeed if
they succeed in the task assigned
them in the Catalina mountains,
near here.
They are attempting a count of
wild, big horn sheep which stay
in the most inaccessible heights.
William Chester is in charge, as
sisted by James and Francis
Knagger, two of the best moun
tain climbers the service could
obtain. They expect to complete
the count in six weeks.
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