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»*r Nome Mine Workers* Union, No. 240, Western Federation of Miners. ,
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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
•early as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government."—
an'radam Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134.
All changes In standing advertisements must reaph this office at six
•’clock each evening to insure insertion In the following Issue.
Advertising rates made known on application.
Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Rome,. Alasaa, under the Act of March S, 1371.
Nome, Alaska, June 28, 1910.
THE EIGHT HOUR LAW.
The work of constructing the
Snake river bridge is now under
the eight hour law. That is at it
should be, and the anxiety of a few
jobbites to corral extra time should
at no time have been allowed to in
duce those in control to see it in
any other light. The eight hour day
is long enough and then some and,
any way, if it is to be evaded, what's
the use of a law?
The Industrial Worker takes the
position that officials in Nome dur
ing the past winter have been
guilty of the unpardonable sin even
from their own official point of view
in allowing the law providing eight
hours underground constituting a
day’s work become a mattar of jok
ing, and to ba violated under a far
cical partnership that everyone, even
the partners, ridiculed.
For in what other way may laws
be brought into whole hearted con
tempt than in the violation thereof
with deliberate impunity and what
will give the workers so light a con
ception of the legislation passed
than that because the laws are sup
posed to protect them they are not
enforced at all?
Moreover, we have this to say
without fear of contradiction, that
if labor laws are to be violated with
impunity, one cannot expect the
workers to regard any others as
sacrc-sanct merely because they
were not passed in their interest.
Fundamentally we give this viola
tion of the eight hour law publicity,
not because the workers in this
camp have any outraged sense on
that account, but because it is a
lrbor law which can be evaded or
violated .without r.ny one to say
those who violate or evade it nay.
That's what we are interested in
getting at. When the workers want
reforms and more than reforms,
they will not got them through le
gislation or through the tender mer
cies of indifferent officials concern
ing their enforcement.
When they want reforms they
can, if they get together, obtain
them—they can force them through.
They can declare for an eight hour
»lay in this camp, and if they work
and act together an eight hour day
will go regardloss of any statute or
regardless of any official’s indiffer
ence.
The neglect to enforce the eight
hour law is not the fault of the
Miner’s Union. But it can be re
medied by the workers getting into
the labor organization and unitedly
acting to that end.
t And that's the only way It will bo
accomplished. It will not be ac
complished by a Moses or a political
•Levite long on moral codes and
short on practicability. If the work
ers underground make up their
iniods that eight hours shall con
stitute a day’s work under ground
is surely will, regardloss of part
nership agreements or any other ri
-diculous subterfuges.
JIHT FOR ART’S SAKE.
Someone said we live always in
shams. Mo3t of us pretend to h
whole lot more knowedgo than we
poesess, and newspaper writers are
not the only ones who pretend to
“know It all”. Indeed most people
affect a culture that is not theirs.
Mrs. Gotderoeks will stand in
ecstasies before a specimen of New
Art in the academy, lost in con
templation of beauties she never
secs and which if she did see she
would not understand. The same
dame will delight in the poetry of
the rare ones of earth without being
able to appreciate the possible
symbolism of their rhymes. But
we are all that way.
Most of us hate to admit It, but
Charlie Chaplain with his clownish
ness and his vulgarity is delightful.
The movie men are under no illu
sion. The high brows become the
J
flat heads good and proper when
Charlie begins making an ass ot
himself on the screen, and even
Bostonians laugh.
That’s the why of the salary of
this screen clown whose forbears
were doubtless artists in the vulgar
harlequinade of some pantomine iD
years gone by.
It’s not art and artists rush to see
him. It’s not poetry and the long
haired ones laugh at him in shame.
It's not sentiment, and it’s certain
ly not intellectual, but his huge
salary attests his enormous attrac
tion to old end young.
A recent dramatic critic approved
the movies because it allowed the
legitimate stage an opportunity to
cater to a higher intellectual audi
once than otherwise. That is all
buncombe. Intellectuals and low
brows alike love the movies. They
might not both explain it the same
way, nor may they both approve the
same play. But take it by ana
large, Art for Art's sake is only a
shallow platitude shaping a doctrine
that has never found realization in
this world. Human beings are much
more imaginative than people cre
dit them with being. They easily
lend themselves to the magic of the
movie’s story and they love to
| laugh or to sentimentalize as the
case may be. And the movie has
: brought beautiful women and grace
| fill and humorous men within the
ken of all. It has brought to even
the most sordid lives visions ot
lovely gowns, artistic furniture and
lives which are wholly above tlielr
squalid existence. They provide for
getfulness for a few short minutes
and the heart feeds upon the rap
ture of imagination for a breathing
space.
That's what is wanted. If life
i itself were one long romance, if
.beauty and love and grace and truth
and sweetness and mutual help ana
j humor and merry laughs and fun
| were the natural order of things we
j would want no movies. As it is, so
| much of human life is miserable so
much is sordid and mean and un
pleasant, that somo take to
the modes as many take to dope or
l ooze, to provide a few minutes for
[getfuness of human misery. Chang*
of labor, saul ite old slave driver,
is as good as a rest. Change ot
scene, of life-notions, of environ
ment, even when only imaginary
and only when the air castle of n
movie drama provides the wearied
with at least the balm of rest.
Tllli I LY COP
In Nav: 'tzr'.: Morgan am! Co. sus
pected that informat.cn receivel
from the French Minister of Finance
was stolen from thoir offices and
they suspected that the leakage
passed through Seymour and Sey
mour, lawyers, with offices in the
Equitable Building, 120 Broadway,
New York.
Thereupon the W. J. Burns De
tective agency took a hand. They
got pass keys into the building ana
offices, installed dictaphones and
wire-taps and removed pap-rs, lists
of names and other important mat
ters after rifling desks and papers
for information.
They violated wholesale the pri
vacy of the suspected lawyers, and
the Burns men were assisted by the
police who seemed in this to be at
the disposal of the Morgans.
In the whole proceeding there was
neither warrant nor sworn charges
nor anything else than the most
trifling suspicion.
This matter is of great import
ance, not because it shows the great
power which men like Morgan and
company possess, but of the fact
that it reveals the real function ot
the detective agency and why it is
a menace to society. The Burns
agency ovists not to detect crime
but to make money. That it is la
the crime detection business is only
an incident. It offers its services
♦ o wealthy ones if necessary as in
this instance to commit crime
There is no use pretending that
this is not burglary as open ana
clear as the man who raids a bank,
masked, armed with Jimmy and
laden with soup to blast the safe.
The pas3 key and the dictaphone
do not make the procedure legiti
mate and legal, and the mere fact
that it is supposed in an uncertain
sort of way that in so doing a crime
may be detected, doe3 not alter the
fact that a crime is being commit
ted to do so if possible.
No person is safe from the me
thods of the detective agency. No
matter how one may walk through
life as innocentjy and as circum
spectly as possible it is clear that the
detective agency can Job him. The
men who will not hesitate to commit
a crime to discover whether or not
a crime has been committed, are
not going to allow blank failures to
dim their record. They are going
to make good, even if they have to
job someone. They are in business
not to do justice, to see that the
law is enforced or not broken, but
to see that they make money and
they will make money if they have
to fake a criminal or invent a
crime.
The detective is an abomination.
It is an unfortunate function of the
police power at best even when ne
cessary, but there is not a scintilla
of justification for private firms
usurping that police function for
profit.
If the police are unfit or unequal
to the task, it is the duty of the
people to make them more efficient.
The Sherlock Holmes and the de
tective stories have had a most de
generating effect upon the present
generation in enabling them to re
gard without horror this most de
spicable activity of modern business
enterprise.
The spy and the sneak and the
informer have been detested by all
that is best in human nature at all
times. But the spy and the sneak
and the informer either did it for
their country's sake or for the sake
of their own endangered lives. The
detective agency is simply a money
making device which will provide
guilt as freely as it will detect it,
which will betray innocence wits
the same ease wherewith it wi’l
save it, and which will not hesitate
to trample upon everything that
human beings cherish if so it be
that at the end of the day's worn
there will come in their dirty dol
lars in the shape of a fee. Aad a
corrupt police force, knowing what
the detectives know, fear and serve
theta making matters worse.
OVERSTOCK fill.
To the Public: —
We have just finished stock tak
ing, and find that we are heavily
overstocked so are making enorm
ous reductions in Hardware—as
much as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
side, especially in Hardware and
Metal Goods, we are still selling on
the basis of goods purchased the
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until
we bring our stock down to the re
quirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; we can save you
money. We have proved it oo
others, we can prove it to you.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
RELIABLE TAILOR SHOP.
Front St. 3 doors west of Alaska
Bank.
Wa do the best
CLEANING
PRESSING
ALTERING &
REPAIRING
Ladies and Gentlemens Clothes.
Let os estimate on your Job Work
BUTTER
WE HAVE RECEIVED A SHIP
MENT OF “SWEET BRIAR” BUT
TER. THIS IS OUR OLD RELI
ABLE BRAND WHICH WE AL
WAYS SHIP IN COLD STORAGE
TO INSURE THE ORIGINAL
SWEETNESS.
PACIFIC COLD STORAGE CO.
PHONE WHITE 17.
Milo’s
Cafe
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Next door to Pacific Cold
Storage.
+ ,i, + + + + 4**i* + *|« + *|«4*4
^ U. S. MAIL BOAT J
+ ‘ Silver Wave”*
+ +
4* Making scheduled trips he- <1*
4, 4i
tween St. Michaels and all
4* 4*
4 way points, including Bluff,
4* Solomon, Nome, Teller, York, ^
4*
Tiu City, Deering, Candle and .j,
Kotzebue. 4*
4*
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ATTENTION PIONEERS.
To date we have had
96
Sittings
For the Group Picture of the
PIONEERS OF ALASKA.
Help us make tills number
grow.
LOMEN BROS, jjj
•J« *|« *|« »|«
: niNERS
j RESTAURANT
*** Opposite Industrial Worker.
* FIRST CLASS MEALS.
•I* Served in
■fr FIRST CLASS STYLE.
•J* Under New Management
4. OPEN ALL NIGHT.
Phone Main 1S3.
*S. H. SIMEON
MANUSCRIPT
Cover Paper
Typewriter Paper
Carbon Paper
OUR TYPEWRITER PAPERS COMBINE ALL OF THE
QUALITIES, STRENGTH, DURABILITY AND FINENESS OF
TEXTURE. MOST ESSENTIAL TO GOOD WORK.
Steamer Arctic
For Speed and Comfort take the Strm. ARCTIC for York,
Tin City, Lost River and Teller. For Information call np Al
aska Lighterage & Com. Co. or
U. S. Mercantile Co.
“S. S. UMATILLA”
For Seattle Direct
SAILING FROM
NOME
JULY 8TH
AUG. 3RD
AUG. 20TH.
SEPT. 25TH.
OCT. 25TH.
SAILING FROM
SEATTLE.
JUNE 24TH
JULY 20TH.
AUG. 15TH.
SEPT. 11TH.
OCT. 7TH.
SCHEDULES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.
F. J. O’CONNOR, ALASKA L. & C. CO.
Commercial Agent, AGENTS
Front St. and Steadman Ave. At Dock.
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. VICTORIA
LEAVE SEATTLE:
JUNE 28.
JULY 25.
AUG. 23.
SEPT. 18.
OCT. 15. r
LEAVE NOME.
JULY 11.
AUG. 7.
SEPT. 5.
OCT. 1.
OCT. 29.
VICTORIA LEAVING NOME JULY 11 AND AUG. 7 will
call at Seward, Valdez, Cordova; Steamer will also visit Colum
bia Glacier. At Cordova steamer will remain long enough to al
low excursionists time to make special trip out over the railroad j
to Miles Glacier, from Cordova the Steamer will return direct
by the outside route to Seattle.
R. A. Carroll, Agent, Nome I
£
HIPRESS
Rubber Boots at $10. a pair
Shoe Packs at $5.50
ONE PRICE TO ALL
Cheap John Store
TELEPHONE MAIN 48.
Kent Transfer Co.
Genera1 Transfer & Freighting
Goat & on
Phone Main 139.
MR. MINER
For Hose, Tents,
and Canvas, See
PHIL MURPHY
MIIBPHY HAS THE tODD8
WE CAN DO IT.
For flnt clam work and pron
delivery ph me Main lffl and the
People’* Steam laundry will oU
and get yonr laundry.
W. 3. WILLIAMSON Prep
ARB XOV SEEKING A PATENT?
It so It will pay yon to tareetlgato
rata* ot the Industrial Worker oa
puBUcatlon ot application therefor.
Bring your forfeiture notices to th*
Industrial Worker.