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>ome Mine Worker*’ Union. No. *40. ttwicri. *■ ^deration' «»» Miner*.
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• early as possible. Is a worthy object of any rood government.”—
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entered as second class matter March 1, 1011, a. the post office at
Nome, Alasaa, under the Act of March 3, 1879
Nome. Alaska, April 12, IP id.
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Considerable comment "'as made
by many miner., who attended the
booster's Meeting in the Eagle Hall
that Labor received so little attcn
tion from the various speakers al
though as these critics correctly
point out, it is upon labor that the ■
prosperity of this camp primarily
and ultimately depends.
True, O King. But blame not the
orators of Sunday’s meeting. With
them and the working class there Is
very little in common. Their con
cern is for themselves and their
business and ther,e is no reason whv
they should weep for Labor when n
Labor keeps on in tho state of bum
inery it is now in, they will have
plenty of reason to weep for them
selves and for their children.
In fact although the eloquent
speakers mentioned so little about
the vycrkers the fact that there are
so few wage workers this winter is
what occasioned the meeting. Ana
if they can persuade themselves that
they can boost the camp from its
moribund state of non-activity by
speech-makng they are not to be de
nied their privilege in this respect.
It does good.
They do not overlook the fact
that in the last analysis tho lack ol
wage working is the real reason for
the decline, and will he tho reason
for the fall of Nome if something
is not done to develop a pay rob.
That in fact was the flantiuo’s ghost
whose presence was clear enough to
the mind’s eye of every speaker just
as it is clear as daylight to ’loin.
Dick and Harry whatever may ha
his business.
There's no reason why such meet
ings should he discouraged. On he
contrary they may do lots of good;
especially may they do good in that
they afford us an opportunity of
ringing our burden that tabor pro
duces all wealth and without labor
you can have nothing.
There’s lots *»f wage working
m he good old summer time. But
it’s not the sour dough who lives in
and* endeavors to develop the coun
try who gets it. Take a walk on
towards Dexter, you members of tin
Chamber of Commerce, and observe
the tine dumps that have been taken
out this winter—the sole t- '.-on one
might say for all the activity hero
in Nome. And ask yourselves who
did that work? The chechaco that
comes in after tho wild geese in the
spring and hastens out with the
geese in the fall? Not on your tin
type! That work was dona by sour
doughs who struggled around gett
ing a job here and a job there and
risked their scanty savings in in
numerable prospect holes before
they struck the pay that enables
them to maintain some activity.
For years Nome existed in happy
go lucky fashion winter after win
ter on Center creek activities. After
the summer's open working had
been done, men who made their
little summer stakes went out to
Center creek, got their lay and paid
the coal man and the grocer and the
freighter and tho rest of tho business
men, hard money they had hardly
warned for an “outfit", and they
took out year after year quite a bit
of money kept the camp alive and
well, if not exactly prosperous.
Without denying the ypportuni
tics for making money which are
here for invoetment, it must be in
sisted that Capital has got to be
shown. And it’s not talk at boost
er meeting that capital wants. It is
facts-^-the facts that rosult from
hard and dreary labor ih opening
up and exposing to view the re
sources that do evist.
That’s labor’s function, and right
well, has labor performed it. But
thp camp is passing through a re
markable stage wherein the worK
en are as migratory as th.o operat
ors, ai^d those who winter hero do
not get the jobs.
That’s what the camp is up
against, and which it will be up
against until, the companies and the
storekeepers and tlie banks come to
an agreement and a conclusion that
it will well repay them to make an
effort to secure employment for the
men who are here.
We have found nothing of that
sort in evidence. On the contrary
we find the Chamber of Commerce
guilty in the past of a moot ill-ad
vised advertisement which last fall
was sent outside urging workers to
come here and offering all lands oi
opportunities for them when 'nest
of the working class in this camp
have h'jn sucking their thumbs ana
living on coflee and—.
Does any serious person presume
to say that a thousand wags work
ers who have worked here ail sum
mer can take themselves and theii
wad outside without the camp feet
ing its loss?
But what inducement do the busi
nes men offer to the workers to re
main? Under heaven, none at all
The men discover that their jobs arc
best secured in Seattle or cornin1;
in on the boats in the Spring, ano
for that reason they prefer to gc
outside and not to take chances
spending their hard earned money
during tho winter here, developing
file camp.
Now we would like to soc the
members of the Chamber of Com
merce dwell a little on what has
been already done in this country
[They will find that it has been don<
not by the chechaco, but by the son
dough labor, and instead of aidini
sourdough labor in every possibi
way, shape and form, they have ala
cd anti abetted a condition c
things makes it highly advisable to
every worker who can make onougi
to get out of tliis section each fal
.just as fast as God and the steam
boats will let him.
However, maybe it’s just as wcl
that the Chamber did not refer ti
Gabor. In that they clearly re cog
nized what the workers themsolvc
should recognize, that it is upon tin
workers themselves that their wei
fare depends.
While business is organizing ti
help itself and acting shrewdly ant
wisely and prudently as we muz
admit, why cannot the workers foi
low suit and likewise organize t<
help themselves in a wise ant
shrewd and prudent manner?
The workers can if they want to
themselves control the industria
situation. And if they like to delud'
themselves with the belief that an;
particular interests other than the-i
own are going to hand them thei
fortunes on silver platters for th
asking, they are like to starve t<
death.
Quite an object lesson, now tha
we are on local matters, is afforde<
the workers how essential it is to
them to organize to protect them
i selves is seen in the non-enforce
ment of the eight hour law in sonu
underground operations. Just as w<
write this, a Russian complains tha
a friend of his has been workini
for some weeks for an outfit is em
ploying several men and they worl
ten hours underground. They sigi
no agreement; they are not part
ners, bogus or otherwise. The:
simply are hired and fired just th<
same as if the law were never ii
existence, - just the same as if ti
make certain the enforcement of th<
laws a most expensive and elabo
rate official machinery was not her
maintained for that purpose.
Yet we have no kick coming, o
should have none. If the men wil
not organize to enforce the eigh
hoar day we can be certain that 1
w)ll not be self enforcing. It wouh
be too much to expect of. the officl
als that they would exercise the!
highly expensive if less energies
brain power In its enforcement.
The employers are foolish, if wuei
the workers axe willing to wprk ten
twelve, or fourteen haul?, a day the
d,ont dp it. T&ey would be foolisl
to pay any sort of a reasonable seal
If the workers are willing to worl
for an unreasonably low one. i
Let's quit misunderstanding the
situation. Lot's quit thinking that :
the boss is a son of a gun who
doesn’t drive his men, who doesn't :
pay them the lowest limit, who j
doesn't work them the uttermost
lehgth of time that, he can do, it j
the workers stand for it.
The workers will get just as
stood as they are willing to fight for
And it is all nonsense to pretend
otherwise.
Candidly and frankly wo have no
reason to believe that the Chamber
of Commerce or any other business
body has any concern with the
workers or that they should bother
about them at all. We have no rea
son to believe they should, and no
right to expect they would. It’s not. |
their business. It is the workers j
business and they ought to be up;
and doing themselves and if not it's [
their own fault.
It’s their own fault when they j
rre beaten out of their pay by de
I falcating companies, it's their own.
fault when in spite of the law they
j are compelled to work ton or twelve,
hours, it is their own fault when J
ithey are driven like galley slaves, j
it's their own fault when they get it
' in the neck again and again am
again.
j The workers need not peddle to
themselves. What conditions they
| complain of in this camp—condi
tions as to wages, hours of worl -
i ing, being defrauded of their pay—
! these things are done because they
| stand for it.
| If the workers haven't the nervi;
! and the get-up and the guts to or
jganize and fight for what they want,
I they will get what the boss likes to
give them: no better and no wors$,
To every evil that they face in this
or any other camp some of the
workers are directly accessory. It s
because they did not malnfest a
disposition to fight for what they
wanted, and instead looked to the
business man, the operators, the
preachers, the lawyers or the officials
to fight their own battles for them.
Being suckers in this respect, so
many of them, they think that other
interests will have pity upon them
and do for them what they havs not
get-up enough to do for themselves.
And that's what we face directly
here in many instances. The work
ers will complain that this is not so
and that that is not so; that tnis
I man is working ten hours and that
! man is not paying the union scile,
J while they themselves sit by and ex
| pect that talk will move mountains
| when it couldn't move a feather.
Talk is the cheapest thing on
earth. It is the cheapest and the
vainest, it never raised wages and
it never improved labor's condition
in any maimer, shape or term
j And how then can wo reasonably
ucpect that the talk of the other
'ellow will do It when our own will
lot accomplish anything?
We take this position that the
'uture prosperity in this camp de
)end3 upon thy people locally, and
irimarily and ultimately upon la
>or. If there is a good pay roll
irosperity will shine for all the
■ommcrcial interests here, if there
s not then all will bo complaining
ibout hard times.
We go further and we say that
:he development of Setyard Penin
sula depends upon the members of
diat pay roll. They are the men who
prospect this country; find its |
edges of ore, its placer deposits, its
siting and trading resources. They
jo where capital will not go, ana
they will risk their savings in work
where capital would not risk a
single cent.
Without the sour dough on the
pay roJl winter and summer, especi
illy in summer, this camp might as
well drop out of the boosting ques
tion. But if the sour dough gets
work, then the sour dough will
prove to the world for the benefit
of business and other interests
oftener than for his own, the great
riches which are really here for the
gathering.
Moreover the chechaco is inclined
to accept less than the rate which
the sour dough will accept. The
sour dough will organize where the
chechaco will not organize and for
that reason he is more beneficial to
the class to which he belongs as
well as to the camp than the other
fellow.
In spite of this the workers need
not begin to fool themselves. They
must work out their own salvation.
The other people cannot do it even
if they would, and some of them
wouldn’t do it even if they could.
Their interests are not identical.
The less wages is paid the greater
the operator’s profit. The operator
would be a fool and sucker if he
worked against his own interest.
The longer hours the wage worker
toils, the bigger the money the em
ployer makes out of him. The em
ployer would be a fool and a sucker
if he didn't work him the limit.
And you cannot expect to make fools
and suckers out of employers by
law and you cannot expect that any
one is going to see that they do
It is the worker must attend to
his own interest, uniting with his
fellow worker to that end. organiz
ing to work out his own salvation
in his own way—as he alone can.
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