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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.’’
abranam Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
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Home, - Alaska, under the Act of March S, 1879.
Nome, Alitaka, July II, l!M(t.
I’ORK.
This is not going to he a disserta
tation upon that particular kind o£
flesh which has been forbidden to
the Chosen People from time imme
morial, but upon that variety which
has been identified with politics
since it was found that govern
ment funds yielded fat as luscious
and flesh' as juicy as any sugar
cured or fresh killed variety of
swine flesh.
A section of Alaska is now fair
lye revelling in it. The railroad to
the interior from Seward and An
chorage, when all is said and done,
has to be labelled pork and pork
only.
Later when generations have come
and gone, and the country is mote
settled and its destinies mineralogi
cal, sociological and agricultural
better deterirf.n^l, the railroad be
ing built by the government may
function in an extremely useful
manner. Hut just now it functions
mainly to enable a few professional
jobbites to hold a few fat billets, a
few sharks an opportunity for turn
ing a penny, and a few contractors
for getting their hands into tht
pockets of Uncle Sam.
The Industrial Worker does noi
decry the advent of this pork tc
the country; only it is absurd and
ridiculous to pretend that it Is go
ing to relieve the transportation si
tuation any, to solve any transpor
tation problem or to supply the in
terior with cheaper necessaries than
at present
Alaska, or a section of it, would
not be the lirst part of Uncle Sam f
• is-nain wherein pork was dispen
sed with even a. more lavish hand.
„*nd likely enough it w-.’l not be
the last. But there is no use pre
tending about it and living in hopes
that this railroad is about to solve
the entire problem of the industrial
or social conditions in Alaska.
It doesn’t even touch the trans
portation problem, and it is a vici
ous piece of misrepresentation tc
pretend it does.
The transportation problem is
not governed by overland traffic. It
is contr lied and controlled abso
lutely by ocean transportation from
the Outside to the Territory ana
back again.
And it is only dealing with the
most ineffective issue to tackle the
railroad problem in any way.
The government railroad will
never as a means of transportation
during the summer compete with
the Yukon and tributary water
ways. They are ready made trans
portation ways that cost nothing
for construction or for keep. They
may meander in a very lengthy way,
but the cost of sending freight via
those routes cannot be considered
by the railroad, because the rail
road has to earn money on its cost
of construction and its, mainten
ance.
You cannot expect however that
those sections of Alaska which will
enjoy the railroad pay roll will loos
at :t with the same impartial con
sideration it may be observed from
here.
’lhe towns along the route are
doing their best to stand in witn
ihe Engineerng Commission and
-theie !e nothing to be wondered at
that Fairbanks regards the railroad
in the light of a Redemeer. It
comes like a God from the Car to
set right its "anishing gold produc
tion and the pay roll of the rail
road stiffs will make up for the
Jack of yellow metal.
Therefore it is that they went to
the trouble of banquettlng Engineer
Riggs of the Commission. Riggs Is
imbued with the notion that the
railroad is being built for
the special benefit of the
railroad commission. Apparently,
we judge from his statements on
the evening of the banquolt, they
are tho center from which the rail
road benefits aie to emanate for the
rest of the people. And naturally
he speoks as one who holds the des
tinieis of the territory through which
the railroad passes as well as
railroad itself in the hallow of his
hands.
Consequently it ’.3 very interest
ing to obseive that Riggs was quite
solicitous to see that no undue
quantity from the railroad pork
barrel escaped to the stiffs who will
build the road. It is not for them
that pork of the brand under con
sideration
dispensed. It is for
railroad
engineers,
commercial
clubs, contractors and others who
I will make a god of the Riggs and
will blow lots of hot smoke where
it will soothe and console.
Take this imperial manner,
quoted from a Fairbanks paper, <
d- a ling with the railroad workers;
‘From his statement Saturday
evening, Mr. Riggs indicated that
the greatest problem of the com
mission will be the labor question,
esp cially in the interior. At first
, the commission thought of allow
ing the same wages as granted on
the coast, but a few minutes befors
the meeting Saturday night the
commission received a communica
tion from other members of the
commission agreeing to a slight
raise. This raise however will be
absolutely the last word, so far as
the government is concerned, Mr.
Riggs said, and if this Is not ac
ceptable to the men, there will be
a shut down immediately and the
work will be carried on only from
the coast end. In this connection
.Mr. Riggs said that he was going
to need the support of all Alaskans
as without their assistance he will
be helpless”.
That is the most remarkable state
ment ever made on the labor ques
tion. Just consider that situation.
Riggs has not started up work yet.
There has no construction work be
gun. But he knows that paying the
paltry wage that he and his othei
jobbite commissioners have in view,
the labor question will be a hard
quesiton. And before work starts
up he issues an ultimatum that this
wage scale about the same as paid
on the coast where everything is
from twenty to one hundred per
cent cheaper must be accepted or
no work will be done. And Riggs
appeals to the people of the Interior
"all Alaskans”, meaning all the
business interests who will profit
from the pay roll so that they too
will support him in the peonized
conditions he has arranged with
his fellow satraps for the hinds of
the hinterland.
We dont trouble much about tin
Riggses. The man with a snout in
a government pork barrel is not
worth troubling about. But it is
the workers who must in turn pre
vent this pork barrel from demoral
izing the entire labor situation in
the territory.
The Riggs and the Mears and the
rest do not feel very kindly dis
posed towards labor. They met
their match in the workers at An
chorage and the pain of defeat still
rankles. fl
The meeting to which Riggs ar
ticles refers was the banquet where
the hot smoke blowing match ac
curred. The conquest of the Alas
kan wilds by a railroad from no
where to nowhere solving
no transportation problem, can
it appears, only be accomp
lished by the reduction of
wages to an irreducible minimum.
It all depends upon the workers.
Already the nucleus of a first class
labor organization has been estab
lished at Anchorage. There is no
reason why a similar condition
should not be developed along the
construction work in the interior,
and then the workers could them
selves take a hand In the regula
tion of the wage scale and they ana
not Riggs have the last and final
say in the matter.
Returning to the question of the
ailroad’s utility it is becoming
lore and more evident that it is a
ery doubtful blessing indeed.
The railroad cannot be expected,
utside pandering papers, to solve
he question of the higher rates in
ilaska or the high costs of living
onsequent upon those rates.
The railroads are not the key to
he situation. The transportation
.cross the ocean is. There is where
t lies. Without a fleet of steamers
he railroads might as well be whai
hey will be, as far as freight offer
ngs aie concerned at lesser rates,
;treaks of rust from the tide water
o the Yukon. To build the road
■heaply and with labor below the
ubsistence point of the interior will
help not at all; it does not make
.he railroad any more beneficial. By
taking into the interior a quantity
of cheap labor that cannot live oft
the resources of the country, which
will have nothing to strike out on
the creeks for itself; which will not
have enough to take up a home
stead; which will bo sunk to the
level of the semi-starved and poor
ly clad—this will not benefit the
country at all.
On the other hand, the big dab
of pork that is being dished out
to that particular section of Al
aska is being dished out at the ex
pense of the rest of the Territory.
Every other division has to go with
out road appropriations while five
hundred thousand dollars is squand
ered making a trail or tv/O to ac
comodate the railroad construction.
The Second Division, sorely in need
of roads will get nothing; the Ruby
and Iditarod country equally In
need of roads will be subject to
wanton neglect. But that a sma.i
section will have access to the pork
barrel of railroad construction, the
rest must go without their para
mount needs being attended to.
It would have been much better,
much more satisfactory if instead
of building a vastly expensive rail
road to Fairbanks the government
had invested the same sum in ocean
going steamers and river boats, con
trolled the ready made transporta
tion of the North, and reduced
transportation rates where thej
could be with great feasibiity re
duced—reaching every camp whiel
could with greate feasibility be
reached. A government line of steam
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billets for flattery loving jobbi-.es ]
or reducing Alaska labor to the ab- j
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This could have been done. But
this has not been done And the
people to name are the People and
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You are hereby notified that 1
havo expended during the yoar 1915
the sum of one hundred dollars on
each of the following association
placer mining claims, to wit: The
Gem Association and the Teal As
sociation, situated on Gold Bottom
creek a tributary of Snake River,
^ and recorded and more fully do
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j Nomo Mining and Recording District
in the Second Division of the Ter
ritory of Alaska.
The above amount has heen ex
pended as required by law to hold
said claims under the provisions of
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upon mining claims.
And you are further notified that
if within ninety days after the last
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to contribute your proportion of said
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under section 2324, Revised Statutes
of the United States.
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Date of first publ., April 11, 1915.
Date of last publ., July 11, 1916.
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