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Some, Alassa, under the Act of March 2, 1871.
“To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
aearly as possible. Is a worthy object of any good government."—
Abraham Lincoln
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Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 114.
Nome, Alaska, April Itt, 1017.
A COMPULSORY ALTRUIST.
The Council for National Defense
which is outside the direct realm of
governmental institutions urges the
legislators of states and Territories
before final adjournment to deliver
to the Governors and others in their
respective states, power to suspend
or modify restrictions in the labor
laws when requested by the Council,
and Secretary Lane calls attention
to the serious shortage in food sup
ply, and points out that the salmon
pack in Alaska is an important fac
tor in the food situation, urges that
a waiver clause be included in the
eight hour, bill now pending before
the legislature, so that its provisions
may be suspended upon the declara
tion of an emergency by the council
or by the Secretary of the Interior.
Moreover the eight hour day is
suspended in naval yards and gov
ernment works so that employees
may be rushed during these days of
strees.
As usual labor is to be the al
truist, a compulsory al
truist it is true, but the class which
is compelled to eprform wonders
for the welfare of the rest. Now
precisely the same thing has been
gone over by the other belligerent
nations. The eight hour and other
concessions that labor had secured
under much difficulty and which
had been literally wrung from a re
luctant employing class, were abol
ished and the worker was driven tc
a speeding up schedule that had
our own efficiency artists backed oft
me map.
In those countries they knew no
better. They believed by working
labor twelve or fourteen hours a day
they could increase output so great
ly that out of one day’s
■work they ec ild get as
much as they did out ol two
before the war. And there was some
•amazement when they could not.
There was astonishment when they
that the lengthening of the
day was followed by a de
found
work
■rease of hourly output and they set
about themselves to examine the j
reason . The result of that inquiry,:
or rather those inquiries, was that
they went back to the shorter work I
day. increased the amount of rest
•and the frequency of intermissions,
as well as the expense of providing
the workers with food cr enterta'n
ments during those minutes of in
termission.
They discovered in the long work
day one thing that nothing could
overcome: fatigue, and fatigue was
so serious in its results that after it
had overtaken men, women or child
ren performing overtime, the whole
output for a long time afterwards
was affected.
These things are known to the
United States government: they
have been made the subject of spe
^cal reports and have been published
r>'’ the Ilureau of Labor Statistics.
twir1 if there is anything proved, it
is tu»-t the long work day seriourly
iffei • output: that the less over
time Hero • is the better and the
best rc.eld- invariably follow good
rests, whdiesome working accomo
dations :wid ...hort working days.
Consider this from the British
Home Office (similar to the Interior
•Jlopart rr.aut) report: "A worker
employed for eight hours may pro
duce more than another worker ot
equal capacity working twelve hours
a tiny- ,
'A group of workers showed an ab
• solute increase of over 5 per cent
*ot output as a result of a diminu- ^
tion of 16 1-2 per cent in the
length of the working day. Another _
group increased their average rate
of output from 262. to 276 as a re- ^
suit of the Shortening of the day
from 12 hours to 10. and to 316 as
a result of a further shortening ot
the day two hours.”
Take one table from memorandum
submitted the Minister of Munitions
by the “Health of Munition Workers
Committee”—suggestive office that! ]
—“Statistical information concern
ing the output in relation to the
hours of work”. This is Tabl^ V.
Six weks preceding Xmas the aver
age hours of work per week was 6i 5
and the hourly output of this group
was 100. Exeprimentally reducing
the hours of labor alter Christmas,
when it became 50.2 per week, the
average hourly output became 124.
The reports on this head are now
beyond question. The fact has been
demonstrated that tlie longer work
day induces fatigue and affects the
total result.
It certainly is significant of the
mental attitude, the economic atti
tude mentally, of the officials, that
the very first thing they should
think of is that the working day
should be lengthened!
ft is thousands of years ago since
the great Saxon King Alfred in Eng
long uttered the dictum that the day
should be divided into three equal
pai ts,-eight for sleep, eight for rest
and recreation and eight for work.
American employers have not felt
the need of anv such regulation
as forced itself upon the rulers,
they obtained through immigration
from Europe, or migration from the
farms, a constant supply of muscu
lar, active, youthful and vigorous
labor. That they subjected to an in
tensive productive motion which
ended the laborer in an astonishingly
short space of time. Gray hairs,
came sooner, and the result of this
exploitation has been that the un
employable according to the stand
ards of American industry now num
ber millions as public charges, all
wonderfully young.
Hut obviously the United States
government can draw upon no such
material The United States gov
ernment right now is facing a con
dition similar in all respects to Aus
tralia, to Great Britain, to France,
and the conservation of labor is
the very first thing should be
thought about. But we have on the
Council of National Defense men
very ignorant of modern industrial
investigations, and who believe as
the Steel trust and kindred organi
zations believe that you can exploit
labor as intensively today as they
could when they worked men to
death or the'workhouse or the hos
pital in two years.
The obvious thing is to insist
upon every labor protecting law to
be rigidly enforced. The reason
why labor should be the fall guy in
all these preparations is not ap
parent. Ten per cent was shoved
on to the price for the contractors
on small naval craft; money is spent
lavishly, and unrestrictedly to the
great enrichment of those who have
already millions. But for labor the
Did prehistoric antiquated workday
that was abolished in England quar
ter a century ago, In Australia fifty
cears ago and in both because its
vaste of human vitality was freely
recognized.
The one thing that the papers
tave been insisting upon has been
he means whereby labor in lhe in
lust ries is the real factor in the
var: so what they meant was that
abor was to tie subjected to an in
cnsified toil which was to waste It i
ittcrly and beyond recall.
After a few months when fatigue
logins to tell upon the workers,
vhen strikes interrupt the prodnc
ion, and when men will not aban
ion themselves to the galley slave
■xistence is prescribed for them, .
hese wiseacres of the government
vlio failed to read their own pub
ished reports and to digest theit
■ollated facts, will wonder how
oolish they have been.
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I'HE WORKER.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To O. C. Foster, E. J. Maynard, Chas
Clark and Chas R. Ewing, your
heirs, executors, assigns or person
al representatives.
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars
for year 1916 on Washington claim,
a placer mining claim situated at the
head of Peluck and recorded and
more fully described in the records
of Cape Nome Mining and Record
ing District, in the Second Division
of the Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning Annual Labor upon
Mining Claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if within ninety
days after ,the last publication of
this notice you fail to contribute
your proportion of said expenditure,
your interest in said claim will be
come the property of the under
signed your co-owner under section
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
States.
ESKIMO GOLD DREDGING CO.
Co-Owner.
Date of first pub., Feb. 19, 1917.
Date of last publ., May 21, 1917.
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THE WORKER.
..NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To C. O. Barness, Hattie Gardner,
Jessamine Gardner, Fr. Kolinsky,
Joseph Thomas and Geo. M. Lin
coln, your heirs, executors, assigns
or personal representatives:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the under
signed have causel to be ex
pended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred
dollars for the year of 1916, on
the Halla Tract and Webb Addition
to the Halla Tract, placer mining
claim situated between Dry and
Bourbon creeks and recorded and
more fully described In the records
of the Cape Nome Mining and Re
cording District, Second Division,
Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said claims.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if you fail to
contribute your proportion of said
expenditure within ninety days after
the last publication of this notice,
your interest in said claim: will be
come the property of the under
signed, your co-owner, under section
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
States.
ESKIMO GOLD DREDGING CO.
Co-Owner.
by JAMES FRAWLEY, Agent.
Date of first pub., Feb. 19, 1917.
Date of last publ., May 21, 1917.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Elma McNaught and J. J.
Chambers, your heirs, executors,
Successors, assigns or personal re
presentatives:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned
lias expended in labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dol
lars for year 1916 on Rosevelt bench
located between Newton Gulch No.
2 and Fox Creek, recorded and more
fully described in the records of the
Cape Nome Mining and Recording
District in the Second Division, Ter
ritory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
tended in order to hold said claims
inder the provisions of the lav;
joncerning annual labor upon min
ng claims.
And you and each of you are
Further notified that if within
linety days after the last publication
if this notice you fail to contribute
.our proportion of said expenditure,
rour interest in said claim will be
■orae the property of the under
signed yaur co-owner under section
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
States.
ESKIMO GOLD DREDGING CO.
Co-Owner.
Date of first pub., Feb. 19. 1917.
Date of last publ., May 21, 1917.
No. 0314.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A
PATENT.
n the United States Land Office at
Nom^, Alaska, February 26, 1917.
Notice is hereby given that John
<\ Ames Trustee with residence and
tost office address at Cleveland,
Dhio. through his authorized at
orney in fact V. V. Dickenson
vhose residence and post office ad
tress is Nome, Alaska has filed ap
tiication on behalf of himself and
tie co-beneficiaries under said trust
dortimer P. Ames also with resi
lence and post office address at
Cleveland, Ohio, and Charles Wente
tf Nome, Alaska, before the United
Rates Land office at Nome, Terrl
bry of Alaska for a patent for
placer mining claims situate in the
Council City Recording District, in
the Second Division, in the Nome
Land District, in said Territory, said
claims comprising the following
placer locations:—Imperator, Mor
timer Bar, Eureka, Little Bloom
field,'No. One and No. One and One
Half, situate on Dixon Creek and the
Casadepaga River, the Mineral Sur
vey thereof being designated as No.
1200. The description of said claims
as set forth in the Field Notes and
Plat of said Survey, duly approved
by the Surveyor General op the
said Territory, being ns follows: —
Magnetic variation from 20 deg.
05 min. E. to 20 deg 4 0 min. I'J ^
Imperator Claim oil Casadepaga
Kv-'cr.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 in the
Casadepaga River and liable to de
struction by ice and Hood, whence
U. S. L. M. No. 1200 bears N. 1 i deg
5i.5 E., 3570.25 :t. witness corner,
a limestone 24x8x6 ins. chiseled W.
C. 2 M B I, 1-1200 with mound oi
earth 24 ins. base, 18 ins. high on
east side, bears N. 34 deg. 08 min.
W„ 218.10 ft. distant; thence S.
34 deg. 08 min. E. 380 ft. to Cor.
2; thence S. 57 deg. 15 min. W.
1223.40 ft. to Cor. 3; thence N.
43 deg. 14 min. W. 350 ft. to Cor.
4 in river and liable to destruction
by ice and flood, whence witness
corner, a schist stone 24x8x6 ins.
chiseled W C No. 3 B M 4, 1-1200
with earth mound 24 ins. base, 18
ins. high on west side, bears N. 43
deg. 14 min. W. 209.50 ft. distant;
thence N. 55 deg. 39 min. E. 1278.40
ft. to place of beginning. Area
10.409 A.
Mortimer Bar Claim.
Beginning at Cor. 1, a schist stone
26x14x5 ins. chiseled I, M B-1200
and mound 24 ins. base 18 ins. high
on south side, whence U. S. L. M.
No. 1200 bears N. 22 deg. 42 min.
E. 3345.30 ft. distant; thence S. 34
deg. 08 min. E. 384.6 ft. to Cor.
2, identical with Cor. 1, Imperator
previously described identical wit
ness corner previously described
bears N. 34 deg. 08 min. W. 218.10
ft.; thence S. 55 deg. 39 min. W.
1278.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3, identical
with Cor. 4 Imperator previously de
scribed and with identical witness
corner previously described bearing
N. 43 deg. 14 min.’ W. 209.50 ft.;
thence N. 43 deg. 14 min. W. 346.70
ft. to Cor. 4; thence N. 54 deg. 15
min. E. 342.70 ft. to Cor. No. 5;
thence N. 57 deg. 44 min. E. 673.60
ft. to Cor. 6; thence N. 45 deg. 17
min. E. 322.80 ft. to place of be
ginning. Area 10.337 A.
Eureka (or Discovery) Claim.
Beginning at Cor. 1, a greenstone
24x7x6 ins. chiseled 1, E. 2, L B
1200, with mound 24 ins. base 18
ins. high on west side, whence I).
5 L M No. 1200 bears N. 42 deg.
17 min. E. 3009.40 ft.; thence S.
24 deg. 54 min. E. 1198.50 ft. to
Cor. 2, identical with Cor. 6 of M
B claim; thence S. 57 deg. 44 min.
W. 673.60 ft. to Cor. 3, identical
with Cor. 5 of M B claim; thence
N. 23 deg. 29 min. W. 1209.20 ft.
to Cor. 4; thence N. 58 deg. 16 min.
E. 642.80 ft. to place of beginning.
Area 18.020 A.
Little Bloomfield Claim.
Beginning at Cor. 1, a Hr post 3
ft. by 4 ins. square set 18
ins. in ground, scribed 1, L B. 1, No.
1-1200 with earth mound 24 ins.
base 12 ins. high around same,
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1200 bears
N. 48 deg. 25 min. E. 2936.55 ft.
distant; thence S. 31 deg. 46 min;
E. 326.60 ft. to Cor. 2, identical
with Cor. 1 Eureka claim previous
ly described; thence S. 58 deg. 16
min. W. 642.80 ft. to Cor. 3, iden
tical with Cor. 4 Eureka claim;
thence N. 26 deg. 56 min. W. 267
ft. to cor. 4; thence N. 52 deg. 42
min. E. 623 ft. to place of begin
ning. Area 4.288 A.
No. One Dixon Creek.
Beginning at Cor. 1, identical
with Cor. 1 Little Bloomfield previ
ously described; U. S. L. M. No.
1200 having identical bearings;
thence S. 52 deg. 42 min. VV. 623 ft.
to Cor 2, identical with Cor. 4 L B
claim; thence N. 33 deg. 28 min. W.
1330 ft. to Cor 3; thence N. 65
deg. 06 min. E. 583 ft. to Cor. 4;
thence S. 35 deg. 07 min. E.
1303.20 ft. to place of beginning.
Area 18.222 A.
No. fine and One Half, Dixon.
Beginning at Cor. 1, a limestone
24x12x3 ins. in ground 12 ins. chis
eled 1, 1 %. 1200 with mound 24
ins. base 16 ins. high on east side,
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1200 boars
N. 77 deg. 57.5 min. W. 3064.57
ft; thence S. 11 deg. 45 min. B. 248.4
ft. to Cor. 2, identical with Cor. 4
No. One claim; thence S. 55 deg.
06 W. 583.80 ft. to Cor. 3, identical
with Cor. 3 No. One claim; thence
N. 21 deg. 08 min. W. 241.60 ft. to
Cor. 4; thence N. 55 deg. 40 min.
E. 624 ft. to place of beginning.
Area 3.215 A.
This claim embracing 6 contiguous
locations, area 64.491 a. is on un
surveyed ground and situate on
Dixon Creek and the C'asadepaga
River about 20 miles west of the
town of Council.
U. S. L. M. No. 1200 to which
Survey is tied is a limestone bluff
about 100 ft. in elevation above the
Casadepaga River and about 4 00 ft.
west of the left bank, a cross x
marking true point, whence Cor. 1
Mortimer Bar claim bears S. 22
deg. 42 min. W. 3345.30 ft.; a cross
x cut on limestone bedrock chiseled
B R bears N. 51 deg. 40 min. E. 9.7
ft. distant; a mountain peak bears
N. 76 deg. 34 min. W. about 2 miles
distant. Said monument is about
1. 25 miles up Casadepaga River
from mouth of Big Four Creek, and
in Lat. 64 deg. 54 min. N. Long.
164 deg. 11 min. 30 sec. W.
Adjoining claims on all sides are
unsurveyed and claimants unknown.
The notices of location, original and
amended are of record in the said
Council City Recording District as
follows:—Imperator Vol. 23 page
81; Mortimer Bar. Vol. 4, page 115;
Eureka (or Discovery) Vol. 2, page
106; Vol. 16, page 17, Vod. 4, page
119; Little Bloomfield Vol. 16, page
18; Vol. 4, page 117; No. One, Vol.
20, page 267; No. One and One
Half Vol. 22, page 134.
Q. A. ADAltylS.
Register. ,
Date of first publ., Feb. 27, 1917.
Date of last pub., April 28, 1917. 1
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