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Nome, Alaska, .May 1, lit 17.
I'NEASY LABOHITKS.
Although there are two British
labor members of parliament in the
British cabinet and one of them.
Arthur Henderson, is the right hand
man of Lloyd George, organized :
labor is quite concerned for the fu
ture.
I’rged under pretexts of patriotism ;
or what not, the labor unions sur- |
rendered tiled-- rights and privileges I
which had been only wrung from the |
employing classes after centuries of;
struggle.
Now they fear that after the war
these rights will not be restored
Moreover they see excellent reasons
for these fears.
The government owned and the
government controlled munition
plants, as all are either one or the
other, have introduced child and fe
male labor where heretofore men
were employed. The men were or
ganized. The women were not, and
after the war the women who are
not organized are likely to remain.
The men are likely to be without
a job.
Besides what has been said about
the munition industry is true of al
most every other industry with the
exception of the mining industry
and the situation Is not regarded
as reassuring.
But surely there is no reason for
ultimate concern.
The fact of the matter is that the
rights and privileges which orga
nized labor had in Great Britain
amounted to very little, and cer
tainly are not such as to believe they
will be worth taking away perma
nently, however important they
may have been in an era when in
dustry was carried on with cut
throat competition and without con
solidation and government control
and protection.
The fact of the matter is too,
that the reason for unionist agita
tion is primarily due to the condi
tion,s under which labor toils, and
given the same conditions we may j
expect reasonably enough the same
effects.
One of the matters that are usu
ally overlooked in the world of la
bor by capitalist employers who
would exploit labor to the uttermost
is that the very conditio. which
they most condemn exist by reason
of their own anti-social and at least
anti-labor activities.
One would imagine to hear criti
cisms of radicals that they were
such as they are by reason of some
particular economic Satan tempting
them to do as they do. Whereas,
the truth is, such men are as they
are, by reason of the essentially
aggressive and essentially progress
ive instinct to resist wrong, to op
pose oppression and to strive for xe
tended liberties. The effort to in
flict a permanent slave economy
upon human society has been the
sole inspiration of exploiters in
every age and for continuous cen
turies. But alt the while they en
counter resistance to those efforts
which resulted in gains for human
ity and for human freedom especial
ly.
N’o person who reads history with
any sort of care but will realize
that the instinct to resist wrong, to
oppose tyranny and to fight for lib
erty has been the very reason for
human advancement. And while to
the powerful in every age those agi
tators who stimulated the rcsistanoe
«f the masses were extremely repug
nant. the powerful overlooked that
they themselves were the cause of
the existence of such agitation.
Hence any attempt to keep the
workers shorn of the rights which
they surrendered during war time
will occasion a revolt far more for
midable than the evolution of the
labor movement in normal manner.
On the other hand we are likely
to notice after the war the powerful
proceed in an entirely different man
ner.
There was a system of benevolent
feudalism which enjoyed consider
able popularity at one time on
Mother Earth. Its benevolence was
more or less a sham and it was a
social imposition at that.
But we are likely to observe the
economically powerful proceed along
a line of industrial feudalism of a I
benevolent type after the war. with !
the government ihe keystone of the
system.
This system of government con
trol which now prevails in Groat i
Britain is little more than such a
system. That “control” interferes in
no way with the profits of the com
panies. Thus “Willians and Robin
son. one of the controlled establish
ments in England”, says an Eng
lish paper, “turning out shells at
Rugby for the government, made
a profit for the past year of 110
per cent upon its capitalization”.
And similarly gratifying reports are
issued of almost all the otiiei
firms.
The control is really a one sided
affair, assuring the companies as
much labor as they neetl under con
ditions of wages, etc., which they
had a mind to give.
Take the situation in the south
ern Colorado coal fields where John
D. Rockefeller has established his
own labor union. The company has
taken the men under its protecting
wings and it is hoped that they will
not he subjected to economic dis
content. If the government, with a
system of control, joins hands with
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co., they
might for a time be able to devise
t some sort of a cast iron organiza
tion which would last some time.
We can have no illusions as to the
subject of compulsory military serv
ice. Its advocates have no hesita
tion in declaring that such should
be permanent, and only the other
day a speaker in the English parlia
ment said in England conscription
had come to stay.
Of course this means militarism,
and militarism that will eventually
be of greater national importance
than industrialism—as precisely
came about in Germany and to a
great extent in France.
Benevolent laws which will pro
vent the exploitation of the workers
to such an extent that they would
be unlit for soldiering would have
to be tolerated, for the methods ot
Germany in this respect will have
to be followed.
But even this condition of indus
trial feudalism, be it never so
benevolent, will avail nothing if the
workers feel the shoe pinching as it
is hound to now and then.
We know of no country Immune
from economic discontent and we
know of none immune from such
severity of living and laboring con
ditions as drive the workers directly
to that.
Shortly before he died Lord Rob
erts who during the Boer war and in
the early stage of the Great War
saw thousands upon thousands ot
British workers rejected and had
read the report of the Royal Com
mission wherein it was stated that
industrial conditions existed in
many cities wheh lent themselves
directly to the enslavement of the
people and to the destruction of
their health, so that there was a
great indifference as to whether
they fouhgt or not, even if they
could when they could not, pass the
army medical examination as to
their physique.
“The conditions amid which mil
lions of our people live, appear to
me to make it natural that they
should not care a straw under what
rule they may be called upon to
dwell. Recently unimpeachable
evidence makes It clear that to
tens of thousands of Englishmen en
gaged in daly toil the call to sacri
fice themselves for their country
would seem an insult to their rea
son, as the conditions amid which
they live make their lives an unend
ing sacrifice’’. Thus spoke Roberts
just before he died.
It was those conditions which
caused the industrial revolt that
stirred Great Britain prior to the,
war, and it such conditions are to
exist after the war, even under a
benevolent industrial feudalism, the
same revolt will he a certainty.
People often comment upon the
lack of loyalty, patriotism and what
not among the workers. It is
often conspicuous enough. But the
majority of the workers have no
thing but a job any way, and that
they do not find worth fighting for.
The revelations made by the In
dustrial Relations Commission re
ports have accentuated the fact that
only the most strenuous agitation
has been able to relieve in many
American industries the most damn
able conditions. The beautful game
of irresponsibility which great cor
porations have been playing, has
made many industrial centers in the
United States simply pits of misery
and toil with not a single enlighten
ing thing about them. So the ab
sence of patriotism and loyalty is not
at all a surprising thing; that there
should remain some sparks of it not
withstanding what the workers have
experienced is astonishing enough.
We dont mean the professional flag
waving of the well fixed corpora
tion, or the highly salaried jobb
ite, but the real patriotism of the
man who says that with God's help
the evils that he sees around him
he shall remedy and that he can do
no other. The professional patriot
ism of tiie dollar chaser is not of
this day alone a characteristic, John
son even in his time knew that it
was the last hope of such scound
rels.
What we see around us. here,
now is a matter of cause and effect.
What will happen hereafter will lie
tiie effect of present or future causes
Given the same system of exploi
tation and there will be the same
economic discontent, the same re
volt against conditions, and the
same unending struggle to better
them.
That is why the struggle of the
classes is a centuries old struggle,
and will remain with us to the end
of the chapter until there are no
more classes.
PHILADELPHIA DOESN’T KNOW
WHAT TO DO WITH NEGROES.
PHILADELPHIA, April 29.—
More than 25,000 negroes have set
tled in Philadelphia in the last six
months and the city government j
doesn’t know exactly how to meet
the problem of congestion in their
section of the city. Small flats are
.housing as many as five and six fa
milies. The influx is said to he due
to the fact that the negroes think
they will be more cordially received
here than in other American city.
•JITNEV IN Hit) DE .JANEIRO.
RIO D_E JANEIRO. April 27.—
The jitney automobile has been
given many names in the United
States different from that bestowed
by the makers, but on its first and
recent appearance in this city it was
promptly dubbed “Barata” by the
Brazilians. “Barata” means cock
roach. The Brazilian cockroach is
about as big as a mouse and a race*,
for speed.
CITY' HATH HOUSE
lias tlie largest
anti only fl feet
Hath Tubs In Nome.
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THE WORKER.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To W. A. Nagel and Herman A. Na
gel your heirs, executors, assigns
or personal representatives:
You and each of you are here
by notified that I have caused to be
expended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars each
year for the years 1907, 190S, 1909,
1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914,
1915, and 1916 cn No.4 bench claim
adjoining No. 4 creek claim on the
rihgt limit of Cooper Gulch and . re
corded and more fully described in
the records of the Cape Nome Min
ing and Recording District, Second
Division, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount lias 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 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 sec
tion 2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
ERNEST HESTER.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Jan. 30, 1917.
Date of last pub., May 1, 1917.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Geo. Marshall, G. R. Jackson
and W. A. Oliver, your heirs,
executors, assigns or i>ersonal re
presentatives:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that I have expended in la
bor and improvements the sum of
one hundred dollars <each year of
the years 1913, 1914 and 191G on
O K Association, a placer mining
claim situated on right limit on
Ilohson creek and recorded and
more fully described in Vol. 194,
page 143 of the records of the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording District
Second Division, Territory of Al
aska.
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 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 sec
tion 2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
JOSEPH SLISCOVICH.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb., G, 1917.
Date of last publi., May 8, 1917.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Chris Frantzen your heirs, exe
cutors, assigns, or personal re
presentatives:
You a e hereby notified that 1
have expended in labor and im
provements the sum of one hundred
dollars each year for the years 1911
1912. 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, on
No. 28 Above Discovery, a placer
mining claim situated on Osborne
creek and recorded and more fully
described in the records of the
Cape Nome Mining and Recording
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
required to hold said claim.
And you are further notified that
if you fail to contribute your pro
portion of said expenditure within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
P. A. DICKSON.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb. 6, 1917.
Date of last publ., May 8, 1917.
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