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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1111, at the poat office at
florae, - Alassa, under the Act of March S, 187t.
"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly as possible. Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
a bran am Lincoln
All changes In standing advertisements must reach this office at six
•'clock each evening to Insure Insertion in the following issue.
Advertising rates made known on application.
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 1S4.
Nome, Alaska, December ;>o, 11110.
THE COMPENSATION LAW.
Judge Brown of the Third Judi
cial Division lias upheld ttie consti
tutionality of the Compensation Law
which was passed by the territorial
legislature at the last sosison.
The decision was rendered when
a workman sued the Kennicott Min
ing Co. to recover damages under
common law instead of accepting
the compensation as provided by the
act. The case it; important in that
it reveal; how completely the work
mat is shorn of his right at law in ;
favor of companies whose liability
has be on strictly limit; 1.
As we all know now. the compen
sation law was invented by the \
Juneau mining companies in order j
that they might ue protected against!
litigation tor < an:-• and 3ui:;er |
was made r. ■ of for the purpose!
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the kind.
Most of the law provide for par
tial or -total dKiblemrat con; pen;; a.
tioi; in proportion to the earning ca
pacity of lii employee. Alaska docs
not in order that (lie higher relative
Alaska wages may not command a
higher compensation, and the low
bat. rates of the cent belts are sub
stituted.
Occupational diseases following
dust, refine imatli
rooms,cyanide or chlorination works
should be included and are included
in most states. They arc not includ
ed in Alaska.
Almost all stat. r Moy
ers labor, to put up bonus to insure
their compensation liability. Alaska
does not. A man may be injured in
an Alaskan mine, his right of action
denied him under the act, and yet
his compensation may be not forth
coming. The employer may allege
an inability to pay just as lie evades
wage payments with time checks
and the like.
There is nothing left an employee
who seeks compensation under the
law but a resort to the courts pr -
cisely as if he sued under common
law, except that in this condition
he can only sue for a limited amount
which will not even cover attorney
fees. Almost al! the states provide
ati accident board in order to speed
compensation and for the successful
operation of the Art. Alaska does
not. On the contrary with no
compensation for waiting time, with
no responsibility to pay medical or
surgical attendance, the Alaska taw
operates directly and exclusively to
the benefit of the employer.
Recent comment in articles de
voted to (has subject condemn the
Alaska law as the very worst of all.
Considering the ordinary rales for
medical attendance the Alaska law
provides compensation that is not
sufficient to pay the doctor!
There is not one single compensa
tion rate provided wherein if the
employee pay his own medical fees,
he will not he in debt at the end of
the chapter.
It is not often that such legal
monstrosities have ever been pulled
off as in this case. But the Juneau
Mining Companies aided by Sulzer,
the subsidized papers and the rest,
most assuredly put one over when
they passed the compensation law
which as a compensation law is a
joke, but as an act limiting the em
ployers liability is certainly there
with the goods.
Another thing: Labor in Alaska
did not clamor tor a compensation
law. Only those economic eunuchs
employed by the Treadwell and
members of the emasculated Alaska
Labor Union of Douglas were
rushed to give testimony favorable
to the law before the committee.
It was drawn up and passed ac
cording to ?ir. llellenthal himself I
for the companies. “We passed it", j
interview i
the Empire when he returned Iron ]
litigation in Minnesota when a fore |
man was sued by an injured em
ployee.
It has b"r,n quite an unfortunate
••xporicnce regarding even the best
of the compensation laws that they
are not an unqualified, success. Oise
reason is that the compensation
will 1
n that in
oinment
sat ion law, fair and equitable ba
on ,m:.'-i and man has yet to be
•!. Tiioro is no relation be
tween the s!atus of employer and
employe . To toe employer the loss
o. an employee's sight is only n
r of dollars and cents. To an
employe a it is an unendurable cala
mity that r.o money may. overcome.
To the widow, the loss of her hus
band’s life is a thing that may not
be written o:.' in a check however
h i dsome. If means intolerable
grief that gold cannot assuage.
The whole effort of employers to
write off in dollars and cents the
life values of the workers is one
that should succeed in disillusioning
nose sapheads who taking the Clay
ton Bill as an authority declare that
Labor is not a commodity Xot only
is labor a commodity, but the labor
producing machine, the human be
ing. can be written off in dollars and
cents, in terms of the medium of
exchange, as to legs anil arms and
eyes and nose and toes and ears and
body and soul.
There is nothing like this compen
sation idea for showing the working
man where he is at. and how de
pendent he is completely notwith
standing his boasted freedom. When
the profit maker in the course or
his operations can blind and maim
and destroy and relieve himself ot
ail responsibility for these industrial
accidents most of which are prevent
able by the exercise of ordinary pre
cautions, the real status of the em
ployee is most clearly seen.
There is only one remedy: the
industrial economic organization mi
the workers to control industry.
That and no other will relieve socie
ty of the ignoble status of wage
slavery which kills and pays, wounds
and pay.-, blinds and pays—-as if the
human body was a machine whose
repairs or destruction mattered only
a few dirty dollars.
AN AMERICAN CHURCH.
Quite recently at the Episcopal
convention a Bishop spoke empha
sizing the fact that that
church was the American
church. He recited where
in it was characteristically American
and he enumerated at least seven
different reasons.
All of which is exceedingly inter
esting. But why an American church
or an American religion? Why is
there to be a particular association
adopting a particular ritual with a i
particular code of morality distinct
ively American.
Religious truths one would ima
gine should be common to all the
world and one would as reasonably
ask for an American chemical re
action or an American physical law,
or an American mathematical form
ula as an American religion if reli
gion and the church its expounder,
are also to be in accord with the so
called eternal verities.
In point of fact, it is because they
have still national gods and national
morals and national rituals that
there is this effort upon the part ot
the worthy bishop to carry on a pro
paganda for his particular brand ot
Christianity because of its “Amer
icanism”.
Yet there was a distinctive Big
Business flavor about that conven
tion. They were at some pains to
secure a huge pension fund for the
benefit of the preachers and the
widows. Five million was the sum
and a confidential letter was issued
to the pastors to get busy while the
getting was good.
The up-building of the organiza
tion upon a huge financial basis at
least has the Big Business features
that mark it typical enough of mo
dern American capitalism.
As explained in the circular “it
was a business proposition to which
the pastors should consecrate them
selves”, apparently the advisability
of laying up treasures in heaven be
ing reserved for the faithful among
the laity.
NOTICE.
Pursuant to an order of Court
entered on the 20th day of Novem
ber, 1916, notice is hereby given
that a Genral Term of the District
Court, Second Division, Territory of
Alaska, will be held in the Couit
House, in Nome, in said Division ar.d
Territory of Alaska, commencing at
the hour of 11 o’clock A. M. on
Saturday, January 13, 1917, and to
continue thereafter according to
further orders of the Court.
n under my hand and with
the Court’s seal affixed this 29th
day of Novmber, 1916.
(SEAL)
G. A. ADAMS.
Clerk, District Court. Second Divi
sion, Territory of Alaska.
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In the 1. nit. i States .Laud Oflice at
Nome, Alaska, December 16, 1916.
NeCca hereby given, that Isaa(
L. O'good. Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By W. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
their Attorne.v in Fact, whose Post
Or;i, addro.-s is Nome, Alaska, and
; on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, has made application before
the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a United Stales
; Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 117">. said claims being more
particularly described in the. field
notes and plat of the official survey
uruciriciEicicificirururitiirinctctcucmcir iririPi
thereof now on file in .Bald Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-witj
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
8. W. LoC. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
695, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,
4-695, 1-1175, D. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
W. Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. I
69 deg. 45 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 10 j|
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4; jj
thence S. 3 deg. 28 min. E. Var. |
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to I
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 43 I
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. S
386.80 ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S. £
45 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25 |
min. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min. ;
E. 400.80 ft. to place of begining,
containing 5.908 acres. s
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY. j
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical \
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No. i !
747 No. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11 j
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60 S
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W. 1
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft |
to.Cor. No. 2; thence S. 48 deg. 26 j
min. ,W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. !
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. i
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00 ]
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4; I
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E A'ur. 3 9
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No. :
j 5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Var. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 43
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S. I
| 9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 10 i
, min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
I ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on un- j
! survyed ground on Lake Creek
I about 4.5 miles north of the Town
i of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
C. S. Lot d ion Monument No. 11
Mo which sai l c’.aims are tied, is a !
i Or post 6 ins. so. 5 ft. above ground j
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base '
•’.•ibc :l C. S. L. 51. No. 11, is situat
about 2.75 r.tR.j Northeasterly
t'roin rnouth of Sua’;e River and | *
about 7 0 fl. cast of the Bessie road, j
• f • in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original • . : „ Hosts recorded in Vol. !
,99 Page 415 ru-.l 16 Page 116 and I
; Amended locations recorded in Vol. j
165 Page '225 and Vol. 199 Page 11
85, Records of Cape Nome Record-i
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims arc; On the J
North No. 2 Above on Ralce Creek,
, Survey No. 60S and Gold Bug Claim j]
Survey No. 4 34; on the East un- j
surveyed; on the South No. 1 j
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
| 1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West,
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 747. There are no conliicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., Feb. 21, 1917.
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