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Sly Nome Mine Workers’ Union, No. 210, International Union of Mine,
Mill and Sni elter Workers.
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“Tc Becure to each laborer the whole product of bis labor, or as
».e»rly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
Ahraham Lincoln
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Address all Communtcationa to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box £10 Nome, Alaska. Phone. Black Us
Nome. Alaska. October :!«». 1017.
THK KD1TOKS CONI T.HMON.
All my life I have been giving
mysell the Thirtl Degree over and
over again. Whenever i have been
maligned. tiackbitten or "talked
about" I liave faced myself with
i he ■I'le.nion whether my detractors
wen not correct, with the invari
able conclusion that they were. I
have given heed to the words ol
my enemies and found them good.
T now lay claim to rav one original
lihilosophiral discovery that it is
one's enemies who speak the truth
about Itini and who ay the things
that are really worth while. To
hearken to one’s friends is to be
continuously deceived. Truth is
harsh and inhospitable but won
drouslv purifying and accuses all
of ns for if all the accused of
earth should journey to my poor
cabin then 1 would be lio.-t to all
the race.
'/pon this understanding I am
willing lo go hand in hand with
toes and friends to where Truth
abides. To go further with me you
must be willing to lace any truth
on earth and look it in the eye.
Whoever is net willing 01 enter
upon so valiant an enterprise had
best turn in ; k now and read no
iinrf of ; he mailer die hv dnv all
pouring in this column.
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1*01.me s t i ;
A .vord or two needs to be said
to you; wor<t that you never hoard j
before.
Politics is. u tiim-ftan; game* i i
which you regulariy and cotitinu
ously git the worst of it. It It 11
been so and it will he so until each
and every one of von becomes 'in
active politician in his own behalf.
Yon cannot avoid being the viitim
in any other way.
fntil you do. you will be like
babes in the wood, or like sheep
every > cason led to the -htniblcs.
\nd you cannot avoid being the \ i •
tint by trying to stay out of the
■;ar.: Yon cannot say th.it y a
have no interest in poll". Yon
live in a political soeietv a"d you
ould just as easily say th t you
.ire not interested in the airl
Political Sttength in 1 i > Not lu,
Number . j
Where you steadily lose in poli
tics is in not using your head. You
do use your head about yonr other
affairs. When you go to make a
trade of any kind or when you go
about your work you exercise the
beat reasoning power of which yon
are capable. But when it comes to
politics you allow somebody el o to
do your reasoning for you. How -
r:tr do you think you would get if !
you Mat in a card game and allowed i
vonr opponent to play your hand
for you? That in precisely what you
have always done in polities and al
ways you have lost.
The political strength of the work
er, is measured not so much by the
number of ballots east as by the in
svlligenee with which they are east.
That is true of any other group, for
that matter. You sun ly do not |
-need any more proof of that when
you see that the capitalists are very
1'ew in numbers but that they study
their political interests and always
get the ho l of you in the ratu^. 1
A PAKTVKKSHIP or CAPITU,
A partnership of capital and the
government is at hand
Government owner-hi t means the
political and economic union of all
capitalists.
Think of the power that suit a|
political union or all capitalists
would give? They would have nbsO'
lute control over governments,
courts, polities, ttie press, the pu1
pit and the schools and colleges.
The u-e of private gunmen is a
concession to the power ol the
middle class in politics hut once
the State becomes the industrial i
capitalist the mask will be shed and
tie entire armed fore ol the State
will be at the beck and call of these
in charge ot the interest paying In
dustrie-. In Everett, for instance,
where the lumber trust is almost
completely in control, politically
and economically, the civil govern
ment acted directly for the lumber
barons, while in the longshore
strike in Seattle, where economic
control is divided, the police were
used to some extent as pacifists,
while the gunmen were privately
hired from detective agencies. Eve
rett furni-hes an example of what
complete industrial control of the
forces leads to—it Is a sample of
what industrial mutineers need ex
pect under a State Socialist regime.
Stale Socialists seek the govern
ment ownership of labor. Demo
cracy may he allowed, hut only in
governmental and political matters,
and only so long ac the unskilled
workers do not have the balance
of power, democracy is not to he
thought of in industry.
'Military necessities (increased
rovenueus. stability, etc.) create a
demand for governmental owner
ship. This is State capitalism. En
largement o: the governmental hotly
to include time ol the favored
c rafts and to admit the middle class
to a portion of power, with the
adoption of various reform moa
sures, is the basis of Plate Social
ism. Labor as a class, and especi
ally u:i killed labor, is to be kep
in a state of vassalage.
The positive side of collectivisn
moans the extension of the eco
nomic functions of the govern
raent. The negative side means th<
subordination or supres ion of pri
vate property by the governmen
in the interest of those in contro
of the government but in the nami
of society'as a whole.
Collectivism, government owner
ship of monopolies, the apportion
mcnt of land rent by the State
and the placing of labor on thi
level of maximum efficiency, these
are not Socialism.
State Socialism se ‘k, to re-ar
range and re-adjust existing insti
tutions; essential Socialism to brinj
entirely new forces into play anc
thereby to create new institution-.
There still is great room foi
change in iho capitalist system am
there is also the possibility of sev
cral Intervening sytsom. or rathei
far-reaching modifications of cap!
talism before the workers are v:c
torioiis. For this reason it is tie
sirable that the fight of the work
ers he directed, not so largelj
against the reactionary part of tl.f
employing clas5 who still cling tc
the old individualistic theory that
they are the lords of their particu
lar lines of endeavor and can
brook no interference from the
workers, as against the f^tate which
will persis thru every social change
until the workers have accomplish
ed their revolution and abolished
ela ses and class rule. Fights
against those employers who are
termed "had,” that is to say. who
have not even attained the average
standard of the employing class
will mean that the workers are
training their forces to use weapons
and to practice evolutions that will
,-oon he' obsolete and useless. These
fights are necessary hut they should
be made subordinate, at all times,
to the real fight, the class wai
against the wage system and the
battle f«,r tub and complete indus
trial control by the actual produ
cers. I' i net the remnants ot a
disappearing capitalism that wt
have to fight: rather it is the high
ly centralized capitalism which will
: soon evolve into State Socialism
I and become strengthened thereby.
, The fight against the State is the
; main fight for ail revolutionists.
Only as the indu trial unionists
can make their fight a distinctive
one as contrasted with that of the
: reform union will the movement
: have any distinction.
, i The greatest fault with State
; Socialism as a social philosophy is
^that it claims to stand for every
| one in .society v. itli the exception
Jaf a small group of powerful ca
jpltalists and their henchmen. But
I real essential Socialism stand only
**for the interests of the exploited
; class—the wage workers robbed at
| tlie point of production.
[ it is to lie questioned whether
! the State Socialists or ' veil the
more advanced reformers within
| the Socialist movement would re
| ally favor democracy and the uui
jversal franchise in places where the
; non-capitalist elements—or purely ■
| proletarian elements predominate.
•j They announce their object as al- i
,ilruistic—which implies a class to he
an object of this altruism—a class
rpowerless to help itself; this class
4the reformers think is the wage
working class—the properttless
workers, the proletarian-.
Innocence.
Little Mary's conventional edu
cation was begun by teaching her
that she should never, never let
little boys and men see her in her
robe du e'nambre.
Little Jack was knocking at her
door anxious for just one more
romp before the sand man came.
Mary: "You tan’t turn in. Jackie;
I dot my nightie on.”
Jackie: “Aw, please!”
(Dinconcerting pause.t
Mary:. "You tan turn in, now,
Jyckie. I took it off!”
SPECIAL KATE THE REST OF
THE WEEK.
Everything in store reduced.
] Oranges $5.50 per box, Cabbage
! 18 lbs for $1.00. Sweet Potatoes i
; 4 lbs. for 25c., while they last. ,
Leave order for your winter po
tatoes now.
NOME GROCERY CO.
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On “Umatilla" up e.\]iect a limited supply of
LIBERTY BONDS
If the$ arrive, we will sell to those desiring.. If they Sail to ar
rive.
we ran take subscriptions and have bonds deposited in any
Seattle bank to older of purchaser.
GET REHIND OCR GOVERNMENT.
Alaska Lighterage Comercial Co.
Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF \V. STEIGERMAIER AND OF REO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WIRR RE
CEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
I 3RD AND B STREET. PHONE BRACK 162.
Miners and Merchants Bank |
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Nome, Alaska
Capital $100,000.00 .
Workingmen’s Accounts Solicited.
Army Shoes |
EARLY LAST SPRING \VK PLACED AN ORDER WITH
| ONE OE THE GOVERNMENT COXTRATORS FOE ARMY
8 SHOES MADE AS PER GOVERNMENT SPECIFICATIONS ON !
£ THE “MUNSON” LAST. COME IN AND LOOK THEM OVER.
| YOU MAY SOON HE MI'.NISh’kD WITH A PAIR BY “UNCLE j
g SAM" HUT WHY WAIT? j
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BREAD
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3 Loa\ es 30c.
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is prepared to handle
all kinds of
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