Eaily Name Jlndiustrial Maria-Its1
Published Daily except Sunday
a* Nome ’'fine 'Yorkers’ Union, No. 24-0. Western Federation of Miner*.
fro Year . .
;u Mouths....
One Month .. .
Subscription Price
120.00
$10.00
III 00
Entered as second class matter March 1. 1911, at the post office at
dome, * Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 187#.
All changes lti standing advertisements must reach this office at six
a'clock ea ii evening to Insure insertion in the following issue.
Advertising rates made known on application.
"To secure to each laborer the whole product of hls labor, or as
S(.«riv os possible, Is a worthy object of any good government”—
aoranam Llncoia
.■adro'S all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134.
Nome. Alaska,
\ >\end': e : T >. to.
: ' iriK.NVl '
:.••• r: turns from the Bethlehem
... .. ; plant ore inf resting, especi
. , i. tlmi is on*- of the stocks that
roppeil a few points when the
, s.-are" terrified the speculat
ors of Wall Street.
In the year lhil the profits per
man of the Bethlehem Steel Co.
•..■el *3 90. That is "some earnngs.
These we;- - increased during 1P1 -
•(* $ 105 per man. Efficiency began
in gel in its work. In 1913 the pro
fits per man had increased to $000
as the slaves were getting broken
into the system. Then the war
lo aves in sight and the earnings per
man mount to $001 for 1914.
The second year of the war how
over knocked spots out of all pre
vious records, for the year 1915,
the earnings for each individual em
ployed reached the gigantic figure
.$1017. That is clean profits for
every thousand men employed of
over a million dollars. What mine
in the world produces such luscious
profits?
And the finest commentary of it
1 is that the wages paid in 1911
and those paid n 1915 hardly show
vight per cent difference. How equal
ly wealth is distributed among the
producers under efficient capital
ism! No wonder Hughes broke into
a paen of praise for “American effi
cient". There it is in all its un
adorned beauty when it is adorned
the most. Every section of the fair
Efficiency’s hotly covered over with
profit jewelry.
inv estimate:
The administration favors an in
vestigation of liigh prices, preferably
& commission to that end.
The Wilson administration surely
is the investigating adrainstration.
it never overlooks a bet.
Hut in the meantime what became
of the I ml ust rial delation Commis
sion report embodying the results of
their investigations? Have these re
ports been buried among the dead
documents of another age, and none
so poor as bow to do it rever
ence.
Till: IMMItiH vnox HIM..
That the passage of the immigra
lion bill is to better anyone may
well be doubted. That keeping illi
terates out of the country may have
sonii tendency to prevent the devc
'.opment of peon class is highly im
probable. for the most marked char
ieristic of any illiterate is to learn
how to read and writt ns a predo
minating anxiety.
The main supporters of the immi
gration bill have been members ot
tin Am ric.'.u Federation of Labor.
Their contention that many immi
grants are brought into the country
for the purpose of breaking down
wages in various industries may
have a grain of truth. But it is
certain that even within the field
now existing the American Federa
tion of Labor has been making little
progress, and keeping a few Htou
Hantl out would make little dff"r
-ence.
Besides it- is a mistake to imagine
that the foreigners are used as
■strikebreakers. They have been se
lected for work in fields which
should have been organized, and
were not, by the American Federa
tion of Labor, and the painful tact
for American Federation higher of
ficials has been that those same illi
terate foreigners were the last to
perceive the beauties of the craft
syst.em of disorganization.
Now illiteracy has no merits. This
paper would be the last to defend
that condition which is a commen
tary upon the despotism that pre
vails in those countries whence
these illiterate emigrants may come:
religious or economic despotism or
both. The great draw back to illi
teracy is that it is generally united
ith ■ ; and Use w<
■ .at pa< round an incubus of su
ii tktition i; seldom likely to take
an active part in promoting the v.vl
!'are of Ills i las;;.
But as lias been pointed out,
very few indeed of those who arrive
here illiterate are anxious or will
ing to maintain their illiteracy. They
I go out of their way to get rid of it,
and they lose no time about it
; either.
The man who has the misfortune
i to be illiterate seldom hugs that
I misfortune; on the contrary lie
manifests an eagerness for know
ledge that those who are much more
fortunate could copy with profit.
There is less danger to progress
from an illiterate eager to learn
I than there is from one who believes
I that knowledge is dangerous, and
| that the truth is a privilege of cer
! tain castes whose ipse dixit on such
1 things must he inevitably followed
There is much less danger to ad
vancement in an illiterate who real
izes his backward condition and
strives to overcome it, titan from the
stand pat reactionist who thinks
that the gravest danger to society in
the world is the radicalism that re
fuses to accept his leadership and
liis machine and his domination.
< ovsrm ctivk prksenck.
“Constructive Presence” is a le
gal phrase to fasten guilt upon a
man who was absent when a crin.e
was committed. It is a fine example
of the modern legal metaphysics
which is just crushing the rita'.s out
of modern society, and is being used
to destroy labor organizations by
railroading the labor leaders or or
ganizers.
The finest example In these days
I of the use of this “‘constructive pre
I senee” doctrine, is the arrest of the
[ organizers of the iron ore workers
| in the Mesaba range strike, when
I four or five were arrested charged
with murder committed by a gun
man who happened to be deputized.
Although it is admitted that these
organizers were not there, the state
is trying to prove that they had
there a constructive presence inas
much as they had aided the strike
and assisted in its being prolonged,
and the shooting of which they are
charged was performed during the
course of that strike.
11 was a similiar “constructive
presence:’ which convicted Lawson
of murder in Colorado. He was not
present, but lie was President of the
district of the Pnited Mine Workers
which was on strike and during
Mb ii tiie shooting was done, and
tliere ore was “coiittlrut!ivelj pre
sent', and committed the act.
Tie- law is a wonderful thing in
tin hands of the wonderful master
class which is responsible for its en
forcement. But nothing more wond
erful. more weird or more monstrous
lias ever been evolved from their
crazy theories of life and living
than this absurd doctrine of “con
structive presence”. It makes the
metaphysics of the dark ages logical,
and respectable from a rational
point of view, compared to the le
gal theology that these servants ot
Mammon have discovered to prop
the bloody deeds of capitalism.
“Constructive Presence” —the
phrase and the doctrine will be
worth hearing in mind.
FIX A NCIAL Til IMHLKRIG.
High Finance is a modern art. Not
that little achievements were not ac
complished In other days by the
magnates of that time. But today
it is down on a scientific basis: clear
cut, effective and most admirable.
The other day the railroads se
cured a general Increase in rates
from the Interstate Commerce Com
mission after pressure had been
brought to bear on that somewhat
elastic minded body through the
skilful manipulation of the press.
The poor railroads! Every editorial
ist sighed and cried about the par
lous condition of the transportation
industry. They were unable to make
ends meet. They were sunk m i
poverty, so abject and so vile that i
they were a disgrace to the country
And every investor was entitled to
legitimate profits: every stockhold
er was entitled to a reasonable re
turn on his investment. The widows
and orphans whose revenue came
from the shares and stocks of the
roads were starving and destitute
and what not. Every paper had
them, and they apeared in even the
remotest corners. The .pounding
away gradually drove the Interstate
Commerce Commission to action and
the increase was granted. Since then
profits have been big. They have
been on some roads simply fabulous.
They are out of all proportion to
previous earnings, and at that it
they had more cars and more rolling
stock they could still do more.
Vet they are judicious. They
dont slice off a melon and send ten
fifteen or twenty per cent increased
dividends to the smiling shareliold
• rs. They are a good deal wiser.
Tin y slap on another few million to
their •common' stock, equal to the
profits, and issue the shares just
made to the stockholders in the way
of a bonus. Their capital stock rises,
■is in one specific instance, from
thirty to fifty million dollars, and
they will, when times are not so
brisk, go before the Interstate Com
merce Commission and ask that
they he allowed to make reasonable
profits upon that fifty million capital
stock, twenty million of witch is just
pure water.
The High Finance of these roads
is certainly marked by a prudent eye
upon the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. They have to have as large
capital stock as possible when mak
ing their demands for a “legitimate'
profit upon that stock, and the
higher the stock is, the more they
will demand in the way of rates to
pay dividends thereupon.
That is the new use of watered
stock and into many roads during
these years, of industrial activities
and increased rates, the water has
been flowing in to the capital in quite
wonderful fashion.
Every road that follows this
highly clever -policy will be able to
make quite a respectable showing
when the next demand is made for
the permission to increase freight
rates another notch.
The ways of capital are myster
ious. but they are not without me
thod in their mystery.
PKOOK.
As every one knows among the
trusts that have been completely de
stroyed is the American Tobacco Co.
Some interesting facts were ad
duced before Congress before it ad
journed in October in tlie shape of
testimony brought before the Judi
ciary Committee to show that a new
York District Attorney refused to
take cognizance of the existence of
criminal combinations.
The most important was the testi
mony of I.lr. Joseph Oc hs, the presi
dent of the Cigar Dealers Associa
tion. How is this:
“Mr. Nelson (to Ochs). What
are the conditions in the tobacco
business now compared to what
they were before the dissolution ot
the so-called tobacco trust?
Mr. Ochs: Conditions in my opin
ion are far worse.
Mr. Nelson: The independents!
suffer as much as they did before
the dissolution?
Mr. Ochs: Why, if your lionoi
please, they have re-dotlied them
(the trust) in such a way they have
more power than they ever had be
fore.”
Ochs went on to state that the
[•trust was eliminating rivals in
bunches and was driving al! com
petition off the field.
So it is that the law which was
supposed to destroy the trusts actu
ally aids them. They are greater
than the Law.
MACKENZEN IS NOW
SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE
BERLIN, Dec. 17.—A Staat’s
Zeitung report says that Mackenzen
| is continuing his Rumanian advance
and is now hammering aU'^ong
Moldavia. The capture of further
important positions are announced
with the Russians and Rumanians
still falling back especially east of
Mezil where the Teuton conquests
are important and the number ot
prisoners very large. The report says
. • • •
LYNX NUMEROUS.
Clias Jones arrived in town last
night from Osborne creek where he
with Steve Haid and Chas Haering
have been doing the assessment
work on his ground. He reports
lynxes as being numerous in the
Osborne country and one man, a
partner of Dixon shot one of record
size a few days ago.
that Mackenzen is simply irresistible
and the Rumanians are quite dis
ordered in their retirement.
FIRST MEETING.
The first meeting of the Aksala
earnival called for Sunday afternoon
2 p. m., was called to order by A.
Polet, chairman.
Upon consideration resolution were
offered to meet again Tuesday evn
ing, Dec. 19, City Hall.
Resolution were also passed that
all absentees in any future meetings
be fined for non attendance.
MOVES THEM RACK.
Fred Larson moved his reindeer
herd back to Sinrock on Saturday.
Now In the time to Snbsorihe.
The Arctic Bakery
A Fine Selection
or XMAS GIFTS IN SH VI’K OF
Fancy (Juih1.v-B<>\pk and Muskets to solwt front. We ran supply
jour demands. liulk Candies of all kinds for the Xmas Tree,
heave your orders now. Candy Canes, After Dinner Mints and
Salted Nuts to order.
IlOSK CANDY STOIIK AND ARCTIC 1JAKKRV.
The home of Fancy Fas try and good hunches.
KK.MKMiiklt! One chance on a lai’ne fancy liasket with every
Twenty-Five Cents Purchase.
waawaBBiaiewgw^Maaw^^
PRICES AGAIN REDUCED ON
FORD AUTOMOBILES
Chassis price is now $ 325.00
Runabout $ 345.00
Touring $360.00
! F. G. 3. DETROIT
j PUCE VMM ORDER NOW
! ALASKA LIGHTERAGE 8 GOM'L CO.
fi B
wsrawwraafiK*. *>#«;!£ wawaarawcRwraw
^!,!W*«LS!fi'«*iRf:WWt4PWW>A:WK!fi»iSBm a5*WS#!«:WWW!M»
MT. VERNON RANCH EGGS
DOC PER DOZEN
Have you tried our Mt. Vernon Ranch Eggs which we are sell
ing at 50c. per dozen? If not you have overlooked something.
These eggs will compare very favorably with eggs for which you
pay 75c. per dozen. Try them and save 25c per dozen. This is quite
an item. You know our reputation for having the best eggs.
And we are sincere in saying that this is the best value for the
money we have ever been able to offer.
"OEjCROWLEY
MBRRlfiXXlfilfSRKMKlR KiftF#*#*****!**!* * S/ilKiKKKKKf'JSK/SISKKKiaKKIBnOBKS
Kent Transfer Co.
General Transfer & Freighting
^oai & Q//
Phone Main 139.
TRY
PHIL MURPHY
FOR LEATHER VESTS & COATS, THE LONG KIND OREGON
CITY MACKINAWS. HATS SHIRTS, PANTS, SHOES, UNDER
WEAR, SWEATERS, FUR CAPS, MITTS, WOOL GLOVES,
PARKAS AND ROBES.
MURPHY HAS THE GOODS
Men's Women’s Children’s
Since the opening of Navigation we have received 3270 pairs
of SHOES and RUBBER FOOTWEAR. Every boat brings more.
“There is a reason”. Our prices are right and our business lias
been built by satisfactory service to our patrons.
| P. A. PETERSON SHOE CO.
«#a
PROFESSIONAL CARD.
Dr. A. F. Heimlich
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
Office & Residence:
OVER HILL’S PHARMACY.
Office Hours: 2—5 and 7—8 p. m.
Phone Main 7.
John Hancock
NIGHT SCHOOL. 212 FRONT ST.
From 6:30 to 8:30 p. m.
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic,
also Art of Bookkeeping.
Terms reasonable.
I
I
Try our Mild Cured
Hams and Bacon
Also our WILD ROSE LARD9 made
| from the pure leaf fatf In 3, 5, 10 and
120 lbs.
cans.
I1 Independent Meat Market I
W. H. Webb 2
I TEL MAIN 15 {