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Ml Nome Mine Workers' Union. No. S40. Wester* Federation of Miner*.
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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of hla labor, or as
aeariy as possible. Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
abraham Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. • Phone, Black 184.
Nome, Alaska, December 12, 1910.
I'UK CHICAGO 1XVKSTIGATIOX.
The Grand Jury investigation ot
i he high prices which prevail in the
Windy City will doubtless he follow
ed by a series of indictments. The
investigations of this nature usually
are. But it is quite another matter
to bring those who artificially con
trol the supply, so that it will never
equal the demand, to prompt justice.
Chicago Grand Jury investigations
are strewn with quashed indictments
They got after the wheat speculat
ors, the packers, * the white slave
trust, the police graft, the landlords
of bawdy houses, and after these
indictments had been duly returned
and the evil conditions fully probed,
there the matter lay until the court
went in session when demurrers and
motions to quash put the indict
ments out of commission.
In no place has legal chicanery
reached the high state of scientific
development that it has gathered to
itself in Chicago. There the higher
ups are immune, and although every
now and then someone with a highly
developed civic sense obtains a little
lame and notoriety by his investiga
tions, the matter settles itself into
the same stagnant pool of every day
capitalist immunity.
liven the one exception of Jack
Johnson who as a colored gentleman
paid the penalty of exile for an of
fense under the Mann Act, the rest
of the vicious ones are really so
completely in alliance with the poli
tically great that they are quite safe.
In any event, these probes have
an educational effect. It takes a
considerable number of them to
make an impression, but constant
dropping wears the stone and even
tually some will realize that things
are not as they have appeared to
them.
That the food supply of the nation
is being manipulated by combines
admits of no doubt. But it is done
in a perfectly legitimate way. It is
all a matter of business. It is a
ease of extracting as high profits as
possible from the circulation of food
commodities.
What is the use of this finding
. fault with an intensive effect wpen
the'cause is left wholly untouched?
The farmer himself will hold back
his grain, quite regardless of the
demand society makes for it. if the
farmer can afford to do so. Usually
the farmer is a poor man in debt to
the bank or the store and has to sell
just as soon as possible to pay up
his debts. But dozens, even hund
reds of farmers have deliberately
witheld their grain until a higher
price would put in an appearance in
the market. He did not raise the
grain to feed anybody. He raised
the grain to make money. He will
make money if he can and his main
objection to present conditions is
that the brokers and the speculators
and the elevatormen function as he
would like to function. They are
just in the same line of business as
he is himself: as any business man
is: handling the goods that pass
through his hands not for the satis
faction of the social need, hut to
make profits. And those who stand
for the profit system have no squeal
•coming over high prices. They have
no McV cpipinfi W lqgi^imafe efforts
arc made the way of trading and
buying and selling to make those
profits as globularly large as poss
ible. They certainly are not justi
fied in finding fault with one man
because he makes big profits out of
human need, and uphold the small
man who makes very small profits
out of the same functioning. The
difference of that function is not in
kind but in degree. The quality of
the transaction of the man who
wants to secure one hundred percent
profit and that of the mau who is
satisfied wth 25 per oent is identical
The quantity of per centage alone
varies and that is all.
The troupe Is that we do not
look at the economic situation fair
ly and squarely, and note that the
effects which are complained of are
merely effects which followed front
the original cause: production for
profits.
The social morality which makes
a manufacturer direct a retailer to
withold certain commodities from
the market lest it become in excess
of the demand and thus the price
may fall, and the profits be curtail
ed to a considerable degree, does not
admit of criticism by a society which
insists upon the profit system.
If making profits is the supreme
reason for all industrial activity,
then the more profits are made the
better. Nor can we delude ourselves
wllh the notion that this is not the
main ideal of good business. The
man who makes big money by ma
nipulating stocks, wares, merchan
dise or any particular commodity
in the industrial, commercial or
financial world is the successful
man. He is the man who is hailed
by all and sundry as the type which
the youth of the land would do well
to follow. And it is absurd to a
degree to affect virtuous indignation
when these activities are brought
home to us by intolerably high
prices. No complaint is in order. It
is simply a manifestation of the pro
fit system that is before us and
urhii-h Is hrmieht home to us: logi
cal and inevitable and inherent iu j
capitalism.
To imagine a condition, where \
the struggle has been made so keen j
among the various ones struggling j
to live by buying an4 selling, can i
be in any way ideal is tfo imagine the |
wholly impossible.
Usually buying and selling is re- j j
regarded as a highly respectable
function in society, performed by
highly respectable men with their
own code of honor and very high
notions indeed of business inte
grity.
The average man knows the man i
whom he buys from, and the aver- |
age man who sells will be in a post- j
tion to call himself the friend of bte
customer. It seems for that reason
an ideal relation between the two.
Society has given it a stamp of ap
proval that justifies the entire trans- j
action.
Moreover the seller will usually j
regard himself as a man who func- I
tions most usefully in meeting the |
demand for goods and justifies the ]
extraction of certain profits for thus j
functioning. It is very simple.
What really takes place is this, j
Labor is employed at so much per j
day. That amounts to the cost ot j
j producing a day’s labor for the mori j
! row. That is to say, equivalent to j
| maintaining the laborer who wijl j
j reproduce that labor power. In ref \
! turn for that hire, the worker wli* !
'nmnlAvorl will nPflHllCP P.niTHYIol '
(Uties over and above the amouni
[ of bis' hire which are usually apj
praised, about four fifths, over andl
above.
! The manufacturer or owner of
. the means of production sends thes^
, wares to the market. These do nol
j realize their actual value until they
; reach the consumer. The middle
man takes some, the retailer takes
some. the shipper or wholesaler
takes some. And the consumer
comes up with the amount of the
values of unpaid labor which wsre
in that article. The various channels
through which it passed in the way
of freight, in the way of rent, in the
way of taxes, in the way of profits,
in the way of Interest all came out
of the original laborer, and the con
sumer buys his money’s worth on an
average. •
They came out of the orUgnal la
borer because the right of ownership
enabled the man who had the pro
ductive machinery and whose pro
perty the land and the plant were,
to extract that labor power which
went into the various articles, for
simply paying the laborer enough
to live upon.
What is really taking place in the
distribution of commodities then is
a struggle to grab as big a chunk of
these surplus values which labor has
created in it. Sometimes so much
has been extracted by the middle
men that there is .none left for any
one else, and the consumer has to
pay over and above the production
values. They hitch up the price a
notch and the article that is badly
needed is required to be marked at
a price which bears no relation to
its labor values nr productin cost.
It .has quite often happened the
other way about. Men have con
trolled through ownership the pro
duct of a vast quantity of labor
which they cannot sell. There is
no demand. The price falls below
the labor values .therein and usually
a business stagnation follows with
frequent bankruptcies in industry
and commerce, or if it is an agricul
tural product, frequent plasters lor
the ranch.
The chief good that the great in
dustrial organizations, such as the
textile trust, the steel trust and the
oil trust have done for business is
that they keep better tabs upon the
market demands. When there if a
brisk demand they accomodate their
output thereto and they take care
that they do not flush the market. In
conseauence such industries mav >x
perience abnormal activities due to
abnormal conditions, but they do not
experience abnormal depression for
they never let the supply of their
product outstrip the demand. In
consequence their prices are subject
to much less flunctuation than others
which are not trustified.
If one wants to glance at a chart
of prices in various lines, one can
tell those which are well organized
and trustified by the steady and little
varying rise or fall that the prices
show in the chart.
In any event what we want to un
derstand is that the price situation
must be first of all handled in the
production of the commodity. There
is where exploitation first of all
takes place: the real exploitation. It
is because production is for profit
and not for use, that these hundred
and one manifestations people com
plain of, exist.
Legislation is not going to change
this condition unless legislation
would interfere with profiteering.
And we know that as the legislators
are . so minded, this is clearly im
possible.
It is only, in point of fact, wjien
such a terrific condition of things as
a great war, brings on a national
crisis, production for profit is made
to cease and production for the na
tional weal is compelled to take its
place. So it is that the hungry are
fed in war torn Germany, while the
hungry go unfed in the United
States at peace. It is quite imma
terial that during peace there is not
enough work for all, and that when
the'tramp goes to work the working
man must go on tramp. That does
not affect the profit system. It is i
only when a war forces upon the j
authorities the rigid necessity of J
making national use of labor for the i
national safety or the national wel- j
fare, the exploitation that formerly j
was the glory of the nation is j
throw into the discard as a method |
tried and found wanting, and wholly j
unequal to the drastic demands j
made by a critical situation.
That human welfare should be the
main incentive of human activities ;
j and not private profits, who can rea- |
! sonably deny? But it is hard to j
j wean persons who have once devot- ;
: ed themselves to the seductive de
lights of the Money God! You can
1 not serve Man and Mammon, so we
prefer Mammon. But it is not rea
sonable to assail his ritual.
PROFESSIONAL CARD.
Dr. A. F. Heimlich
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON'.
Office & Residence:
OVER HILL’S PHARMACY.
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Office Hours: 2—5 and 7—8 p. m.
Phone Main 7.
John Hancock
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NIGHT SCHOOL. 212 FRONT ST.
From 6:30 to 8:30 p. m.
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic,
also Art of Bookkeeping.
Terms reasonable.
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Chassis price is now
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Touring
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MT. VERNON RANCH EGGS
500 PER DOZEN
Have you tried our Mt. Vernon Ranch Eggs which we are sell
ing at 50c. per dozen? It .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.
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PHIL MURPHY ».
FOR LEATHER VEST8 & COATS, THE LONG KIND OREGON
CITY MACKINAWS. HATS SHIRTS, PANTS, SHOES, UNDER
WEAR, SWEATERS, FUR CAPS, MITTS, WOOL GLOVES,
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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 has
been built by satisfactory service to our patrons.
P. A. PETERSON SHOE CO.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
All taxpayers will please take no
tice that the Assessment Roll of the
City of Nome for the year 1916 isj
completed and in the hands of thd
City Clerk of said City and open foB
the inspection of the public.
You are further notified that purl
suant to resolution duly passed bj
the Common Council of said Cityj
the said Common Council will s|t ai
a Board of Equalization on ThuraJ
day, December 14, 191$, at 8 o'clock
P. M. of said day, and at such times
thereafter as said Council may by
resolution determine,-to examine! the
said assessment (Roll and to correct
all errors in valuation, description
or quantity of lands, lots, aqd other
property. and to transact such other
and further business as may proper
ly come before said board.
E. GRIMM.
City Clerk.
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