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% Nome Mioe Worker** Union, No. *40. Western Federation of Miner*.
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name, Alassa, uoaer the Act of March 3, 187*.
"To secure to each laborer the whole product of Uia labor, or at
aearly a'a possible, Is a worthy object of any good government."—
Abraham Lincoln
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L>a*i> N; ■ !■ iustrial Worker,
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Nome, .'ilii'k*.
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The general exjda ration of the
high price of coal throughout Un
east is explained bv tb-alcrs as due
to a shortage, which in turn is due
to the fact that then :s a <mv short
age and the means of transportation
are not forth -oiuing. Moreov. r the
fact is to b: pointed out that many
mills and factories and manufactur
ing plants throughout the country
have had to shorten their operating
time on account of this shortage,
this is especially true of the south.
Some mines unquestionably have
not been able to operate at full ca
pacity because a car shortage pre
vented them filling orders, and this
condition in the coal industry has
applied with some degree of accura
cy to the entire system of distribu
tion in agricultural and manufactur
ing products.
This is due of course to 'he trade
stimulus which the war has created
and the resulting rush of products
1o the various ports for exportation,
the filling of foreign orders taxed
the car •• ( of the r;.il*
roads to beyond the normal limits,
and in cons.-iucnfe the railroads
could not handle the traffic with suc
cess and with any sort of sufficiency.
Wit It nut Hilda’;-' emphasizing this.
reason ii r ascu cost ui nuns. 11
< s : tlm
higher prices are due in a consider- '
aide wav to th • inability of tin rail-!
roads to take care of supplying the
demands.
It is worth while recalling in this
connection the condition that pre
vail-d just before the war. Then
cars were idle to an extraordinary
extent. Siding carried silent on the
tricks innumerable strings of emp
ties and the railroads used this as
a cogent argument for increasing
the rates.
The reason why the present indus
trial spurt is not met promptly by
the railroads with a sufficiency ot
rolling stock is because they allege
that if they now order enough roll
ing stock to meet the emergency,
they will have only longer and more
unprofitable strings of empties upon
their tracks later on. Th- " will be
inv "ting money > . ' nich
will afterwards be unused, because
beyond the normal traffic demands
of the railways. They cannot afford
to do that.
It is thus seen that in exact juxta
position with the public require
ments, the railroads have to place
the mere important requirements of
div> b mb. end as usual the public re
quire nn nts suffer. Yet it is the
only reasonable thing for the rail
ways to do. They are public carriers,
it is true, but they are corporations
primarily as public carrh rs for the
ii:H' sol* purpose of making money
at the work. They are in control of
the in*.!;, whereby the distribution
of the social necessaries and luxuries
is maintained, and because they pri
vately own that, th< i” ownership en
ables them to extract certain profits
from the undertaking.
If the public, so much in evidence
just now in labor troubles permit
private individuals to extract a pro
fit from performing public functions;
justify the extraction of that profit
by legal and conventional authority;
admit that in the fulfilment of that
public function not the performance
thereof but the making of profit
therein shall be the first considera
tion of these private owners, the
public lias neither justification for
complaint at high rates or at an in
adequate supply of cars.
Hut if the needs of society are in
adequately performed because of that
private ownership, if private owner
ship in making its money fails to
function as well as an industrially
co-operative system of distribution
would do, and the necessity of plac
ing dividends above the social wel
fare is properly and rightfully eli
minated, it should serlfie at least to
change the archaic system which
: ; in society whereby the pri
vate- proiit of private owners is
il above the common weal and
no i-v.!.ii* .rciion of the social
IK' tMtii.
But the trend in society is quite
he otliei v. ay about. The trend to
day is towards solidifying the posi-,
tiorr of private owners in all lines
and bringing about a condition of in
d'ustrial absolutism. The little fel
low is being submerged rather than
merged, and the great combinations
are absorbing all the fields possible
for profit because they ob
sorb all ownership within
their own. The trend too, is toward
ilie elimination of the middle class
and the resulting production of an
owning class seeking profits, and a
producing 11011-owning class which
will wage constant war against those
in control of industry until there is
no longer antagonisms of class but
an industrial democracy.
Ti.i; ( 11M1 HON LAW.
V recent number of the Juneau
Empire contains a news item of in
terest. It tolls of a suit filed by two
plainthi's who claim under the terri
torial law the sum of $1,800 for
permanent dis.t 1 ment ; id from
the Treadwell company.
'1 lie main argument used by tne
Tipany ar.d llie company attorneys
v. ho manufactured it for the legisla
fure to ;. ;■», was that it would save
11; • poor workers the long litigation
anti eliminate the lawyers who bat
ned upon such suits for damages.
The i ill would enable prompt pay
ment eliminate law suits and satisfy
tin- workers .who stood in need of
the money.
This buncombe is now riddled with
hoi by the suits just filed. It
places the facts clearly before us;
shows that the workers are in iden
tically the same situation as ever be
fere. with this difference that the
amount that may he sued for is li
mited to a certain paltry sum which
will not pay the doctor’s bill and
will not pay the lawyer nor llie hos
pital accounts against the unfortun
ate sufferers.
The Industrial Worker when the
text of the bill become known at
that time characterized the measure
as a “limitation of employers’ liabil
ity law” and that is what it is seen
today to he exactly.
It is quite immaterial how grossly
negligent may have been the com
pany, nor how criminal may have
been the carelessness of the de
fendants, nor how indifferent to hu
man safety it may have been. It is
immaterial how flagrant and wilful
and aforethought neglectful may
have been uie company, tnc men can ;
sue for just so much and no more. ]
It is quite beside the question that
the hospital bills and doctors ac
counts may have run into sums far
beyond the fee determined upon,
the law in a kindly maimer limits
the liability of the company.
It is an infamous law. It is a law
without even a scintilla of justifica
ition and the mere fact that suits,
| tedious and costly, have to be filed
by the sufferers shows that quite
plainly.
The most elementary feature of a
compensation bill should present in
clear terms the responsibility of the
employers for medical attendance
and hospital care during such j
time as the injured need it. And j
above all, its utility is nullified when i
suits have to be brought in the same !
old way as ever except that the j
amount may be sued for. is limited j
by law. Ilut the whole thing is i
such ail irony that the equivocal (
title may be the very last thing to |
be subjected to criticism. And the j
joke is upon the workers.
Patronize the Nome Tailoring Co.
Wiiy? Because they do the best
work, and- are the only pioneer
tailors in Nome.
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TWO CONTRACTORS HELD UP.
NEW CASTLE, Pa., Jan. 10.—Ift
a bold daylight robbery, two con
ractors v.-orking for the Lawrence
Limestone Company were held up
>y four masked men today at Wam
um, Pa., near here and robbed of
"1,000. The robbers escaped to the
,-oods. Posses with bloodhounds
■,rc- hunting them.
TOEA INDIANS ON WARPATH.
BIT ENAS AIRES, Jan. 10.—Ar
gentine troops are hurrying toward
the Bolivian border to protect
Buenaventura towards which pro
vince Toba Indians on the warpath
are being driven by Bolivian troops.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Ed. Carlson, your heirs, execut
ors, administrators and assigns:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended during the year ending fist
December, 1910, the sum of One
hundred dollars in labor and im
provements upon placer mining
laim known and described as No. 1
B low on Hastings Creek, located
lie 1st day of January 1909 and rc
corded in Volume 184 at page -225
of the records of the Cape Nome Re
eling Precinct, Territory of Al
aska.
You are her by further notified,
that if within ninety (90) days
after the last publication of this no
tice you fail or refuse to contribute
your propertion of such expenditure
your interest in said claim wlil be
come the property of the under
signed, your co-owner, ur.ddr the
provisions of Section 2224 of the
Revised Statutes of the United
States.
Dated this 2rd day of Jan. 1917.
J. S. KIMBALL COMPANY.
Co-Owner.
A 1 ll 1 -
Date of last publ., March 29, 1917..
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To E. H. Thaeher, Martin Costello,
l. Dashley, Julius Carstens and
Charles F. Duggan, your
heirs, executors, assigns or per
sonal representatives:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that I have caused to he
expended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars
each year for the years of 1915 and
1916, or, placer mining claim known
as No. 10 Above Discovery on Dr;,
Creek and fully described in the
Records of the Cape Nome Re
cording Precinct, in the Second Di
vision of the 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 and each of yon
jure further notified that if
i within ninety days after tli
j last publication of this notice you
fail to contribute your proportion
of said expenditure, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned your co-owner
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
DAN CONNOLLY.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Jan. 3, 1917.
Date of last publ., March 29, 1917.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
1 In the United States I.ar.d Office at
Nome, A hi ha*, December 16, 1916.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) Ry \V. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address 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 States
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, said claims being more
| particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
thereof now on file in said Land i
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows, j
lo-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with !
S. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No. !
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur. j
695, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above j
ground in earth mond scribed 1-717, i
4-095, 1-1175, D. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E. ;
4:10.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg, 1G min.
\,\ Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00 ]
i. t ) Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg. j
57 .uin. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. i
| j .40 ft. to Cor. No. 0; thence N.
i deg. 45 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 10.
i min. E. C70.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4; I
. lb.nice S. 3 deg. 23 min. E. Var, i
.9 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 43 ■
min. \V. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. !
3S0.80 ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S. j
45 deg. 53 min. \V. Var. 19 deg. 25 j
min. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13 j
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min. 1
E. 400.SO ft. to place of begining, ]
containing 5.90S acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical :
with loc. cor. dn line 1-6 of Sur. No.
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
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
\ ill . 1 UtTg. AU 111X11. IU. JUU.UU 1C..
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 48 deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E,
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 2C9.49 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. i 9
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 81 deg. 00 min. E.
Var. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft. *
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45 ;
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. ,
67 0.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place <5f be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on mi
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
. of Nome, in the Capo Nome Record
' ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
<o which said claims are tied, is a
] fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground i
iu stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base
ribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat- :
cd about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road,
is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North ,
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Vol.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Vol.
165 Page 225 and Vol. 199 Page
85, Records of Cape Nome Record
ing Distriet, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
; North No. 2 Above on Lake -Creek,
! Survey No. 698 and Gold Bag Claim
I Survey No. 434; on the East un
I surveyed; on the South .No. 1
I Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 6 95; on the West,
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 747. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., Feb. 21, 1917.
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| Runabout $ 345.00 |
jj Touring $360.00 \
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