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tearly as possible. Is a worthy object of any rood government.”—
kbranam Lincoln
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1811, a* the post office at
Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 8, 1878.
Nome. Alaska. April 22, 1010.
THE PRIVATE ARMIES.
The Pennsylvania railroad has Us
own private armories and private
guards ready for all emergencies.
The investigation of the Industrial
Relations Commission showed that
That is one form of preparedness
and also Corves to explain the anxi
ety for a large prmy in this coun
try.
Meantime the industrial' chiefs aro
taking no chances r and we quote
from the Army and Navy Journal
of February i> to Show that this con
dition is not quite rare:
“For various reasons I am not at
liberty to mention the name of the
firm", says the writer of tho article
quoted from, “The guard is oi^a
liized on a military basis and con
sist of a captain two senior liuete
nants and three junior lieutenants
The men are divided into three com
panies and each on duty for eight
consecutive hours. There are fort\
five posts including patrol. The du
ties of the sentinels are governed by
by the (!. O. for sentinels of th<
I’nited States Army, with such mo
dification:! :c; are neecr.rtry. Th*
men at" comfortably uniformed and
li.ivo le n .ingnlurly free from sicK
noKS due lo exposure. The rt! cirlim
is severe men are discharged iin
iik dii i ly for Vruhkenes .
Oil pi): t . q llttin V 01! f . mil d; i 1 i VV 0:1
Corps iii' ii; lor employment u o
must have »orv. d ct least two
Ji . meats and must lo w “exc-:..
ili .charges. A I - :
u:: 1 tlfly men \.
„ mid lieutenant t’llillipi 11 c Scui,
it ..arrant officer, C. S. Navy retire i:
the army we have fourteen
11 up
II (U Willi wuruil I.IUA
itii.-r thirty years service; two nine
to twelve years service; three six
to nine years; eighteen six to
twenty-five years; thirty five corpo
rals and forty-five privates Oi
former navy men we have one
former Chief' Master at Arms, twelve
years; one master at arms ilrst class
twelve years and lesser ratings
from four to sixteen years service.
Prom the marine corps we have
three sergeants and one corporal ot
eight years service and eighteen
titivates with from eight to twenty
years.
That the company has been highly
impressed with the mainly*bearing,
reliability, alertness and general
foreefulness of men who had mili
tary training the following will
»how: It has been recently consoli
dated with other large companies
whose guards were composed entire
ly of civilians and men supplied by
the various detective agencies.
Those men are all being replacod by
ex-service men. When Recruited up
to Tlieir l’rof»oeed Strength Of 800,
, They Will Form One Of The Ablest
Anti Most Kfflclent Organizations Ot
Its Kind In The Country”.
So far from the writer in the
Army and Navy Journal.
This organization of which he
speaks is concerned with no national
matter whatsoever, but the protec
tion of the dollars and cents of the
companies. They are tho private
rotainers of thp industrial ov n
lords and paid by them- Now every
case of violence reported within ths1
past five or ten years in labor trouts
les has begun by the violenco ot
those hired retainers of the private
companies who owned them.
They are armies; they, are armed.
They have machine guns and rifles
and armored autos. They are not
any more preparation for defense
than preparation for war—war
against the working class. They are
used for that express purpose, just
as we saw in West Virginia, in Colo
rado and in a number of other
places- • . • ,t
This is one of the most remark
able characteristics of this age 01
industrial development in the
United States. And this develop
ment ought to give people food for
thought and make them think it
they ever do.
How any such an organization of
six hundred armed men, not at the
beck and call of the people, but at
the beck and call of an irrespons
ible company, is compatible with
democracy we can safely leave un
answered because not to be answered
lint the interesting phase of the
question which drives itself home
is this: granted that these men
lure for the defense of capital ana
jgranting the differences that arise
• • i labor and capit X and in
! ., b h these men are invarr-tuy made
I ■ of, what will happen if the
iv. rkers proceed to organize along
! doesn’t ev
i this vi. *.\
. world wil
!>! >• d of an
1: . ley l. rii ate n army. \. ell,
i.i-j have created u. tt is their own.
They have their guns and the'r
. anuon. They have their trained ot
icers; -men whom the United States
lueuted and paid in educating.
Here is capitalist preparedness and
a phase of it that is worth consider
: \ \ i’.
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AS \ I'llSM i
(The following sketch is taken
from a story, "My Life in the Tren
ches,” which was recently printed in
the Boston Sunday Post. In this
sketch a war "hero” describes in
modest language the sensations he
experienced when he first thrust a
bayonet into the body of a fellow
being. This is good “copy” for the
capitalist papers; it appeals to the
savage instinct in the reader that
makes such men as Roosevelt whoop
it up for war. War is a great anil
glorious thing, if we are to judge
it from this delightful little account
of a tete a tete in the trenches:)
Told by Elmer R. Getchell.
I had been In the trenches
about a month when my first experi
ence In hand-to-hand bayonet fight
ing came. True, I had shot down
several Germans at long range, but
that was a matter of course and
did not have the thrill attached to
it that bayoneting did.
It was during "stand to”, about
5 o'clock in the morning, that a
sentry yelled:
"The Germans arp coming!
In a second all the dugouts were
emptied and the parapets manned.
Immediately an order was given
to repel the attack.
Then we fired ten rounds of rapid
fire Into the on-rushlng enemy. For
a second I actually could see them
waver and fall back.
That gave us our opportunity to
clamber out of the trench over para
pet and down the Hold. This was
with "fixed bayonets."
At first we advanced In extended
order and then we went pell-mell,
yelling like mad men all the while.
Almost every man was cursing
loudly to relieve the tension. Men
were falling all around me. “
At the start we were- only 150
yards from the enemy; at 100 yard*
my knees began to shake; at 50 i
Imagined my last moment on earth
had come. Then almost before 1
knew it, I was facing the coid
steel.
I never will forget that first Ger
man face that popped up in front ot
me and jabbed a bayonet at my
breast. I dodged, and as I did so
every lesson in bayonet parrying 1
had ever learned rushed through
my mind.
He was a foot away from me. I
tried to ward off the attack.
Jumping back, I drew back my
rifle for a short, sharp jab to the
stomach, and before I could make
the jab he clubbed his musket and
caught me on the side of the face
an awful blow.
I went down to my knees, but in
a second I was up, almost a mad
man, fighting for my very life.
As I came up I let him have it.
head on, in the stomach, and there
was all the force I could command
behind the thrust.
Although it seems awful now in
writing about it, as a matter of tact
then, in the situation a3 it was
there was a certain satisfaction to
it.
But I had a nauseating feeling,
and for a fraction of a second I was
limp all over. This feeling soon left
me, however.
After that I had a terrible lust
for blood.
I don’t know how many men 1
killed in that same combat, but
there were many.
I was a maniac.
I can’t even remember what )
did do after that first victim. All i
know is l got back to the trenches
alive and body whole.—Ex.
NOTICE OK FORKEITUKK.
To Gretchen 1’. Meyer, D. B. Keith,
John '1'. Campion, your heirs, ex
editors, asseigns or personal re
presentatives:
You and each of you are liereby
notilied that I have expended in la
bor and improvements the sum of
one hundred dollars each year for
.• year:- < . l!n>2, ! '.‘03, 1001, l’jit:..
1 30 C. I ’>07. I V!-, 15109, i in, 131’.
1912 and 1915 on the followiee
claims loatcd on Solomon river
,in the Nome Minii 11
District, Bel claim, Mamin claim
od
And you and each
further notified that
ninety days after the
•ion of tliis notice you f
buto your proportion of
diture, your interest in
•ou are
within
uibltca-1
> contri
expen-,
claim - :
will become the properly of the:
undersigned, your co-owner under
section 232 1 Revised Statutes of
the United States.
(Signed) \VM. NIELSON.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publi., March IS, 1910.
Date of last publ., June 17, 1916...
I.et us estimate on yout Job Work
V. W. LEWIS.
Successor to W. Ueltar.
Ware House on 3rd Ave. 14x30 In
good condition $75.00. Hard Wood
Ski $10.00 and $15.00 pair. Ski
Sticks 25c. Ski Sticks ready for use
$1.25. No. 0 Victor traps 6 for
$1.00. No. 1 Victor traps $2.5u
doz. No. 1 1-2 Victor traps 2dc
each. Standard Household Lubri
cant for sewing machines, type
writers, bieycles, guns, grindstones
etc., will not gum or corrode,
handy can 25c. 40 Remington high
power rifle $30.00. 30 Remington
autoloading and repeating rifles
85c box. 22 Automatic $22.50.
C. W. LEWIS
Successor to W. Delbar.
Anything in the line of Job work
at the Industrial Worker Office.
MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 0283
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska,
April 18th, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that the
Flume Dredge Company, a corpora
tion organized under the laws of
the State of California, with it3
principal place of business and post
office address. Mills Building, San
Francisco, California, has throtigh
Jas. M. Streeten, its authorized
agent, whose post office address Is
Nome, Alaska, made application for
a United States patent for No. 14
Above Discovery placer mining
claim, situated on Melcing Creek,
in the Council City Recording Di
strict, Territory of Alaska, and de
signated a3 Mineral Survey No.
1172, which said placer mining claim
is described according to the plat
and field notes now on file in the
U. S. Land Office at Nome, Alaska,
with a magnetic variation of 21
deg. 38 min. E. as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, a
spruce post 4 ft. long, 6 ins. dia
meter, in earth mound, scribed 14
Ab 1 1172 on N. face, whence U. S.
L. M. No. 1172 bears S. 59 deg.
34 min. W. 380.3 ft. Thence N. 35
deg. 35 min. W. 544.4 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 56 deg. 27 min.
E. 1376.6 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
S. 37 deg. 56 min. E. 520.4 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 55 deg. 37
min. W. 1397.6 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
place of beginning, containing an
area of 17.025 acres.
This claim is situated on Noising
Creek about four miles north of
( our.cil City. Council City Re
i arding Precinct, Alaska. ,'.o
c ion monpi 1 t.t No. 1172 i.
a schist s'tmo 37x20x5 ins.
is ins. in the ground, with mound
of burtli 4 ft. high. 6 ft. base, situa
ted about 50 ft. above the bod 01
.'r ising Crr-k, oil (be south side
thereof, in latitude 64 dog. 55 min.
The location notice is recorded in
The adjoining claims are as fol
lows: On the northeast No. 1,5
Above Discovery on Melalng Crook:
on the southwest. No. 13 Above Dis
covery, on Mel ieg ( reck; claimants
unknown; on the northwest ana
southeast, claims unknown; all un
Burvcyed.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first pubt., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., Juno 21, 1916.
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at Che Industrial Worker Office. ;
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Phone Red 120.
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HEAT MARKET
Wholesale and Detail Dealer
in Iteef, I’ork, Mutton, Veal,
Ham, Bacon Poultry and Pish
Game in Season. All fresh
Stock. No old or damaged.
W. H. Webb prop. Phone M.1S
A FEW SPECIALS
ON OUR BARGAIN COUNTER THIS WEEK.
QUAIL BRAND, BERRIE8, Gal. Cans, 6Sc. per can.
QUAIL BRAND PEACHES, Gal. Cans, 40c. per can.
QUAIL BRAND APRICOTS Gal. Cans, 40c. per can.
QUAIL BRAND, RHUBARB Gal. Cana, 40c. per can.
SEA PORT PEACHES .64.00 per case.
FORCE.. Pkgs. for $1.00.
SHEEDED WHEAT BISCUITS.8 Pkgs. for $1.00.
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•11 FRONT STRUT
PHONE MAIN 88
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