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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.”—
abranam Lincoln
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Home,■ Aiasxa, under the Act of March I, 1871.
Nome, Alasks, July 20, 10IG.
UUNI> ALLEY JOBS.
What’s a blind alley job? Men
who work in shops term those blind
alley jobs where is no chance for
promotion and while they may en
joy a fair degree of remuneration
in such, during times of prosperity,
they will remain there as long as
they are working.
Now these blind alley jobs were
once not very plentiful and were
only reached after endless pains
and labor, and were in fact at a
premium and highly paid. Today
every machine shop is full of them
and the pay is nothing to brag
about. They are such jobs as are
acquired but with little pains, and
although highly skilled apparently,
consist of repeating the same opera
tion over and over again, minute
'by minute, hour by hour, day by
day and year by year, without any
craftmanship entering into the
work and reducing the operator to
an automaton. Where five years
ago these jobs were by the hund
red in every machine plant, today
they are bv the thousand. They are
in all modern plants by far the most
frequent. A man or boy is taken
with some slight general knowjedge
of the trade, such as Can be acquir
ed at some technical trade school
in a very short while. The future
operator is put before a dummy
machine and required to operate
all day for several days turning
out goods in more or less defective
fashion. Just as soon as he acquires
a certain routine skill and effici
ency, at most a matter of a few
days, he is given his job in the
plant and there he stays.
That is why he is considered to
be entering the blind alley. His ini
tiative is become deadened; his
sense of craft is atrophied, he be
comes just a machine. He is not a
tradesman, merely a machine tend
er. And while this condition is
quite general in the industries, the
worker still clings to his old archaic
craft system of organization, keep
ing the workers apart and in fact
in a state of disorganized organiza
tion.
MUNICIPAL PUMPING PUAN T.
The protest by one lone council
man against the resolutiori author
izing the flotation of a loan in order
to secure a municipal pumping
plant was at least timely wuen be
suggested that action be delayed
pending the report of a committee, j
already long delaying, in its report
on the costs or the necessary ex
penses involved in these plans.
Although it Is now several months
since the plan was first mooted, no
one seems to know a thing about 1
it. While it may be very true that'
the Power Company is charging ex-1
horbitant rates, there has not been 1
one fact adduced by any of its sup-1
porters, nor by its principal sup
porter the Mayor, to show that the
municipal plant would be operated
more cheaply or erected and main- 1
tained at a less cost. It is all taken1
for granted that taxation could be
reduced by the establishment of a1
municipal pumping plant, and that
the latter could be operated at a re- 1
■fluced cost to that which is now '
paid.
But taking things for granted is
a very lop-sided and unsicientifle
way of doing things, and one would
Imagine that a professional engineer j
like the mayor would have been the
first to do things in a scientific
manner.
But just consider this fact or
aeries of facts: At no time since
the suggestion was first made, has
the Mayor or any of those who ate
In support of the municipal plant
brought forward plans or specifics- J
lions which could be followed by
the council. Whether special pumps1
of one class or another would he '
erected, whether boilers of this or j
that type should be perferred.
whether this or that form of motor
power be u ed: nothing of this kind
has for an instant been mad 3 a
matter of the council’s deliberation.
If they have done any of these
things they have done them in se
cret. We have observed some ap
parent activity in the purchase of a
'.ot at a price that was by no mean a
to be despised,, some interesting ex
periments which betrayed a total
ignorance of the laws of hydro
statics when water was pumped
into the piping from which it is
later to be pumped by a
Municipal plant, and other obvious
drolleries of councilmanic energy,
more amusing than businesslike.
However all this might be par
doned if there was on the other side
an evident good intention. But is
there? If there is, how is it that
the more important proposition of
cheap fuel for the people of Nome
is unconsidered wholly, while the
unnecessary pumping plant is all
that is receiving official attention.
When M’Allister brought up his
very reasonable proposal for a pub
lic weighing scales, the Mayor laid
the matter over until such time as
data as to costs and other matters
be obtained. That may have been
good business, but why in the name
of common sense was the Mayor so
penny wise and pound foolish that
he should see the urgent necessity
for such prudent foresight in the
matter of weighing scales which in
volved only a trifling expenditure,
while in the matter of a pumping
i plant involving some ten thousand
dollars, there is none whatever
shown?
| Why is it that the matter of ob
taining cheap fuel, a practical ne
cessity to winter residents in this
camp if there ever was such a
, thing deserved the term, is so com
pletely side tracked for this nebular
dream of a municipal pumping
plant? .
j The city and the residents herein,
the men in the cabins and the pro
spectors are all of them Interested in
the price of fuel. It is the biggest
! consumer of a man’s scanty earn
ings in this camp. It is one upon
, which winter mining and prospect
ing depends. If the price is raised
much higher there will be neither
mayor nor councilmen; there will
be no winter population and there
will be no winter mining. Any
person can clearly see that by rais
ing the price of coal and other fuel
gradually, it is only a matter of
time when those who reside here
will have to get out or the number
who do stay will be reduced to such
as have large salaries or who have
not the price of their passage
money, and eke out an existence
here by shortening expenses on
food, clothing or shelter so that
they may buy an adequate supply
of fuel.
It is true that there are many
and obvious difficulties in the way
of effecting an improvement in the
fuel situation, and there are nqany
other difficulties in the way which
are not obvious—but at that, so
supreme is this problem that it is
certainly worth some consideration
by the city council. If the pylco
of coal is shot up another five dol
lars a ton, and the rate of wages re
mains the same, increased cost or;
living generally means an obvious
reduction in wages. Now they
cannot afford that in this camp.
Clearly the prime necessity for
the prospector and the small miner
is the cheapness of the fuel. And
as the town depends upon prospect
ors and miners and wage workers
for its very existence, we can ima
gine nothing more worthy the de
liberations of the councilmen than
this very proposition.
Instead what we do find is the
Mayor flying With his followers on
a wild goose chase which leads no
where, without any definite idea of
the costs of Operation, tire costs of
establishment, the costs ot main
penance involved. Without as far
is we can see any plans, plats, i
specifications as to building wells,
machinery, pumps, suction, or mo
tive power submitted whatever!
The Industrial Worker will not
hazard the assertion that the
power company has not had a good
thing in the pumping contract. Wj
believe it undoubtedly has had. Jt
is asserted that t.he company made
nothing on its contract price for
the past year, and that it has offer
ed to show its books for that pur
pose. It is possible that now that
an internal combustion engine is
used instead of steam as the motive
power in that plant, they find that
the pumping contract requiring
extra consumption of fuel is not
the convenient thing it once was.
Be that as it may be, there is
for all that no reason why the
council should embark upon this
business in hap hazard manner ana
in such an unscientific way as is
now in evidence.
If they are doing these thing 3
in a careful prudent way among
themselves, and failure to know this
is due to the fact that these things
have not been made the subject of
deliberation at the council meetings,
then it shows that the council offi
cials do not appreciate the public
nature of their functions, nor that
public meetings are for the purpose
of carrying on the business of the
city solely.
This paper has a brief from no
one in this matter. It is wholly Im
material whether the city or the
power company supply water for
the fire mains provided both one
and the other can give a satisfacto
ry service. But it is a matter of
importance that more important
matters should be side tracked
while the people are aviated like
the mayor and the councilmen
among a cloud of dream castles con
cerning a pumping plant about
which they know very little and
are likely to know less as time
goes on, following their present
methods.
There are more important matters
and one of them is the coal supply
for Nome which while it may be in
the hands of a private firm, is still
a matter which affects the well be
ing of every individual resident 01
miner in this section.
We believe that the city can ef
fect a perfectly satisfactory pump
ing plant establishment which will
in the long run represent a saving
to the city if the proper administra
tion and maintenance is arranged
for. But not a single alderman and
certainly not the Mayor, have
shown the public any plans for the
future, specific and definite, any
estimates as to costs of construc
tion foundation, maintenance o:
operation, or have done one single
solitary thing in a practical man
ner which would show this to oc
possible.
OVERSTOCK ED
To the Public: —
We have ju3t finished stock tak
ing, and find that we are heavily
overstocked so are making enorm
ous reductions in Hardware—as
much as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
side, especially in Hardware ana
Metal Goods, we are still, selling on
the basis of goods purchased the
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until
we bring our stock down to the re
quirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; we can save you
money. We have proved it oj
others, we can prove it to you.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
ANOTHER BIG SALE.
Now Goods arrived on the steam
er Umatilla. Suits $5.00 to $10.00,
Skirts $2.50, $4.00 and $5.00, Shirt
Waist and Middy $1.00, $1,50 and
$2.00. House dresses, $1.00 and
$1.50, Children Coats, $2.00 and
$5.00. Silk Dresses $2.50 and
$8.00. Last lot In. Absolutely new
Goods. My motto: Quick Sales,
small profit.
A. F. OESTREICH.
Front St., opp. Peterson’s Shoe Store
CITY BATU HOUSE.
Moonlight Spring Water. (Boil
ing Hot).
M. O. SOLBERG.
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way points, including Bluff,
Solomon, Nome, Teller, York,
Tin City, Deerlng, Candle and .j,
Kotzebue. *1'
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ON STEAMER UMATILLA: CAULIFLOWER, GREEN PEAS,
CELERY, RHUBARB, GREEN ONIONS, CABBAGE, CHERRIES,
BANANAS, PEACHES, PLUMS, WATER MELONS, TOMATOES,
CUCUMBERS, HEAD LETTICE.
Mollers Grocery
211 FRONT STREET PHONE, MAIN 86.
Steamer Arctic
will sail for Teller, Lost River, York, Tin City,' Wales, Peer
ing, Keevalik and Kotzebue, MONDAY, JULY 17TH, 7:30 P. M
For Information call up Al-aska Lighterage & Com. Co. or
U. S. Mercantile Co.
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to Miles Glacier, from Cordova the Steamer will return direct
by the outside route to Seattle.
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