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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
florae, ■ Aiaasa, under the Act of March 8, 1871.
Nome, Alaska, September iiS, 1010.
THK MKXICAN POLICY.
It is not a little remarkable that :
Wilson's Mexican poiicy should be
regarded by Hughes as the especi
ally vulnerable point of administra
tion’s policy. There is nothing as
this does could give us the measure
of republican candidate so perfect
ly as the candidate of Big Business.
To him the Conquest of Mexico
seems a similar undertaking to the
freeing of Cuba, and in fact he has
ventured to compare the war with
Spain to peace with Mexico, to the
disadvantage ot the latter as far as
human life and human property i.-:
concerned.
But he does not, as he should
compare the probable effects -of a
War with Mexico with the known
effects of Peace with Mexico, for the
very simple reason that he dare
not face that issue. To assure the
Hearst ranch secure to the Hearsts
lrom the Mexicans from whom it
had been plundered by the Master
Plunderer Diaz, thousands and tc.s
of thousands of lives would be sacri
ficed. Millions would be squandered
to protect a million from an out
raged and expatriated people. An
army of occupation would be re
quired to stifle the opposition of the
governed who were subjected'with
out their consent, and every prin
ciple of republican government, of a
government by the people for the
people would be torn to tatters.
Nor is this all, such a war
would establish for ever the United
States as a nation bent upon plunder
and loot and conquest. It would
reveal the United States to the rest
of the nations of America as a
country bent upon controlling the
entire western hemisphere. It
would leave behind a gulf of hate,
of fear, of detestation, of disgust
that decades would not span nor
centuries bridge.
But all these things would be a
trifle to the minds of those Top
Capitalists whose candidate is
Hughes, and who care only for the
fabulously rich looting of the labul
ously rich republic to the south ot
the United States.
EFFICIENCY.
They are still talking efficiency.
And the most beneficial reforms are
advised because they would make
for it. This, that or the other thing
is recommended because it will
make the worker more contented
and a better producer. The work
er is regarded as a piece of the me
chanism of industry; he is regarded
as a cog in the wheel, just as inani
mate, just as unreasoning and sub
ject to the same mechanical laws as
any ordinary mechanism. That he
requires food is recognized, just as
a furnace needs fire or a boiler
needs water or a bearing needs lu
brication. That he is subject to
spells of fatigue is only recognized
as an incident to his operations.
That he has hopes, fears, loves—
emotions in short, and is a human
being is not worth consideration.
Those things are immaterial, except
as they unfit the human machine
for the automatic work demanded
of him. And the most advanced
of the efficiency experts believe
they have made a great discovery
-when they find that a man’s senti
ments. his emotions, his feelings,
often do unfit him for'proper work
and they suggest that a little more
consideration for that reason be
given him, because he will be a
better producer. That is modern and
scientific efficiency. It is very nice
of them to reduce us to that plane
wherein we exist to work. What
is the matter with working to live?
JQ1X IN THE MARCH.
By BERTON BRALEY.
If you’re game to fight with no end
in sight.
And never a band to play, •
If you’re fit to toil with no hope of
spoil
And the toiling itself for pay—
If you'll bear the irk of the thank
less work
Of the making the dream come
true,
If you'll march along, through a
hooting through
That bellows its oath at you;
If you'll learn to meet each new de
feat
With the gritty old grin of yore,
And lift your lance in a new' ad
vance.
With hardly a chance to score;
Then you’re just the breed that we
sorely need.
You're one of our kith and kin—
So get the swing of the song we
sing.
And join in the march—fall in.
We promise no loot to the young re
cruit,
Xo glory, no praise or fame;
Xo gold you gain in this long cam
pain
But plenty of jeers and blame.
The quarters are mean, and the ra
tions lean,
The service is harsh and grim;
The war is on, from dusk to dawn.
From dawn to the twilight dim;
But there’s ever the cheer of a com
rade near
And the touch of his sturdy arm,
And his help in call, if you faint
and full
Where the harrowing foemen
swarm,
If you scorn reward for the fight
that's hard, *
If you'd rather be right than
win—
Just get the swing of the song we
sing
And join in the march—fall in.
If comradeship of heart, not lip.
Is more to your taste than cash—
If ancient frauds and tinsel gods
Are idols you long to smash.
If your patience breaks at the hon
ored fakes
That the pursy priests have
decked,
If you’re not content till the veil Is
rent
And the temple of lies is wrecked;
Then your place is made in our
stern brigade
That never can halt or pause
Till the war is done, and the fight
is won, -
The fight for the human cause.
So take your place, get our step and
pace
In spite of the old world’s din—
And get the swing of the song we
sing
And join in the march—fall in.
EFFICIENCY ANI) WAGES.
Capitalists claim that wages de
pend on the productivity of laboi.
That with every increase in labor’s
output wages rise. On the other
hand this claim is denied. It is saitf
that wages, or labor cost, tend to
decrease," as output increases. That
the relative shares of capitalist and
laborer tend to grow ever more dis
proportionate under modern giant,
or quantity, production. That labor
gets less employment and more un
employment while the capitalists get
more products and profits. Efficiencj
methods especially tend to these lat
ter results. The advantage is all for
the capitalist; the injury, for the
worker. How true these different
contentions are. may be described.by
the following typical data from the
Detroit Free Press:
Factory Is Transformed by Stude
baker
With 37 Per Cent. Less Men Produc
tion Has Gained 200 Per Cent.
Where 11,000 men produced
37.000 cars in 1913, today 7,000
men are producing at the rate ot
100.000 cars annually.
Such is the record in efficiency
that has been obtained in the Stude
baker factories. Between 1913 and
he present date, as experts visiting
;he plants have observed, a verit
tble transformation has taken
;>lace.
One of the wonders of the auto
mobile industry has been the advent
sf large production, which brought
with it the advantages of quantity
purchasing at lower prices, and
made advisable the introduction of
machines that were expensive in first
cost, but more than paid for them
selves within a year in the saving
they effected.
Quantity production such as the
Studebaker corporation employs not
only permits of lower, prices, but
also better values. The overhead is
cut down, due to the fact that it is
distributed over a great number of
cars. The overhead on the cost ot
building the present Studebaker mo
dels has been reduced to a low
figure, being 50 per cent of what it
was three years ago.
With the lowering of overhead
costs liafe come about a rise in the
percentage of materials. The cost
for material is 70 per cent of the
total coast of building the Stude
baker car a high percentage made
possible by big production, reduced
overhead and the introduction of
efficiency methods undreamed of a
few years ago.
Increasing the capacity of the
Studebaker plants has lowered
labor cost, but the big item has been
the reduction of overhead expense
by the elimination of non-productive
labor.
“The Interesting thing to the man
investing in an autombile is how
much material and direct labor he is
getting,” says J. G. Heaslet, vice
president in charge of engineering
and production of the Studebaker
corporation. ’’These are really the
items that are of the greatest value
to him. The overhead expense gives
him nothing and neither does the
selling expense, though both are
necessary. By reason of greatly in
creased production and careful
methods we have brought up the
items that count for most and have
reduced everything else to a mini
mum.”—Solidarity.
THE CAUSES OK STRIKES.
Why does
prosperity
cause
strikes? This is the problem with
which federal authorities are at
present wrestling.
The past year has seen more
strikes and disturbances in the la
bor world than possibly any previ
ous year in the history of the coun
try. The threatened strike of
400,000 railroad men emphasizes
that “labor unrest” is more preval
ent than ever before.
In August 1915 there occurred
143 separate strikes and lockouts;
in September there wore 165 more
October added 106; November 98;
December 98; January 114.
During Februajy, March and
April such labor troubles increased,
until by May 1 it was estimated
that more than half a million
workers were affected.
The month of May happens to
be the latest for which figures are
available. Since that time, the
street railway strikes in New York
and Philadelphia have occurred, and
the railroad brotherhoods threaten
to strike.
The same reports that tell of
strikes and lockouts, tell of industry
working at its maximum, of less
unemployment than at any time
within the last quarter century, of
higher wages and shorter hours, of
scarcity of men and enormity of
output. The army of the unem
ployed has diminished to the vanish
ing point..
The fact is that strikes occur
when business hits the bottom,
and also when it hits the top.
Government economists who have
studied the question say that for the
worker industrial stagnation and
industrial prosperity are the same
thing.—Ex.
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