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nearly as possible, la a worthy object of any good government.”—
Abraham Llncola
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box £10 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 1S4.
Nome. Alaska, Align-.! 2, I !* I T.
\ Msi: i:\iiiihtiiin.
Little old Alaska can so some
when it wants to make an exhibi
tion of itself as a free anil demo
cratic country.
In witness whereof behold the
Fourth Division.
The Fourth Division has been
eagerly wanting to bite off a chunk
of pork which was being doled out
in the form of a government rail
road.
The moribund placer camps of the
Tanana. long since robbed of their
values by operators now settled all
over the I'nited States, have per
suaded the government of the nation
and the territory that all that was
needed was a government railroad
to make tin interior blossom like
the rose.
The fact that' the government
railroad was a white elephant pro
jot t has already been fitly exposed
by Archdeacon Stuck who could not
be accused of prejudice one way or
another while tin advertising agents
of the Interior sat them up on their
hind legs and howled.
Fat. juicy, succulent government
pork for hungry business interests
is not to In- sneezed at, even if the
need of tin* country was more roads,
improved trails and control of the
water ways by government.
.So when the government started
building tin- road from Nemma, tin
entire interior radiating around
Fairbanks, rejoicing and was glad
that the long expected would come
to those who toiled not nor spun,
but who watched and waited.
The wage scale was low. lower
than that paid already in the in
terior and that notwithstanding the
efforts of the men to improve it.
Several men organized conditions
Tor the betterment of the wage
workers and behold the press of 'lit
Interior cried' out in a loud voice
against this outrage.
They denounced them as pro
Gormans, interned two or three
jailed another for sedition and giv
ing aid to the enemy, a man whose
oldest son died with the Canadian
forces fighting in France,
They blamed tin 1 \Y V.' - they
blamed the Germans. ley idamen
every blame thing but the wage
. rule paid by the government to its
employees.
They have a liberty loving Mar
tdila named Erwin in that ramp; a
type of the democratic public serv
ant that ought to lie appreciated by
the people; one of those Alaskans
for Alaska the remocrats love.
Erwin speaking to a Citizen re
porter. after these arrests of the sr
. ailed labor agitators said “I’ll ftl
tfcr jail so full of them that tlicit
fee’ will stick out of the windows”
Go that vocal symphony to Liber
St" "I Will". The United States
•government? The District Judge;
A Jury after due process of Law:
O nothing ot tlie kind. just the
United States Marshal who is to cor
•sUtute himself judge, jury, rope
gallows and all.
Upon one’s soul the whole af
fair. this eftort to strangle every
liberty of action, of speech, of th<
workers would he comical if it was
not so tragic. Erwin discovert!
that one Miller was the most dang
erous man of the trio whom he ar
Tented" the most radical in his fa
voritism of Germany and his de
aiuneiation of the principles of th<
United States'. Listen to this ex
planatlon of that: "he was work
ing with the steel gang out the lint
pTtira Nenana and WAS ONE OF
THOSE WHO AGITATED THE
STRIKE AMONG THE MEMBERS
t)F THE CREW, WITH THE RE
■SULT THAT SIXTY MEN AP
J-'ROXIMATELY WALKED OUT"
fiy Heavens, a traitorous villain!!
Jt is quite apparent that not Millet
is playing ducks and drakes wit]
the principles ot tlie United States
3>nt this same Marshal Erwin and
these same papers which refuse to
recogti the rights of workers to
strike, to quit their work and to agi
tate for lietter wages.
There is nolihng secret about the
reason for these arrests. The Citi
zen quite candidly and sympatheti
cally (let lares "That the government
officials are completely in control
of the strike situation at N'enana
and that the backbone of the strike
was broken by the arrest of the
strike leaders, is the opinion ex
presstil by Marshal Krwin who te
turned to Fairbanks last night”.
Here is the milk in the cocoanut.
Here is the explanation of the alle
ged Germanism, here the facts con
cerning the I \V. Wism. the strike
was broken by the arrest of the
leaders.
This insolent attempt upon the
part ot those profitting from the
labor activities to make any labor
activity for better conditions a
matter ot sedition. pro-Ger
man, anarchistic and what not
by any means confuted to the
N’enana country. It Is only because
this occurrence was especially in
famous that it is here referred to
and particularized.
When the men started the strike
for better conditions Commissioner
Higgs the ir.an Grigsby, Donahue et a!
are trying to foist upon the people
as Governor, read a telegram from
Kdes announcing that if the nter
strut k to he prepared to shut down
the work.
That was more than the business
men, the officials who acted for them
could stand. Then followed the ra
pid action, then followed the arrests,
then followed the talk of pro-Ger
manism, sedition, and so forth when
the facts were that the entire mat
ter was purely economic, purely a
friction between the employers and
employed over the wage question
purely front the parasitic interests
point of view a matter whether tfie
workers in bettering their condition
would endanger teh distribution of
I the luscious, juicy, succulent strips
of pork that they ari now absorbing
thanks to the hunk peddled about
a railroad from nowhere to no
where.
i:i ssia \m> Tin: socialists.
Ross Hasbrouck writing to tlie
| X< w York Call quite appropriately
calls attention to the inconsistency
of the socialist press and the social
ist party in the matter of its war
policy That letter is worth re
prniting:
\n editorial Criticism.
Kditor of The Call:
You make a suggestion in today’s
issue. You ask. Shall wo not make
an appeal to the Russian people tc
order their government to use its
influence upon our government tc
the end that Socialist meetings
shall not he broken up. that free
speech shall not be denied usQ You
make this claim anent the Russians
“They are our allies in every sense.’
I ditl not know that the Socialist
party recognized any allies. I was
under the impression that the party
had repudiated the part tlie Amer
ican people were taking in the
world war. I supposed that that
logically carried with it the repu
diation of the aims of all the allies
of course, including Russia. Poss
ibly I am mistaken. Perhaps, by
some strange hocus pocus of logic
Russia is expected trom the genera!
party curse. Certainly, in your edi
torial, you seem to claim tier as at:
ally. 0£ course, it is impossible
that you could be guilty of an in
consistency, but I am in a quan
dary. Can you explain the riddle?
Russia must value very greatly
the part played in America’s ally
ship by the Socialist party. It is
such an unselfish, sacrificing part!
So brotherly and helpful! What a
beneficent assistance it must be tc
Kerenski, w hen he is urging the
Russian legions of social revolution
ists to throw themselves forward,
upon the world's enemy and men
ace to their own newly won di
cracy, to know lhat the Ameri. .r..
social revolutionists are opposing
to tlieir utmost the part the t'nited
States is taking to lighten Russia's
burden! What glorious alies to
hate! Of course. Russia is under
tremendous obligations to the Am
erican Socialist party and should be
only too glad to repay us in a small
way by interceding with our govern
ment in our behalf that we may
continue to make her task a more
difficult one.
Comrade Editor are you equal to
the task of explaining and justifying
your attitude and the stand of the
party as set forth in the majority
report with the seeming acquies
cence in and eviddent satisfied ac
ceptance of the part revolutionary
Russia has chosen to pursue? You
captioned a letter of mine some
weeks ago “With the Tide.” Be
cause of that left-handed compli
ment I feel that you should at
tempt an answer to by query. Fr.it
eranlly yours, ROSS HASBIiOUCK.”
That letter unquestionably reveals
the utter vanitv of the socialist
anti-war agitation. Xo matter
j whether one agrees with the atti
tude assumed by Hasbrouck or not,
it is certainly a matter of interna
tional importance that no nation can
I stand aloof from what has become
a great struggle upon the part of
Russia for its economic as well as
political freedom.
It is most absurd to enthuse over
the “Russian victories" in Russia
and to pass resolutions of denuncia
tion of the war simply because of a
natural sympathy with the other
side.
American socialists have been af
fecting aai ostrich like policy over
j the whole war. They have been
either pro-German or pro-Ally and
they stuck their heads in the ground
as a whole lot of others did and
aftected to be neutral. Neutrality
was regarded as the one sure type
of internationalism although it is
quite apparent that there was no
such thing as internationlism. And
so far have they been carried away
by their ostrich like affection that
they have gone to the length ot
making gods of their pro-German
bourgeois minded Milwaukeeites,
while they expelled those who af
fected similar candor about their
sympathies for America and the
| war.
We know nothing more tellingly
, misleading than this whole antiwar
agitation. It is the red herring
that the socialists are dragging
across the trail of the labor move
ment and they are doing the very
same work as the capitalists and
their co'k roach henchmen are do
ing, making political or economic
capital out ot the war. that withal
is not a hit worse than the industri
al system that has created it. that
fostered it and which has for its
end and aim further expansion.
We say that this policy which
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would prevent the war being fought |
to a finish, even though it end on
the ruins cf our civilization would j
l>e a disaster. And we know that '
it. would be especially disastrous
to Russia. Why cannot the Amer- j
ican comrades, who for the most
part never sacrificed a single iota
tor any cause, accept the determin
ation of the Russians as worthy of
emulation. In point of fact we can
not but admire the policy of the
industrialists who refuse point blank
to be turned aside from their eco
nomic movement by any such thing
as a poor antiwar agitation. They
have gotten down to fundamentals.
They realize conditions as they are.
and they prepare to meet them.
They are not mussing and fussing
with a sticky sentimentality that is
only the grimy mask for another
sentiment altogether than that of ,
the proletarian interests. ,
The political socialists are most
successfully diverting the workers
from the urgent need of economic
solidarity. They are beating the
winds with reeds, vain impotent
and deceiving
They live upon a propaganda that
can only be successful where there
is economic solidarity and that
solidarity they are actually aidirg
in its dissipation. They are constant
ly wrangling about rights, when 'he
patent fact is that to lave rights
and to hold rights. to maintain
them intact, not only is eternal vi
gilance needed hut solil irganiza
tion.
When the columns are filled with
denunciation of rights shorn of this
class or that class it may be taken
for granted that they are so shorn
because that class was not organized
to prevent suc h a condition. When
a condition that is unpleasant to
tlie masses is forced upon the mas
ses it is not because of perverted
political ingenuity or perverted po- .
litical energy, but because ot the
lac k of economic organization.
We 'have referred elsewhere to
the* recent events in the Nenana
country; had there been one sound,
solid labor organization in that
section of Alaska this could never
have been perpetrated. They have
had socialists galore, with all kinds
of fads and fancies but tlie econo
mic organization the source ot the
real strength of the workers was
lacking and hence everything was
possible. It is because they have no
case tor their pure and simple poli
tics, with their Bergers and their
government ownership, ice company
owning Ilillciuits that the socialist
party is in the mess it is today.
The workers have passed it long
ago.
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