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Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
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Nome, Alaska, September I, I 111 7.
MW \\l> HIS WORK.
An experienced newspaper corre
spondent sending a report from
Europe draws attention to one pe
culiar fact which he observed. This
was that the men in the tranches
or who are serving in the artillery !
never talk about their work or
their lighting. That subject is ta
boo. They talk of everything else
under the sun, but never of their
■work.
The way the correspondent saw
it was 'they seldom talk about the
war. Rather they tell their experi
ences the last time they went on
leave. Then they talk about the
shows they saw, the things they
had to cat. the pretty girls they
met, what they are going to do
•when the war is over and the rest”.
Moreover in the same dispatch
the correspondent really hits the
explanation of this in the sentence
“Of course these men do not love
the war. Nobody loves the war”.
For. it can be truthfully said
that it i only when men love theii
work will they be inclined to talk
about it Max O’Rell (Paul
Illouet i v ho made a spec iality ol
writing up the idiosy.ucraeies of all
rat is and • hisses said that he found
the ac t rage Am- riean magnate a
Bionom: niac. Wealth making was
hi» mania and he con'd talk in*
igc/itly about nothing elst. No
how highly educated the
man would be he would cease talk
ing on any subject once finance or
industrial projects calculated to be
money making were introduced as
the topic of conversation. And
whether the man was at work or at
leisure it was th<> same.
It is a common fact that authors
and literary men. painters and
sculptors and artists generally, edu
cators and other intellectuals talk
shop when either at work or play.
They find their work a pleasure
and not irksome. They love it.
Every effort tc bring about this
condition among the working elas
tics has failed. They know it is
servile work with the boss ready to
give them their walking papers it
their labor is r. ' •: '.Id and
their performan- <-f it is . imply
identified with their means of ex
istence. They have to labor to
live.
Hence it is rtinr in any industry
only those who have become wholly
enslaved and hug their chains talk
about their work. They will dis
cuss everything under the sun but
the pleasures or the worries of a
Number Two. They will see nothing
poetic in the dragging around over
muck piles of a machine drill or
the dexterity required to hammer
an upper. When at work and gen
erally when clear of a job they
•will seldom be found to talk about
anything except the pleasures that
they got on their last stake, and
seldom dwell with unction on the
.story of their labors.
So with the sailor. In the fore
castle you will hear almost every
subject discussed except the dang
ers of the deep and the martinets
of the quarter deck. You. may
hoar curses both loud and deep
against the driving tyrannies of
skipper and mate, you nu.y once
in a while hear them sing the
praises of a ship that they once
upon a itme sailed upon hut dis
cuss the niceties of their work
when on board a ship—hardly
ever.
Moreover, it is a remarkable
thing that the man at work whet li
ce a railroad worker, a logger, a
sailor, a miner, a machinist or the
like, will seldom find in his work,
be he addicted to rhyme or song
the subjects for his inspiration. It
may be about maidens fair, about
true love, aboul lovely Muckilteo
about mother’s love, about the
trials of healing your way, about a
.genera! revolt against working
class conditions, but never once
! about the niceties of the craft or
the railing which he follow's.
It's not the soldier that's writing
fine poetry about this war. It's
not the worker who sings fine songs
about the Sons of Martha. It is the
men who look at these things from
afar and know neither its evil nor
its depressing influence.
Xow the average poet writes freely
about his poetry. The average
author will write and talk about
books. The painter has written
about his paintings and the sculp
tor loves to lecture on his art.
Their hearts <-re in their work and
the great difference between theirs
and that of the average producer
in society is that their's fallows the
line of inspiration and inde
pendence while the labor of the
others is a servile task and per
formed under the stress of depend
ence.
All kinds of educational propa
ganda by bosses and preachers and
ter-chers have been carried on in
an effort to make the" worker con
tent in his labor. Regular systems
have been devised to make chain
hugging a regular order of things
among the slaves. Vast amount ot
educational talk is delivered to
nick'- men take an interest in their
| toil, to have them taking a pride
■ in their ability to fell a tree, to
; handle a muck stick or to tap a
; drill with care, accuracy, dexterity
! uid precision They have tried to
i bring about a condition when every
; worker will take an artist's or a
■ raft man's pride in his work and
| they wonder why it can't be done,
j They wonder why the first thing
tin t tlm worker wants to do is to
forget about his shovel, the low
drift. the mean stope, sv.ampy
woods, the lurking danger ar.d the
petty tyranny of it ail. They
wonder why lie whoops it up when
lie comes to town as a reaction and
will talk for hours about the ladies
J nr the weather or the food or the
! prospects are his, but never if he
J can help it about the low down
j grind that kept liis back bent and
his soul as gnarled as his hands
The only thing that these edu
cationalists know is that they do
fail. They dont make a bit ot
headway. They here and there
arouse one to become interested
aii'l lo apparently imitate the ar
tists love of his work or the old
time craftsman’s love of his skill.
But tliesj are few and far be
tween.
The answer is of course that
these things are done under com
pulsion. They arc done moreover
for the benefit of another. The
painter .the poet, the author, the
sculptor is hit own boss. He works
when the inspiration aeizes him and
when the theme is adjusted to his
heart's desite. He is not doing
something which he does not
"love”. He :s not doing it under
the driving force which says do this
or starve, fail in it is at your peril.
And that makes all the difference
in the world. It is the difference
between the joyous work of a
freeman or the laborious task of
the slave.
When in an industrial democracy
the compulsion of hings now ex
isting shall be removed, doubth s
all work will be a labor of love.
But to bring this about, naturally
there will have to be some other
incentive for folks than the driving
force of the dollar. When men do
that which they knew’ must be done
for the benefit of themselves and
by benefitting themselves for the
benefit of all their fellows: when
human w’elfare will be inspiration
of every form of labor and not the
dread of hunger or starvation that
will result from the discharge by
an angry boas that delights, to ex
ercise his economic power, life
will be an entirely different thing
for men. Nowadays almost all
except a negligible minority are
serving men: not serving their fel
lows but serving employers either
individuals or corporations. Their
work for them is connected not
with their own weal or the welfare
of society at large but the piling
up of dividends and dividends and
dividends. It's mean work, it would
be mean any way with a boss
standing over a man's collar, but
with the incentive that is given us,
it is made all the meaner. Men
dont like to talk about it, and the
average worker when they preach
about the dignity of honest labor
and the fine intelligence of the
muck stick man knows very well
that it is buncombe of some kind
to enable some person or persons
uttering it to get by with something
or another, to put over something
or another and who winks in secret
and says to himself “What fools
these workers be”.
No. 2734.
SI MMONS I OK PI PLICATION.
In the District Court for the District
of Alaska, Second Division.
AMERICAN' MANGANESE STEEL
COMPANY, a corporation.
Plaintiff,
vs.
ALASKA MINES CORPORATION, a
corporation, Nome Consolidated
Dredging Company, a corporation,
Alaska Dredging Company, a cor
poration, E. E. Powell, George D.
Schofield. J. M. Sloan, E. L. Web
ster, M. W. Newton, Louis Eisen
lotar, E. H. Thatcher, Trustee, C.
E. Darling. Trustee and E. E.
Powell, Trustee,
Defendants.
The President of the United States
of America.
To E. E. Powell, E. L. Webster,
M. W. Newton, Louis Eisenlohr, F.
H. Thatcher, Trustee, and E. E.
Powell, Trustee, defendants above
named,
Greeting :
You, and each of you, are hereby
summoned and required to appear
and answer the complaint of the
plaintiff on file in the of'ce of the
clerk of the above-entitled court at
the City of Nome, in said district of
Alaska, Second Division, within
thirty (30) days from the service
of this summons upon you, to-wit:
from the 1st day of September.
1917, or judgment for want thereof
will be taken against you.
And you are hereby notified that
j if you fail to answer the said com
‘plaint the plaintiff will take judg
i intuit against you. and each of you,
BOARD OF TRADE
Restaurant
and
LUNCH ROOM
George Modini,
Proprietor
as prayed for in plaintiff's com
plaint, to-wit: For a decree of the
above-entitled court cancelling and
setting aside that certain decree of
foreclosure heretofore made and en
tered on the first day of July, 1915,
in cause No. 2603 entitled F. H.
Thatcher, trustee, et al, plaintiffs,
versus Nome Consolidated Dredging
Company, a corporation, et al, de
fendants, and for a decree setting
aside certain sales of real and per
sonal property made under and in
accordance with said decree and also
for the appointment of a receiver
to take possession of the assets of
the defendant Nome Consolidated
Dredging Company, real and per
sonal. mentioned, set forth and de
scribed in said decree, and for the
sale of said assets and the payment
of a judgment obtained in cause No
2686 entitled American Manganese 1
Steel Company, a corporation, plain- ;
tiff, versus Nome Consolidated
Dredging Company, a corporation,
defendant, for the sum of Thirty
Thousand Nine Hundred Twenty
($30,920.00) Dollars and interests
and costs;
And you. and each of you. are
hereby further notified that if you
fail to answer the said complaint,
the plaintiff will take judgment
agaiflst you as officers and stockboid
ers of the defendant Nome Consol
idated Dredging Company, a corpo
ration, for the full amount of said
judgment above described, to-wit:
the sum of Thirty Thousand Nine
Hundred Twenty (130,920.00)
Dollars and legal interest, costs and
accruing costs.
The date of the order of publi
cation of this summons is July
20th. 1917.
The date of the first publication
of this summons is July 2lst, 1917.
The date of last publication is
September 1, 1917.
WITNESS the Honorable J. R.
Tucker, Judge of the District Court
for the District of Alaska, Second
Division and the seal of said Court
hereunto affixed at Nome, Alaska,
this 20th day of July, 1*517.
(SEAL)
G. A. ADAMS.
Clerk of the District Court for the
District of Alaska, 2nd Division.
T. M. Reed and William A. Gilmore
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Nome, Alaska.
J. 21, 28, A. 4, 11, IS, 25, S. 1.
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Sept. 15th.
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AGENTS
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