Daiiy Nnme Industrial Markt-n
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Ey Nome Mine Workers' Union, No. 2*0, International Union of Minp,
Mill and Sm eiter Workers.
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nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.”—
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Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 1*4.
Nome, Alaska. November 9. 1917.
Tin: MW YORK KI.Kt'TION.
The democratic party organiza
tion can take small comfort from
the returns in the New York city
elections. Although Judge Hyland
the victorious candidate is a demo
, rat and the votes cast for him were
overwhelming, it must he remem
bered if you know Tammany Hall
at all. that Judge Hyland is not
the kind of a democrat which an j
eastern, or southern or western, or |
any other kind of a democrat would |
recognize. j
Unless he be a Tammany Hail]
democrat—and they change from1
one election to another. Oh. yea. J
Tammany Hall is not a democratic t
club as you have suppo cd. Its!
< orporate charter forbids that and
its history denies it. Tammany
Hall is. politically speaking, just as
likely to be socialist one of these
day as not and a lit tie more so as
time goe. on. Tammany Hall is,
a bunch ol wise guys who in politics
go after what they think is coming
to them with regularity and system,
regardless.
live national democratic party
must take what comfort it may
wn’ng ftotu the i tlier votes. Judge
Jlyland wa not conspicuously a
sai l'., re r ol t'.n Wilson administra
tion. t! couldn't have had enough
<>t the Irish vote to have attracted
tii - favorable consideration of Tam
many Hall if lie had been with Hie
American war party. Somehow or an
other the normal Irishman contrive
tti recall that the main ally of the
American war party is John Bull,
the hereditary oppressor of his
green delectable isle for eight hund
red years. He contrives to retail
that the United States must replace
on the war front in central Europi
the 175.000 Briti-h troops that
must he kept in Ireland to keep the I
Irish people down!
Now Mayor Mitchell was conspi
culousy a supporter of the great
Woodrow Wilson democratic war
party. And Mayor Mitchell is the
candidate who was so overwhelm
ingly defeated. Supporting tlie Pre
Mi'ent was the mast luscious bait in
the Mitchell vote trap. But it didn’t
catch them. Mayor Mitchell had
also the endor env it of TeMhcdore,
our greatest war cl.an Mott, who
cats ’em alive.
l>lr. Wilson was elected on the
idea of “Wilson and Peace'. The
ghastly contradiction which he
hands the people is “Wilson and
Compulsory Militarism". Mr.
Wilson was right then.— in his
hrst admini tretion. when he had
his inspired face set resolutely
against the ghouls who wanted war.
But Mr. Wilcon wasn't a regular
der.iorrat. then. Every one knows
who knows a bean about it that Mr.
Wilson stood apart from the “orga
nizniton" and was nominated at
Baltimore because the Peerless, one
said so, and the Peerless One had
never in Ins tfc been of the select
of the “organization .
Mr. Wilson was right then. He
was progressi\c and of the people,
the people of Bryan, the Peerless.
He was no orthodox democrat. The
democratic party i historically the
party of reaction in America. It
is the party of chattel slavery ‘or
human benigs. It is the party of
the nien.ot.ible Drcd Scott decision.
But something happened to Air. Wil
son. Some say it \va- when he took
unto himself a beautiful charming
and wealthy rib. Some say his
saddened and widowed heart was
soothed too greatly by the win
so.mene s of the ambitious Virginian
woman. S'me say that .Mr. Wilson
took the newspapers to be the voice
of the people, and yielded to what
ne esteemed to be a preponderance
of opinion. At least lie took the
easiest way for himself, the way of
sorrow and of tragedy for the peo
ple w ho tru ted him, and a lot of
people beside the Irish of New York
City are in a mood to expect before
the next national election, a great
or amplification of the claim that
this is a war for democracy.
In the New York election History
begins writing on her scroll ihe
vc-rdii t upon a man who on once
setting hand to the plough looked
back.
THE OPEN SHOP.
No individual wage earner is cap
able of making an effective protest
against intolerable conditions.
Unionism is indispensable in the
gaining of even a measure of in
dependence by tiie wage earners as
a class.
The individual employer, although
in receipt of state aid and always
having the law on his side, likewise
finds it neces. ary to associate with
other employers. Every union of
the workers has a tendency to dis
pute the control of industry with the
employer and his associates, thus
limiting the claim of the industrial
overlords to the “right to run their
own butene s lo suit themselves.”
Whenever the issue of the union
versus the dosed shops is raised
something in the nature of a civil
war rets in and both parties have a
tendency to fall back upon more or
lea, violent methods. Social dete
licts are collected by the employers
and used to keep their business
! going and to break the power of the
j union, and in absence of a police
! force adequate and efficient enough
to protect these scabs, gunmen ore
imported. Some pretense of legality
is maintained but it is no more
than a pretense. The beaten party
retires iiullenly and with the deter
mination to renew the conflict at the
first favorable opportunity. It is
in this way that the class struggle
shows itself on (he economic field.
There are. however, two differ
ent forms of the closed shop, the
craft and the industrial. The one
i automatically makes scab; and thus
I defeats its own purpose, while the
other operators in a way to make
scabbery ineffective.
The craft union closed shop is
centered around the idea of a 'Ob
trust for the benefit of those work
ers who are in posses ion of a pro
perty known as skill. By limitation
of appreticeship, high initiations,
high dues and in many instances
by closed books, this form of closed
sitop makftj its gains at the expense
of those workers who are dc'nied ad
mittance to the ranks of "organized
labor." When this kind of union
ism! does not fail by the action of
the non-union men it lias made and
the scabs it has created, it does
even worse, it signs agreements
with the employing cla.s extending
over a time period and during the
life of the contract these advocates
of the closed shop remain at work
no matter what the condition ol
their brother craftsmen. The pro
duct of Che closed shop may be de
stined for scab factories, or the raw
materials may have come directly
from a scab-operated struck job,
but the closed sitop take-: no head
of such a condition. This type of
union is based upon scabbery.
The industrial union idea of a
closed shop is one that the workers
hold by their economic power. No
union recognition is asked or de
sired. The. initiation fee is small, the
dues are moderate, and the books
are never closed to an actual wage
worker. No scabs are created by ex
clusion from the organized ranks,
and the all-inclusiveness of the
uion makes scabbery ineffective.
Such a closed shop operate on the
idea that it is at once necessary to
tie up ft certain job, to stop the raw
materials from coming on that jot),
and to prevent the finished product
from leaving that job. This kind
of aciicn lone marks real union
ism.
Unionism is a necessity to the
workers. The craft form invite
defeat while the industrial form
spells success. Craft unionism,
means the closed union and the
open shop; industrial unionism
means the open union and the
closed shop. Which of the two do
you want. Mr. Worket ?
Happinc. f- . net l’csperiability are
not mutually dependent states.
They are often strangers and the
one is frequently had at the loss of
the other.
Human nature has always been
more os less defective but there's
no use getting grouchy about it.
I am in rebellion against the
super-impa-ition of standards: or
thodox and otherwise.
None of the really useful people
i in the world are interested in
boundar lines. It is only flu gov
erning profession, the warriors and
mischief makers, who are concerned
with international harriers.
Men in large numbers do evil
tilings only as they are trained in
ome dicta of authority and that is
the whole excuse for discipline.
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GIVE THEM A TRIAL NEXT TIME- AND YOU'LL SOON LEARN
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Seattle bank to order of purchaser.
GET BEHIND OUR GOVERNMENT.
Alaska Lighterage Comercial Co.
Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF W. 8TEIGELMAIER AND OF LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILE RE
CEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
3RD AND II STREET. THONE BLACK 162.
I Miners and Merchants Bank
| Nome, Alaska
Capital $100,000.00
Workingmen’s Accounts Solicited.
ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT
COXTRATORH
SPECI
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veil’ MAY SOON BE FURNISHED WITH A PAIR BY
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THE mi INDUSTRIAL WORKER
ft
is prepared to handle
all kinds of
JOB PRINTING
Let us figure on your
work. Call up Black
134 or call at
SIS HOPKINS SAYS:
“DON'T DO Nl'TTI.V FOR XO
IIODY WHAT DON'T DO XUTT1N’
FOR YOU".
NOW YOU WISH TO KEEP YOUK
OWN I’A PER IN THE FIELD.
And keep it
Going strong
THE ONE BIG THING THAT
YOU CAN DO, AND WHICH YOU
OUGHT TO DO, IS TO PATRO
NIZE THOSE MERCHANTS
WHO PATRONIZE YOUR PAPER
BY ADVERTISING IN THE
WORKER.
ALMOST EVERY LINE OF MER
CHANDISE,
ALMOST ALL SUPPLIES.
ALMOST EVERY PROFESSION.
ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU
WANT
IS REPRESENTED BY SOME
ADVERTISER IN THIS PAPER.
SEE TO IT THAT HE GETS YOUR
TRADE, AND' THE TRADE OF
ALL YOUR FRIENDS.
THE WINTER IS WHEN SOME
ADVERTISERS DROP OUT.
That hurts
Your paper
SOME ADVERTISERS STAY IN
THE PAPER FOR THE WINTER,
Some new
Ones come in
That helps
Your paper
>() SOMETHING FOR SOMEBODY
WHAT DOES SOMETHING
FOR YOU.