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"To secure to each laborer the whole product ol his labor, or as
•early ub possible, Is a worthy object ot any good government.”—
s bran am Lincoln
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Nome, Alaska, .August 14, 11)10.
NOT IN' THE CATALOGS.
Every season come to these
shores by mail elegant volumes from
the Mail Order Houses. Neat with
out being gaudy,. they allure the
thrifty housewives of the north,
and in ruturn good Alaskan money
goes out to the states to the various
houses for goods which arrive
cheaper than would they cost in
Nome. So there and then everyone
one congratulates himself upon his
bargains.
Now it is not with intention of
boosting home trade that this paper
refers to something appertaining to
most of these mail order houses
which does not appear in the cata
log. And that is the labor condi
tions that therein prevails. But it
is part of a liberal eduction to
know how the other half lives, and
io understand hoW they live in the
mail order houses is not the plea
santest reading in the world. But
it will explain a whole lot. It will
explain how your groceries, your
hardware, how your clothing and
nick-nacks are laid down in the far
north cheaper than you can buy
them here, and you can appreciate
as never before the fact that it
comes out of the hide of labor.
Now for the educational facts.
Front a recent number of Solidarity,
we make no apology for reprinting
an article which throws light on
this lurid subject and after you
have read it, if you still think of
adding to the exploitative capacity
of mail order firms, well and good.
It's up to you. But there are some
like the savor of tears and the sa't
of suffering attached to all their
enjoyments. Here’s the re-print:
"MONTGOMERY-WAItD FONDI
TIONS.
Although not nearly as terrible
as in most large concerns (there is
not one place of business that is run
for the benefit or interest of the em
ploye), the conditions at Montgome
ry Ward & Company are bad
enough, indeed; and should be ex
posed as well as every other place
of toil, sweat and lanor.
About four thousand workers
are employed, estimating one thou
sand men and the remaining three
thousand, women and girls. The
main body of employes, both men
and women’s wages range from $6
to $12 per week. A few, such as
managers, etc., receive a little more
for their services as "slave-drivers.”
There are men with large families
getting $12, and women supporting
their children and invalid husbands,
receiving $8 per week. How do they
make ends meet? Well, when they
«re at the verge of starvation, per
haps, they complain or sniffle around
the boss, who tells them he will do
all he can for them. Of course we
think he intends to fatten the pay
envelope, but he does not.
He sends the Charity or Welfare
Committee around, that takes care
of just such circumstances. This
Welfare Division receives donations
from the employes of the firm, the
donations consisting most of old
• clothing.
"They thank the boss that hires
them.
They kiss the hands that drive
V.* them.
And when their shirts become
shabby and torn,
(Every day of the week that shirt’s
been worn,
And to buy a new one they cannot
afford;
’Tis all they can do to pay the
board,)
So they go to the ’Charity,’ and
look like a lord
In the shirts of the bosses of Mont
gomery Ward.”
In order to impress upon the minds
of the employes the kindness and
charity they show their half-paid
slaves, these charitable acts are pub
lished in “M. W. & Co’s Store
liews,” a little paper published fre
quently by and for the company.
About one-fifth of the women
are cripples who ought to be at
leisure, spending their time in the
parks with nature and study instead
Of hobbling around on crutches or
Carrying an empty sleeve, taking the
place of the strong, healthy person
who will not work for the mini
mum wage the cripples and .leiorme l
are glad to get. Under the present
system' of capitalism they are
compelled to work for a living and
when we do away with it, just as
sure are we going to do away with
child labor and allow the aged to
rest in peace and comfort after
their long, hard struggle for exist
ence.
Montgomery Ward & Co. employ
girls of from 12 to 15 years of age
at $4.50 a week, robbing them of
their education, not allowing either
their brains nor muscles to mature
and develope.
They drill them and train them
to become a human machine that
rings in her time at eight in the
morning and goes over the same
grinding routine of from eight to
ten hours of toil, day after day and
year after year (if she lists that
long and proves efficient for every
‘‘speed record” and schedule adopt
ed ).
One girl started to work for the
firm more than three years ago. Site
was 15 years old then and received
$(! a week. About a year later she
got $7 and they promised to raise
her wages to $8 in three months.
They liaev been promis'.ng ever
; since until a week ago she, with
several other girls who also were
expecting their promised raise, was
called to the doctor’s office and the
“Doc” put her through a “would
be” examination and discovered that
she was in the first stage of con
sumption and she was told her
services were no longer required,
lie told some of the other girls the
same mournful lie and others were
“anemic” and every one of them
were laid off.
The doctor’s service and medi
cines, we are told, are for the bene
fit of the employes and every care
will be given anyone needing it.
free of charge. A girl whc is com
pelled to work is paying quite a
price when her job is taken from
her and she is sent away to starve
or rot fof all they care. Nor would
such an act be called “contributing
to the dilinquency” should the girl
be unable to get employment else
where and sought other means of
making her livelihood
Occasionally M. W. & Co. receive
large groups of visitors, such as de
legates of conventions, employed
of other large corporations and
Suffragettes who wish to “look
over” the home and tell their peo
ple what a “wonderful kind person”
Montgomery Ward & Company is.
Some country gentlemen have gone
so far as to get out pamphlets tell
ing all about the place and stating
how “extravagantly kindly” the em
ployes are treated. Sounds like the
clergymen who thinks we are gett
ing too much out of this world.
A SLAVE.”
A CASE IN POINT.
Two great tests of the Sherman
Anti-Trust act came before Justice
Hughes when on the Supreme
Bench. These two cases were in nc
way identical. But they serve tc
throw considerable light uptn the
frame of mind of the jurists whc
disposed of them. In both case!
Justice Hughes was with the major
ity of the justices who handed dowi
the decisions, and for that reason
now that he has resigned from thi
bench to enter the turmoil of the
political world, he should be pre
pared to be judged , upon his actioni
as the public will interpet them.
The reason for justioe Hughe
being nominated to the Supremi
Bench was because of certain trus
Taft
'said
cases which were coming l fere
that body. In October 1911, j-van
charged, in the Commoner
with packing the bench. He
explicitly that “Governor H ghes
was put forward to represent t ; re
publican party; he (Taft) as ured
the trusts that ‘the Rule of Ri ison’
for which they had been wa [ting
more than ten years would t
plied. Congress refused t:
the promise, so Governor 11
was put on the Supreme Rene
bellied to amend the aw !n a fcord
ance with the republican pr< rise,
and now President Taft in whe e in
terest the promise was madi
who appointed Governor Hi ;hes,
says that the anti-trust It v as
amended by the courts must ij>t be
disturbed.”
The application of the rle of
reason first formulated in a i >-ech
when Governor of New Yr
ap
1, cep
ighes
and
bv
Charles E. Hughes, was li the
Standard Oil and Tobacco
cases. The law was made app]
I'USt
ible
by that decision to no rensi cable
combination. The assumption
of a
right to amend a statute and o In
terpret the law so that it was
made
to mean something that neith >r its
letter nor its spirit intended wi
s de
nounced by Justice Harlan Jn his
essed
dissenting opinion which expi
his astonishment at the Court
usurping a legislative function: a
procedure heretofore absolutely un
known in jurisprudence.
The other case is that of the
Danbury Hatters. The court placed
the Hatters in the same category as
a trust but they made the guilt per
sonal and utterly ruined the work
ers who had struck and refused to
patronize the product of the employ
ers against whom they struck. The
hatters union was mulcted in dam
ages of over a quarter of a million
and all under the same law that re
fused to entertain any conception
of guilt against the other industrial
companies. And that too applying
to labor a law intended by Con
gress to apply against combinations
of capital in restraint of trade.
There is where Hughes stands:
Hughes the edifying reformer, veto
ing two cent fare bills and abolish
ing race track gambling while
white-washing Jerome for failing
to prosecute the Wall Street gamb
ers that got away with the spoils
>f the insurance companies. I
The very men who patted Hughes
>n the back when he found objec
ions to the constitutional amena
nent providing an income tax, when
le vetoed the two cent fare on
•ailroads bill' when he vetoed the
Honey Island bill, and let the ra
ngers of the insurance funds go
scot free after he had aided in their
sxposure, those men are now having
him run for President because of
his immaculate record!
It is all right to peddle the soft
stuff that a worker should be
treated by his employers as human
being, that tariffs help the farmers
and old delapidated junk that might
fit any cheap political second hand
dealer. But he has surely to ex
plain away why all his previous re
cord with hardly an exception
(there is one) was devoted to up
holding privilege and corporative
rights against the rights of the
people.
It is all very well to be against
the Wilson government and to de
nounce this policy and that, but
before the campaign is over prob
ably Hughes will find he has a heap
of explaining to do himself.
RELIABLE TAILOR SHOP.
Front St. 3 doors west of Alaska
Bank.
We do the best
CLEANING
PRESSING
ALTERING &
REPAIRING
Ladles and Gerttlemens Clothes.
CITY BATH HODSBj.
Moonlight Spring Water. (Boll
lng Hot).
M. O. SOLBERG.
Now is the time to Subscribe.
For Correctly
Fitting
EYE
GLASSES
Go to
Segerstrom & Hagen
Jewelerr and Opticians.
Milo's
Cafe
OPEN DAT AND NIGHT
Next door to Pacific Cold
Storage.
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Prescription Druglsts
and
| Drug Sundries
You
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211 FRONT STREET PHONE, MAIN 86.
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and Canvas, See
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