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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
•early as possible, is a worthy object of any good government. —
Abraham Lincoln
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Nome. Alaska, September 20, 1 !»!(>.
WELL!
The Juneau Empire which always
has an editorial nosegay ready to
hand Chas Sulzer, in a recent issue
says “he stands for things”. It's
rather indefinite, but let it go at
that.
HOW IT-S DONE.
Did you ever notice when a labor
He delinquent gets attention from
the press, it is something like this
“Socialist Admits Murder”, “Indus
trial Worker Sentenced for Burg
lary”, “Union man Assaults Em
ployer". But you never did see that
same press extend publicity to the
facts that "Republican Assaults
Young Girl”, “Democrat Robs
Store”, “Boss Proves White Slaver' .
It never does happen that the po
litlcal or economic status of the pro
pertied c lasses are identified, as are
the workers, with their little delin
quencies. It is all part of the insi
dious means whereby the public
mind is subtly poisoned against ra
dicalism and the proletariat.
NOT MENTION WICK.
The Ketchikan progressive says
it will not mention Wiekersham. It
has c ome to the conclusion that
this is a worse knock than delibe
rate newspaper roasts. But if this
line of argument is correct, then
boosts should be the most efficient
means of knocking the delegate, ot
all. Seems as if there is something
wrong with this train of reasoning.
Or is it a reflection upon the peo
ple who read the articles?
HIS HIKE.
Milner Roberts is Dean of the
University of Washington School ot
Mines. By all accounts he is a most
excellent man and a fine educator. |
It is to be noted large interests have i
engaged him to come to Alaska to
make an expert report upon pro
perties in Alaskan districts. This is
making use of public educators
with a vengeance. Could a more
subtle influence be exerted by great
interests over educators then paying
them for a delightful trip to Alaska
where business is combined with
pleasure and the salary is forth
coming as well? It is no wonder
great educational institutions are
ready to sacrifice much to support
and maintain corporation influence.
CAN UK?
A press article says that Wilson
is to keep foreign politics out ot
the political campaign. That's a
joke. He may desire to do so, but
he must at the same time give an
account of his stewardship to big
business that is interested in foreign
politics. If he does not, Hughes
has shown no diposition to allow
the foreign policies of Wilson free
dom and immunity from criticism. ,
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OX THK WATER WAGON.
British Columbia has gone dry.
Another section of Canada is de
stroying the saloon. For that is
what has been done. It is a pecu
liar fact that the entire force ot
the present dry movement is direct
ed against the saloon. And al
though this is so, and although all
along the saloon has been a self as
sertive influence in all politics, now
when its own political struggle for
existence is forced upon it, it cannot
come out in £he open and defend
itself. Instead, it falls back upon
academic talks about personal liber
ty and decries prohibition that does
not prohibit.
Of course there is a reison. and
Jf the saloon itself is not the reason,
what is it?
THE EIGHT HOUR DAV.
When the railroad eight, houi day
law waa before Congress. Senator
Jones lamented that such legisla
tion was a thing that labor never
should have connived at. bemuse in
effect it recognized tne rignt
Congress assumed to fix wages.
Granting that there is a grain oi
truth in Jones warning, we also
know that Jones spoke thusly be
cause his sympathies were with the
railroads.
But here in Alaska tail fall will
come the eight hour day law. It is
a most important referendum, much
more important than the prohibi
tion referendum. It is one that will
make a compulsory eight hour day
throughout Alaska in all occupa
tions. it is about time that the
workers realized that this was to be
voted upon, for it will be upon the
ballot next November. Of course
the law will be decried because it
will work a hardship upon some
poor employer who wants to work
his employees the round of the
clock. But while boosting Alaska,
what greater way could be found
to boost the country than to be able
to say that it is in the forefront ot
labor legislation and that none work
more than eight hours each day un
der the law.
It is possible of course that the
law may be evaded and that it may
be a dead letter as the eight hour
law has been in so many places for
mining under ground. But if poli
tical action is to be a joke and that
we must have economic action to
enforce the results of such political
action, the sooner this fact is forced
upon us all by observation of cor
rect experience the better.
|
If the workers win this eight
hour day, and without a sufficiently
strong economic organization it
cannot be enforced, it will be the
strongest argument, and it is the
strongest argument, for the econo
mic organization of all workers.
lilt. II I'KH’KS IIIK
Leather is short on the market
say the shoe manufacturers and the
price of shoes must rise. They say
that important leather stocks show
a big falling off and this explains
the shortage.
That is strange. But it is near
enough the truth to give the shoe
men a handy excuse for an increase
in price. The belligerent nations
consume the leather for they are
now looking to it that the soldiers
are well shod, have good shoes and
warm feet. Why is it so necessary
to see that the soldiers has good
shoes and the worker employed or
unemployed can wear anything or
nothing?
POLICE DISCRIMINATION.
The New York strikers complain
ed to the Mayor that the police
were discriminating against the
strikers in favor of the scabs. The
alliance between the New York po
lice and the gangsters and gunmen
who make up the strike breaking
classes in Netv York is historic. It
is a history written in blood and
corruption, graft and assassination.
Its manifestation during a strike is
what might be expected of the law
and order people who know no law
and no order but their own loot and
boodle.
HE KNOWS.
“The climate of Alaska will trim,
the untflt, making the Alaskans the
greatest race of people on the North
American continent’’. So gurgled
Dr. H. Waldo Coe to a Juneau paper
when he visited the capital last
month. The optimistic and flatter
ing doctor is the prosperous proprie
tor of the Morningside Insane Asyl
um where Alaskan insane are hous
ed. He ought to be quite an au
thority on the trimming of Alaska’s
unfit, when you come to think about
It.
i
THE INFALLIBLE POPE.
There now, dont got riled, this is
not an article about the ij;i>al in
fallibility. This is about a state
ment recently made by one Colonel
George Pope head of the Pope Ma
nufacturing Company. Mr. Pope
discussing the railroad brother
hoods expressed his opinion that it
was high time that employers of the j
country became unionized in order
to resist the encroachments o:
unionized labor. Apparently Colonel
Pope’s mind’s eye has become atro
phied and is unseeing.. If there ifr
any lack of organization upon the
part of the capitalists during 'p'or
struggles, at least it has been so
perfectly concealed that it has not
been in evidence. The trouble is that
they would have the workers be
lieve there is no such organ Hat .on,
because they thus insist with a sense
of justice undisturbed upon the
right to deny the unionists permis
sion to organize.
A LABOR SHORTAGE.
What is a labor shortage in the
estimation of the employers’ When
there are not enough men for the ,
work? Not much. What is meant
by a labor shortage is when there is
not an ample number of unemployed
to replace men who are discharged
so that the rest of the workers
may know that if they make a kick,
there will be another man take their
place. Thus they state that mining j
operations in eastern coal fields are j
marked by many difficulties owing ]
to the fact that there is a labor J
shortage as “the surplus of unem- |
ployed to draw from is almost ex- |
hausted”. That’s a neat condition, |
isn’t it. But it is the first require- I
ment of capitalistic industry.
NO COUNTRY.
Those who lament the Morgan- I
istic type of Americanism which j
floats a loan for the Allies are only j
very ignorant or short sighted ones, j
The House of Morgan like a good I
many other capitalist institutions !
has no country. It operates in Lon- .
don and in Paris and with the same
financial eclat as in New York and
through the United States. Capital
is international, and only when you
hit it in the dollar bags do you
j strike it in its patriotic heart.
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FLANNELL SHIRTS AND A GOOD SELECTION OF UNDER
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OF FURNISHINGS AND WINTER SUPPLIES TO BE HAD, AND
AM DETERMINED TO MAKE THIS STORE THfc BEST PLACE
IN ALASKA TO TRADE.
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