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•early as possible. Is a worthy object of any good government."—
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
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Nome, Alaska, .Inly ft, 1016.
I'XltKASO V\BLE REMANDS.
The Mining and Engineering
Journal in a recent issue said about
“The Labor Situation" in part as
follows:
“The fnost embarrassing thing in
the present industrial situation is
the unreasonable and ever-increas
ing demands of labor.
The corporations, especially the
mining and manufacturing compa
nies, have made great profits, some
of them a great deal more than
others for special reasons. All of
them have been generous In sharing
profits with their workmen, wag03
have been raised repeatedly and vo
luntarily. But labor is scarce and
uneasy. Its market value has ap
preciated. The employer is daily
confronted by new demands. Re
sistance is promptly followed by a
strike. In the mining and metal
urgical industry the latest have been
the strikes by miners in the lead
mines in southeastern Missouri and
by the zinc smelters in Okahoma.
^Neither in the lead mining nor in
the zinc mining may any strong re
sistance be offered. In some of the
less profitable Industries, however,
the maximum limit has been reached
and works have been shut down
where new demands havetexceeded
what remained to give. We shall
see more of that before we are done
with the present Industrial move
ment”.
We hear much about the unrea
sonable demands of labor; we al
ways have, but quite within recent
months we hear a groat deal more.
Labor has on an average in any
of the industries received merely an
increase equivalent to the in
creased costs of living. In most
cases not quite that. Twenty per
• cat is r. good round average for the
increased wages, and tiiat is what
is regarded as unreasonable by so
many of the organs of the em
ploying classes.
Has anyone within the same recent
months hoard any mention of un
reasonable profits? Yet profits have
been enormous. They have been
greater in industrial enterprise than
ever before in the history of the
world. At no time in any place has
the entire industrial system re
warded owners with such munificent
return for the money invested and
never before has water been reduced
in the capitalization of many com
panies to the refined gold cf divid
ends. This is not a assertion. This
is a conclusion.
Let's quote a few.
First National Bank of New York.
Capital ten millions. Net earnings
for year seven million two hundred
thousand. That's quite a chunk.
The Liberty National Bank made
4>2.6 per cent profit, the Chatham
and Phoenib 33 per cent and so on,
water and all giving big returns.
The Norfolk and Western revenues
increased 56 per cent for January.
This railroad is taken at random.
Bethlehem Steel paid 30 per cent
dividends and carried over an
enormous surplus. The United
States Steel after paying its di
vidend carried over $105,000,000
surplus cash in the banks. Its slaves
for they are slaves, got a twenty per
cent increase making the pay of
some of them as high as $1.65. The
Baldwin Co. after paying a fat di
vidend carried over one and hall
million suhplus. Its increase in
profit is about 60 per cent.
The Republic Iron and Steel Co’s
net profits for the past year were
four and quarter million as com
pared with one and three quarter
a year before. Lackawanna
watered stock and all is earning
thirty per cent. Atlas Powder Co.
made four hundred thousand dollars
in 1914. In 1915 the same company
made one million six hundred thou
sand. The Westchester Arms Co.
last year made 465 per cent on Its
capital of one million. The Hercu
les Powder Co. put away a surplus
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jafter paying its dividend that alone
'amounts to 64 per cent on its capi
tal stock. The General Motors Co
shows just a fifty per cent increase
this year over its corresponding
month in 1 titjj. This concern re
ported that it has paid fifty per cent
cash dividends and doubled its com
mon Stock without any extra cash
payment which equalled one hund
red and fifty per cent which mal.e3
300 per cent for the year.
Sears Roebuck whose catalogs
come to Nome paid 17 1-2 per cent
net profit for i.915 with a surplus
on hand, made from selling to the
people, of ten million one hundred
and forty one thousand dollars, its
net sales were one hundred and six
i'.ud a u; arter million for the year.
| We needn't mention the Du Pont
Co. which on a single advance pay
ment from the Allies on a war con
tract made over sixty per cent pro
fit without producing a single grain
of powder or fulfilling even a frac
tion of the order. It would puzzle
the Archangel to say how it was
done—but Dupont Co. knows all
about it.
Recently an article in the New
York Call pointed out that since the
Standard Oil company was "bust”
by the Supreme Court of the Cnited
States, its subsidiary companies have
paid dividends of over four hundred
and fifty millions.
Not only that, but these great
companies which have been in
creasing their profits so enormously
and with such zest for more, are
still consolidating, still grasping ann
still demanding greater and greater I
centralization. In any of these .Tour- ]
nals like the Mining and Engineer
ing Journal did you ever see it men- j
I tioned that these profits were uu- i
j reasonable? That paper said that j
' they have been making great profits J
j and added that they shared then j
generously with the workers. Well
j out of all the companies mentioned
not a single one of those companies
granted a half a cent increase witli
i out a strike or a threat to strike.
There is no generosity in that.
When a man puts a gun in a per
son's face and tells his victim is
hand over his wad, the victim is
not usually found boasting about
his generous donation. He dropped
what he got by the application of
force.
• The strike made these greedy ones
disgorge and they disgorged where
they did unwillingly. And when
this boom is over, these same py
thons of industry after swallowing
their victims whole, will lie dormant
in the sleep of slow digestion while
they assimilate their huge profits and
the workers whose demands are
so “unreasonabe” will be trotting
the streets wearing out shoe leather
looking for work, or shivering in
the bread lines looking for a hot
cup of Java that isn’t Java at all.
Now we wonder what th’ell
would be reasonable demands upon
the part of labor.
We turned for some enlightment
to an article by Sam Gompers in
the Citizen of Los Angeles. The
head of the Labor Movement as ex
empified by the A. F. of L., draw
ing a princely salary, Sam ought to
know. Sam said “the meaning of
the present conditions in tho labor
world is that, the workers are de
manding their rightful share in the
increased productivity of industry
end in the prosperity of tho nation”.
But there's no enlightenment there.
That's clap trap. That secures the
applause of fellow delegates and
unionists who think it sounds good
but dout know what the devil it
means.
It is the sam* genus of bunk that
is handed out by delegates at political
conventions or candidates for office
in the elections. It "listens good”
if you dont stop to analyze It.
What is labor’s rightful share?
Who is to say what la the rightful
ihare? The worker who decreases
>y his demands the net profit, or
he employer who wants thal net
irofit to be as globular as possible?
t makes quite a difference whether it
s the employer or the employee
who will be judge in the matter
ind one or the other must be the
iudge. There is no getting over
:hat, and which ever is strongest in
:he economic field, whichever has
:he best organized control of the si
tuation in the industry, that man
shall be the judge or that class will
be the judge.
Make no mistake about that.
You dont hear the bosses’ papers
talking about unreasonable profits
because all profits are reasonable tb
them. Imagine a mine operator
thinking that he had too rich a
paystreak! And similarly if his ears
were not so long in many instances, 1
all his wages all his demands, would j
be reasonable to the worker. It is
a class point of view. There is no j
such thing as rightful or wrongful 1
share about it. There is no sharing |
involved: It is a case of being
strong enough economically to
hang on to what you own by right
of creation.
If you arc not strong and if it
is the boss who must determine
what your share will be, any de
mand which does not moet his ap
proval is rightfully by him and by
you regarded as unreasonable. So
it is. If the workers remain un- j
organized and have neither the i
guts nor the strength of mind nor '
the physical or moral courage to
dare attend to their own interests,
it is most unreasonable to think
the boss will do it for you—it is
an unreasonable imposition upon an
employing corporation, well orga
nized for abstractive purposes, to
expect that It will submit to requests
for increased wages where those re
quests are not backed up by a suffi
ciency of economic strength.
So therefore when you come to
size is up the Engineering and Mining
Journal when it refers to the un
reasonable demands of labor is not .
so far wrong. Split up into a do
zen different trades, what and how
can the workers hope to achieve any
thing and what do they gain but
contracts and check offs and offi
cial corruption by making their un
reasonable demands anyhow.
Now if they were well organized
—unitedly, industrially and with I
materialized solidarity—but that’s |
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Some Catholic clergy in outside
towns say that the high skirts are
the cause of much immorality.
Well, Reverend Fathers, it’s surely
not high wages.
OVERSTOCKED.
To the Public:—
We have just finished stock tak
ing, and find that we are heavily
overstocked so are making enorm
ous reductions • in Hardware—as
much as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
side, especially in Hardware ana
Metal Goods, we are still selling on
the basis of goods purchased the
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until
we bring our stock down to the re
quirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; we can save you
money. We have proved it oo
others, we can prove it to you.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
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You can have it by having your
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paired by us. We’ll make them look
like new. We make alterations.
We clean hats, we make suits to
order, we do steam and dry clean
ing for ladies and gentlemen.
Modern methods and prompt service
We appreciate your patronage.
Come and see us.
NOME TAILORING CO.
Between Segerstrom & Hagen and
Zehners Jewelry Stores.
ANOTHER BIG CUT.
A few more House Dresses at
$1.00. Silk Dresses at $2.50, Linen
Suits $4.00. Just a few more up to
date suits at $10.0.
For one more week I will take
your order for underwear and hose
at mill prices. I handle Worlds Star
and Dr. Jaeger’s. I have samples
and can fill your mail order for
Suits, Coats, Dresses for men,
women and Children.
A. F. OESTREICH.
Front St* opp. Peterson’s Shoe Store
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