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Nome Mine Worker*’ Union, No. 240. Western Federation of Miner*.
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filtered as second class matter March 1. 1911, at the post office at
home, • Aiassa, under the Act of March 2, 1272.
Nome, Alaska, February 7, 1010.
Gold is now arriving in the United
States by the “ccrd”. Its presence
is being hailed -is a great boon to
business. It is everywhere hers idea
as a great and certain sign ot re
turning prosperity, and it is accom
panied also by such an industrial ac
tivity ns would seem to indicate
that its increase in the United
States is an unmixed blecsirg.
Now gold is a commodity. Most
!<now it as the theoretic standard of
value,and its use therefore as a me
dium of exchange. But its import
ance ac a commodity is net less than
Its importance when functioning
purely as the national medium of
exchange, especially since its latter
* function depends upon its condition
as a commodity.
If gold were very rare and the
quantity secured were but relatively
small or only of tuch an amount
as to replenish tl at supply used up
in 'he arts or 'it the wsor and tear
of coinage, it would rep-csent an
ideal medium of exchange, because
its own value would not fluctuate
and a gold dollar today would be
the same tomorrow, the next d xy
and the day after.
But the value of gold depends
open its cost i" prod patten., It ’
price <!< l ends upon lb tv. t <fn oi
i s supply to i ; demand. If Gold
ir* j'lt.ntifril th-irrCiv-r. it >,* iltit (JX
tocKv ft>r <v-: vnucIV v nT ai
aa, it exchanged for yesterday, unless
wheat has s imile ay Increased in
supply and the cost of its produc
tion has also with c”cn r.Up de
creas'd in proportion to the value
of gold.
Today the United States is flood
ed wiGi all kinds of gold. It ia
being brought frem ev.-.ry country;
it is coming from Europe, Asia
Africa end Australia, because Great
Britain has always controlled tlr
main gold supply: the mines in
those* placer,. To pay foreign wai
debts, therefore, this stiTrm cl
yellow metal is growing in volume
t.nd the United States is accumulat
ing the main supply of the world.
In addition gold doer not coat sc
much to product today as yesterday
1 II.II ft ft IU • *11. I i
the metalurgisls ' ■ In th
art of ore reduction. gold is profit
a 111 y produced from exceedingly lov
grade ores, of which the supply Is
practically inexhaustible.
With the advent of this pile 01
gold, the ccdt of production cheap
ruing, the price of gold else dotori
orates. It is not a stable factor ti:
finance or commerce and it io noi
exchangeable at a uniform rat.;
with other commodities.
The most important consequence
of thia is that prices eontii ue tr
soar. They do soar; for the demand
for commodities is very much ir
excess of the supply. The war ir
Europe has made European govern
ments customers for millions wh
must be fed where hitherto the>
were inadequately fed. The soldier
in the trenches is cared for mud
more attentively bcd'ly and men
tally then was the ordinary Industri
al worker.
Very many soldiers today are be
ing enabled by their government!
to assume a consumptive capacity
which they hitherto never could at
tain. And to oat'nfy that cousnmp
tive demand the European govern
ments are willing to drain the Am
erican markets of supplies, in r«
turn they send gold. They unov
that gold is the national medium o!
exchange hero a3 it is over there
llut they cannot cat it, and the;
must have wheat and flour and foot
and clothing. In consequence thi
supply of food in America shrink!
and the supply of gold increases
This creates higher prices and na
turally because in proportion t<
the demand gold is relatively mor.
plentiful than are the food supplies
It takes more gold today to repre
sent a given value in necessaries o
life than at any other period, an<
the prices therefore rise in propor
tion to the increase in that amount.
Thi3 condition -would not occasion
any trouble were it not that wr.ge3
are expressed in terms of gold dol
lars, not in terms or the necessaries
of life. If men were paid so much as
r.n allowance for meat, so many
pounds of flour, so much eggs, so
much bacon, ham, so many suits of
clothes, so much rent, wages would
not be interfered with by any alter
ation in the price of gold. But In
asmuch as only a round sum In gold
or silver is alloted to each worker,
when the purcha-ecble material can
be secured therewith falls, the actu
al wages falls also.
Moreover labor Itself being a
commodity, regulated by the law ot
supply and demand, it also is sub
ject to such fluctuation as may fol
low from a variation! of the one or
the other, and it is interesting to ob
serve the peculiar condition thai
now obtains, that the only articles
of commerce, the only commodities
wherein the price shows an actual
deterioration, when the price is tile
relation of one commodity to another
are gold and labor.
The supply of labor v.s so great In
almost all centers that It is in excess
of the demand and the demand fo
food, shelter and clothing, is 30
fur in eveauv of jaunply that :t
moans that the actual price of the
former sinks and the actual price of
the latter increases. Therefore foi
the workingclass, this stream ot
gold that comes into tire banks ol
the ■ ast, and the steady increased
production of tiro yellow metal at t
reduced cost of operation means cer
tainly that their wages will have
loss purchasing power than former
ly, and although apparently th
price paid for labor represented in
dollars and cents remains the same
it means a big variance from what
it tired to represent in the necessa
ries of life.
The interests of every working man
are wrapped up in that af every
other workingman. This seems to
some to represent a condition to
which they will not assent. But
they cannot got away from it. It
one man is willing to work for a
a certain sum, then if another seeks
work, his wage demand will be af
fected by what the other is willing
to work for. If all as working men
realize that they have that always
in common, the selling of their la
bor power, they will realize that
what their fellow worker does as n
worker deeply, inevitably and in
variably affects them also.
And this involves also the necos
spry and inuistert argument for or
ganization—for labor organization,
realizing that one worker's ■ acts af
fects the welfare of the acts ol
every other worker, gets them to
gether on a common field, unite;
their instinct for self preservation
the first law of nature, gives them
the strength of mas? action to rea
lize their demands, and gives their
the confidence that massed action
solidarity, alono conveys.
And labor organization docs othei
things. It brings men together a:
nothing else can. It is unlike in thh
some fraternal organization when
some fraternal organization where nc
■ brotherhood may prevail, the orga
• nization is subdivided into group
and cliques which represent soda
groups and cliques in the commuu
lty. Attend some of these social am
fraternal functions and It will sopr
be realized that the higher you.
. social position, your commprcla
i status, your financial standing, tht
i more important will be the positioi
. occupied in those organizations a
those functions. This may be due t(
> other causes of course than the men
i fact that some earn their brea’c
with the sweat of their brow am
others with'the sweat of their jaws
! but it, in any event, shows that th<
1 grouping is there none the less. I:
fact the only absolutely democratic
organization is the labor organiza
tion, the organization whcjjcin thj
newest member has his say as well
as the oldest, and whoreln every
man has absolutely the same stand
ing from every point of view.
The purpose of the labor organi
zation is entirely different. It is
had no function to gluo together the
social interstices and resulting in a
conglomerate misfit. It takes ail
men who labor for wages and gives
to each an individual expression
what tactics are the best for the
advancement of the whole as indi
vidual wage workers.
Furthermore, it is this very fact
that disarms criticism of those who
denounce what labor organizations
do if they are workingman. The
labor organization gives every man
a voice, every man a vote and not
one man two voices and one man
two votes, and there is not the se
cret prestige of the employer enter
ing in to gain support because he 13
a man who controls the job.
No matter a continental how
lofty and earnest and sincere and
high principled may be the obliga
tion a man takes in a fraternal or
ganization, the fact that he is ths
boss of another man who is also £
member, makes that other member
who is a employee dependent upon
him. The basis of brotherhood is
equality, and there can be no equal
ity and therefore no real brother
hood, wh§re every person does not
meet on the same economic plane.
Men often proclaim that they
would willingly join the labor union
i^ that union did not adopt one po
licy or did adopt another. That's
all pronounced buncombe. Every
man can get into a labor organiza
tion, and if he objects to the policy
pursued it is up to him to change
it. Sometimes it might be improved
upon, but it cannot be improved
upon unless the man who has that
improvement in mind comes out,
joins the organization, and gives his
ideas as to what is and what Is not
the correct policy.
The Nome Mine Workers Union
welcomes all wage workers; wants
everyone of them. It wants them no
matter what may be their ideas
whether ideas of reaction or of radi
calism. It insists that as members
the individual who joins will listen
as carefully and as uninterruptingly
| and as attentively to the views
! which arc as different from his own
| as if his own. All men hare the
I right to be heard and the free ex
| eiosaioi* of opinion is tiny <tttentla'
[ If any person has any reason* to cri
I tirize, it is not because they are
| members but because they remain
i outside and the criticism then
! should be directed against therii
j selves.
The only chance for the workers
Is to get together. Solidarity is
what counts. It counts tflday, to
morrow as it did yesterday. One
man 16 powerless. Ho can only gam
the job or the little concession on
the job by do'ing something which
in the main prejudices the job ana
the concession and himself against
his follows.
Organization is the key to effec
tive effort. Why shouldn’t the work
ers take a lesson from their propar
odness camoaign which the capital
ists today are making. ■ They are
looking into the future and consid
ering the welfare or their treasures.
Why shouldn’t the workers every
where consider the welfare of their
persons which can only bo adequate
ly secured by organization. That’s
our preparedness campaign. It
ought to be carried on by every In
dividual worker. The moans a^e
handy; the material here. Every
worker ought to prepare and the
first step, the last step and the
step that must be taken is organiza
tion. That’s the key to the situa
tion. That is the working class pre
paredness and it oughtn’t to be in
terfered with by hair splitters who
criticize this policy or that, but who
ought to think that when a policy
is not suited to them, the only thing
to do is to say so, and show why
it should be changed.
This is a preparedness doctrine
that ought to appeal to all workers.
It is that which should be con slder
cd in the present so that the future
should be carod for. Let the past
go hang. The dead past must bury
its dead.
We live in the present and for the
future. To better our lives, orga
nization is again we say the keynote
of all successful effort. Organize.
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