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By Nome Mine Workers* Union, Xo. 210, International Union of Mine,
Mill and Sin eiter Workers.
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Address all Communications to Daily Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaeka. Phone, Black 1*8
Nonae, Alaska, Or toiler 2«i, 11117.
A VAIJCDK'TOKV.
The outgoing editor who with
this issue severs liis connection with
tlie Worker avails himself of the
privilege of his position to say a
word of farewell hy way of no
ha rm.
To pretend that we quit this job
without feelings of regret would be |
a.i affei'atioti. to which we will not
nlae ourselves in the position of
having to plead guilty.
One could not lie associated so
long and so cc rdially with men and
women in this community, who are
literally the suli of the earth, with
out feeling very genuine pangs of
regret that the many kindnesses
which we have experienced from
thorn, we will know no mere. But
it will always be a delightful me
mory as it has always been a de
lightful experience.
in Nome, it has been our fine ex
perience, there are more independ
ent men and women and more li
berty loving men an 1 women, than
in anv other section of tile country
and to meet them and to be their
triend J.ns been as high a privilege
as wc i■ vi r hoi e to obtain.
During the long time with which
we hr.w associated with the Indus
trial Work*" tin work has Inert
such as to have boon made easier
and pleasanter by reason of the
splendid co-operation of ti.e metr
hers of the Miners Union who have
time and time again proved their
selves litis editor's friend and broth
er in the literal and best meaning
of Die terms.
The Industrial Worker has had
quite a history in its over ten
years experience and what good it
lias done and what positioji it has
carved for itself in Alaska and la
bor newspaperdom is due to the so
lidarity which the membership
owning it has displayed in getting
behind it and the genuine spirit of
mutual aid with which they have
co-operated to make it a success.
To have been editor of this paper
has been our prt\ ilege and a privi
lege which we ne/er have esteemed
lightly’. While in charge of its de
stinies the trust which the Union
lias reposed in his capacity and in
his discretion has been prnneriv ap
preciated by the outgoing editor.
Duting these many years the
Worker’s intimate business rela
tions with many in Nome have been
invariably pleasant, and it is to he
hoped that those relations will he
at; cordially maintained during the
incumbency of his worthy successor
For ourselves wc have to thank
everyone for the many kindnesses
which we have experienced at tHeir
hands, individually and eollccltvo
jy, and wo done believe that there
has ever been a newspaper writer
or editor in any section of A lash a
iias had a more pleasurable experi
ence than has been ours. We know
very well the numerous shortcom
ings which we have, presented to the
public nr d to the unionmen. It
would be impossible did we not do
so.
But that knowledge all the more
makes us tb 1 more keenly alive to
the generous appreciation of our
services while connected with the
paper.
The labor movement which the
Industrial Worker has sought to in
terpret, as w? saw it, in this com
munity, is however not seriously to
he affected by anything we may do
or anything wo may say. it depends
upon the individual members and
their solidarity will be a veritable
castle's strength "which will laugh
a siege to scorn.”
Unlike most papers the industrial
Worker depends for its very exist
ence upon working class solidarity.
Whatever service it may render to
the workers, the workers can in
crease in value and in importance
by the manner in which they sup
port it. Surely during the incumb
ency of the position of editor, we
tiave had no reason to complain.
The workers have been with it and
backing it through thick and thin
and they have by that solidarity
made it what it is where individual
efforts would have failed utterly.
In leaving the position of editor,
we confess our first feeling is fot
many years of prosperity and good
fortune to tiie Union and to the In
dutrial Worker. And we leaven
that with feelings of grateful regret
for the many friends, of whose
friendship we have had all along so
substantial evidences given us, that
we are leaving them. May they be
happy in every sense of the word.
Hail and Farewell!
Till! C'l.OSK OF NAVIGATION.
Mighty soon the last boats will
sail and .Nome will settle down with
a few of tiie best of them to its re
gular routine.
Far from the madding crowd’s
ignoble strife they will have to in
vent strifes of their own. and more
power to them if they do.
Things have got keep moving
and it is by the friction of things
that we can judge of the swiftness
of progress.
Bm k to tiie effete outside gp those
who have been tetppting fortune
with a sojourn up here and if they
are no richer at least, under Heav
en, it is their own fault if they are
tio wiser. ,
When men come up here, thy
usually have picturesque visions of
miilionairod prosperity. After a
time struggling against conditions
tlft'se moderate to a small farm,
then a chicken ranch and finally for
u good rnnnv it is the clam ranch
as a last resort and final hope.
This world gets along in that
way by men bending hopes around
them so that they cannot always
realize where they are at or whither
they are going. Thanks to the as
siduous labors of capable passengers
ticket agents they have finally
rounded up Alaska before the
mind’s eye as a little old Aladdin’s
lamp which by buying a ticket to
and rubbing shoulders against one
may extract everything that tlie hu
man hearts desire.
Right well the human mind res
ponds to this elegantly published
hull con ai.d for that reasjn there
stray hitlier many economic waifs
who believe and hope that In reach
ing Alaska they will land safely on
the shores of oportunity where a
fortune waitr. on the order of their
beckoning to them. The crowded
condition of the boats every fall
show that the minds of many com
ing hither hare finally become
sophisticated and they for that rea
son take themselves hence with
ether hopes for otlierwhrves.
Every man's grip, bundle of
blankets, suit caae, trunk ami what
not contains at least one content
that never fails. And that is abund
ance of hope. Springing eternal in
the human breast, naturally enough
this is lugged around by human
beings wherever they go and lurk
ing here, there and everywhere
under the stimulus of their own
little hopes are many hope breeders
who have made it their business
and their pleasure to breed furthei
hopes in those who otherwise would
soon realize their position.
The mod generally at 1 genC;
ously victimized in this way are tii<
workers. We need not mention the.
proportion of those who leave the
wage earning class and enter the
wag paying tlat-s —but they are
fev, aril tar between, lint for every
hope that the wage paying class,
enjoys, tile worker enjoys about
two thousand, and many there an
to see to it that that is about ah
that that the worker is to get foi
his pains.
There are not by any means few
employers engaged in the ratlin
easy task of beguiling their ern
ployees with this sort of peddle anti
piffle. They point to their own
glorious selves and offer to those
by whom tliev are getting rich the
fine opport l.ity of doing, some day
some time the same thing. In this
way they develop a tine culture oi
the illusions which so many wage
slaves possess, and induce a cunning
forgetfulness of the industrial
chains which they have woven fast
around ‘hem.
The effort to make the worket
Lake the employers view point was
never so evident as now—was nevet
so much practiced as now, was
never so forced as at the pre
sent time, and those who refuse to
ilo so—who realize Where they are
at and further where they are go
ing and behold without any of tlie
deceiving illusions that are cast
around them clearly their position
.it all times, endeavoring to make
lo hers see. realize and understand it
aiso are agitative. seditious and
often enough treasonably ill-minded
‘■'■'lows whose influence is wholly
evil.
The main trouble in this world,
j .is we see it, is that all so many of
i tlie workers take up not their own
but their employers’ viewpoint: sur
render the interests of themselves
and their class to make a vicarious
sacrifice for the atonement of the
sins of tin1 employing classes and
generally engage themselves not it.
the battle of carving out their own
freedom, but in tlie work of rivelt
ing more and more chains lor their
fellow workers<wnd themselves.
This isn't an easy world. This is,
: not. taken by and large, a kindly
! world. Tills assuredly is not a fair
and square world. The Cods have
distribute;’, their favors with some
uneveness, but it is a distribution
to which all workers through their
indifference, their cowardice, or
through their willingness to follow
the line of least resistance, have
themselves been accessory before
as well as after the fact.
Our faults, are not in our stars,
nor in our Gods, but in ourselves
Our position, and the position of
our class is nor in our stars, nor
in our gods but in ourselves—we
are underlings. And we have wel
comed being underlings, and have
a . uniod the mental attitude of the
underling which is a borrowed at
fittide and is that which the boss
alive in bis egoism to bis own inter
est would impose upon his em
ployees.
When the worker attempts to pu1
on airs as of another station, apes
the manners and the affectations
and morals of what he calls his
superiors, lie is doing what his mind
and tlie mind of many of his class
has been doing for the ages. He
lias made the boss’s interest, his in
terest, his view point identical with
the boss's—and models bio feelings,
sentiments, emotions, manner of
thought, impulses and often enough
his reasoning along the same lines
as those which employers put fortu j
to keep them in position of author
ity and affluence.
Alaska is no different to any
[other section in this regard. For-1
tunes may have come here for j
many by chance, hut fortunes came
in any event for the few. Very few
men in Alaska achieved their po
jsit'en by means of wage-wortung
; They got next to important claims,
obtained finer opportunities and
i with the ability they had made the
1 m->st cf it. Under ordinary circum
stances any ordinary man would
I have done the same. The point is
I they were not ordinary circtim
I stances and extraordinary eirctim
I stances are for the few. **
We might as well realize ‘.his and
I the sooner that those who w ork for
j wages do realize it, understand their
! position, the sooner will they dis
| cover class consciousness and there
j by achieve solidarity whereby there
i will cone the emancipation of the
Workers and complete industrial
freedom.
This is not hunk. This is stern
fact. Rut the longer the master
classes can have the workers be
lieving that it is piffle and buncombe
the longer will the workers he lagg
ing along, the hirelings of the sy
stem and enjoying nothing bette;
than falls to the lot of hirelings.
liOWMNCi AIJ.KV
IKOI'KXS.
The Howling Alley next door to
the Fugle saloon is now open fot
business. Everybody cordially in
vited to come and enjoy themselves.
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP 60.
S. $. VICTORIA
Last Sailing: of the Season
LEAVES NOME OCT. 26TH.
Via Seward and Cordova Without Additional Charge.
hAII.ING SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.
R. A. Carroll, Agent, Nome
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LAST SAILING OF SEASON
1917
From Nome
For Seattle Direct
S. S. UMATILLA
OCTOBER 26TH.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP GO.
ALASKA L. & C. CO. F. J. O’CONNOR,
AGENTS Commercial Agent.
At Dock. Front St. and Steadman Ave.
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Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF W. STEIGER MAIER AND ®F LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILL RE
CE1VE PROMPT ATTENTION.
3RD AND R STREET. PHONE BLACK 162.
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| Miners and Merchants Bank
Nome, Alaska
Capital $100,000.00 .
Workingmen’s Accounts Solicited.
On “Umatilla” we expect a limited .supply of LIBERTY BONDS.
If they arrive, we will sell to those desiring.. If they Viil to ar
rive, we can take subscriptions and have bonds deposited in any
Seattle bank to order of purchaser.
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THE NOME IHDUSTRIAL WORKER
is prepared to handle
all kinds of
JOB PRINTING
Let us figure on your
work. Call up Black
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