Daily Nome Industrial Markt-«
Published Daily except Sunday
By Nome Mine Workers' Union, No. 240, International Union of Mine,
Mill and Sni elter Workers.
Subscription Price
9ae Tear ... —__ — — — — — — —-— — — 110.00
ilz Months_____— —-— - *10.00
Dae Month .. ... _ _ — —-— — *
Entered as second class matter March 1, 1111, at tha post office at
Home, • AlasKa, under the Act of March t, 18 7*.
“To secure to each laborer the whole product of hla labor, or as
nearly as possible, U a worthy object of any good government."—
Abranam Lincoln
•All changes in standing advertisements must reach this office at sir
o'clock each evening to Insure insertion in the follovang Issue.
Advertising rates made knowa on application.
_____—___
Adilr-.ss all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Hot 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black lii
1 7.
Nome. A! ic ka,
1 ]«(i*n
11' i i!
:■ :: : wri: r • ho ■: .a: • • ;
r -l mskith the- :
- . ' must h iv b( • a I
, r.Tor oh.: ■> in 1 is
And he was certainly scale l
l.l M A.MMi M ri<>\.
s • t to ! ’• -rs 1.;:.er is to be reUiriliBd
and broken ui is a strang ex imple
cf history r p.-vii.- itse’.t. Not
v.;• t. upon voed i>- >pb ho 11
, • t it i : : iting it-1 i
. i, .r : ie : hat ; ■■
, i , r
* I' • , - ’ ‘ j — ' .. 1. ’ 11 t tv * •
ami v. I. >11 r- • ' i:. ti :r i ir - lit <
Ml -T H \ V I I
The Canadian resolution to im
port Chinese to replace the work
ingmen who may h • conscripted is
described as merely a war-time
measure.
It will probably lie carried out
It. has icon carried out eisewnere
Tin- coolie laborer is so docile and j
so cheap that it is a fact that he is:
irresistible.
it is true that he has not the
productive capacity or the white
man. Hut he can be increased in i
numbers with * ase and numbers
will do what the individual might]
not do.
In several places capital has j
brought about a well nigh ideal con
dition by this coolie system. Espe
cially lias it been perfected in some
British colonies under a system of
indentures. There the owner of the,
plantation and property becomes j
monarch of all he surveys and the J
laborer is bound to him.
The coolie produces wealth for
the wage that the whtteman would
not look at unless fresh from the
breadline and thus rendered super- '
docile
Nor has it been an unknown con
dition in the past. Serfdom arose
as much from the «’.:!••• - -'em ol
the latifundists in tin- Roman empire
The Athenian democracy was
founded upon slave labor and Ari
stotle doubted very much whethei
slaves had a sou! or not
What a blessed old world it
would he if employees could be in
duced to take v. hat they could get
lrom benignant employers; rest
content for ever in their station in
held a stewardship front God.
What a contrast with this inferno
today when economic discontent
is rampant; when strikes dislocate
industry and the workers refuse to
appreciate the fine philanthropy of
employers! The malcontents insist
upon entertaining the belief tha
they have rights: that they have
bodies which should be pampered
and that thc> have souls just like
employers! Is there no way where
by industrial peace can be brought
permanently to earth and these
disturbing beliefs in the hoi polloi
dissipated ?
VANISHING INDIVIDUALISM.
Actually on the Senate floor one
of the Senators admitted that while
he had always been an earnest in
dividualist. yet he had to admit
that he was now mentally drifing
towards state socialism.
In other words this is an admis
sion that the economic facts com
pelled him to recognize the fatuity
of individual as against collective
or corporative ownership with gov
ernment control.
But how could it be otherwise |
with the drastic necessities of the
war compelling government to
function in this way in all the na
tions.
It
*;>: • I !rut i state li.Wlt-r.'i.lp
!,.i :r , ■ own or.-hip to the
: iI .-nation is aivr
II but a step.
Xo v > .. :-r that th • id 'its < -f
resell - ration a re rapid!;, be
ng compelled to make changes,
'he ci M-.iomii environment has
hang 1 a long time ago and the
leas ging was in vitable.
Till la sTl.INt. c All!).
Th : . ■' . ohjei ti111. To tin < i n !'
ions w liich the miner I. >r
i. i.- tli • rustling ■ ,i• .1
I n r this system the pi t
i.i- i-r ' - given when tin ; p'.i
_ •. - ..is personal his:or; !<.:
• mi'- iiis j rsonal dt .• 'Tiption
li.i! - :..-r-.ii.al r■•• or
It i. t- only one purpos* : to he* p
nils upon the employees ; mi I •
■ r.ahii tin- owners to blacklist those
vhom they wish to blacklist.
It develops a condition of in it us-.
rial s rfdom for the workers and
hey know it.
So far no one lias disci end that
t is un-American. They have dis
ove "it that the o ipiMition to 'ids'
uf.mous system is nro-'ierman ».
IV. \\ ism .
STM l\I ;
Those arc days of great profits,
iml high prices. Wage- have been
mtomati' ally reduced ny reason ot
he fact that gold paid row pur-1
■bases less than half unit it was
wont to buy a few years ago. The
workers want their share of pros
perity, but still more they want to,
maintain the standard of living to j
which they were accustomed. A
5ood many employers think that
;he wages are high enough. They
think that the workers ought to be
satisfied with what they are gett
ing. They will not pay more. Be
tween these two antagonizing views
strikes result and there we are.
Certainly until there is a consider
able readjustment of this wage
tju stion in such a way that wages
overtake soaring costs of living
there will be strikes.
A KBITH ATH >.\ .
Again compulsory arbitration is
suggested as a means of forcing a
settlement of labor questions. Com
pulsory arbitration in a contradic
:ion in terms. There may be com
pulsory settlement forced upon
employers r.nd employees, but ar
bitration cannot in its nature be
compulsory.
What is call’d compulsory arbi
:ration has been a failure where
iver tried and where it has not re
sulted in abject failure it has
brought about a condition of indus
trial slavery.
!\ ALASKA.
Ala. ka is a land where there is
considerable use to be found for
government price control just now.
In fuel, in provisions, in lumber.
Alaskans need price control even
more urgently than in ether sec
tions.
The purchasing power of the pro
1uot of Alaska industries is dimi
nishing. Cold is not able to buy
what it did. Yet the fuel and
provisi ms v i.: h the worker and
the pr ; -or u sear out
1‘nlcss sen th g Is cl >n< in tins
man. r v.-hib tl. w.u <Hnucs Ai
protluctic n tor j ro.-,- rivy will b
strictly up ..pain.--: it.
X wi: ■ • to turn dura -
il ■ war p •'■d i:....- it.d more .
t-> *iii* • • v •' > 1: • : 'o:: to its iisiu-ry r -
oun-A-s . • ! r<» i' no good r •
*on why t *. v pr.< r::TAr. r.t should r.ot
i-nd :i . to op.*:, t!: n: up: ; -
riaHy in these rays oi a.loged to-:
shortage.
st i:t think.
The sue? siion or Mayor Lorn- n
that upon ‘.fa il‘ bcii'" able to av
•fi, niseiv - i.' tit v.-'.ai trry of r
r.i Air. Lit ' !•“"= ) b ■ d ti.. •
pat.v's ..-or;. rixi trucks .or
also pi t son.' fa* or to air in tlit
nisi ribution cf the gravel .us
hauled. will no ii it "it appeal to
Nome busiv ■ s mon.
Knov. ii ;; as tin y i! • t)i t the i :‘y
run! tfie streets r.rd the fire depart
ment, the taxation system are run
entirety for their brnefu. and Ihai
because it is ther. is no money
available in the tr usury for further
work, these highly patriotic n; a
will subsribe, suro’y, to a han 1
some fund so that labor at the re
gular rate of wages will be at the
disposal of the Mayor.
The miner in his cabin, tin long
shoreman in l.is home, pays taxes
on a fifty n r cent execs of the ac
tual value cf his real property. He
hr... in doing so donated amply to
the city: he subsidizes the various
civil activities to the extent of fifty
pi r cent of his actual property. The
business man who has never yet
paid taxes on the vr.ue of personal
property will no doubt he delighted
to avail himself of the opportunity
may be afforded him of voluntarily
subscribing to the street work bee
that is now under formulation by
th mayor and the city fathers.
There surely will be no trouble ■
r.t all about that.
INTERESTING READING.
Now that termer Tzar Nicolas
wil have ample leisure in the wilds
of Siberia, he could read with pro
fit all the nice things the Entente
papers said about him as a ruler
when during the first year of the
war he abolished vodka and ac
complished other reforms. It ht
will compare those eulogies with
'lie admissions now- made r.s to his
mental rccropitude he will un
questionably find it vary interesting
reading. Isn't it Goldsmith that
tolls about the tavern keeper who
used to change his signs according
to the popularity of the heroes of
the day? Such a one would no
doubt have long since substituted «
the effigy of Nicholas by a thrilling -
counterfeit resemblance of Keren
m it i in.
■v; r ; rovr.r
T1. t
- , • t;: ■ : rile :: that m:-’’.t it
'■ riuht t- a ri ■::• ■ ■. jj
>:U; show that r: has 2
proved v ; ?
—and there wi r. . . J
THE EIGHT
When the quo1
in the northwest
try was tern ports r
HOIK DAY.
ion of th ■ - Tiks j
rn lumber is. Ins- J
ily under consider- H
a*.ion in the senate the lumbermen
claimed that they could not c anoede
the eight hour dry hy r r.son of
the fart that they would there and
thru have to compete against tii •
Middle Wert and he South lumber
irail- where the longer work day
That is poor consolation to th
■teg'-rs of the northwest.. It dot
not make tie ir work lighter that j
the employer has inures.lug pro- j
id.uns of competition to eons.,1. r.
But it certainly does suggest the!
| propriety o' the southern lumber j
work r~ getting organized to mak j
and eufori " the same demand. Even !
, in a question as much concerning
the employer as worker, it is seen
| that the one thing of value is or
ganized and universal labor solid
arity.
Ill INK I IT I OK
THE KKD
(ROSS.
Midnight .Sun . Rebekali. Iaxlge
No. will celebrate their (Pith An
niversary of tbe founding of the
order in America by gi\ing an en
tertainnient and dance.
All expenses to lie paid out ol <
tbe lodge funds, Gross proceeds to
go to the Red Cross.
Admission 50r.
Tickets may be purchased from
i tbe members.
EAGLE LODGE ROOM.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20.
For the best 50c. Dinner In Nome
go to the Board of Trade Lunch
Counter.
innrtminnrmnfuirinfinrinncinflncifuhl
The Rose Candy Store And
Arctic Bakery
Agency for Augustine & Kjer Chocolates ami Bonbons.
The Quality of our Home-Made Candies and Nome Dairy Ice
Cream speaks for itself. Bread, Pastry and good Lunches.
WORKINOMEVS LUNCHES PUT CP.
SI NBA VS AND WEDNESDAYS FRESH WHIPPED CREAM
PUFFS.
********************** ***************************2«B»
,***************
LARGEST RUBBER COMPANY IN THE WORLD!
ALL
l;"CLOVER LEAF BRAND’^
RUBBER BOOTS'# PACS
^AjR^NOW MADE^Y^THNE^NEW^VACUUM^ <
PATENT ^3^/ PATENT'
PRESSURE» PRESSURE '
PROCESS * PROCESS
; 4-*
THOUSANDS OF WEARERS AFTER experimenting WITH A.~
i HUU3MIMUJ ^ ^Tur- brands have come back to EUREKA S
ZTi
*T
.
GIVE THEM A TRIAL NEXT TIME AND YOU'LL SOON LEARN
Y- *. WHY THE OTHER FELLOW SWITCHED BACK—/
At ALL FIRST^ClTASS DEALERS
A® OVER FIFTY-FIVE THOUSAND EMPLOYEES I ***£&
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. VICTORIA
LEAVE SEATTLE: LEAVE SOME:
Via Seward, Valdez and Cordova 1
Without Additional Charge.
SEPTEMBER 7 SEPTEMBER 1».
OCTOBER 6. OCTOBER 22.
SAILING SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.
R. A. Carroll, Agent, Nome
From Nome.^^S^i From Seattle
V ■ **&J
Sept. 3rd. ■££*£'/ Sept. i5th.
SEPTEMBER 2S.
OCTOBER t*5.
SEPTEMBER 15.
OCTOBER 13.
RIGHT RESERVED TO CHANGE THIS SCHEDULE.
MorasTEiisiffei
smmtir-tv-i*?.-- AKsynaBBWwwi
j ALASKA L. & C. CO.
AGENTS
; At Dock.
F. J. © CONNOR,
Commercial Agent.
Front St. anil Steadman Ave.
Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF \V. STEIGELMAIER AND OF LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILL RE
CEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
3RD AND B STREET. PHONE BLACK 162.
S. S. Standard
Sails every SIX DAYS to
DIME AND WAY POINTS
weather permitting
jw*
From Snake River.
CHAS WECKMAN.
INDEPENDENT
MEAT MARKET
W. H. Webb prop. Phone M.15
FOR SALE
ONK S HP. Corliss Kn|{lnr.
ONE <i HP. Eaii'banks-.Morse Engine.
Alaska Lighterage Comercial Co.
THE NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER
is prepared to handle
all kinds of
JOB PRINTING
§ Let us figure on your
1 work. Call up Black
| 134 or call at I
I THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER OFFICE I
jj 9
fi j