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“To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly a8 possible, Is a worthy object or any good government."—
korabam Dlncoln
Address all ComniunTeatlong io Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Hot 10 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 1*4.
Nome, Alaak*. January U», 1!>17.
«im:-siih:d < oi.i.iktivism.
President Wilson in a personal j
statement after his brief .message to j
Congress win-rein he urged the pass
age of an anti-strike measure thus
defined his i xact attitude:
"To pass a law which forbade o: j
prevented the individual workman j
to leave his work before receiving
the approval of society in so doing
.is based on the .... prin
ciple that the concerted action of
powerful bodies of men shall not he
permitted to stop the industrial pro
cesses of the nation, at any rate not
net'ore the nation shall have an op
portunity to acquaint itself with ^
the merits of the case between em
ployers and employees; time to
form its opinion upon an impartial
statement of the merits of the case,
and opportunity to consider all
practicable means of conciliation or
arbitration. 1 can see nothing in
that proposition but the justifiable
safe guarding by society of the ne
cessary processes of its very life .
it is not the head of the Employ
ers Association that is speaking, be
it recollected, but Gompers enthusi
astically supported candidate for
President. Woodrow Wilson.- and it
is just as able an ex parte state
ment as any official of any labor
baiting employers’ association could
well make.
It is characteristically fatuous, as
all efforts upon the part of well in
tentioned men to stabilize the un
stable must be; it is characteristi
cally superficial as all comment
upon the surface appearances of
tilings will always be.
But it is more than that. It is
an effort to gild a policy of iron
which it is not immediately desired
should be understood. It proposes
to prevent strikes in the interests of
“society”. It proposes to take away
from the collective organization the
right to quit work if they find that
such a step is necessary to improve
their condition, and it is to strike
at the very fundamental principles
of that vestige of human liberty that
Kim iciuauio vw w- -
Obviously President Wilson does
not intend the people "'bo have in
telligence to understand, "'ill believe
that he proposes that a strike bo
suspended pending the public know
ing about it and begun when they
Pave been furnished with particu
lars. The self evident stupidity ot
such a proposal is only used to var
nish the real purpose in view, to
prevent labor making tise of the
strike to protect itselt. Passing laAc
to prevent the individual leaving nb
work, whatever may be the ulterior
motive of such legislation, is not
based upon any sound principle
whatever. It is so helplesly one
sided that it immediately stamps it
self on that mount alone as unjust
There is no law that prevents at
employer from discharging a mar
and letting him starve to death, no:
is there any law to prevent employ
ers 'losing down their works fo
business reasons”.and letting then
circulate through the country, hope
less objects of charity, and victim
of an unfair industrial condition
N'or is there any such law pro
posed. Society has shown absolute!;
no concern whatever about the indl
viduals who are thrown out of work
Congress has never devoted tw
hours of its time to a consideratio
of the millions who were unem
ployed at different periods in tli
industrial history of the Unite
States. Nor has any president, no
even Wilson. Conrgess iias neve
troubled about the activities of
few men who as individuals o
beads of some commercial orgs
nization deduced the number of thel
employees, closed down whole estal
lishments and under one plea or at
other denied to enormous masses r
human beings the right to live, a
they alone could live by their U
bor.
It would be obviously ridiculou
to take Wilson's statement at its
face value, and to suppose that lie ,
or anyone else rests under the fatu
ous delusion that by making public !
the merits or demerits of a rase, ,
the case would be changed for the |
bitter or the worse in the least.
Publicity has many values, but it has
no power to improve conditions tor
the workers if the employers say
them nay.
To pretend that the reverse is the
rae. is simply to pretend the imposs
ible. We certainly can see when
strikes could and should be made
illegal. But not under the present
system of capitalism. If a system
of society prevailed where every
man who was able to work and these
who wer not able were secure in their
means of livelihood by the social
activities, if not private profit but
tin- social, welfare would be the aim
if industrial activity, strikes would
then unquestionably be anti-social.
But they would then be also imposs
ible. But when Wilson talks about
the social activities he does not
mean anything else but the indivi
dual activities for the benefit of the
individual, some of which certainly
are oftener than not highly anti
social in themselves. A railroad
strike would end the industrial ac
tivities of the coal trust which just
now is engaged in extorting millions
from the people. It would end the
activities of the munition trust
which just now is engaged in fur
nishing the belligerent nations of
Europe with material for legal and
scientific slaughter.
it would raise hell with the spe
culations of the steel trust, of the
beef trust and the other organiza
tions which are engaged at the pre
sent time in driving and squeezing
and crushing profits front the flesh
; and blood of the people. Those are
not the life processes of society.
They are the anti-social processes of
capitalism. Yet they are precisely
i what Wilson is concerned over but
which he does not mention in so
many words. The profit system is
just at present reacting on the work
ers. It is stifling and suppressing
and choking their efforts. The laws
are not concerned that the system
is doing those things, but it is ti
be concerned if the half stifled, halt
choked and suppressed workers arc
to make any effort to resist that con
dition. That is what an anti-strike
Dill is ior.
A strike endangers the work of
the profiteers and for that reason
is the strike bad.
So it is that we see men like
Emory and other heads ol anti-labor
organization are a unit in favor of
the bill. And that is why the very
utterances of Wilson might just as
well have been uttered by any of
these labor hating organization
heads.
That is one sided collectivism
.lust as we have generally at present
' The dealers and speculators can
hold up the costs of living, the
' j bankers can c harge their cent per
1 cent, the trusts can slap on another
' few cents a gallon a few dollars a
’ ! ton, a few climes per pound on the
■ necessaries of life and no one rises
‘ to question their right to do so. But
' because labor in the only way labor
can make its protest and offer re
• ■ sistanee, proposes to do so, that
J J means is to be made unlawful.
1 ' The propriety of preventing “so
' | ciety” as he understands it being
? disturbed by labor troubles to Wil
1 son is obvious enough. But it is tc
t ' be done by striking at labor, not al
r , the conditions which drive labor t(
1 i action. The conditions which pre
T ; vail in the world of employers anc
* ] employees, Wilson is blind to the
r ; fact, it is which drive the worker:
i- j to strike and to revolt against them
- To make illegal such a means o
f redressing their grievance is merel;
a to invite lawlessness of a mucl
- more serious type and one whicl
I not all the up-lifting intentions o
s ' even the highest minded executive
can overcome. But just so long 1
as an industrial crisis can be
averted in his day, after him can I
come the deluge. 1
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
.Nome, Alaska, January 25, 1917..
Notice is hereby given, that
Nicholas J. Butler, a citizen of the
United States, over the age of 21
years, whose i>ost office address is
Nome, Alaska, has made application
before the U. S. Land Office at Nome
Alaska, for a United States Patent
for No. 5 on Specimen Gulch Placer
Claim in the Cape Nome Recording
District, Alaska, being Mineral
Survey No. 1191; said claim being
more particularly described ' in the
( field notes and plat of the official
i survey thereof now on file in said
| Land Office at Nome, Alaska, as fol
lows;
Beginning at Cor. 1, Identical with
Cor. 1 Kathleen Claim. Sur. No.
1157, Cor. 4, of No. 13 Dexter Creek
Sur. No. 4 IS and Cor. 2, Bella Frac
tion. Sur. 4 7S; a fir post 4 ins. sq.
2 ft. above ground, in earth mound
scribed 1-1157 K, 4-41S, 2-478 B. F.
and 1-1191 5 S. whence U. S. L. M.
No. 4 bears N. 78 deg. 56 min. 5
E. 5467.5 ft. U. S. Geological
Monument on King Mt. bears N.
| 2 6 deg. 29 min. E. thence S. 87 deg.
04 min. W. Var. 18 deg. 35 mill. E.
1171.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N.
2 deg. 11 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15
min. E. 357.60 ft. to Cor. No. 3;
thence N. 0 deg. 02 min. E. Var. 19
deg. 15 E. 332.80 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 89 deg. 12 min. E. Var. 19
deg. 15 min. E. 1071.00 ft. to Cor.
No. a; thence S. i (leg. 04 nun. t.\ar
19 deg. 05 min. E. 622.30 ft. to place
of beginning containing 16.7 67
acres?. Said claim is situated upon
unsurveyed ground about G miles
X. X. E. from the town of Xome,
Alaska.
U. S. E. M. Xo. 4 is a limestone
block, about 4 ft.xG ft.xGft. high,
chiseled U. S. E. M. No. 4 on top
surface, with mound of earth on
same, situated on the south or right
bank of Dexter Creek about 140 ft.
I south of same and 1000 ft. westerly
from mouth of Joe Gulch in Eat. 64
deg. 35 min. X. Eong. 165 deg. 19
min. W. in Cape Nome Recording
District, Alaska.
The Location is recorded in Vol.
1G Rage 61 of the records of said
district. The adjoining claims are
on the north, unknown; on the
• south Kathleen, Sur. 1157, Frank
Dolan, claimant; on the East Bella
Fraction, Sur. 47 8, Pioneer Mining
Co. owner and on west No. 4 Spe
cimen Gulch unsurveyed, claimant
unknown.
There are no conflicting claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ, Jan. 2:7. 1917.
Date of last publ., March 28, 1917.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OK APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office al
Nome, Alaska, December 16, 1916.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaa<
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora anc
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By W. P. Bell and Seattli
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
V. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
heir Attorney in Fact, whose Post
)fflce address is Nome, Alaska, and
>n behalf of Co-Owner Ellis B.
3owell, has made application before
he United States Land Office at
<ome, Alaska, for a United States
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
L Above Discovery on Lake Creek
n the Cape Nome Recording Dis
:rict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
STo. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
[hereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
S. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
695, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,
4-695, 1-1175, D. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
\V. Yar. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 065.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
69 deg. 45 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 28 min. E. Var.
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 4 3
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
386.80 ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25
min. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min.
E. 400.SO ft. to place of beginiug,
1
I
containing o.uus acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY. _
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
747 No. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft.
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 48 deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. 19
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Var. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45 ^
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
j of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
| to which said claims are tied, is a
fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Vol.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Vol.
165 Page 225 and Vol. 199 Page
85, Records of Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 698 and Gold Bug-Claim
Survey No. 434; on the East un
surveyed; on the South No. 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West,
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 747. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
' Date of last publ., Feb. 21, 1917.
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