Batlg Jlnktatrial Worker.
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Mr Nome Mine Workers’ Union, No. MO, Western Federation of Miner*.
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Nome, Alaska, October 16, 1916.
IN DUST RIAL EFFICIENCY.
The New York Times, rises to
doubt whether the industrial effici
ency of the world can be main
tained if the eight hour day be
comes general. The remark was oc
casioned by some sapient considers
tions of the railroad eight hour
demands. It is quite an interesting
■question.
Society as at present organized in
built upon a peculiar foundation.
That foundation in no way involves
anything like an equitable distribu
tion of the product of laDor, but
premises that certain men by reason
of certain advantages are enabled
to annex in larger and smaller
quantities the proceeds of social
labor. They do that through virtue
of their ownership of the means of
production and distribution and by
that the ownership of labor power
of other men, women and children
-whom they are able to purchase on j
the labor market.
These owners are for ever active
struggling for greater and greater j
ownership. Their buying and sell- |
ing is around the things owned, in
order that by speculating in such
ownership they can incre'ase their
-wealth, and thus the power that!
such ownership involves.
The industrial efficiency of a na
tion devoted solety to the satisfac
tion of human needs would be am
ply satisfied by four hours a day,
if not less. Bat the industrial effi
ciency of a nation which makes the
product of human labor a matter
not to be devoted to the satisfaction
of human requirements, but to be
a inattt r for buying and selling, for
speculation and investment, is
never satisfied until the uttermost
exertion of human productive labor
is compelled by the owners of the
machinery of production.
Moreover, the industrial efficiency
of a nation which has a capitalist
system wherein profit is the cri
terion of efficiency, and not the
complete satisfaction of human
needs, involves a tremendous expen
diture of mental and physical ener
gy in the desperate effort to con
trol the profit factor, to increase it,
to enlarge it as a constantly rising
feature of production and distribu
tion.
Hence speculation which has no
thing to do whatsoever with the
production of wealth, financing
-which is an utter waste of time, and
endless conventional commercial
processes are compelled, so that hu
man energy is diverted from pro
ductive spheres into spheres which
are concerned simply in grabbing a
share of the values produced by
labor.
Take Nome for inptance. The
wealth of the country is produced
by the men in the mines. If the gold
mines were wiped off the map, there
would not be a single whiteman ex
cept a possible government official
or a few herders of deer.
Hence it will be recognized that
the only productive labor in this
camp is that observed out in the
mines. To be sure the work ot
dongshoring and the distribution ot
commodities! to support the labor
that is consumed in gold production
is just, as essential to the camp as
any, and so with other lines of toil.
They are necessarily a necessary
subsidiary to the gold mining In
dustry.
But to control the product of this
labor, innumerable activities are
quite obviously to be noted. Eegai
activities, banking conveniences,
numerous stores, saloons, and other
businesses are engaged in endeavor
ing to make a living off that gold
producing labor.
Now consider the actual situation
would be needed were this camp de
voted to mining not for the sake ot
-profit, but for the satisfaction of hu
man wants. There would be no rea
son for the immense judicial ma
chinery, legal lights and accessories
to defend the owning interests in
their ownership. There would be no
reason for a dozen stores id one
line seeking to make a living satis
fying the wants could be better sup
plied by one co-operative emporium,
one co-operative dining room, dry
goods store, drug shop, notions ann
so forth, with an elimination of nil
unnecessary unproductive lutin',
scrambling for profits would not be
and the activities of' community
would be in a better position to sa
tisfy the community’s" requirement
agd.. would eliminate a quantity ol
surplus labor that could be turned
into channels which were, ptoauc
tive.
As it is, the mining activities have
to keep all these things going. They
keep uri the superfluous stores, sa
loons, hotels, banks lawyers, court
officials, all going. And four fiftls
of these things are simply not re
quired as social necessities. They
afford tne owners an opportunity of
getting in tl.cir work of abstraction
from pro motive labor. For ail these
utterly useless activities are simply
parasitic on ’he real forces of wealth
production.
How costly these things are may
not be apprehended so aptiy ns In
considering the parasitic interposi
tion of financial or industrial own
ers on a large and more Internation
al scale. Take the House of Morgan
It is the distributing agency for the
purchase of war material for the Al
lies In the United States. Several
hundred million dollars come to
that firm as intermediary for the
British and French governments
between the latter and the contrac
tors for war material. All that
money is absolutely wasted. It is
annexed by the dominating position
of the Morgans. And the labors of
I the firm in securing the monies ot
which so large a per eentage is an
nexed by it. is wholly as far as so
ciety is concerned absolutely wasted.
; The Morgans have never contributed
half a cent to the actual wealth of
the world. Neither did any financial
or industrial chief. Their activities
have simply been concerned with
getting the profits from labor and
seeing that their rivals did not get
too large a chunk from them them
selves.
One should imagine that this talk
of industrial efficiency should be a
dangerous subject for the captains
of industry. Measured by the
standards of industrial efficiency,
the machine that cannot make good
is compared with the machine ot
another type adapted for the same
end is found wanting. It must func
tion usefuly in the factory scheme
or it is eliminated. Similarly the
labor in the factory that fulfills
no useful function is eliminated en
tirely in all well conducted factories.
Only that is maintained and tolerat
ed in the scheme which proves its
worth by productive values.
Suppose the mind strays now from
a consideration of the factory, of the
machines therein, and, the labor
therein, and turns to society as a
whole. If we submit to the same
efficiency test all the several units
therein which will we have to elimi
nate? Surely not he workers who
do productive labor, not the workers
engaged in distributive functions,
not the workers who contribute to
the increased wealth of the nation
and Its distribution, but those whose
activities are strictly of no earthlj
use except as profit makers and pro
fit takers from productive labor.
The coupon clipper, the man of led
gers, Interest, rent and progt fulfills
no function that in any way contri
butes to human welfare, to human
happiness and to human progress
Quite the contrary, their own wel
fare, depending upon an artificial
condition which insists upon depriv
ing the producers of four-fifths of
the value of^ the product of their
labor, is anti-social and as such not
only not industrially efficient, but
Is th« very acme of industrial, so
cial, and political inefficiency that
cannot justify itself. No wonder
they scold the eight hour day.
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Political Cards.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
Chas E. Suizer
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Election, Novesaber 7, 1916.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
Lena Morrow
Lewis
Socialist Party Candidate.
' Election, Novembei'-T, 1910.
FOR ATTOREXY GENERAL
TERRITORY OF ALASKA.
George B. Grigsby
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR SENATOR:
Thos. M’Gann
For Re-Election.
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR SENATOR:
CAPTAIN
John Sundback
Republican Candidate
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
Victor A. Julien
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
| Charles D. Jones
Independent Candidate.
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
T. M. Reed
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Andy Anderson
Republican Candidate
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Phil. Corrigan
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
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Mike Young:
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
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A. A. Allan
(SCOTTY)
Election, November 7,^ 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
James P. Daly
For Territorial Roads. No Poll Tax
Enforcement of Territorial Laws.
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Nate C. Coombs
For Re-Eliction.
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR TERRITORIAL
KOADCOMMISSIONER
John A. Wilson
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR TERRITORIAL
ROADCOMMISSION ER
W. J. Rowe
Republican Candidate
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR TERRITORIAL
ROADCOMMISSIONER
Barney Gibney
Election, November 7, 1916.
GEORGE BITTEL.
Information wanted regarding the
above who left New York in 1898
and believed to have gone to Alaska.
His dear old mother is- anxiously
waiting to hear news of him.
Address: CHRIS BITTEL.
Box 323 Albany, N. Y.
Seattle Direct
OCTOBER 20.
OCTOBER 25.
SCHEDULES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.
F. 3. O’CONNOR, ALASKA L. A O.
Commercial Agent, AGENTS
Front St. and Steadman Ave. At Dock.
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. VICTORIA
LEAVE SEATTLE:
OCTOBER 20.
LEAVE NOME.
OCTOBER 10.
OCTOBER 30.
R. A. Carroll, Agent, Nome
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Attention
WE ARE RECEIVING ON EVERY STEAMER ONE OF THE
BEST STOCK OF GENERAL MERCHANDISE, SELECTED DUR
ING OUR TRIP TO THE OUTSIDE. WE ARE HERE TO STAY
AND FOR A SQUARE DEAL CALL AT CHEAP JOHN’S STORE.
TEL. MAIN 48.
ONE PRICE TO ALL
Cheap John Store
Kent Transfer Oo.
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General Transfer & Freighting
noal A Q!£
Phone Main 139.
MR. MINER
I HAVE PURCHASED WHILE OUTSIDE THE BEST LINE
OF FURNISHINGS AND WINTER SUPPLIES TO BE HAD, AND
AM DETERMINED TO MARE THIS STORE THE BEST PLACE
IN ALASKA TO TRADE.
PHIL MURPHY
MURPHY HAS THE HOODS
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