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Entered as second'class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
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Nome. Alaska, October 2O, 1910.
IXSl IM'UKSSim.K.
A dispatch from Anchorage re
ports that the Alaska Labor Union
and the Socialists have begun the
erection of a twenty thousand dol
lar concrete Labor Temple, and that
the radical organization was never
in a more flourishing condition.
It is fitting that this the young
est town in all Alaska should .also
have the most radical and the most
active labor organization in the Ter
ritory. it reveals the fact that how
ever elsewhere the workers may be
misled, or have adopted reactionary
tactics and policies, there will al
ways be one stronghold somewhere
which will keep the names of the
movement burning brightly.
The story of the organization ot
the railroad workers on the gov
ernment road is one of incalculable
good fortune. That a set of circum
stances should have arisen wherein
the discontent of the laborers was
promoted by tlie conditions under
whi a they toiled, has been the evil
out of which has come great good.
Moreover, ii shows tiiat however
els -'.vliere bourgeois ideals and re
actionary poll, its may have steered
the work, rs astray, the elemental
"conditions which the workers faced
upon the'r, ilroad, containing fewer
fat tors ;o mystify and deceive their
liau- resulted in a clear cut labor
organize iion i ;:.g formed and one
v. Id will have powerful and far
re ti l ing effect throughout tan
leii-ili and breadth of Alaska.
When we consider the enormous
number of employees in this Terri
tory that have failed to identify
themselves with the labor move
ment; when wo tally the enormous
number of such who are ready and
willing to enjoy the improvements
ii- L ■ . h lim’o It. , ii irnimi/1 in" it ri i All 1 o _
lior agitation, we may well wondet
why tiie organizations of labor have
made so little progress.
Take a camp like Juneau for in
stance, where the pay roll is the
largest of any mining camp in Al
aska. There is no labor organiza
tion throughout the mining indus
try. One writer explained this as
arising from the fact that the min
ing companies literally killed oft
the unions by'kind treatment of the
men.
While there may be a grain ot
truth in this allegation, certain it
is that the critic is but a superficial
observer. What actually took place
is this. The Western Federation
of Miners in Juneau put up a
strenuous fight against the condi
tions imposed upon the workers by
the Treadwell. The Treadwell final
ly defeated the unionists, and made
it impossible for a member of the
W. F. of M. to work in that camp.
But they also conceded to their em
ployees practically everything that
the union men had demanded except
the right to organize. They reform
ed the sleeping accomodation, the
mulligan house and made some pro
visions against accidents which had
made their mine a death trap, j
Those concessions were all of them ]
wrung from the company by the
strike, and it is to the sacrifices
made by the union men there as
elsewhere, that the conditions which
satisfy the non-unionists are such
as they are.
Moreover, although today there is
no labor union in Juneau, unless its
membership is secret, the day wilt
eventually come when progress will
again forte even these satisfied
workers employed by the mines to
strike for better conditions. Today
they may be soothed by up-lifting
movements, by religious agitatlor
and by a variety of skulduggery very
nice and elevating upon paper, but
in reality are nothing so improving.
Tomorrow they must fight as work
ers for workers.
In the meantime, places like An
chorage where earnest men and de
termined unionists, down upon the
bed rock of economic fact, keep the
movement on a solid basis, there
will always be a beacon shining
where the men who may lose heart
elsewhere can turn for inspiration.
And while the work of organization
may languish elsewhere by reason
of the indifference of the workers
to the real facts of their condition,
in one place or another, the faith
will be still kept alive and will send
out its message of hope and en
couragement where hope and en
couragement are the supremely need
ed factors; of the situation.
This labor movement, this radical
working class movement towards
the emancipation of the workers is
insuppressible. Though stamped out
in one place, it breaks out with
greati r and more glowing energy
in another. It is as inevitable as
time and as certain as space. It is
an economic and an evolutionary
fact that is to be always with us
the coin omit ant of social progress
and human advyucenu- t.
so many workers in .das.-.i, who
will be'workers to tlio end of the
chapter, delude themselves with the
notion that some day they will be
millionaires (and (hey accordingly
take r.o thought of the morrow they j
are destined to spend in the ranks ;
of tlie workers seeking jobs.) it is
more difficult to .organize them
here than elsewhere. But with the
railroad worker getting liis scanty
per diem, illusions which others sub
ject themselves to are not so likely
that very good reason, it is highly
improbable that the organization
now so firmly established at Anchor
age will fall by the wayside. The
movement there has only just be
gun; it has begun identifying itsell
with the most radical form of a
working class organization, and it
has therefore begun rightly. Its
progress will keep even step with
the development of the country and
the parasitic elements which have
waited, like so many vultures for
the carrion, to pounce upon Alaska
resources and Alaska labor when the
railroad is built, will find them
selves having to contend with a
form of organization which knows
what it wants and how to get it.
That is why there is so much
hopefulness in the organization of
the Alaska railroad workers. There
is no question as to the end which
those organized have in view and
they are misled neithet by a set of
hopeless visions, nor by any hazy
misconception of where they them
selves are at. They are down on
bed rock and know it.
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FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
Chas E. Sulzer
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
Lena Morrow
Lewis
Socialist Party Candidate.
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR ATTORENY GENERAL
TERRITORY OF ALASKA.
George B. Grigsby
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR SENATOR:
Thos. M’Gann
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Election, November 7, 1916.
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Election, November 7, 1910.
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Independent Candidate.
Election, November 7, 1916.
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T. M. Reed
Election, November 7, 1016.
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Andy Anderson
Republican Candidate
(election, November 7, 1016.
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Martin Moran
Election, November 7, 1016.
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Election, November 7, 1916.
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Election, November 7, 1916.
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Election, November 7, 1916.
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Enforcement of Territorial Laws.
Election, November 7, 1010.
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Election, November 7, 1910.
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Election, November 7, 191G.
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Election, November 7, 1916.
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Election, November 7, 1916.
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FROM ALASKA
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