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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1111, at the poat office at
liome, • AlasKa, under the Act of March t, 1879.
"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
aearly us possible, U a worthy object of any good government.”—
abraham Lincoln
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Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134.
Nome, Alaska, .January N. I'*i7.
VXIZATION.
Ev< rvoi) has h< rd the story of
the visitor who afti r being shown
through the asylum where the most
dangerous lunatics were being held
in custody, asked the guard it he
wasn’t afraid that the lunatics might
get together pnd overpower hint
and his assistants, and whereupon
the guard answered that the most
distinctive characteristic of a luna
tic or persons of unbalanced mind
was the fact that they never orga
nized.
And the truth of this is daily in
stanced in the world of labor, any
where and at all times. The wise
ones organize. The unwise will not,
and the trouble too often is -that the
prudent workers who take sufficient
interest in themselves and their class
to organize in order to secure better
conditions, are being constantly
hampered in their work by the idi
otic indifference of those who have
not sense enough to do the same
thing.
There is absolutely no reason why
there should be a single worker un
organized and certainly there is
every good reason why any person
who works for wages should be in a
labor organizations.
The labor organization is one
hundred per cent worth while. It
is the only organization whose whole
thought is directed solely and simply
and directly to the improvement
and material and intellectual up
life of its membership and lias that
as the sole purpose of its existence.
Nor can the objection be entered
that a labor organization is ob
jectionable to the unorganized be
cause it does some tilings which the
unorganized do not like.
The labor organization to find it
self in all its fullness, wants to lie
the organized expression of working
class opinion and the materialization
of that opinion in working class ac
tion so it will be whatever the mem
bership makes it.
No man who is outside a labor
organization is really doing himself,
and he is certainly not doing his fel
lows, justice, tie may have more
fraternal organization memberships,
but if lie falls dov. i on lit- organi
zation which looked ;i!t>r liis work
ing existence, he is failing positive
ly to do the fair and square thing
with tit*1 rest of tite workers. He i$
taking advantage where he can ol
what the labor organization has
done, and selfishly failing to contri
bute by the smallest effort on his
part towards beuefltting his class
and so bemTitting tin entire com
munity.
In this camp are hundreds of men
who pride themselves in being
members of a variety of organiza
tions. And yet they meet in som"
ot those organizations and upon a
plane . f dubious fraternity, the very
persons who have been trying to
force evil conditions on the workers, i
and to undermine whatsoever good i
lias been achieved by* labor.
We say advisedly that the very
first essential of brotherhood is
equality, and whatever mythical
equality may be conceived to repre
sent the real tiling, there can be no
social or any other equality where
is not absolute industrial equality.
That is why the bonds of brother
hood reach only their full expression
and their greatest strength in labor
organizations. Therein everyn.an
meets upon the same industrial
plane. Economically they are all
working men. all men With only one
thing to sell and that their labor
power; with one economic purpose
to get as much for that as they can,
and with one assured knowledge of
an unquestionable fact and that is
that the only hope they have of
realizing their labor power and
achieving industrial emancipation is
through their labor or sanitation.
As workers industrially they are
equal with any other \vo*ker or set
ot workers. Ab workers who soil
their labor power they hi nothing
in common with emnio.' cv.% Hence
it is that the only nrginizuUt.n
where every man has an Ictei’t oil in
terest and an identical purpose is in
the labor organization.
There is no good reason why a
single man should be outside any la
bor organization if he has to work
for wages. He must associate him
self with liis fellow workers if he
is to maintain working class condi
tions, and in maintaining that, bene
fit his own status.
Materially speaking the labor or
ganization has just one end in view
the material benefit of its members.
It wants them to live better, to get
more wages, to enjoy more of the
good things of life. It knows that
four-fifths of our lives are spent as
exploited persons, and it is the
ultimate end of organization to re
move that exploitation altogether.
This requires concerted effort. It
must have concerted effort. It
without that the workers, as individ
uals will remain powerless and
weaponless to the end of the chapt
er.
Here is a new year beginning.
Labor organization in Nome should
be made during this year one hund
red present efficient. Local 240 ot
the Western Federation of Miners
is liberal enough and tolerant
enough and open enough to admit
all wage workers. It extends an of
fer to all workers to join and assist
in the glorious work of this labor
movement.
It is a glorious work. It is the
only work which is in touch with
all the growing and vital develop
ments of our day. It is not for a
year but it is for all time, and the
workers are the builders. It is the
social duty of every wage • workei
j to contribute his effort towards it
If not, his acts are anti-social and
vicious. He is trying to undo what
the workers have who are organ
ized been doing toilsomely and with
patient persistence.
One of the main obstacles to the
work of organization of the workers
in Alaska is that all so many labor
under the delusion —it is for the
ninety-nine per cent a delusion—
that they will be one day independ
! cut of wage working, and that for
| that reason they are only troubling
, themselves uselessly and wasting
I time and effort in joining a union
and participating in its duties.
There never was a more hopeless
ideal. It is based upon a will of the
wisp that lias no existence in fact,
and it is really only an excuse for a
thoughtless and often cowardly de
sertion of labor.
The man who will not take a hand
in the work of building up improved
conditions for his class is a poor
mutt at best. Often enough he knows
it, and he indulges in the self de
ception to keep this fact from prey
ing upon his mind, by joining some
other organization where he will as
sociate with other classes which
enable him to reach the dignified po
sition of doorkeeper or the more
responsible function of contributing
towards a diamond ring for the
Grand High Mogul who will he gen
erally some business man, operator,
lawyer, doctor or some other pro
fessional gent who runs things for
the benefit of the motts who wear
the badges and make up the sorry
looking rank and file.
It can be predicted with positive
certainty that ninety-nine hundreths
of those who are now workers will
remain workers to the end of the
chapter. Therefore it is their mani
fest interest—duty Is too strenuous
a word—to take the necessary steps
to join a labor organization. Unite
with their fellow workers and in
this way help in the work of build
ing up working class power that it
may be as it ought to be second to
none any and everywhere!
It can be conceded that nothing
can be accomplished without orga
nization. That fact seems to be
realized fully by every class except
some of the workers. The merch-j
ants and other businessmen hakeJ
their chambers of commerce. ThB^
are united to get results and t^H
do get them through their organ^r
tiori. The workers should takeV
leaf from the book of these rsm
with whom so many like to associate
in the different lodges as Brother
Smith, Jones or Robinson, in
hope that they will get a job on the
Smith dredge or running the Jones,
hoist or sluicing with a Robinson^
nozzle. That is about the height of
poor ambition it is.
But hard as it may be to vi£^|
with patience the fact that so many
remain outside laobr organizations,
we prefer to think that it is due to
the failure to realize how all essen
tial it is to the interest of each and
every individual to join the member
ship and for each to do his bit, to
improve conditions, to increase
wages and ultimately and in good
time to bring about industrial equal
ity and economic freedom. Organize!
HI NTS ON COM TOUT.
To look well you must feel well.
Clothes help you to look well, if
I they are made to order and fit well,
repaired well, cleaned well and well
pressed.. Therefore you will feel
well.
Ladies and Gent's Tailor does it all
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All work guaranteed
Cor. Lane’s Way and Front Street.
the ambition of some
M. PASCOFF.
NOTICE.
All persons holding warrants ofr
salaries for school and municipal
purposes against the City of Nome
are hereby notified to present the
same for payment forthwith.
PHIL. MURPHY.
City Treasurer.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Elma McNaught and J. J.
Chambers, your heirs, executors.
Successors, assigns or personal re
presentatives:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned
has expended in labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dol
lais each year for the years 1914,
1915 and 1910 on Roosevelt bench,
located between Newton Gulch No.
2 and Fox Creek, recorded and more
fully described in the records of the
Cape Nome Mining and Recording
District in the Second Division,,, Ter
ritory of Alaska.
The above amount has oeen ex
pended in order to hold said claims
uuder the provisions of the law
concerning annual labor upon min
ing claims.
And you and each cf you are
further notified that if within
ninety days after the last publication
of this notice you fail to contribute
your proportion of said expenditure
your interest in said claim will be
come the property of the under
signed your co-owner under section
2:524 Revised Statutes of the Uniteil
States.
SEWARD DREDGING CO.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Jan. 8, 1917.
Date of last publ., April 9, 1917.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
j In the United States Land Office at
j Nome, Alaska, December HI, 191(1.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By W. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and
K>n behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, has made'application before
the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a United States
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
thereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, ds follows,
i 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 rnond 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. Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; tlier.ce 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. 2S min. E. Var,
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 6 4 deg. 43
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. 400.80 ft. to place of begining,
containing 5.908 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. 3 9
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
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 tha
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 698 and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 434; on the East un
I 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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