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"To secure to each laborer the whole product ot hla labor, or as
•early ae possible, Is a worthy object ot any good government."—
Abraham Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 184.
Nome, Alaska, July 7. 1017.
soM!: i*n i i:kkn( i:.
M:r> wheat was forced up bj
gambling and s;i‘ culation to throe
dollars and st-ventoon and half
cents. No oik stirred. Vet there
was i vi ry reason why they should.
'Pile wheat was needed hv millions
and to gratify the gambling instinct,
ihp speculators forced up the price.
In the copper industry tremend
ous demand has similarly forced up
the price. Not a single raise In
wages has been grafted to equalize
the increased cost of living in that
industry without a strike or a threat
to strike.
Copper Is still in furious demand
and the price still rises. Moreover,
the experts admit that the cost ot
production is well within that which
it was when the price was fifty per
cent of what it is now.
Yet when the workers demand an
increased wage scale commensurate
with the increased value of the pro
duct of their labor and the in
« reased cost of living they are cal
led enemies of the naiton and the
administration is invited to drive
the "labor agitators from the state
of Arizona.
It is during war time that the
operators make use of an alleged
patriotism to force the workers' to
do their bidding.
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I.V UUWKI.L.
The Alaska Labor News lias been
acquired by Charlie Herron. As a
republican politician Herron is a
man of parts. As the publisher of
a labor paper it is to laugh. This
has apparently received the approval
of the Alaska Labor Union. When
an organization has to be the ta-1
of a politician’s kite—good night
Labor 1
THU QlWXDAltY.
Scott Nearing recently pointed
out that the main objection on the
part of employers to increasing
wages at the present time, so that
such an increase will meet the
higher costs of living, is because
they feel that it is much more
easy to increase than to decrease
wages.
The way the wise business man
sivas things up at the present time
in his factory doubtless is very
much along such lines. He knows
that the prices which prevail today
are surely abnormal. To grant
wages to meet these abnormal
prices, he wants to look out that
he will when prices decrease during
more peaceful times be able to
lower wages also and he knows
that the workers are always ready
to resist a cut in wages.
There may no doubt he something
in that. But, it is just as likely
♦ Vat most employers do not con
sider this question so forwardly at
all. What they do know and feet
is that they enjoy larger profits than
ever before, and as long as they can
get men to work far wages which
will not Interfere with those profit;
they prefer to b t it go as it looks
For an employer this would in
an ideal world il every workingmai
took what he was given and was
duly thankful; did what he was
lold with a smile and devoted him
self wholeheartedly to the firm so
that its profits might grown im
mensely.
Accordingly failing to realize that
ideal condition his anger is visited
opon these damn labor agitators,
these fellows always stirring up
discontent, these men who interfere
with the national prosperity and as
is lime of war who would hamper
production and aid the enemy.
They even accuse them of race
riots in the South and we doubt not
that after a time they will hold
them responsible for white slavery
in fhe North.
But the fact is completely ignored
that it is not the personal factors
fhat are the agitating influence.
| They art merely the effects of tic
groat i a uses of social agitation, so
cial discontent and economic dis
turhatn > s in which the jtrofitmaUci
as well as the r «t snare.
Wie n high costs of living provide
insutlu ient food for the table, when
the family necessaries are not pro
cured in proper proportion front tlie
pay envelope there is always inevit
ably son p discontent.
At no period in the history of the
world could it be possible to starve
a man or a man's family and ex
pect that that would he enjoyed by
the victims. So when economic con
ditions decrease the purchasing
power of the dollar to the vanishing
point you cannot expect content
ment and you may expect agitation
quite regardless of any personal re
sponsibility whatever.
And that is the quandary In which
employing classes find themselves.
! The system which profits them, is
the identical system which calls into
into being strikes and labor revolts
throughout the country.
it is this way. Labor applied to
machinery and raw material pro
duces the wealth whereby every
man jack of us lives. The right of
ownership of that machinery entit
les the owner thereto to take the
entire product of labor and distri
bute in such form as he pleases. He
gives some in the form of wages to
the laborer, the rest he realizes in
the form of profits or rent or taxes.
The proportion which lie gives to
labor may be great or small, but
just as it is great his profits will
he small and just as the wages is
small the profits will he great.
When he wants to retrench, his
instinct tells him to retrench on
labor and lie knows as well as any
one that at all times labor must he
kept within due bounds or there
will be nothing left for himself.
He keeps within due hounds natur
ally enough and takes care that la
bor will have just enough to live
upon. When prices go up, it costs
more to live upon for labor. He
has to pay more for rent, more for
food, more for clothing, more for
shelter, more for sundries which
are inevitable in the reproduction
of laborers to take his place when
lie may work no longer.
A decade ago someone figured
that it took something over six
hundred dollars a year to keep a
worker and family together in a
semblance of decency. To be sure
that didn’t allow any bank account
or liberty bonds or luxuries of that
kind. It just meant that sickness
and pleasures were reduced to the
minimum and the w'orker, eat,
worked and slept his time away
without any interruption In his
earnings Since then prices have
gone up over fifty per cent and
there is a determined effort made to
prevent wages going along wdth it.
Moreover the workers are trying
just as hard to keep up their end
i of the wage scale and between the
two, employers and laborers, we
j have the historic struggle which
■ will end sometime, but end only
i when there are no employers and
employees, but just all workers for
tin common welfare. When that
| will be. it would take a wise man
to say. That it is closer by reason
of the war is not unlikely. They
have advanced many leagues in this
direction in Russia and the end o‘
that advance is not vet.
However, in any event, the real
fact is this that try they ever so
hard the employer cannot rid him
self of this industrial agitation;
this economic discontent Labor
pains are inevitable in the birth ot
the new social o iler an'! society is
now, even now, making ready to
give it birth.
It is being horn within the shell
of the old and it is the fate of the
old order to have t endure the
pains for which itself must share
the responsibility.
It is as ridiculous to blame labor
organizations. labor agitators or
labor leaders generally for what is
occurring as it would be to blame
the waves of the sea for th storm.
The waves were brought into being
1 by the action of the gales upon th.
i waters and the laborites are brought
i into being by the tempest of indus
i trial forces Which are part and par
cel of the capitalist system.
Why, it has been the oldest of de
lusions upon the part of the privi
leged and the dominating classes in
almost every age that their power
and their privileges could last for
ever. And almost all the very
worst dramas in the history of the
human race—tragedies and terrors
they were without doubt—came
from the fact that they deluded
themselves with the notion that
conditions could be fraught with
painful consequences upon the mas
ses, without the masses doing any
thing to resent them or doing any
thing which could not easily be
controlled.
Cause and effect—the very simp
lest of all the observed facts as to
force of any kind, vital, social, phy
sical. alone declares with a positive
ness it would be well to take heed
of, that there can be no action with
out reaction, r.o cans.' without effect
and whether those effects are visible
in the individual person or in the
collectivity, they are none the less
inevitable. Take ail the labor agi
tators in the world today; bang
them by the neck and yet tomorrow,
given the same social conditions
against which they agitated still ex
isting, and though the world brist
led with repressive force, and every
corner hid a policeman, a gunman
or an executioner with halter, there
would be a new crop.
Pioneer igloo Hotel. iieds 50c.
per night; Ilooms S-.00 to $:S.OO
per week. House keeping apart
ments.
LOCAL ITEMS.
Chas O. ftrand, tlie well known
fisherman, ran up against a piece
of tough luck when en route to Tel
ler with his launch and a laden dory
in tow. When they arrived here
from Golovin, it was the intention
to start July 4. but as the wind was
blowing too strong they started out
on the morning of the Fifth instead
The dory war, lot very heavily laden
and they had lots of free board.
They made good progress up to
Rodney rocks when they cut across
towards Sledge Island intending to
shoot across teh bend in the coast.
When nearing the island the wind
grew stronger and £< choppy sea was
running. Almost before they knew
it, the dory had taken water went
over cn one side and dumped every
thing as it keeled over. Charlie
brought his launch about and began
picking up some of the goods that
were still afloat and while doing so,
being broadside of the sea they
shipped a comber which affected the
ignition of his engine and put the
batteries out of commission. He had
this just repaired and the engine
again working when it shipped an
other sea and they were helpless.
Strand rigged tip a jury sail from
a tarpaulin that he had on nisi
launch and when the wind died j
down they were closer to Nome and i
he pulled with one oar until dose
inside the Herman when the Coast ■
Guard Crew came and got him. He
had endeavored to attract the Her
man when about a mile and half ofl,
but they did not see his distress
signal at the time. The loss is
quite considerable.
CITY BATH HOUSE
has the largest
and only 0 feet
Bath Tubs in Nome.
S. S. Standard
Sails every SIX DAYS to
DIME AM) WAY POINTS
weather permitting
From Snake Iiiver.
(HAS W Ft KM AN.
Why worry
About wash day
THAT’S OUR BUSINESS.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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444 Front St. I'hone Main 53
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4 doz. for 50. Every one
guarnteed
ARMOURS EVAPORATED
1 lbs. tins. Use them in cook
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fresh eggs. Try a can.
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BOARD OF TRADE
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LUNCH* ROOM
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Via Seward, Valdez and Cordova
JULY I. JULY 13.
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R. A. Garroll, Agent, Nome
From Nome
July 8th.
From Seattle
June 27th.
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AUGUST IS.
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OCTOBER 13.
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AGENTS Commercial Agent.
At Dock. Front St. and Steadman Ave.
Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
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BUSINESS OF \V. STEIGERMAIER AND OF LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILE RE
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way points, Dime Creek and Marshal, Seattle and San Francisco.
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