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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the poat office at
flome, « Alasaa, under the Act of March 9, 1879.
’"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly as possible. Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
abraham Llncola
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Address all Communlcatlona to Dally Nome industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 114.
Nome, Alaska, May K .11117.
THK W.UiK sr.iLK.
The eight liour daw law is now in
force on all underground placer
workings. The legislature which
lias just adjourned, remedied the
legal defect in the former law, and
after the text had been submitted
to the Attorney General it has been
duly passed and approved.
Recognizing this, some firms
which have been evading the law
heretofore, have now cut down the
time worked and are paying the
munificent wages of $2.40 a day.
That surply is some wages in Alas
ka. and it is wages which are indi
cative of the present standing of
the camp when they received the
approval of some business interests
here who are even at pains to rustle
men for this seal) camp.
The union men can regard the si
tuation with equanimity. The scabs
who work for those wages are sure
ly not worth worrying about, and if
employers as they doubtless will,
pay them even a dollar a day or
thereabouts during the summer or
do not pay them at all why should
union men worry?
They know very well that men
who will work for such wages are
those who arc anxious for the job
for the job's sake, and do not care
about what they are paid, just as
long as they have a chance to work.
They have the instinct of a
slave who as long as he got a place
lo sleep and something in the way
of food, troubled not at all about
the weight of the taskmasters lash.
Here in this ramp at the present
time are many men working for
three dollars a day for ten hours,
who rather than risk losing theii
jol) would work tor nothing at all.
They will not dare join the union,
and the last thing they would ven
ture to do would he to get up
courage enough not even to ask fot
higher wages, but even to ask in a
whiningly humble way of the straw
boss what wages the employer war
s good enough to pay.
These non-unionists who fear to
call their sodl their own, and "'he
will not dare try to better the con
ditions of labor, deserve scant sym
pathy indeed from the workers, fot
in their cowardly inactivity they art
a greater menace to the welfare ol
the working class than the em
ployers who openly fight and antu
gottize unionism.
It is to be hoped that they enjo>
their position, and that they wil
hu\e an opportunity of appreciating
the fact that they are in truth ant
fa«-t peons, working for a peon"!
wage, for a good long time.
The union men are frequently
asked when the summer seale goei
into effect. The non-union jobbitei
tire anxious for the union to set th<
scale so that they can get the bene
fit of this union action, and tlia
the union men will force the tight
ing for their benefit. They want ti
get the summer seale but they hav
not nerve enough to ask for it
much less manhood enough to in
sist upon being paid it. Instea<
they fawn around the boss and tr
by getting into his good graces an
aping a humility that would mak
.the humble Uriah Heap blush fo
shame. by doing so they will b
able to retain their job, workin
for scab wages while the union me
act as catspaws in the whole mat
tier.
The union men know very we
that they will be paid the unio
scale When they work, and the
have no intention of just now bat1
ling for the hunch of .scabs wli
rely upon this action , year afte
year who dare not in their soul
rise like men to share the work c
bettering labor’s condition.
Unlonmen know what they wor
for and know what they will gc
when they go to work. The nor
union man takes what he can ge
Sometimes he gets nothing bu
pieces of paper and we observe tha
time and time again they are look
ing around the courts to obtain th
wages that are not forthcoming.
Quite frequenlty they have gall
enough to come to this paper with
a request that the matter be taken
up for them—for those men who
had not manhood enough to ven-j
ture to look after themselves and j
who would rather be struck dumb I
in the sight of God than admit to a .
boss who might blast them where
they stood, that they ever belonged
to a union anywhere.
Why men will rvork without
troubling about what wages they
get—why men will refuse to be
unionmen, why men will not have
the backbone enough to be men is
one of the mysteries of this world
that there is yo getting over. Hut
these same men will come to town
and tel! all about the job, complain
about the low wages, report what a
sou 01 a gun the boss was. and how
they were driven around on the job
and half starved by a mulligan ar
tist of a cook—but they will not
saddle themselves with any respon
sibility whatever, when they and
they alone are purely to blame.
Is there any good reason that
employers of labor are paying $2.40
in one camp and three dollars in
others today except that there are
so many nerveless slaves around
who will not dare ask for or hold
out for more. Most assuredly not.
There are not many more men
in this camp right now than there
is work for. and all that those who
work have to do to get the proper
scale, is to organize.
This work has got to be done.
The men are hefe to do it; but lest
they lose their job. lest they lose
the smile of a boss, lest they get in
bad all around, they will nor join
the union and have the backbone to
ask for what is right.
Instead, these parodies upon man
hood. whine and sigh for the union
to got a higher wage scale, to set it
for them, so that without a band's
turn they mav bang on to their job
and enjoy the labor and the work
of other more manly men.
What is actually happening to
-day is that the non-union men are
I setting the scale for themselves and
j are being paid just as low as the
I boss likes to pay, even if not as
l low as they are willing to work
..
They are still men with the slave's
instinct and the job first, last and
all the time, and the wages never,
I is the subject dear to their hearts.
It is a fact that the only way you
could insult such men is by taking
their shovels or their bowls of
, mush or their bundle of blankets
away from them. Those are their
heartstrings and beyond these their
, intelligence cannot rise vtithout an
, effort.
It is hard to consider that this
condition prevails among so many,
but in this camp there are so many
who are strictly invertebrates that
i it has got to be said. In many
> ways they are the paradise-providers
. for employers who fattening upon
the cheap labor thus afforded, can
i o*cry fall go outside and have a
: good time.
l Just now wages are lower in
’ Nome than in any mining camp
i over which the American flag flies.
- There is no reason for this, beyond
> the anxiety of many of these men
i for a job.
It may be that there are others
outside the union who would will
i ingly avail themselves of an op
1 portunity afforded them of joining
V did they understand that the Union
- at all times is open to their apple
n cation. It is true that in any com
r munity, in any camp, one or twc
s professional jobbites will exercise u
t bad effect upon all the rest and
keep men who know better and
it would act better working under tilt
t same mean conditions as them
- selves.
The workers have themselves anti
t themselves alone to blame for any
l evil conditions under which they
- may labor. Here, there is a better
e opportunity for organization to get
results it the workers themselves
will only avail themselves of orga
nization.
It is a poor state of affairs when
some men will not have courage
enough to endeavor to better their
conditions and work for wages that
would be scorned by a half-wit
coolie. Yet we can turn to some
places in this mining camp and that
precisely is what one meets.
The lack of courage upon the
part of some men to do their share
in securing better conditions is one
of the dismal .things about this
camp. Just a little manhood, just
a little common sense, just a little i
courage, just a small sense of the
community of interest between the
workers—and this camp could be |
made ■ the best camp, because the ;
best organized camp in All Alaska.
Yet we discover men shamefacedly
admitting that rather than act like
men, rather than risk the possible
loss of their job, they will have
nothing to do with the Union. The
sorriest part of all this condition
is that these poor hearted workers
are rejecting the only protection
they most of all need. It is the
union that gives the workers a
sense of security; it is organiza
tion that gives the workers
strength and courage and fearless
' ness. It is the union that will ;
i when they are working or they arc;
| sleeping, look after their interests •
and the strength of oue is united
with the strength of all, the cour
age and manhood of one is solid!-I
fled with the strength of all, to ac
complish those things which indi
viduals are powerless, try they evei
so hard, to accomplish.
That is the reason for the exist
ence of the unions. The worker
knows that without the union the
employer lias got him buffaloed a,
every turn; the employer has him
dead to rights; the employer has
reduced him to the mule stage
that gees and haws when the driver
cracks the whip.
The union changes all that. The
union places the membership four
square to all the world, ready to
look the world straight in the face
without asking permission to stand
u]i straight and he men.
That's the why of the unions.
Do you, Mr. Worker belong there,
if not, why not?
MANY WILL HUY.
WASHINGTON. D. C., May 7 —
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many facts It is regarded as a
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Two 4 H. P. Boilers.
One 12 H. P. Boiler.
One 16 H. P. Boiler.
Two 6 H. P. Boiler.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Geo. Marshall. G. R. Jackson
and W. A. Oliver, your heirs,
executors, assigns or personal re
* preservatives:
You and each of you are hereby i
notified that I have expended in la- i
bor and improvements the sum of j
one hundred dollars each year ol
the years 1913, 1914 and 1916 on
O K Association, a placer mining
claim situated on right limit on
Hobson creek and recorded and
more fully described in Vol. 194,
page 142 of the records of the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording District
Second Division, Territory of Al
aska.
The above amount has been ex
pended U 'dir the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if you fail to
contribute your proportion of said
expenditure within ninety days after
the last publication of this notice,
your interest in said claim will be
| come the property of the under
signed, your co-owner, under sec
tion 2 324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
JOSETH SLISCOVICH.
Co-Owner.
Date of first pub!., Feb., 6. 1917.
Date of last publi., May S, 1917.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Chris Frantzen your heirs, exe
cutors, assigns, or personal re
presentatives:
You a e hereby notified that 1
have expended in labor and im
provements the sum of one hundred
dollars each year for the years 1911
1912, 1913, 1914, 1915'; 1916, on
No. 2S Above Discovery, a placer
mining claim situated on Osborne
creek and recorded and more fully
described in the records of the
Cape Nome Mining and Recording
District, Second Division, Territory
of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you are further notified that
if you fail to contribute your pro
portion of said expenditure within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
P. A. DICKSON.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb. fi, 1917.
Date of last publ., May 8, 1917.
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