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Fi> Nome Mine Workers* Union, No. 210. International Union of Mine,
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Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 114.
Nome, Alaska, Septemliei 14, 11*17.
TWO IT I'MS.
Two items of interest occur it)
the labor world of some signifi
cance. The one iefers to the strug
gle in the lumber industry for the
eight hour day and the other is
the strike of the street carmen in
Frisco for the right to organize and
for better wages.
In the I’uget Sound country the
union carpenters have decided to
handle no lumber whi< h is the pro
duct of mills working ten hours
and in San Francisco the other
unions are to (all a general strike
before they will see the carmen on
strik- d. rented in their struggle.
While v.> have often reason to
doplor*- the luck of solid irity mani
fested it. rati unionism, withal
the..,- two example* how that tht
•workers regardless of the form ol
organization which tiny follow- art
revealing the growing instinct ol
class soliilaritv. The world certain
Iv 'do move”
I. \V. \V. I-K TION.
We dont know how the reporter:
are getting hold of the news con
corning the Industrial Workers o
tit" W,trlil and the romantic notiot
that in the raid? made upon tlit
Halls of that militant organizatior
documentary evidence ol the , rimi
ttal propensities of r li - * menrltershti
and their leaders lias been discov
ered.
Whatever else they are the mem
hors of that organization ate no
completely stupid an 1 i* is in poss
idle to regard these stories will
any degree of confidence. That tin
executive would have the plans foi
an organized campaign ol rrinn
filed away in some pigeonhole aftei
they had received due notice tha
they were being attacked all round
that government action was invitet
and raids were threatened, wouli
indicate that even for "criminals’
tin ir intelligence was below norma
mid as one man put it they wort
‘ solid ivory”.
However during these days tin
public is ready to hilmve aimos
any!hmg and nor: : “ h. tin
m-ribes who ropor or tii.it pubis
are ready to report anything tha
will be believed.
WHAT IS IT?
In view of the fact that so tin
chieftains in industry, politics, so
ciety, finance and education ar
making use with some glihness o
the expression democracy one win
has believed that this meant a gov
ernment of the people by the peo
pie for the people, will begin ti
have some reasonable doubts as ti
whether such a one's concept of de
mocracy and that of those oth,jr
is precisely the same thing. It i
certainly queer that Japan shoub
he included in a list of domocrati
nations, Japan, whose formidabi
aristocracy and autocracy is evei
more compelling than that of Prus
sia.
THK LIMIT KK.\t lilt
Gomes now an art critic of ele
vated brow who opines t.iat th
movie scenario writers have reaehei
the limit of their imagination am
that tlie "features” mrw lieing ex
hibited are but elaborations o
for ner plots and like the i enn
dreadfuls if you have seen one yo1
have seen them ali The man
trouble witu the movies is not tb
scenario writers or the limited al.il
11v of the “direi tors' . It is the far
that the pictures have to get Dv ;
hoard of censorship whose ideal o
art and fiction is hounded on th
north bv Laura Jean Libby, on t li
soutli by Mary Agnes Fleming 01
the east by Conan Hoyle and 01
the west by lludyard Kipling. Ii
view of ibis limited territory fo
budding scenario writers it is not
hard to understand why the bound
aries are easily reached.
PRKPA !{>;.
The industrial Worker has im
portar.t information which it thinks
it well should be made public. On
the last mail we received a very in
teresting pamphlet showing that
the end of the world would be
reached on September lti. The
writer proved the matter up to the
hilt by Holy Writ and the man who
couldn't be convinced of its correct
ness (if viewpoint thereby could not
we venture to say be convinced of
anything at -.11 by the scriptures
It is impossible to over-rate the ini
portain " of this ai noiineen cut ind
it is given advance notice here so
that tin sinners as we!1 as the
sains can put their house in order
and lie ready.
That this paper will not accept
responsibility in the event of the
prophet being in error goes without
saying.
iikpoi: m» i wtstk; \tiov
The report that an investigation
is to lie made as to the railroad con
struction work in tlie Nenaiia coun
try will occasion no surprise if tlu
statements which have been madi
front time to time by arrivals iron
the interior are to no accepted at
i their face value. Incompetent:}
! if no worse is the general opiniot
i juite freely expressed by many.
Who would have thought that
fro01 tliis aess the utiterrided ma
chine would have sought out ant;
discovered its material for gover
nor?
(<>\l PATRIOTS.
Two members of President Wil
son’s cabinet have been subjectec
;<i most bitter denunciation ant
those two men have, if un;
| can be said to have, made good
They are Daniels and Baker.
The coal barons who have hat
j their wings clipped and their claw:
| :r. -d by these otficers in the inter
i esi of efficiency are irate beyont
words. To them the war is ;
Id. s>:ng and patriotism a natura
state if profits ar“ forthcoming
But .vlit n they observe these calii
net members making an effort tt
1 control the coal combinations it
■ tli • interest of the nation patriot
1 ism becomes a nightmare. Quotl
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one of thorn, the Watkins Coal Co.,
of Broadway, Now York in a recent
circular: The time ha come when
reputable businessmen must combat
the' rabid tendencies of men like
Daniels and Baker, whose policies
are throttling American industry”.
it is indeed sad that the oppor
tunity that has arisen for unlimited
j profits is to be denied the men in
j whose stewardship the Almighy in
j his wisdom placed the coal re
J sources of the nation, on the au
j thority, wo say it, of the late Pre
sident Baer.
STRIKING SCENES.
These are great days for Sam
Gompers, days which must atone
for the long dreary years when men
of globular millions failed to ap
preeiate his greatness and instead
he had to insist upon sticking on
the back of the American labor
movement like the Old Man from
the Sea.
Nothing more beautiful has come
over the wires than that re-union
between our Samuel and the senior
partner of Kuhn, Loeb and Co.
The delightful fraternity between
: cjpital and labor as witnessed in
i the shaking of the hands by these
two men is an event of unequalled
magnitude in the present hurl>
hurley.
That Sam has not effected a com
plete partnership between labor
and capital all along the line is
not necessarily a detraction from
the worth of this episode. The car
men may he waging a bitter war
threatens to involve ail labor
unions in San Francisco—the
struggle for the eight hour day in
the western lumber woods is n^
I unlikely to involve all organized
| labor on Puget Sound Apparently
while the fraternal union took plar
'between Gompers and the financial
magnate, the fact was quite geni
ally overlooked lliat it was more
the symbol of what is to he than
what is at th» present time. Keen
Gompers cannot keep employers
from demanding from Labor its
pound of flesh these happy days
of high prices and high profits.
HEALTH I NSC RANCH.
While ’ legislative plans
are pending for the installation of
a system of health insurance fot
fhe workers, plans, it is vi’ell to
| understand will likely he suspended
| while more important matter tjian
| the welfare of the working lasses
j have to be considered, it is inter
esting to know that the doctors and
! medical fraternity generally arc
j opposing it with considerable ef
; feet.
It is very interesting to know
j that the ehiefest argument and
i the most forcible is that it is un
J American. Some of these days
j some person will denounce christi
| .unity for the same good and suffi
j cient reason.
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WAR FINANCE.
Finance is under any circum- [
i stances a wonderful thing but war
finance is simply marvellous.
Yet its simplicity is fascinating.
One sorrows a dollar, later one
borrows two dollars and pays off
the interest or the principle of the
original dollar, one borrows four
I dollars and pays off the interest on
| the second borrowing and so an ad
! infinitum.
It there is anything wrong with
that system just so lor.g as there is
meney to loan and people to pay.
we can't see it. Yet that is the
wonderfully unadorned method of
war finance as practiced by the
most up-to-date nations. Germany
first evolved it and carried it to a
successful issue. After elaborate
denunciation of its unsoundness
Great Britain herself adopted it.
| and it is just to be tried in the
| United States.
In point of fact it is the only
' system that cannot fail just as
long as there are people to pay.
As it is possible to foresee a con
siderable number of generations for
this old mother earth, it will be
quite a long time before bottom Is
reached as far as the security or
the lending is concerned.
SENTIMENT AND COED FACT.
There’s a lot of interesting sen
timent connected with the opposi
tion to the war and there is one
point, of view that always is enter
taining. This is that it 3eems to
he taken for granted that the other
fellow will quit if you leave him
^alone.
It is true it takes two to make a
quarrel and to make war. But one
well armed nr tic n can by conquest
enslave the world. This little by
product of distilled fact seems to
have escaped the mind’s eye of the
average pacific fanatic.
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