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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly aB possible. Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
anracam Lincoln
Address all Communication* to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 1S4.
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
pome, - Aiassa, under the Act of March 8, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, September 14, U»l(>.
THE PACIFIC MAIL.
A Sail Francisco paper announces
the return to the Oriental trade of
the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
“banished from the Pacific by the
provisions of the Seaman’s Act".
The Pacific Mail started up again
with the Ecuador purchased from
the Royal Dutch West India Mail
Co., the Venezuela and the Colom
bia. And it is pointed out that the
Seaman's Act is still in full force.
The fact of course is that the de
claration that the Pacific Mail was
forced out of business by the Sea
man’s Act was merely made in order
to effect a repeal, but inasmuch as
the officials in whose charge is its
enforcement in San Francisco, have
practically made the language clause
a dead letter, the Pacific Mail can
continue to operate upon lines es
sentially the same as before.
The Seaman's Act has not been
so bad for the steamship companies.
It has caused an increase in operat
ing expenses because of certain ad
ditional equipment and crew re
quirements being compulsory, but it
has also been the justifying reason
for quite an increase in freight and
passenger rates which will last long
after the original increase in ope
rating expenses has been recov
ered.
There is one beauty about this
system, and that is it is passed on
to the other fellow, and the situa
tion is very much the same as be
fore in the long run.
Take another case. The railways
of the country have just had the
honor of an eight hour day for en- j
ginemen, firemen, conductors and
trainmen thrust on them by an in
dulgent Congress. The railways
estimate that this will mean an in
crease in operating expenses of one
hundred million dollars a year,
while the brotherhood men submit
figures to show that it will not be
more at the outside than twenty
three million dollars a year.
Now if any person thinks that the
poor railroads will be required by
a generous country to shoulder that
additional burden, whether as esti
mated by the brotherhood men or as
estimated by the railroads, they are
surely very much mistaken. Already
steps are being taken to enable a
rate review to be undertaken by the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
which will enable the railroads to
more than recoup themselves, and
the eight hour day will be a bless
ing in disguise.
Really the general method that is
enjoyed by corporations is always
along this line. They refuse to
saddle themselves with additional
expenses and they pass them gener
ously along. The shipper pays an
additional, bunch of freight rates,
the merchant adds a little to his
price, and the man who buys to
consume digs up to meet the added
demand.
It is in the last phase where there1
is no adjustment, and which is over
looked by the beneficient econom
ists.
The consumers if they are work
ers, find that they have to pay more
to live and that accordingly their
wages, with a lessened purchasing
power, although normally the same
are actually reduced.
Hence it is that it Is not true that
* the consumer pays, but that
it is the workinman that pays. For
the consumer who is in business to
meet the increased costs of living
adds another notch to his prices, but
the worker who has nothing to sell
but his labor power can do nothing
of the kind.
Every miner in Nome remembers
the time when fifty cents would buy
as much as a dollar does now. Con
sequently the wages remaining no
minally at the same figure, actually
represent a fifty per cent reduction
in the purchasing capacity, being
less.
Business as at present organized
is in no part in a more chaotic con- I
I dition than in the wage adjustments
| that become necessary every time an
alteration in prices take place.
Now when a wage increase, or a
freight rate increase, or a raw ma
terial increase represents an in
creased cost in the manufacture of
any commodity necessary to human
subsistence, that increased cost calls
for an adjustment of wages in
other lines to meet that increase.
There is no systematized effort upon
the part of industry to effect such
an adjustment. On the contrary it
is left to excite discontent and
trouble and disaffection while all
kinds of misunderstandings arise in
j consequence.
On the whole this chaos works
j out to the benefit of the employers,
for today government statistics
show very clearly that the wage
scale has not kept even pace with
the increased cost of living.
This is the chiefest reason for
economic discontent for the in
creased cost of living, wages re
maining the same, means a lower
standard of living procurable by
such wages.
Economic factors are constantly
demanding an effort, upon the part
of labor to obtain a larger share or
the product. Labor is the final
sufferer in every adjustment that is
made to take place, and soaring
prices have come to be regarded
with much suspicion because direct
ly connected with falling wages.
So it is that wage contracts,
agreements, check-offs and the like,
offer no benefit to the workers.
What is all right today is tomorrow
all wrong, and even a sliding scale
in the product manufactured or |
produced by labor is not any more
satisfactory. There is a community
of interest between the wages paid
in one industry and the wages, paid
in all others, because in the con
sumption ot an article for which
wages are expended, the workers at
once feel the effect of an enhanced
cost in the actual lowering of the
j purchasing capacity of their money.
As this system stands, the work
ers stand to lose. They are up
against a cold deck and they are
the fall guys in the entire opera
tion. “The fault, dear Brutus, is
not in the stars, but in ourselves
that we are underlings’. And like
wise it is not because of the stars
in the economic system that labor
suffers, but just because labor is the
underling upon which the weight
of the entire economic system rests.
It is upon this foundationt that the
whole structure rests. Naturally
they foot the bills.
HUGHES DILEMMA.
Democratic scribes condemn
Hughes because he attacks the po
licies of President Wilson without
offering any suggestion as to how
he would act were he in the White
House and in charge of the presi
dential destinies of the nation.
But what is the use of such hy
pothetical considerations? It is quite
certain that Hughes cannot answer
very well what he would have done,
nor could any man. It may be he
would have done what Wilson did, I
and it may be were the cases re- j
versed, Wilson would be attacking j
Hughes and declining to offer any j
explanation of what his conduct i
would be were he placed in Hughes
position.
Hughes is availing himself of the
time honored privilege of the mab
seeking office to attack the man who
is enjoying office. Was there ever
a good democrat who out of office
did not denounce the republicans for
what they had done or failed to do
in office? Every office holder claims
the responsibility for industrial ac
tivity and holds the other fellow
responsible for industrial depres
sion. It is game of Him flam, and
the voters love to be Aim flammed.
There is nothing educational in the
democratic scribes trying thus to
impale Hughes on the horns of a I
dilemma. That’s his august and
'time honored privilege.
TWO EXECUTIONS.
Prime Minister Asquith says that
no peace terms with Germany will
be considered which do not include
reparation for the execution of Cap
tain Ryatt. That, in Asquith’s esti
mation, reached the pinnacle of cold
blooded brutality.
Now in all the executions or atro
cities charged against Germany,
whether guilty or not, there is not
one single one that equals the mon
strous barbarity of the murder ot
editor Skeffington in the streets of
Dublin.
That notorious act should, one
would imagine, have kept Asquith
quiet in his comment upon the exe
cution of Ryatt. The English sea
captain at any rate was a non
combatant who tried to kill com
batants. Under the rules of war he
was therefore either a pirate or a
spy. Skeffington hated militarism.
He took no part in the Dublin in
surrection. for he knew too well the
force with which his countrymen
would have to contend. But be
cause the government feared him
they shot him in cold blood, with
out the semblance of a trial, with
out even an effort to justify the bru
tality of the murder. Instead, the
British apology is merely that the
captain who ordered It was a
lunatic. Yet there were three sub
ordinate officers with him when the
madman’s' orders were carried out.
It makes quite a difference whose
ox is gored, truly enough.
THE NOME COMMON COUNCIL.
The failure of the City Council
to have a quorum for a meeting
for many weeks now has occa
sioned no end of trouble to those
couneilmen who are anxious that
the business of the city be per
formed with dispatch. With the
Mayor absent for almost a month,
Councilman Thompson away since
the beginning of the summer also,
the men who rightly or wrongly
have been endeavoring to legislate
for the city have been strictly up
against it.
The peculiar action of the Mayor
in leaving when the municipal
pumping plant upon which he was
elected was to be disposed of, has
resulted in such a serious delay that
it has almost resulted in the plan
being practically defeated.
The city’s opinion that any per
son who finds himself an absentee
like Councilman Thompson should
resign, is certainly not without
some justification. It is entirely
unreasonable to suppose any person
can efficiently fulfil the duties of
Nome Councilman by residing in
the-capital of the Council precinct.
Possibly if there was som6 sort of
proxy representation, these protract
ed absences upon the part of
the city officials might not work
such a hardship upon those who re*
main and want to transact the busi
ness of the city. But in the absence
of such, good sense would associate
praise with the resignation of any
such absentees.
OVERSTOCK <50
To the Public:— ,
We have just finished stock tak
ing, and find that we are heavily
overstocked so are making enorm
ous reductions in Hardware—as
much as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
side, especially in Hardware and
Metal Goods, we are still selling on
the basis of goods purchased tne
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until
we bring our stock down to the re
quirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; we can save you
money. We have proved it oo
others, we can prove it to you.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
WE CAN DO IT.
Wait for new Goods on Victoria,
for they will be at Crooks, next Fire
Department.
For Correctly
Fitting
EYE
GLASSES
Go to
Segerstrom & Hagen
Jewelerc end Opticians.
Milo’s
Cafe
OPEN OAT AND NIGHT
Nert door to Pacific Cold
Storage.
LOMEN BROS.
Prescription Druglsts
a;
and
Drug Sundries
Occident Flour
Buy a Sack of Occident Flour and make as many bakings
as you wish. If you are not satisfied that It is better than any
other Flour you ever used return the unused Flour and get
Your Money Back
MOLLERS GROCERY
211 FRONT STREET PHONE, MAIN 8tl
Steamer Arctic
will sail for St. Michaels and all way points Including Solomon,
Blur? and Chlnlk, August 24.
For information call up Al-aska lighterage & Com. O. or
U. S. Mercantile Co.
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IN ALASKA TO TRADE.
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