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“To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
aearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government."—
Abraham Lincoln
Address all Communtcatlona to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 1*4.
Rone, Alaska, dune 11, 11*17.
ORGANIZATION*.
Now that the first fi.eet has ar
rived, it is timely to draw the at
tention of t hose who work for a liv
ing the necessity of making connec
tions wi' 1: tin- labor organizations
in this camp in whatever lines they
will follow in I he district.
And this applies to those who out
side carry union cards as well as
to those who carry no such thing.
The insistence which affiliated la
bor organizations throughout the
country have determined up<m fol
lowing thin matter up is known to
all union men and those unionists
who come up here and work in and
around the mines and fail to put in
their cards with the Nome Aline
Workers lTnion will be know n when
they turn in their cards outside in
the fall.
In the great demand for laboi
that exists outside, the prime im
portance of unionism is now more
strongly realized than ever and
those who carry no card or who
have been carrying cords hut have
worked within the jurisdiction ot
other unions without joining will
certainly he called to an account
ing. The Nome Mine Workers Union
Local 240 of the International
Union of Mine Mill and Smelter
Workers—formerly Western Uede
• 'ion 01 :. .pets—is di i .' chartered
in this can.! to promote the well
i.(ii,g of ail workers in .ill the var
ious min’’ g operations carried on.
and claims jurisdiction over all
such workers.
It bids all workers a welcome to
this camp and requests that they
make it their business to become
members at once. Labor can only
protect itself by organization and
organization at the present time is
the paramount essential for all
workers.
The wage scale in this camp is
maintained only through means ot
the unions and it is therefore only
right and proper that the wage
workers should find a first duty in
supporting them by joining them.
It is a duty they owe as much to
themselves as to their fellow work
ers and it is one that they should
not overlook.
Moreover, time and again, it has
happened that many came up to
this camp and the anxiety for a job
carried away their better feelings
and they kept carefully away from
the Union. The matter however in
some recent striking instances did
not stop there, for when
seeking work outside they
had to explain the rea
son for their failing to turn in their
cards while in Alaska and being un
able to give any had to pay fines
for scabbing which practically mul
tiplied by ten what their union
•lues during the summer months
would have cost them. Such be
come sadder and wiser men, and the
real facts of later day organized
solidarity brought home to them,
and they realize that even in Alaska
men are supposed to have some ele
mentary idea of the duty they owe
to their (lass.
Organisation, as has orten been
said, is responsible for every ad
vance which labor has made. It is
the only source of job 'power. It
alone enables the individual worker,
at it enables the mass of workers,
to create and to maintain tolerable
working conditions. Even those
who are unorganized benefit by it
in a selfish way, in the fact that
when they gel good positions of
any kind, they owe all ot^it to the
self sacrifice and the collective
struggle of the members of orga
nized labor.
The bars are against no worker
in his matter of organization. The
doors of the union are aways open.
There are no latchstrings to pull.
It is always a case for men who do
half way the right thing, of walk
right in.
It is not locked and barred and
bolted, so that workers may have
some excuse for steering clear oi
such reserved quarters. On the
contrary it is always ready to make
the new comer as welcome as the
old timer.
It is labor that produces the
wealth of Alaska and labor is en
titled to its product. It is upon that
ground that tHe miners of this
section are organized and when
we say miners, we mean workers in
and around the mines in any capa
city whatever or in any sort of min
ing whatever.
This paper holds that right at this
particular time, exists the greatest
need in the world's history for all
workers to get together. The inter
est of all workers is solidified b>
the war and it is in these days of
stress and duress that this fact
should be realized as never before.
At no time was labor liable to
suffer without having concerted
power as at present, at no time was
1 it a matter of such vital necessity
as at present that they should find
in the labor organization a means
of giving expression to that power.
In any event then, for local needs
or for general necessities, the work
ers must organize. The existence of
organization in these parts is given
this publicity with this end in
view.
The Union invites all workers to
membership and resents any at
tempt to partake of the conditions
which attract workers here without
doing their part in the work ol
maintaining them as they are,
which has been the work of the
members of the miners and other
organizations of labor In this com
munity since their establishment.
LETTERS (iALOltE.
Evidently quite a number of peo
ple work out a satisfactory exist
ence issuing circulars on every sub
ject under the sun. Their activities
arc apparently universal and the la
bor paper, we take it, is the favor
ite recipient of the results of their
mental energies.
As usual tlie mail brought in
quite a deluge of circulars from
every manner of being on every sub
ject under the sun, but especially
upon the war.
Quite evidently all financiers are
not on Wall Street, and just as evid
ently all the military geniuses of
the age are now devoting themselves
to tlu pen which is natural enough
being mightier than the sword.
What with long dissertations on
the Liberty Loan and how to ac
quire a parcel of Uncle Sam's gilt
edged securities, about promoting
its sale, about breeding better child
rea that they can endure the trench
life more efficiently, about conscrip
tion and the superiority of a volun
j tear army, about industrial mobili
j nation and so on, it takes time and
j patience to made through the mass
of circulars and to fittingly appraise
each at its proper value, before they
finally contribute to the more eco
nomic mode of liie some of them ad
vise, by taking the place of a
scuttle of coal in the office stove.
Endless words and endless
worry about this that and the other
thing, as if their protest would avail
any in the event that government
decided one way or another against
their wishes.
But it is ever thus, and the war
has only added more to the number
of these circularizers who persist
in dumping their opinions broad
cast that the World may realize
that the really great ones are not
in office, and what might be done
if they were.
LOTH Of WOltK.
Arrivals on the incoming boats
state that outside, things are boom
ing and that wages are better than
usual and opportunities for the ca
pitalist the best ever.
Yet still many persist in coming
up here, just as if there were
no such opportunities as they
speak of waiting to be garnered and
they regard this alone as the land
of Promise.
In the same breath, they will depre
catingly declare that Nome is very
quiet, that this camp seems dead.
Apparently these kindly hearted
people have come to aid the inter
ment and did so at tremendous sac
rifice of time and money.
Now the opportunities in Nome
are strictly, as they stand, limited
for any one, whether a wage work
er or a businessman and that may
be admitted without any loss ol
modesty. But if times are so pros
perous outside why then the annual
rush to Nome?
SOLDIERS LOST
STATES FIGHT
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES,
June 10.—German prisoners de
clare the inhabitants of Alsace and
Lorraine who are enrolled by force
in the German army are treated
with the utmost suspicion and sev
erity. especially on the western
front.
They are kept under strict sur
veillance and for the most part em
ployed behind the lines as it is
feared they would desert if sent to
the front trenches.
The Alsacian soldiers as well as
well as those from Lorraine are
only granted leaves of absence to
visit their homes after a very stricf
investigation of their sentiments as
regards France.
LOCAL ITEMS.
It is understood that Clarence
Hawkins is putting up a resolute
fight for tlie position of Unit' 1
States Marshal of this division and
is said to have promises of strong
support, claiming many of the po
litical stars that are reported to he
shining from the Congressional
firmament solely for the benefit o'
Phil Corrigan who is also an aspi
rant for the position.
A. J. M’Connell the General Man
ager of the Alaska Industrial Min
ing and Power Co., a name long
enough to conjure lots of bullion
with, w i 11 leave again from here
for Cordova where his company
has secured the power company ot
the copperterminal. Cordova is tlie
great city of Alaska, according to
Mr. M’Connell. His company has
the De Vigne combustion engines
which in the local plant have pro. ed
their complete efficiency.
As fast as possible these soldiers
are being withdrawn from the
French front and sent to the Rus
sian front.
One German prisoner recent'. ■
states that while he was at Hildes
heim he saw 70 Lorraine soldiers
brought in in closeji waogn3 and
under armed escorts. They had be
longed to the 231st German regi- J
mcnt of Reserves then stationed at
Vttry-les-Reims but had been with
drawn as the result of constant de
sertions amongst their comrades
from Alsace and Lorraine.
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Satisfaction assnred.
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C. L. Ross
Lumber
Milling
Contractor
I‘HONK BLACK 102.
3rd and 15 St.
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