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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as,
nearly as possible. Is a worthy object of any stood government."—
kbraham Lincoln
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1311, at the post office at
Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1873.
WELFARE WORK.
The other day In Harrisburg, Pa.,
was held a conference of surgeons
and physicians employed in the in
dustries of the state. On the whole
the great ploa that went up was for
better protection of the lives and
health and welfare of the workers.
But they were not unanimous. One
physician, Or. Alfred Ster.glc was
positive that it is impossible to work
men at high point of efficiency if
slow parboiling and intonce heat is
incident to the employment. Repre
sentatives from the steel companies
couldn't see it that way of course,
because the parboiling and intense
heat is certainly commonly incident
al to employment by those concerns.
They said it was not the heat that
made the men tumble over. But be
cause they lived in dirty homes and
did not hire a skilful chef to cook
their food. Besides as a newspaper
report has it, they aigued that they
were mostly foreigners and foreign
ers can stand all kinds of heat. An
other physician denounced this view
and insisted that as the heat in
creased the shift hours should be
shortened.
It was a very simple matter that
the physicians and surgeons discus
sed. It looks mighty good on paper
and one might easily run away with
the notion reading the report that
the conference was brought about
for the purpose of making human
beings better, more comfortable,
healthier and happier. But that is a
long ways from the fact.
The question under consideration
was this: did safety and sanitation
in industry pay. Did it increase
the efficiency of the workers? Was
it cheaper to inctr.l safety and sani
tary equipment or let the workers
perish? It is a fact of course that
the slaughter in industry was recog
nized as appalling. This year it is
reaching record heights due to high
pressure labor. In the state ot
Pennsylvania since January 1 to
May 1 there were 99,528 accidents,
about a thousand of which were fa
tal. This record compares favor
ably with the German smash on
Verdun and makes the general run
of war comparatively safe in rela
tion to industrial pu •suits.
The fact is that there is a grow
ing concern among the people ot
the state on account of the ever in
creasing number of industrial dere
licts. You can't very well destroy
outright the occupationally diseased
nor the industrially maimed. You
are put to the expense of main
taining them. And compensation
and other acts are an annoying ex
pense these days. So it is reason
able enough that the medical men
should confer as to the wisest policy
in industry: waste of human life or
its conservation by costly and per
haps hampering safety and health
equipment.
The fact also is that the State
government had promoted this con
ference because as Dr. John Price
Jackson said too many men were
being killed in the mills, too many
women were being worn out in the
factories and too many children
ground up in the whirl of industry.
That was all mighty expensive.
It was all very well for a steel
company to daily maim a man, to
weekly kill a man, but that put the
company to no expenso while it cost1
the state quite a bit. And the state j
had to come back with compensa
tion talk and Insurance chewlng
the-rag and endless taxation devices |
to cover that expense. Wherefore
it was seemly that the companies
responsible for the slaughter should
be invited like good folks to figure
it out and see if they couldn’t run
their industries without such deli
berate slaughter.
It is very annoying of course that
the companies should be subjected |
to such a probe. It didn’t seem to
be taken for granted that the com
panies had the right to kill and In
Jure as many as they pleased, ana
that everything was all right just
as long as an unrestricted labor
market afforded them plenty ot
fodder for their killings.
So the matter was converted by
the doctors into a dollar and cent
equation, and placed in that man
ner before them.
It was quite a learned talk, but
in the hurry to make munition am
war contract profits, the companies
have little time to consider it. It
is however very interesting to note
the fact that a Pittsburg and Lake
Erie railroad doctor told how his
company gave a pink slip of dis
charge to all those employees who
suffered from any physical taint or
blemish. Accidents were thus re
duced to a minimum. That was sa
tisfactory and the railroad doctor
whose long sight was about as far ,
as the nose on his face, sat down j
with considerable self satisfaction.:
| But an annoying man named Dr. j
j Schereschewsky inquired what be
came of the man who had been
(fired. That was the rub. What be
came of the men with the pink slip?
What became of the men who were
| maimed and injured and diseased in
• heir work? And the railroad doc
tor it is presumed became aware
of the fact that his system was not
so pleasant as it looked.
But at any rate the discussion did
not take on anything in the nature \
of a high minded altruistic sort ot
movement to better the people for!
the people’s good. To improve the
j condition of the workers so that
they might be happier and healthier
and finer types of human beings.
Xot at all. The matter was reduced
as we said to a dollar and cent
! equation, and when the conference
adjourned they were still figuring it.
j Now there's a lesson in all mat
and It's this. These men are types
of reformers and welfare workers.
Most of them are ably sympathetic
They dont like to observe these
1 equalld lives, these bloody accidenst
this Indiscriminate slaughter. They
hate the filthy tenements and the
sordid vices of the very poor toil
ers. They diBlike the sour smell ot
stale sweat and miserable symptoms
of occupational disease. The healthy
and strong physically are pleasant
to see. The maimed and the di
seased are eyesores. Besides It costs
money, real money to look after
them that those who have money
must pay. The tenements, the
! crimes, the vices, the degeneration,
contagious diseases—all these things
are wasteful and costly and should
(be eliminated. That's where the
shoe pinches. Not health and com
fort and well being, and happiness
| and independence and sound minds
i and sound bodies for their own
i sake, but for the dollar sake is what
engrosses their time, their money
and their intellects.
It cannot be otherwise. They are
not considering their own but an
other’s fate. They are considering
, those fates in relation to their own
and no matter what pretense high
browed altruists may make, the con
necting link between men and wom
' on in society today is a dollar link,
[it is a dollar relation. It is one
that is to be considered in all its
[aspects as capable of being reduced
^ to the final equation of dollars ana
cents—with one exception and that
j is between the workers themselves.
[ Between them there is no such rela
tion, but the relation of common
i working class interests and because
: the workers themselves will do no
thing; act without solidarity, betray
no unity of purpose and macs action
in common for their own interests,
‘ is too much to expect that otherr
are going to stay awake nights look
[ing after their welfare, excopt as a
dollar and cent affair.
Welfare work is a misnomer. It
is only another name for efficiency
and profit making. And whore wel
fare work can be dispensed with
,e profit making remain stilt,
unhampered there will be none ot
it.
There will be no welfare work
until the workers themselves under
take it; until they waken up and
attend to their own business in
common and united action. They
are a long time off doing any sucn
thing, and in the meantime they
leave it to others who will do what
they can, provided they can make
things better and more affective for
the purpose of business.
GOOD POETRY.
The Great War in Europe has
occasioned much verse most of it
not worth the type that gave it pub
licity. But one J. A. Morton in the
’’Labour Leader”, London, England
has made a ten strike in a wonder
ful short poem that is herewith re
printed :
INVOCATION.
Pluck out thy hate, O Heart,
Renew thy life;
Fling forth thy bitterness,
Reck not the strife.
Trample thine anger out,
Be merciful;
Just is the perfect Heart
And Pitiful.
Dare to be generous
Wait and forgive;
For all the Dead have died
That thou might live.
O Heart, be patient yet;
War shall be ended,
And Love with shining eyes
Out of the darkness rise
Deathless and splendid.
THE MOVIE CENSOR.
The motion picture companies!
are up in arms against the censor. j
They say that there i3 no more Jus- ■
tificatlon for a board of censors con- 1
trolling the product of the film stu
dios than there is for any interfer
ence with the free press.
The point is well taken and yet
not so well. Just now the press is
far from free. If at any time the
postal officials get it into their pin
like noodles that the press publishes
something derogatory to Virtue or
Morality, as interpreted by them,
thereupon that press i3 put prompt
ly out of commission.
There’s a constitutional right at
tending the freedom of the press.
But there’s also a legislative right
given some postal bureaucrats
grossly interfering with that and
a3 Dooley says there y’are. The
legislative rights desire to'
control, to interfere with
] and make everyone walk along cer
I tain lines of convention is an ot>
! sessison seems to be inherent in a.
j good many folks who mind every
lone else’s business but their own
| There is an ungodly satisfaction felt
! among some authorities in showing
i their authority. The old story ot
j the section boss: “Put on the ca1*,
take off the car, now put it on
again, I’ll show you who’s boss!” ’*3
certainly witnessable in more ele
vated theaters of public service than
on a railroad joint.
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NOTICE.
Pursuant to an order of Court j
entered on the 29th day of May,
1916, notice is hereby given that a
Special Term of the District Court,
Second Division, Territory of Al
aska, will be held in the Court
House, in Nome, in said Division
and Territory, commencing at the
hour of 11 o’clock A. M. on
Wedcsday, July fifth, 1916, and to
continue thereafter according to
further orders of the Court.
Given under my hand and with
the Court’s seal affixed this 31st
day of May, 1916.
(SEAL)
G. A. ADAMS.
Clerk, Distrct Court, Second Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
J 1, 8, 15, 22.
MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 0283
U. S. Land Office, Nomo, Alaska,
April 18th, 1916.
Notice Is hereby given that the
Flume Dredge Company, a corpora
tion organized under the laws of
the State of California, with Its
principal place of business and post
office address, Mills Building, San
Francisco, California, has through
Jas. M. Streeten, its authorized
agent, whose post office address 1b
| Nome, Alaska, made application for
a United States patent for No. 14
Above Discovery placer mining
claim, situated on Meloing Creek,
in the Council City Recording Di
strict, Territory of Alaska, and de
signated as Mineral Survey No.
1172, which said placer mining claim
is described according to the plat
and field notes now on file in the
U. S. Land Office at Nome, Alaska,
with a magnotic variation of 21
deg. 38 min. E. as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, a
spruce post 4 ft. long, 6 ins. dia
meter, in earth mound, scribed 14
Ab 1 1172 on N. face, whei ce U. S.
L. M. No. 1172 bears S 59 deg.
34 min. W. 380.3 ft. Thonce N. 35
deg. 35 min. W. 544.4 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 56 deg. 27 min.
E. 1376.6 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
1S. 37 deg. 56 min. E. 526.4 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 55 deg, 37
min. W. 1397.6 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
place of beginning, containing aa
area of 17.025 acres.
This claim is situated on Melsing
Creek about four miles north of
Council City, Council City Re
cording Precinct, Alaska. Lo
cation monument No. 1172 is
a schist sione 37x20x5 ins.
18 ins. in the ground, with mound
of earth 4 ft. high, 6 ft. base, situa
ted about 30 ft. above the bed of
Melsing Creek, on the south side
thereof, in latitude 64 deg. 55 min.
N., longitude 163 deg. 39 min. W.
The location notice is recorded in
Vol. 10, page 132, of the records
Council City Recording District, Al
aska.
The adjoining claims are as fol
lows: On the northeast No. 15
Above Discovery on Melsing Creek;
on the southwest, No. 13 Above Dis
covery on Melsing Creek; claimants
unknown; on the northwest and
southeast, claims unknown; all un
surveyed.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
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