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Ky Nome Mine Workers' Union, No. 210, International Union of Mine,
Mill and Sin el ter Workers.
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Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 114
Nome, Alaska* November 2<i, 11M7.
TltOl lil.K BREWING
H>I TROVERS.
The tinancisl and business papersj
in ,"11 i::ru of the country are.
ali.med over a r.e — menace—the
more serious one that lias confront
ed t! ■ vmertean business world
since tie outbreak of the war. Bus
iness men everywhere ;!rt‘ Pro_ I
foundly eorcernod over the pros-1
pec t of a hit; inert r.s - in wages.
Tin ordinary i'.ource. of labor1
supply l ave failed. Immigration j
has pr.o tiraliy teased. The birtli j
rate is h r.y cm in all of the bel-!
ligercr.t countries. Meanwhile!
there is a fur greater demand for |
labor, a demand that will become
particularly acute as time goes on. |
Hnemploym nt which in a "nor
nif!" year might have gone to 15
or even 20 per cent did rot get
much above 7 or S per cant last
winter. At the pre-cut time it is
probably well below 5 per cent, 'idle
general labor shortage with its in
tonsest pressure during the harvest
si isoii cannot lint result in an in
crease.; in wages such as men have
not known in modern times. If
ih» law of supply and demand is
permitted to operate in this case
as it has operated during the past
tew months in the case ol potatoe ,
pork, shoes and steel, wages might
double in a month.
liaised. It< dun d \V itli
Dilliculty.
Once wages are raised they are
reduced with difficulty. Workers
become accu tonied to a high re
turn and resent any cut in the wage
scale. Hence the seriousness of a
situation that promises wide
spread wage advance-.
During the past 40 y ars tlie
bulk o, American wage earners
bate worked for a wage that repre
sented bare subsistence or less.
Therefore million, of them lived in
poverty. The present situation pro
mises :< living wage and more for
even th" lutmblest worker.
Rather Dangerous Remedy.
“There's many a slip." however,
and it now looks - though bu -
ir.osS would find e way. i’ruiii all
rides come proposals that ttie pri
soners of war. taken by the Allies
in battle, arc to lie brought to the
I'nited States and set to work. In
this way tlie threatened labor short
age with its inevitable wage in
crease may lie forestalled.
Du Mentally, the increased co-t
of living alone, since 1912, would
justify a wage increase of ircm 50
to SO per tent. Quite as a matter j
of course, farmers who were glad j
to get a dollar for wheat a few
years since are now indifferent to
three dollar , while other business
men have doubled, trebled or quad
rupled their profits since the war
began. The huge fortunes that have
been made in the handling of food
and the other necessaries of life are
‘ai! in a day’s work” They cause j
little comment and almost no ex
citement. it i. taken for granted,
m business circles, ilia*, profits
should increase many fold in this
crisis, but tin possibility that the'
wage earners who received l>0 cenlR
an hour in 1912 are to get 60 cents!
in 1917 or that the five dollar a
day minimum of 1914 will become!
a ten dollar a day minimum in
1918 is too terrifying to comtem
plate. “Such a situation contains
for redres ’ and they may be re
alarming elements that cry aloud
dressed in the future by the im
portation of involuntary (slave)
labor from war-torn Europe.
The suggestion that European
prisoners of war be imported to
work for American employers is
welcomed in many business circles.
It is promising. Thus the danger
(o, high wage I may be met. Thus
the plague (of wage increases all
along the line) may be stayed, and
the (business) interests of Amcr
| ica nay be protected and -afe
| guarded against the menace ot high
wage-,.
ST ATKSMKN IXCOMI’KTKNT,
THo lor.get tlie war lust ;, tne
plainer it becomes that the present
order is shaking it olf to pieces.
Old-style individualistic capitalism
was placed on its death bed in the
IT ited Stales the day that the first
manutacturer got an order from the
government instructing him to de
liver a certain quantity ot goods by
a <ertaii date at a given pla<e and
notifying him that his remunera
tion would be determined later.
Stale capitalism reigns in its stead
and government ownership, jpera
’ tion and control is in for a run.
The whole world now recognizes
that mankind is entering upon a
period of re-organization and re
construction. But here in America
it is a one lien if we arc not losing
sight of our real mission, by too
great concentration upon opposi
tion to the war We instinctively
and from principle oppose war
whemver and wherever we find it.
j but it is we'i to reflect that we
shall never gti very far on a pure
ly negative program. it is our
bu iness to combat and to overcome
oppressive institutions wherever we
discover them., hut it s also our
bu* incss to have onic.uiig r idy
to replace them.
,, u a some dry we shall find the!
old order here in America dead ot
:ts own in-efficiency, we shall not
have solved our problems merely
by electing a Socialist majority to
Cor.gre s or by installing a Socialist
president and Socialist legislature
in all the states.
it is vital that we recognize this
fact: that the welfare of modern
society rests no longer upon the
efficiency of political government-,
but upon the proper administration
of industry.
At the present time our rulers
are thinKiiig faster than we are, or
lather, they are showing more
alertness in recognizing facts.
Witnes. the present situation of
Congress. The prevailing attitude
toward it is one of cynicism and .
disgust. Daily the newspapers pill
ory it lor its confu ton and delay
in face of the nation^ crisis, for
its alleged narrowness and lack of
grasp. It is not true, however,
that Congress i.i composed of bone
heads or crooks, even tho its per
sonnel consist, mostly ol politicians
with localized visions.
Th,e fact is that Congress has
simply been outgrown. its mem
iters came to Washington to deal
with matters ot law and politics. ;
Instead, they find themselves con
fronted with problems ol industry, j
The e problems have become the
more urgent now tlirt the coun
try has discovered that waging
a modern war requires not only ^
th" organization of industry. And ,
Congress simply has not the know- i
ledge, the training, the structure. ,
adequately to deal with --ucli mat- j
ters.
The result is that Congress has
become little more important than
a rubber stamp The real govern- '
raent is wasted in -mall groups of
men like the Interstate Commerce
Commission, etc., etc.. Pome of
these bodies are invested with pow
er well-nigh dictatorial and it rs
■they who are administering and le
gulating the affair, of the country ,
today.
1 he lesson for us is that we must
have our own committees ready to
step in and carry on industry when
tho capitalist machine break- down
utterly, as it threatens to do t on,
fr.r distant date
The congress of tlu future will
be not a congress of politcal repre
sentatives, but a eongres- of indus
trial representatives. Here the re
presentatives ot the coal miners]
will meet witli the representative,
ol the agricultural workers, the
clothing workers will meet the
! weavers and spinners: 'he shoe
workers will meet with the build
ing trades—not in a con-piracy to
i gouge that myth known as the Pub
lic, but to discuss their common
needs and not on a basis ol nrofit
but on a sy-len founded on the
| necessary expenditure of labor
power.
Let politicians debate the merits
lot’ political democracies. Our chief
| concern is with the merits of in
, -lustra! demo- racie-.
get the news iugiit. read
THE WORKER.
LADIES & GENTS TAILOR.
Tour Clothes Cleaned, Tressed and
Repaired.
SUITS MADE TO ORDER from
select fabrics and trimmings.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
Cor. Lane's Way and Front Street.
M. TASCOFF.
Fur garments made and repaired
at the Nome Tailoring Company.
FORTY-SEVEN FACTORIES!
RUBBER BOOT'S if PAC5
ARE NOW MADE BY THE NEW VACUUM.
PATENT
PRESSURE rflEil PRESSURE
PROCESS TO PROCESS
TUAI ICANn^ OF WEARERS AFTER EXPERIMENTING WITH ** |[jri/A'C
other BRANDS HAVE COME BACK TO tUKt-fSAS
^■rr.v
GIVE THEM A TRIAL NEXT TIME AND YOU'LL SOON LEARN
WHY THE OTHER FELLOW SWITCHED BACK—
At ALL FIRST-CLASS DEALERS
OVER FIFTY-FIVE THOUSAN D EMPLOYEES I
On and after Monday, Nov=
ember /9th, and continuing
until further notice. The offices
and yards of this Company
Will open at 8 A. M.
AND ’ ,
Will dose at 5.30 P. M.
Alaska Lighterage Comercial Co.
Phone Main 14
Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING * TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF W. STEIGELMAIER AND OF LEO KENT,
| FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILL RE
CEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
3RD AND B STREET. RHONE BLACK 162.
Miners and Merchants Bank
Nome, Alaska
Capital $100,000.00
Workingmen’s Accounts Solicited.
waiaaaiaaasfaufiiis «**S0W0«**!«w
Army Shoes
EARLY LAST SPRING WE PLACED AX ORDER WITH
ONE OE THE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS FOR ARMY
SHOES MADE AS PER GOVERNMENT SPECIFICATIONS ON
THE “MUNSON" LAST. COME IN AND LOOK THEM OVER.
YOU MAY SOON RE FURNISHED WITH A PAIR BY “UNCLE
SAM" BUT WHY WAIT?
P. A. PETERSON SHOE CO.
North
Pole
Bakery
&Coffee
House
BREAD
10c. per it uf
3 Loa\ e’s 30c.
Anvil
Bakery
and
Coffee
House
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IKE NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER
is prepared to handle
all kinds of
JOB PRINTING
Let us figure on your
work. Call up Black
134 or call at
8
THE INDUSTRIAL WORKED OFFICE
*
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SIS HOPKINS SATS:
“DON'T DO NUTTIV FOR NO
BODY WHAT DON'T DO NUTTttT
FOK YOU".
NOW YOU WISH TO KEEP YOVK
OWN PAPER IN TDK FI BOD.
And keep it
Going strong
THK OXK RIG THING THAT
VOT ('AN DO, AND WHICH YOO
I OUGHT TO DO, IS TO PATRO
! M/K THOSK MKR< HANTS
WHO PATKONIZK VOIR PAPBR
BY ADYKRTISING IN THK
WORIvKR.
ALMOST KVKRY l.INK OK MMH
CH AN DISK,
ALMOST ALL SUPPLIK8.
! ALMOST KVKRV PROIKSSION.
ALMOST KVKRYTHIXG YOU
WANT
IS RKPKKSKNTKR BY SUMS
ADVKRTISKR IN THIS KAPUR.
SKK TO IT THAT HK GKTS YOUR
TRADK, AND THK TRADK OF
ALL VOll! KRIKNDS.
THK WINTKR IS WHKN SUNK
ADVKRTISKRS DROP OUT.
That hurts
Yourpaper
SOM K ADVKRTISKRS STAY l«
THK J’Al’KK KOli THK WINTKR.
Some new
Ones come in
That helps
Your paper
DO SOMKTH1NG KOR SO.MKRODV
WHAT DDKS SOMETHING
KOR YOU.