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“To secure to each laborer the whole product of hla labor, or as
neatly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government."—
Abrabam Lincoln
Address all Communicatlona to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Boi 210 Nome, Alaska. I’hone, Black lit.
Nome, Alaska, September 12, It*I 7.
I' N< K.VSOKKI) STII 1\
There is some wight in Seward.
Aaska, who evidently in an inspired
moment took his pen in hand to
write some special correspondence
to the New York Wot Id.
He may have lots to sell, or it
may be he has jome of thote mag
nificent prairie farms that are to
make Alaska Agriculural industry
the greatest in the world.
We dont know; but evidently his
remarks were uticensored bv any
conscientious scruples as to the
truth.
We are told, for example, that
wages in the interior of Alaska
wore rising to unprecedented figures
and that the employers of ’-'air
hanks were bidding against one
another lor tlie limited labor sup
lily. and in consequence it is stated
as much as twelve dollars a day
had been paid ordinary pick and
and shovel laborers!
Although there are a number of id
lers in Seward, white collared and
speculatively minded gentlemen,
not given to abuse their muscles
with physical culture such as is
gotten from active service with a
Number Two. we venture to say
that should any of those i lam eat
ers discovi r that twelve dollars a
day were offered their services they
would speedily cease writing "spe
cial correspondence to the World
and hasten to the Tanana to heguil
the fleeting hour, with pick and
shovel at the rate ot twelve dollars
a day.
How it comes that any normally
minded man w-ill write such stutl
as that to any paper with the quite
evident intention of exciting to
Seward or Fairbanks an overplus
of men one cannot reasonably ex
plain. Yet we suppose in tlie hope
of attracting pick and shovel men
who are to he misled by such a
fanfare of nonsense, the owners of
empty bunkhouses will conspire to
say almost anything for t lie pur
pose.
It is dollars to doughnuts that
the wight. who dispatched this
statement where under a date line
of June 19 and inserted in the
World of July 29, this year, and
under a heading labelled "Interior
Alaskt Suffers Shortage of Labor
ers” it is declared that ordinary
pick and shovel workers have been
paid twelve dollars a day, thought
that in thus r -porting conditions lie
was performing a meritorious act
and his patriotic chest swelled ail
over the performance.
As everyone knows it is a lot of
buncombe. Men in the interior are
working for a hundred dollars a
month and less on government
work, and the only reason there Is
•t. shortage in the Tanana is because
so many of the miners there were
in 'tfbe past paid off with worthless
limeceheeks at the rate of five dol
lars a -day that never materialized,
the miners who are able pay that
same wage now. find that they
cannot get -men.
The ^highest wages paid tlie aver
age-worker in any section of Maska
is the Marshal scale of six
dollars a dry for eight hours: there
vs no shortage there and there Is
pot likely to be There are hund
reds of men have arrived in Nome
since navigation opened who left
interim vamps because they could
not *et five dollars a day and be
sure of their money.
It was expected that during war
time. the effort to hunro working
mon by writing fake articles as to
the opportunities in Alaska would
be stopped. Publicity has already
pecn given to the real facts, and
there is little chance in getting by
witli tills sort of bull in a Puget
Sound camp. They know better.
Hut the shrewd penman wisely
enough sets his traps far afield and
hopes to catch the suckers in the
cast by these statements in tin
Xow York World.
' It is. we suppose. taken for
granted in Xew York, that any
tiling will lie believed about Al
aska. 1' is supposed by the Seward
writer that the East is ready to
assimilate any stuff however it tuay
excite a retching in the mind o!
those who reside closer by.
There is something seriously
vicious iii such articles. They are
not all to be treated lightly. It is
such articles as these that induce
foolish men to leave steady posi
lions and good prospects to venture
into this territory where their scan
ty savings i in he greedily gobbled
uii by tlie parasites who are toe!
damn 1; z> to do any real wort
thems-lvcs at any stage of the
game. Time and time again, ha'e
we seen, right in this section, men
and woue n induced lo come to Al
aska in the hope of getting exceed
ingly high wages or reaping a rich
harvest in mining stocks, because
they fell lor the clever lies of some
dastardly impostor.
The man who writes a communi
cation like tlint, and the paper that
publishes it, likely enough take no
stock of the consequences of their
actions. They cannot see what it
is to suffer in a strange land, de
stitute and without prospects. We
would like to see the Sewardite or
tlie Tanana man who wrote iliat
communication left derelict in an
An tic- blizzard where they faced
neitlie r shelter r.or haven and no
voice but the howling of the winds
would greet them.
Many a man lost everything in
coming to Alaska upon just such
viciously false information sent
out. And the few pennies tlie
authors of it make either in the
poorly recompensed labor of their
victims or the sales mr.de to absorb
their scanty savings, is so little
that the wonder is that these jack
als pursue tlcir policy.
It is a peculiar phase of capital
ist moralty that publicity notices of
this soothingly rank style are con
sidered clever and good business.
It fills the country with unemployed
men and enables the employers to
pick and choose their men for how
and what they will like to pay
them. It enables the Tanana ope
rators whose time checks have
become as famous for insolvency
as their hanks, to slip Iheir workers
who have piled up huge pay dumps
those slips of paper that are not
worth tlie price of the paper they
are written upon. That's all right.
But suppose a man sells someone
through fraudulent information
some variety of goods that is not
as described, a gold brick for in
stance, the law steps in and quics
lv punishes the victimizer. That's
different. The worker with his
labor is no account any way; tie
man with his dollar is entitled to
legitimate protection.
Yet consider the result. The
bunco man who separates the suck
er from his money with a gold
brick is merely taking advantage
of the other's desire to get some
thing for nothing. The worker
who is led to leave his home and
his position and invest his savings
in a trip of cost4y dimensions to
Alaska is one who suffers a realiv
serious loss that is not measured in
dollars and cents.
Because it does not affect proper
ty in any way, nay assists crooked
operators to work their mines for
a song, it is not illegal, while it is
considered “a damned smart j
trick".
We dent suppose that anyone ■
will stop long enough to seriously
consider the consequences of these
and similar actions. But we may
point out that inasmuch as these
things have fleeced not one but
hundreds of their scanty earnings,
left many a home deserted, we
have thousands upon thousands
roaming not alone the territory but
all the western states men who
hate the class that has victimized
them and have nothing but loath
ing and contempt for- the system
that threw them industrial dere
licts all over the country. Lured
to this place or that by false pre
tenses. finally disheartened and dis
couraged, the police jailing them
as vagrants and the employers pro
viding them with vermin ridden
slumgullion feeding camps, is it
any wonder that there is complaint
abroad the land that there is a
spirit of disloyalty, ot unpatriotic
feeling manifested among so many?
We say not. We say it would be
surprising if it was otherwise. We
say it is these profit mongers ana
their tools and stool pigeons like
the World Correspondent at Seward
who by their lies in other places as
well as Alaska have tried to swell
up an already swollen labor market,
so that the business men might en
joy a ‘ew pennies increase in their
sales and the bosses have a few
more broken submissive slaves to
pick from.
Alaska papers are generally
boosters But we will say that
taking them by and large they
usually are scrupulously accurate
in their report of labor conditions
and opportunities. That is certain
ly well. It is a condition that few
new and developing countries can
boast of. The actual facts are
alone published as a general rule
and there is not evident any wild
desire to attract workers here or
there to opportunities that do not
exist.
The liars who write must ply
their trade elsewhere and tliao they
have to go so far afield as New
York, for Instance, is <*t least some,
but a mighty poor satisfaction.
The World poses as the ultra
patriot these days a?iong papers.
W; suppose it would be shocked il
we pointed out that the men whom
such articles delude to coming to
this country are needed much more
seriously in the East' that of all
the vain and useless labor perform
ed just now as far as the war is
concerned gold digging is one of
the vainest. When pandering even
if unintentionally to the Seward
I.iar who is its correspondent it
might have bethought it of this
fact, but doubtless in urging the
conservation cf food by workers
who dont get enough to eat as it Is,
it hasn't time to think of the pro
priety just now of labor being di
verted to productive instead of to
non-productive fields.
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