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Kome, • Alaska, under the Act of March I, 187$.
“To secure to each laborer the whole product of hla labor, or as
•early as possible. Is a worthy object of any good government.’’—
Abraham Lincoln
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Whether the* proposed legislation
passe.- or not. the workers will have
to judge the democratic party by
the administration measures and the
proposed compulsory arbitration le
gislation is directly such a measure.
It is worth while, therefore, call
ing attention to the fact that this
democratic party is doing precisely
•as Big Business expects it to do in
its interests, and to take steps to
enforce repressive measures against
labor, so that all power of organized
labor, upon the economic field could
be suppressed.
We will hear it said that labor
combinations should be permitted no
more privilege in the matter of com
binations than capital. But, the
plain and very obvious fact is that
nothing is done, nothing was done
and nothing will be done against
combinations of capital by this de
mocratic administration. Everyone
knows that the claws have been re
moved from the Sherman Act In re
gard to capital, and that consolida
tions are strictly the order of the
clay.
Labor has just one means of
finding expression and that is
through united action and no other.
To endeavor to prevent that united
action is to endeavor to leave labor
as prone and helpless as a corpse
upon the autopsy table. And that is
exactly what the democratic admi
nistration proposes to do with re
gard to this compulsory arbitration
law.
It is extraordinary the number of
workers who pin their faith to the
■democratic party as the party of
progress and enlightenment, when
in point of fact it is on
such thing. However the re
publican party is the party of
special privilege, at least it has the
right justly to claim that i’ repre
sents the progress of spe ial privi
lege and its consolidation, increase
in power, in privilege and dotnina
t on. It is in keeping with the logic
of capitalist development and is a
.cm* ntifle political reflex of the eco
nomie power which specia’ privilege
i. holding and trie'- to Poll.
On the other hand Etc lawoerstie
party is essentiallv ■, oa' >' of rettc
tion. it is living upon principles ot
•a past age. It is representative ot
little business and independent ca
pital. It has still as its cardinal
doctrine that competition is the life
of trade and it strives to realize that
folly. It has no grasp of the indus
trial concept ions of the present day
whatever. Its policies are the poli
ies of the tinker: a drop of solder
lure and a patch of tin there, and
with tic aid oi sonic rcubenistic
haywire tin- whole mr-chinery is sup
posed to move along as it moved
along in the earlier days of the
nineteenth century.
The republican party has kept
abreast of the times in tlie inter
est of Big Business and Top Capital
ism. It has never lost itself in the
•platitudes of the progressive doe
trainaire, hut held firmly to the faith
that to those that have shall and
must he given in power pelf and pri
vilege. It has supported with materi
alistic lack of sentiment all institu
tions and conventions and policies
which tended to strengthen capital
ism. and without any effort to culti
vate the opinions of the dear people
Insisted that capitalistic develop
ment was logically the affair of the
•capitalists and no other.
The democratic party is essenti
ally a capitalist party. But it has
to rely for its support upon the
outer rings which have been for the
most part shorn of their power and
their privilege, and wlijch are con
stantly feeling the crushing rivalry
of the greater economic forces which
•want the places in the sun which
xhe independents have managed
•somehow by hook or by crook to en
joy.
Hence they must seek an alliance
with those doctrinaires who have op
posed the extension of special privi
lege and the legislative favors which
have been showered upon Big Bus
siness. Under one plea or another
they endeavor to clothe reaction
which longs for the no-trust age to
return, with a cloak of pro
gress. And this succeeds to
such an extent that many
who are arch economic reaction
ists pride themselves upon their po
litical progressiveness.
In principle there is no difference
whatever between the democratic
party and the republican party. In
j the South where the democratic par
! ty is the political reflex of the coal,
iron,, sugar, cotton and lumber
kings the democratic party and the
republican party go before the peo
ple with changed complexions, and
the democratic party is
that which oposes child la
bor law while the repub
licans ardently support it. This
shows the ease with which the two
parties coalesce when the economic
forces which reflect the political
forces have the same fundamentals.
Nor are the politicians themselves,
even the most prominent, different
in any degree. President Wilson has
been sufficiently open to the eco
nomic for<es which press upon the
party as to respond with alacrity
to their urge. His right about face
in the preparedness question. Ills ex
traordinary mobility of view upon
the tariff, his somewhat uncertain
policy in Mexico—all these things
are not chance displays of a varying
temperament, but the reliable readi
nes of the politician to respond to
party requirements,'just as party re
quirements found themselves upon
the economic exigencies.
We cannot imagine why the work
j ers, if they must be politicians,
| should be at all democrats. In such
jan industrial emergency as this rail
road question gives rise to, it is im
mediatey seen upon which side the
administration of a democratic party
government must stand. It will be
openly and obviously in support of a
condition which tends to stabilize
the power held over the workers by
employeis. It is committed to that
policy and it will stand by it in the
last, analysis.
AltlllTKATION.
Why not arbitration, says the aver
age man who is not a worker. Why
would it-not be better to dispose ot
industrial questions by a mediation
hoard which would judciously con
sider and judicially decide?
The answer is most obvious. The
workers have got no confidence in
such tribunals instinctively, be
cause they know instinctively that
such tribunals are affected by the
bias of class and tvill decide upon in
dustrial, which are elass, questions,
according to that class point of view.
.Moreover why is there any reason
to think that the railroad managers
reach a different decision to that
which might be reached by such an
arbitration board?
An arbitration Board would be
made up of politicians depending
for their position upon the favors
of some corporation, upon profes
sional men whose practice is con
nected with the ramifications of big
business, or of business men them
selves who would have exclusively
an employers’ interest at stake.
it is impossible to settle an in
dustrial dispute through any sucli
thing as a mediation hoard. When
two equals litigate in a court and
the judge or jury decides between
them, the question is finally disposed
of and the matter is a res adjudi
cata. When an arbitration board de
cides anything, it merely makes a
temporary settlement, has removed
no cause for friction and the entire
question is open for dispute within
five seconds after the decision is ar
rived at by the board.
The experience of all in the mat
ter of the disposal of industrial
questions, one would imagine, would
have for all time settled the fact
! that between employer and employee
there can be no final settlement and
the best that a board of arbitra
tion can do is to postpone the ine
vitable clash so that the strike which
might have worked itself out natur
ally, will end in a final revolution.
The right to strike is a real right.
It is the right to do by the many
what the individual can do hut do
ineffectively. It will be maintained
regardless of penal laws.
In these questions we often hear
of a third party introduced and
named the Public. The public is
intimately concerned with the pro
per and adequate and steady opera
tion of the railroad.
The railroad performs a public
function. Put since the public has
delegated the control of that per
formance into private hands, it is
assuming a right to interfere now
which it has given up without a
struggle. The public has allowed
the workers on the railroad to be in
tensively exploited; the public has j
allowed stock juggling and gambling
: and thimble-rigging as well as all 1
! sorts of financial shenanigan to
i take place. The public has allowed
J its right to control to lapse, and it is
1 coming in late in the day to say. that \
j it must be considered when the men
who do the work demand better
working conditions.
The Pennsy railroad has, for ex
ample, fired one thousand American
workers and left them to shift as
best they could, replacing them by
Mexicans. The public didn't feel that
it had any business to interfere.
Hence only when the workers strive
for better conditions is this public
bogie resurrected to check and in
timidate working class action, and
to justify repressive measures
against organized labor. j
This public is concern only to the
companies when in labor troubles
and the public is stirred up into life
only when employers are having
some difficulties with their em
ployees somewhere or sometime.
And the reason is that the public
which is drawn into this fight as an
innocent third party is no such thing
He is either an employer or an em
ployee. and he is usunlly an em
ployer who as far as public utilities
is concerned has abandoned all his
rights, sold out for a sum to the
corporations, and then butts in only
when labor is to be curbed.
There are just two classes in the
economic world.) There is the em
ploying class and the working cli#6*
which has to sell its labor power to
the former. Between these two
classes there is a struggle going on
day and night, week by week and
year by year. It will go on despite
arbitration boards or anything else.
It will go on, just as the struggle
went on between feudal lords and
serfs, until this industrial serfdom
that is foisted upon the workers is
finally abolished. The public is a
myth. And because it is a myth
and because arbitration boards must
be made up in the nature of things
from these two economic classes, ar
bitration is bound to be in the na
ture of things also a failure.
Whether we like it or not the
struggle of the classes has to he
fought to a finish.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOB
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 16, 1916.
Notice is hereby given, that Tsaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By W. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and
on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, has made application before
the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a United States
Patent for Discovery Claim and' No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
thereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
S. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
695, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,
4-695, 1-1175, D. TJ. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4 110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
\V. Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
2ti9.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
69 deg. 45 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 2S min. E. Var.
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 4 3
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
386.SO ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25
min. E. 273.SO ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min.
E. 400.SO ft. to place of begining,
containing 5.908 acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
747 No. 1 Above fjpiscovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft.
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 48 deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. 19
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Var. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
to which said claims are tied, is a
fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Vol.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Vol.
165 Page 225 and Vol. 199 Page
85, Records of Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 698 and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 434; on the East un
surveyed; on the South No. 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West,
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 747. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., Feb. 21. 1917.
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