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Nome, Alaska, May 14, 1!>17.
WOMEN' WOISKKRS. |
It is well known that in Great j
Britain now. with the males of mi
litary age for the greater part at
the front, all the lighter and some
of the heavier forms of labor in the
factories are taken up by women.
Because it is suggested to do the
same tiling in the Vnited States the
-sibl.- result of this after the war,
as well as during the war, are
wortii consideration.
In Great Britain it was found im
possible to work women in factories
under the conditions which men
had labored. They could not stand
it. and for that reason the govern
ment had to undertake radical
changes.
Improved shops, better conditions
of living, and higher wages, there
are but a few of the reforms, re
forms however that could only have
been obtained by labor under peace
ful and normal conditions of indus
try after endless struggling, strikes
and look out:, innumerable.
We cannot overlook the fact that
is overlooked by those who tell us
that labor and employers have
•everything in common, that labor
has won practically everything onl>
after almost interminable strife:
strikes, locks outs, boycotts, agita
tion. blacklisting, lock outs and
serious disturbances of one kind or
another.
The reforms that have been tak
ing place in Great Britain during
the war are such ns in many great
industries in America would be in
conceivable.
Usually when an American capi
talist with philanthropic notions be
gins to reform conditions lie in
vents some new form of Bible class,
He establishes a V. M. C. A. close
Ivy his shops: he devises some Sun
day School development. lie lias
welfare workers with.a profound
anxiety concerning the soul ol
workingmen or woman. He re
moves the temptation of strong
drink and other obvious vices. And
then he builds a church or two,
subsidizes a preacher or two. invites
a mission Yo establish lectures; goes
even to the length of awakening
to the needs of elementary sanita
tion and may approve the erection
-of elegant little cottages all in a
row, all sedately concrete and white
and ail * with a settled rent per
month with prizes thrown in for the
most ornate back yard and the best
rose tree in the front. He himself
will be given a daily paragraph in
the press: the editor will devote an
occasional article to his honorable,
praiseworthy, more-than-generous,
worth-following policy and general
ly place a series of halos on top
or the head of the village philan
thropist. . It is all very noisy but
very well advertised superficiality
which does no manner of real good
and the exploitation that proceeds
is just as ruthless and reckless as
if there was not any such tiling as
welfare work ever thought of.
The reforms in British industry
were not so completely superficial.
They were directed towards the
physical betterment much more
-.strongly than the moral up-lift.
They first of all provided sufficient
food and good clothing. They short
ened working hours to an inconceiv
able degree. They insisted upon
-rest period” for workers during
which refreshment physical and
mental was provided. And when
the day’s labor was over there were
entertainments and, amusements at
hand to remove all fatigue that fol
lowed the workday and superior
home accomdation to provide ample
rest.
The profit element was nof elimi
nated. But the profit element was
subordinated to industrial produc
tivity. That was the reason for all
of It. But it was a desperate rea
son and only a desperate reason
could accomplish what years at
labor agitation had hardly accomp
lished In the best organized in
dustry.
Before the war the women
were child hearing househoili
drudges or worse, and now they
have greatly improved their
lives.
That they will be willing to re
turn to the degree of domestic feli
city that capitalist civilization hail
before ordained for them is to say
the least remotely to be thought
possible, but to any degree hardly
probable.
It has been discovered strangely
enough that women can do many
things that men have been doing
and do them just as well. It has
been discovered still more strangely
that women’s place is not necessar
ily in the home any more than in
the harem.
So after tlie war what is to hap
pen? Naturally because they have
| made the discovery that women
I wi rk. even with all these reform
1 folderols we have mentioned thrown
i in. as cheaply or more cheaply
| than men and from them is to be
■extracted much profits, some cm
; ployers will have to make an effort
! to keep women in their employ
ment.
| (tn the other hand what about
the men? They will come home
from the front in no more mood to
return to their miserable industrial
! sipialidity that prevailed before the
i war any more than will the women
I They will want their jobs that the
women are doing now just as wel
and possibly more efficiently that
the men ever did before the war.
A respectable view would be tha
llio women now in industry wil
turn to the returning soldiers ant
select from among them a fathe;
for their children, keep house am
raise large families for the benefi
of the nation in time of war am
for the up-keep of industry during
peace. This view would have tin
same methods of indiscriminate in
| ousiriansm inrusi nan upon im
jnation: the same miserable alum
mery and the same poverty am
i ,
■ semi-starvation.
| That it will happen about tha
! way is about the last conceivabli
j notion any person who consider:
j the situation fairly will arrive at
I it is true that after the war tin
first thing a soldier wants to do h
j to get back to the routine of civi
lit'o with the least trouble imagin
able. But this is not alone the re
turned soldier's affair. It is tin
woman's affair as well as the man's
She is to have some say whether 01
not she will be an indiscriminate
breeder of pauperism and th(
slovenly domestic slave of a dul
driven brute of toil.
You cannot very well imagine
the legislative and the government
al system being changed so thai
the toiling women could be seizer
by returning workers as the wife
less Homans seized the Sabint
women.
It is more than likely that botl
mail and woman, the former as i
soldier worker and the latter as i
worker in the factories during war
will join hands to eliminate th<
useless factor in Industrial situa
t ion.
The useless factor is the capital
ist. The useless entity is the pri
vate owner. The government ha:
taken over industrial activities b;
the score. That has shown the way
All that is now needed is the indus
trialization of society, and the de
mocratization of government as In
dustrialized.
There is to be a period of tur
moil and reconstruction and it wil
not be without bloodshed. The prl
vileged classes will no more sur
render their hold on privilege that
the American slave holding classei
were prepared to surrende:
their slaves. They possess as keei
a.belief in the divine right of own
ers to their property as the king:
held in their rulership. Its artirt
ciai nature is absolutely ignored. Iti
inutility Is the last thing thpught o
Its necessity to the scheme o
things is thought to be absolute
They will fight to maintain that be
lief and their conception of their
rights. *
When the war broke oui in 1911
it was the beginning of the end.
The end may have been a long way
off for industrial ownership by pri
vate individuals but it was going
down the home stretch just the
same.
Its equilibrium was unstable at
all times. To think that the world
can be shaken by seismic social
tremors of unequalled severity and
that the unstable social equilibrium
will maintain its equilibrium is non
sense.
To be sure all kinds of economic
tinkers will have their say. These
are always compromisers. But
compromise gets nowhere and but
increases the medley and the con
fusion and the resultant chaos.
A recent writer in the Century
Magazine concludes an article on
this head with the declaration that
“the social movement is more surely
on its way in England than in any
other country in Europe’’.
We think that a short sighted
view. It is impossible for the social
movement to be surely on its way
its real way—in any one country
more than in any other. What the
author of that article looks to
is merely a variety of state capi
talism. with the workers living
under a sort of industrial feudalism
and the job and the men assured
to employer and emploee alike. The
I article takes no stock of the world
needs where profit is the incentive
to industrial activity and one would
he led to imagine that industrial
activity may be maintained at its
point of greatest intensity quite re
gardless of market needs.
The fact is the only solution is
the elimination ol' the profit incen
tive. If profit making in industry
instead of industrial activity being
directed solely to the satisfaction ot
human need, is to remain, then the
same disturbances which period
ically occur, the same fat years and
the subsequent lean years can be
anticipated with certainty: the same
varying squalor and prosperity, de
fective distribution and unequal ac
tivities may he relied upon to fol
low.
But because the human needs
must be satisfied and because the
war has shown the way where they
are best attended to, the capitalist
system must be elminated and
nothing short ot elimination will
meet the needs of the case.
That appears to be a certainty.
| Hence eliminating capitalism in one
country means its elimination in
all; hence a social revolution in one
means a social revolution in all.
1 No wonder Russia is regarded today
i as such a menace.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To O. C. Foster. E. J. Maynard, Chas
Clark and Chas R. Ewing, your
heirs, executors, assigns or person- 1
al representatives.
You and each of you are hereby
stifled that the undersigned has ex
snded in labor and improvements
le sum of. one hundred dollars
)r year 1916 on Washington claim,
placer mining claim situated at the
ead of Peluck and recorded and
lore fully described in the records
t Cape Nome Mining and Record
ig District, in the Second Division
f the Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
ended under the provisions of the
iw concerning Annual Labor upon
lining Claims, being the amount
equired to hold said claim.
And you and each of you are
urther notified that if within ninety
ays after the last publication of
bis notice you fail to contribute
our proportion of said expenditure,
our interest in said claim will be
ome the property of the under
igned your co-owner under section
324 Revised Statutes of the United
fates.
ESKIMO GOLD DREDGING CO.
Co-Owner.
late of first pub., Feb. 19, 1917.
)ate of last publ., May 21, 1917.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
7o Elma McNaught and J. J.
Chambers, your heirs, executors.
Successors, assigns or personal re
resen tctives:
You and each of you are hereby
lotified that the undersigns 1
las expended in labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred do!
ars for year 1916 on Rosevelt bench
prated betweeu Newton Gulch No.
! and Fox Creek, recorded and more
ully described in the records of the
'ape Nome Mining and Recording
listrict in the Second Division, Ter
itory of Alaska.
The above amount has ocen ex
icndcd in order to hold said claims
inder the provisions of the lav?
•oncerning annual labor upon min
ng claims.
And you and each of you are
Further notified that if within
ninety days after the last publication
)f this notice you fail to contribute
your proportion of said expenditure,
your interest in said claim will be
come the property of the under
signed your co-owner under section
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
States.
ESKIMO GOLD DREDGING CO.
Co-Owner.
Date of first pub., Feb. 19, 1917.
Date of last publ., May 21, 1917.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To R. J. Nugent, Homer D. Wheeler
F. M. Wheeler and W. L. Bruce
your heirs, executors, assigns or'
personal representatives:
you and each of you are hereby
notified that T have caused to be
expended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars for
the year of 1916 on the Buckeye
Quartz Claim located on the North
side of Rock Creek and recorded
and more fully described in Vol. 91.
Page 397 in the records of the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording District
Second Division, Territory of Al
aska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upoij
mining claims, being the amount
requred to hold said claim.
And you and each of you ard
further notified that ff yott fail to
contribute your proportion of said
expenditure within ninety days after
the last publication of this notice<
your interest in said claim will be
come the property of the under
signed, your co-owner, under section
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
States.
ELIZABETH JOLLIFFE.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., April 16, 1917.
late of last publ., July 16, 1917.
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