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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 good government.”—
Abraham Lincoln
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Nome, • Alasxa, under the Act of March I, 1871.
Nome, Alaska, August 5, 1 !>!<!.
THE KKTl'KX OK NAPPY
When Wappenstein went over
the roail to do penance in the state
purgatory of Walla Walla, one
thought he had finally reached his
career’s ending in the public eye.
Beginning as a Pinkerton detec
tive, the inan gradually, and natur
ally, evolved to the stage when as
the ally of vice and viciousness he
as chief of police assisted in plast
ering the city of Seattle with the
most evil mess that ever stank in
the mental nostrils of any person.
The ally of the pimp, the sexual
pervert, the white slaver, the
macque the saloon thug, the beast
and the bully, every one felt reliev
ed when this specimen of capital
ist law and order despite the efforts
of Old Man Blethen, landed where
he belonged under the lock and
kay of the state Warden.
Sympathetic stories of his release
from his prison pen on condition
that he would not return to Seattle
satisfied the people, who believed
that this foul buzzard had had his
wings clipped enough.
But again he has returned, and
this time is in charge of a gang
probably as foul as himself, of gun
men guarding the scabs on the Se
attle waterfront.
No person will ever know the
enormities of which this mastei
gangster has been guilty when he
was in charge of the Seattle police,
but it eminently fitting that he
should be chosen for his present
calling to brow beat, bull doze ami
abuse the Seattle Longshoremen
fighting for their rights.
The companies which are now
lighting the Seattle uniomnen and
denying them the increase demand
ed are the very ones which have a
strangle hold upon Alaska. When
When they raise their rates they do
not ask you as much as by your
leave, but state that the rates will
be so much and pay it you must.
They can do that because they have
a strangle hold on the trade of the
country, and because they know
they have it. Notwithstanding the
measure in which the rates have
been increased, no such increase
has been allowed the longshoremen
of Seattle—men who follow a pe
culiarly strenuous labor which only
the very strongest can stand for any
length of time.
When the editor of the P.-I. de
clared that the demands of the
longshoremen were excessive, the
editor of the Pacific Longshoremen
submitted a test and offered to pay
the wise writer in the Seattle pa
per $50 if he would last out a shift
of nine hours packing wheat in the
hold of a ship at the Centennial
Mills dock.
For that work the longshoremen
demand a $1.00 an hour over time.
The men go in the hold. Sacks
weighing either 150 or 230 pounds
are sent down to a table by means
of a chute fed from an electric con
veyor. The run of sacks upon the
table never ceases; the longshore
men grab it on their shoulder and
stow the sacks oftener than not
on the dead run until winging out
circumscribes the space. Only the
youngest, strongest and most vigor
ous can stand it. The men strip to
their under-wear and even at that
are sweating through the coating
of chafing dust that tries their
nerves, just as much as the con
stant weight.
It is needless to say that the edi
tor of the Post Intelligencer could
not tackle the work, and mighty
few of the fighting men on his staff
would stand the graft for any length
of time.
It is entertaining to hear those
soft paunched flabby handed sons
of ease who adorn the Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce denounce the idea
that the longshoremen be paid rea
sonable wages or maintain their or
ganization by unionization of the
Job. Not a one .of those members
would stand the work for any
length of time, and without the
work their snaps and their sinecures
would go aglimraering.
But to get back to Wappy. In
Seattle is an industrial war. That’s
jutt as real as any war in Europe.
The employers know that, and they
have their gunmen and thugs orga
nized for that purpose. The record
of the men makes them desirable
and the more infamous have been
the records the better they are ap
proved.
Take this man Wappenstein. In
all God's creation has there ever
crawled a more loathsome leper?
Living off the product of depravity
in its most degrading and degraded
forms, battening upon the offal of
corruption that gangrened the civic
flesh of Seattle during the term of
his office, and to whom vice the
more heinous it was, the more lusci
ous it tasted to this rapacious harpy
-—what could be more natural than
this graduate of I’inkertonism
should now be chosen to assail the
efforts of the longshoremen to bet
ter their conditsion? He is not like
ly to be deterred by any inner mis
givings from any infamous acts. The
man with a record like his, is not
likely to be the one to stop at any
criminal act after crime has been
his partner and his profit all his
life.
And how about the men who use
him? How about those high sound
ing speakers who denounce and vili
fy and slander the workers because
they have the audacity to demand
their rights like men?
Wappy is their tool and the tools
appropriately enough in this in
stance are to the men who use
them. Judge, them therefore by
their acts, and what are we to think
of their social morality, they, who
talk of so gibly of law and order,
when they can ring in injunctions
and thugs and criminals and ex-con
victs to suppress the lawful de
mands of the men who labor, to bet
ter their condition?
The Industrial Worker is with
the longshoremen in this struggle.
There is no question as to the right
of their struggle. We see no reason
why anyway, the transportation
companies can impose what rates
they will upon the people of this
country who pay the freight and
the workers can not impose? what
demands for wages they want from
the transporation company just as
arbitarily. They do the work. It is
not the coupon clipping bond hold
er that keeps Alaska supplied with
freight. It is the dock workers,
the sailors, the firemen and we only
regret in this struggle that the long
shoremen and sailors have not made
common cause and the fight of one
the fight of the other. That’s the
only way to win. That is the only
tiling that will remove the scabs
and the gunmen and the Wappys
from their position and make the
jobs tolerable.
There' is no good valid reason why
if capital can dictate terms under
which the workers labor, labor
should not organize and do the dic
tating instead. It would be a better
world if there w$re no dictating; if
there were an industrial democracy
administered by the active workers
of brain and hand for the active
workers of brain and hand. But
just as long as there is an exploit
ing and just as long as there is an
exploited class, so long will there
be persons who will dictate.
That is why all workers have a
common interest as workers, and
that iB why the fight of one and
the victory or the injury of one is
the concern of all. It means just
as much to the sailors as the long
shoremen that the latter win their
fight, and they should see that the
latter are aided in no mistaken way
and not with mere sympathy
either.
That is the only way. For in this
class struggle it is all a question
of solidarity. The business inter
ests of Seattle stand behind the em
ployers on the water front. They
speak in no uncertain terms in the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
Their solidarity is no myth and
without that same kind of solidari
ty among all working classes, our
struggles however just, however
worthy however bravely conducted
are doomed to defeat.
The workers anywhere need not
peddle to themselves. The just
cause just because it is a just cause,
wins no battles. In the class struggle
the Almighty still fights on the side
of the biggest battalions, still sup
ports the cause manifesting the
most earnest solidarity. Economic
might against economic might is
the only way to win, and until the
workers act together and fight to
gether regardless of craft distinc
tions they will go down in defeat.
The Seattle men are putting up a
noble fight. They have had to fight
against foes which are unscrupulous
and enormously wealthy. They are
fighting against foes who have been
tasting of the fruits of enormous
and unusual profits, laden and
prideful with their loot of the na
tional and the Alaskan commerce.
They face a campaign of vilification
and slander, and they dare to be
still brave of heart and with cour
age as determined as ever.
They deserve the support of the
people of Alaska. They are the peo
ple who have labored to up-build
this territory just as much as those
who labored in the territory itself.
It is the labor of all that contri
butes to the national well being
and without labor there would be
no development any where, at any
time.
WHEN IN TOWN
Drop into the
MERCHANTS CAFE.
The Home of Good Eats.
CITY BATH HOUSE.
Moonlight Spring Water. (Boll
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Next door to Pacific Cold
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OVERSTOCK ED
To the Public: —
We have jiuit finished stock tak
ing, and find that we are heavily |
overstocked so are making enorm- :
ous reductions in Hardware—as ,
much as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out- ;
side, especially in Hardware and ,
Metal Goods, we are still selling on !
the basis of goods purchased tne !
past two or three years. .
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until |
we bring our stock down to the re
quirements of the Camp. ,
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; we can save you
money. We have proved it oo
others, we can prove it to you.
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