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Nome. Alaska, April IS, 11*1(1.
In an Anchorage paper which is
much concerned, with perfect since
rity we have no douht, for the wel
fare of the workers, we notice that
the Engineering Commission is be
ing berated because of the employ
ment of so-called Bohunks. 1 he
term is used with tin evident a
tempt to slur the men who aro em
ployed by reason of their nationality,
and the feeling is without doubt a
reflection of a sentiment prevails
among the workers themselves who
dislike tlie appearance of foreigners
among them, especially that class ot J
foreign- rs who are so termed ,
Bohunks.
That is travelling the wrong road ,
entirely. Apart altogether from the
insulting slur intended in the use of
the nr mo, it has to he pointed out j
that the workers who attempt to
make little of tholr follow workers
ot any nationality whatsoever by
reason of that nationality aro simply ■
guilty of acting is a suicidal man
ner, and not for their own benefit at:
all, but for the benefit of the em
ploying class
Anything Ur t tends to keep the
workers r.iuirt, it is inir'JiLcriti!
whether it h race or color or creed
prejudice tho:" thing’- tract against ;
the workers themselves ard rooneT i
or later they realize their mistake. I
It may bo quite true that 1 T.ny ol ;
mm J
iutollo timl'y. -morally slid mentally.
It may be quite true that, they have
1, >-n re a- torn 1 to accept a licit
- :.drrd of. living in the I'it if i
ill..;] have these men, blit f':
sill that there ”■ no re:t ■< > v.hy in ■
, i(] r.ro amczed at th ir own nlc
;u,i,iy should : . f; r forgot t i
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, -i-4 between tin m a d. other: an
i.-t their tongues rr.ttic in im- i.li :e
• ■ l c..:it--.n»:>tnous epithet, a- -i
Even among the American wo:-,
i rs there are wide distinctions. d:
tine.tions in ^tilelllgf-nce rs wide and
deep as that which wodgy botwcu,
the Americans and the so-called
bohunks and yet, it is quite obvioim.
thst to further tho interest': ol a.,
there must be an organization of all,
so that the strength -1 to
that of the other, .. rally
speaking, may result in a massed
strength greater that), is possessed in
either.
It is certainly true, and experi
ence in American industry liar
shown it conclusively that tho only
sensible course to pursue Is to wel
come the “bohunk” and make him
a unionman. He makes a good
union man, and it is a fact that when
the time of trouble comes he will j
not lie found wanting. Search the]
scab lists which are issued by orga
nizations and you will find just as
many Americans or others as you
will the men who are sneerlngly re
ferred to as Bohunks.
It was those same bohunks who
put up the memorable fight in the
Anthracite Coal Strike until they
wore eucherod out of the spoils ol
victory; it was those same men
fought so well in Colorado and
though they went down in defeat
established bettor living conditions
and higher standards than Amorican
miners had been able to obtain in
Colorado.
Tho declaration that those men
reduce the standard of living In Al
aska, work for loss than the estab
lished rate of pry and do not help
to build up the country as do the
rest may be all true. Doubtless is,
without any sort of quostlon, true.
Hut obviously th°n, it 13 the duty'of
Alaskan laborers net to wa3to their
time in fighting those who arrive to
work, but to endeavor by organiza
tion to got those who como, to fight
for the standard which has before
their arrival prevailed.
There U hardly a c&mp In the
world where the workers are not
pitted against tho perpetual struggle
of employers to get cheaper wage
workers and to lower the standard
of living and that the standard ot ,
living can he maintained is only
through the labor organizations.
Exclusion acts, immigration regu
lation, exclusion from labor organi
zations, closed shops all have been '
tried and all are more or loss in
effectual. Uhcy have been fairly well
weighed and found wanting. Here
or there an isolated case may crop
tip which gives to this or that pana
cea an apparent value that it does
not actually posses.
Fundamentally there is hut one
remedy and that is the organization
of all, and it is only because men
find the work of organization ex
tremely difficult and extremely slow,
that they grow discouraged and
seek some unnatural or artificial
means of combatting the evil which
they face with despair.
. We contend that a union's policy
should be broad and free as the air,
we contend that a working class
movement taking for its aim the
emancipation of the working classes
should recollect its aim is the abo
lition of (lasses always. It cannot
above all afford to treat any class
of tin in with disdain and contempt
and wholesale denunciation.
What firings these men to Alaska
is v\ • brings every mother’s son ot
us. It. is economic solely. We coma
hen j better our conditions and to
go! uvs;> from the fierce economic
ttv • :1. .■ : i - ■ ■- u;■ ■ -those out
side. That pressure outside is al
ways there; increasing always atm
driving always and extending its
; <rce in 11 dir ■ turns. It was ip-1
patriotic impulse to develop Ai
. !.a because Alaska was part of
America, nor with a view of mak
ing this land be worth raising the
'm clean flag over. Americans
at with- c'ltial interest and win
• ;nal enthusiasm to the Yukon
ips where the I’nion .Tack Heated.
..! many Americans will remem her
. ; Canadians referred ofem
vlrto t heir ehtry i.d o that court
■ in ike same contemptuous terms
tb i they now refer here to others.
This economic pressure that sub
'-■ tis all races of men is itself not
. ffocted by raee or creed. It can be
controlled by no Hag waving, and
is not amenable to denunciation ot
one class or another. No nation is
self contained and the people of no
nation are able to control and direct
(lie economic forces that arise from
a system of society is itself economi
cally international.
The struggle against any parti
cular class of workers is as vain as
the struggle against any introduc
tion of new machinery and should
become just as discredited. All
workers have' an identical interest
and no race of workers is compe
tent enough to work out its own
destiny without the help of those 01
other race or nationality. • At any
rate the wisest policy is always a
working alliance between the work
ers of all races so that they can
advance the cause also of all.
The Industrial system in tho United
States is in many respects quite
marvellous. Tho gigantic railroad
systems, its tremendous lumbering
industry, its mineral production, its
agricultural systems, its cannorios,
its steel manufacture, all of these
have evolved from relatively obscure
beginnings and are just now attain
ing a stature that makes Amorlcan
industry bid fair to become the Col
losus of the world.
That industry has been erected
upon imported labor not upon Am
erican labor which would have been
hopelessly insufficient for even a
tithe of It. Irish, Scandinavians,
Italians, Germans, Slavs—all the bo
hunks of a day in the Industrial
history of the country, have given
their lives to the establishment of
the Immense system of industry that
now exists.
Whatever be the effect of that
system upon the social life of the
people, at any rate its evolution to
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i stage wherein It Is adequate for
ill the people’s needs and wherein it
;an moot evory demand by socloty
lor the necessary requirements ot
life when properly administered and
undor a more reasonable system, is
lue to the bohunk labor of or.e de
•ade or another.
It has been accomplished only
iftor infinite sacrifice upon the part
sf labor and labor, without
doubt before it comes unto its own,
will yet have to make and infinite
sacrifices.
But the share taken in the up- '
building of the industrial system,
the development of the productive J
capacity of the nation as a nation,
has been liberally taken by laboi
that came with a lower standard of
living and rose however to what had
always been its ambition foe a
higher..
Besides there is no reason why
the bohunk should be so despised.
He is not so easily exploited as most
people think. Export opinion on
the railroads especially in construc
tion work refuses to any longer en
dorse Greek, Italian, Slav labor un
less where no other can bo secures.
The so-called more advanced races
are easier to be led, can be compell
ed to a more quickened pace %n-d
obey more promptly than the rest.
They will fight among one another
to discover which set of men will
get the car filled first or the greatest
number dumped. They will struggle
like Trojans to burn out their com
patriots in the interest of the em
ployer, and gang can ho pitted
against gang so that one does its
best to out-do the other—.without
any increase in wages. They a;s’t
higher wages of course, but they
also produce more anil the relative
: degree of exploitation is greater
!among them than among the de
jspised bohunk. The lattor are not so
foolish as they look. It takes a.
'good intelligent slave tc bo willing
j to kill himself for a boss's smile and
i to perform an additional ten dollars
I worth of work for a dime increase
in pay. You can’t fool the bohunks
ithat way. They may have a 37 1-3
| cent pay but they have no intention
I of being rushed into a 30 cont gait
because the boss divides them into
1 shifts and offers a dollar watch to
I the gang making the best record
(Again and again efficiency experts
j dwell upon the unwillingness of the
' bohunk labor (they call it that too)
to ap'd up along the lines they
! map out. They complain that if
they ;-r<> sp« ding up to a five dollar
gait they demand a five dollar pay,
rid then efficiency fails of its pur
i lb ry Ford employs finite a num
of them, but when Ford'.- auto
• w?i t beyo'u.l the ape- •: limit
h<
i; lit. ,
must be recoil oted ilia! most
of this class of labor comes to this
country with a totally differ, t idea
.■■a to I he value of money to that
uotr.ined by Americans. la the
c untry where they com from a
dollar has almost nnlimi' pur
| cht ing power, and it is tan. time
• in fere they realize that her it has
not.
One of them li-s cxplr: 1 the
disappointment experienced by the
.steel trust slaves when they at
i length realize that the dollar and a
! half a day is not so very high wages
| after all estimated in terms of its
purchasing power.
The trouble has been, we have to
repeat, that this class of labor has
been neglected. Where it came in
union men and especially craft
union men dropped out with a bitter
oath at the cheap class had taken
their place. They couldn't under
stand the language nor the ways nor
the wisdoms nor the thoughts of the
strangers. But the strangers came
to stay and to work out their own
salvation. The giant trusts that
have been built up throughout the
country are their work. • Their blood
reddens many a rock in many a rail
road cut and pieces of their flesh j
still cling in lingering rottenness in j
many a damp coal pit.
They are the sudra of modern |
capitalism. They have been the de- I
spised of all. They have been the i
men without caste and they have j
been driven to an Ishmaelite course ■
when they should have been receiv- j
ed as brethren.
The moral and mental stature like
the physical stature of all races is
purely relative. Thero are heights
attained by some who are considered
! the most degraded that others who
'are confident of superiority will
never reach.
1 There’s music in all men’s soults,
although the body looks uncouth
and ungainly. But all hearts arc
human hearts with human impulses
and human hopes and human fears
and human loves. The difference ;
between the highest and the lowest j
! is not spanless and certainly there
' are grades' of high and low between
S (-very race as even in the race itselt
which cannot be regarded unless
! with fatal results by the workers. ;
We have all got to live: white-j
'man. blackmail, yellowman, redman. j
Our antagonisms have helped not <
! our own selves at all. It is our mu- j
tual aid and assistance and inter
racial amenities that have helped
along over the rough spots. So u
was for one time and so it is for all
1 times. So it must be for the work
ers. They cannot afford to despise
any race. That is only playing the
bosses’ game. They would divide
and rule. If they can get the Am
erican fighting the Irish and the
Irish fighting the German and thc
Gorman fighting the Scandinavian
and the Scandinavian fighting the
Italian and the Italian fighting the
Greek and the Greek fighting the
Slav and the Slav fighting the Jap
and the Jap fighting the Chinaman,
they have-got the workcra dead t.>
rights. They can govern then with
out let or hindrance and can and do,
and will continue to, pit one class of
workers against another and keep
ing them divided upon the economic
field control that field absolutely
and without question.
That's the how and the why of it.
The hid Is off; but you will not
lie gambling if you take advantage
of that fact. firing real money
v. i:h you as chip' dont’ go. From
now on til! the time of stock taking
you can get two for one at Darling,
& Deans. You can buy a pick
for fifty cents— do you get it*
Bargains along all lines.— Adv.
Try Liver «v Kidney Ten for
Spring fever.
LOMMNS DKl'G STOKE.
Freight and passengers by dog
team.. . Bales .reasonable.. ..See
Dully, ne\t the Northern.
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