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Mr Nome Mine Worker*' Union, No. S40, Western Federation of Miner*.
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“To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
aearly s possible. Is a worthy object of any good government."—
Mjracam Lincoln
ruin -.s !l Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
How :‘1J Ncuie, Alaska. Phone, Black IS*.
Monte. Alaska, December 4, 11)10.
i •-consirruTio.N.vi.
Jude- 'u : i of the Fourth JucU
i .1 Division after hurr.ing the
midnight oil. aft r the midnight sun
\ . lowii, has been able to discover
• :\tw : Ilf - ie:;» in the eight hour
law which would justify him in de
< laring it invalid.
It is no use u layman discussing
the relative merits of a judicial decl
:■ ion. These later day judges have
a iieologian of the middle ages v.hoj
ttsed to write volumes as to the
number of angels could stand on top
of the head of a pin, beaten a city
block when it comes to splitting
hairs, and the only interesting t'e i
rur ■ of the. matter is that the suc
cessful tiair splitting on the bench
is generally performed when some
labor law is to be thrown out.
All of which tends to show the
workers that not in legislatures, not
in courts or ermined justices but in
themselves must they look for labor
reforms. They can only do these
things through their labor organiza
tions, and when they do it there, it
is final: absolutely final.
If the workers make up their
minds that eight hours is long
enough to work and will only work
eight hours, and they have achieved
sufficient economic solidaritv to do !
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so, what judge can declare their act
unconstitutional! He has to be ap- j
pointed and he lias to be appointed !
from supernatural material th^t now j
does nor manifest itself upon
ear tn.
These decisions ■' like Bunnell's, j
these foolishly drawn up laws which j
the Bunnells tear up so easily,!
serve to show the worker that such j
scraps of paper are just scraps of j
paper and no more, when the eco
nomic power behind the legislators
and the judges will have them so
act. But when a labor organization j
exerting its economic might and j
through the legislation enacted in j
the Union Hall. passes its eight;
hour law, there is a cast iron code
that all the judges from hell to j
breakfast cannot tear with their long
lean claws, try they ever so hard.
And it is up to the workers them
selves. If they will only organize !
the latent power of U.ihor through
the solidarity comes from industrial )
organization. they can have their
eight hour lawr neither legislature
nor court can affect. It will be per
manent. Nay, the eight hour day
would in itself be merely a beginn
ing in the endless possibilities that
open up like a golden vista to the
workers, should they resolve to ma
terialize that enormous and uncon
querable power which may be theirs. |
There’s no law enacted which pre- ! i
< "dent cannot be found to smash to I
pit ces if the economic power says to i
the judges that it so wills. One 1
can take the decisions of the Su- I
promo Court and realize this com- <
pletely. The Supreme Court was all i
for slavery when slave holding was i
the chief power, and all the other '
way about when the abolitionists ;
finally dethroned that power. There
is an acid truth in that declaration t
of “Mr. Dooley” that the Supreme <
Court follows the elections, as ap 1
plied to all courts. They follow the 1
-dictates of the economic power. c
The economic power is not with 1
labor. It never has been and will c
never be until labor intelligently or- t
ganizes itself, intelligently masses c
the individual power for social pur- t
poses and renders itself then the a
supreme power in the economlo a
world. It will be then goodby the £
paper solons with their paper laws, S
and paper judges with their paper v
decisions. The joker, that helpmeet v
of the political crook, will be rele
gated for ever and a day to the
limbo of things that have been.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
Those who make a metaphysics of 1
evolution have come to the conclu
sion that before socialism can be
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ment ownership, hence every yap in
the country thinks because the gov
ernments a;' Europe have taken over
the mines, the mills, the munition
works, the railroads, and so forth,
that all that is socialistic. But no
thing could be further from the
mark. In point of fact there has
been only a change of ownership.
There is still private property in the
roads, or if not in the roads in the
government bonds which are the ca
pital now operating them.
They have had government owned
Post Offices, telegraphs, railroads
and even mines all over the world
for many decades, but there was no
such thing as socialism. The owner
ship in fact is nominal, and the gov
ernment had to earn Interest upon
the bonds which kept the railroads
or other governmental activity go
ing.
In fact the private owner could
have nothing more desirable than
that the government should take
over his mines or his railroads or
his shops. The government gives
the private individual a price which
is secured by bonds and which the
former owner himself receives. The
interest then is paid, and not paid
uncertainly but positively. The
government is behind the interest,
and it will be paid whether industry
is brisk or whether it is very dull.
When the Marconi people in Great
Britain found that their radio busi
ness was trot paying very well, the
government nought it and made the
Marconi shareholders happy ever
afterwards because those sharehold
ers held British government bonds
whose golden interest never failed,
whether there were few or many
radios flashed around the country.
Just now American railroads are
regulated as to rates. But the time
is coming when their profits will be
not quite so considerable as they are
today when they are literally pheno
menal. When an industrial depres
sion occurs and the water, just now
muddy with golden concentrates of
profits, manifests itself a little more
clearly in the stocks and bonds, a
very slight agitation will be suffici
ent to get the government to buy
3Ut the railroads It will not meet
with such angry opposition as may
he expected. Such a policy was
hinted at by the late J. P. Morgan
ts “being possibly eventually advis
ee". After injecting all the water
lie roads would bear, he should
worry about government ownership.
-NOT WAIIUKK.
Professor Gustav Steffen is one of
he pre-eminent socialists of
Jweden. He can write as learnedly
ij>oii value, price and profit as
vautsky or as Vandervelde. But
ike them also he is a jingoist. He
alls himself a supporter of an ac
ivist policy, and a resolution by him
aused almost intervention in the
var upon the part of Sweden in alli
nce with the Central Powers.
Now the Professor has been laid
o political rest. At the October
lections he sought his place in the
tiksdag and got left. He was op
oscd by a socialist who is also a
etermined neutralist, who would
eep out of war on any side at all
osts, and his opponent landed on
op by a majority of almost ten to
ne although the royalist voters
urned to support the Professor with
n accord never before seen when
so-called socialist was running,
weden does not want war, and
weden has no use for the socialist
'hether he is a professor or not
ho wants war. Good for them!
EXCITED BANKERS.
When the American bankers held
leir convention in Kansas City,
tey discussed many things. And
le of the things they didn’t like,
id about which they denounced a
hole lot, were the Savings Banks
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started by the government. Thej
objected to the government pushing
its trade In the banking line and
they especially objected to the issu
ance of a card which solicited bus
iness from savers for the govern
ment banks because “they were ab
solutely safe”. They thought that
‘was a slur upon private institutions,
as if they too were not absolutely
safe.
When they had finished their de
nouncing they wound up on tjie sav
ings hank proposition by an appeal
to agitate thrift among the people
And the very man who kicked like
a young steer about the government
pushing its savings business said
that th.e only thing that could sa\c
the republic was that rich and pool
should cut out extravagance an I
practice thrift through saving. Sav
ing he said was the most valuable
attribute a nation could possess, but
he feared that it would never be
brought about until adverse condi
tions had forced it upon the people,
And he eitcid France as the country
where thrift had become the great
national virtue because they had
known hard times.
Now that speaker, you.see. know?
thrift is good, but only when done
with private banks. To save, ant:
save through the Post Office savings
banks, in his estimation is a high
crime and misdemeanor.
However let us seriously consider
this saving business. The main
trouble with it is that the most of
tts get nothing to save. When food,
clothing and shelter are paid off and
a trip made to the motion picture
show or to tiiis little entertainment
or that., there is nothing left of the
weekly pay check. And there are
very many who have no pay check
at all.
What the bankers propose is that
the people practice thrift by denying
themselves the necessaries of life,
deposit it in the banks, so that it
can be loaned out at profitable inter
est. The bankers dont need to save,
and while they have been making
money because the laborer's wife
kills herself doing the washing, ana
bakes the bread instead of patron
izing baker and laundrvnian, the
bankers ride around in their autos
and have their cabaret dinners and
a very pleasant life indeed.
The greatest art of the world is
to let the other fellow do it especial
ly in the matter of wealth produc
tion, and the next great art is to
] extract it from .the other fellow after
he has produced it. Some do it by
booze, some by dangling other flesh
ly attractions, and yet again others
by preaching “thrift”, thrift that
once upon a time made the funeral
baked meats coldly furnish forth the
marriage table of the widow when
she became enamored of her dead
husband’s brother.
Andrew Carnegie said that the
greatest discovery of his life was
when he found that he would never
get rich working for somebody else.
Seme of us must work for someone
else. And we cannot all be Carnegies
But the workers have listened to
. this guff about thrift and saving sc
; long that they think they can be
come Rockefellers by living on beans
and patching their oldest pair of
! overalls so that it looks like Joseph’s
coat after that ancient garment had
j been bleached by the Arab sun for
many days. They get millionaire
' heads on working men’s shoulders,
and in consequence they hoard their
lPttle pennies for the benefit of the
other fellow. There is a thrift, a
co-operative thrift they might prac
tise. They migiit hoard their indi
vidual strength, their economic
power as individuals, bank it with
that of hundreds of others in their
labor unions, and they too would
soon he on easy street, for they
I could then dictate terms to all the
financial and industrial kings in all
the world. Careful of their pennies,
they are spend-thrift of the very es
sence of their real power and
squander it altogether: their eco
nomic power.
EAGLES TAKE NOTICE.
The Annual Election of Officers for
! the ensuing term will be held on next
Tuesday night, Dec. 5, 1916.
W. M. EDDY, Sect’y.
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PROFESSIONAL CARD.
Dr. A. F. Heimlich
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