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Nome, Alaska, June
”!l. 1017.
THE STKIKK IN BUTTE.
The most important fact about
the strike in Butte is nol that there
is a strike in that mighty center ot
topper production, but the fact that
already the copper magnates are
skilfully using the war as an argu
ment for its suppression. They are
demanding that the copper produc
tion of the country be not curtailed
or in any way jeopardized by this
strike continuing, and for that rea
son the government Is justilied in
making the strikers go back to
work. Not in exactly that language
has this been urged, but much
more subtly and for the same pur
pose.
Apparently by a good many it is
taken for granted that the constitu
tional rights are all suspended in
war time, and that involuntary serv
itude in the industries can he en
forced. Neither the President not
Congress can compel any such ser
vice, but because war is on, it is
believed that the workers may be
compelled to submit to any condi
tion however arbitary.
it is quite another thing with re
gard to settling the strike. If the
country needs copper, as it undoubt
edly does, government can by the
right of eminent domain take and
hold the copper mines and put the
miners to work under conditions
which the private owners have re
fused to concede.
It would ceratinly be a splendid
thing for severe exploiters of laboi
if the war could be safely used as a
pretext for tightening the screws
upon labor and then when the work
ers began to squirm and rebel
against employers, the authorities
were to be used to keep them at
■work. That apparently is the idea
in Butte and likely enough we will
hear more about it as time goes on.
For some reason or another it is
taken for granted that it is correct
and right that employers should >x
ad the uttermost limits of profits
during wartime, while employees
being loyal and patriot'c should sub
mit to any conditions that employ
ers wished to impose.
V Furthermore when a strike <»■
curs we hear all kinds of reports
that if is fomented by (b rman
agents and thus efforts tire raid.; to
alienate all sympathy against the
workers. These foul and purposel}
misrepresenting reports should bt
followed up and traced to theii
source and the evidence that ihey
were published for the purpose ot
•diBcreditting the strikers given
*9very publicity.
Now in Butte these reports were
the first thing sent out from the
copper mines. It was fomented by
pro-Germans, by radical Irish, by
Finns with Teuton loaning and so
forth, all obviously intended to
cloak the actual conditions which
should have driven to strikes long
ago.
In Butt a the copper corporations
have been an industrial auto racy
ever since Butte Miners Union No
i was disrupted. They instituted
.all kinds of represive measure:
against the workers; they prac
ticed a ruthless black listing of all
active unionists, and they .iterallv
made their employees serfs of th<
industry.
Whether there was a war or not,
a strike in Butte might have beer,
foreseen as eventually inevitable
Indeed it has already been foretold
months ago and long before there
was even a thought about war. The
idea that it was fomented by in^n
with Germanist sympathies is pre
posterous to anyone familiar with
conditions in the camp; but it is
supposed now with war on with
Germany that this report will en
able the corporations to supprets
the strike forcibly and with the
governmental aid, as if the cons'i
tation In wartime were actually
suppressed.
That it is not in this period ve
can refer to a decision of the Fu
preme Court wherein the
question is finally disposed of and
that emphatically by the justice
who rendered the decision.
TFHKOItlSM.
Alter having had all kinds of bad
link in educating its witnesses the
prosecution in the Mooney case is
obliged to depend no longer upon
the testimony of men or women
whose veracity could be impugned,
but now seeks to direct attention
to the unionist activities of the de
fendants who are to be punished at
the instance of Attorney Fiekert
and the gang.
Itight from tlie very start that
was the contention of the defense,
it was known that the Mooneys
that Billings and the rest had no
hand in the bomb plot, but they
were active in unionist circles. They
were “agitators”, they had been ac
tive in aiding a strike against some
of the most powerful interests in
San Francisco; they had been iden
tified conspicuously with the effort
which organized labor had been
making to have San Francisco a
union city.
In opposition to this, powerful |
and dominating interests have |
striven with might and main. They
have contributed with prodigal libe
rality to a fund to fight unionism
and between labor and the capi
talists there has been a fight pro
ceeding with varying degrees of in
tensity for a number of years.
To strike a blow at those active
in union circles, these prosecutions
have been brought about: they have
been brought about with a wealth of
corruption that even the little
glimpse behind the scenes that the
public has been privileged to notice
staggers the imagination.
Sex degenerates, dope fiends,
plain crooks, prostitutes, perjurers
and professional jurors have* been
rushed to the front to battle for
the anti-unionists and now when
the defense has lifted the veil from
this ungodly scheming, the prose
cution deliberately exposes the real
animus of the persecution. Its al
leged conspiracy of terrorism opens
up as merely unionist activity and
the fact that some of the defend
ants were active in strikes aga'nst
certain corporations whose obedient
tools now enjoy office.
It would be impossible to imagine
anything more sickening than that
unprincipled ones swor.ii to uphold
the law should drag it in the mid
of corruption.
ALASKA FOOD FISH.
Itight now when the senators
and congressmen are being al
worked up over the necessity fot
food control and food conservation
—for increased production of food
for the nations, it certainly is in
order to direct attention to the food
fish of Alaska.
With a moderate expenditure for
equipment and labor, the waters,
adjacent to Nome can produce suffi
dent food fish to sustain the nation
as far as its fish needs are dtneern
ed for at least twelve months, by a
short season’s fishing. Every stream
in this section is prolific in sal
mon. salmon trout, greyling and
white fish. A superabundance of
herring simply wastes itself in the
waters of Bering Sea. The quantity
available is far more than the en
tire country could use in twelve
months--and it is prcactically and
to all intents and purposes entirely
neglected. The salmon kill them
selves in the streams and all that is
put up is saved for dog feed. The
efforts to utilize the herring^ are so
puny as to be negligible. Yet the
shoals of these fine food fishes that
crowd the local waters would shame
a capacity catch olf the western
coast of Europe which practically
feeds the world.
Further south too. vast cod fish
ing grounds exist which have hardly
even been touched and these, good
authorities say rival the famous
and inexhaustible banks of New
foundland.
While outside extraordinary ef
forts are being made to increase the
food supply here this vast field is
simply ignored. It would he hard
to imagine anything that would aid
in bringing an ample and valuable
food in vast quantities to the people
than by the government establish
ing fishing stations in this section
where the great supply could be xe
ploited. Yet while millions are
spent advertising the food needs of
the country and in planting food
crops in every section, here is a
valuable resource which with half
that expenditure would produce
millions of tons of a food that is as
wholesome as it is valuable and
wholly neglected.
THU CASK. OF BORIS REINSTEIN
Boris Reinstein is an American ci
tizen of Russian birth. He was
formerly a Russian revolutionist but
fleeing from the land of the Tzar
he came to the 1'nited States and
since ISfiT has been a citizen ot
this republic.
When the revolution to which he
had given the finest years of his
life had finally been accomplished,
nothing could be more natural than
that the heart of the man should
yearn to return to his native land
to witness the success of that to
which his youth and his manhood
had been devoted. A lovet of liberty
his would be the pleasant task to
witness the conquest of his native
land by Freedom at long last.
So Reinstein procured a passport
intending to sail. But he never got
there. He went to the post office
in New York to get his mail, and
he was detained by a clerk under
the pretense of getting him a letter.
What was apparently being done
was that the clerk was notifying
the secret police of his presence
there. They grabbed him, took
from him his papers including his
passport. They took him to their
office and plied him with questions
the principal of which were con
cerning his attitude on a separate
peace and his probable policy in
Russia towards Elihu Root.
He told them that he was as
much opposed to Kaiserism as to
Tzarism. As far as Root wa6 con
cerned he said, it was not for him to
tell the Russian people what to do,
but that in common with millions
in this country he regarded Root as
the enemy of real democratic insti
tutions. Reinstein said he failed to
see what his opinion of Root had to
do with his visit to Russia.
Apparently the secret police did
attach importance to it, for his pa
pers were all returned except the
invaluable passport without which
he could not leave.
The incident appears trivival in
itself, but as a New York paper says
it opens up a new chapter in the
history of the United States.
That it should be necessary to
take these precautions against
those who opposed Root in this
country, and they are literally mil
lions who regard him as the arch
reactionist of all reactionaries,
tends to show that there is even
in high places same fears as to his
brand of democracy being popular
>r not in Russia.
VILLAGE WASHED OUT
WHEN DAM DURST
BAKKR, Oregon, June 28.—A
Rock creek village was wiped out
of existence today when the dam
leading to the lake hurst. The flood
of waters engulfed thousands of
acres of farm lands all in crops
and these have become practically a
total loss and many of the ranch
era are ruined.
As far as can be known, H ere
were no fatalities from the ace.dent
although only timeiy notice ot the
defective dam giving way saved
hundreds of people. A large (juan
t tv of live stock was destroyed in
the rushing waters.
ELGIN, ILL, ASPIRES
BECOME MODEL CITY
ELGIN, 111.. June 23.—This city,
a suburb of Chicago with 30,000
inhabitants aspires to become the
model city of the United States.
Plans along that line are being
drawn by E. 11. Bennett of the
Chicago City Plan Commission.
Even now it has no slums or tene
ments and its workmen are all
C. L. Ross
Lumber
Milling
Contractor
PHONE It LACK 1«2.
3rd and It St.
Why worry
About wash day
THAT’S OUR BUSINESS.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
BOSTON
STEAM LAUNDRY
444 Front St. Phone Main 53
skilled and artistically inclined.
Commission government, a per
fect bouleward, park and play
ground and civic center system, in
dustrial and residential housing, no
smoke, dual transportation and
traffic regulations are a few of the
things on tap.
Anything in the live oI Jot) wort j
at the Industrial Worker Office
Satisfaction assured.
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