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Nome, Alaska, June 8. 1917.
ALMOST ANCIKNT HISTORY.
After tlie talk of war. rumors ol
war, draft and anti-conscription
one comes suddenly upon this resolu
tion of Miss Jeanette Rankin author
ir.ing the suffrage amendment to tlie
constitution.
It is almost as refreshing in
those days of over worked military
stienuosity to see such a resolution
introduced, as to meet an old and
permanent friend.
1 brings back the days ol hunger
strikes and window smashing and
Panhursts and the like with all the
mellow sweetness of the memory ol
the past.
It ,'iad almost been forgotten that
there were some women wanted
suffrage. It was almost impressed
upon the people that all the nation
could think about was the war, and
the draft and the food control and
the speculation in war stocks and
the "liberty loan”. It makes one
inhumanly antiquated to imagine
that t.'iere are any persons who
have time for a solitary idea beyond
the drives, and the pushes and the
lunges and the counters and the re
volts and the divers and the em
bargoes.
Time was when men anil women
wore accustomed to open the morn
ing paper and feed their appetite
for the sensational with the marches
of the suffrage aitnies, the attacks
upon police, the forcible feeding
and the window smashing devices
of tiie militants. But those were
the callow days when the human
mind had not been cloyed by the
sensational and before nothing sa
tisfied but windrows of dead and
mutilation atrocities that stimulate
the imagination and excite the
gorge of man these days.
Those were the days before hu
man beings could appreciate the
more cultured delights of the red
arena where men tore one another
to pieces like wild beasts and the
masses looked on where they were
not fighting in a frenzy of excited
exultation or dismay.
Votes for Women—is it possible
in these martial days that one has
time for the consideration of any
such a topic. Or is it a recess in
the excitement of the time that fed
to repletion with the butchery and
tiie slaughter, the gorged mind
turns to the philosophy of harm
less nolitics and for relief considers
this most simple of political ques
tion as it were an interlude in the
fearful pleasure of the mighty
drama ol the war.
KOitB’S SUBSCRIPTION.
Henry Ford, up-lifter, welfare
worker and millionaire, has sub
scribed hve millions to the govern
ment loan. That is quite a pile oi
money. A lew years ago he had
nothing. See. says Teacher, what a
man who applies himself to liis|
work can do, and now little Willie
say your prayers and when you
grow up (o be a big man you will
also do as .Mr. Ford, God bless him, ‘
does, and you will also he able to
subscribe five million dollars to the
liberty loan. Amen.
Five million dollars—it would!
take a wage worker a mighty long
time and with the ages of many I
Motjnisalen'.s to accumulate that j
sum. l
It came to Henry Ford through his|
ownership of an auto plant wherein ]
he could employ many men. He had j
a commodity which was in demand J
That commodity represented a cer
tain amount of rawr material, that i
raw material was worked up by la-:
bor and machinery into a certain j
device which was wanted by the1
public. Tno total cost of the wear
and tear of the machinery, of the
raw material and tlie wages paid j
were less than the value of the ar
ticle as sold. The excess represented I
excess and unpaid labor in the com-1
modlty, but througn the ownership1
of the machinery Ford was able to
annex that excess labor over what
was paid tor in the form of wages,
and th» e tress values he produced
and realized lie called profits.
He became a millionaire because
lie had labor produce in his factory
more values than was needed to
pay labor the daily wage. And that
is how all employers make money.
Through each employee’s labor,
over an above the wages, they make
a certain amount of money which
are the profits of the undertaking.
Only those who own tlie land, the
machinery or tlie factories or the
capital in other words, can do this.
Moreover they all do not make as
much as, although some do make
more t'ian does Ford. Ford simply
drives labor to a speedier pace and
makes it more efficient, "takes more
out of labor", than does the other
fellow, even though Ford pays
higher wages than the other fellow.
The articles Ford makes are ra
pidly consumed. His turn over is
Quick and certain. The labor em
ployed is constantly and accurately
profitable and that is all. Hence lie
can subscribe liberally to liberty
loans. It is significant however
that this comes from the surplus
values produced by labor over what
labor bid to produce to pay itself
wages. In other words instead ot
paying ft to labor Ford, like a first
class tSteward of the Almighty un
tier capitalism, paid himself.
It is (he system.
NTIIIHIXG TI.MKS.
Beyond any doubt the I rcsent
epoch is the most stirring in more
than a century. When in the quiet
Austrian town of Sarajevo an Aus
trian Crown I’rinre was bombed bv
conspirators, it did not Immediately
occur to any reporting the incident
tint here was an explosion that was
to involve the universe. Yet un
questionably so it was, and today
■ one ol‘ those who began the war
can very clearly see its ending.
When the story of this war comes
to be written it will be written in
two sections. That period dealing
with the war for the original pur
poses of its inception, and the war
when it passed for beyond the do
main of its original purpose and in
volved in strange ways, strange na
tions and, those nations originally
engaged in a manner totally unfore
seen.
Almost every day we hear ot
some new development in some sec
tion of the war zone, in neutral
countries or in countries wherein
no such turmoil could have been
expected and the later developments
are coming on with quickening ra
pidity that in many ways over
shadow the simple facts of the fight
ing.
Above all and before all looms
large this tremendous revolution in
Russia, with its uncertain develop
ments and its evident attempt to
give proletarian expression to the
loathing of the masses at the in
justice and the sordidness of it all.
In peaceful realms like Sweden we
find forceful demonstrations against I
royalty and against imperialism and
against class domination by
class. In Germany are bread riots
and May Day disturbances. The 1
Austrian capital is stirred by de- !
monstrations of the workers against ,
the continuance of the war and are
unsuppfessed. In Spain general
strikes and social disturbances of a
revolutionary cast are reported de
spite the effort to conceal the real
conditions. In France ther is a
marked uncertainty and cabinet
changes follow proletarian protests.
In Great Britain the Premier pro
mises to soothe a growing discon
tent. In Ireland only force suppres
ses insurrection. In Australia the
masses reject conscription with in
iignation and the votes of the very
soldiers in the trenches turn nown
lie proposal to the astonishment ot
government. These are little facts
that leak out notwithstanding the
caulking of the censor, and we may
well understand that the real facts
are much more ominous and occa
sion much graver concern.
There is not a single power in
this war or out of it, can tell what
is going to happen before normality
returns again. The visions of world
conquest, of peaceful trading and
of international rivalry and com
mercial alliances in view of these
facts are becoming visions merely.
Remote, they i',re, and elusive and
uncertain.
The wealth of the world so easily
made use of by those who owned
the world, is now being threatened
by its producers. Those who have
been so long the pawns of every
imperialist, crowned or uncrowned,
those who have been the handy mi
nions of ambition and social power,
are throwing off the yolk or are
questioning its right to exist.
The passing of the Tzar marked
much more than the passing of an
emperor. It is too late to find a sub
stitute. In vain men declare that
the people must have rulers, the
people have begun to question the
necessity themselves.
Socialist, anarchist, conservative,
liberal, autocrat and imperialist—
all are academic things facing a
realistic world which is not to be
moved by formula. The creatures
of the machine are molded to its
image and insist that the unneeces
sary he eliminated. The packers of
burdens are asking why they must
pack them, not of those who insist
ed upon placing it upon their backs
but of themselves. The hewers ot
wood and the drawers of waters
who plentifully supplied those who
neither toiled nor span are now
wondering why they should hew for
I any but themselves, or satisfy the
thirst of any save those who In
turn minister to their wants.
It is apparent that against this
revolutionary tendency something
stronger than parchments and some
thing mbre indestructible than
scraps of paper are requisite. It is
apparent that the impetus that
starts a revolution is possessed of a
momentum that will carry it far
beyond the point originally intend
ed by its promoters.
No person is insane enough to
imagine surely that the Slavic races
will establish an industrial demo
cracy and live in peace without con
taminating the Mood and iron
neighbors who have built them
selves an autocracy or an industrial
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despotism. Quite otherwise indeed!
And for that reason is the future
so uncertain and the present so
stirring. Likely enough it will pre
sently be much more strenuous and
the stir will be universal.
THE FIRST FLEET.
Quite soon now the first boats
will arrive and the chechacoes will
be with us. That as many will not
arrive as in former years is likely
correct. But none the less, the
workers here should make an espe
cial effort to reach those who do
corne so that the organizations of
labor in this community may be
properly strengthened. The main
thing for the workers just now as
ever is organization. It is essen
tial that this year an especial effort
should be made to secure the co
operation of all workers, so that
they may be stronger than ever
upon the economical field.
It is true that most of those ar
riving are likely to think more ot
securing a job than of organizing,
but if properly reached they can
be shown that the immediate inter
ests which they have, even on the
job, can be best protected and main
tained through labor solidarity that
is to be achieved by organization.
Outside labor organizations have
made greater progress within the
past six months than, relatively
speaking, in the past six years be
fore.
This is because the importance ot |
organization in these times is more J
readily recognized than ever, and
the vital necessity of the workers
having some means of up-holding
their interests and protecting them
selves is more clearly seen than
ever before. For that reason tiu
work of organization this year lo
cally ought to be the harder pres
sed and ought also to be more easv
SPRING TIME IS HERE
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We do cleaning, pressing and re
paring for ladies and gentlemen.
We make suits to order.
First class workmanship, modern
method and prompt service.
We appreciate your patronage.
Yours to pleaes
NOME TAILORING CO.
Next door to Segerstrom & Hagen.
Anything In the Hue of Job work
at the Industrial Worker Office
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