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VOCATIONAl. TRAINING.
These days people are not satis
fied with the systems of education
in vogue. They want it to be such
as will equip a youth who has pas
sed through the schools better lor
the struggle for existence. It is
all very well to learn Latin and
Creek and other languages, more or
less quickly forgotten., but they are
no aids to those who received them
in making a living.
Hence vocational training is
urged. Hence it is argued that it
is bettter to learn the use of tools
than to wrestle with Latin genders,
and to master a trade than to en
compass the mazes of the irregular
verbs in a dead language. So it is
urged that all these classics should
be relegated to the rear of recog
nized inutilities, and instead the
mind sharpened by and the hand
adapted to use of such means as
will benefit one m after life.
Certainly the. point is well taken
in one respect. Thus, there is no
no question that an electrical work
er gets more wages than the worker
who has no trade, and uses a pick
and shovel but indifferently, even
if he have a knowledge of the clas
sics at his fingers' ends.
Certainly also the skilled laborer
is the man who gets the best pay
and the man who is less likely to
stagnate in the labor market for
want of a boss. In point of fact
these things can just now in no wise
be doubted.
But. the real question too it Is,
will vocational training better this
condition any if all are vocationally
trained!
Suppose we admit for the mo
ment that a knowledge, however
keen, of a dead language is an in
utility: suppose we admit that the
man who has “little Latin and lesr
Creek" oftentimes moves ahead, in
the struggle for existence, of the
man who has much of one and more
of the other. Suppose we admit that
the skill it is, which commands a
a higher wage than the lack of it,
yet reasonably enough we may in
quire the reason for this before go
ing over wholly* to those who would
establish vocational training.
The reason why skill is remu
nerated more highly than lack ot
skill in the labor world is because
of the relative scarcity in relation to
the demand. The pick and shovel
man is picked up more easily than
the carpenter; the ditch digger is
more plentiful than the electrician;
the hewer of wood and drawer ot
water is readier to hand than the
mechanician. Those are most obvi
ous facts. If an engineer with great
skill is hired tomorrow, he cannot
off hand be replaced. If a shovel
artist is discharged, one can reach
across into the average labor mar
ket and fill his place most easily.
The worker with labor power to sell
takes it to market and the more
•elaborate that labor power is the
more highly technical it will be,
the greater price will have to be
paid. One buys a wheel barrow
more cheaply than a Alergentlialer
machine, and the relation between
skilled and unskilled labor as com
modities are exactly fulfilled In
that parallel.
Accordingly we may agree that
because carpenters are not so plen
tiful as wheel barrow engineers,
they get ntore pay than their un
skilled brethren. Accordingly we
may agree that if we would equip a
youth for the struggle of life, it
were best to make him skillful of
mind and hand In some trade, than
making him learned in some langu
age which can be of no earthly
use to him. But that Is only when
other things remain the same as at
present and he is one out of many
untrained.
Suppose on the other hand voca
tional training is generally adopted.
Suppose in every school in the land
the children are taught a trade.
Suppose that every boy graduating
from the -schools or while learning
at schools is taught to be a car
penter, a mechanic, an electrician,
i plumber, a tinsmith, a blacksmith,
a painter, an engineer, an analytic
chemist, a bricklayer, a stone mason
i plasterer, a stone cutter, or some
other vocation which turns him out
a perfectly good tradesman or a
perfectly soundly skilled worker in
one form or another.
Then we have no man a linguist
of course, no man who has a head
lull of classical lore and a hand
unfit to turn a screw or drill a hole
or saw a two by four. Every man
is a skilled tradesman. He is in
the market as such, to compete with
the rest who are in the market as
such. The pick and shovel man
knowing no skill Is the rare bird.
What happens then? Have we in ef
fect bettered the condtion of the
youth any? Why not a bit of it. We
have greatly helped the employer.
He goes into the labor market look
ing for a particular brand of skill.
He finds twenty or a hundred where
one was rustling a job before. He
will be able to treat the skilled man
who asks for more, as he would
treat the unskilled who would ask
for more, that is by tying a can to
him and telling him to get out. It
the one does not like it. ninety-nine
are ready and willing to get the
job.
Labor, it cannot be repeated too
often, and goodness knows it sinks
slowly enough into some heads, is
requited in proportion to the quan
tity of the supply in relation to the
quantity in demand. If skilled be
comes as plentiful as unskilled, the
skilled will get exactly as the un
skilled are paid. There is no poetry
but absolute truth about that.
We may all agree that a classical
education is useless to a man as far
as aiding him make a living. But
surely we will not admit that such
an education is wholly without a
value not measured in dollars and
cents, it may be a particularly sor
ry thing to find a couple of ragged
Greek scholars, hungry and helpless
debate upon the position of an en
clitic or the particular scanning ot
a particularly sonorous verse. But
it must afford them some satisfac
tion that the rest of us may be un
able to see. Truly too. to appreciate
the written things and feel that
mental intoxication that follows t
perusal of the magnificent work ot
great men. is no worthless learning.
We dont live by bread alone, al
though in these days of high prices
quite a few will have to shift with
out bread itself in some manner or
other. The imagination and the
mental horizon of every man is
broadened by contact with the
world's literature. Man was not
made to be a highly skilled slave of
a beneficient employer, any more
than the unskilled helot of a mo
dern plutarcliy. The man who has
to earn his bread with the sweat ol
his brow is entitled to know his
Shakespeare and his Euripides as
well as the master elass which
would make it a monopoly for
themselves alone.
Vocational training has its es
sence just now in the conception
that the working classes were made
for the benefit of a plutocracy and
that the best citizen among the
workers is he who produces for a
master the greatest profits.
Hence the idea of teaching them
to be skilled of hand. Hence the
notion that it is waste of time to
teach the future helots of the land
anything about the classics. Hence
the notion that instead of literature
the saw and the axe and the drill
and the lathe and induction coll and
the motor and the dynamo should
be the objects of the workers' stu
dies.
By the Splendor of God, as old
Earl Godwin used to say, there is
now being held before the country
one ideal and one ideal only. That
is the supremacy of American trade
and commerce throughout the
world. Every article bespeaking
the “opportunity that lies before
the United States” has that ideal
only before it. They say that we
must prepare to grasp the oppor
tunity for world trade. We must
have Webb-Kenyon bills legalizing
immense combinations of capital,
trusts in trade, we must have indus
trial preparedness and vocational
training.
But what is this but that this
country shall be the home of a
plutarcliv with the masses for ever
and ever creating new merchandise
for these who own; that these mas
ses, industrial serfs and slaves of tl
machine, shall be efficient, docile
and obedient that America mav
spread not principles of liberty, but
the Gospel of the Dollar throughout
tlie world? One meets these voices
at every turn. One reads admoni
tions to this end on every page. One
hears them on every hand.
in any country at any time was
there ever such an ignoble senti
ment? Is it possible to conceive
that the ultima thule of American
ideals is to be reached in the con
quest of the world by An ericati
trade—great nomra anu im
laces of merchants princes and in
dustrial kings—and the masses of
the people well trained, subservient
and effieent producers, at work well
trained and skillful machine tend
ers, at war well disciplined and
obedient, in peace contented in that
position wherein it has pleased Goo
and the capitalist system. His per
fect creation, to place them?
Doesn't all this seem like a gar
gantuan satire upon all ideals of
human freedom and human aspira
tions? Cannot one almost believe
that an effort is being made by
some sardonic knave to bury the
noble ideals of a Declaration of In
dependence beneath a social irony,
gall and wormwood to the mind
that has even a vestige of libertar
ianism?
But there it is. Industrial pre
paredness lor the conquest of the
world markets by Amercan captains
of industry; military preparedness
to support thorn if needs be in that
conquest. Vocational training that
the mind may be removed from the
day dreams of ancient struggles lot
freedom—and no man can study
the history of the past without ob
serving and learning the fad incess
antly that ceaseless struggle has
been the cost of preserving liberty,
and in no place is it written in such
red and fiery letters as in the class
ics that are hereafter to be for
bidden ground either in the verna
cular or in translations—industrial
efficiency based upon such a supply
of trained servitors who can no Ion
ger organize or monopolize the
markets so that they could demand
pay higher than a gracious plutar
chy would condescendingly be will
ing to bestow. Surely a pregnant
future is before us!
M. PASCOKF.
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THE WORKER.
Let us estimate on four Job Work
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Nick Fredrickson, your heirs,
executors, assigns or personal re
j presentatives:
I You are hereby notified that 1
expended in labor and Improve
meats the sum ot one hundred Uni- j
lars each year for the ■'••ears of j
1915 and 1915 on the following j
claim: Nugget Group, 1st i
tier left limit Candle Creek, and No. >
1 Home Gulch, tributary of Candle j
creek and recorded and more fully j
described in the records of the Fair- j
haven mining and Recording Dis- j
trict, Second Division, Territory of j
Alaska.
The above amount has been ex- i
pended under the provisions of the j
law concerning annual labor upon I
mining claims, being the amount j
required to hold said claim. I
You are hereby further notified, 5
that if within ninety (90) days > 1
after the last publication of this no- 5
| tice you fail or refuse to contribute 5
| your proportion of such expenditure (
i your interest in said claim wlil be- (
! come the property of the under- |
signed, your co-owner, under the
provisions of Section 2324 of the
Revised Statutes of the United :
States. t
JOHN A. MURPHY.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ.. April 13, 1917.
Date of last publ.. July 13, 1917...
NOTICE OK FORFEITURE.
To W. A. Macomber and Harry
Hicks their heirs and assigns:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex-]
pended in labor and improvements, j
the sum of one hundred dollars
($100.00) for each of the years ot
1914. 1915. 1916 as the annual
assessment work required by law j
for the said years upon and for the
benefit and development of the as
sociation placer mining claim known
as the Jeannette, situated on Cuss |
creek in the Cape Nome Mining ana
Recording District, territory of Al
aska and recorded in Vol. 194, page
213.
You and each ot you are further
notified that if you do not within
ninety days from the final publica
tion hereof cause to be paid to the
undersigned your proportionate
share of said expenditures, as co
owner, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the
undersigned under section 2324 ot
the Revised Statutes of the United
States.
CHAS D. JONES.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb, 16, 1917.
! Date of last publ., May 18, 1917.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Chas. T. Webb and Sidney
Mudget, your heirs, executors
assigns or personal representa
tives.
You and each of you are
hereby notified that the under
signed has expended in la
bor and improvements tlie sum of
one hundred dollars for 1910 on the
Myrtle Association, an association
placer mining claim situated on left
limit of Dry creek and recorded and
more fully described in the Re
cords of the Cape Nome Mining and
Recording district. Second Divlson,
Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended in order to hold said claim
under the provisi ns of the law con
cerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being the amount requited
to hold said claim.
And you and each of you
are further notified that
if within ninety days after the last
publication of this notice you fall
to contribute your proportion of
said expenditure, your interest in
said claim will become the proprety
of the undersigned your co-owner
under section 2324 Revised Statu
tes of the United States.
. ESKIMO GOLD DREDGING CO.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb. 9, 1917.
Date of last publ.. May 11, 1917.
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