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Nome, ■ Alasita. under the Act of March t. 187S.
"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
Abraham Lincoln
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Address all Communreatlona to Dally Nome Industrial 'Worker,
Box 210 Nome. Alaska. Phone. Black 111
Nome, Alaska, November 2, 11)17.
AM) NOW AS TO GAMBLING
DENS.
I'ho Industrial Worker is not a
puritanical sheet Admittedly there
< \ists a legal obligation on the
part of the authorities to enforce
such laws as the people in their
wisdom and judgement have en
acted but that is a responsibility
thi. office does not seek to assume.
While conceiving that there abides
a social responsibility for the wel
fare of the individual we believe
that the strength of a man is hest
promoted by telling him he must be
capable of looking out for himself.
The forgoing is intended to re
move any notion that we seek an
unwarranted guardianship over the
community. Plainly we are not
actuated by any maudlin sentimen
talism. The consideration- we wish
to drive home to the substantial ci
tizens hereabout are much more
practical and cold blooded. The
spring and summer work of a
miner in this camp is with reason
able good fortune sufficient to main
tain him through the winter season
and ii retained by hint would en
able hint to prospect the placer
fields of this district. The re
sources upon which your prosperity
depends are involved ill that, are
they not? One prospector may un
cover dirt that wilt make a metro
polis. It the miner loses his poke
he cannot prospect and without
they do that there can be no de
velopment and no .prosperity, can
there? Suppose he loses hi- money
through his own folly (find really
has no one to blame but himself
we. need not waste any sobs upon
him. He can dog it to the outside
but following the reasoning above
is the community not the real
loser?
DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND THE
WHITE BEAK HEM HE.
In the opinion of this paper the
movement of the citizens of Nome
Tue day evening in impressing into
service the tug Genevieve and send
ing her in search of the White
Bear justly typifies the spirit of Al
aska and sustains the best tradi
tions of the North.
District Attorney Muni’? was vol
untarily in attendance upon the
meeting and participated in it. He
made no objection to his appoint
ment a. a member of the committee
named by the Mayor to wait upon
the ('onv.indanl of the Coast
Guards to advise him of the action
of the citizens and to make de
livery of the vessel to the Coast
Guards to enable them to proceed
about the merciful work for which
the government maintains their or
ganization. The Worker immediate
ly published a full and fair account
of the proceedings including the
name of Mr. Mundy with the other
gentlemen selected by the Mayor.
The Mayor himself had come
promptly up to the scratch, none ol
the other members • bowed any
tendency to dog it but proceeded
resolutely 10 the task set for them
and which had been unanimously
directed by the mass meeting.
Mr. Mundy called upon us and
wished to have us make a correc
tion in the published account but
appears to have got himself be
tween a fit and sweat and when in
vited to make tree use of thee
columns to sol himself right in the
premises was as unable to make a
decision as he had evidently been
in his own mir.d at the meeting.
He made no move to decline the
worthy duty assigned to hint by the
Mayor until after the meeting had
adjourned when, as he state , he
told Mayor I.omen he could not
serve. However he proceeded with
the committee to wait upon Captain
Hots but states that on his part he
did so for the purpose of advising
the captain to have nothing to do
with the seisure of the tug, a
course precisely contrary to the
«jne he had aeepted in the pre
sence of his fellow citizens in mass
meeting.
This* paper is without desire to
injure the honorable district at
torney but the hare facts stand out
in its conviction that conforming
to the dignity of his office he might
very consistently have remained
away from the meeting if not in
sympathy with its purposes. More
over it certainly did not devolve
upon him to advise Captain Ro-s
except upon the application of that
official. Fortunately Captain Ross
had been able to make up his own
mind and probably gave all due
weight to those nonsensical techni
calities which might have hound
his hands and have made him like
wise a timorous wavering official
and not a life guard.
JARS AM) CHINKS.
It was when he entered upon
busines pursuits that the Asiatic,
became a ‘yellow peril". From a
standpoint of service, excellence
and condition of stock, economy of
methods he is the superior mer
chant and soon takes his place as
such if unhindered. As a compe
titor he practices a t-ort of mercan
tile jin jitsy that puts the white
merchant out for the count.
As a worker he constitutes no
peril of himself to white labor.
Long under represion lie takes to
unionism and socialism like a duck
to water. These are new found pri
vileges to him. He can give us les
sons in militancy and solidarity of
action. It is only as we exclude
and cstracize him that he is any
sort of menace.
In the sense of infidelity to his
kind ther is no such thing a- a
yellow scab. They see to it that
scabbing is an avocation in which
the mortality rate is total. A
yellow strike cannot be broken
with yellow' labor must be herded
and kept in ignorance of what they
are doing. The rule is that a
white strike must he broken by
white scabs. In the Vancouver
traction strike ctep^ wer taken to
call out other crafts in sympathy.
The white carpenters, "affiliated”,
stood upon their agreement and
their “craft rights". The yellow'
carpenters, unaffiliated, canto out,
although excluded and ostracized.
On the Pacific Coast. Japanese
workers ate slowly crawling their
way to job control in those employ
ments wherein they are peculiarly
adapted and without reference to
the degree of -kill required. In
domestic service the Japanese
drudge has done more to standard
ize household work than ,ias ever
been done. This is uniformly the
housevvLe’s experience. She en
gages o. jap. He agrees to any
hours he may name, but when he
does what lie thinks is enough for
the money, he is simply not to be
found. Milady is irritated. She
storms. She nctes that his work;
so far is exceedingly well done, j
When he makes his appearance -lie
has decided to keep him until “she
can do better”. When wash-day* |
comes she shows him the linen,
and the soap end the tubs. He
lakes the clothes and begins care
fully to sort and to check them.
She knows that he is going to make
I the same methodical thorogoing
job of it and she departs fer a clubj
meeting. Completing his careful ‘
count the jap call... up the laundry.
Milady is irritated again and would
firs him if he were about. She
frets. but fretting fees that her
house is in order as never before.
When No wall comes in the morning
she has -urrendered and holds him
ever after as a treasure.
These are the workers whom the
American Federation of Labor ex-,
eludes from membership without;
reference to skill required or de
veloped. Can it be said then that
in any genuine sense the A. F. of L. ^
seeks the organization of ti e work
ing clas? ?
And these are the workers whom
j the socialist party in America, join-j
ins with the capitalist slat", seeks i
to exclude from citizenship. Has!
our national soil become so sacred
to the eocialits? How coyotlsh
then becomes our yelp a* capitalism!
that it deprives us of the right to
work and live. What then is to
become Cf our legendary “Workers
of the World United.” etc?
ORGANIZATION—THI1 WORK
UK’S TOOL.
As the ohl Greeks used the word,
organization meant ar. instrument,
engine, machine or tool for mak
ing or moving anything. As work
ers. organization is oi.r instrument
for enfocing just dealing, adequate
return for service, sate and decent
conditions of labor. Organisation
is the engine for driving home the
human rights of labor, for protect
ing it against exploitation by the
financial interest. Organization is
the tool by which wages are in
creased' and hours shortened. Thi
tool will yet piy the locks from
fire trap "actories and even jack
up the coruts to a sense of social
responsibility.
By using this tool—organization
—we break the tyranny of die tools
we work with. Organization l< oui
machine to prevent “speding upV
by the employers’ machine. We
count for something more and for
something else than the last “ap
pendage of the machine." Our hu
man skill is no longer a mere <og
in industry— a piece of mechanism
to be bartered for, used or dis
carded to suit the convenience or
profit of Rome “captain of industry”
By organization we assert and en
force our human interests as
against mere considerations of bus-,
iness profit.
By organization we take a little
from the liberty of each in order to
give hack freedom to all. In in
dustry there is no longer “freedom
of contract" for the individual
worker—the learned courts to the
contrary—but only for organiza
tions of workers. Organization
furnishes us with our onlv protec
tion. If unorganized we cannot re
port violations of a fire ordinance
wilhont risking our jobs. lit no?
we risk* our lives ratlu'r than our
jobs.
Great a. the service of organiza
lion has b'-on and will be in main
raining and advancing our rights,
that is only a part of
its service. Organization per
forms its great worn in enabling
us to realize ourselves, in providing
an effective way for I he expression
and expansion of our own powers.
Organization disciplines u-t helps
us to work together, batters down
prejudice, submerges foolish
|Whims, drives out settled selfish
lies-. Organization fuses us into
a compact body, concious of com
mon needs, aims, conflicts and
achievements.
Organization is our only hope.
Others may help us bv their good
will, counsel and courage, but out
real strength lies in omliining our
own numbers and forces. With or
ganization all things are possible
lo us, without it nothing is at
tainable.
What organization really stands
lor to us is the right to labor on
terms of freedom, and to experi
ence life in its fullnes. Out of
completeness ot organization mist
invitably come these twin rights,
to labor aid to live in freedom.
The enemy within our gates.—
Mr. Llojd George has saie that the
British people had a more danger
ous enemy than Germany to deal
with, and that was the drink
Lraifie. He did not say it yesterday
tior yet the day before. There ha
iieen plenty of time 10 tackle that
'tieniv once and for all. yet the
)aUy News had occas.cn, recently,
o make the following remark:
'The arrival of a ship at Tilbury
rem Canada with 2000 cases of
whiskey on board is preiumabiy
atest comment on the food situa
ion. It does not lack irony." It
loes not, indeed, when the country
s within an ace of isi'l'iig sugar
■aids, and when even cards will
lot gurantee a fixed ration.
There are just as genuine loves
n the “underworld” as elsewhere,
[n my studies I have encountered
vases of well sustained felicity even
when the woman continued to l) ac
;ico prostitution with the know' dg
and consent of the man. Where
both abandon the former life, my
observation is happily without a
single exception, though of course
happiness is not at all possible
where either practices drunkeness.
Gol:l and copper bells served as
(honey among the peoples of Mex
ico ard Central America before the
time of the American Indian. The
gold bells of Coda Rica are ex
quisite examples of metal work;
many of them are modeled in th •
form of birds, monkeys and
grotesque heads.
Many years ago soap boilers u-cd
to have great difficulty in getting
rid of a thick, evil-smelfing liquid
which was the cheif by product of
their industry. They ran it into
streams and sewers* l’resently
some one began collecting it and
refining it. The result was glycerine
as it is known today.
The novel star-finder of a
Shanghai veiitor has th • form of a
parasol. When the parasol is open
ed and its stick is pointed toward
I’oiaris. the dais and .•onstellations
charted upon its covering are
found to have the -an’.' relative po
sitions as in fi; u sky ove:head, so
that finding the eeicstial objects is
easy.
Pioneer igloo Hotel. Rooms $2.00
.V: $:5.00 per week ami up. 50 cents
]>er night. Housekeeping Apart
ments.
FORTY-SEVEN FACTORIES!
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PATENT PATENT
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On “Umatilla” we expect a limited supply of
LIBERTY BONDS
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If they arrive, we will sell to those desiring.. If they Sail to ar
rive, we can take subscriptions anil have bonds deposited in any
Seattle bank to order of purchaser.
GET BEHIND OUR GOVERNMENT.
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Alaska Lighterage Comercial Co.
Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF W. STEIGEL MAIER AND OF LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILL RE
CEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
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SHOES MADE AS PER GOVERNMENT SPECIFICATIONS ON
THE “MUNSON” LAST. COME IN AND LOOK THEM OVER.
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