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Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome,-Alaska. Phone, Blaok 194.
Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
tftome, - Alaska, under the Act of March 9, 1979.
Nome, Alaska, October 12, 151] 0.
THE MAIN QUESTION.
At the election on November 7
the people will be called upon tc
express an opinion upon the eight
hour day. As yet the ret'erendua
only takes on this mild form ol
establishment in the Territory, llut
the workers ought to see to it that
there can he no doubt in the minds
of the politicians where they are at
on the question. They ask for ai
expression of opinion: give it tc
thenri
Of course against such an expres
sion- 'of'opinion the workers are sev
erely handicapped. Many of the
men who work here and who will
be affected by the eight or ten hour
day have no votes. On the other
, hand many of the persons who
never do a day's work will have a
vote. That however is called poli
tical equality: in the man who has
no work to do saying how long the
other fellow will work.
We can expect that a good many
of the class who do no labor will
therefore unite to oppose the eight
hour day question, and for that rea
son all workers should make it a
point to express theirs. It may do
no good; but it can do no harm.
At tlie same time we have got to
get the idea firmly held in our
minds that organization is the only
way whereby the eight hour day
can be effective. The workers then
can themselves decide how long thej
want to work each day. This is
their question. It is nobody else's
It is their labor power that they
dispose of: their health, their wel
fare that is affected. Their labor
power is all they have got to 3ell
and it is up to them to say how
many and how much will be ilie
hours and price of its disposal. By
themselves they can do nothing as
individuals. It rests with them as
organized men, with labor to sell,
setting the price of that labor.
We repeat again and it cannot be
repeated too often, that the individ
ual worker is the most helpless in
dividual of all. As an unorganized
unit he is a menace not only tc
himself, but to others who are orga
nized. He cannot resist a reduction
in wages and he will accept any
thing that the boss has to offer. He
lias to do so. There is no way out
of it. If he does not take it at the
employer’s price, he will have to go
without. He cannot help himself.
And because there are so many like
him, unorganized and willing to
take what they can get, the scale
of wages paid is in many centers so
low as to be below the point of sub
sistence.
During investigations which the
Industrial Relations Commission
made, they early discovered that in
mail order houses, departmen*
stores, sweat shops and unorganized
industrial plants, almost all the
lowest paid workers were unorga
nized. And because they had to
compete with one another, selling
their labor power to the boss for
what he would give them, the boss
paid wages which are described as
"a disgrace to American civiliza
tion”.
On the other hand, the entire
strength of the workers is enorm
ous. They could, were they united,
accomplish anything. While each in
dividual possesses so little power as
to be practically negligible, when
the different working individuals
unite that small power it forms a
social force which nothing could
withstand.
And the employers realize that.
The employers and their hangers-on,
, the parasitic influences of one sort
or another which scramble among
themselves for the crumbs from the
table of Dives, all directly or indi
rectly devote their time, their talent
and their ability to keeping the
workers apart. For that reason all
kinds of devices are devised, all
'kinds of plans are conceived to keep
the workers apart. There are poli
tical, religious, racial, national, and
social differences nourished for the
express purpose of keeping the work
ers divided so that employers may
rule.
And as if this is not enough, the
workers are kept apart even it
their;, organization and some estab
lish themselves as superior crafts,
trades and callings, isolating them
selves into units, having nothing in
common with one another.
This division of the forces of or
ganized labor is without question
just as serious as the division is ob
taining between the unorganized in
dividuals, except that the individual
may not be quite so helpless orga
nized in crafts. But if we consider
the demoralizing effect such a sy
stem of organization has upon the
mass solidarity of labor, we can well
doubt if it is not just as dangerous
as if there were no organization.
We saw examples of this in the
Seattle strike; we saw more of it in
the New York strike and the fail
ures of three-fourths of the strikes
which are recorded today are due
to the lack of solidarity among the
workers themselves.
It is all a matter of evolution. It
will take some time for economic
conditions to force the iron hard
facts of the class struggle upon the
workers, but it is making progress
and we see today in many compara
tively recent events a tendency upon
the part of the rank and file of or
ganized labor to make the cause of
one the cause of all.
Reverting to the eight hour ques
tion it may be agreed that it will cut
no manner of figure. It is not man
datory upon the leislators to pass
an eight hour law. and even if such
j a law passed there is on guaran
tee that the courts would uphold it.
It is quite true that the eight hour
day underground has been 'flu a good
many camps more or less of a joke,
and not an effort, even the faintest,
has been made to enforce the provi
sions of this eight hour bill. But
for all that. inasmuch as these
tilings come like a flash light in the
darkness to reveal the fact that it is
fhe economic organization alone
which can enforce the eight hour
day, it is desirable that such be
voted for at the coming election.
We believe that the referendum
vote will carry. If it does it will
put all the legislators on record
and the workers will know where
they are at. This paper has con
tended that the referendum was
ordered in order that the legislators
might have a handy opportunity of
passing the buck. They can ring In
to their assistance, too, many who
are not interested in the question
in the slightest, and that is why la
bor questions fare ill in politics and
outside poli\cs. They are labor ques
tions, and they are settled not by
labor but by the other fellow.
Only when the workers are strong
ly organized are they able to make
it so that labor and not outsiders
settle labor questions.
The economic organization in all
industries by industries, making the
cause of one the cause of all, and
affording the means whereby the
workers who have everything in
common, can dispose of the ques
tions which concern them without
the interposition of outside factors
with whom they have nothing what
I ever in common, that is the hope
of the wage workers.
The main question is organiza
tion. Until the workers are orga
| nized along industrial lines, eco
nomic conditions of today demand,
they will have other people settling
their questions for them.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Hans Walby and Andrew John
son and your and each of your
heirs and legal representatives:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned, L. A.
Davison, co-owner with you in the
Uncle Dan Association claim Si
tuated on the left limit of Sunset
Creek, a tributary of Snake River in <
the Cape Nome Mining and .Record
ing District, Territory of Alaska,
has expended in labor and improve
ments on and for the benefit of said
placer mining claim the sum of
One Hundred Dollars during each
of the years 1911, 1912, 1914,
1915; said labor and improve
ments being done and expenditures
made under the provisions of sec- j
tion 2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States and supplemental le
gislation,' in order to hold said
claim.
And you aqd each of you are
hereby notified to contribute your
proportionate share of such exepen- {
diture according to your individual
interest in said mining claim, to the
undersigned at the Alaska Banking
and Safe Deposit Company’s bank
at Nome, Alaska, within ninety
days from the final publication 01
this notice or your interest in said
mining claim will become forfeited
to tie undersigned, co-owner, by
virtue of said section 2324 Revised
Statutes.
L. A. DAVISON.
Date of first publ., Aug. 24, 1916.
Date of final publ., Nov. 23, 1916.
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W. J. WILLIAMSON Prop
Political Cards.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
Chas E. Sulzer
Election, November 7, 1010.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
Lena Morrow
Lewis
Socialist Party Candidate.
Election, November 7, 1016.
FOR ATTORENY GENERAL
TERRITORY OF ALASKA.
George B. Grigsby
Election, November 7, 1010.
FOR SENATOR:
Thos. M’Gann
For Re-Election.
Election, November 7, 1010.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Victor A. Julien
Election, November 7, 1010.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Charles D. Jones
Independent Candidate.
Election, November 7, 1010.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
T. M. Reed
Election, November 7, 1016.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Phil. Corrigan
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Mike Young
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
A. A. Allan
(SCOTTY)
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
James P. Daly
For Territorial Roads. No Poll Tax
Enforcement of Territorial Laws.
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR TERRITORIAL
RO ADC( )M MISSION ER
John A. Wilson
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR TERRITORIAL
ROA DCOM MISSION ER
Barney Qibney
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Nate C. Coombs
For Ite-Eliction.
Election, November 7, 1916. ;
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