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cearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.”—
aoranatn Lincols
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Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 124.
Nome, Alaska, February 14, 1!»17.
I OK THK L*\OIKiAM/KI).
For the first time since its orga
niation the Atcliinson, Topeka and
Santa Fe had two million seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
to distribute to its employees after
the dividends had been paid, it was
quite a sum. That is if distributed
among a few workers, but when it
is divided up among the whole
bunch of unorganized employees it
is hardly a decent mouthful.
Hut that does not matter. What
is worth noting is that when this
big melon was ready for distribu
tion the railroad comptroller stated
that not one cent would
be given to the brother
hoods or other members ot
organized labor. It was the reward
lor the unorganized. Considering
that the unorganized workers reach
a standard of pay is a disgrace to
civilization in its inadequacy to af
ford a docent living, God knows they
could stand a whole lot. And it
they are to be gulled by such tool
ish bait into continuing unorga
nized they deserve no better fate.
sell M il IN I,Alton.
Ii is a strange thing that it takes
u war to compel a really scientific
study of labor efficiency. In Am
erican industrial life there are more
,•:! ic uc . Xperts than you can shake
a stic k at. They have two or three
slogans but all come down to the
fine point: standardization and
.speeding up.
lint in Kngland they did not allow
theory to enter into their investiga
tions at all. They sent their investi
gators into the factories and di
rected them to get the results. The
results are not a little astonishing.
One was that the hourly output in
creased per employee with the short
cuing work day, another was that
its quality also reached a higher
grade- The employee seemed to re
act to every stimulus. Increased
light, more cheerful surroundings,
happy reunions, prospective holi
days and genuine pleasurable rests
all improved the- work and increased
the output. It was nothing short
\>f marvellous the way the output
Increased around holiday time and
the grade of the work improved as
•well. Overtime labor lacked qual
ity of output as well as quantity at
the time, and it deteriorated th'j
quality and quantity of the work on
the following day. It was con
demned as “physiologically extra
vagant". That was the exact phrase
used. The total daily output was
actually diminished by making the
individual workers operate during
over time.
. Of course none of these investi
-gations were conducted for the ex- j
i».-ess purpose of bettering the con
ditions of tlie workers, but to effect
•i rr-'atcr and better output. It is
like the efficiency system of the Am
erican employer who is concerned
merely with increasing his profits.
But in England and in fact in all
die warring countries, there has
• arisen £• demand to conserve and to
protect itthtrr. The supply is limited.
Ami what is used must be main
tained at a high standard of produc
tive vaptU'lty- There is where the
American employer has distinctly
the best of it. He need not worry
.atiPiut conserving the health of labor
His •supply is unlimited. He can
pick and choose, and he can sub
ject his employees to standardiza
tion and stop watch tests to do so.
He can scrap the gray haired and
the men who pass a medium age
limit. His efficiency can be the very
acme of industrial intensity, and its
•effect upon the industrial workers
i8 an immaterial point. There are
more where they came Trom.
It is true that there is an effort
made upon the part of some em
ployers to alter this. But the
greatest employers and the richest
and most powerful are set like
adamant against any policy which
might In any way interfere with
their exploitative rights as enforced
themselves by their economic might.
Ol H COMPENSATION LAW.
It is always a pleasure to refer
to Alaska’s freak compensation law.
It was to do away with trouble
some litigation and to protect the
poor workingman in his rights. It
was only opposed by the labor agi
tators and the shyster lawyers;
while altruistic mining companies
and high minded politicians ail 01
them gave the measure unstinted
recognition as constructive legisla
tion of a nigh order. In proof ot
which read the subsidized Juneau
papers at the time of its passing.
In order that the beauties and
justice and fairness and other ex
quisite attributes of this measure
may be always before us, we clip
the following from the Juneau Em
pire, December 20, The Empire be
ing by tlie way one of the noblest
and unselfish boosters of this legal
monstrosity:
“The case of Nick Demmer against
the Alaska Gastineau Mining Com
pany for damage for partial disa
bility from injuries received is still
Dragging its way through the Dis
trict Court. Many of the doctors
and dentists in the city have been
on the stand and testified about
broken bones, the loss of teeth and
the taxing of x-ray machines.”
After the case had “dragged” its
way through Uie court for another
two days or so the jury awarded
him five per cent of his earning ca
pacity as being permanently disabled
to that extent. In round numbers
Demmer will get theoretically $240.
What he will get in actual practice
after the lawyer fees, witnesses ant'
other expenses are paid will be
double 0.
Is there any question as to the
Industrial Worker’s assertion at the
time of the passage of this law that
it would more correctly have been
entitled the Limitation of Employ
ers’ Liability Act?
Dll'T'KKKNCK OK OIMXION.
One man's word is good until an
other man's is heard. That's only a
making over of an old saw and is
not an epigram. It was proved the
other day quite incidentally. When
tlie American Meat Packers Associa
tion held its convention in Syracuse,
Xew York, the president declared
that there was no reason for any
strikes in the industry; that em
ployees were well treated; that they
had good wages and had everything
that they needed and these disturb
ances were quite without any justi
fication at all. He got away with
that amid the applause of his feilow
packers until the papers headlined
it and commented upon it with unc
Lioned approval. Then comes along
the Hutcher Workman, devoted to
the interests of employees in the
industry, with quite another storv:
"To find men in the 'arge meat
industries who are satisfied you will
have to go to the offices, for the con
ditions of the men working in the
plants are now, and have been for
many years. worse than African
slavery. Under the present system
the worker is not considered as a
human being, but is known as a cog
or unit in the machinery. He is
not allowed to look up nor to speak,
but is compelled to bend over his
work, making one continuous mo
tion, until in some instances he goe»
Insane. And that for the paltry sum
of an average less than seven dol
lars a week”. So you. see while
such a state of affairs may be ideal
to the President of the American
Pacers Association, it does not com
mend itself at all to the workers
when they size It up. Truly and
verily and immutably and for ever,
the working classes and the employ
ing classes have nothing in com
mon, and they certainly cannot size
up a job alike. We all know why.
Anything In the line ot Job work
HINTS ON COMFORT.
To look well you must feel well.
Clothes help you to look well, if
they are made to order and fit well,
repaired well, cleaned well and well
pressed.. Therefore you will feel
well.
M. PA8COFF.
Ladies and Gent’s Tailor does it all
well.
AH work guaranteed
Cor. Lane’s Way and Front Street.
GET THE NEWS RIGHT. ItEAii
THE WORKER.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To John J. Meyer, your heirs, ex
ecutors, assigns or personal re
presentatives:
You are hereby notified that 1
have expended in labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dol
lars ea£h year for the years of 1914,
1915 and 1916 on the Happy Home
Stake claim a lode claim situated on
right limit of Negsue Creek and re
corded and more fully described in
the records of the Cape Nome Min
ing 'and Recording District, Second
Division, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you are further notified that
if you fail to contribute your propor
tion of said expenditure within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
MARTIN STEINER.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Jan. 31, 1917.
Date of last publ., May 2. 1917.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land OtTice at
.Nome, Alaska, January 25, 1917..
Notice is hereby given, that
Nicholas J. Butler, a citizen of the
United States, over the age of 21
years, whose post office address is
Nome, Alaska, lias made application
before the U. S. Land Oflice at Nome
Alaska, for a United States Patent
for No. 5 on Specimen Gulch Placer
Claim in the Cape Nome Recording
District. Alaska, being Mineral
Survey No. 1191; said claim being
more particularly described in the.
field notes and plat of the official
survey thereof now on file in said
Land Office at Nome, Alaska, as fol
lows:
Beginning at Cor. 1, Identical with
Cor. 1 Kathleen Claim, Sur. No.
1157, Cor. 4. of No. 13 Dexter Creek
Sur. No. 418 and Cor. 2, Bella Frac
tion, Sur. 47S; a fir post 4 ins. sq.
2 ft. above ground, in earth mound
scribed 1-1157 K, 4-41S, 2-47S B. F.
and 1-1191 5 S. whence U. S. L. M.
No. 4 bears N. 78 deg. 56 min. 5
E. 5467.5 ft. U. S. Geological
Monument on King Mt. bears N.
26 deg. 29 min. E. thence S. S7 deg.
04 min. W. Yar. IS deg>35 min. E.
1171.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N.
2 deg. 11 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 15
min. E. 357.60 ft. to Cor. No. 3;
thence N. 0 deg. 02 min. E. Yar. 19
deg. 15 E. 332.80 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 89 deg. 12 min. E. Yar. 19
deg. 15 min. E. 1071.00 ft. to Cor.
No. 5; thence S. 7 deg. 54 min. E.Yar
19 deg. 05 min. E. 622.30 ft. to place
of beginning containing 16.767
acres. Said claim is situated upon
unsurveyed ground about 6 miles
N. N. E. from the town of Nome,
Alaska.
U. S. L. M. No. 4 is a limestone
block, about 4 ft.x6 ft.x6ft. high,
chiseled U. S. L. M. No. 4 on top
surface, with mound of earth on
same, situated on the south or right
bank of Dexter Creek about 140 ft.
south of same and 1000 ft. westerly
from mouth of Joe Gulch in Lat. 64
deg. 35 min. N. Long. 165 deg. 19
min. W. in Cape Nome Recording
District, Alaska.
The Location is recorded in Vol.
16 Page 61 of the records of said
district. The adjoining claims are
on the north, unknown; on the
south Kathleen, Sur. 1157, Frank
Dolan, claimant; on the East Bella
Fraction, Sur. 478, Pioneer Minin.;
Co. owner and on west No. 4 Spe
cimen Gulch unsurveyed, claimant
unknown.
There are no conflicting claims.
G. A. AD VMS.
Register.
Date of first publ, Jan. 2?. 1917.
Date of last publ., March 28, 1917.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OP APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 16, 1916.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By W. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
\V. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and
on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, has made application before
the United States Land Office at
i Nome, Alaska, for a United States
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
thereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
S. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
695, a fir post 4 ins. so. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,
4-695, 1-1175, D. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
W. Yar. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
69 deg. 45 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 2S min. E. Var.
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 43
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
3S6.80 ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25
min. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min.
E. 400.80 ft. to place of begining,
containing 5.90S acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
747 No. 1 Above Discovery on
i Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
j Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft.
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 4 8 deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. 3 9
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Var. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
' U. S. Location Monument No. 11
to which said claims are tied, is a
fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Vol.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Vo).
165 Page 225 and Vol. 199 Page
85, Records of Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 698 and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 434; on the East un
surveyed; on the South No. 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West,
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 747. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., Feb. 21, 1917.
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