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fjy Nome Mine Worker*' Union, No. 240, International Union of Mine,
Mill an<l Sin elter Workers. .
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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of hie labor, or as
•early as possible, la a worthy object of any good government.”—
Abraham Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Bos 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 18«.
Nome. Alaska \niiii~t I, I!*I 7.
\ Hi:\S()\Alil.K KKVl'KST.
Iliter, sted at all times in uphold
ing tin- si ale of wages paid in tins
ramp and realizing the fart that
it is impossible to lower wages in
one extensive instance without that
lower standard finding acceptance,
the Nome Mine Workers 1 nion pe
titioned the Divisional Hoad Com
mission preparatory to that body
beginning its work in the District
that tie* standard scale of five dol
lars a day he paid on the road. That
request was granted.
A similar request is being placed
before the Alaska Hoad Commission,
and while the District iTiperintcntl
cnt is not in a position to accede to
the same and as it will go before
the headquarters of ti e ('■ mmission,
a few remarks (.11 the r -ous why
that scale m advisable may not he
amiss.
in the first place while a small
increase lias been granted this vc„r,
it may be pointed out it is the first
that mis been allowed in ten years
and during that time expenses of l'v
mg her. have greatly increased.
Many of the supplies have double..
ami there is no line of necessary
staphs .«• herein the increase is not
so sei ion. .nit- pressing as to actual
ly decrease in the pnrcHas
. , ... r oSthe dollar oy about
t,ixi y per cent.
it is of course known that tm
amount at tin disposal of tin' rot.il
commission is limited. rnfortunate
V ill the past politicians to gratify
their own personal spleen against
the Commission heads have made it
their business to block and (district
the efforts to secure this: appro
priations in every way possible and
a consistent agitation has been car
ried on in the most unfair and ne
farious manner intimating that the
Commission existed for grai: and
graft alone
None the less, the welfare of the
. amp here is wrapped up in the
wages paid not a hit less than in
the activities'that industrially take
place, and to maintain the standard
scale of live dollars a day is little
more than a /ttal neo-'-sity.
It" is c irrect to • • ■ ' a to
the fact that when C. -->•>. ..tent
,a; tailed the eight hour day on it*
public works and industrial plants,
it was floatly the intention to con
l,,r;n to the previous scale paid.
There was no reduction in 'pay, but
a reduction in working time. So
trtte is this, that we can observt
throughout the States men work
ing on government work paid tot
their eight hour day exactly tic
rattle as men arc paid for similai
work by private firms for the leu
hour day. Si in government plant;
?u,d arsenals throughout the nation
the government pays for its eight
ho,,r day the standard scale obtain
ing in other shops whether they
work tet or eight hours per day.
Tli- Industrial Worker lias :.i
wavs maintained that road buildiiif
In this camp is necessary to its ex
istence; hut the road builders of to
dn> are the road users of tomorrow
ami many a man who made his ini
,!ial siakt during the summer tiim
working on the road lias been abb
to provide hin.selt witli a grub stale
which enabled him to prosper
throughout the winter and to utilix«
and develop the country oontiguom
to the roads which were built.
The conditions which exist lien
are to a certain extent anomalou
There is work in the summer tinn
only. When the winter comes i
is as tin night ‘when no man ma:
iirk’. Unfortunately the extensive
winter mining of a decade ago i
now a tiling of the past and thi
necessitates the man who will sta;
here making enough to last bln
nyir the wilder. Now in tin s.prini
befor- the opening of navigation tin
Hoad Commission will need nun
They will he needed to protect brid
-,1,(1 |f) save euleert: liill t Ue 111 I
cannot stay hero if during the sum
mer their wages are inadequate to
the prices of the staples whereon
they must live.
Experience has shown that live
dollars a day. clear, is the minimum
whereupon the workers, allowing
for broken time, etc., paid them dur
ing the summer tim.e, can live upon
during the winter when there is no
work, and it is mainly for that rea
son the Xome Mine Workers I'nion
has tri• •• 1 to secure the increase in
question and which is without doubt
a reasonable request.
We have no doubt that when tilt
heads of the Alaska Hoad Commis
sion realize the actual conditions
which here prevail, the pay will he
increased by that amount which is
asked, and the propriety of paying
men what is in effect a living wage
will In properly recognized
Wi believe that notwithstanding
the iri rt using war costs, that thero
will nn»v he forthcoming a larger
appropriation for Alaska hereafter
for th • put poses of road building.
No doubt the urgent needs of
Seward Peninsula will thereupon re
ceive more attention and the wage
scale which is hire mentioned with
out doubt ought certainly to he the
standard scale. It is the scale now
paid in the under ground workings
I of the mines throughout 'lie camp.
| it is the scale paid in Dime 'Ti ■’,<.
it is the scale paid in Marshal, it Is
the scale which by common consent
wil generally prevail when the eight
hour day becomes the law in ail
opt rations throughout the territory
of Alaska and consequently In
Seward Peninsula also.
The success of the present seale
pa'd by the Divisional Road Com
mission is manifest and positive.
The Chairman of the Divisional
Commission is our authority lor
that statement and without any
question tlie increase asked for by
i the Miners I'nion as well as by all
li. ' I 111 j M 1 J * f f > Ml I Ilf .A cl n IV cl IVUUU
Commission will lip followed, if ar
i ili'd. by the same unquestionable
! sucri i y.
'Villi ihe approach of he enfotoe
iM ’:t ri the general elgnt hour law,
none too soon in they - parts, the ef
t■ to- of all workers er> being now
. 1 ir rtly atTeeted by tin- standard
p.iil on those works where at il.'-t
1 pr* lit time the eight hour day
prevails, as it prevails on all govern
ment territorial and municipal
| work.
siip.v bate i’I’.ack.
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When Germany endeavored to j .
split up the Entente Alliance t>y a
proffer of a separate peace to some 1
of the enemies of tlie Central Pow
ers, without doubt this diplomatic
step foreshadowed what will be tin
important element in bringing the
war to a close.
Just now Great Britain enters the
lists with a tentative suggestion,
! delivered in tho extremely covert
I manner of diplomacy, and capable
! of quite other interpretation if need
he and .Mr. Balfour delivers a speech '
! which is taken to intimate that a
■ j separate peace, very advantageous
■! to her is not closed to the Austria
Hungary government.
Furthermore it is intimated that
there are many reasons why the
> peac proposal will not.be unaccept
able to Austria, but none, when all
is said and done, is likely to be of
i such weight as the fact that tho dual
‘ empire is sick of the war.
It is true also national jealousies
between Germany and Austria have
■ never been wholly extinguished by
the war, and because of the fact
1 that Austria has never incurred the
economic enmity that German ex
■ pansion drew forth, Austria is like
ly to lind the way not so difficult fort
; a separate peace.
It is not known to what extend
these steps will be successful. That |
is at the present time. But it is not
unlikely that sooner or later they
will be.
I urthermore it is not without
tne bounds of reasonable possibility
that the separate peace terms wir
not be quite unacceptable, if :ve:
proffered to the Turks. Driving the
urk, “bag and baggage” out or
Europe has not been quite as eav
es falling off a log. The conquest
or the Dardanelles was some dream,
but only a dream and tougher sol
diers there never was than the saute
followers of Mahomet. But with
Russia scorning any of the unspeak
able one’s territory and disclaiming
any longing to control the Mosque
of St. Sophia, the Turk does not see
that he has an acutely identical in
terest as is apparently suggested
with suspicious reiteration by the
German publicists. In fact the
mere constant reiteration of a not
very obvious fact is making the
pork-hating woman-loving Turk just
a bit suspicious and he longs for
peace when lie can suck his hookah j
in the quietude of the harem while
dancing ladies lightly turn his
thought in the more peaceful direc
tion of love than of war.
We believe that diplomacy is not
dead by a long shot. And the power
of the British diplomats is not to
be sneered at. The subtleties of an
Artlius James Balfour may not be
apparent, at least they never were
much in evidence to the Irish during
trol, but tie is himself merely a
mouthpiece for greater than he, a
political record for the Downing
Street phonograph that will say just
as much and no more than needed,
an excellent function for this same
Balfour, by the same token.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To F. l>. Alden, your heirs, exe
cutors, assigns, or personal re
presentatives:
You are hereby notified that 1
have expended in labor and im
provements the sum of one hundred
dollars each year for the years 191.>.
1914, 1915 and 1916 on Goo Goo
Association Group a placer rninin;
claim situated on Shovel creek, a
tributary of Solomon River and
re muled and more t .illy described
in Yol. 123 page 422 of the
Cape Nome Mining 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
milling claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you are further notified that
If von fail to contribute your pro
portion of said expenditure within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice, your interest in
stiid claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
T. MULLIGAN.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Aug. 1. 191,.
Date of last publ., Oct. 31. 191 i.
GETS FOUR YEARS.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Inc!., July 00 —
A sadder and a wiser man is San lie!
Perret who tried to pull o'i the
happy stunts of the good old days
of boss and machine rule in tins
state.
Today Perrett go* his. Mr Per
rett was chief of police in this city
and aided and abetted the rank elec
tion frauds which caused his in
dictment ana later l.is tii.il awl con
viction. Strong arm methods,
double-up, impersonations, and sun
dry other tricks of the political
trade now in the discard were made
use of by the delinquent chief, all ot
which resulted in. his getting four
years in the federal penitentiary from
Judge Anderson, just to think it
over.
LOCAL ITEMS.
The V. S. Geological Survey is
sues Bulletin No. G66-P which under
the head of Our Mineral Supplies
and a special head of Alaska Mine
ral Supplies contains valuable in
formation written by Alfred H.
Brooks on the subject of the loca
tion of the rarer war metals. It is
interesting to note that this broch
ure states under the head of Plati
num. “In 191G the Alaska placer
mines began to pay attention to the
finding of platinum, and as a result
about 10 or 12 ounces was recover
ed, chiefly from the placers of the fj
newly discovered Koyuk district in *
the southeastern part of Seward 5
Peninsula, also from Bear creek in D
the Fairhaven district of Seward g
Peninsula. It is not known that !
there are any of these dictrict 5
pacers that could bo profitably ope- s
rated for the platinum content j
alone.’- S
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