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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1811, at the post office at
florae, • Alaska, under the Act of March Sf 1878.
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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
-early as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government."—
aro-anam Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker.
Box UlO Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 13 4.
Nome, Alaska, December ‘ \>! fi.
TilC I
There are a number of labor
trials ['ending throughout the states.
Most of these arise out of strike
troubles. Strikes start, violence fol
lows and arrests are made. The
government in charge tries there
upon to make the strikers guilty ot
ail violence that took place. It is
quite immaterial that the accused
men are positively known to have
nothing to do with the crimes for
which they are charged: it is suffi
cient that they * took part in the
strike and sufficient they were
members In the organization which
went on the strike from which viol
ence grew, to have them guilty. It
was on such a precedent that Ford
and Suhr in Calidornla,
Lawson in Colorado, Scarlett
and Tresea in the iron
range are charged with being guilty
of murder. That the murders in
the latter case were committed by
gunmen in the employ of the steel
company has not been allowed to
affect the indictment in the least. It
is sufficient that the men indicted
were guilty of aiding and abetting
the strike during the course of
which the company guards commit
ted acts of violence, to make the
strikers and not the guards the guil
ty ones in the eyes of the law.
Everyone of these labor trials,
some of which have ended, some of
which are nearly finished and others
which are still pending, have for
their purpose the establishment of
a precedent that strikers be respons
ible for all results of a strike. I*
crime is committed no matter if it is
commitod by the corporation against
the strikers, the latter are to be ad
* judged guilty. If this becomes a ju
dicial precedent, fully supported
and thus part of the regular Com
mon Law. it is easy to see what a
powerful weapon it will be In the
hands of the employing classes ir
the suppression of strikes. Equalitj
before the law, did some one say?
HILLINGS.
When Billings was awaiting trial
in San Francisco practically every
paper lent its par-a to the having
him appear a villain oi the deepest
dye. But the San Francisco Exam
iner really excelled all tire rest. It
made him one of the men respons
ible for the anarchist riots at Hay
market, Chicago eight years before
lie was born. It is a somewhat old
established method of hanging a
dog: give the animal a bad name
and the rest is easy.
FIGHT OVER THE HONE.
When one over-etliusiastic politi
cally minded workingman up-braid
ed the other for his lack of inter
est in tiie scraps of rival politicians,
he received the rebuke indifferently.
“Ever see two dogs scrapping over
a bone”, lie asked, “Well I'm the
hone", he averred.
Now that was considered a very
unpleasant and inappropriate re
mark when first it went the rounds
of publicity, but the facts in the in
dustrial world are alive with inci
dents confirming the correctness ot
the view so strikingly put by the
politically indifferent one.
Take a recent case in point.
Shortage of help (or Insufficiency of
unemployed to select from, and to
make use of, to brow beat discon
tented workers into submission,
which is, under this capitalist eco
nomy, the same thing) stimulated
northern manufacturers to go south
after negro help which they brought
up by the carload to the northern or
western states.
It was a distribution of the sur
plus. In consequence when the sur
plus in the south became reduced
and there was not sufficient compe
tition among the workers there,
southern employers became alarmed
and they became angry over the si
i illation. So here is the city of Mont
turnery, Alabama, passing a fine ordi
: nar.ee wlii< ii makes it a crime to
rustle laborers from that city and
punishable by a fine of one hundred
dollars and not less than sixty days
in jail. They know whence conies
the source of the wealth produced in
Montgomery, any way.
JURY PICKING.
The strikers walked out of the
Allis-Clialmers plant at West Allis,
Milwaukee had the West Allis Chiel
of Police enjoined. It was an inter
esting restraining order which was
issued against Chief Minturn. It
appears that West Allis has an ordi
nance which enables the chief ot
police to hand-pick jurors and as
many strikers were arrested in that
section during the strike against the
machinist company, they had to take
this means of protecting themselevs
from the jury-picking tendency of a
chief favoring the company against
whom the men were on strike.
Now that case has a particularly
interesting feature as far as Alaska
is concerned. The Judge granted
the restraining order and said that
the ordinance enabling a hand
picked jury to try men was “vicious
in principle”. But hand picked
juries are the vogue in Alaska. They
have been the vogue in Nome from
time immemorial. Isn't it time that
something was done about it, when
even the courts outside recognize
the fact that hand picked juries
are vicious in principle.. We trow,
yes.
MOTORS AND OTHER THINGS.
The question of buying a motor
to start an engine in the Nome
pumping plant also suggests another
question. Whose is that pumping
plant? Is it the city’s that it should
go to the expense of making that
plant efficient or is it owned by a
private syndicate that would avoid
the expense of making it efficient for
the purpose of doing the work de
manded of it under contract with
the city? What sort of a pig in a
poke is it any way?
SHE WAS INSANE.
Bark in Barraboo, Wisconsin, a
: lady was arrested because she point
i od a gun at several people. She was
considered insane. But had there
been a strike on and had she been
' a gunman employed by a company
whose employees were on strike, the
I crazy person could not only have
| pointed her gun at every person
came along, but could have emptied
its contents on the first crowd,
and further instead of being insane,
would have been upheld as an up
holder of law and order. Economic
determinism, that’s all.
SOME READY WIT.
There are compensation acts and
compensation acts, and most of them
have the altruistic employers wond
ering how they can get out of pay
ing compensation when under the
law it is due.
A Pennsylvania efficiency expert
discovered how. His plan is ingeni
ous. It is worth repeating. He had
a very dangerous plant and acci
dents were frequent. So he made his
employees all shareholders in the
company by donating one share
apiece to them as a “bonus”. When .
one of them sued the corporation ,
for damages, they found that they ,
were suing themselves as stockhold
ers and that the master and servant
relation did not hold. This labor
legislation is to laugh!
GRADING AND THEN SOME.
If any one takes the trouble to •
pore over same extensions of re- •
marks in the pre-election period of ,
a Congressional session, he will be ,
rewarded by a speech of almost sup
erhuman eloquence upon the part M
some orator from an agricultural
state on the evils of “grading” as
carried on at present in the wheat
business. The farmers’ wheat is
graded and it is paid for by the ele
vators or the brokers at the market
rate for that "grade”. One carload
goes in as Grade one, two carloads
go in as Grade two, three go in as
Grade three. And they reach the
mills as three carloads of Grade
One, two of Grade two., and one car
load of Grade throe. The difference
#roes to the middleman. It is a
whole lot simpler than the ordinary
methods of the bunco-steerer, and is
quite legal. Now comes the dairy
man of a Variety pf states and says
the milk is graded falsely in the
same way to the farmer’s loss, and
eke the corn raiser has the same sad
tale to tell. But what are you go
ing to do about it? It’s good bus
iness and highly moral, for business,
especially gopd business, like
charity covers a multitude of in
iniquities.
IM KGLEfTi: U.S.
The socialist intellectuals resemble
in many ways the lawyers. Thc-y
seem almost out of place out
side the legal profession, for th ;
can split more and finer hairs than
anyone outside an expert of l^gai
technicallities. Take those high
browed parliamentarians over in
Furope. The French and the Ger
man socialists are chewing the rag
as to what would have been the po
licy of Juares had he not been shot
do-.n. The f < rmans say lie would
ha*, e opposed the war, vhile the
Frenchmen say that lie would hti'.e
upheld It.
Now comes Kautsky who being a
bit of a militarist himsetf who says
that Juarez undoubtedly would have
agreed with the policies on both the
French and English governments
which he thought would have kept
the nations out of the war. In tills
Juares was of course wrong, says
Kautsky, like most of the French
socialists.
When these intellectuals become
so sectarian that they dispute over
fool questions as to what the dead
would have done if they had lived,
it is an evident sign of mental dis
solution. the departure of vitality
and the decay of the movement.
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FOREIGN.
The great argument that was
brought against the single tax in
California during the last election
was that it was a “foreign” importa
tion. The singletaxers pointed out
that their plan originated with
Henry George.' Now Henry George
himself would have put the single
taxers right by pointing out that it
was originated in France during the
revolutionary era when it was
known as l’impot unique.
That is not here or there. It is
the familiarity of the argument.
When interests want to oppose any
i movement that they dont like, -- is
] foreign and un-American. Thus
; anti-preparedness, thus the refer
! endum and recall, thus socialism,
: thus this, that and the other thing.
The scoundrel’s last refuge muls
many uses these days.
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