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aearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
Abranam Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black lit.
Nome, Alwaha, February 21, 1917.
THK EMPLOYMENT MANAGER.
All modern ideas of employment
are founded upon the premises
that the present system of industry
is immutable. And the most con
siderate of employment managers
for large concerns devote themselves j
to their work with this idea fixed ,
in their heads.
What they face then is a very j
simple problem. They need efficient j
workers and efficient workers in the J
sense that their labor shall reach
the very highest point of profitable
efficiency.
The worker accordingly is sub
jected to certain tests wherein his
labor is made to reach a certain
standard, founded itself upon the
highest of profits possible of ob- i
taining.
The extent to which these employ
ment managers, and efficiency ex
perts working with them, are carry
ing their theories is hardly realized
by the average pierson who has had
no experience in modern plants. But
it is astounding.
Minute movements are studied by 1
motion picture and checked by stop
watch. They are graphed mathema
tically and every single superfluous
motion is eliminated. I'nlike the
machine, unfortunately the human
being is responsive to external sf
muli which are unknown in me
chanical contrivances. Hence these
have to be studied as well. Thus the
effect of well lighted surroundings,
or dark working quarters, goo1, or
bad ventilation. pleasurable im
pulses and the like are studied by
modern industrial psychologists who
have gone so far as to ('heck the dif
ference In output due to the wall
paintings and the effect of the
colors that immediately surrounded
the workers. Experimenters have
introduced mush boxes and phono
graphs to workshops where the noise
... iery could not drown the
concord of sweet sounds, and the ef
fect of vibration, mechanical noises
and the like have all received atten
non.
In some instances the output In
creased per individual worker a
fraction of one per cent, but quite
enough to make the total produc
tion reach a high increase.
It is all very elaborate and all
very scientific hut its results, it may
well he asserted, have all been more
or less questionable. The fact is ;
that modern industry is actual slav- ,
,.rv—wage slavery and gilding the
bonds with welfare work ideas
helps but very little.
The machine in modern industry
has removed the delight of the
. raftsman in the exercise of his
creative power. In a feiv trades
like that of the printer he can still
allow some play to his artistic seuse
and some freedom to his original
creative instinct. But these are gett
ing fewer year by year and today in
the majority of callings, the worker
is a machine tender. His work ^
consists in the repetition over and j
over and over again of certain me
chanical acts which in themselves |
become eventuality involuntary, and j
they can keep up a conversation |
with a by-stander on subjects wholly !
remote from the work on hand. |
showing the complete separation of J
the intellect from the muscular j
movements.
Such a condition primarily in- '
duces bodily and later great mental
fatigue. This fatigue results in I
certain toxic developments in the j
system and the worker exventuaily ,
breaks down. He is an industrial
victim predisposed to wasting or
occupational disease and his work
begins to deteriorate. He has to be
eventually scrapped.
Long ago when the craftsman la
bored and the love of the craft made
his toil a pleasure much as the ar
tist finds pleasure in his work,
craftsmen lived to tie a able to en
joy a very old age. The weaver
who spun rare designs in damask
and linen was often practising his
trade while an octogenarian; the
modern textile worker is aged at
forty and losing a job can hardly
get another.
Machinery has not lightened hu
man toil, it has, as Marx pointedly
remarked, merely served to increase
profits. It has. instead, shortened
lives and made them the degenerate
thing that old age too often ap
pears in industrial centers, things
of gray haired destitution, prema
turely old, senile, and physically
wrecks. The flotsam and jetsam that
the industrial flood tide casts dere
lict upon the shores of society are
unwholesome to look at. and un
pleasant to understand.
Naturally with this condition pre
vailing great plants have to main
tain what are called employment
managers. Their function is some
what similar to that of the planta
tion foreman in slavery days. They
have to secure employees for the
different departments in the indus
try and keep tabs upon working
conditions so that each may be ad
justed to his position.
All the time the work must never
stop, and the output as to capa
city and as to profit and as to speed
maintained at the very highest
point.
Employment managers deal with
the personal factor. But the per
cona! factor in modern industry is
onh a very small portion of the fac
tors which make and which just as
surely break workers. .The ma
chine is reacting upon its tender
with just as powerful force as the
motive power is affecting the ma
chine. The machine is really the gi
ant power in modern production,
the power that has to a very great
extent crushed into the system, the
bitterness of its own iron and its
own mechanical soul. The machine
undoubtedly erects an environment
which molds the workers mind as it
warps his body to the iron necessity
ot' its own motions. It is the ever
present assertion of the law of cau
sation. It asserts the necessity of
cause and effect, act and reaction,
motion and consequence, action and
result always and with monotonous,
uniform and precise regularity.
Every rotation of a pulley, every
swing of the lever, every drive of
the screw, every wheel, cog and ec
centric insists upon the elimination
of the unnecessary and certain re
lation of action and reaction.
At the machine this terrific discip
line brands its marks upon the soul
of the machine tender beyond the
power of welfare workers or em
ploment managers to effoee. In con
sequence he takes it with him from
the workshop and his mind auto
matically considers every question
in terms of that mechanical discip
line. It interrogates everything in
terms of its necessity: governmental
institutions religious doctrines, po
litical and economic theories. Every
thing that justifies itself by the doc
trine of necessity averts its elimina
tion by reason thereof. Everything
that presents itself as a superfluity,
as an inutility, as a something which
may be eliminated with benefit to
the scheme of social things is sub
jected to an erosive criticism that
will soon destroy it.
So it is that the machine discip
line itself is subjecting private own
ership and profit making to analysis.
It is asking the question whether
society requires these things to get
the greatest good from human activ
ity by the active ones.
It is questioning the merits of a
system insists upon destroying hu
man life and upon menacing the
social health, and it is querying the
immutability which the technique of
modern employment management in
sists as the premises for founding
its work. The machine itself that
private owners have harnessed to
tueir private uses when it should
be for the public benefit is the very
factor which threatens the existence
of that private ownership.
GST TOE NEWS RIGHT. RKAb
THE WORKER.
CITY BATH HOUSE
has the largest
and only 6 feet
Bath Tubs In Nome.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To John La Montagne and J. A.
Reilley, your heirs, executors,
successors or assigns:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that I hare expended the
sum of one hundred dollars in labor
and improvements, each year for the
years 1915 and 1916 on the follow
ing placer mining claims, to wit:
the Annie claim situated on the
second tier right limit of Sunset
creek and the Little Gem situated
on the second tier right limit of Sun
set creek, said claims being re
corded and more fully described in
the Records of the Cape Nome Min
ing and Recording precinct, in the
Second Division of the Territory of ;
Alaska, the Annie claim at page !
165 in Yol. 114 and the Little)
Gem at page 88 in Vol. 116 of said
records.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
I mining claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said claims.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if within ninety
days after the last publication of
this notice you fail to contribute
your proportion of said expenditure,
your interest in said claims will be
come the property of the under
signed your co-owner, under section
2324. Revised Statutes of the
United States.
BARNEY COGGINS.
Co-Owner.
Date of first pub!.. Jan. 24. 1917.
) Date of last publ.. April 25, 1917.
i NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR j
PATENT.
I _ I
! In the United States Land Office 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, has made application
j before the U. S. Land Office at Nome
Alaska, for a Uniteu States Patent
1 for No. 5 on Specimen Gulch Placer
Claim in the Cape Nome Recording
| District. Alaska. being Mineral i
I Survey No. 1191; said claim being
1 more particularly described In' the
l field notes and plat of the official
j survey thereof now on file in said j
; Land Office at Nome. Alaska, as fol
i lows:
Beginning at Cor. 1. Identical with
Cor. 1 Kathleen Claim. Sur. No.
1157. Cor. 4, of No. 13 Dexter Creek
Sur. No. 4 IS and Cor. 2. Bella Frac
tion. Sur. 47 8; a fir post 4 ins. sq.
! 2 ft. above ground, in earth mound
j scribed 1-1157 K. 4-418, 2-47S B. F.
land 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. 87 deg.
04 min. W. Yar. IS deg. 35 min. E.
1171.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N.
2 deg. 11 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 '
min. E. 357.60 ft. to Cor. No. 3; j
thence N. 0 deg. 02 min. E. Yar. 19'
deg 15 E. 332.SO 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
j District, Alaska.
The Location is recorded in Vol.
! 16 Page 61 of the records of said
! district. The adjoining claims arc
on the north, unknown; on* the
I south Kathleen, Sur. 1157, Frank
i Dolan, claimant; on the East Bella
Fraction, Sur. 4 78, Pioneer Mining
Co. owner and on west No. 4 Spe
cimen Gulch unsurveyed, claimant
unknown.
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There are no conflicting claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ, Jaa. 'cl. 1917.
Date of last publ., March 28, 1917.
No. 0305.
NOTICE OF 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
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and j
on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, has made application before
the United States Land Office at
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
3. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
695, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above •
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,1
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. Var. 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.
386.80 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 5.908 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
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
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. 48 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. 19
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- j
surveyed ground on Lake Creek [
about 4.5 miles north of the Town j
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record- j
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 1
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 Vol.
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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