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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly as possible. Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
Abraham Lincoln
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1011, at the post office at
ttome, • Alassa, under the Act of March 3, 187$.
Nome, Alaska, January IS, lit 10.
The attention of the Industrial
Worker has been drawn to a recent
very simple case. It is strictly ot
local importance. A man was ar
rested in a saloon charged with
drunk and disorderly and fined $25.
There is nothing unusual about
that, except that the fine was quite
high for one who certainly has not
Been before the municipal Judge.
Next day the man secured his
fine, and is^-again arrested with a
similar charge .and fined or released
on ten dollars.
That seems all regular. The man
who got drunk was fined. The city is
enriched some thirty-five dollars and
justice is satisfied.
But is it? Doubtless it is easy
enough for the magistrate to soak
the victim of the saloon the sums
mentioned, but what of the saloonlst.
who violated the ordinance giving
drink to drunken men. It was stated
to the Industrial Worker that on
hotli occasions the man was arrested
Uie direction of the saloonkeeper.
We dont doubt that, but why didn’t
the Nome bulls endeavor to discover
if that or another saloonist had sup
plied the drunken man booze, was res
ponsible for his condition, and if so
why not under the ordinance arrest
him? The saloon keeper got protec
tion sure enough. Order is main
tained, but what of the disorderly
conduct of the saloonist who plied
Ihe drunken man with liquor?
That’s the part of the matter
which is not explained. Doubtless
hulls and judge feel that they did
mighty well by the city when they
■soaked a working man who got
drunk the sum of thrity fve dollars
•of hard earned money.
But it is a wonder that it never
occurred to these same cops to en
force that ordinance which forbids
»hc sale of liquor to drunken men.
Time and time again cases oi
drunk have come into the municipal
-court and time and time again the
court enriched the city by handsome
fines.
But in none of these cases has
apparently the zeal for justice eve;
occasioned a word from the magis
trate or the police officer as to how
it is the saloonist who plies a man
with rot-gut until he can’t sec
straight, mentally or morally or
■physically, escapes r.eot free the un
questioned violation of a municipal
ordinance In doing so.
This sort of partiality the ordi
nary man views with disgust and
it is disgusting. Because the saloons
pay a license and because some
rif thorn are quite prominent in the
affairs of the city, is no -eason why
they should he able to violate the
law with impunity, and yet in all
these arrests for drunk and dis
orderly and some of them at the in
stance of the saloonkeeper, we have
never yet observed the officials
make inquiry as to how the drunk
on men were supplied with booze in
violation of the ordinance.
it’s no joke mulcting a man of
thirty five dollars because a saloon
keeper violates an ordinance. It's
no joke getting thrity-flvo dollars
together if one lives on labor and
not on graft. And certainly it is
about time that the city officials got
l)way and when cases of intoxicated
men come to their notice, place the
Blame where blame belongs, on the
.saloonist.
The determination to publish the
report of the Industrial Relations
•Commission is an Important one, as
it leaves this most Important docu
ment available to the people. The
proper way to obtain a copy is to
write to the Delegate to Congress
It should be read by everyone. I!
reveals conditions in the Unitei
States' industries which have not
even been droamt of by a good
many. That’s important. First
Knowledge of the facts, then actior
:tiased upon a knowledge of the facts
■as the only proper and Intelligent
•course for the people to pursue.
The balloting of the railroad men
in Chicago for the eight hour day is
an industrial wonder, and may be
fraught with very important conse
quences. In the first place it marks
the coming together of all the rail
road workers as with a common in
terest. Such a vote indicates an
approach to solidarity that never be
fore has been reached especially in
that industry. In the economic
w.orld, the railroad industry is the
most important. It industrially con
trols the situation, and it is upon
the control of that situation by or
ganized workers that ultimate suc
cess in the labor movement depends.
The absence of the affiliation of
these unions with the American
Federation of Labor weakens hope
lessly that otherwise numerically
srtong body, and without an alliance
with the railroad workers they will
never amount to very serioua im
portance.
This is not the only industrial
shadow overhangs the world of pro
fitmaking, this year of grace. In
the coal fields, the contracts with
the United Mine workers of Amer
ica expire on April 1. Since last
the agreement was signed up coal
has increased in price very greatly
It was accompanied by no similar
increase in wages. It Is known, ac
cording to the New York Journal of
Commerce, that the mine workers
are going to fight for a substantia!
Increase in wages, and that the coal
dompanies will fight as strongly
against it.
The Journal of Commerce is pes
simistic as far as the prospects for a
successful fight is concerned against
the miners. It is pointed out that
the organization controls most of
the mines; that the membership is
increasing while the number of non
union coal diggers has greatly de
creased. The decrease in the latter
is due to the European war taking
an enormous number of Italians,
Slavonians, Croatlans, Hungarians,
Bulgars, Poles and others back to
their own country to fight.
It was ’'upon this non-union ele
ment not only in the mines but
available for employment in the
mines that the companies mainly
, depended and therefore it is wond
ered where in the world hope is to be
found that the miners will bo suc
cessfully fought.
There is just one ray of hope.
Nor is it altogether so vain as
might appear. This is the much
abused, much denounced, much dis
credited anti-trust legislation. Now
it is true that the Clayton bill which
has control of the trust situation is
free in its declaration that labor la
not a commodity within the mean
ing of the law; but there have
sprung up innumerable lawyers, and
able men all of them, who have ex
plicitly stated that labor does come
under the law, and that President
Wilson himself said so, and further
said that if Labor did not »• -me
under the law he would not have
signed the bill.
Therefore when a big railroad tie
up Is followed by a tie-up of the
coal fields and industry is demo
ralized, comes then the prosecution
under the trust for restraint oi
trade, Clayton bill or no Clayton
bill. At least that’s the way they
have It doped out—but, the "best
laid schemes of mice and men gang
aft agley”?
The passing of a conscription a cl
places all men on an oqual footing
contend its supporters. It does no
thing of the kind. ltv works a tre
mendous hardship on those who are
the sole support of a family ant
have to give up their work to thai
end, to fight and be killed, leavini
dependents to eke out an existence
In the most miserable mannor.
Morally only one thing could jus
tlfy conscription. That is social ant
Industrial equality. To mt-ke mei
who have nothing to fight for, flgh
upon the same footing and for thi
same cause as those to whom tha
cause means everything, Is no'
justice from any moral point of
view. But as workers are but cat
tle anyway in the eve :> c? those who
have profited by their ... . every
thing goes—morally just or no«..
And truth to tell, if the system com
pels men through economic stress to
labor for another’s profit, there is
nothing so unreasonable in com
pelling them to fight for mother's
gain also, is there?
A number of southeastern Alas
kans want the Territory divided up
so as to exclude the “backward"
divisions from the rest, that is the
the Second and Fourth Divisions,
all right of course, but it might be
as well to say that if it wasn't for
the Second ond Fourth Divisions,
three fourths of these ambitious
little jerk water southeastern settle
ments wouldn’t even be marked
upon the map: “O women of three
cows, agra, don’t let your tongues
so rattle; and dont be saucy, don?
be proud, because you have some
cattle”. The words of the poet are
pregnant with caution for those who
fear the independence of the miners
and prospectors of the two “back
ward” divisions.
The city has claim to sympathy
in the action of the Marshal’s office
in descending upon an alleged
gambling house and making arrests.
And that too, when the city was
accustomed to do the sanm thing
with other men and other places in
a gentlemanly manner of abstrac
tion by making an arrest, setting
the ball at a hundred bones, and
thus satisfying justice. Some peo
ple never let well enough alone,
and insist upon taking stops to en
force the law, thus depriving the
city of a quite healthy and lucrative
source of revenue. Couldn’t they
respect the Lid?
This gentle jeu d’esprit is from
the Saturday Evening Post, which
apparently has no fears of lese ma
jeste, moral or otherwise:
One He Knew
Undoubtedly it was a Republican,
and a rabid Republican at that,
who put this story into circulation.
He said a lover of the works and
the memory of Samuel L. Clemens
went to the town of Hanibal, Mis
souri,, where Mr. Clemens spent his
boyhood and hunted up the oldest
inhabitant. ,
“Do you remember Mark Twain
—Samuel L. Clemens—who once
lived in this town?” asked the
visitor. 4
The aged Hannibalite shooK his
head.
“Never heared tell of him.” he
said.
‘•Well, didn't you know the origi
nal of Tom Sawyer?”
‘ Nope, never heared tell of that
fellow, neither”.
“Maybe you knew Huck Finn?”
“Nope”.
“Well, how about Puddin’head
Wilson—ever hear of him?”
“Hell, yes; I voted for him in
1912!”
At any rate this war is giving
many people an opportunity of ac
quiring fame in promoting peace
who otherwise would never have
been heard of; and many men and
women who never suffer from
wrathful indignation which “tears
the heart” on account of industrial
horrors, are superactivc in sym
pathy for the victims of war. Such
humanity is a delightful thing.
Let’s all shed a tear of sympathy
for the injustice of the indictments
against the New Haven directors
and let all hearts swell with pride
that Justice has asserted itself in
shielding the down trodden financi
ers who were the victims of a popu
lar craze to punish rich and poor
alike. Fiat justitia ruat coelum, as
Hogan says. *
One first class outside mail has
arrived to date since the close of
navigation. What became of the
rest of it? When one considers how
perfect, and efficient, and well orga
nized, and satisfactory, and prompt
and smooth-wOrking and;—but here,
what’s the use?
Juneau is to be the scene of the
Democratic convention. Where thy
treasure lies, lieth the heart also.
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PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
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