Satlij Nnntf 3ninistrial Worker.
Published Daily except Sunday
«Q, Nome Mine Workers' Union, No. *40. Western Federation of Miners.
Entered us second class matter March 1. 1811. at the post offlce at
florae, ■ Alassa, under the Act ot March S, 1878.
Nome. Alaska, July 1-', 1010.
ANTIMONY.
A miner in Nome is in receipt oi
a communication irom a smelter
company in San Francisco wnereiu
it is stated that the market for an
timony ore lias dropped so badiy
cnly $15 or $20 can be offered for
the highest grades of the ore.
•rne firm states that it is itn
possible to compete with China
■which is now supplying the market
■with enormous quantities of the
ore and unless the Alaskan ore can
tie got out at the above price they
cannot handle it.
Naturally under existing condi
tions there will be no attempt made
to handle antimony ore in this sec
tion of the country.
This matter is worth more than
temporary consideration.
In the first place it reveals the
fact that industry is assuming a
more and more international nature.
The good republican protectionist
will right away declare that the only
remedy for fthte state of things is
to put on a duty on this ore. They
will blame democratic free trade for
the Chinese competition.
But suppose they did place a
heavy ad valorem duty upon this
antimony, it is evident that the ma
nufacturers using the ore would
then have to pay more for their
antimony, and the product of their
plants would, with the increase in
raw material, be placed at a disad
vantage with the plants which in
other countries received the anti
mony, and the product of their
plants would, with the increase in
raw material, be placed at a disad
vantage with the plants which in
other countries received the anti
mony free of duty.
Protection as a policy would be
effective from an employer's point
of view were American trade con
fined solely within domestic limits.
Then all would benefit to the extent
that the antimony mine owner
would benefit, because the Amer
ean manufacturer would be protect
ed in the American market against
j<<>ods made from cheaper antimony
and the like.
But these are days of world trade.
The raw material such as antimony
ore and the like must be had as
cheaply as possible so that Amer
ican industries utilizing such will
not be at a disadvantage compared
with those using the cheaper raw
material. The manufactured goods
of one and the other will meet in
the same plane on the foreign mar
kets in this event and not other
wise. It is then that other indus
trial advisers suggest breaking down
the American standard of wages
to that of other countries, so that
the American manufacturer will be
at no like disadvantage in this re
gard.
These are the great industrial
questions which the system is de
veloping within the womb of the
present, for profit making of the
future.
It was all very well just as long
as the Americans could by improved
machinery and by speeding up and
efficiency counterbalance in produc
tiveness of the few the cheap labor
of the many coolies in oth r coun
tries. But those days are gone by.
The modern Chinaman uses machin
ery and modern tools. He is build
ing hydro-electric plants, machine
drills, steam, compressed air, elec
tric cranes and all the wonderful
improvements in technology, many
of which Americans dont know a
thing about.
For the past ten years technical
advance has been more marked In
Europe than America. Only Amer
icans living in the shadows of the
setting past think otherwise. The
American mechanical engineer
knows better, and he is struck with
the marvels of the later internal
combustion engines, the chemical
developments and the applications
of the ast thing in science to in
dustry. Most of these arc being
adapted in Japan, in China and in
India. So that in addition to the
cheapest labor In the world and the
most simple standard of living, the
orientals thanks to Caucasian in
struction, are now utilizing the lat
est technical improvements in the
industries.
Take this antimony ore mining
When the Chinese toos. over control
and operation of the Kuangski pro
\ Vince mines, they first of all intro
duced over a quarter million dollars
\ "worth of the very latest machinery.
Nothing in Butte or the Rand or in
^Colorado is more modern or more
such thing as competing with China
n the antimony market.
As anyone can see at a glance,
this condition is extending to almost
avery line. It is ceveioping in
Japan in the iron and steel trade
It is evolving in China in the cement
textile and other industries.
China is dumping pig iron on the
I acific Coast. With a score of high
ly capitalized cement plants along
the coast of Washington and Cali
fornia, Hongkong is dumping a
better grade of cheaper cement
along the Pacific Coast which is the
despair of competitors.
It is unnecessary to add details.
Anyone that reads with any atten
tion trade journals or the reports as
to Oriental imports can fill in facts
by the score.
What then? Chinese exclusion
or other anti-immigration laws are
no use to prevent American labor
being placed in direct com
petition with the labor
of the Orient. If the manufactured
goods of Pittsburg and Canton meet
in the market of South Amevica,
Africa or Australia, It means that
American labor wntch produced
those goods meets in competition
therein also.
There is no possibility of getting
over this. It is a fact. And the at
tempt of trade unionists to keep out
members of oriental races from
their organization is only an amus
ing attempt to prevent a competi
tion that exists and will exist none
the less.
Furthermore just so surely as a
coolie standard of labor exists In
any part of the world, in these days
of world trade and world markets,
just so surely will the tendency be
to iower the American standard *o
that of the coolie. We see that
actually happen where America
comes in direct competition with
lower wage scales, and it is witness
able in the instinctive demands of
industrial chiefs, educators, econom
ists when they urge the American
worker to a cheaper mode of living,
a thriftier habit of life and a greater
contentment with frugal fare. Dieti
cians are urging that vegetable and
cereal fare tie substituted for meat
and costlier foods, so that in turn
the subsistence standard being
lowered, the wages which as a gen
eral rule hover around the subsist
ence standard, may lower also.
Very obviously such a condition
of things will not be accomplished
without a struggle. The workers
in America, slow to move and leth
argic as can be well Imagined, will
resent the efforts to reduce them
entirely to the coolie standard. To.
day their instinct repels the notion,
but their lack of understanding due
to the misrepresentation by so-called
labor leaders, leads them to support
reforms in the way of exclusion and
restriction of immigration, to dally
with high toriffs add the like as it
their future salvation rested in any
of these things.
But clearly also, the workers will
be subjected to such economic for
ces when they know they are the
producers for a world market that
they willl demand better conditions
than the exigencies of the foreign
market will permit being given
them
The American manufacturer Is
placed today in a peculiar position.
His domestic market while the best
he has got is wholly unequal to the
demands of the industries.
Foreign markets are necessary to
his population. He cannot thrive
Into the millloned class unless ho
finds an outlet for his steel, his
lumber, his machinery, his tools, his
structural Iron, his notions of all
kinds. Yet on those foreign mark
ets he has to compete with nations
just as ingenious and just as able as
he. And they have their coolie la
bor, and it is up to him to make
coolies of his laboring classes if he
would succeed in meeting his for
eign rival on an equal footing.
He probably will appeal to the
workers in a friendly mood to bear
with reduced wages from a patri
otic sense, just as the railroad
building commission in Alaska
sought Alaskans patriotically to ac
cept low wages becauso the railpoad
was a patriotic work. He will prob
ably employ his proachers to incul
cate visions of apother world upon
the minds of the tollers, so that
they will be satisfied to burn stink
sticks to the Josses instead of ask
ing for more pay; he will utilize
the movies and the schools and the
entire educational system to teach
that the workers should be satisfied
with very little so that America
ghould lead first in industry
throughout the world.
These tactics are likely to fail,
but against open resistance by that
time the preparedness program will
have been fully carried out. Com
pulsory militarism will be an ac
complished fact and any attempt at
resistance will be suppressed with
vigor and with rigor. That is the
real purpose of preparedness.
All of this theory of living, it
may be observed, is built upon the
foundation that the manufacturing
interests are the only interests
worth considering. That is, toe, the
prevalent idea. It is conceded by
all employers that the employing
class represents the nation. it is
for them, and General Wood told
them so plainly, that armies are
created r id that wars are fought,
it certainly is around the enter
prise of commerce, the activities of
industry, the manipulations of
finance that government activities
develop. The tariff makes and un
makes administrations; currency
bills elect and defeat politicians;
consular staffs are maintained for
business expansion and the highest
fun'-tion of the navy is to protect
the flag of trade. These facts are
so obvious that they scarcely need
emphasis. The better class of citi
sen is the richer class and the poor
er are certainly the less responsible,
l’he court listens to a Rockefeller
with deference; a Morse is pardoned
because his health is indifferent;
vices still loom large through tat
ters, and “robes and furred gowns
hide all”. The leading society man
is also the man with large bank
account; the prominent church
member is seldom the laborer. The
few who are well fixed are those
for whom legal, social, political con
ditions are adjusted.
Likely enough then society will
accept as a condition the facts that
social conditions today emphasize;
that the rest of its members exist
for the benefit of the few who own.
Possibly the idea that the great
est good of the greatest number
should be the worthy ideal of so
ciety's activities may In time pene
trate. But not until the world of
profit- making has been subjected to
considerable disturbance.
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