Daily Name Jndiustrial Markt-L
Published Daily except Sunday
By Nome Mine Worker*’ Union, No. 240. International Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Worker**.
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Entered as second class matter Marcia 1, 1911, a! ths post office at
»ome, • Alaska, unaer the Act of March J, 1871.
"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly as possible, la a worthy object of any good government."—
Abraham Lincoln
All changes In standing advertisements must reach this office at six
o'clock each evening to Insure insertion in the following issue
Advertising rates made knot j on application.
■xidri.-s all Ci.ramunTratior.tf
Box 210 Nome, Alaska.
to Daily Nome Industrial NN r rker,
Phone, Black 12»
Nome, Alaska, S“pi ;■ 2*. 107.
1 Ki l l > of '■ «! f \ i i1 Ac.
'! !, id!:■ i riptuble h?i- «>: the
V .!. : St-'l! ■ ilc-f rr i g to t i •• I i r - it
i|.low,--; i T< world. It
is iii ry good. bid and in
different highly selective.
It provide- for the drafting ol
nv-u who ;ir• - lit -rally i:i that age
when tin : are at the full end prime
d' vcii.i.iii- nt of their physical pow
i-rs.
Tile older nie:, gi t the stiri-t
will they show signs of physical de
terioration and for that rcas-n it
is v--r> interesting and very signi
! that not w'-thsat tiding the low
eg, .;: 11 i; : ’ for s.-h-i live draft in
tin. (' e;; ( d <tai, s tin number of
r- ' should he so high.
-;.I- , r he U lid c-rsloofl
11.. - ! at- nil\ - i ; 1 te.-ts were not
s- ■. l ie lists win. h i lie Oral too
in,-:. nmb-rw. tit was by no mo ms
s'i- i. as i.a t 1 -•»-!, established for the
r-ru:' •' m<-n in the regular army
In many ways the bars were
thrown down: as to eve sigh- as to
teeth. a.- to general standard ol
physique.
Xotwith.-landing this the number
who failed to pass the physical
tests under modi a! examination is
astonishing. The per rentrge In
some places made the authorities
gasp, hut as might have been ex
pi- led in this inquisitive and ana
lytic age. the facts are not. gi-' h
too much puldii itv.
Tin- rejectians varied differently
from 20 to <10 p -r cent in different
centers end even in the healtiest
t apparently t spots the rejections
wet e high.
A letter published in the New
York Times in the shape of an ar
ticle on the drafting of married
men told how tilings were done in
New York
"In the better resident districts,
■where the average of physical iit
ness is high, the medical examiners
rejected men, who in any detail
failed to meet the doubtless too
rigorous requirements of the r fil
iations tor tlie regular army. hi
oiler districts there was no pretense
ot putting londhlates though the
complicated exam:: * died
I live in a quart r v 11:• a is half
middle class and hail slum. t>
the standard of physique is arob
ably rather low; the exariiir.g
pliysi' ians ax irdingly swept every
man who looked reaso tablv fit".
although we have heard a good
ileal more about exemption and
exemption claims than this question
ot the physical tests, the physical
tests contained within the facts
gathered therefrom on * of the most
startling lessors in American in
dustrial life.
Now almost everyone knows that
the health and the physique varies
generally as the tin incia- standard
of the community. flic wed to do
man is usually quite vigorous or il
not has at least a quite vigorous
family. The poverty stricken man
suffers from mal-nutrition and his
family develops ad the t-iiu of ills
directly traceable to such a cause.
Jn the cities tin:-- facts tire no
ticeable in an intensified form. The
poverty leads to congested condi
tions in slums and tenement with
most disastrous consequences tr
the general health of that section
of the community. Those reje.-tio: *
then, judging bv the luolh'ds ol
the mpdical examiners, as reported
in the New York Times, rue even
more significant than the figures in
per centage would rougluy indicate.
The examiners adjusted themselves,
so to say to the health of the dis
tricts, being lenient where low phy
sical standards were common ami
strict where they were high.
Now all of these tilings can lie
directly traced to just one thing;
Labor exploitation. And the health
of the community varied as the in
tensity of ilie exploitation.
t| is a high price to pay for effi
. do. iii hi.-;r\ anti it is not too
mui : to su;. that that tin- i>rotita
art- iT'-filing: with tlistuse germs
and :ai , with blood, it is only
win liit* nationi1 health is sub
.1 r-<;. i •< tin test. mid hy no tm ans
a thorough tos-, th.it even a slight
con. "].tion of actual industrial c ists
ill life and liealtli are ascertained.
Such a test Is found in the ex
amination of adult males between
the am-s of ill and 31. t'nder that
test society is found wanting; what
would he were the test extrude,
to take in the ages of ill f i -5". 7
Qiiiii p • ei.il> a lied Cross circu
lar ni. d th.e t'l.. ; that ti'c ol'ira
ni/. was to look alt.-r the inter
i : •i'e -'. whose n iroial • on.Htiou
a: - that o powrty destitution
J u- . vi v. hat t hat meai.s
wlnu 11n- normal condition of a
lari! - section of the population P
recognized as suffering from desti
tulion. Vet it is quite true that in
enormous per rentage ill tlr; lath
sillier and have suffered troll In
sult:. idit food, clothing and fror
most miserable and unsanitary
shelter wherein they live. A'l < t
tli. si tilings are reflected in the te
ji ction as physically unfit o' the
liigh per centage of the drafted
men. Withal the fact is blurred
ovi r with a hazy publicity thai Is
Intentional and that it should he
forgotten just as soon as uttered
The important fact is that Hu r
ls not a single effort made to re
medy this condition. It may be ii
is because those who have remedies
for almost everything under tin
sun have no remedy lor this. Wt
might overlook the Inability and
inipotency of such as these, were il
not for the tact that they join
hands with those who persist in the
view that those who have a remedy
should he silenced. And that is
what the workers are so sillier
about today and if it is not good
reason, it certainly would be worth
knowing what would justify dis
content and agitation.
What lias made so many physi
cally unfit is not anything else bin
Hi • social conditions provided foi
the workers in modern industry
The machine and the general s\
stem of modern production for pro
fits warps the body and mint
ra. ks the health and strength o:
the workers* It does more. It i:
responsible for an infant deatl
rate that is appaling, and in many
industrial sections the young art
prematurely old. where they an
not absolutely broken down.
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The life of the average worker
in many industrial plants varies
from three to eight years, depend
ing upon the physlqve o.' the la
borer. The man who should other
wise he in tiie prime of life is
scrapped as unfit for anything else
but dependence upon charity.
T!:> waste of human material
is not taken much stock of. it is
gloss, 1 ov.r in silence and it af
fords immense par; siti : forces in
society an unlimited material for
i begging charity and incidentally
providing thems Ives ivitl an easy
and secure living.
i That waste however is rot neces
sary. It could be dine without.
But it is necessary under capital
ism: under an economic system
| wherein profits is the incentive for
active industry and where human
net •s.dty and human welfare is ;.
mitt r of only setond: ry imuort
aiu •*.
Th- in m t'ac tint to ovor< ome
this tr-nit : dt'tis ■,rifiee of lnMlth
and life to industry .this daily
weekly ■: . yearly toll of ;
■.ion". s;n>ng t e-.- to the s o r. V
that. Ma'.'.imon dema: Is. one must
th-s:r -y th" profit incentive, i- th.
i reason 1 r the fact that the sy-a in
i still remains with us. l'rolif'.
I wealth accumulation. propert'
! values are more precious in the
| mind of modern society than hu
\ man lit- and human health.
We can understand then why
those who liave a remedy for it
niost .ill things have none to oflu
for this. They know very well that
they cannot tamper with the sy
stem. To do so they would come
lie!ween the dragon and his wrath
| at their peril. Thefr courage n ay
rise to definite heights, but it line
no ambition to soar to such lidai.ts
as tlait.
Instead they join hands wiM the
vi ry element tltat lie created mb
conditions and which when the
v. 1.1 k rs t ;> . St "ps tn bet ter limn
, ry cur tl t loo are sc. .’ .m.s.
I treasonable agitating persist.s. ti be
, suppressed at all hanarils.
Heine tile labor unions, im'.m si
with the tine notion of removi tg
this tremendous waste of inn un
life tlia' modern capitalist industry
demands, are met with the clamor
from press, from pulpit, irem politi
cian. from patriot and from plut’d
rebund that they are disloyal and
inieuitously aiding the enemy.
It is somewhat an irony that
those who raise this cry are the
very persons who have wrought
j such mitt upon tlie nition that tin
strong ones have become wen * and
! sii kly atnl the tougli and hard and
! many muscled sons of the hardy
men who opened up and developed
the national resources are become
; the tubercular physical degenerates
that are rejected bv the doctors as
unlit to fight the nation's battles.
Enemy's bullets may kill many,
enemy shells may main still mere,
hut lor the past titty years the ma
chiuery of modern production for
profits lias been silently and pass
ively and surely and without undue
publicity been destroying, maiming j
poisoning, degenerating millions
without let or hindrance.
Is the fact to pass unheeded that !
as a c-onse tiience of 11\is. in the day !
of the nation's peril, those respons
ible in a large measure for this
unpleasant situation, those who are j
parties to the national physical j
deb riorntion and degeneration, who:
have undermined the national J
strength and poisoned the national i
system, are the very ones who
would utterly silence those who cry !
out against the wrong and who
would take active steps to end that
wrong for ever—and would slier.ee
them under the pretext that they
are giving aid and comfort, to the
enemy—those very persons who
have in peace and war been doing
their best, for the sake of profits
to deliver over the nation helpless,
stri ligthiess and defenseless to anv
enemy that would wish it—who
J ; lit" health and physical arid
moral i'r.T.gth of tin- nation for]
their misers!:!.' tliirtv pie* -•» of
.-ilver bet! r known as the profits j
of ti: ir business or the dividends i
on th-ur stock holdings?
i t ! in I 11! V. GOOD TO i vr.
Rubarb, crabapples, |>ea<hes,
peals, tomatoes, plums, cucumliers.
Potatoes, first class. We have now
coffee, .flour, sugar, orisco, meat,
dried fruits, raisins.
NOMK GROCERY CO.
A. F. OESTREICH, Mgs.
STEAMER ARCTIC.
will sail for Teller. York, I leering
Keewalik ami Kotzebue
SEPTUM HER 1*S.
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M. PAKCOFF.
I.AIMES & GENTS TAILOR.
Your Clothes Cleaned, Pressed and
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SLITS MADE TO ORDER from
select fabrics and trimmings.
AM, WORK GUARANTEED.
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Without Additional Charge.
Oct. 10th. Oct. 25th.
SAILING SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.
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W AGENTS Commercial Agent.
At Dock. Front St. and Steadman Ave.
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Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF \V. STEIGEL MAIER AND OF LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILL RE
CEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
3RD AND B STREET. PHONE BLACK 162.
S. S. Standard
Sails every SIX DAYS to
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DIME AND WAY POINTS
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weather permitting
.jss#'-' ■
From Snake River.
CHAS WECKMAN.
INDEPENDENT
MEAT MARKET
W. H. Webb prop. Phone M.1B
FOR SALE
ONE 8 HI’. Corliss Engine.
ONE <> IIP. Fairlmnks-Morse Engine.
Alaska Lighterage Comercial Co.
I THE NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER
s
is prepared to handle
all kinds of
JOB PRINTING
Let us figure on your
work. Call up Black
134 or call at
THE INDUSTRIAL HER OFFICE