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Entered kb second cJsbb matter March 1, 1*11, at the post office at
Home,• Alasna, under the Act of March 8. 187*.
“To secure to each laborer the whole product of Ills labor, or as
aearly as possible. Is a worthy object o! any good government."'— j
Abraham Lincoln
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Address all Communications to iJaliy Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 184.
Nome, Alaska, May 2, 1H17.
WHAT OF TllKSi:?
Now that conscription is so (lose
to being an accomplished legislative
fact, one may well rise to ask what
about the Dick Military Bill or the
Hay-Chamberlain re-organized mili
tary bills?
Iiotli thes. latter bills avowedly
pave the I’resident the power to
draft every able bodied citizen into
service via the militia. And why
therefore conscript ion should he
necessary when the draft existed
is what puzzles the layman. un
acquainted wth the niceties of legis
lative technique.
We all admitted when the Dick
bill went into effect, it meant at
any time the President saw fit, com
pulsory military service. It gave
the President the right to call upon
the Governors for every able bodied
citizen through their service in a
state militia, for draft under the
orders of the President, and the
scope of this was amplified by the
Hay Chamberlain military bill.
This paper is now asked by a sub
scriber why then conscription, and
after sizing up the whys and the
wherefores et cetera, we have got
to admit that we are stumped. Un
less it is intended to give the people
the rush ac t and to establish a pre
cedent may or may not have serious
after effects, we do not frankly
know.
Compulsory military service was
already and some time ago fully
provided for.
IN .ALB ITS BKAl'TY.
Beauty unadorned, said the para
dox loving poet, is adorned the
most. So, by St. Heck, with the ca
pitalist system!
Take that model incident in Chi
cago bread riots. The bakers are on
a strike. The employers decreased
the loaves as to size, the employees
as to pay and increased the loaves
as to price. Before the beauties
of the system as unveiled in this ex
quisite example, the artistic mind
bows in solemn admiration.
AND IN Till: KART.
While pondering over lie wond
ers of the Mooney trial in San
Franelseo, and while admiring the
tricks that are vain and ways that
are dark upon the part of the west
ern officials who have the responsi
bility for enforcing the law—or not,
as they damn well please—the
mind is relieved to turn to the
great city of New York, therein to
find that the effete east also a little
of the dark ways itself which, with
out any boasting will take a back
seat to none.
Enter David Manusevitz! David
was an employee of the Sulltess de
tcctive agency. David’s companions
in arms, Bernet Engel and William
l.evine, united against striking gar
ment workers and did conjure up a
story as to assault and battery and
attempted murder and criminal as
saults which secured the indictment
of 2S members, all strikers, of the
Ladies Garment Workers Union in
New York city.
Manusevit/. was the victim in the
story. Some surgeon cut him up
lor a bum appendix, and while con
valescing In testified that two
members of the strikers organiza
tion had “beaten him up with a
«hisel because he was a scab.
Just when everything was ready
ao railroad the strikers and the tes
timony was all prepared by the pro
secution under one Breckinredge.
who is now under indictment for
being bribed by the manufacturers
and the detective agency, the elec
tions came around and District At
torney Swann got in office. After
a probe on his own account Swann
dismissed the charges against the
garment workers and Breckinredge
filed charges with the governor.
Swann was ordered investigated by
Whitman but to the Investigation,
the District Attorney, revealed the
plot and the confessions of Engel,
Levine and this Davit! Manusevitz.
When the latter found that the au
thorities had “the goods” upon him.
he promptly let it all out. and ad
mitted that the higher ups fot
whom he worked up the perjur> 1
were Sulkcss, the detective agency!
king, tin manufacturers whose em
ployees were on strike and the Dis-!
trict Attorney Lucian II. Lreckii
redge.
And some people wonder wlit
these labor ,frame-ups leave suen i
bad taste in the mouth when the
kept press snorts about the identity
of “justice” and the “law" as ap
plied by such as these.
I.AIiOlt OMNIA-?
Take a mental glance over at
war stricken Europe, O people, and
observe therein that within those
lands afflicted by the war there is,
besides other notable conditions, a
shortage of food.
Men, and women too for that
matter, lack the wherewithal in
necessities. They are hungry and
yet again in many cases they are
starving.
The reason is that the men who
delved in the soil and made twe
vegetables grow where none grew
before. and piled up succulent
spuds and eke made the granaries
bulge with the bounteousness of the
harvest—these men are now en
gaged in a much bloodier occupa
tion and are tilling the soil not
with plows but with artillery and
reaping not the fruits of peaceful
husbandry but the harvest of tears
and suffering and death.
It was all well enough when those
busy hands applied themselves to
the plow and the loom, and in jo
cund mood drove their sturdy teams
afield. Then indeed plenty was scat
tered over the smiling land, and
there was at least a bellyful.
But this labor has stopped. It
has gone into tlie trench, the war
ship, the munition factory, the gun
shop, the explosive works. Ana
perforce the food is not there.
Productive labor now turns out
stool that you cannot oat: gold that
was hard food for Midas; strange
and twisted shapes of death dealing
instruments forged none like them,
even in Vulcan’s stithy, but all
without nutriment.
And- hunger comes and hardship
and destitution and wrinkling paun
ches—and the child feels the
cry exciting gnaw of that tierce
starvation that breaks a mother's
heart, and nerves her to despera
tion.
And why but, as we said, because
Labor upon whom the fabric ot
your good fortune was builded has
ceased to produce food. Your money
changers will not conjure harvest
fields; you many millioned captains
of industry even though they count
their profits in their cent per cents,
may not inspire the growth of one
row of mealy murphies. Your stock
gamblers, pouring into their insati
ate maw the golden milk for his
war babies could never raise a sulk
ing pig or as much grain as would
make a bowl of mush.
It must all come front labor.
So it is that men say labor con
uuers all things! Labor conquers
nothing! All things conquer labor.
It is chained. It is told to go to the
field and it goeth: to come to the
trench and it cometh: it is the
whipped slave that cowers to its
dungeon.
And the living hell of it all is
that here is Labor with the might
of a world of giants amid a paltry
few pigmies held in bondage that
it may serve. Here is labor than
can feed the world, that can in
crease the happiness of the world,
that does all things and obeys all
orders, the butt of every palsying
power and every betraying polity-.
Moreover the pity of it is—withal
that latent power—labor paralyzed
by ignorance affects the proud
motto “Labor conquers all things’.
Irony of the Gods!
GOSSIPY ENOUGH.
Our esteemed contemporary, the
Alaska Labor News of Anchorage,
among its news items the other day
contains this spicy paragraph:
"An ugly rumor has been forcing
itself upon the public recently that
certain well known society people
had been arrested for violating the
marriage laws of, the territory.
Upon investigation our reporter
finds that no arrests have been
made and we trust that this state
ment will be the means of putting
an end to a lot of irresponsible gas
sip”.
If that paragraph is not ironical,
the Anchorage paper has less of a
sense of the humorous than we
have been giving it credit for.
AT MOUNT VERNON.®
That was quite a striking scene
when the commissioners from the
Entente nations visited the tomb ot
George Washington. Haply the}
had heard of, maybe they had read
that last address by the Father of
his country: “Against the insidious
wiles of foreign influence (I con
jure you to believe men. fellow-citi
zens) the jealousy of a free people
ought to be constantly awake; since
history and experience prove that
foreign influence is one of the most
baneful foes of Republican govern
ment. Rut that jealousy to be use
ful must be impartial: else it be
comes the very instrument of ♦he
influence to he avoided, instead of
a defense against it. Excessive parti
ality for one foreign nation, and
excessive dislike for another, cause
those whom they actuate to see
danger only on one side, and serve
to veil, and even second, tnc arts
or influence on the other. Real
patriots who may resist tite intri
gues of the favorite, are liable to
become suspected and odious, while
its tools ltd dupes usurp the ap
plause and confidence ol the* t etude,
to surrender their interests." That
particular passage, maybe, excited
their resolution to pledge their de
mocratic intentions among the com
ity of nations. May be so.
Indeed it may well be that some
of these visitors are more keenl'
familiar with the pregnant text of
the farewell message than are many
Americans.
SPRING TIME IS HERE
For the best work in tailoring see
us. We make alterations.
We do cleaning, pressing and re
paring for ladies and gentlemen.
We make suits to order.
First class workmanship, modern
method and prompt service.
We appreciate your patronage.
Yours to pleaes
NOME TAILORING CO.
Next door to Segcrstrom & Hagen,
FOR SALE CHEAP.
j Two -1 II. I*. Boilers.
One 12 H. P. Boiler.
One 10 H. P. Roller.
Two 0 H. P. Boiler.
DARLING & DEAN CO.
j RELIABLE TAILOR SHOP.
Front St. 8 doors west of Alaska
Bank.
We do the best
CLEANINQ
PRESSING
ALTERINO *
REPAIRING
Ladles end Gentlemens Clothes.
Office and Residence of J. F.
M’AlIlster, freighter and transfer,
Elite Baths.. Phone Red 157.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To John J. Meyer, your heirs, ex
ecutors, assigns or personal re
presentatives:
You are hereby notified that 1
have expended in labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dol
lars each year for the years of 1914,
1915 and 1916 on the Happy Home
Stake claim a lode claim situated on
right limit of Negsue Creek and re
corded and more fully described in
the records of the Cape Nome Min
ing and Recording District, Second
Division, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount j
required to hold said claim.
And you are further notified that i
if you fail to contribute your proper- j
tion of said expenditure within
ninety days'after the last publica
tion of this notice, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owrter,
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
MARTIN STEINER.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Jan. 31, 1917. \
Date of last publ., May 2, 1917. j
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Joe Wise, your heirs, ex- ;
ecutors, assigns or personal re
presentatives:
You are hereby notified that I
have expended in labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dol
lars each year for the years of 1914,
1915 and 1916 on the Hidden Treas
ure claim, a lode claim situated on
right limit of Negsue Creek and re
corded and more fully described in
I he records of the Cape Nome Min
ing and Recording District, Second
Division, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you are further notified that
if you fail to contribute your pro
portion of said expenditure within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner,
1 under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
MARTIN STEINER.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Jan. 31, 1917.
, Date of last publ., May 2, 1917.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
I _
To John Ellis your heirs, executors,
assigns or personal representa
tives.
i You are hereby notified that we have
expended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars
for the year of 1916, on placer
mining claim Queen Bench situated
on left limit of Center Creek which
is a tributary of Snake River and re
corded and more fully described in
Vo!. 194 at Page 64 in the
Records of the Cape Nome Re
cording Precinct, in the Second Di
vision of the Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning Annual Labor upor
Mining Claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
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 proportioa
of said expenditure, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned your co-owner
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
MAMIE BALL. R. W. BOWEN.
Co-Owners.
Date of first publ., April 25, 1917.
Date of last publ., July 25, 1917.
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