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woranam Lincoln
Addi-ro .ill Communications to Dally Nome industrial Vtorkor,
Bo.t i.10 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134
Nome, Alaska, Uebrnaiy 20, 1017.
KMI'l.OYMKVr or WOMK.N.
The report that Secretary Baker
lias approved the employment of
women in tin government machine
shops will be heard with astonish-|
merit. His permission is based |
upon the success alleged to have re
sulted from female employment in
sin h factories in Great Britain.
The tine is too short to declare
that tie emergency employment ot
beet a suet ess in British
industries, and it is admitted on all
idr that it is an emergent y mt as
urc because such employment re
leases men workers for the war.
and the labor supply is not sufficient
otherwise on account of the war s
demands.
But the I’nited States is not at
war. The males have not as yet
be n conscript d. nor have any ot
the i mergeijcy draft laws like the
iiitk Bill had occasion to he
enforced. Then is no dearth of
work* rs and t ie government can f <'
all the male employees that are
needed.
A glance at tlm official reports ot
11 • employ me n t ol
ticcs v. i 1 show that there was no ac
tual sitortagi of labor. while in tit
we-•.•rr. states tile excess of applica
nt ■ lot wort over those Who g >t
worl great as durin5 per
iods of national depression.
i;,,wi v r it would be very mis
leading to infer that women are en
tirely new to the machine or metal
industry. Bulletin No. 17a. issued
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a
bureau by the way which is doing
in valuable and little on dined work,
points < a; in describing ’he scope of
i-s investigation of women in the
m, l;,i trades that '‘it is worth noth
.. : e 11 t>. s. i; lusirii o
whi.li belong to the traditional field
„r women's artivitics. females t’orm
,1 more than on. quarter of the to
ed working force while in indi
vidual industries 'heir per rentage
is mudi higher. In some eases the
numbers studied wort too small to
he significant, but in the twelve me
tal working industries, each of which
furnished a thousand or more em
ployees to tin total group studied,
the proportion of females employed
ranged front 7.5s per m 111 in found
ries to SO.45 i>er ci tit in the manu
facture of corset steels. In only
I n rcr
represented in<lu3t ’it s .'.:i the pro
portion of female workers fall be
low one fifth: in seven if rose above
on* foui ill. .uni in five above one
1 bird.”
There is quite a general ignorance
ns to the employment of women in
America industry that seems aston
ishing. But it is not any more
astonishing than the wonderful writ
ii.u of American publicists who em
phatically denounced the system of
Europe wherein the women worked
in the fields, the factories and the
shops as if such a state ol things
were unheard of in America. It is
just such articles that have given
the impression that woman in Am
erica was more highly favored, and
her place was strictly reserved for
tier in the sacred confines of the
home, where, by the way, oftenei
than not, the most miserable ot
drudgery is provided for her within
the meaning of the poetic words
Home, Sweet Home."
The most serious feature of the
employment of women is not that
employment per se. There is 11c
earthly reason if sanitary conditions
are provided, the work is not labor
ious and nerve racking and remu
iteration is adequate, why womai
cannot do it just as well as a man
She has got to live as vvell as th<
man, and why the lighter forms o
activity in industry may not be fillet
by her as well as by men is not a
all apparent. There are many sig
nificant facts in connection witl
such employment which shows tha
it agrees far better with womei
than the miserable drudgery o
scouring homes and stooping over ;
steaming wash tub. The draw bac!
is the fact the employers pay less
to women than to men for the same
work, and they use a woman's usu
ally helpless condition to club down
wages of both sexes.
Take any industry at random and
compare the relative rate of wages
paid men and women, and this f-act
stands out with startling distinction.
Thus in nut, holt and screw manu
facture where many women are em
ployed. the proportion of men gett
ing under four dollars a week is
4.2, of women 17.3; under six dol
lars a week men 10.S, women G1.7.
Under eight dollars a week men
28.6, women 92.1, under ten dollars
a week men 08.3, women 99.5 per
cent. Xor is it correct to claim
that a comparison of the sexes is ot
little value because the work they
do varies widely. The fact remains
that "taking a general average of
women workers throughout the
United States practically only a
tenth reaches or passed ten dollars
per week."
The per centage of women em
ployed in the industries of the
United States is not on the whole
very large. But it is rapidly in
creasing. Every day, every week
and ev-ry year it increases by leaps
,ind bounds. There are entire "she
towns in tin east where the men
‘art so few that in industrial occu
pation * It* y are negligible. Em
ployers have been fortunate in this
country in having an almost unli
mited immigration to draw for la
b 3uj i ]y. Since th ‘ war began 1 hi.
ieid had become more or less re
:.tr:< ted. and In lie. they are resort
jug mor and more to female labor
Since the enormous increase In mu
i;itionist exports, tin1 increase ii
. -male labor within a year lias beer
almost incredible, and ii now up
pears that th* War Department is
. anxious to tali this illimitable field
III doing so, it will be remark
, d that th*' antiquated slogans
(which have placed motherhood oi
the altar of idealism, and made tht
home a temple of sanctity are being
1 ruthlessly cast aside. It is very
I difficult to put over these very ele
1 rating sentiments on the peoph
when the mothers come irom the
machine shops and factories covered
with dusty sweat-streaked faces,
greasy hair and blackened garments,
Nor is any one of the up-lifters who
usually starts some kind of a wild
streak when socialism is mentioned
tearing things loose because of this
increase in female labor. It is
quite as interesting as remarkable
that the anti-suffragettes have
never yet so far been very loud in
denouncing the degradation may com
to women by reason of laborious
toil. They will overlook the fact
too, that female operatives die
much younger than non-operatives.
A very careful investigation of in
fant mortality in a manufacturing
town showed that the per (tentage
of infant martality whose mothers
wt nt to work and of those who did
not was as SO to 1! The appalling
infant death rate in some manu
facturing centers where mothers
labor is simply astounding, and
points unerringly to tlie fact that the
price of this labor is not alone to
be reckoned in under payment and
early decease of the female opera
tive herself, but the cruel undoing
of the infant lives which never had
even a chance of prolongation.
The desperate malignity of the
employment of women at low wages
and under insanitary conditions is
one whose foul social poison can
never be adequately overcome. And
if the country is to tolerate such
conditions for any lengthy period,
it will have to endure also the pen
alty in a degenerate race and a
nerveless people. Must everything
that is worth while be sacrificed to
the sateless cruelty of the God of
Private Profit? Indeed it looks as if
to spread the glory of American
trade afar, the American people
are to pawn everything worth while.
i Now la the time to Sabacrtbo.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Geo. Marshall, G. R. Jackson
and \V. A. Oliver, your heirs. I '
executors, assigns or personal re- ! ,
presentatives:
You and each of you are hereby 1,
notified that I have expended in la- : '
bor and improvements the sum of 1
one hundred dollars each year ol
the years 1013, 1914 and 1916 on I
0 K Association, a placer mining!
claim situated on right limit on |
Hobson creek and recorded and ■
more fully described in Yol. 194,
page 142 of the records of the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording Distric*
Second Division, Territory of Al- j
aska.
The above amount has been ex j
pended under the provisions of the j
law concerning annual labor upon ;
mining claims, being the amount ■
required to hold said claim.
And you and each of you are j
further notified that if you fail to j
contribute your proportion of said j
expenditure within ninety days after
the last publication of this notice,
your interest in said claim will be
come the property of the under
signed, your co-owner, under sec
j iion 2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
JOSEPH SLISCOVICH.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ.. Fell.. C, 1917.
1 Date of last publi.. May S, 1917.
NOTICE Ol APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
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
before the 1'. S. Land Office at Nome
Alaska, for a United States Patent
: for No. 5 on Specimen Gulch Tlacer
; Claim in the Cape Nome Recording
I District, Alaska, being Mineral
I Survey No. 1191; said claim being
j more particularly described in tin
field notes and plat of the official
I survey thereof now on file in said
I Land Office at Nome, Alaska, as fol
! lows:
I Beginning at Cor. 1. Identic:.! with
I Cor. 1 Kathleen Claim. Stir. No. i
1157, Cor. 4, of No. 13 Dexter Creek !
j Stir. No. 41 S and Cor. 2, Bella Frac- |
j tion, Stir. 472>; a lir post 4 ins. sq. j
2 ft. above ground, in earth mound j
i scribed 1-117.7 K. 4-41S, 2-47S B. F. j
land 1-1191 5 S. whence U. S. L. M.
j No. 4 bears N. 78 deg. 50 min, 5
| E. 5407.5 ft. U. S. Geological
j Monument on King Mt. bears N.
26 deg. 29 min. E. thence S. S7 deg.
04 min. W. Var. 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. 357.00 ft. to Cor. No. 3;
thence N. 0 deg. 02 min. E. Var. 19
deg. 15 E. 332.SO ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. S9 deg. 12 min. E. Var. 19 (
deg. 15 min. E. 1071.00 ft. to Cor.
No. 5; thence S. 7 deg. 54 min. K.Var
; 19 deg. 05 min. E. 022.30 ft. to place
’ of beginning containing 10.767
\ acres. Said claim is situated upon
unsurveyed ground about 0 miles
N. N. E. from the town of Nome,
Alaska.
U. S. L. M. No. 4 is a limestone
block, about 4 ft.xO ft.xOft. high,
chiseled U. S. L. M. No. 4 oii 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
J deg. 35 min. N. Long. 165 deg. 19
min. W. in Cape Nome Recording
’ District, Alaska.
The Location is recorded in Vol.
16 Page 61 of the records of said
district. The adjoining claims are
ton the north, unknown; on the
’ south Kathleen, Sur. 1157, Frank
Dolan, claimant; on the East Bella
Fraction, Sur. 47S, Pioneer Minim;
’ 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.
late of first publ' Jan. 2?, 1917.
fate of last publ., March 28, 1917.
No. 030s.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
n the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 1G, 1916.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
.. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Clmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
;ood) L!y W. P. Bell and Seattle;
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
,V. Osgood, By Fred. It. Cowdon |
heir Attorney in Fact, whose Post |
Jllice address is Nome, Alaska, and |
m behalf, of Co-Owner Elli3 E. j
’owell. has made application before ,
he United States Land Office at
s’ome, Alaska, for a United States!
’atent for Discovery Claim and No. j
: Above Discovery on Lake Creek
n the Cape Nome Recording Dis
riet, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
<o. 1175, said claims being more
larticularly described in the field
lotes and plat of the official survey j
hereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
o-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
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Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
?. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No. I
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur. i
595, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above |
ground in earth rnoiul scribed 1-747, j
1-695, 1-1175, D. U. S. L. M. No. j
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
IV. Yar. 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. j
09 deg. 45 min. E. Var.* 19 deg. 10 j
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4; I
thence S. 3 deg. 2S min. E. Var. j
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 4 3
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. j
386.SO ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S. j
45 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25 j
min. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13 j
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min. I
E. 400.80 ft. to place of begining,
II <
containing a.90S acres.
\(). ONE AMOVE DISCOVERY, j;
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 ot Sur. No.
74 7 No. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. it
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11 |
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60 1
ft.; thence X. 20 deg. 16 min. W. I
Yar. 19 dog. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft j
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 4S deg. 26 j
min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E. j
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. j
31 deg. 20 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 00 j
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4; j
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Yar. 19 j
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No. !
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Yar. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45
min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S. j
9 deg. 57 min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
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
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 Pago
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. 74 7. 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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