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Mr Nome Mine Worker*’ Union, No. *40. Western Federation of Miner*.
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“To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
• early as possible. Is a worthy object of any good government.’'—
anraham Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome. Alaska. Phone, Black 134.
Nome, Alaska, i)ereinl>cr !>, 15>10.
DIVIDING Al.ASKA.
The perennial discussion upon the ;
proposition of making more than
one territory out of the Territory
of Alaska again disturbs the peace
of mind of the migrants from the
northern land to the Spirit City.
Thus at the. dinner of tne Alaska i
Bureau of the Seattle Chamber or
Commerce that perfervent orator
and man-with-hightraveiling expense
charges. Royal A. Gunnison, sug- ■
gested the advisabilty of such a di- ,
vision.
The suggestion founds itself upon
the uneven development of the coun
try. They point out that south and
eastern sections of Alaska are de
veloped out of proportion to the ,
rest: It has a higher population, j
great industries and agricultural re- j
sources which have not put any such j
an appearance in the interior and j
more northern sections of the conn- j
try. Hence also the assessable values ,
are higher in those more highly de- j
veloped sections, and the conse
quence is that taxation which should
he reserved lor the development of
those sections when it comes, is used
for sections where it did not ori
ginate.
All of which is quite true. But
ail Oi HUS uugui uc oom
territory and state of the Union.
There are some sections of them
which are highly developed and
densely populous while there are
other sections where population Is
sparse, there are no industries and'
as far as can be seen hardly any
available resources.
But because one section of Alaska
has a great mine or two. and a few
ranchers who manage to raise some
crops, and some timber that is valu
able. there is no reason whatever
tor claiming that the rest is barren
at all.
We asy it advisedly and not with
any intention of boosting this sec
tion that the resources within the
scope of future development arc
greater here than in any other sec
tion of Alaska bar none. There is
no section of the country where food
fish are so valuable and so prolific.
Salmon and herring and cod, the
three great food fisl: of t’i.? world
are all in these waters in uncon
trolled abundance. With the public
Clamoring for increased food supply,
it is a disgraceful condition that en
terprise is so backward in the deve
lopment of this field, and w'ere bus
siness enterprise really concerned
with the public welfare instead ot
being so fearful of its profits, mil
lion of tons of fine and valuabe food
tvnulfl hr» nnr.nallv exported
fid*
from this section for the enjoyment
of ail the world. ,
Moreover, it is only a matter of
time until the reindeer industry in
this country assumes mammoth pro
portions unequalled as a- food pro
duct all over the warld. And. this
is mentioning but two of the great
resources which are here for the de
velopment and for the asking.
The great value of this section
lies indeed upon the very substan
tial basis of having a practically in
exhaustible store of fooo within this
division, and food that is required
by the world in ever increasing
abundance. With the pu-.ic demands
upon the holdings outside for indus
trial purposes where before was
agricultural development alone, the
value of this section is therefore
self evident. Only intensive larmlng
will enable the public to. sustain
themselves with the food production
in the outside states after many
more generations, and it is to the
seas and rivers and tundra of Alaska
still available for valuable meat and
fish production that the people of
, the world will turn.
Similarly with the Interior which
falls into the bad books of these
sapient politicians who suggest a
territorial division because the more
equable climate has caused a quick
er development of other sections. It
is safe to say that the work of the
experimental stations will develop
grains and fodder that will be
suited to the severer climate of in
terior Alaska. That this is alto
gether likely is seen in the alreadt
marvellous progress that Professor
Georgeson has made. Few people
realize how scientific men can in
crease the area of wheat production
by maturing and developing and
evolving seed suitable to more and
more northerly latitudes. m n
only necessary to point out that the
wheat grown in Saskatchewan today
is the product of seed developed in
the agricultural laboratories of the
Canadian government, and that that
government has completely extended
the borders of wheat land to the far
north by* reason of artificial selec
tion of seeding for that purpose.
No mention has been made as to
the mining resources of these sec
tion either as to coal or the valu
able minerals, but surely these are
extensive enough to warrant the be
lief that the date of their final or
highest exploitation is indeed far oft
The rest of Alaska owes practi
cally everything it is today to Nome
.and the interior: to the Second anti
Fourth Divisions. The men who re
I invested in other sections of Alaska
j and developed it with money from
I these sections are innumerable. Nay,
even among those who retarded the B
development here, and acted the j g
part of leaches in litigation took tf
with them their parasitic gains and u
are now to be found urging the di- jj
vision of the territory into two jj
parts because thereby larger con- ] jj
cerns, fish trusts and the like, hope j y
to decrease their taxation and to jj
have less to pay in the up-keep ot j jj
the government, and the schools and j u
the roads of the present territory j S
of Alaska. j j
If it was not for this eagerness ; y
to escape taxation we would not jj
hear a word of this proposition.
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NOT CORRKCT. ; y
Geo. B. Grigsby has arrived at I
that stage when the views he enter- .
tains find publicity in the papers,
and the reporters find material for y
dispatches in the pearls of wisdom jj
that fall from his lips.
All things come round to him who y
will but wait, said the prophet, and y
sure enough Grigsby is now pleas- jj
antly ensconced high and comfort- jj
able by the pie counter. . y
So it happens when wearing his ! y
blushing honors thick upon him, t jj
and he encounters 'the reporters he j a
tells them on liis way to Juneau j y
that Sulzer will be elected by about , jj
a hundred plurality and that his j I
election is due to the labor, the un- | jj
animous labor, vote. ■ y
Now to say that Sulzer will he
elected is a matter concerning which
it is dangerous to prophesy. And
the lead he holds just now is too
narrow to publicly assert his elec
tion as beyond any doubt. But that
is quite immaterial. The most in
teresting statement is that Sulzer
owes his election to the unanimous
labor vote.
Positively that errs in the im
portant regard of not being true in
the smallest degree. If Sulzer de
pended upon the labor vote for elec
tion he would net now be flattering
himself or others peddling to him
that he is nearly elected.
In this Division, for example, or
ganized labor took no stand in the
election one way or another. And
here it happened that the labor Vote
was scattered " over q,ll the candi
dates for delegate, including Wick,
Sulzer and Mrs. Lewis. The votes
that the latter received were praoti
caly all of them labor votes, and
the majority of the votes which
Wickersham received here were, It
is regrettable perhaps to have to ad
mit, also labor votes.
The Industrial Worker as the
organ of the Miners’ Union would
undoubtedly have supported Sulzer
If he were the man whom labor un
animously supported, and the Miners
Union would have taken the neces
sary steps to see that it did. But
Sulzer was no such thing and is
no such thing. He would need some
stronger recommendation than the
printed circular of the Sulzer Min
ers’ Union before the Nome local
union*would have taken a hand po
litically to elect him.
The Miners Union here received a
copy of that circular letter urging
union men to support Sulzer because
he was a "good” employer of labor.
The Miners Union saw no good ar
gument in this, even if the conten
tion was wholly admitted, besides,
almost all employers could get certi
ficates of their fitness from their em
ploye^ for almost anything if they
went about it right.
There is no good reason to
doubt that Sulzer is mighty popular
in Sulzer. There is no good reason
to doubt that Sulzer has been a
"good” employer. But that is such
a relative term, that there is no rea
son for getting excited over the fact,
and trying to foist that “good” em
nlnror nnmi PYPrvniTP AS a DOlitlCal
candidate.
It is the easiest thing in the world
for any employer to get such a re
commendation, and we doubt not
that all of the men who seek office
could if they lined up those working
for them. get certificates of merit
just as Sulzor has done.
Sulzer was heard attentively in
Nome. He had a large audience.
They came to lfear the man if he
had a message which might be of
political value. But he had none.
Uo haa nn nnlirv He nraised him
self a little and he denounced Wick
ersham much. He told how great a
friend of labor he had been but lie
was silent as to his record in Juneau
He did not ask votes because lit
was the father of the compensation
act, or at least the step father o1
the measure which originated witt
the attorneys of the big companies
in Juneau. He did not t^ll what £
j leading part he took in that enact
ment and ask votes on that account
Rather he sought support becausi
he was a “good” fellow in Sulze:
where owning everything or leasinj
everything, he controlled the mean:
whereby they all lived at Sulzer.
It is hard to find out why Sulzer’:
supporters -should claim that h
stands in so well with labor, if on
did not understand that a lot o
these politicans believe that bune
inn mpirtpiririricicic tetri
game can still be pulled off in Al- j
aska, and any old politician can be |
palmed off upon the people wearing J
the decoration of the Cross of the
Friend of Labor.
It certainly was very nice of
Grigsby to pin this decoration upon
the bteast of Sulzer for his gallantry
in political, action. But if all deco
rations are so vainly earned and as
baseless and undeserved, then there
is little trust to be placed in such
baubles.
That the idea should be circulated
that Sulzer received the unanimous
labor vote is a slur upon Alaska
labor that one cannot take to kind
ly. It at once makes the intelligence
: of the Alaska worker about equal to
j a block of wood or a chunk of coal.
That is may be deserved by some,
j no one will deny; that some will en
; joy the assertion because of what
I the futifre may bring may also be
i true. But it is not true of labor as
1 a whole in Alaska. They took Sul
ser’s measure quite efficiently, and
they showed it clearly enough that
: they did not see any particular rea
son for supporting him. If he had
received the unanimous labor vote, j
! Sulzer would not be sitting in a
back office with his agents, counting
the rows of figures that show his
hold on the job so slim there is no
fun in it. And Grigsby knows that
well enough. __
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entered on the 2 9th day of Novem
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that a penral Term of the District
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Alaska, will be held in the Court
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