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Entered as second class matter March 1. 1911, at the post office at
Fame, ■ Alaska, under the Act of March S, 1879.
“To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
•early us possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
Abraham Lincoln
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Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 184.
Nome, Alaska, .January 10, 1017.
im; nrsiNKHS.
One of the in ' significant meas
urv s that is now before Congress is
a I ill which proposes to make legal
combinations for foreign trade con-)
trol. It is part of that plan called ,
industrial prepnredness and looks j
towards the conquests of markets j
by the Unitec’. States. In commerce!
there are no Monroe doctrines.
This if m rely a roundabout
way of legalizing the trust and till
nonsense to the countrary notwith
standing. has that specific reason
lor existence.
Now the Industrial Worker does
not pretend to say that the trusts
are any ways outlawed at the pre
sent time, except by a popular fic
tion that exists in the imagination
alone, ltut they know that they are
likely to experience the hand of the
politician tu cking notoriety who may
start sometihng under one or other
of the trust laws which may cause
them expense and much untoward
criticism and unpopularity.
The country has been suitably
worked up to a point where any
thing can he done in the name of
preparedne: s and li nee just now the
time is ripe in the name of pvepar
edness to legalize combines which
arc to lac-- lor. ign competition”.
The bill still allows the legal taboo
to exist as i r as the domestic trade
is concerned, hut when the combi
nation e-reign trade it is to be
allowable.
The nicety of legal distinction
without’ a dil; retire has never been
so prettily rendered and already, sure
of the passage of the legalizing bill,
the capitalis'd are consolidating in ,
syndicates for the purpose they all
ege < : competing for foreign trade.
Thus for example, the Douglas fir
lumbermen have organized to cap
ture “fore" " trade and to obtain
legal standing they await the pass
age of the new law. But hardly had
they org;. ized into a syndicate
when tin southern pine dealers also!
framed up a similar combination
'Titer foreign trade” and are await
ing the legislative absolution to con
fess their standing.
It ought to In cle i- rt- the noon
day sun that it i. .it r B Sm sible
to create a combination in for ign
trade and confine its operations to
i ho i /.domestic markets. On the
contrary, ii is e vident, that a combi
nation is a combination, and if keen
competition is tolerated at home, it
will sooner or Inte r remit in the dls
tintcgratinn of this foreign consoli
dation.
Even now the greatest, opposition
exists between the Douglas fir ope-1
rntors and the southern pine or
pitch pine” dealers for the eastern j
nmfl.'otj on/T Hk-v mf»! in IIP VPl'V
friondlv rivalry, ostensibly, although
In it'allty that is only between the j
smaller fry in me game.
The fact of the matter is that the
combination is very real throughout
and the control of the Weverhausor
timber syndicate is just as obvious
in the west as in the central or
Southern States. It has simply con
solidated the big interests in the
lumber industry and lert competition
to the little fellows in every district
subject to the dominating influence
of the trust in all.
Of course all that Is technically
illegal. But the economic power of
the Trust easily places it above the
operations of laws passed by Con
gress or the States. Yet these are
clays when a condition of caen
technical outlawry is no longer tcWie
approved,, and hence the new law,
which escapes the censure of being
a legitimization of the Trust which
it actually is, gives these combina
tions a social and legal standing
which even “reasonable” decisions
by Supreme Courts cannot give.
THE POUND OF FLESH.
The Danbury Hatters case is like
a cat. It has even more than nine
lives and, thank goodness, each one
serves to illustrate the fact that
there is a law for the workers and
for the corporations.
Leaving all details aside it is to
be known tl at this prosecution was
taken under the Sherman Act.. And
the Slnrman Act against the labor
organization proved its complete el
liciency. It compelled the labor men
to pay heavy fines. It caused theii
houses i.o he sold to do so. It sent
them adrift as paupers to pay the
excessive penalties provided. And
now it grabs the last scanty cents
in the savings banks, the sole resort
o! widows, orphans and dependents
to satisfy the ruthless persistency
of Capitalist Justice.
In the case of labor, guilt is mer
cilessly personal, it fastens ..s pu
nitive claws upon the members of
the organizations with the unerr
ing drive of a hawk upon its prey.
And it proves the majesty and the
might and the irrevocably relentless
movement of the Law for all and
sundry to see and admire.
Can we avoid contrasting this
case with the wonderful machinery
that moved against the great trusts
like Standard Oil, like the Tobacco
Trust, like the Harvester Trust and
the several and innumerable trade
combinations which were prosecuted
under tlv■ Sherman Art. And can we
discover one which is not doing bus
iness still at the old stand and which
in fact- has not been strengthened
by the very movement of the Law
which it violated? And is there one
instance where the guilt lias been
made personal and where one mag
nate lost even an infinite portion of
his magnitude by reason of that
prosecution.
It b front Labor that the pound
of flesh is extracted.
SOME AUTHORITY.
An exp it says that a city will
get just as good a government as
the citizens want. The man had
been a city manager and affected
some knowledge of city administra
tions.
That sounds all right. Herbert
Spei e< r said the same thing in an
oth, r way but practically the same
doctrine was enunciated when lte at
(irni’d that the religion of a people
would he adjusted to the current de
mand which would be founded on
the current needs of the people.
The idea is of course that the poo
; : ct n such matters of their own
volition, and there is no thought
taken-of the drive of economic cir
cumstances.
•It prt. n'.ative governments, none
tl 1- as. it s notorious have often
ei ’pre: -nted and have deliberate
win apparent malice more
. u”lit betrayed the people. That
is ant a historical fiction. It .s a
tiu t quite frequently recorded .
The fact is that the
people are just as free as
their economic circumstances al
low them to be and no more, and
the representatives will be not so
much their own as the representa
tives of certain interests which were
able through their dependents to
dictate who should be elected.
Time and time again it has been
shown that great industrial firms
have been able to dictate how em
ployees would vole merely by
threatening to close down the plants
if their opponents were elected,
and the influence of great commer
cial, financial and industrial powers
in election has been responsible time,
and time again for the election of
certain men
That is an every day experience.
It is due to the fact that so many
of those who are voters are depend
ent upon those who control the
means whereby they live; are sub
ject to the favors of a banking cor
poration; are obtaining employment
from a company or have business
dealings which favor them some
how either directly or indirectly.
Hence it is that astounding results
ire noticeable in elections. Hence
t is that despite the revelations
hat are made about notorious poli
ticians and their dealings and in
trigues with obvious interests, they
still return to “represent” the peo
ple.
Under ordinary industrial condl
:ions of life the return of a Penrose I
in Pennsylvania presents nothing j
.startling although the Archbold and j
other letters have shown how close j
have been the relations between
this Senator and Standard Oil and
how indeed he was theirs and not
the people’s representative. Now
that is because of the great inter
ests who dominated Penrose also
dominated the electorate. Their in
dustrial power enabled them to con
trol the voters on the political field
as well as on the economic field.
That is why it is fair to say true po
litical freedom is an impossibility,
unless there is industrial freedom
first of all.
THE CITV JAIL.
The way in which the city fathers
view the jail proposition appears to
be that anything is good enough for
an arrested man. Now that the lo
cation ol ceils in a tiara, corn uanc
ment adjoining a latrine in this
poorly ventilated section of the
Firehouse may appear .all right at
tar as housing those whom the city
takes into custody, because its sani
tary qualifications have the* ap
proval of practical physicians. But
it is certainly.altogether wrong, ano
it is to be hoped that the Grand
Jury when it meets will bring up
these officials with a round turn and
compel them to provide reasonably
decent accomodations for those who
are arrested by the city. It may be
pointed out that not necessarily all
who are taken into custody are
found guilty, but even if they were,
that is no reason why thro city
should not provide just as reason
ably comfortable accomodations for
prisoners as any others. The idea
that anything is good enough for a
prisoner is rank barbarism.
DELBAllH 5, 10 AND 15 CENTS
MERCHANDISE.
Get it. Egg Beater 10 cents.
Get it. Dust pan 10c., King can
opener, will open cans, lift crown
seals, pull cork, remove milk bottle
seals and lift shallow cori*s in pickle
j bottles lf> cents each. Single
| mincing knife 10 cents, double min
cing knife 15 cents. J. M. unexcelled
I Asbestos stove mat 10 cents. Clark ;
1 ), . i. SJJUUl l Ul I.UIl . JVIUUll'b
needles 10c., Pins 5c, package.
Needles 5c. Wire coat hangers 10c„
Cookie Cutter 5 and 10 cents,
doughnuts cutter 10c., kettle knob
2 for 5c.. quilting frame clamps 1'•
cents. Soap dish 10c., 'Pot chain;
i 10 and 15c. Stove bolts 10 and 15c
J do. Strainers 5, 10 and 15 cents.
I Tracing wheel 10 and 15c. Mouse
j traps 10 cents. Taks 5 cents, Tooth
! picks 5 and 10 cents.
CITY PATH HOUSE
has the largest
and only 0 feet
Path Tubs in Nome.
No. 0305.
NOTICE OP APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 16, 1916.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By W. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, qnd
on behalf -of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, has made application before
the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a United Stales
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
thefeof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
S. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
695, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,
4-695, 1-1175, D. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
\V. Var. 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.
69 deg. 45 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 23 min. E. Var.
j» ueg. io rani. i->. oii.iu n.
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 cleg. 43
min. \V. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
38G.80 ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
4 5 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25
rain. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Var. ID deg. 05 min.
E. 400.80 ft. to place of begining,
containing 5.908 acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
747 No. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder preek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 1 4 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
j Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft.
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 48 deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E,
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. 3 9
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Var. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on un- I
isurveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
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ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
to which said claims are tied, is a :
! fir post G 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
i from mouth of Snake River and
i about 70 ft.'east of the Bessie road.
Is In Latitude G4 deg. 32 min. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Yol.
09 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and J
Amended locations recorded in Yol. I
1 165 Page 225 and Yol. 199 Pago J
, S5, Records of Cape Nome Rfecord- J
' ing District, Alaska. t
| The adjoining claims are: On the j
North No. 2 Above on. Lake Creek, j
1 Survey No. 69S and Gold Bug Claim j
Survey No. 434; on the East un- i
i urveyed; on the South No. 1 |
j ielow on Saturday Creek Sur. No. ]
M117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday j
I Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West, i
No. 1 Above on "Wonder Creek Sur. j
No. 74 7. There are no conflicting j
claims. i
G. A. ADAMS. 1
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 191G.
Date of last publ., Feb. 21, 1917.
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