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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly as possible. Is a worthy object of any good government."—
a ora ham Lincoln
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Itorae, Alaska, under the Act of March t, 1871.
WANTED TO KNOW.
A “partner” arrived in town last
night desiring to know when ths
jive dollar wage scale went into
effect. It appears that he and h;s
fellows were working for a three
dollar a day scale. In these days of
'approved" agreements, wouldn’t
that frost your whiskers?
HOME CONCUNDRCMS THESE.
When is a law not a law? asks a
New York paper. It's a hard ques
tion, but possibly may be beet an
swered by asking another: When is
a partner not an employee?
VERY EMBARRASSING.
It is to be hoped that some ot
these councilmen will net further
persist in embarrasing their col
leagues by resurrecting constantly
the municipal lighting and pumping
plant and coal yard. Cannot they
realize that the election is over?
BEYOND CONTROL.
Father Vaughan’s concern over
the low birth rate iff England
seems to be a matter over which
ho at least iias no control. It would
be as unfair as awkward to suggest
marital as well as martial con
scription.
SYMPATHY.
Those days of the entente cordiael
between workers and business
men. it is herd to tell which is ex
uding the largest supply of the
milk of hui'.ian kindness and sweet
sympathy. In order to add to the
supply of this cordiality on hand
the Industrial Worker will point
out that not only arc there too
many workers on hand to meet the
limited supply of job3 in this camp,
but there are also too many busi
ness houses to meet the limited con
suming capacity of the workers
here. Not that a 1 eduction in the
number would add to the improve
ment cf the camp, for where here
tofore the increased cost of distri
bution due to the excessive number
of stores goes to make up a living
for the proprietors, a reduction in
that cost would not bo taken oft
the price of goods sold but would
bo added to the remaining stores
profit. So the mere the merrier
THE HOUSTON BILL.
It would be premature to com
ment upon tho Houston Bill prov fl
ing for policing tho railroad district
of Alaska. The contents of that
Act arc not to hand as yet. But
since it is protested against by the
workers of that section of Alaska
wherein the bill would operate, It is
fair to concludo that it is another
constabulary measure to pro
vide against a recurrence ot
strikes. Tho genesis of
constabularies throughout the Un
ited States is interesting. First
labor conditions are so bad that a
strike is forced; employers usually
seek an opportunity of exciting viol
ence; military measures of repres
sion are made use of to restore
•order" and thereafter when the
public calms down and a high-brow
ed press says that there should
never be anything of the kind al
lowed, a constabulary is invented to
nip all labor troubles in tho bud.
But none of these measures affect
the cause, and they only streak the
tabor movement with a trail of red
showing where they repressed labor
all right, not by the use of roasou
but the unanswerable argument ot
the billy and the gun.
THE BKANDEI8 THORN.
The Wilson administration has,
may be, provided a bed of roses foi
Congress, but some of those flowers
have pretty thorny stems. The “big
gest of all these thorns and the most
Insistent upon pricking is the Bran
deis appointment. One cannot but
have sympathy for the Senate.
Functioning as of old as the brake
upon the popular legislation, it is
their manifest and precedentea
duty to refuse to confirm one who
has known radical predilections. In
all the appointments which Wilson
has made, none, has ever been such
an aggravated thorn in tho sena
torial side as this Brandeis nomi
nation It sticks like a cockle burr
and poisons like a felon. And just
when so many of the enlightened
Solons in these days of direct sena
torial elections were about to seek
again the suffrage of the people for
duties well done, this Brandeis ap
pointment comes to put them to the
test.
it's no wonder they wiggle and
wobble and squirm and evade and
contort and postpone and re-con
sider. It's a serious matter; as
serious as overcame those classical
mariners who sought to steer their
galleys between Scylla and Charyri
dis, between the devil also and the
deep sea.
MIGHT AM> RIGHT.
There's a humble yet ott asserted .
theory among the higher-brows and
supermen that Might is used in om
civilized epoch to enforce Kiglv.
We all know that if the Wilson ad
ministration went to war with any
power, east or west, it would he to
enforce the right. And the most
difficult phase of this theory is that
it has just the same aspect to the
other fellow who would tight Am
erica, and he would be convinced
lie was scrapping for the purpose of
upholding his right.
None of them will allow that
these resorts to Might are for the
purpose of determining the Right,
and that which ever side will he
the mightiest, that aslo will be the
Right , regardless of all academic
discussion.
An eastern professor some time
ago expressed the hope that the
United States would not go to war
over a question of international
law. He didn’t think it would he
“Right”. But that would entirely
depend. If the United States went
to war and won, the right would be
there sure enough.
More and more people are begin
ning to suspect that the sophist in
the Platonic dialog spoke no idle
word when he said that “Justice
was the interest of the stronger”.
Especially so is this the case in in
ternational law. International laws
are agreed upon or invented for the
purpose of maintaining certain in
terests and are subject unquestion
ably to the views of those interests.
The stronger the interests, the
stronger will be their auto-interpre
tation of International Law, while
it would be very little use for the
smaller nation to invoke interna
tional law against a mightier whin
the mightier intends to regard it
as its legitimate prey.
Obviously this is so. Might is
not theoretically right. But our
whole conception of society is to
make it so. If Might was not
Right, how is it that millions can
be subjected to breadlines ana
chronic half-starvation, work
houses and slums, while the rest
take from them what their labor
has produced?
THE RIGHT HOUR LAW.
Labor legislation presents to the
workers somewhat of a paradox. In
the first place none of these laws
are automatically enforced. They
can only be enforced where th3
workers themselves determine that
they shall be enforced and whon the
workers determine that this shall
be the case, there is no need for le
gislation. And that’s the paradox.
It’s unfortunate feature is that it
drives directly towards an anarchist
conception of things, and makes
one one lose talth often enough In 1
organized action.
But manifestly any consideration
will solve this perplexity. For
without organization no improve
ment can be enforced whatever.
Without working class action, orga- !
nized action, no enforcement can he
made of labor legislation, and labor
legislation is not enforced because j
as a general rule officialdom is not ^
a neutral rendering strictly along
the even lines of abstract justice,
but rendering along the lines or
class conceptions of one’s duty.
There is where the abuse has ari
sen. Men regard it a trivial thing
to violate the code where so trivial
a class as the wc rking class is con
cerned, but a highly serious and vi
cious and immoral thing to break
any law for the protection of the
propertied interests.
Propertied interests have been
long in control. They originate the j
system whereby the administration
is in their hands, and until an in
dustrial democracy destroys the in
dustrial absolutism which is indus
trial anarchism, as at present, there
will be no enforcement of regula
tions for the benefit of those who
produce the wealth of the world.
Subject labor laws to any sort or
an analysis and one discovers that
they are passed with a view
of advantaging the employers as
well as employees, in fact the em
ployee's interests hardly enters into
it at all except wherein it affects
adversely the interest of an em
ployer. : I ; I
Thus we have workmen s compen-1
sation. The older legal theories ot
fellow servant and contributory
negligenc'e and assumed risk had be
come insufficient to protect employ
ers who would not protect them
selves In these days of speeding up
and efficiency. It became essential
to the well ordered introduction of
efficiency and speeding up systems
that safety first principles and com
pensation acts would also be intro
duced. To a large extent where it
is convenient and profitable to neg
lect safety, compensation acts art
dead letters. That is so for ex
ample in steel plants. This is so
or has been so in several Colorado
mines and mills. These depended
for their labor supply upon practi
cally an unlimited immigration,
and hence it was not necessary ti<
take precautions. Labor was too
easily replaced.
1 Articles have been written show- j
' ing the ultimate loss to employers
of mining accidents in the coa!
mines of the country, and these air
went to show that this waste of lifi
was also damaging to the owner.;
interests, and it was urged that le
gislation be passed which would
help to reduce these preventable
occurrences for that reason.
Another interesting phase of ca
pitalist legislation of a reformist
nature is that tending to improve
tenements in order to lessen disease
Sanitation is insisted upon because,
the other fellow suffers and occu
pational diseases for the same rea
son are attended to by statute for
the purpose of preventing a deter
iroaition of the health of those en
j gaged in it, and hence the subjec
tion of employers as well to conta
gion or to difficulty in securing em
ployees who would subject them
selves to such.
There's no altruism whatever
about the employers concodlng
these eight hour and other laws.
Quite the contrary. They have their
eye upon the balance in their ledg
ers, and working men at high speed
with a maximum of efficiency they
I
hare concluded that they cannot do
so beyond the regulation eight houT
day. They therefore In those places
where work is carried on year in
and year out and where the effici
ency is demanded of the higher
type, where some amoount of skill
is demanded and where the skilled
employee cannot be immediately re
placed when he breaks down under
a ten hour tension, operate eight
hours. But the real purport of such
legislation ie not for the advantage
of the employee but of the em
ployer. Where it is not directly to
the employer’s interest, the labor
law will not be enforced unless the
workers insist upon its being so.
I They can only do that by organiza
tion. The vital need of labor orga
nization is in fact to overcome the
class instinct manifest in the enfor
cement or non-enforcement of laws
which were primarily passed under
the guise of reform, but really for
the protection of employers. _
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Spring fever.
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MINERAL APPLICATION N,0. 0283
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska,
April 18th, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that the |
Flume Dredge Company, a corpora
tion organized under the laws of
the State of California, with its
principal place of business and post
office address, Mills Building, San
Francisco, California, has through
Jas. M. Streeten, its authorized
agent, whose post office address is
Nome, Alaska, made application for
a United States patent for No. 14
Above Discovery placer mining
claim, situated on Melcing Creek,
in the Council City Recording Di
strict, Territory of Alaska, and de
signated as Mineral Survey No.
1172, which said placer mining claim
is described' according to the plat
and field notes now on file in the
U. S. Land Office at Nome, Alaska,
with a magnetic variation of 21
deg. 38 min. E. as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, a
spruce post 4 ft. long, 6 ins. dia
meter, in earth mound, scribed 14
Ab 1 1172 on N. face, whei ce U. S.
L. M. No. 1172 bears S 59 deg.
134 min. W. 380.3 ft. Thence N. 35
deg. 35 min. W. 544.4 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 56 deg. 27 min.
E. 1376.G ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
S. 37 deg. 56 min. E. 526.4 ft. to
j Cor. No. 4; thence S. 65 deg. 37
'rain. W. 1397.6 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
| place of beginning, containing an
area of 17.025 acres.
This claim is situated on Mclsiug
| Creek about four miles north of
j Council City, Council City Re
! cording Precinct, Alaska. Lo
cacion monur.ent No. 1172 is
a schist stone 37x20x5 ins.
18 ins. in the ground, with mound
of earth 4 ft. high, 6 ft. base, situa
ted about 30 ft. above the bed it
Melsing Creek, on the south side
thereof, in latitude 64 deg. 55 min.
N., longitude 163 deg. 39 min. W.
The location notice is recorded in
Vol. 10, page 132, of the records
Council City Recording District, Al
aska.
The adjoining claims are as fol
lows: On the northeast No. 15
Above Discovery on Melsing Creek;
on the southwest. No. 13 Above Dis
covery on Melsing Creek; claimants
unknown; on the northwest and
southeast, claims unknown; all un
surveyed.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
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market to date.
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