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By Nome Mine Workers' Union, Xo. 240, International Union of Mine,
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Some, ■ Alassa, unaer the Act of March I. 1871.
"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
neatly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
abranam Lincoln
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Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome. Alaska. Phone, Black 1*4
Nome. Alaska, November ;50, 1017.
( \m \i, going ihk i.imit. |
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The business world is using the j
war-demand to go the limit. Iiij
.•very direction profits are soaring;
;i.s price.; rise. Patriotism i no bar. I
The .vealtli owners of the country;
display tin- most sordid indiftVr '
eii.-e to anything that interferes,
with a good return on the invest-|
ment.
{So critical is the -ituation that,
one Wall street paper protests in ‘
a recent issue, that the business
men are going too far
'The price of steel products con
tinue to advance. Millets ro-e an
other $3 a ton last week. The j
average price ot eight steel pro
ducts now stand at $99.29 as com
pared with $38.99 the same time
last year and $32.83 the corres
ponding week in 1913. Pig iron at
last has gone beyond the $50 level.
Thi too is in spite of a production
ot 417.-14 0 tons in May. with one
exception the largest monthly pro-'
duction on record! i lie turnaees.
have had difficulty in obtaining j
, okc or the prc-dti tion oi pig tin- .
doulitc diy would have broken all
records.
Still it ;s difficult to just it y til
• . e in pric e. The c .si ot pro
-...11 c;j-c-s> do-- not warrant n.
"Til prediction is made now tint
prices inflj soar to almost any li
i;iji ... The y hove b; 'Ut rising m tin'
!a>* month with a rapidity that is
simply frightening. I he r* > no
reason alien tin' eountrv is ai wai
and the demand for steel greater
then i ur befori why tin' (love ru
nn nt and ] rival n consumers should
pay prices 100 or 200 per cent in
ex ess of ilie c<> t of producing iron
and steel. Charging 'what tin
t radii will bear' might have had
some justification before we were
at war Now il is utterly defens
ible. It steel prices are going high
er sin pi.-' because the mills are able
to put them higher it is time the
Government set a maximum price
for steel. Alter all the country at
large is the sufferer from this sore
of extortion, he it directed at the
Government or private consumer.
And both are the victim
rile protest is not very vigorous
not nearly as vigorous a it might
he made. but it .-Hows that even
tin- wiser head, among the bus
iness-men are beginning to cry
"stop tiieil!" lest they kill the*
goe.se that is laying i • golden
eggs.
The soldiers at the front hear
the eon.tiand from their Country
"Fight!" The people who day
at home and the government that
is directing the war, heat lruin the
vested interests ol the I'niled
states. the command I a..!
and they both pay.
Tin-: <(»ii\<. < i\hi/. i io\
Socialism proposes that the n»a
« hinery <>i production ant! distri
bution that is -ociall' used sh*ll
he owned hy a’! the peopl-' ant
that industry anil polities ana!
both he managed I’oinoc-rtitieally.
•i'he Idea of sn -i ownership ami
control is to make it so ail may tu
masters 6l Heir live ami theii
jolts. It is to make possible pri
vale pro perl \ ‘ttr all 1 lie ow iter;
of the iiusnit ■- toittrol it! they an
tomatleaily 'i id employment in it
thev receive the belief.' of il. st
that profit ironi lie- owners is ini
possible. Ijo profit system w u.
therefore, tml under Soeialisn ant
eaeli worker will rereive hi- ful
social product.
Willi all e-nploy at produetivi
labor all will have incomes suffici
out to banish poverty from tin
earth; and more than is now math
ran be then produced in tlirei
hours each day. Six hours a unit
provide such. abundance riche;
wonlt. become univt-r al.
’Ilv- ehi!ilr--ii will lie rc-loaset
from the mills anti placed n
e, bools w.iert- indus iial irainin
s.s well as books w.ll hi taught
Women wili find their plac e in the |
home it they wi.;h ami if they enter i
indutry will receive the same te
ward as men. I
bo< ialism will net interfere with
yoi.r religious beliefs or with your
home life except that it will make
it possible for all to have a home
,uul will protect orphaned and un
fortunate children.
Socialism will end 'lie barbarism!
of war. the profits that upport
prostitution and the liquor traffic,
the dread of uncmploj ment; the
horrors of poverty; the arrogance
of dominating capital.
it will afford all opportunity to j
work and to rest, to have homes,
to travel, to get an education, to
develop as they may wish and to
realize the good they dream.
it will lilt the world to a higher
plane of civilization and provmle j
security certainty and happines
lor all. ,
( \t SI S (>l I.Alton TKOt lU.fi. I
I Tom various: parts ot the < o'tn
tr> (Gnu reports of alarming labor
conditions and unrest. Washington,
Idaho. .Montana. California, Ari
zona. Illinois end many otter tates
are having more or less trouble in
coping with the situation. S'rious
ricis have broken out in many
places, and more set m to Ic fer
meiiims and brewit g. Wlm.l is the
au eV Wall Street says the Kai
r is in I ied it;- Wlmt idiotic
blubbering! 1’ mac he plei sing to
the Kaiser, but in is not respons
i lil e - for it. The workingmen who
participate in the strikes and gen
eral upheaval. have about as much
love for the Kaiser .s they .vould
nave for a poisonous snake If the
Kaiser is behind it thee do not
know it. but they do km w that
loedMults and other nece saries of
life have almost doubled in value
and that their wages have not kept
[ pm i w tli ‘lie eataputing cost of
j living. Die v do nc,t mutiny to h dp
the Kaiser; they rebel against con
1 ditions, against eapitali tie oppres
sion and exploitation, and they do
so because they can not live half
'deeently on the wages the' g('t.
hi tu: I’ltoi rrs in
SHII’III IMII\(i.
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1 Inorr. ous profits te, tl,o shipping
( indu try as a result of the war is
I eli dosed in the annual report of
the International Marino eompanj
for the fiscal year.
Despite the 80 per cent tax on
excess profits levied by tlie Itriiii
ish government, which amounted
to $23,i 1C.217, the company hail
a profit of $25,946,650 lor the year
and now has a .urplus of $24.-.
GS6.172.
The announcement of these huge |
profits followed the recent public
statement by President Wilson that j
rertain ship owners in this eoun- |
try "are doing everything that high j
freight chaiges an do to make j
the war a failure, to make it 'tu
po-sible," and that "those who |
have fixed war freights have taken |
the most effective means in their
power to defeat the armies engaged
against Germany."
PATHOS OK (iKK.VI \V1 Al.TH.
It is not a matter of common
knowledge that Mrs. ('has A.
Strong, wife of a professor in Co
lumbia college and eldest daughter
of Jchr. 1). Rockefeller, died In
ane, haunted with the delusion
that rhe was in direst poverty. At
tires she would search the garbage!
barrel for crusts of bread for the|
servant's supper, and dyed and re-1
lllilUt* I nuuic auvi utuoc
hildren over and over again. No I
in-.ount for effort on the part of her
relatives was able to remove this
delusion frcm
creature's mind,
ana time lur
I ho bank one
Ihousand dollar
;hem to her but
them vacantly,
taken to France
the luxury crazed
It is said that at
father drew front
million dollars in
bills and showed
he only stared at
She was finally
ii>. the vain hope
hat slit would find relief from her
malady and died there still insane.
Collectivism is the foundation of
true democracy.
A1 railroads, telegraphs, steel 1
factories, all mineral and metal
mines—a' 1 important mdu-tries can
and should be immediately na
tionalized. Private ownership of
the country's most potent resour
<es should not he tolerated by "a
government of the people by the
people aid for the people.”
Unless crystalized into concrete
accompli hments such a. suggested!
in the above paragraph, all grand
iloquent claims on bchalt of ‘‘fight-j
ins for democracy" will avail no- j
thing ol vain: to mankind. Political
equality. unices accompanied by
economic euuality. is but an empty
sheil.
!t is announced that the earth
weighs seven million tons, and tile
whole weight is all shahned off
the hack of .lie toilers.
the co t ot a ihiug is the human
life enpc'did to produce it; the
price of a thing is the sum asked
for it; tiie value of the thing is the
nie ital estimate cf what it will ex
change for and the worth of atliing
is the use it can be to one. Get
lh :o four words definitely in your
mind.
How easy it is to get aroui.d the
law! Ohio recently pa sed an em
ployer’s liability law. The Man
ufacturers association is now re
quiring its employees to sign an
; grocment waiving all claim foi
.iabilily and there you are. The
"sacred right of contract" under
(ompUlsion makes any law loik
like three dimes.
Or. Neuman begs to announce
the removal of his office to the
Wild Goose building over Tele
graph Office. » . » ..
GKT THE NEWS EIGHT. IJE.Vd
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On and after Monday, Nov=
ember 19th, and continuing
until further notice. The offices
and yards of this Company
Will open at 8 A. M.
AXD
Will dose at 5.30 P. M.
Alaska Lighterage Comercial Co.
Phone Main 14
Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF W. STE1GEL MAIER AND OF LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WII.E RE
CEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
3RD AND B STREET. PHONE BLACK 162.
I Miners and Merchants Bank
Nome, Alaska
Capital $100,000.00
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Workingmen’s Accounts Solicited. j
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EARLY I,AST SPUING \VK PLACED AN ORDER WITH
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TIIE “Ml'NSON” I.AST. CO.MK IN AND LOOK THEM OVER.
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