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INTKIUU I’TIOV.
it may be taken for granted Dial
the work of the labor movement
will during the war with the Ger
man Empm be greatly interrupted
it' not comp] ittert i. tVar
time conditions will develop a set
of circumstances which make dith
eult, if i.f.t impossible, progress.
Hut that is no reason why the
work of organization should not
proceed. It is true that most of
tiie labor unionists are opposed to j
the war on general principles. It
interferes with the movement to a
great extent. But it is not think
able that just now organized labor
can do anything which will have
any effect likely to tend towards a
cessation of the war or the develop
ment of peace, while it may easily
commit economic suicide.
That being so. it is both useless
and absurd to waste any time in
vain anti-war demonstrations, agi
tations or the like. The main ques
11011 IS U) IK-tlCI UlSUllliC, nyj
through that means labor can be In
a position to advance itself so that
the obstacles to its advancement
can be removed or overcome.
It is vitally essential that labor
.maintain its organization, for other
wise Labor will be compelled to ac
cept a position in public things
whereby it will be as thoroughly
exploited from a military and war
point of view' as it has been from
an industrial point of view.
Opposition to war. because war is
more or less quixotic, it is part of
the general trend ol things and
may be premised from the exist
ence of such an economy as the
present. It is not unnatural. It was
to have been anticipated.
Kven those who committed them
selves to the most profound paci
ficist measures long ago foresaw
that war was inevitable.
There has been created a gen
eral national sense which predispos
ed to the ultimate policy of the na
tion in the great crisis and now
when officials like Lansing tell us
that we might as well awake to the
seriousness of the situation, we mat
gather that it is serious.
However terrible may be such a
thought, easily on; ugh cone ivable
it may ho by one .•*vor.d military
nee or unable by reason of physical
disablement to fight. it is not with
out some show of justification that
men have argued that the more are
involved, in this war and the more
extensive and intensive it becomes
the better.
What is really in evidence be
fore us, is the dread of the supre
macy of one nation self committed
to the exercise of violence to ac
complish its end. This antagonizes
those who will accent no such a
philosophy of life even when their
existence is a proof they unconsci
ously do. For that reason the only
,.yjre is evidently an excels of the
.vtjry thing that is cause for dread,
„°.mi any nation that wants war
. houM be given all the war it
wants.
Kigh’.ly or wrongly the general
conception of Germany’s intentions
is that of a powerful empire gone
mad and running amok, dangerous
alike to all and to be controlled by
all.
* The later events tend to indicate
that this view has more foundation
than opponents of the war policy
of America would willingly concede
and in the successful U boat cam
paign there is seen reason the more
for placing such an interpretation
upon the German acts. H would
have been the same were Germany
to be triumphant on any other field.
The success of the application. ot
force upon the part of one running
amok rouses all to a greater deter
mination to effect that person’s sup
pression. It is always feared that
worse may happen.
Pacificists may bo divided right
now into two classes. Those who
oppose the war because war, and
those who oppose It because it is
war against Germany. The first
named class of which Scott Rearing
is the ablest and extrcmest expo
nent are quite numerous. Nearing
says “War eats the soul of a na
nation, just as hatred eats out the
soul of the individual man or wo
man who indulges in it. And there
fore. i believi that there is no sutT»
tiling as a sufficient provocation for
war: or for one group of men and
women to deliberately set out to in
flict injury upon their fellow women
and their fellow men”
That's an extreme view. It is
shared by few and only be a few.
the other set of pacificists are sim
ply pacificists now because they
are pro-German, just as they would
be waving all kinds of flags were
the United States to go into the
war upon the side of the Central
Powers. Their affinity, and oppo
sites. are those pro-Allies whose
loyalty to the United States comes
after loyalty to old Hengland or
La Belle France but who now are
in that fortunate position when they
can wave flags without injuring
their deeper sentiments at an.
Surely with all this labor has got
little to do. What labor has to
concern itself now with is unques
tionably organization, and to see to
it that it is not compelled to com
pl'ete sacrifice while profiteers gorge
themselves in a nation’s hour ot
peril.
Hence it is of prime necessity
this anti-war talk be relegated to
the back ground of bouregois ideal
j ism. Anti-War agitation is equally
vain. It is no use bucking the tide
when the tide is flowing and the
means available to do so now, no
matter what may be the war sen
timents, are no more efficient than'
the broom that Mrs. Partington
i made use of.
We must realize that right now
i tin- plunderbund is lying in wait in
jthe shadows of the national danget
' to take away every gain labor has
I made, while itself gobbles up great
j or profits than were ever made be
I fore. Only organization la the p-ice
of safety today, and that organiza
tion is more likely to be overlooked
if we engage in any long winded
anti-war agitation" which will not
stop the war, but may react upon
the real work of organized laboi
easily enough.
It would no doubt be very satis
factory to those whose loyalty to
the declared enemy of America Is
more pronounced than loyalty either
to class or to country, if labot
would act the part of catspaw and
by a powerful agitation perpetually
agitate against the war. But it vrill
better labor nothing at all.
Labor has not now job control.
Labor has little organized strength.
And it is sheer waste of time to
fritter what Labor has got, in fool
ish pacificist agitation and anti-war
demonstrations.
We all know very well that this
war is going to be fought and
fought to a finish whether labor op
poses or aids it. We all'know very
well that it is going to be fought
with all the resources at the com
mand of government. We know
very well that these resources in
clude labor and life and properly.
We know very well that these will
be taken whether the relatively few
who are organized were to make
effort to prevent it or not. We
know quite well that being so the
only thing for labor is to organize
so that it can prevent itself being
completely sacrificed in the interest
of the others and after the war it
is not completely prone, helpless,
unorganized and without even a
semblance of organized strength.
It will be recollected that when the
war in Europe broke out, it was
held that the workers could have
prevented this terrible calamity by
their refusing to fight and the so
cial democrats were plied with con
demnation because they supported
the war credits of the German Em
pire.
But the reasou for that was that
i few economically powerful could
mpose their wishes and will upon
he rest and make it understood
hat what was good for that pow
erful few was good for all.
It is little use peddling to our
selves that there will be any ala
crity to oppose war even upon the
:he part of those who conscienti
ously believe in its innate iniquity,
ind that there will not be the same
•eadiness to obey here as in Europe,
rhe workers here are no more ad
vanced than any where else and
they are here much more impotent
ly organized than in other coun
tries.
What could be done would be a
turbulent ineffectiveness which
would retard the movement wholly,
while without any such activity, bj
organization on the industrial field,
pressed now with intensified enthu
siasm, the workers may protect
what they have got and provide
further armor for the future.
There is no doubt in the world
that a strong pro-German sentiment
that was manifest long before the
United States butted into this war
may try to induce organized labor,
knowing its general opposition to
war, to sacrifice its real interests
to those which are nothing more or
less than Germanist, and which
would be as strongly bellicose as
they are now pacificist if the United
States were fighting against the En
tente instead of being de facto Al
lies of the Entente.
And any such folly as this, wast
ing effort away on Utopian dreams
of Peace when Labor was really be
ing made a eatspaw, would be j
worse than pitiful. Labor will |
have all it can do to protect its own j
interests without going to a con
sideration of the war question with
a battleaxe of hostility grasped in
each hand. It is in the economic
field where Labor can best advance
itself and not upon the violent po
litics of pro- or anti-war. Those
are excellent questions for the dia
lectician to discuss who has ignored
the fact that war itself is merely
an unusual but quite natural phase
of international competition which
will solve itself eventually quite
regardless of the stand which labor
takes at the outset, while the settle
ment as far as labor is concerned
will be materially affected by the
policy labor adopts: one of hopeless
useless antagonism towards the ine
vitable, or one of the practical ad
justment of labor policies to a con
dition and not a theory.
Safety first. Yon miners coming
in from the creeks look up the ad
vertisers in your paper before dis
posing of your patronage.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Nick Fredrickson, your heirs,
executors, assigns or personal r,v
presentatives:
You are hereby notified that !
expended it. labor and Improve
ments the sum of one hundred dol
lars each year lor the •'■•ears of
1915 and 191<> on the following
claim: Nugget Group, 1st
tier left limit Candle Creek, and No.
1 Home Gulch, tributary of Candle
creek and recorded and more fully
described in the records of the Fair
haven mining and Recording Dis
trict, Second Division, Territory of
Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the ■
law concerning annual labor upon I
raining claims, being the amount j
required to hold said claim.
You are hereby further notified, ]
that if within ninety (90) days i
after the last publication of this no- j
tice you fail or refuse to contribute I
your propertion of such expenditure |
your interest in said claim wlil be- J
come the property of the under- j
signed, your co-owner, under the I
provisions of Section 2324 of the j
Revised Statutes of the United j
States.
JOHN A. MURPHY. j
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., April 13, 1917. jj
Date of last publ., July 13, 1917... t
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE. S
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To \V. A. Macomber and Harry :
Hicks their heirs and assigns:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended in labor and improvements, :
the sum of one hundred dollars ,
($100.00) for each of the years o't
1914, 1915, 1910 as the annual
assessment work required by law
for the said years upon and for the
benefit and development of the as
sociation placer mining claim known
as the. Jeannette, situated on Cuss
creek in the Cape Nome Mining ana
Recording District, territory of Al
aska and recorded in Yol. 194, page j
213. J
You and each of you are further j i
j notified that if you do not within *
ninety days from the final publica- !
i tion hereof cause to be paid to the j
| undersigned your proportionate |
I share of said expenditures, as co
owner, your interest in saul claim
will become the property of the
undersigned under section 2324 ot
the Revised Statutes of the United
States.
CHAS D. JONES.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb. 1G, 1917.
Date of last publ., May 18, 1917.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Chas. T. Webb and Sidney
Mudget, your heirs, executors J
assigns or personal representa
tives.
You and each of you are
hereby notified that the under
signed has expended in la
i hor and improvements the sum of ;
I one hundred dollars for 191G on the
1 Myrtle Association, an association
placer mining claim situated on left
limit of Dry creek and recorded and
more fully described in the Re
cords of the. Cape Nome Mining and ]
Recording district, Second Divison, j
Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex- j
pended in order to hold said claim
under the provisl ns of the law con- j
corning annual labor upon mining !
claims, being the amount requited i
to hold- said claim.
And you and each of you j
are further notified that i
if within ninety days after the last ■
publication of this notice you fail 1
to contribute your proportion of
said expenditure, your interest in
said claim will become the proprety
of the undersigned your co-owner
under section 232 4 Revised Statu
tes of the United States.
. ESKIMO GOLD DREDGING CO.
. Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb. 9, 1917.
Date of last publ., May 11, 1917. j
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ible.
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