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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of hla labor, or as
nearly as possible. Is a worthy object of any stood government."—
aoraaiam Lincoln
Address all CoznmuDTcatlons to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Boi 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134
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Kntered as second class matter March 1, 1911, ml the post office at
Nome, Alaska, unaer the Act of March 3, 1879.
t Nome, Alaska, March 2, 1910.
We are going to hear a whole lot
before the year i3 out about the Al
aska Commission Bill introduced by
Delegate Wiekersham.
It's a commission form of Govern
ment bill, but it does not affect any
actual status of the relations be
tween the Territory of Alaska ana
the United States.
What prevails at the present time
is identical with the system will
prevail hereafter, with this differ
ence that whereas at present gove
ment in Alaska is divided into a
number of different bureaus under
different heads in Washington, they
will und-r the proposed Commission
be vested in one Bureau under one
department.
There is therefore no sense oi
meaning in considerable of the cri
ticism already heard, and certainly
none that is not justified at present
under the present system.
Alaska rejoices or grieves in 5
long distance government which
even the popularity of the appointed
representatives in Alaska cf such
long distance administration, cannot
overcome in any way.
Tlio bureaucratic government ex
ists today just as it will exist under
the Wickershnm bill or an it would
exist under a Beveridge Bill that
made the Wickersham l)lood boil
~ in 'bygone days.
Nevertheless we can rest assured
that the Wickersham bill will be
used by his political opponents with
great effect and with just the same
freedom of criticism that Wicker
sham meted out to the Beveridge
I till.
It i3 quite remarkable as lice
often been pointed out that the
United States the home of represen
sentativo government and demo
cracy according to the very best
American authorities, should be the
last to yield a representative
administration to countries like A1
aska.
One of the facts in connection
with the reservations made by Con
gress as to the legislative control ot
things Alaskan is that witli one ex
ception almost all the economic ac
tivities are vested in the federal
government as such, v.hi-.-h alone
preserves the right to administer
them.
Thus the fisheries, tin- coal mines,
the timber, the land, the power sites,
the liquor business, the schools to a
great extent and the roads us well,
aro all controlled by certain Bure
aus.
Now it is one of the elements ot
government that without control ot
the economic factors in any nation, j
state or territory, political control ;
is as empty of real administration
as air. Unless the territorial legis
lature actually controls the admi
nistration of the resources of the
territory, its power is more nominal
than real.
Instead the real power is vested
in those bureaus at Washingto i
which administer those particular
economic resources and not in the
territorial legislature which Is mere
ly as a legislature the shadow of a
great name which merely misleads
the people into believing they exev
cise a control where they exercise
none at all.
The Industrial Worker is not
criticizing the system as it now pre
vails, or says that if Alaska had ac
tual control of these resources that
they would lie better administered
than by the federal control.
That’s very well a dcbuteable
poiut. The matte r which this paper
would Insist upon Is that in Alaska
there is only nominally a local gov
ernment by Alaskans, the real gov
ernment is vested far away and 13
administered by appointees over
which Alaskans have not-soati on i
eat control direct or indirect.
•-> Political freedom as a matter oi
fact therefore cannot really fie sard
to eftist In AJaska. They do not here
v«te for Presicfont, nor has their
congressional delegate anything but
a seat and by courtesy a voice- in
the deliberations of the federal gov
ernment in which all Alaskan gov
ernment is vested.
As far as exercising control over
the government which directs the
real affairs of the country, the Am
erican in Alaska might as well lie
an American in Siberia for all the
individual rights he has in the eiec
tion or control of his rulers.
Surely is it worth while consider
ing why this should be, and why it
should be and yet ignored with cul
tivated indifference upon the part
of all Americans. The same degree
of loyalty and patriotism is exacted
from American citizens in Alaska as.
• n the United States proper, yet the
Alaskan lias neither \ote nor influ
ence i’l the "cvernment affairs or
the nation which controls his terri
tory.
it is a peculiar state of affairs
that all this should tie in American
territory. The peculiarity lies !r.
the fact that democracy and repre
sentative government have become
household words iu America and
synonimous with the rights of Am
erican citizens and their ideals.
The theory is that the system oi
territorial government is first open
ed up so that the country can ulti
mately suit itself and develop itselt
for statehood. But why during that
development period it should still
have to have its resources, ana
that’s the real government, vested
in control of a bureaucracy or a
system of bureaucracies is the in
explicable feature of it all.
Now take this Commission Bill
of the delegate from Alaska. Much
can be said in its favor. It is cer
tainly a much more efficient version
of bureaucratic administration than
as at present exists. It centralizes
control and vests it under one admi
nistrative head. It is, however, in
troduced by Mr. Wiekersham. Now
then, in a few weeks delegate Wlck
ersham will introduce a statehood
bill. This statehood bill will prac
tically, if it were to become low, ab
solutely nullify the Commission Bill
which he has already introduced.
Where then do Alaskans get oft
at ? Are they to become reconciled
to a Commission form of govern
ment while Statehood is proposed
merely as a sop to still their criti
cism and to allay patriotic demurrors
at the prospect of government by a
cast iron commission or bureau
cracy ?
But that is politics. It is quite
an interesting and remarkable coil
cition that from beginning to end it
should be full of bewildering contra
dictions, for it is the bewildering
condition that forces satisfaction
where simple revelation of actual
stale of affairs' would distuib and
eissatisfy.
sometimes it is very easy to chlo
reform the people with an overdose
af the political narcotic. They cer
tainly get it In Alaska and then
some.
These are happy days foe the
workers in the munition works, an 1
other workers are also benetiuing
by the improved condition OH em
ployees in munition factories. In
almost all of these places east, con
ditions have improved enormously,
sometimes by striking, sometimes by
the threat of a strike, and some
times by just organizing with a la
tent strike hidden in the solidarity
that came from organisation.
That is all very well: now is the
acceptable time, the day of salva
tion. But what of the time when
the munition industry is enjoying no
such boom, and peace pricks the
bubbled war stocks?
We are all told in almost all the
labor papers that the workers are
enjoying, thanks to their organiza
tion, better times than ever and the
men are getting wages they have
hitherto never enjoyed.
The question is put therefore wha
about the future when no such ac
tivity will be marked in the muni
tionist and subsidiary industries, an<
fat war contracts no longer loom s<
largo with hope.
The reason for the increuscc
wages is not so much organization
which probably made the obtaining
of the increase more easy, but i'
that actual industrial activity re
ported. And now is the time fo:
this very reason that the workers ir
all industries should ask thcmsolve:
what they can do to maintain condi
tions thereafter.
Most of the craft unions durine
the day of industrial briskness adopt
the policy that sufficient for the
day is the evil thereof. They take
no thought of the morrow, and the
morrow comes and finds them help
less, powerless and jobless with bui
a very insufficient protection In
their craft organization.
It is all very well to make hay
when the sun shines, but it is no us«
if that hay then made is not avail
able for the rainy day. And the
workers unfortunately have to en
dure more rainy days than sun
i shine, and it behoves them to pre
pare in sunshine for the clouds that
are bound to come.
Now this European war with the
enormous contracts given out in
America will not last for over. There
will come a time when it will be
over and the boom which it indus
trially occasioned will be over also.
To proceed in the same old fashion
to believe that organized craftman
ship has accomplished what the
simple economic law of supply and
demand has actually done is to
court misery in the future.
And precisely that is what is now
being done. There is no great effort
being made in these days of activity
and comparative plenty of employ
ment to close the ranks and bring
all workers closer together as work
ers and to promote the solidarity ot
the workers. Instead the same sort
of machine made officialized union
ism prevails with a little more reck
lessness and a little more audacity
and a little more gall as the leaders
witnessing many men at work, and
many men members in craft unions,
assume to believe that it is they and
their organizing ability accomp
lished what an industrial revival and
increased demand in proportion to a
diminishing supply has accomp
lished.
Without any organization of ma
chinists or other craft workers, the
demand for labor in such trades
would have caused an increase. It
has not been due to the ability of
the leaders, but the natural econo
mic factors which arose in the in
dustrial world.
And for this very reason it is a
. sickening vanity to pretend that It
Is the efficiency of a hopelessly In
efficient and hopelessly archaic sy
i stem of unionism which has done
< that work.
It is not In the c'ay of prosperity
. but in the day adversity t»»t a
, union Is put to the lost: when work
, ers are plentiful and jobs are scarce,
i jn htn mills, mines, factories and ma
cti ne plants are closed and men
.-land hungry In the breadlines and
work for what and at what they car.
' get that the real power of -in ouism
is :e\ealed.
.s nd the revelations that have
be n made during the lean years
have found craft unions hopelessly
numbered, weighed and wanting.
1 here is no mor-y disappointing
fact in connection with the labor
movement than that industrialism
is still so far from making its way
Into the tields of working ,.ia8s
| soidarity and the ideals of bringing
| al the workers closer together in
j one big union is still a3 far oil rea
i lization as ever.
It is sickening to discover ciitics
, of industrialism lavish their sneers
upon the organization that has made
for such an ideal, and thus put
themselves into the very same cate
gory of men and institutions which
snap and growl at the only really ef
ficient method of working class
organization.
If only the labor unions could rid
themselves of the inefficient and ex
pensive craft system with its expen
sive and inefficient and misleading
machine mpdo officialdom, progress
might be expected.
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