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1!»17.
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:,.t. and is so obviously
, |ass 1* gisiation that anyone tan un
derstand it as such.
it is especially interesting to on
rv( that is introduced by i’re
sident Wilson in whose support the
leading laborites of the country
worked over time, and in whose
, a use Sam Campers himself was in
defatigable.
Th“ro is now no question hut
lhat the reason that Wilson will suc
, hilnself next March is because
of m,. labor vote, and almost, before
he is readv to take the oath for an
other term, he is working might and
main
to strike labor one of the
.it.: ... 1 LI nti’ii
struck with the
executive has ever
help of Congress.
It is fair to Wilson to say that he
made no secret of his predilection
for the concept of compulsory arid- j
tration. and that if he got the labor i
vote ami the labor leaders worked j
with might and main for his sup
port, they did so knowing full well,
what his attitude was upon this
question.
The entire question of strikes is
one that will well repay careful con
sideration.
Strike is massed action
upon the part of the
workers on the economic field di
rectly. without the interposition ot
any political action. A strike is a
struggle. And like all struggles will
generally be victorious to those who
have the lust, and who meet the
least, preparation.
Obviously the more sudden, spon
taneous and more general a strike
i* the more likely is it to win for
the workers. If a strike finds the
employers unprepared to meet the
emergency which it calls forth, it it
takes the employer when he is busi
est and with least warning, if it is
directed against every possible source
of activity in the industry these
things will assuredly contribute to
its success.
The strike and the power to strike
is the power to unite labor in one
organized effort to better conditions.
It is in fact labor’s only weapon. If
labor try to improve its condition on
the political field instead of on the
economic field, it simply produces a
hum h of parliamentarians and poli
ticians who have much more to do
th matters that do not concern
lb. workers, than with those things
pot i- or!'-’ ruch a control over his '
labor power Rives him. If he had
Hi.- only labor power in sight, and
a dozen men were hunting him up
to work for them, he would be in a
position of very gr sat power and im
portance But it is just the reverse.
Tin worker finds that for every jot)
there are hundreds and thousands
looking for it.
Tiie very existence of the workers
depends upon their ability to unite
their individual labor powers to
gether with one another, and to take
common action in the matter of its
disposal. With such an organized
unity of labor power, the formerly
despised workers rise to positions of
considerable power which can find
expression in the strike.
That power to strike is therefore
the only way in which the workers
tan riake their economic power felt,
and to remove that Is to submit the
workers, helpless and in industrial
bondage to the over lords of in
dustry.
Historically that has been a step
which in the course of capitalist de
velopment the various nations have
tried to effect In the interest of ca
pital, and it has already become a
law in many countries, and for the
same alleged reasons that it is to b<
nforced in th- Cnited States: :lo
rote.omnufii.
\ . i,,d a. hear a groat d< a!
bout • ot tii cot un r e, it id- ;
.; rj ; ai ; majority i rto s I
aVl. i, r at any time allowed any
,(>rson to doubt the ta<t titai. Amer |
ait i11<• ustrial chiefs. America!.;
nancial and commercial chiefs were
hose whose interests must have
irst attention.
In point of fact the proposal to
stablish corupulsor> artiitration is
o secure profit makers protection
igainst any exertion of the power
if latior organizations to coir pel
hose profit makers to concede in t
er conditions. And the main insti
gator of it all is Sam Gompers, tor
Sam Gompers is the man that wild
eyed called upon the workers at the
first as well as at the eleventh hour
to rustle to the aid of Wilson on the
political field.
Compulsory arbitration proposes
to make a legal strike hereafter
illegal. It will directly further the
general commission of crime. And
it will lead to consequences which
vill ho much more serious man win
,e apparent to the Solons who are
inspired only by the single idea ot
protecting interstate commerce.
It may he laid down as an axiom
that every effort to curb individual
liberty of action on the economic
field, is accompanied by consequen
ces which are more hurtful than
otherwise to those who make such
eftorts to destroy the personal li
berty of others.
The strike has not been altogether
a weapon which has always been
su< cessful. It has not always been
free from disordtrs either. Hut at,
that, the strike was a safety valve
which allowed the workers an open,
obvious and public effort to better
their condition. If that is to be
taken away by one power or another
if this open activity is to become il
legal. it will not prevent the work
ers resorting, as they will be com
pelled to resort, to covert methods
of improving their conditions. That
has been quite a general experience
and compulsory arbitration has
worked out to little advantage any
where where it has been tried. It is
true that government has succeeded
in making great and sudden strikes
unlawful both in France and Ger
many. But one of the very best and
most impartial authorities on the
war says that beyond yea or nay,
the growing discontent of the peo
ple in both those contrles compelled
the ruling classes to regard war
with far from unkindly eyes, and
hence is one of the contributing
causes of the war which may not be
lost sight of.
The compulsory effort to prevent
strikes made the worst war in the
history of the world more acceptable
tii .11 ti t- nrobable domestic crisis
those nations engaged therein.
We do not believe that this law j
will seriously prevent strikes. They j
have sueli laws in Canada under the ;
name of the Lemieux act. in Aus
tralia and in New Zealand and all
those contries have been torn with
distracting strikes as if there were
no sueh laws at all.
Moreover, it is highly improbable,
that a single effort will be seriously
made to observe the law upon the
part of the great majority of the
organized workers. They ran well
consider the circumstances under
which the law is being passed. It
is being brought in to protect em
ployers, whatever the alleged mo
tives may be, who as employers re
fuse to obey the Adamson law.
There is no talk of punishing the
railroad companies which fail to
obey the law. They dellbeiately
spurn the action of Congress, until
a body over which the people havt
no say whatever shall say whether,
in their estimation, it is to be obeyed
at r 11 or not.
The excuse that the matt'f is Id
litigation is quite immaterial. It is
the law of the land until declared
otherwise, and It is being flouted be
cause the railroad companies are so
i powerful that none dare declare
against them.
Hence it is reduced to a question (
of power: economic, which controls <
every other power. And it is quite ^ <
possible to imagine that "hen the >
iabor unions will rid themselves ot I
their craft superstitions and the .
multitudinous high and low priests i
who officiat upon its altars, and in- J
stead will direct their attention to ;
the work of building up one strong
r -alizatioh of the massed power ol :
the working class in ihe ability to ,
manifest that power they will take j
little stock of a law which says they ^
dare not do any such thing. That is j
what the railroads have been doing
and more than likely it is what
labor will do.
The idea that legislation can curh
a power which has the power to j
make its own laws, is so childishly
foolish that it is hard to see how it
ever obtained currency, but a whole
I Lot of people who are immersed in
the metaphysical conception of legis
! lation, as a whole lot of people
Wfr.' 1 ill 11.1V. : Ov- V* »** - 1
conception of the right of kings, still
■ i;!rI *■ r the i< 1»• ■ * that invr anti any .
all circumstances the law is all j
powerful. Laws are powerful as j
long as they reflect the will of the |
people in whom is tin essem.- of the
e< >nomi< pt ver. - ■ other\ ise
the. are honorerl in the breach, or
go by the board.
That is an historical experience
that is too often overlooked or quite
forgotten by those who should re*
member.
The whole theory of society Is be
ing remodelled to accomodate itselt
to what Justice Brandies once upon
a time very happily termed industri
al absolutism. Agitation for industri
al preparedness has this basis, fl he
agitation for legislation which will
allow the greatest of combinations
to reach out and control a foreign
; trade is conceived for such a pur
pose. The constant urge of military
and naval preparedness has been de
veloped and promulgated for the
sole purpose of establishing such an
absolutism upon an absolutely se
cure foundation.
There is no quesuon inai mis tum- i
pulsory arbitration has for its object <
:he work of making enduring the in- •
lustrial absolutism which would ] 1
dictate terms to the rest of society. 1
There is no evident concern for i
the great masses of the people, i
There is a complete obliteration ot :
that tendency so obvious a short
time ago, to extend the principles of (
real democracy. On the other hand, j
everywhere is reaction: the react^n j
which says that the present condi- j
tions be they good or bad for the ,
people, must be maintained at all
costs, and that, too, even if the mas
ses have to be deprived of whatso
ever semblance of industrial liberty
that they now have.
So it is that we perceive involun
tary servitude being lugged back
from the catacombs where a Civil
War buried it none too deep, and
masquerading under the name ot
Compulsory Arbitration to Protect
Interstate Commerce, is resurrected
by the high-minded democrat who
presides over the nation.
Safety first. You miners coining
in from the creeks look up the ad
vertisers in your paper before dis
posing of your patronage.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska. December 16, 1916.
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Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
i L. Osgood. Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good > By W. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
V. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
heir Attorney in Fact, whose Post
)ffiee address is Nome, Alaska, and
in behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Cowell, has made application before
he United States Land Office at
'Come, Alaska, for a United States
Patent for Discovery Qlairn and No.
L Above Discovery on Lake Creek
n the Cape Nome Recording Dis
r i ■, * Alaska* being Mineral Survey
N'o. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
thereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-writ:
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.
4 110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
\Y. Yar. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
m rv.r No. 2: thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 rain. E. j
o. , jo it. to Cor. No. 3; thence X. |
00 deg. 4 3 min. E. tar. 19 deg. 10
m u. E. 070.00 ft. to Cor. Xo. 4;
th nee S. 3 deg. 28 min. E. Var.
10 deg. 15 min. E: 317.40 ft. to
Cor. Xo. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 4 3
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 13 min. E. ,
3S6.S0 ft. to Cor. Xo. 6; thence S. I
4.3 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25 |
min. E. 273.SO ft.; thence S. 13 j
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min. j
E. 400.SO ft. to place of begining. 1
containing 5.90S acres.
XO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY, j
Beginning at Cor. Xo. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. Xo.
7 47 Xo. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. Xo. 2
Discovery claim this survey, pre\ i
ously described, U. S. L. M. Xo. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence X. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
1 Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft
to Cor. Xo. 2; thence S. 4S deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. Xo. 3; thence X.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. Xo. 4;
V Var 19
i
IltJiice o. ou * - -
eg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
thence S. 31 cleg. 00 min. E.
'ar. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft. ^
0 Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45
nin. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
170.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
1 deg. 57 min. W. 1 nr. 19 deg. 10
nin. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing J 6.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek j
ibout 4.5 miles north of the Town
}f Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
[ng District, Alaska.
u. S. Location Monument No. 11 j
to which said claims are tied, is a ;
fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground j
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River and j
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude 6 4 cleg. 32 min. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Vol.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Vol.
165 Page 225 and \ ol. 199 Page
85. Records of Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 698 and Gold Bug CJaim
Survey No. 434; on the East un
surveyed; on the South No. ^ 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West.
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 747. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ.. Dec. 20, 1916
Date of last pub!., Feb. 21, 191<
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