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Kj Nome Mine Workers' Union. No. 240. Wenw-nt f mrruiun of Miners.
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Koine, Alaska, May 1, Hi 10.
ABSENTEEISM.
One cannot but be struck by the
constant struggle against “mono
poly” which Alaskan business inter
ests from time to timo make in ..
rather a futile effort.
They watch the country drained
of its wealth to pay tribute to trans
portation, banking, foreign mining
corporations, franchises and fishing
interests and they arc left nothing
but the dregs of wealth production
whereon to satisfy their own critical
thirst for wealth. There is no gain
saying that they have excellent
grounds for these complaints. There
is hardly any getting over the fact
that upon tho resources of Alaska
dozens of different companies an
owned by absentee interests, are
sucking all the rich substance from
the territory. And the rest have
sundry and divers mehods of pre
venting this, but all of them, every
one of them, are merely the same
thing over and over again in a diff
erent form.
Now most oi tnese iiiiuresia m
come here representing capital that
has been begged to come. They
have been plied with the wiles of
the advertiser and the promoter un
til they did come, and when they
do come it is only reasonable to ex
pect that they get tlielr pound of
flesh. That's why they invest in the
country, not for their health but for
their profits, and it is above all
things immaterial to them whether
in taking those profits, resident busl
ness interests of Alaska arc left with
bare bones to chew on for susten
ance. That is the system. It was
the system when commercial inter
ests hoping to benefit by their com
ing invited the investment of ab
sentee capitaists here and it is the
system when they did invest and left
their investments to suck d"op by
drop of the profits that circulated In
the commercial veins of the country
Naturally the business men com
plain. They are after their profits,
and when they see this condition
they dont like it. Someone has
figured out tho sum of money that
the N. C. Co. took from Fairbanks
and its proportion to the total gold
output showing that relatively there
was but little left (or the re.-.t It
would be interesting to learn what
proportion of gold produced in the
Juneau district finds its way to for
eign lands and the United States
proper.
It would be interesting to know
what proportion of the gold goes
to the absentee owned bank; in
Juneau and to the absentee owned
shipping companies of Seattle and «i
would be Interesting to learn the
small modicum that is left for pure
ly Alaskan residents after the for
eign corporations have been pehl.
The same thing applies to Nome.
Absentee banking interests, absentee
lighterage interests, absentte light
ing and power plants, absentee
dredging and other mining interests,
absentee transporation companies,
all get their big whack out of the
gold outhput leaving just a soupcou
for business interests resident
here.
Well what about it? Hasn’t n
been the cry all the while to get
capital in here to ingest? And sure
ly it has never been imagined that
capital came to put in two dollars
for the sake of philanthropically
getting back two bits? It wasn't
Imagined surely that capital came
here for it3 health and after it has
come upon urgent solicitings to in
vest it would leave what it made
in the country?
Nothing could be more unreason
able. Nothing could be more imposs
iblo under the system. Tho game
played is dog eat dog. The ethk
of the whole scheme is to get if
from the other fellow, regardless ol
what happens him. It's every firm
for itself under this gay old system
We dont live in any kind of a Uto
pia and no sort of effort will mat
it one. It’s not a question of co
operating because co-operating in
the matter of gathering in the
shekels means that you get left ail
the time if you dont mind your own
damn business.
It's the capitalist system without
beauty and with the cold and glassy
eye. It’s built upon the aphorism
that business is business. And by
the same token business is not phtl
lanthropy, is not charity, is not hu
man kindliness, is not health, and
pleasure seeking, is not co-operation,
is not anything else but cold blooded
business. If two blades of grass
grow where one grew hitherto well
and good if there's money in it. But
the whole thing hinges upon the pro
fits of the undertaking, an.! not
upon the welfare of those who
rubber-neck the enterprise as home
guards.
NEMESIS.
The Greeks deified emotions, pas
sions and phantasies as well as the
commonplace facts of human exist
ence which they could not explain in
any other way. That was their v/ay
of saying as the English poet said
“we are in God's hands”. Before
such conception of human existence
further scientific explanation is of
no importance.
Now they noted that the proud
and haughty and tyrannous Buffet
ed as time went on according to the
measure with which they had meted
out misery and tribulation and trials
to those under them. It was a
commonplace fact that the sins ot
the fathers were visited upon the
children. They did not know wh>
any more than wo know why, so
they just gave this peculiar fact i
divinity and called her Nemesis
“The Distributor”, daughter of
Night.
ft nuiui uioumuwi
truth, who visited with inflexible
vengeance and vindictive persistency
her wrath upon the proud who had
exulted in their pridefulness.
One cannot but bethink ot this
wonderful Goddess when reading cl
the revolt in Ireland.
Whatever may have been the
treatment given the Irish in these
later days, we can be sure of it, the
British are now reaping the legacy
which centuries of misrule had will
led for an uubountiful measure. Ami
it is until that dire moment when
the British are beset with strong
and powerful foes, Nemesis waits tc
square her vengeful accounts.
If there Is one sure and certain
fact in this rather uncertain woric
it is there always comes a day ol
reckoning. It comes when least ex
pected. It may come when the hous<
has been placed in order and it ap
pears meaningless and unjust, H
may come in the midst of the pride
ful tyrannies that make men’s hear1
black with the bitterness of hate
But it comes as it came in the ter
ror of the French revolution, ant
as it comes in the wrath of civil 01
international wars.
Today one may tyrannize conflden
of one's strength to enforce a tyran
ny, but those who do so may wel
wepo for themselves and for thei:
children. No such thing as socia
injustice but will be paid back ii
fourfold measure by the Goddess o
Retribution, inflexible in her purpose
and unvarying in its enforcement.
STRIKERS VICTORIOUS.
Ono of the most Important phase
of the almost universally rccurrim
strikes during this present time a
contrasted with those strikes of
few years ago, is that moot of then
are successful.
Even when begun by a handfu
of men hero or there, they win ou
and oftener than not, the fr.ct tha
men intend to strike has boon th
means of obtaining Increased pay
better working conditions or shorte
e hours in ordor that such a strlk
has been averted.
Have employers then grow uni
versally generous of a sudden? Not
at all. The demand for labor Is
greater and strike breakers are not
secured with sufficient ea3c. Men
can quit in one place and go to
work in another. It doesn’t matter
itMhey never win a strike. They
can go 'fom place to place and get
all the woi-k they want, and the em
ployers bi<liV.T>£' for help amon^
themselves raisA , wages automati
cally. ”"Y
The strikes therefore ire^io more I
to be considered successful eocau3e j
the workers are better organized j
than the success can be attributed ;
to any change in tho attitude of
Capital towards Labor.
The fact is that the competition j
between labor in the majority of in- j
dustries is less keen, and for that
reason the workers enjoy the bene
fit.
But now is the time for organiza
tion to proceed with a faster pace
than ever, and to adopt such tactics
as will make it successful when the
period of depression supervenes
Yet because of archaic methods and
still more archaic tactics, the lead
ers of most of the unions arc
still in the same old rut that never
i did and never can make for pro
gress.
LIIJFJ’TV IN' THK INDIVIDUAL.
The courts have from time to
time thrown out many laws meant
! for the betterment of labor because
they Interfered with the freedom of
the individual. It seems all righT
on paper, but that Is because it is
not legally recognized what Is none
1 the less an undeniable fact that
! there Is no such thing as persona!
liberty possessed by any person who
has to work for a living. He may
have all the rights of citizenship;
entitled to be heard in courts, to
vote for legislators, presidents; but
none of these things feed him and
to live he has to depend upon the
willingness of another man who may
allow him access to the means ot
production or distribution which are
I privately owned.
And hence without industrial
freedom, the right of every man to
work when and how he wants it, to
live in other words, political free
dom is to all intents and purposes
merely the husk without the kernel.
It is fine seeming enough, and
has been handed down as a cherish
ed right from darker ages, but man
| lives by material things and those
who own those material things are
[ those who unquestionably control
! the others.
For this reason the liberty of the
average worker concerning which
the courts show such deep solicitude
j is merely a myth.
I During the investigations of the
1 Illinois Vice Committee, the man
' ager of a huge store in Chicago
told of the shockingly low wages
which ho paid. He said it was a bus
iness proposition. He admitted the
girls couhl net live on it in decency,
but that inasmuch as other stores
paid no more and as the girls had
to work for it or go without any
means of living, except a life of vice,
as a business proposition it was up
held by the firm.
There was ample and wide liberty
of action for the owners and man
agers of the storo, but for the girls
there was none. They had either to
take this inadequate remuneration
or starve.
Yet when it is proposed to pass
laws which would prevent any such
a condition we are confronted with
the fact that it affects the liberty ot
the Individualism—savors of Prus
sianism and is against the ideals of
Anglo-Saxon and American liberty.
It is wonderful how those who
traffic in human misery can cover
up their viciousness with fine and
unctuous phrases.
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MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 0283
u. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska, i
April 18th, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that the j
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 Melsing 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 11
Ab 1 1172 on N. face, whei ce U. S.
L. M. No. 1172 bears S 59 deg.
34 min. W. 380.3 ft. Thence N. 35
deg. 35 min. W. 544.4 ft. to Cor.
j No. 2; thence N. 56 deg. 27 min.
jK. 1376.6 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
■ S. 37 deg. 56 min. E. 526.4 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 55 deg. 37
min. W. 1397.6 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
| place Of beginning, containing an
area of 17.025 acres.
This claim is situated on Melsing
Creek about four miles north of
Council City, Council City Re
(cording Precinct, Alaska. Lo
cation monur.cnt 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 of
■ Melsing Creek, on the south side
thereof, in latitude 64 deg. 55 min.
N., longitude 163 deg. 39 min. \V.
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 Creok; claimants
unknown; on the northwest ana
southeast, claims unknown; all un
surveyed.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
THE NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER
is prepared to handle
all kinds of
JOB PRINTING
Let us figure on your
work. Call up Black
134 or call at
THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER OFFICE
WE WILL PURCHASE
Empty Coal Sax
IN GOOD CONDITION
8 Cents Each
AUSKA LIGHTERAGE 8 Ml GO.
BafaraaaaaaaaaaafaiaiBgii^^
HIPRESS
White Boots
tst
$8.00
Cheap John Store
MURPHY HAS THE GOODS
Summit Shirts, Stetson Hats,
and Connelly Shoes
DIU-I1AK CLOTHING. A Suit of this will answer any miners
requirements, and lias proven the best goods of the kind on the
market to date.
PHIL MURPHY
ARTIC SPRING '
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