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Nome. Alaska, January I. I'* 1 T.
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Beyond anything tliat lias occur
red in recent years the railroad < ri
sis is most orrectly to lit- considered
the most important one that the
country lias faced since the civil
war.
For many decades there lias been
a struggle going on hap hazard
fashion between employers and
employees. Only when conditions
became so sensational that it was
impossible to longer ignore them,
did the public sit up and take no
tice.
All that time a social process has
been proceeding gradually growing
more and more intense, and now
and then exciting national attention
if only for a little while.
But there has been and indeed
there is a complete failure to give
this tremendous industrial evolution
any such attention as is properly
to be given it. It is the paramount
question of the time, sweeping be
yond national borders and with its
titanic interrogation mark demand
ing answer.
Now this railroad question, ap
parently merely an incident, serves
first of all to rivet attention upon
the fact that the real national life
is not located in political but in e<o
nomic circles, and is not bounded 1>\
geographical but by industrial lines.
And this real life blood coursing
through the national veins is pulsat
ing with viality demanding more
and more attention and more and
more careful treatment at the hands
of those who are 'ailed upon to
direct the national Jcdin'.
Now furthermore, in this railroad
crisis, the entire relation of owner
ship to the people and the people to
ownership, the relation of employer
to employee is brought immediately
to the front. And it most certainly
and most positively emphasizes what
many have realized long before, that
society and these relations that we
speak of, as they are at present, can
no longer continue untouched: that
if they do continue untouched, no
thing but social, industrial and civil
disaster awaits the nation.
This crisis presents fairly and
squarely to the nation the fact that
private ownership of the nationa'
necessities affects adversely the hap
piness of the community, and that
only clear thinking and right acting
can possibly result In the nation in
these untoward circumstances avoid- i
ing the rocks of social cat .'.strophe, i
We may easily lose sight for a |
minute in ibis crisis of what is an |
apparent struggle between the
1 • labor in g classes 15 . i 1
we cannot overlook the fact without
complcti loss of clearness oi vision
that n is this struggle which is Hu.
key to the entire situation. Further
more, it may not he denied that as
this struggle is faced for solution, de
pends entirely the future welfare
of the commonwealth.
We hear a great deal about tlie
greed of the employees, of the ne- -
cessity for reasonable profits, for
concern for the public whose inter
ests are jeopardized in this struggle i
between employers and employees. ;
And these main points are the foun- !
dation of the case for the railroad
companies. They are cited as rea
sons why there should be no strike;
why an eight hour standard of
payment is unjust and why an in
terruption of traffic due to this
struggle would be quite unfair to
the public.
The question of private ownership
is not they claim involved. There is
no mention made of it with refer
ence to private ownership of the
railroads, and it is passed up as it
indeed it was not as it is, the crux
of the entire situation. Here is a
public utility. Here is an industry
which serves to deliver to the pub
lic the needs which are theirs and
which producers supply. That
Industry is one that cannot be inter
fered with without serious suffering.
I We grant all that. Vet in fact what
we have alto to observe is this that
the railroads of the United States re
present a capital which is not in
vested in the construction or In tlie
maintenaee of t lie traffic, but which
is used as a legal fiction to extract
from the people more and more pro
fits.
The consideration which must be
given this question is one that im
mediately demands an investigation
of the right of this private owner
ship over such a public utility. It
begets at once an inquiry into the
propriety of watered stock. It chal
lenges the standing of company and
property rights as against the rights
of the workers who perform the
social function for which coupon
cliping stock or bondholders draw
remuneration.
What is being suggested now by
some Congressional action is that
the watered stock should be given
prior consideration over the labor
rights of those who operate the rail
roads. And it is insisted that the
nation has a right to prevent by law
railroad men quitting their work en
masse to secure redress of what now
or hereafter they may consider their
grievances. in effect the compul
sory arbitration act says that there
is no freedom collectively where
may be freedom individually, and
■ that the collectivity may not do what
! the individual can do. It is a most
! important evolution of modern in
dustrial legislation and is worth
while considering.
Bereft of all mystifying phraseo
logy what the railroad industry
does is this: The workers in that
industry socially function in distri
buting the goods and wares needed*
rrom one community to anothes.
The surplus in one section is moved to
relieve a shortage in another and
| people are enabled to travel from
one place to another in performance
of their work or for pleasure as the
case may be. The railroads func
tion in a public manner. They are
an essential part of the -life of every
individual in the community, and
like the King’s Highway of another
day, can only be regarded as such a
public utility.
The theory however that the rail
road is a public utility is not realiz
ed in practice. Modern capitalism
insists upon regarding the railroad
as a means of making money. The
supreme duty of a railroad manager
is to secure dividends. The supreme
function of a railroad is to make
profits, or failing.that to admit the
High Kings of finance to juggle the
stocks and bonds and capitalization
so that they make huge money over
tin' process of watering stock or the
like.
We all recognize that. And we
do not need such recent sensational
exposures as have been made in the
case of the New Haven, the Rock
Island, the Frisco system and a
dozen others to make us certain ot
it.
What the workers who operate
the roads and whose labor of brain
or hand performs the social function
of distributing and carrying are up
against is the right of ownership to
consider itself the supreme right.
The public who pay the freight have
been able to compel some sort of an
tional jurisdiction over the rates
charged but the workers, bereft of
any other than the power of organi
zation, can only secure their de
mands through such organization.
They are not running counter to the
demands of the railroads as a public
utility, a fact is always ignored.
They are running counter to the
railroads functioning as dividend
and profit making institutions, or
institutions affording financial wiz
ards an opportunity of extracting
“painlessly” more profits from labor
which has reihained unpaid. And
it is because Congress and those ad
visers of compulsory arbitration in
sist that this public utility shall be
regarded as a profit making machine
and not as a machine performing or
supposed to perform a useful func
tion, we have every effort made to
curb labor’s attempt to get more ot
he profits that their own labor has
created.
| 1’he brotherhoods are in most amus
| ing fashion blamed for creating this
crisis. They are blamed for jeopard
izing the public welfare by asking
for better conditions of labor in the
industry. But the real fact is never
noticed that the workers are not do
ing any such thing. They are insist
ing upon their own betterment
that the public betterment may
be affected, and they are insist
ing upon doing this event at the risk
of destroying the perfection of the
system which has perverted a pub
lic utility into a private profit mak
ing perquisite of a few owners.
Their real guilt is in challenging
the right of owners to profit by the
public need, and to use the public
demand and the public necessity as
a means of twisting the flow of un
earned wealth into their corners amt
their coffers. And the government
is standing by that action of the
companies in maintaining their right
to insist that this unearned wealth
shall be extracted from the produc
ing factors regardless of all social
considerations.
So tlie railroad crisis is reallj
bringing this right of exploitation as
ngainst the social well being to the
front as never before. It is a ver>
real and a very important erisis,
now just beginning to develop.
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GET THE NEWS RIGHT. REAi>
THE WORKER.
notice of forfeiture.
To Ed. Carlson, your heirs, execut
ors. administrators and assigns:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended during the year ending 31st
December, 1916, the sum of One
hundred dollars in labor and im
provements upon placer mining
claim known and described as No. 1"
Below on Hastings Creek, located
the 1st day of January 1909 and re
corded in Volume 184 at page 225
of the records of the Cape Nome Re
cording Precinct, Territory of Al
aska.
You are hereby further notified,
that if within ninety (90) days
after the last publication of this no
tice you fail or refuse to contribute
your propertion of such expenditure
your interest in said claim wlil be
come the property of the under
signed, your co-owner, under the
provisions of Section 2324 of the
Revised Statutes of the United
States.
Dated this 3rd day of Jan. 1917.
J. S. KIMBALL COMPANY.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Jan. 4, 1917.
Date of last publ., March 29, 1917..
No. 0308.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
i In the United States Land Office at
! Nome, Alaska, December 16, 1916.
—
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By W. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and
on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, has made application before
the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a United States
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the Held
notes and plat of the official survey
thereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-wit:
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.
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
W. Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. i
69 deg. 4 5 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 2 8 min. E. Var,
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 43
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
386.SO ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25
min. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 1? deg. 05 min.
E. 400.80 ft. to place of begining,
containing 5.908 acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
747 No. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft.
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 48 deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. 3 9
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Var. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
^ ^aid claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
to which said claims are tied, is a
fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground
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
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 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 Vol. 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 Claim
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 publ., Feb. 21, 1917.
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