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Box 210 Nome. Alaska. Phone. Black 184.
Nome, Alaska, June 25, !!M7.
I.AI’.OKS P))IJ('V.
It is very easy to magnify the
difficulties and the dangers which
the people and especially the work
ing classes will face in the pro
gress of the war. It is especially
easily to magnify the possibility,
and for all that it is a possibility,
i hat working class conditions and
the personal rights or most of the
people may be clipped considerably
during the war.
In the first place that will de
pend upon the workers themselves,
and if they put aside any tendency
to act foolishly and without due
consderation and lacking all
prudence. fail to realize
that their safety lies in
strengthening their organization, it
is easy to see that many will take
advantage of the war and the condi
tions provided by the war, to make
the work ‘rs he the goat throughout
it all.
In this war what has occasioned
1 _ wa nhdPTVP from
reading our exchanges, where a
biassed press agency lias not the
work in hand of collecting the
nows, are conscription, the censor
ship and taxation.
Now it is the most foolish thing
in the world to imagine that these
three things have not been on hand
during times of peace to excite or
dismay or discourage, just as much
as during times of war, and there
is right now an effort made to ca
pitalize all three to provoke many
workers to be the catspaws of those
who are no more in sympathy with
labor movement now than they
have ever been, in order that they
—the workers—may pull the chest
nuts from the fire for those who are
nro-Germans and are not now and
never were, interested in the aims
of the working class.
Take this question of press cen
sorship. It emails no hardship upon
»he workers. Its scope is outlned
in the preliminary statement to the
Press of the United States by the
Commit! e on Public Information,
and that can be read by any person
without feeling that their liberties
are circumscribed in the least .
tin the other hand doe;, any one
imagine that there bus not pre
vailed for all these years a regular
press censorship which some of those
who protest at the government’s
present time action never stopped
to denounce? Practically all labor
matters were suppressed, misrepre
sented, or distorted to a great ex
tent, so that very little of the real
facts in any important case ever
.found publicity at all. Take a quite
recent ease. Some time ago the
people of Petiograd made a hostile
demonstration against the American
Embassy in Hussia. That item
<»as published the world over. It
was apparently an expression of
opinion. It was occasioned by the
fait that the workers of Hussia had
heard that Tom Mooney of San
Francisco had been hung. When
that appeared in New’ York papers,
the Globe and the Evening Post
commneted upon the fact that this
was the first intimation they had of
such a ease, and the particulars ion
. Mruing the Osman frame-up while
tanuliar to Russians were not fa
miliar to New Yorkers.
We might cite not a dozen or a
scare, but hundreds of similar
cases where matters of vital import
ance to millions in this country
have been deliberately cen
sored by the capitalist controllers
of news, without as much as by
your leave or without any protest
from any now loudly mouthing
vehement denunciation of the right
to life liberty and the pursuit of
happiness which are now charged
with being curtailed.
We say the same thing precisely
about military conscription. The
workingman is conscripted all his
tile whether in peace or war. He |
has to work In death (raps and hell
holes and with a total disregard ol
his feeding, his living or clothing or
his personal comfort in any way.
shape or form.
Vet to hear some of those who
have loftily approved that system
of economic conscription, denounce
the draft one would imagine that
the workers were always free to do
as they please one way or another.
Moreover with reference to tax
ation, the workers pay no taxes.
They will hear every pea-nut pedd
ler and cock roach business man
and haywire operator tell them that
they are being robbed while the big
wigs are passed by unscathed.
What the working man gets is
enough to live upon and no more.
He makes more: he makes enough
to pay rent, interest and profit as
well as taxes, but the boss takes it,
and pays the rent, and the interest,
and the taxes, while he absorbs the
profit.
If the war should be prolonged,
or whether it is long or short, there
will be a determined effort to in
.■rt.twn this agitation against the
tax question.
But the workers are merely being
used in this to pull the chestnuts
out of the fire for the little business
interests whom the big fellows will
make as they have been making,
pay all they have to save them.
It is true that in the censorship
and in the conscription, the execu
tion of these two measures may
press heavily upon the workers.
But that is up to them. If they are
organized and organized for mutual
protection, they will get a fairly
even break.
We said before that the evil ones
of the plunderbund are lying in the
shadows, waiting to completely
emasculate the workers of all power
And we can be sure they will use
every pretext that comes handy to
them to do so. We know from past
experience that scoundrels in the
industrial baronage have time and
time again tried to accomplish the
biggest of their villainies covered
over with much flag »w aving.
If, as a socialist party paper states
during the war things which have
been gained by the people go by
the board, it is not by reason ot
the war but by reason of the lack
of power of the workers, their fail
ure to have a strong economic or
ganization.
To peddle to ourselves that the
war is responsible for this, that or
the other tiling, is only to blame
something else for our own lack
of foresight, our own economic in
difference, or to ruli the salve upon
our own pugnacious nationalism
which is secretly pro-German, and
because the war is pro-German
blames everything upon it.
If a single one of the rights which
men have struggled to gain is cur
tailed during the war, men them
selves are to hlame. If what the
workers have been struggling and
striving to accomplish is destroyed,
it is because they were found un
prepared and without any real or
ganization.
We say that before the war Is
over there will be many new experi
ences before the workers of Amer
ica. It is not to be imagined that
this war is going to progress with
out intimately affecting our every
day life. Fur from that is true.
But it will in the main affect us
fortunately or affect us unfavorably
according as the workers are them
selves organized to protect, to save,
to husband themselves. It depends
upon the workers: if they organize,
it will be well, if they do not, it will
not be well. This war has been
the means for rich to grow richer
and the poor to grow poorer. But
before peace is brought about their
will have been a re-adjustment of
things which will prevent that con
dition obtaiying. There will be food
control . there will be nationaliza
tion of industries, there will have
been protection of man-power and
conservation of human life.
This war depends first of all
upon man-power. And in all coun
tries the vital need of carefully hus
banding that resource above all
other resources is being slowlv and
with pains being forced upon every
one. This war is tearing to pieces
the class system of the nations al
though it built its beginnings upon
just such caste. Every shell that
burst in the trenches has been sym
bolical of the explosive effect upon
human institutions of this war, and
that this is evidenced as yet only
in Russia, is because Russia was
the rottenest and the ripest for this
manifestation.
We believe that there is a good
deal more concern felt over con
scription than is justified. It will,
in the main, take those who would
be able to live without working and
without any kind of involuntary
service in any event. The workers
will be needed at home and the
most of them due to the blessings
of unrestricted capitalism will not
pass the physician in any event.
What is to be prevented is the
carefully cultivated notion that dur
ing the war there is any reason for
a sudden alteration in the status ol
labor organization, or that there
must be any sudden destruction of
personal rights, or that there is to
be a complete surrender to those
who operate industries the condi
tions whit it labor has wrung after
endless struggles. «
To provoke an anti-war propa
ganda with the objective of making
labor organizations come under the
authoritarian ban is what is inten
sely desired by many powerful ex
ploiters -who are skilful above all
other things in exploiting their
pseudo patriotism. Take note in
this connection of the patriotic
money grabbers of Chicago Board
of Trade who gambled in wheat
while the nation was starving for
want of flour. These people will
stop at nothing to make the people,
the government, the national affairs
their plaything and their profit
making instrument, and will com
pel the workers to surrender them
selves completely to them. It Is
against such an eventuality that the
labor organization will stand like
a stone wall. It alone gives the *
masses power, and it alone, with .
its immense control of the economic
situation follows from working class
solidarity, is the sheet anchor for
the masses in these or in am other
days: in the days of war or in the
piping times of peace. And one or
the other are not so different from
the working class standpoint that
they should get excited about it or
lose their heads or aspire to a
martyrdom or—the same thing
become catspaws for a clique ot
anti-war nationalists.
SUNK STEAMER PLAN
DEVISED DY BRITISH
LONDON', June 23.—When, a
German seaplane sweeped down and
discharged an aerial torpedo which
sank the 3000 ton British steamship
Gena, the Bocbe stole one of the
pet ideas for naval warfare which
the British Admiralty had been
treasuring. Over a year ago the
English aeroplanes were fitted out
with devices for carrying and dis
charging torpedoes against enemy
ships, but the Germans beat them
to it.
The idea of aeroplanes attacking
in this fashion is extremely practi
cal. a British anval authority de
clared today. It is hoped that the
United States will soon start offen
sive movements against German
ships with this means of attack. A
light gun. loaded with cordite can
be used to fire the torpedo, or a spe
cial launching arrangement in the
form of a light basket which throws
the torpedo and enables it to be
aimed.
FRANCE TRAINING ITS
1918 CLASS OF CONSCRIPTS
WITH THU FRENCH ARMIES,
June 2:’».—France has begun train
ing the class of 1918 consisting of
the youngest recruits, by whose
side Americas army will be fight
ing next fall, should the war last
that long.
The new French class will be
younger than 1 he men of the Amer
ican army. They will be but 19,
while the youngest American will
be 21.
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C. L. Ross
Lumber
Milling
Contractor
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3rd and B St.
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All France hopes that American
interventior wPl render it unneces
sary to ever t.gain call out one ot
the French Classes before the usual
military age. The class of 191S
which is now at the instruction
camps is probably one of the finest
France has produced. It if* being
especially instructed In bayonet
fighting and hand-grenading.
.MINNEAPOLIS, June 22.—The
high cost of living went higher in
this city today when finally all
barber shps iaised their prices to
forty cents a hair cut and twenty
cents a shave.
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