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IJ>- Nome Mine Workers’ Union, No. 240, International Union of Mine,
Mill ami Sm elter Workers.
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"To secure to each laborer tile whole product of his labor, or a6 !
eenrly as possible. Is a worthy object of any good government.”— ,
Abraham Lincoln
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Address all Communication! to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Boi 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone. Black 114
Nome. Alaska, November 14, 1017.
I'll K si i;.\ Kill I ISO VI).
They got v . kid. they got y'—just
like I s.iid they would.
You tried to walk the nar
row path,
You tried, and got an awful
laugh;
And iaugh.t are all y* did got, kid—
they got. y' good!
They never knew the iittle kid—the
kid 1 used to know;
Tlie little bare-legged girt
back 'tome,
'1 he little kid that played
alone
They don't know half the thihgs 1
know half the things I dilo
They got y'. kid. they got y'—you
know they got y’ right;
They waited til! they saw y’
'Ilifn introduced v" to. the
limp—
Alt. you were down then. Kid. and
couldn't fight!!
1 guns- y' know what some don't
know, and others know damn
well—
That sweatshops don't, grow
angels' wings.
That workin’ girls is easy
things.
And poverty's the straightest road
r Hell!
I\I!()|; SNOItllKKT.
In spite of the eraft ritual with
its profound teaching of l'raternal
ism, and in spite ot the solemn vows
and obligations taken by the candi
date for initiation regarding the
common eoneern and welfare of all
labor. I find that intercraft anti
pithies are almost as marked as in
ter racial ones and much more per
nicious. In reality that snobbish
ca te distinctions among workers
cause more intimate friction than
the toad-eating fripperies of the
rich whose foolish doings afford this
somewhat fatigued world its mead
of amusement However, the diff
erence may in a measure be due to
a social lubricant called “etiquette"
with which the rich seek to greasej
their ordinary intercourse.
Social Superiority .Ab-urd.
Not to mention the unskilled who
are in effect expected to "look up"
to the superior skilled labor castes
and even to the organised of similar
grades laboy, the tact ;s that many
highly skilled trades, or “callings”
hold themselves aloof front labor
organization out of the absurd no
tion f social superiority. I have in
mind stenographers, bank clerks
and oflite workers, and school teach
ers. Stenography requires at least
four years of high school and six j
monttui in f ■ 11 tr o unri in pmnlnv
incut, impose, such responsibility,
if organized the occupation should
draw some four times the present
average rate of pay. Table waiting ;
having no such technical prerequi-|
sites is an organized trade and the
waitresses have established tlieni
elves in a comparative security and
respect such as the ordinary steno
grapher cannct know. Personally,
1 have the view that in point of su
perior intelligence at least the ad
vantage so far developed is on tlie*
side ot the waitress. Bank clerks I
discti s the laboring class as if they
were apart and yet the ordinary
bank clerk does not draw one half
the pay of an electrical worker and
for brains he has a set of levers and
nuts over which a cash register is
a decided intellectual improvement.
Frate-nalism is a sentiment simi
lar to love and affection but involv
ing a far greater u, e of the ima
ginative faculty. Unhappily imagi
nation it somethin;, which workers
in hazordous occupations cannot af-1
ford to carry in their kits it would!
be the end of a structural Iron
worker or a steeple-jack to dream
for a wee moment and shingle^
weavers pay fingers and thumbs for
little journeys ot fancy. In other!
callings the imagination of the
worker i. frequently killed or deci'l^
ened by the sickly monotony of the
workers are left with only one co
hesive principle so far as I have
been able to discover; that of mu- '
tual dependence and common inter- j
cst. a realizing sense of which can
be had only by an cfeetive oblite
ration of the utterly silly and
snobbish social caste feeling. Mill- '
fancy among worker . a much tooJ
rare quality, by the way, does in-1
voice an additional cohesive forces'
that of comradeship, of ngressive
fighters against a common enemy '
they ere sorely conscious,
whose power to crush and >o smash
The organized un-killed workers
adds much to their materia! status,
creating a measure of self-esteem
among them, goes virtually with
out saying. No fair mind can fail
to give due cred.t to the Hod Car
ricos and Building Laborers as a
permanent and substantial as et to
the labor movement. It follows,
therefore, that a reasonably com
plete organization of the unskilled
ought to be accomplished if only
the right course may be found, and
to do so. in my way of thinking,
would be to do away with tlie chief
menace to organized labor in Am
erica and to the labor cause in gen
eral. Left as they are and with
their ever-imleasing numbers they
can have little or no conception ot
job rights and owner hip and with
no privileges attaching to them
except the right to scab .vhenever
the good fortune comes to them.
Serious Efforts
.
Put Forth.
The California State Federation
of Labor has put forth more ser
ious efforts in this direction than
any other division of the American
Federation of Labor known to me.
but the results so far accomplished
considered with reference to the |
amount ot money and energy ex- I
pended, are far from encouraging, i
On the whole problem 1 am con- ]
vinced from the experience had ]
there and from my own study that i
the unskilled, if at all. Tht crafts- j
man organizer approai lies a "com- j
mon" laborer and instantly both I
are conscious of a demarcation lie- i
tween. rn«y are reciprocally sym- J
pathetic, in .persona! touch. Let the
un-killed he afforded every aid and
facility they nay require. Let or
ganized labor stand by with out
stretched hands and beckoning to
the end that one good day labor
will stai d one indivisible union. ;
«ET THE NEWS RltiHT. PEAT ,
THE WORKER.
Our
Guarantee
lour grocer will refund
the full price you paid
for *iHJ*B* dUfcjMfit
does not please your
taste, no matter how
much you have used
HI out of the can.
WHY
jirriBim i ■■him.wi — HI....
On “Umatilla.” we expect a limited supply of
LIBERTY BONDS
If tliej arrive, we will sell to those desiring.. If they Sail to ar
rive, \ie ran take subscriptions and have bonds deposited in any
Seattle bank to order of purchaser. •
GET BEHIND OUR GOVERNMENT.
Alaska Lighterage Comercial Co.
Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF W. BTEIGELMAIER AND OF LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILL RE
CEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
3RD AND B STREET. PHONE BLACK 162.
Miners and Merchants Bank
Nome, Alaska
i
* Capita! $100,000.00
Workingmen’s Accounts Solicited.
I Army Shoes |
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EARLY LAST SPRING WE PEACE!) AN ORDER WITH
i ONE OK THE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS FOR ARMY
i SHOES MADE AS PER GOVERNMENT SPECIFICATIONS ON
| THE “Ml’XSON” EAST. COME IN AND LOOK THEM OVER.
! YOU MAY SOON HE FURNISHED WITH A PAIR BY “UNCLE
i '
! SAM” BUT WHY WAIT?
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all kinds of
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