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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1111, at the post office at
Nome,■ A'.asira, under the Act of March 8. 1878.
Address ail Communications to Ually Nome Industrial Work-*,
Bos 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 184.
Nome, Alaska, May 2:1, 1!)17.
< HIM'SK LABOR.
The proposal to import Chinese
labor, subject to deportation upon
request of the authorities, into the
United States during the war, in
order to cultivate the fields hrs
been made. It has been made by
Chinese companies, but doubtless
they were inspired by powerful ca
pitalist interesls in the United
States.
The capitalist interests in the
United States have found the laboi
problems time and again exceeding
ly irksome. For some reason not
quite clear to these interests white
labor has shown dissatisfaction with
conditions of living provided for it.
They were no sufficiently subordi
nate, nor were they sufficiently sub
ject and docile to those who gave
them employment.
The white workers very frequent
ly refused to see that they owed
their living to the good will of em
ployers who gave them their jobs.
And they insisted upon looking at
it in what appeared to the employ
ing interests a topsy turvv way ot
viewing the question: by declaring
that the capitalists had to give
employment to them or there would
be no profits.
It is a fact that the white labor
has with a degree of stubborness re
fused to see in employers men who
by the grace of God were placed
in control of machinery and the re
sources of the country, and who
were graciously pleased to hire non
owning workers at certain wages
where those non-owning workers
might starve to death.
Hence white labor has made time
and again demands of employers
which . the latter regard as quite
unreasonable and often outrageous,
and of later years some workers
have come forward with the pre-.
posterous notion that labor was
actually being robbed of four-fifhts
of the product of its toil!
In vain have very able econom
ists with minds perfectly educated
for this purpose in Universities and
other academies endowed by men
of wealth, tried to teach-the work
ers that they were very well ofl* in
deed in being allowed by kind em
ployers who are also land and fac
tory and resources owners to labor.
In vain have these economists dis
covered beautiful theories of politi
cal economy whereby the rights ot
‘owners to take the entire product
of the workers and dispose of it at
a profit to themselves is upheld.
The reward of abstinence said one
jset of teachers, the reward of busi
ness management said another, and
the God-given right of stewardship
quotes another class.
So it is that all this being vain
work upon the part of employers
and many workers becoming exceed
ingly rebellious and stubbornly con
tumacious. the employers after a
series of strikes, lock outs and other
'incidentals of modern industrial
activity, sigh for some solution
■which will bring back that former
happier time when the worker was
•oeai'lented in that station wherein
. Divine Providence has indeed placed
.Slow with war looming hard upon'
' the* horizon, the capitalist with ex
* tensive interest!, ready to pluck
•the ‘gtwdon fruit from the luscious
trees of profit, needs help that will ]
-be more than ordinarily doolie. ]
•, *e can look around the world and
see what has been done elsewhere, f
‘and hi Will observe that in many 1
places coolie labor lias, afforded the i
* ■hrwners quite a satisfactory solution j
%\f ithe problem. In the Rand, the r
great mining companies after the c
thucr War found in China a plenti- I
hiii field for labor power which t
■ would help them out as hut taxes f
hMt not helped them out among t
■ thetr former Kaffir peons. In r
«Guiana, in Fiji, indentured Indians t
Toy the hundreds, had brought sur
cease of trouble to the planters, t
and now labor troubles are no r
more. *
Reasonably enough of late, F,u- v
ropean and American capital enter- r
ing the Chinse field has discovered
that the Chinese coolie is the most 1
satisfactory worker in the world c
Yrom the capitalist standpoint,. He t
is skilful; he is docile; he is tem- v
perate; he is easily satisfied; ho I
lives on very little food and can do
almost anything just as well as a
white worker with little experience.
In cement factories in Hongkong,
controlled by the Emerald Isle
Cement Co., they have been able to
dispense with all white skilled labor
in a very skorj, time, and it has
been announced that even the cleri
cal help has been secured in the
country, clever Chinese clerks,
stenographers and typists doing the
work just as well.
Back off the Yangste valley in
iron mines, the whites have been
practically dispensed with by a Ger
man-Chinese operating company
and the highest grade of goods
turned out so well and so effici
ently that Chinese pig iron competes
so successfully with all others on
the Pacific Coast as to make the
American manufacturers took to
their laurels.
A machine shop in Canton began
turning out a complicated guaging
machine, consisting ol thousand ol
mechanism, copied by the Chinese
workers from a German invention
and were only stopped from driving
its original competitor from the
market by the protection of letters
patent which had been issued. There
Is no end to the ability of the Ori
entals. They may appear very sa
tisfactory field workers, but the
American capitalist knows full well
that they have the material for la
bor-power producing humanity that
they want, skilled or unskilled.
It is no use attempting to be
little the Oriental. He is now and
always will be an important factor
in production throughout the world.
The hope of the American worker
is to end the Chinaman’s docility
and to enlarge his views as to the
value of the labor power which he
sells.
The worker is entitled to what he
produces. quite regardless of the
fact that he may be white or black
or red or yellow of skin. Economic
laws. are not affected by racial
questions, and it is to the interest
of all workers to remember that.
If the workers have made up their
minds as have their employers that
the last stage of economic pro
gress has been reached and that the
lines hetwecn employers and em
ployed are to be eternal, then in
deed they might worry at losing
their jobs to Chinamen. The fact
is the white worker will live any
way, and the worker is the neces
sity in the scheme of things, not
his nationality.
It is however interesting to note
what an elevated view these Chinese
companies take of the “patriotism”
of American employers when they
make their proposition just at this
time.
SMALLER NATION'S. * v
Smaller nations have been more
talked about since the Great War
began than at any time in the his
tory of the world, and the amazing
part of it is that the larger nations,
suddenly, appear to possess a sacred
interest in the well being of the
smaller nation.
Now it may first of all be taken
or granted that there is no real
•eason why a smaller nation should
sxist at all. Nearly all the larger
lations consist of a* coalescence ot
rger and smaller nations of some
>ast epoch.
Russia is an admixture of Tartai,
llav, Teuton, Turk, Turanian and]
rhat not. The Teuton himself is I
art Frank, part Roman, part Goth,
art Hun, part Slav. The British, a
lore modern conglomeration, is at
nee Norse, Saxon, Frank, Celt, 1
ioraan. The American, of all the !
lost recent, is an admixture ot .
radically every race sprung from
he original Aryan and with some
egro and Indian thrown in, in
races.
Therefore scientifically considered,
here is no such thing as a small
ation. All larger nations -are
lade up of complex smaller units
’hich have become integrated and
lore highly developed.
It would take an ethnologist ^
fetime to disentangle the racial
onglomeratlon in the Balkans ana
hen most of such disentanglement
■ould be theory for the most part,
ielgium as such is purely
an artificia 1 arrangement made
to punish France, to protect
England and in a way to humiliate
Holland.
In Belgium the higher classes
signify their position above the hoi
polloi by speaking French, while the
submerged often signified their re
volutionary tendency by speaking
Flemish. In Ireland there has been
the same complicated intermixing
of races by Spanish, by English, by
Scotch, by French Hugenot by
Danes, as well as Kelts.
It is not possible to conceive
that any nation can develop on a
small scale what will be a national
character so much superior to the
rest as to be precious beyond ail
others, and the larger nation not
only will' probably by reason of its
greater wealth and material power
progress more rapidly and more
quickly advance civilization, but
likely enough by the opportunity
which the heterogenous units oi
which the heterogenous affords, of
developing the best that is in each
of the mixed up races, give a result
ing product as a race which will do
more to advance society than will
the retention by separate units ot
smaller nationalities attempt to do.
Just as the closer ties of con
sanguinity result in offsprings
which are in the main not so full
of vitality, so the admixture or
white races more or less separate
in the scale of racial descent, has
a revivifying result upon the gen
eration. It is true that scientists
have resisted approving of an ad
mixture between races radically an
tagonistic, such as white and blacit.
white and yellow and so on. Bui
between the descendants of the im
mense variety of white races, inter
marriage between remoter stocks
unquestionably has been responsible
in no small way for the progressive
result seen in many countries.
The right of small nations to
their independence is a question
which would never have been raised
did any actual independence really
exist. It certainly did not exist in
the smaller nations. Usually the
lines of demarcation between the
employing and the employed classes
was just as strong and definite as
between the former rulers ot
smaller nations and their con
querors.
Even if Germany were to annex
Belgium, it is only a matter of
time when the Germans who might
settle there and who would eventu
ally be assimilated would find them
selves subordinated to the economic
rulers of their new province. Be
fore the war, the Belgian workers
were the worst enslaved of any in
the world. It was a very paradise
for employers. Iliiteracy among the
workers reached a great height.
Wages were extremely low and pov
erty was extremely general. While
to the former Belgian financier and
employer the present condition is
intolerable and subjugatiou beneath
Germany would be impossible to
contemplate without horror, we
know it would not make the lot of
the Belgian worker any harder, but
would when peace is restored re
sult in many ways in greatly im
proved conditions: extension of edu
cation, additional opportunities, se
curity against unemployment and
other sops which the German pluto
crats assure the workers so that
they will be healthy wage slaves
and competent gun fodder.
In Ireland some of the ablest
men who struggled for “Irish Free
dom” and to whom this text anent
the smaller nations would be some
thing to conjure with, were men
whose fathers had been foremost
in the effort to subdue and oppress
the Irish people. The Anglo-Saxon
origin of Thomas Davis, John Mit
chell, Robert Emmett and number
less others can be cited to show that
not infrequently local revolts are
due more to economic than to poli
tical oppression, especially when
the Inability to distinguish between
tbe two is in any way marked.
Every American feels that the
Filipino has been greatly advant
aged by the American control ot
those islands. But many Filipinos
think quite otherwise and long i'oi
political independence. That is not
understood by American statesmen
who believe that a work of highly
civilizing nature has been performed
which while a Whiteman’s burden,
has in the process of civilization to
be altruistically performed.
Really what the Filipino wants
is economic independence and while
it is not likely that it would foHow
a rule by Filipinos, Filipino plant
ers think that they alone are entit
led to the right to exploit.
Practically speaking, the right
of smaller nations will be safe
when the larger nations make many
and drastic and sweeping reforms
within themselves, for then, the
smaller nation will enjoy the pro
cess for which he is not yet pre
pared: benevolent assimilation.
GET THE SEWS RIGHT. READ
THE WORKER.
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