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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
•early as possible. Is a worthy object of any good government."—
anrafiani Lincoln
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Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 184
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Nome, AlasKa, under the Aft of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, .fanuary 11> 10.
1 ho blizzard scams to have stir
red everything movcabla hut the
lid. That is still clamped tight.
-How? ,
A British mining company whose
employees n Arizona are on strike
for better wages is assessed under
the British income tax law, since
the war began, over half a million
dollars. Although copper has in
creased in price and living condi
tions also, the company will pay no
increase in wages because the Eng
lish income tax leaves nothing for
dividends, let alone such an increase
as in demanded by the workers.
Now why should American miners
have to pay towards a continuance
of the European war and its ex
penses? And why should they net
question the system that makes
them do so? But is it not true that
industrial control also confers soc
ial control—as witness this case.
When Joseph Hiltstrom was exe
cuted, the Industrial Worker sail
that this was done not because he
had been proved guilty beyond any
reasonable doubt, but because of the
fact that he was a member of the
Industrial Workers of the World.
Possibly most people thought that
•that was an exaggeration, and had
no foundation in fact, and yet we
Jind that our contention is de-iareu
correct by no less a person than
Governor Spry himself. Governor
Spry on the morning following tiie
execution, sahl that he had refuatd
to reprieve Hillstrom because lie
was a member of the Industrial
Workers of the World. He made no
hones about it; he said that he re
garded that, organization as having
■done more harm to the state than
anything else, and he further de
clared his intention to drive then'
out of the state.
This certainly clears the air. I;
certainly shows what is what when
a .Governor in the execution of hia
'duties, denies clemency not becaur?
of the heinousness of the crime, or
even the certainty of tho conviction
■man’s guilt, but because of the ideas
which that victim liar, held concern
ing society; his economic beliefs
and his conceptions regarding the
class struggle.
Although Spry does net know it,
in himself Hillstrom and his idea,
whatever we may think of them,
finda certain amount of justifica
tion. And when men are sent tc
their death for their opinions
in this age, wo are not in a posi
lion to denounce the cruelties of the
persecutions of past epochs. Given
a certain number of Sprys in a com
munity and pogroms follow, as cer
dain as the day follows night.
The Ccmpbell resolution to estab
lish a Federation to preserve interna
tional law is all right—on paper
But again what is international
law? Who makes it? By whom is it
ratified? By whom accepted?
International law although sub
jeeted to as many treatises as dog
matte theology, is as mythological as
an ancient fable. The law is discov
ered by some nation which has eer
lain inerests to protect, and if
drawn up to take care of those in
torostc. It has never been sub
jeeted to a national referendun
for approval or non-approval. It li
iuvented in the diplomacies of thi
world, with each trying to mode
its principles along national linei
of favoritism.
it changes from war to war am
from ora to era. It is not the 3am<
today as in the days of jolly rogeri
•and privateering. It v/ill ccrtainl;
change to accomodate aeroplanes
dirigibles and submarines. It ha:
always changed to accomodate i
shifting commercialism, and dolla
diplomacy has amended it quit'
considerably.
International law is a might,
elastic thing when applied by Grea
Britain against Venezuela, th
United States against Colombia, th
Great Powers against China. It 1
an entirely different article when
applied between two great powcis
with even chances of victory in a
resort to arms. ,
It's tho weak nation that is up
against tho hard game. The strong
can look after themselves.
The Sunday Morning Post which
until recently was a socialist paper,
and is now of nondcocrpt policies,
had a recent notable article as to
the reason why lafior unions made
no progress in Juneau mines. And
the Post man wont on to say that
the reason was because of the uni
formly generous, fair and up-lifting
treatment which tho management
meted out to employees. They had,
tho writer inferred, killed unionistic
inclinations with kindness and there
was no reason for the establishment
of any such thing.
The Post writer also went on to
give data concerning tho up-lift po
licy of the companies and cited ex
amples thereof.
Manifestly this is only half the
case. Tho writer in the Post should
have investigated as to why the
companies adopted this policy, and
what was in turn their attitude to
wards unionism and fahy.
Some years ago employment in
the big mines in Juneau was hell
iiiion earth. The superintendent in
one instance was a gunman and ac
cused of crime in a variety of min
ing camps where he left a red trai1
behind; every man going to work
had to sign a death warrant where
I by he relieved the company of a:.
responsibility for accident, fatal o:
otherwise. The cookhouse was a
mulligan outfit of the slumgullion
type, and brutality and brutishnes-:
characterized the entire situation.
Then came the Western Federa
tion of Minors into the camp and
a big fight rosulted. The union losi
out-—we know it id; but as hac
happened almost everywhere else
even in losing the fight, concessions
which a yoar before the company
would have scorned and rejected
I win: uci:uiu:i, uccume mu uiuur ui
the day.
The unions arc responsible fo:
improved conditions which ‘lie Post
man speaks of, but there are othei
features which the editorial write!
did not dwell upon, but which show
the vital need of organization.
He did not tell that the conditions
in Juneau today arc such that nf
employee has any real freedom. Hr
cannot join a genuine labor union
Any W. F. of M. cr/d man is com
polled to got out’,if it is known
Spotters aro evoryVbtere and repor
upon any union tfcfivitics and an]
union organizer when discoverec
gets short shrift.
In turn the companies have devcl
opsd an industrial feudalism whici
may commend itself to a lacko;
heart, but is certainly repugnant t(
any freedom loving soul.
When the bill was before the las
legislature whereby employee
mulcted of doctor fees would elec
their own physician, the supporter
cf that measure secured affidavit
showing that many who favored tin
bill and employees of the minim
companies dare not come forwari
in its support, and these wero fur
nlshed one senator who promised
but did not koep his word, to re^
i thorn before the senate. And unles
1 the Industrial Worker is wholl
misinformed, the lawyer editor o
i the Post knows this as well, if no
better than anyone.
The necessity for labor organiza
■ tion in Juneau is exceedingly evid
i ent when such a vicious article at
pears in a quasi-labor paptr. Fo
, it is vicious, as any statement whic
■ is a half truth is vicious and an
l suppression of truth is unquestior
■ ably oven more vicious than an at
> tual outright falsehood. But in l:
self it 1b testimony if testimony 1
' needed, to the efToct that the powe
t of the Treadwell and Alaskt
} Qastineau is still invincible.
5 The very condition that tho Pof
< man upholds has been similarly ui
hold when chattel slavery prevailed
and with even more justification.
Southerners, kindly ar,d generous
men In real earnest with the hu
manar instincts bubbling fall in
their hearts declared that the slaves
were kindly treated in the days of j
chattel slavery, and could ask for
no better or ha-pplcr ccnditicn. They
had good quarters medical atten
tion, were well fed and erred for,
light work and generous attention. |
What is more the southern planters j
really meant it and could really mean
it for oftener than not, he was a
kindly man with no intention of ex
torting from the labor of his slaves
more than human flesh cculd bear.
But withal the time came when
that condition had to be abolished
and it was abolished, and the estab
lishment of an industrial serfdom in
Juneau even when it kills the ag
.gross! ve instincts of labor fighting
for emancipation with kindness will
in time have to give place real con
cepts of freedom. In the meantime
there be crumbs from the table
of Dives and who sha'l blame the
hungry for making the meat of on
opportunity whilo it lasts.
However the Post is no longej
a socialist paper. It’s ideals then
can be reaAinably accepted as bour
geois, and the well-fed stomach of
tho industrial serf does not seem to
be such an impossible ideal to it.
Some people like to call their
soul their own however, and where
industrial freedom is not, there, al
ways is the necessity existence for a
labor organzation that will steer ond
struggle for such an end.
It is interesting to read the ob
jections made to the seamen’s bill
which went into offset last Novem
ber. But none of these is moro sug
gestive than that registered by Geo.
A. White of the Hudeon Bay line,
and President of the Asociation of
Passenger Steamship Lines.
He said next year tho boats will
have a hard time. One of the vessels
has a passenger capacity of 3 200
or 1300 they will have to carry an
enormous number of life boats and
I sailors or cut their passenger capa
city to 75. "The passenger carrying
trade has been pretty hard »hit any
how. It’s been an old axiom that
steamships can’t raise their rates
and compete with the railroads an>l
can’t lower the rates and live. Rais*
ing the operating expence or dimi
nishng tho carrying capacity is the
same as raising the rates”.
l:i other words passenger steam
ers have been existing because they
‘ made possengers carri d take a
| risk by 1300 boing required to
travel on boats wh’ch carry a max
Imum lifo boat accomodation for !
75, and also can the same be sata 9
of the sailors carried.
Thus in order to fulfil a profit- |
able function which is fulfilled more I
economically and more efficiently by fi
the railroads, the steamers insist jj
that the travelling public risk their |
lives in doing so, and because that I
genial condition is changed, raise G
a howl.
People wonder at the objection jj
which workers whoso living is taken |
from them by the intro- jj
()<<tion of improved machinery |
do from time to time raise against S
the new inventions. Yet it is clear G
that the existence of the workers |
depended upon the older type of £
technical apparatus which create! 1
no risk for any one. Yet here are 3
the profiteers who Insist that ob- 9
solcto methods prevail in a groat S
industry in order that by subjecting |
the public to peril and extreme '
risk, their profits can continue, and
their whine is echoed throughout
the subservient press that caters to |
them. jj
It certainly is hard to beat it. jj
Who said “Safety Frst’i’. jj
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line. Our Beef, Mutton, Pork, Veal
and Poultry, Is the best that money
can buy.
Call and you will find that onr
prices are the most reasonable. We
also . have . a fine stock of Swift's
Premium Hams, Bacon and Bal'd.
PACIFIC COLD STORAGE CO.
Telephone: White 17.
Anything in the line of job work
at the Industrial ^Worker Office.
Satisfaction assured.
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STORE
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YORKEY
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Everybody claims the lowest
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