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Published Daily except Sunday
15y Nome Mine Workers' Union, No. 240, International Union of Mine,
Mill and Sin elter Workers.
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1*11, at the post office at
Btome, • Alassa, under the Act of March I. 187*
“To secure to each laborer tile whole product of his labor, or as
nearly us possible. Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
abraham Lin cols
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Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Vtorhwv,
Box 210 Nome. Alasha. Phone, Black 114
Nome. Alaska, November 22, 11)17.
<;i:t nibkkia t iu ssia.
The Democrat!* Administration
;s retting down the Iron Heel upon
iahor with a vengeance. It permits
mid by it. irditTer .tree condones
and encourages the midnight as
.-asination of labor men, their de- ]
jiortations in large numbers, their
atrocious heatings and tortures by
armed and lawless mobs. 'I hrough
its Department of Justice, •—what
an irony, it recently arrested an
entire convention of workingmen
at Omaha and even now has set
out to arrest and imprison 2,000
of them in t!te state of Kansas. I
We suggest that since it us ia now j
has no further use tor Siberia as a
penal colony for the victims ot its
Czar that it be acquired by the
United States and made into a
penal colony for our own prison
ers
TO (MON MK.N.
It is important that you bo in at
tendance upon the meeting of the
I'nioii ;ir Minor I'nion Hull next
Saturday evening: at eight o'clock.
It is tie last mooting at which
nominations ol" officers ot the 1 n
ion will ho open for the ensuing
term Their election will be on the
following Saturdya night.
It is important that you attend
tit's meeting and all other meetings
of your organization. It is im
portant to your self, to your fellow
working men and to the public at
h r" . that you do this.
it is a mistake to suppose that
the bankers, the capitalist*, the
mire operators and the politicians
are 'ho representative people.
Their game is a dog-eat-dog
game that mean, a continuation of
vrrs, of ru.n and of comVsion to
the little that has bten gained tor
civilization.
You worker.s are the real repre
sentative people. You are the salt
of the earth. You are tin pillars
of the present and the hope of the
iuture. You are the only people
eho will ever end wars forever.
You are the only people who will
. vi r establish justice, liberty, and
■ quality among men. Kverv good
'hing that has ever come to man
kind ha come through you and
always will come through you. As
time goes your I'nion is the only
substantial hope the human race
lias for salvation. Your Union is
ih" greato t regenerative force in
the world.
Iloth here and on the gr^al Out
sid< the only way that develop
ment and progress will lake place
is through your Union. Because
[can't you see that no matter how
finely d .•cased they are, the lawyer.-,
file preachers, the statesmen, the
politicians, the diplomats, the high
oliicials and the wive, of them all,
ar ■ heading everything toward de
struction.
No hope can be had from
them. nor nom the financiers
whose puppets they are, because r.o
matter how much they may ima
gine them elves the representative
people theirs is a dog-eat-dog game
where tne.-e is no hope except for
the strongest and most vicious
dog.
You should cherish the I'uion.
You hould build it up. Your mind!
it up. Your union 3hould be the
greatest of all brotherhoods. You
should make the Union Hall a com
fortable a headquarters and the
mo t comfortable dub-room in
fawn. You should he on hanu Sat
urday night to see that the proper
officers are elected, or re-elected.
Tin-: ri:v<ni:us oiut.wi/.i:.
The teachers of New York City
: have just for mod a union and ath
! Hated il with the American Federa
' lion of Labor. Thi. .step, no longer
I revolutionary even in America will
do much to bring an important
[ body of public servants abreast of
ilie time.- In Fagland. a powerful
| teachers’ organization lia existed
j mi a trade union basis for more
: than twenty years. What is the re
i ult? Three representatives in the
1 House of Commons stand guard
over the teachers' interest . their
pay is high, their profession is re
spected. and their opinion is valued
and courted by education authori
ties throughout the nation. In con
sequence. the elementary grade
| teacher in a London public -chool
j is treated somewhat like a human
being. enjoys greater freedom
from irsksom ■ supervision, and has
more to say about the conditions
of his or her work than the teacher
of the ante grade in any other
large city on record.
Contrast the London situation
with that of the hitherto non-union
ized teacher in America. The un
lucky woman (or man) who serves
in the American schools is trained
like a high-grade professional,
paid like a low-grade artisan,
treated like a factory hand, and
worked like a machine. The tread
mill to which the requirements of
the curriculum and the caprice, of
tyrannic supervisor.- condemn them
is so crushing to the spirit and ex
hausting to the body that Ixion’s
revolving fate is by comparison, a
picnic in a Ferri wheel.
- ». «i.
Tlio Union will have to make
clear io the public why it aims at
the elevation of the teacher to a
place of independence and seif-re
spec t. This elevation is the most j
essential step in any real reform of
common school education. How can |
we improve the pupil unle s we j
first improve the master? An un
derpaid teacher means a harassed
child. We hear a great deal nowa
days about tire "new” education.
Enthusiasts paint idyllic pictures
of the Gary plan, the Lanier plan,
and other plan, that are to trans
form the schoolroom from a prison
to an earth.y Paradise. And many
fine words are spoken about re
placing tlie old unconscious educa
tion by the new self-conscious edu
cation. But fine word, butter no
pa. snips. The amioble ‘heorists
who recommend the Gary plan com
pletely overlook the agents on
whom the excution of this plan de
volves. What results can we ex
pect from a Gary plan in the hands
of a typical public school teacher?
Exactly what we might expect from
a compound microscope in the
hands of a Hotentot.
If our reformers neglect this in
dispensable preliminary reform,
their efforts will resemble iho e of
the man with a gloomy room, who
put a more chec-rful paper on the
wall, laid a more bouyant carpet on
the floor and gave a more brilliant
varnish to the furniture, bat forgot j
to insert another window. The in
ference is patent. The free teacher
the teacher relieved of supervisory
persecution, tlie teacher who is
given 'something tc say about .he
pupil s training as well as some
thing to know about it—-above all
—the teachers with a good income,
adequate leisure, and brains enough
to put these personal window
through which the light of a better
education mu-t pass. This conclu
sion is a ready weapon, it is the
handle by which the Teachers’s
Union should swing its program
and stamp it purposes on tile com
munity. If it docs so adroitly, it
need no' fear that even the bogey
of ;. unionized teacher will deprive
it of intelligent public suppoit or
hamper .t .11 becoming a pewer to
v.aids u ur.ci.icy in our schools.
The young couple were dawdling
over a late breakfast alter an j
ultra smart party.
■\Va it you 1 kissed in the con-I
stivatory last night?" inquired
hubby.
She looked at him reminiscent
ly. “About what time was it?’
There had been a railway colli
sion near a country town and a
shrewd lawyer had hurried to the
scene of the disaster. He noticed
an old colored man with a badly
injured head, and hurried up to
him where he lay moaning on the
ground.
"How about damages?” began
the lawyer.
"G'way, boss, g’way," he said.
"I never hit de train. 1 never done
sich a thing in al mall life, so help
me! Yo' can't git no damage outen
me”.
Her eyes were rot exactly straight
and someone commented upon it
and asked Long if he had noticed
it.
‘Noticed it. man!” he replied.
“Why she is so cross-eyed that re
cently when 1 sat next to her at
dinner she ate off my plate."
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HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
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