laity Nome Jlninuatrial Worker.
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"To Becure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly as possible, 1b a worthy object of any good government."—
a bra Ham Lin coln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 124.
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1211, at the post office at
Nome, - Alasaa, under the Act of March I, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, August 7, 11*10.
cm MI X.\ L POVERTY.
Enter Owen Hadley. Mr. Hadle;
being broke sought relief in i
farmhouse for his destitution. Ii
place of a hospitable hand-out re
lieving the man’s hunger, a bull doj
pinned him to the wall until a she
Tiff arrived to place him in custody
He was charged with being a tramp
He was convicted and sentenced t<
from one to three years in the peni
tentiary of the state of Ohio.
This little picture seems of no im
portance. But consider the Hadle;
case. Hadley is now a criminal—i
convicted criminal. His crime wa
that he was destitute and that ii
what he was sentenced for. I’over
ty was the crime.
It is certainly a delightful civili
zation demanding all kinds of pre
paredness that first grinds out de
stitute men. and then jails them be
cause destitute.
A WAlb l ltO.M Jl'NKAir.
Everyone knows the Alaska Com
pensation act was passed by thi
mine operators for the mine opera
tors. As a a matter of fact it i
to be better named the limita
tion of employers liability act
When it passed the Industrial Wor
ker and some other Alaskan paper
said that it was forced through tin
legislature for the benefit of tin
operators.
Juneau papers thereupon deniet
the soft impeachment and editorial
ly laudated the article so that tin
mine operators would have no rea
son for complaint.
It appears however the lawyer:
have discovered a means of eircum
venting the employers' law to limi
their liability, for they have adopt
cd the custom of suing the foremen
Thane > of the Alaska Gastineai
mine emitted a wail while passim
through Seattle at the iniquity tha
the lawyers and their clients weri
indulging in, and parenthetically In
let the cat out of the hag when In
said “The mine operators of Alaski
and others.succeeded in se
curing through the Terrtitorial Le
gislature a workmen’s compensatioi
law but we are still subject to dam
age suits, under the laws of othei
states”.
Surely. The law bears on its faci
the earmarks of the Operatori
handiwork, and only a fatuousl;
lick-spittle journalism earning its
retainer has ever pretended other
wise. Even Barton L. Thane wh<
is now with Governor Strong devis
ing ways and means for a militia
admits it.
A WAIL, FROM ANCHORAGE.
Real estate men are dismayed ai
the intention of the Engineers Com
mission to sell a lot more lots ai
Anchorage. They say it is not fair
An instance is given in an Anchor
age paper why it is fair. A mar
rented a shack from one of these
real estate sharks who acquired a
lot during the government sale. The
rent was fifty bones a month. The
shack renter got a job and because
lie did he had his rent raised to
ITS a month. Then the man want
ed to buy the lot so that he would
be free of this blood sucking land
lordism under the aegis of the gov
ernment, and asked the real estate
naan what he wanted. He wanted
two thousand dollars for the lot
which had cost him $160 at the
auction sale, and which he had not
improved and in which he had ef
fected not a single batterment. And
it is these wampires that are wail
iug because the government is going
to sell more lots which will enable
some at least to be free from the
tentacles of the landlord monopoly
of Anchorage.
By the way, a correspondent in a
Beattie exchange says of the gov
ernment railroad from Anchorage
that it is about the limti: "I have
seen all the rottenest camps in the
United States, but those here are in
ferior to any I have ever seen;
' They are lousy and unclean in every
i way. There are no outhouses and
i flies parade all over the food. The
- pets and office men have a fine time
: of it however, as Uncle Sam is very
■ favorable to them, although they do
. not pay any more than the men
. who do the work for their board.
> In Anchorage they have lawn ten
■ nis ground and base ball park, but
the workers have nothing and would
■ leave here if they had. There were
' five deaths here this week as the
i government has a fine graveyard
i and it is being well filled. Uncle
i .has a Greek and an Italian here
■ who hire their nationality at $2 for
the job. If they have the money
• and will stand to be held up, they
• can go to work, but “no money
■ come across, no job”. The head
■ pusher here is a Grand Trunk gra
duate by the name of Reilley, and
under him as second in command
is a slave driver from Panama
called Hurry-Up Jones, by the work
ers. He carries a gun and a pick
i handle with him on the job. Last
■ week this thug employee of the gov
i ernment hit a Greek over the head
with a pick handle, and he is still
. in the hospital but nothing was
done about it.
There are bunches of blind pigs,
three of them on the main street.
All kinds of games are permitted,
and this hell for the workers is a
paradise for the tin horn gambler i
and the macque. There are sixty !
• houses of prostitution here under
the wings of democracy. There is
a monthly shake down by which
i tlie officers get their divy of the
money for which the women sell
their virtue. Normally Uncle Sam
compares favorably with other bos
ses, but the bunch he has sent up
i here are a yellow lat.”
WHY WORRY?
On the eve of Mrs. Hatcher’s
lecture in the A. B. Hall the town
was circulated from top to bottom
with a full page insert of a Fair
banks paper which had very nicely
prostituted its columns for the bene
fit of the Liquor Dealers Associa
tion, and like a good many articles
that worried the life out of the
readers, the main song and dance
that was contained therein, with
much woful bellyaching, was the
complaint to the stars that prohibi
tion did not prohibit.
It appears that the brewers and
distillers discovered in the prohibi
tion law this its most fatal flaw. It
would be all right if it did prohubit.
It would be all right if it closed the
saloon and the brewery and the
distillery, and prevented the con
sumption of booze, but because ac
cording to their own figures it in
creases that, they dont want it
all.
Then why in the world do they
worry? If prohibition increased
the consumption of beer and
whiskey and you were in the bus
iness of munfacturing it would yau
fight it?
And in the next breath these same
wiseacres will tell you they are for
the defense of human liberty. That
gag gets one’s goat.
You just take a look at the line
up that stands behind the “banner
of liberty” forces that are holding
the trenches for the saloon and per
sonal freedom. There are the saloon
thugs, there are the tin horns, the
macques, the short change artists,
graft-levying bulls, the suckers with
neither money in the pock’ nor heel
on the shoe, while away back the
liquor dealers and their staff plan
their campaign to enable them to
hold on to their looting trade, de
spite the revolt of human intelli
gence against it.
Now about the last thing any
working man need concern himself
is this thing of “liberty”. Under
present time industrial conditions
he is free to work or to starve
when times are good. But everv
time a law is passed limiting the
hours of labor, every time a law |
prohibiting child labor is passed, or i
a statute restricting the employment j
of women in certain industries, the
champions of industrial slavery go
before the courts and proclaim that
it interferes with the personal lib
erty of the individual to do as he
darn well please with his labor. But
everyone knows that the worker is
not free. He has to find the job or ;
starve, and he has to take that job J
or else be lashed by the thongs of j
hunger, or often worse yet, see
those that are near and dear to him
lashed with the same dire need.
Now if every man were to drink
in moderation one saloon could
supply all of Nome and then some,
and not get very fat pickings either.
But the saloon must create its
trade. There must be good spend
ers. There must be witless fools
made still more witless by the
scourge of drink who will belly up
to bar and should “Come on Boys!’'
There must be men who will imbibe
until they have neither sense nor rea
son, who will spend the last few
dollars for treacherous booze, and
who will then afford to overlook the
fact that when they protest in too
noisy fashion that they were short
changed, will be turned over to the
cops who will answer the phone
call of the saloonist himself adding
to his crime of taking the man’s
money, of a charge of drunk ana
disorderly against his victim.
The man who runs up against a
bunco steerer matches undimmed
wit against undimmed wit. He is
sober and in his senses. He loses
his money and the bunco game is
a fair, square, straight game com
pared to that which under the pro
tection of the law permits a saloon
ist to extract a man’s savings and
the price of the family dinner from
the man whose brain is paralyzed
with the poison sold.
It will take some considerable
advertising matter to get over
these incontrovertible arguments
against booze. And in the pay
streak the Fairbanps paper man un
earthed in the cozening game of tlie
Liquor Dealers Association adver
tising, he will find none of them.
Instead we will find the greatest
enemies of prohibition who dread
OPEN DAT AND NIGHT
Next floor to Pacific Cold
Storage.
its enforcement because it does com
pel prohibition of their foul trade,
getting in, and with the profits of
their graft, trying to fight it.
OVERSTOCK ED
ro the Public: —
We have just finished stock tak
ng, and find that we are heavily
iverstocked so are making enorm-t
jus reductions in Hardware—as
nuch as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
lide, especially in Hardware and
Metal Goods, we are still selling on
;he basis of goods purchased tne
>ast two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until
we bring our stock down to the i^
luirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
et us figure on it; we can save you
noney. We have proved it oo
ithers, we can prove it to you.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY,
VOW FOR THE LATEST STYLE.
You can have it by having your
Clothes cleaned, pressed and re
paired by us. We’ll make them look
like new. We make alterations.
We clean hats, we make suits to
prder, we do steard and dry clean
ing for ladies and gentlemen.
Modern methods and prompt service
We appreciate your patronage.
Home and see us.
NOME TAILORING CO,
Between Segerstrom & Hagen and
Zehners Jewelry Stores.
RELIABLE TAILOR SHOP.
Front St. 3 doors west of Alaska
Bank.
We do the best
CLEANING
PRESSING
ALTERING &
REPAIRING
.adies and Gori.lcmens Clothes.
WHEN IN TOWN
Drop into the
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and
Drug Sundries
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