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1 Nome Mine Workers' Union, No. 210, International Union of Mine,
Mill and Sm elter Workers.
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Entered as second class matter March 1, Jfll, at the coat o£0ce at
afotne Alasna, under the Act of March $. 1879
"To secure to each laborer toe whoio product of hit labor, or as
•iwar!y as possible, is a worthy object of any sood government.”—
Abraham Lincoln
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Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome. Alaska. Phone, Black 184
Nome, Alaska, October 2!». 1!»1T.
Till: OITHT1 SKUKKllS.
The office hooker anil the brooil
Of office seekers make for 'no good
in the community. The mania for
tillin', iiersonal ambition the itch
for aggrandizement drift them far!
from lixed or steadfast principles!
of any kind. They make a ward-1
robe of political faiths and sally
forth in the sunshine of the for
tunes of the party which may be
uppermost; loudly mounthing their
ort hodoxy.
This i.- tIn mad whose actions are
undercover boshiended in nivst-ry
liecaue afraid of unfavorable publi
i it>. I’regnaiit with an irresistitile
desire for public office he is tlie
real demagogue of the most dang
erous and blighting kind. This
paper beiievrs the office should seek
th<- man and in tie end we be
lieve it will though the chronic of
fice M-t-k'-r often develops uualities
til natural leadership. Hut the p ‘o
pi should beware and remember
tli.it constant vigilante is the price
ot i :t much prized liberty. The
iiiuiiii.i of freedom must lie gatSoi
i'd d.'.y by day or it is rotten and
fret republics < xist soli'll on the
I.eot Ul e (I being r J11 1.1 I tl> agi
tated.
sot | M l VS MAI At^ .
Labor. r- acting at Iasi l(! its |
yin-ad of leisure and to the ednea- j
sion and culture "bic'n conn* from
is ju quirtim and be
gins to desire an incrcaing portion ,
<i ii creation. Its demand is r< - i
ted !,. {'apitnl through no ttnwill- j
fiiptn ■■ i hat Labor enjoy a greater)
•el!being but because it instine-j
i 'vi 1> realizes to rl vate labor to |
• •(niivaietit economic security and j
power with i* would be to abolish |
its serving class In short Capital |
r.ooes that th“ weil-bcing of Labor j
hall sura. -i.cl from benevolence 1
rather than front any justice in-j
Pering in the system of Capital.
Irritating this distemper the rr
lists and free literary men are at
tracted to the Labor sid * of the
struggle because of its less sordid
and more abundant reservoir of
dramatic interest.
Item db
Out political d based
etion subdivided geographical po
pulations. This gravitates the gov- |
ruing t unctions and powers into
i tie hands of the economically
superior interest . These increas
ing their retinues and incorporat
ing theiMSt-lvt s in the government
rend constant'.'- toward greali r en
richment and p< wrr.
isi.bs'. it tile for present lundament
.1 governing form, a democracy
based upon subdivided occupational
populatii ns. At pee: nt our geo
tue.im maintain them.-elves in fa.r-i
oi^cr. 1? it too much to rea on
th.t';' our occupational populations
would- spnodity arrivo at the same
e<luilibiJttm and peace 010 with
another-’.’' Our patient now suffers
his most terrifis relapses in the
t ■) rm of rites ami liter national wars
duo to liis confirmed competition
di t. Established as an industrial
railior that. a geographical republic
he would smash through the boun
daries, of no use now save to the
governing profession.— and oom
hirting with other peoples whom
wc now know hatefully and reci
procals a foreigners tie would
establish a world republic, sibstitue
■roe matual ai«l principle for the
competitive. abolish th.‘ wages
system and r.ll its brood ol' evil, and |
henceforth create for bis uses and!
needs with final peace abiding.
I,es„ Revolutionary.
The remedy foregone is scare Iv
visioned by I.abor itself and most
obscurely if at all. Those which
follow stand out cdcarly in the
newly ijuickcned imagination of the'
worker.
At the outset ol uor industrial
vat cm the retention of a portion
«jj' the products of labor a, wages ^
wilheld by the* shop-owner was jus
tified on tlie basis of providing a
stored resource lor further devel
opment, but only upon the ethically
implied promise and condition that
it be so used. It may afford a par
enthetical illumination to know
this to be the view held of capital
by the most conservative labor
unionism In that beginning the
reward of labor for all that it pro
dueed wa. arrordingly fixed at sub
sistence, -a living wage, one that
would enable tin- worker to rei.ro
duie liiphysical adequacy for the
new tasks, and through the rearing
of families to reproduce 'oung
workers to take them up when
through age or disability he had
laid them down, hut with the un
fortunate tendency always to drop
tin' subsistence a bit below what
was needed. Wrtge. have remained
at that point except where a few
workers have contrived a partial
monopoly in particular crafts.
Kven so the advance over the sub
sist, are point is in proportion to
increased produ< tivity and in num
bers of workers atfe -ted is wholly
negligible.
On Ills part the owner of the
shop, now a factory and in some
notald" instance an entire indus
try. has vioiatid the implied ethical
conditions', by applying the witheld
wages to unreasona,d personal
use . in lavish and w. , xpett
diturcs, not even remote!} cor in i .
ed with production or development.
Some of these use- are arrogantly
insulting to the labor which made
them possible, such as making over
lords of his family, the dowering
of the wives of the scorbutic fag
ends of a European nobility re
gime, long repudiated, and the re
habilitation of foreign estate;
whose existence is both a menace
and an obstacle to the labor of
other lands.
The writer believes however that
small complaint at these conditions
would he heard from labor in its
present late of enlightenment if
the original ratio of reward were
restored. Seventy years ago Labor
received approximately eighty three
dollars of each hundred of wealth
production. That was the neces
sary subsistence point at the time.
Now it is not contended that the
sub-istenco has decreased hut it is
true that the ratio of reward in
wages, in spite of all the rdsistence
activities, has constantly diminish
ed until hv the census of 1910. it
is only seventeen out of every
hundred dollars of wealth produc
tion. The difference ha- gone to
make the billionaire, and the many
multimillionaires, whom no one
will contend are necessary in the
light of our share-holding invest
ment machinery, or that the total
wealtli would be less if more even
ly distributed.
Estimating going wages at three
dollars a day to restore even that
ratio would be to put the average
wage today at about fifteen dollars
a day and still leave for increa ed
production and development an
adequate reserve. To do this it is
admitted that you would have to
lop off much of the fungus and pa
rasitic growth upon production.
Then to maintain that ratio per
petually. that is to give the laborer
! twenty-five dollars a day when the
ratio reaches that point in his in
! ...
1 creasing productivity, and so on.
I would content labor 1 think for a
long time.
I’art n; j—hip !*i o|k) als.
This writer moves a substitute
for the whole of the prolitsharing
plans proposed. Again estimating
the daily wage at three dollars.
This is equivalent to the legal rate
of interest yearly on about twelve]
thou and dollars. But it is the i
earning capacity of the worker's j
physical body, capable of pain upon
inflicted or accidental injury, cap
j able of liearthaehe, of anguish and
of sorrow. Is t any less to be re
garded than $12,000 n cash? Who
I denies that the worker literally in
vest himself? Suppose then that
we regard him is a tockholder ac
tively. with a stockholder’s voting
powers and participating in the
proceeds, increases, surpluses and |
re-investments on a basis and with j
all the privileges that go with such
a cash investment. Certainly, let j
him stand the decreases propor-1
tionately. He might be a bit more j
careful but the morale of industry j
would be raised. O. yes. if the bo-sl
works as directed by the stockhold
ers. allow him $12,000 in addition
to liis cash.
This is the most conservative
basis upon which the capital and
labor trouble, can he settled. It
would not be whole justice but it
would result in that at about the
third regular and semi-annual
stockholder’s meeting.
reemployment.
This is tho most acute of labor
problems. It is the problem of
Labor: not of Capital. The unem
ployed are an asset, or rather an
innocent ally of Capital to the
point where their numbers clutter
up the by-ways and begin burglar
izing, lead-piping and equally inno
rent but direct method- of expro
priation. (
The writer believes that an ac
tual solution ol the unemployed
problem would solve all the pro
blems or lead to such solutions.
I suggest the following formula:
-Let the work to be done for a
gi.en period ne estimated in terms
of hours, allowing a margin for
emergencies and disa-ters. Divide
that number by tho number of
laborers available and let the quo
tient be the average length of the
working day in hours.
I am of the opinion that such a
permanent removal cr absorption
of the worker; outside the gates
would soon, give those on the in- i
side the mastery of industry, the j
estate to which in point of numb- j
ers and in point of actual demo- '
eracy. they are so justly entitled. ,
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