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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."—
anraham Lincoln
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Nome. Alaska, June 5, 1010.
CAUSE AND EFFECT.
The Industrial Worker is In re
ceipt of the Houston Bill “to con
fer additional authority upcn the
President of the United States In :
the construction and operation ot
tho Alaskan railroad and for other j
purposes “from the Kon. James
Wickorsham, Delegate to Congress
from Alaska, and .-^companying |
that copy is the connotation “this
full territorial form of government*
bill was prepared In Secretary Lane’s
office and Introduced In Congress at
his request. Its effect will be to '
givo the Alarka Railroad Commis
sioner autocratic power to suppress
labor organizations and otter free
people. Do you want it?”
The bill, like many other bills di
rected against labor organizations,
is short, forceful and direct. The |
usually omnipresent joker is not
there. The joker microbe does not
infest such measures. It is wonder
fully to the point, and clear as noon
day.
The President (that is the rail- j
road commlss'oners) is empowered
to make and promulgate , uch Police |
quarantine and sanitary rules ana
regulations as shall be neccf sary to
preserve ord r and preserve the ^
public health along and i;» the vici
nity of said railroad or r'ilre-ads
constructed, being constructed cr lo
cated by survey and within town-1
sites established or to be establish
ed under and pursuant to said Act
of March 12, 1914.”
Section two provide? fov tlife en
forcement of this lav/ and the pu
nishment fo” Its violation.
This bill was introduced after the
railroad workers formed their union
and struck. Had it been in force,
the commission could have
made such an organiza
tion, penal, could have
deported every member and thus
have wiped out every effort of the
workers to better their condition.
The effort to belter their condi
tion is the caime, the bill against
them is the effect.
The bill as the connotation says
with fine sarcasm is a specimen of
full territorial form of government,
Secretary Lano brand, end ought to
make Alaskans in love still more ■
with the party which introduces it.
Under its authority, the commls-j
sioners enter any town which the
railroad reaches, cast a3ido munict- ^
pal rights which the citizens may
possess, and proceed to enforce thoir
own ideas of police regulations.
It can be readily understood that
the Hunston bill would nover have
been called into existence had the
railroad strike nev'r occurred; It
can also be readily understood that;
had the railroad commission paid
reasonable wages and actod towards |
labor in an intelligent and even
from the employers' standpoint aj
reasonable manner, that strikeJ
nover would have occurred. But
ftnding the workers resentful of
peonage in the North and finding
that retards the construction pro
jects of the railroad engineers, they
want a coercion act whereby they
can force upon the workers under
the euphemistic title of police regu
lations for preserving order, such
system of control as v/ill enable
them to stifle and choke every effort
made for betterment.
Unquestionably the declaration
that under this law labor organiza
tions could be supressed is true. Un
doubtedly also the papers which ert
ticize and comment upon the rail
road authorities also could be
closed down. The bill In offoct pro
poses to establish a bureaucratic de
spotism within Alaska, to remove
from Alaskan control tho policing
otc. of tho cities whore tho govern- 1
ment railroad toucher, and to make
every employee subject to any regu
lations which tho railroad engineers
under police roguations may see fit
to devise. I
It Is no wonder that tho railroad
workers and that tho poeple of An
chorage and other cities protest this
bill. It is a wonder that it could
ever have been brought in for rea
sonable consideration in Congress.
Surely Alaskans are entitled to as
much democracy and political and
economic freedom as tho rest of the
country. Surely the man who works
within a section of tho Territory
whore through the railroad passes
has the right to organize and to
labor for improved conditions.
Secretary Lane of course is in
terested in the construction of the
railroad. So are his engineers. The
bureaucracy that has control of that
work does not want it hampered
with workers agitation, no matter
what scale of wages is paid and no
matter what conditions of employ
ment are provided.
The engineers want to drive
through the work with power tc
suppress all labor union activities
and when the work is completed to
be in such a position that labor will
have just as much rights before the
law as a corpse 01. the di'socting
table.
It ts tno railroad engineers con
ception of the proper thing. It is
the New Freedom applied to Al
ack.".. It explains why the demo
cratic administration is so beloved
and why every one of its repres n
tatives will find such enormous sup
port it shows how the friends of
labor and the friends of Alaska
give their undivided time to devis
ing ways and means ot mak'ng tue
workers and Alaskans love them
more and more. As a sentiment of
the democratic slogan “a full terri
torial form of government” it cer
tainly is full enough. It ought to
please every democrat that ever
came over the pike. It has the
Beveridge bill backed off the boards
and could only have been devised
by men (like Lane) who ‘‘know Al
askan conditions thoroughly”.
Certainly the bill in its way is a
beauty. The suggestive menner in
which the public order (police regu
lations) and the Public Health is
connected In the Bill ought not to
be lost upon those who read it. May
bo it is felt that since camp accomo
dations may not be so conducive to
the public health and as labor agi
tation against such in not to be tole
rated, the engineers commission feel
that special rules os to quarantine
may be needed as well an special
suppressive measures regarding a
too freo criticism and a too gener
ous agitation against impossible la
bor conditions.
Alaska is a long ways from Wash
ington. The wlrolecB and the rail
road and tho- steamship seem not
to have brought it any closer. But
at any rate such a measure as the
Houston Bill is a proof that modren
methods have not been lest upon
the railroad commission and what
they want is the strong arm to
throttle union labor and to boss ut
terly and completely the Job.
They can thus control tho situa
tion. They can pay even Ices than
they paid last year. Troublesome
mediation junkettsro will hr.ve been
avoided. The New Freedom will
tiavo materialized with the commis
sion. and they will bo independent
if all annoying labor agitation.
It’s as great as it’s democratic.
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LABOR AND PROHIBITION ,
(Continued from page *.)
and maintain themselves. There is
some logic in that. If the loggers
and millmen are to be organized it
wjll certainly have to be done by
themselves and not by outside ef
forts.
The water front unions have
gained much strength and are orga
nized into three unions. The long
shoremen have nine hundred mem- j
bers, the dockmen, four hundred,j
and the mosquito fleet boatmen j
about an equal number, who are
now out on strike with every pros
pect of winning.
Seattle, April 18, 1916.
Labor conditions arc showing a
slight improvement. This in most
noticeable in the woods and saw
mills. Wages have considerably im
proved in this industry, and there
is more work than {or seven years
past. This condition ha3 reflected
itself on laboring conditions in gen
eral. Two months ago men were
glad to go to work for a $1.50 or
$1.75. Now $2.25 is about the mi
nimum. This condition, however,
obtains on out-of-town work only,
as there are any number of trades
men in the cities 3till on the unem
ployed lists. The carpenter’s union
reports seven hundred members out
of work and the same holds true in
all the building trades unions. The
only decided improvement is In the
shipping and shipbuilding lines.
The new chief of police is mak
ing strenuous efforts to clean up the
town, so the papers nay. Just to
what this amounts to only time will
tell. Some are inclined to think it
a sort of bluff. Gambling has been
practically wide-open. Drugstores
flourish like the proverbial green !
bay tree. Liquor is obtainable in
many of the soft drink emporiums
and you dont have to wink at the
j bartender or give him the hush
I word before you can get it either.
! Drunks are a quite a common sight,
; in striking contrast to the first sev
eral months under the dry law.
Evidently the bootlegging forces
had to first organize. They certain
ly are handling the situation sy
stematicaly just now. What makes
it worse is that all the drinks sold
are whisky, and much of that
“squirrel” and rotgut of the worst
kind.
The chief's threat to rough-house
these outfits has a go-better sound
; about it, and if carried into effect
, the police force should have plenty
I of fun for a little while, for practi
cally all of the drugstores are doing
it. Many “respectable” physicians
have been caught issuing “booze”
prescriptions. One is being tried
now, evidently to be made a goat
out of. It takes a crusade as the
one just now being carried on to
discover the many uses to which
whisky can be put. It seems that
whisky will cure most any disease,
external or internal, warranted to
remove corns and restore hair. In
stead of the familiar latin terms,
physicians now prescribe whisky
"three times daily”, a case of beer
“drink before each meal”, etc., etc.
All of which of course, makes a
farce out of the prohibition law.
What with the amounts individuals
are allowed to import by obtain
ing a permit from the county bar
tender (auditor) and the stuff pedd
eld by the drugstores, conditions are
almost as bad as before tho dry law
went into effect. Not that this con
dition Is Incurablo, far from it. One
way would be to eliminate the sec
tion of the law allowing individuals
to Import whisky and beer, so much
each month. Another to have the
city do all the dispensing of whisky
on doctor’s prescriptions.
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Mexican Sarsaparilla,, Cascara Bark
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Department.
MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 0283
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska,
April 18th, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that the
Flume Dredge Company, a corpora
tion organized under the laws of
the State of California, with its
principal place of business and post
office address, Mills Building, San
Francisco, California, has through
Jas. M. Streeten, its authorized
agent, whose post office address is
Nome, Alaska, made application for
a United States patent for No. 14
Above Discovery placer mining
claim, situated on Melsing Creek,
in the Council City Recording Di
strict, Territory of Alaska, and de
signated as Mineral Survey No.
1172, which said placer mining claim
is described according to the plat
and field notes now on file in the
U. S. Land Office at Nome, Alaska,
with a magnetic variation of 21
deg. 38 min. E. as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, a
spruce post 4 ft. long, 6 ins. dia
meter, in earth mound, scribed 14
Ab 1 1172 on N. face, whei ce U. S.
L. M. No. 1172 bears S 69 deg.
34 min. W. 380.3 ft. Thonce N. 35
deg. 35 min. W. 544.4 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 56 deg. 27 min.
E. 1376.6 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
S. 37 deg. 56 min. E. 526.4 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 55 deg. 37
min. W. 1397.6 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
place of beginning, containing an
area of 17.025 acres.
This claim is situated on Melsing
Creek about four miles north of
Council City, Council City Re
cording Precinct, Alaska. Lo
cation monur.cnt No. 1172 is
a schist sione 37x20x5 ins.
18 ins. in the ground, with mound
of earth 4 ft. high, 6 ft. base, situa
ted about 30 ft. above the bed it
Melsing Creek, on the south side
thereof, in latitude 64 deg. 55 min.
N., longitude 163 deg. 39 min. W.
The location notice is recorded in
Vol. 10, page 132, of the records
Council City Recording District, Al
aska.
The adjoining claims are as fol
lows: On the northeast No. 15
Above Discovery on Melsing Creek;
on the southwest, No. 13 Above Dis
covery on Melsing Creek; claimants
unknown; on the northwest and
southeast, claims unknown; all un
surveyed.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
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