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P*r Nome Mine Workers’ Union, No. *40. Western Federation of Miners.
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nearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government. —
Abraham Lincoln
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Itome, ■ Aiasaa, under the Act of March 3, 1871.
Nome, Alaska,
August
4, 1»10.
ruoiiiitiTioN.
The presence here of Mrs. Hatcher
the prohibition evangelist directs
again attention to this movement.
A significant phase of it is that the
women have been its most ardent
supporters, although we believe
when the vote was taken in Nome
as to whether or not the town
would have saloons, the vote that
saved the boozeries was the wom
en’s votfc.
The Industrial Worker is opposed
to the saloon not with any object
of saving men’s souls. We dont
care a rap about that phantom, but
because drink has time and time
again interfered with the labor
movement. It has lost strikes, and
been again and again the medium
through which the bosses made to
lerable conditions that would other
wise be considerable.
Just as the capitalist politician
shoots a few jolts of hootch into the
victims of his eloquence, and makes
him his suporter, so also again and
again has the saloon recruited men
for scab camps and been the means
of perpetuating industrial slavery
on that account.
Our opposition to the saloon is
based upon purely material reasons.
There is nothing sentimental or spi
ritual about it. We know that the
man with a clear head and the
steady hand is the man above all
others who * is a necessity to the
labor movement, and the man who
is stewed half the time is good to
neither himself nor his fellow man.
It is with some very 'great inter
est that we read wherein recently
has been formed a#i organization
named the Trade Union League for
Liberty. This bases Us existence
upon the fact that by the inception
of ■ prohibition many workers who
are union men have lost their jol)S.
We believe that is quite true. In
fact the brewery workers have
been hard hit wherever prohibition
showed its head, and union bar
tenders also have felt the pinch of
unemployment.
But these things form no very
sound argument against prohibition.
Take a great improvement in indus
trial appliances—these things take
the place of the skilled craftsman,
and one machine does what four
or what twenty-four did before.
Yet it would be absurd to denounce
the use of these improvements in
technical equipment for they ave
part of industrial progress.
No prohibition movement has
thrown as many men out of work as
have technical improvements and
yet it would be considered quite
out of place to insist upon abandon
ing those Improvements In order
that the men would not lose their
jobs.
The liberty to have a glass of beer
is all right and very real. But un
fortunately also it means also the
liberty to take several glasses of
beer until one becomes nothing but
a social menace, a social pest and
a social nuisance.
We have never yet heard a man
say a good word for the saloon with
any reason. We know that there
are laws and ordinances preventing
saloons supplying men with drink to
an intoxicating extent, yet day after
day we see the jags brought up be
fore the judges and fined. Whoever
heard of the judge turning these
soaks loose and telling the cops to
discover the booze man who .sold
the liquor to the Intoxicated ones
and have him up for violating the
ordinance? Never that we recall.
Time and again the miner who
wanders to town and who under the
privilege of that extent of personal
liberty which he enjoys, gets drunk,
is haled before the court to be fined
thrlty five or thereabouts.
Did you ever hear of a saloonman
kicking because the victim of his
bottled jag caused the miner to lose
his freedom to the police. And it
is a queer sort of joke to uphold
the liberty that enables one to get1
drunk and upholds the law that
fines a man for getting his tank
filled.
With us this isn't a moral ques
tion. This is a practical question of
every day prudence. We know that
prohibition is not going to cure the
body politic of all the ills that flesh
is heir to. We know that prohibi
tion or no prohibition there will
be crooks and scoundrels. We know
that there will be strikes and lock
outs and we know that the sober
boss will not be a bit better to work
for than the boss that goes to bed
with a jag. We know that many
and many a psalm singing employer
will rob the cross of an ass if he
gets half a show, and will beat the
workers out of their pay if they
will stand for it.
Prohibition isn’t going to abolish
poverty or the results of poverty.
It is not going to give work to
everyone. It is not going to avert
panics and provide a perpetual pros
perity. It’s going to do none of
these things.
But it will increase sobriety. It
removes the chances to become a
drunkard. And in doing so it will
contribute to an increase of clear
brains which is the main desidera
tum in the labor movement.
Of all the pitiful victims of the
social struggle the most hapless and
the most hopeless is the man who
shoots dope into his veins to forget
his troubles. The most hopeful and
the only man who has any hope is
the man that makes tip his mind to
agitate and to educate and to or
ganize and to perpetually spread
the facts as to real cause of his ex
ploitation. The men who seek com
fort in a drop of liquor will not be
likely to prolong the fight for better
conditions. And it is for that rea
son the man who wont booze is the
most desirable man.
We know that the root of the evil
is the profit system. The man in
the saloon business is there because
there is money in it. If the govern
ment could deprivfe the business of
its profit who would engage in it?
But what the government is doing
is to extract from the business
through licenses and the rest an
enormous proportion of the gains,
and these costs necessarily incite
the saloonist to make liquor a
greater and greater attraction. He
must do it to make up the various
expenses of his establishment. The
more drunks he makes the better
he is off.
Someone said that if you could
remove the revenue from the booze
and let any man make his own, you
would bring about temperance
among people. But just as long as
you can make money manufactur
ing dipsomaniacs in society just so
long will they be made.
The main evil is then the profit
system. It is for profits that men
do all these things that are anti
social and vicious, and we have for
tha t reason mighty little use for
those who would let this system ol
economy remain and think they
have removed all our woes when w'e
have made the town dry.
We haven’t done anything of the
kind. We have merely removed an
obstacle that lay in the path of agi
tation and organization and that’s
all.
The main trouble with prohibition
and the like is that it leads many
workers to believe that that is the
end of the labor movement when il
is nothing of the kind. Tlie end ol
the labor movement is an industrial
democracy with industrial control
of the social activities by those whc
labor for these who labor. Every
thing else is only a phantom end,
leading the workers into a blind al
ley unless they clearly realize thal
this or that, is only useful when the
means to that end.
We have no time for a prohibi
j tion for the same reason that Gov
ernor Carlson the labor hating
ruler of Colorado espouses it, or for
the same reason that the bosses’
tool Billy Sunday espouses it. That
it makes the workers more effici
ent profit makers for the boss does
not concern us at all—not a little
bit. What is important is that it
gives a man an unmuddled brain
to face the issues on the job and the
real facts of the class struggle that
he will never see when seeking the
bottom of a beer glass or in the In
version of facts found in the lifting
of a whiskey glass.
This were best done by the indi
vidual. We know that. But the
individual faces perpetually the ef
forts of the saloon to attract the .
man who otherwise would not will- j
ingly drink. The saloon appeals to j
every thing that it is possible to ap- !
peal to from the sex to the social I
instinct, from gambling to com
radeship. And for that reason
there is small chance for the indi
vidual to exert an effort to avoid
what he has been acustomed to in
dulge in. >
ALSO TRUE.
An exchange remarks with con
fidence that the hammer will not
saw wood which is quite correct.
At the same time it is also true that
you cannot live on sawdust.
OVERSTOCKED
To the Public:—
We have just finished stock tak
ing, and find that we are heavily
overstocked so are making enorm
ous reductions in Hardware—as
much as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
side, especially in Hardware and
Metal Goods, we are still selling on
the' basis of goods purchased tne
past 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 re
quirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; we can save you
money. We' have pjoved it oj
others, we can prove it to you.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
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THE WORKER.
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OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Next door to Pacific Cold
Storage.
NOTICE OP FORFEITURE.
ro F. W. Goodbody, Mrs. F. W.
Goodbody, Pat Dunkin, John Dun-'
kin, M. O’Neill, Catherine Good
body, Basil Meek, James M. Dun
kin, Mrs. Dunkin, S. C. Henton,
Mrs. James Gibson, your heirr, j
executors, assigns or personal re- [
presentatives: 5
You and each of you are, hereb* j
notified that I have expended in I
labor and improvements the sum i
of one hundred dollars each year j
for the years of 1908, 1909, 1910, I
1911, 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1915 1
an the Blankett Location and the
Midnight Dream Association, both
association placer mining claims lo
cated on the left limit of Gold Run
a tributary of Bering Sea and re
corded and more fully discribed in
the Records of the Port Clarence
Mining District, in the Second Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
raining claims, being the amount
required to hold said claims.
And you and each of you are
further notified, that if within nine
ty days after the last publication of
this notice you fail to contribute
your proportion of said expenditure,
you F. W. Goodbody, Mrs. F. W.
Goodbody,, Pat Dunkin, John Dun
kin, M. O’Neill, Catherine Goodbody
Basil Meek for the Blankett Loca
tion and you James M. Dunkin, Mrs.
Dunkin, F. W. Goodbody, Mrs. F.
W. Goodbody, S. C. Henton and Mrs
James Gibson for the Midnight
Dream Association, your inter
ests in said claims will become the
property of the undersigned, vonr
co-owner under section 2 324 Re
vised Statutes of the United States.
THOS. H DUN:UN.
Co-Owner
Date of first publ., Aug. 4, 1J1G.
Date of last publ., Nov. 3, 19;G
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