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Nome, Alaska, January 20, 1017,
MINING IN THK SOUTH.
Humor crop? up in unexpected
places. By the same token unin
tentional humor it is that flashes
its laughs around now and then for
the amusement of all and sundry.
In proof of which we may cite not
without smiling a booklet issued by
the Tennessee copper mining com
pany to its employees.
First of all a word of explana
tion. The wages paid labor by this
company reach the wonderful
heights of sixteen and one half cents
an hour. But the company boasts
that it employs all Americans, no
‘•niggers” and wants to maintain it
for "whitemen”. Because Western
Federation organizers got in among
them, stirred them up to ask foi
more pay, the company proposes
to drive the unionists and organizers
out of thp camp and warns employ
ees against listening to them lest
the higher wages which unions
may demand will attract “foreign
ers”!
Be darned if that isn't the best
argument one ever heard against
unions in all one’s born life.
Bet us quote a bit from this little
book:
It is written to the sixteen and a
half cents an hour miners, recol
lect: “We appreciate your feelings
in the matter and know that those
of you who have offered to get rid
of these organizers feel that nothing
is too bad for those desiring to up
set the pleasant relations that have
existed for so many years between
the company and the men, but the
same thing can be accomplished by
public sentiment, and let’s just
mat; it so unpopular that this whole
ci ,:ion will flunk immediately and
tbit there will lie no more forced
into idleness by a bunch of exploit
ers that have desperate hope of
getting a slice of your hard earned
cash”. Concern lest the union
may get dues after the company
store has got its whack of that six
teen and a half cents an hour is re
ally subhlime.
The paragraph is a stealthy sug
gestion of violence against organiz
ers and union men and the appeal
can easily be read between the
lines.
Knowing that the wages paid are
the lowest in tlie land the company
breaks a lance in defense of the
scale with the following:
“If the wages were much higher
there would be such a rush for this
community that you would lose
your present steady work and
would be much Y. urr * off than at
present, end ns the company could
i.of i • rd to pay it on the present
low gn ile or*- it: this district, it is
siir.pl.'. killing the goose that lays
By lie Y.uiv (her- is a familiar
sound about tlial argument. In
Xoin ls.'vwiiv operators justifying
the lone hour day and scab wages
have declar'd that the pay was too
pm. 11 to justify any higher wages.
Then follows this illuminating
gem:
“Do you want to have your life
controlled by a lot of dagoes, po
lacks, fmlanders and niggers, and
pay for their support. Would you
like to have them for neighbors?
Remember if the ramp becomes or
ganized you could not complain for
they would be your brothers, and
do not think that they would not
come and live right among you!” I
Now of all the hog wash that ■
ever was written, what is anyone |
to think of the mentality that such !
is meant to impose upon. To live in j
southern squalor lest well paid
foreigners of no account come and
live right among you. Is assuredly j
an ideal that is possessed of the
adventage of novelty. It is surely
a brand of Americanism (hat -was
concocted by easy lived exploiters
who sit right hack when reeling off
such stuff and chuckle to themselves
that God has blessed them with poor J
I I'ools for wage slaves.
] Let no one imagine that this
| brand of thing is confined to the
; employees of the Tennessee Copper
: Co. In a copy of Solidarity dated
| November 18 is a letter from an Ar
kansas mining camp at Rush Creek,
Ark. It is signed by F. C. Garris.
He introduced his remarks with the
following:
“Just a few lines to let you know
of the mining conditions around
this section, a place where they boast
that they would not employ any for
j eigners or “niggers”. The follow
| ing wage scale is in vogue, which
j is the worst in the United States”:
, The scale is for a nine hour day and
Garris gives the highest paid ma
j chine man as $2.50 a day, shovellers
$2. Board is six dollars a week,
“and rotten at that”. He concludes
b>‘ saying that “in talking organiza
tion to these men, they think it is
all right, but the only objection is
that they hate the foreigners, and
are afraid the latter will came and
take their jobs”.
We said that in the booklet issued
by the Tennessee Copper Co. there
I was an unintentional humor to be dis
covered. Hadn’t we better withdraw
that criticism. Is there not an infi
nite pathos in the ignorance and
prejudice that is revealed in both
camps which have been referred
to?
Yet there is a ray of lights pene
trating. The conditions are receiv
ing publicity. The light of day is
beng cast upon them. INIen begin to
realize this and to bring to bear
the still more culightenning feel
ings of class interest, fraternity,
unity and solidarity. Outside influ
ences of labor organizations with
the mission to unite the workers are
t r -ukiug down, the century old en
vironment that resulted in such a
state of besotted and befuddled
. ignorance. The old hatred of the
foreigner, cultivated with ^ucli care
by an enslaving corporation which
has more than its quota of foreign
shareholders, will give way to the
broader, manlier and more inspir
ing sentiments of human brother
hood among those who toil.
It is only a few years ago since
the same sentiments prevailed
among the mountainous coal regions
of West Virginia. The ancestors ol
those pitmen had been of the ori
ginal stock that settled the country.
Some' of their fathers had fought
not without suffering and with much
gallantry to make America free. And
they possessed the same blinding
hate of the foreigner that they had
tor the “nigger”. To them they
were both hateful alike. Profitting
b this exclusiveness great coal
corporations paid the lowest scale in
ihv United fit a i os. This condition
prevailed with.the tolerance of the
workers until the cost of ..ing
made it quite intolerable. They or
ganized and struck and the men
that stood by them were the orga
ni.'.ed workers: Americans, “polacks'
“dagoes”, and the rest that they
had so loftily despised, while the
gooil American corporation, owned
by stockholders in London, Paris,
Berlin, Rome, as well as New York,
had the officials shoot them down in
their tents upon the order of the
sheriff, and the deputies asked that
the murderous train he run back
by the Mueklow colony again so
that they could give the “coal lice
another dose of the machine gun”
They were taken from their homes
without trial, and . sent by militia
officers to the penitentiary, and the
District Judge by an injunction
made belonging to the union a
felony.
Now West Virginia is organized.
Now in West Virginia the American
old timer and the foreigner work
side by side, and where they are or
ganized there they are getting the
best wages and live under the best
conditions with many foreigners fov
neighbors.
It is a gloomy condition when
ignorance and low wages are ex
ploited in one breath by the com
pany. But the publicity such ex
ploitation is receiving will surely
kill it.
The activities of the labor move
ment are reaching these hidden
places. They are bringing with
them vistas of a new life. They
are fostering a healthy disconteem.
against such foul conditions of ad
ject peonism. They are stimula^ig
resistance to industrial yvrong. 'the
pleasant relations between e‘m
ployers and employees which have
been so pleasant for employers and
such hell for employees are being
subjected to criticism and criticism
of the hammer. No doubt the com
panies which have fattened upon
such damnable conditions hate the
knocker. They want everyone to
boost at sixteen and half per hour
for the copper company with the
hardest kind of graft, and in return
they offer the poor slaves the pro
mise that they will ring their slavery
around, with their industrial majesty
and keep out the hated foreigners
who might come after higher wages
and take their places.
That is why industrial despotism
hates the agitator. Everything
would be lovely if let well enough
alone. A dog’s life satisfies those
miners they claim and why not let
them have it for their own? But the
workers know very well that con
ditions as they are today have gen
eral ramifications. An injury to one
is the concern of all, and for that
reason, those who have gone ahead
even after hard struggles must be
on hand to aid in the struggles of
all the rest.
get the news right, REAJ*
THE WORKER.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Andrew Eadie, J. Potter Whitt
ren, F. H. Waskey, Ira D. Orton
Trustee, Elwood Bruner, J. Alli
Burner, Joseph Hammer, Wm. A.
Gilmore, J. J. Chambers, Ford E.
Chambers, to you siul each of you
your heirs, executors, assigns or
personal representatives.
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollais
each year for the years of 1914,
1915, and 1916 on the Golden Bull
Claim, a placer mining claim situ
ated between Newton Gulch and
Fox Creek and recorded and mQt»e
fully described in the records of Cape
Nome Mining and Recording Dis
trict, in the Second Division of the
! Territory of Alaska,
j The above amount has been ex
I pended under the provisions of the
! law concerning Annual Labor upon
J Mining Claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you and each of you
I are further notified that if
within ninety days after the
| last publication of this notice you
fail to contribute your . proportion
of said expenditure, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned your co-owner
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
SEWARD DREDGING CO.
Co-Ownor.
Date of first publ., Jan. 6, 1917.
Date of last publ., March 31, 1917.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 16, 1916.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
I.. Osgood, Estate (Ileirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good! By W. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and
on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, has made application before
the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a United States
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
thereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
S. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No,
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
695, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,
4-695, 1-1175, D. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
\V. Yar. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N,
69 deg. 45 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 28 min. E. Var,
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 43
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
386.80 ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 25
min. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 05 min.
E. 400.80 ft. to place of begining,
containing 6.908 acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
747 No. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft.
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 48 deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Yar. 19
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Yar. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 4 5
min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor, No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Yar. 1*9 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north, of the Town
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
to which said claims are tied, is a
fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground
in stone niound 3 ft. high 6 1't. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Yol.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 11G and
Amended locations recorded in Yol.
165 Page 225 and Yol. 199 Page
85, Records of Cape Nome Record
ing. District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 698 and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 434; on the East un
surveyed; on the South No. 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West,
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 747. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., Feb. 21, 1917.
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