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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
ae&rly 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
dome, Alaska, under the Act of March I, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, September 20, 1910.
the open shop.
Roland H. Hartley was a republican
candidate for Governor in the State
of Washington. His issue was the
open shop. And he declared that
was the most vital issue before the
State and the Nation today.
In the advertisements of his can
didature he quoted as his message:
“I will see that every man and wo
man in Washington who wish to
work or quit, shall have that oppor
tunity without fear of murder, inti
midation or abuse from any source,
whether they belong to a union or
not".
You know that is a fine sentiment,
and if that wms all there was to the
open shop or closed shop question,
we might think a whole lot af Ro- :
land H. Hartley. Suppose however ,
we turn to consider Mr. Hartley's j
message; suppose we turn to inves- |
tigate it in the light of actual condi- I
tions and what do we find?
We find in the first place that
Roland Hartley, not if he were Gov
ernor, not any more than if he were
president, could see that every man
and woman in Washington who
wish to work or quit could do so.
As a matter of hard fact, in the
State of Washington, it often hap
pens that men want to work and
cannot do so. As a matter ot fact
in the State of Washington the em
ployers in the lumber woods say to
one another the price of logs is too
low, we will close down a spell un
til there is a scarcity and prices rise
when the demand overtakes the sup
ply. As a matter of hard fact when
the shingle mills find that there
are more shingles on the market
than the demand calls for, the
shingle bosses get together and shut
down the mills until the market de
mands eat up the supply on hand.
As a matter of hard fact when the
supply of this, that or the other
thing is too great, the production
thereof ceases until such time as
the demand equals or is greater
than the supply. And that’s good
business. It is first class business,
and when the employers find one of
their number that mavericks along,
producing when they shut down,
they boycott, and hinder, and
hamper, and work against him in
every possible way. As a matter ot
fact they have burned down mills
of men who bolted from the com
bine; they dynamited rival bridges
on logging railroads, they set fire
to valuable acreage of standing tim
ber and they showed time and time
again that they were determined to
force unity of action even to the
length of committing crime. It was
good business they were after, and
the end justified the means.
Now when those places closed
down such as we have referred to,
they threw hundreds, thousands ot
■of men out of a job. They most cer
tainly did. And the idle loggers
hunted around the cities and the
towns and the country places seek
ing a place where they might find
work and never finding it. Could
Hartley whether governor or not see
that those idle men who wanted to
work, had work?
Roland H. Hartley for all his
bombast knows full well that he
could not. He knows that he dare
not go to a single logging company
and say to them that the men who
wished to work should work, had
the right to it. And, By Heavens,
that is the issue today.
There is no man who vyants to
work to live can get work if the
boss says him nay. And what is
more the Hartleys and the rest
never have a damn word to say
about this condition. Instead they fill
us all with a lot of punk buncombe
about the free and independent
workers. He talks about Industrial
freedom, but it is the industrial
freedom of the employer who has
now a good deal more than is good
for the rest of us
What we are after lo real indus
trial freedom; the freedom that saye
that any man or woman is entitled
to work who wants it, and is entit
led to receive the full product or
that labor.
That’s the issue. There is no
other. Everything else is a means
to that end if it helps well, if not
well also, though not so well.
Hartley asks will one hundred
million people submit to a hold up
at the point of a gun and the sur
render of their flag to a band ol
labor union agitators who fatten
upon the exploitation of the honest
laboring man.
lnaiS good siuii, n mere was any
thing to it. But there is not and
Hartley knows it. We all know it.
We all know that one hundred mil
lion people have got to do as a very,
very, very small per rentage of that
population say they shall do. They
have got to do as the mill owners,
the financial magnates, the industri
al captains say they shall do. They
latter think that market conditions
suggest a close down, the mills, the
mines, the factories the industrial
plants of the nation are shut down,
and the free Americans are free to
starve now that they are no longer
free to work, and a band of capital
ists who fatten upon the exploita
tion of the laboring man hold them
up not with the bludgeon, unless
the militia is necessary, but by the
equally powerful weapon know as
1 hunger or “economic pressure”.
And that is the condition that
1 exists today. When the business
| men are pleased to call things
j prosperous, it is because the work
j ers are allowed to work and quit it
| they want to. When things are de
pressed, it is because the workers
can get no jobs, want them they
ever so badly.
And we would like to see candi
date Hartley or any other candidate,
republican, democrat or any other,
taking up this issue and telling us,
that God Helping them, they would
mend or end that condition, so that
every honest man who wanted work
to get his bellyful of food and his
body and those dependent
upon him properly clad and
properly sheltered, without the
say or the let or the
hinderance of any man, could by his
work supply himself with these
things. But upon this they preserve
a golden silence. Upon this issue,
this real issue of real industrial
freedom they have never a word to
say. They are silent as the grave
and as cold and chilly when the sub
ject is broached. Instead they talk
loud words about the tyranny of
the labor organizations and the
.vile crookedness of labor agitators!
But—and this is the point—the
laboring men know and have known
that it is because labor organiza
tions are the only organizations that
stand between them and the ruth
less exploitation by the band of em
ployers that control industry they
must turn to the unions. There Is
no way out of it. They must orga
nize to obtain real industrial free
dom and it is only because of this
labor - organization that they can
have any hope at any time of
achieving industrial freedom in thi9
world.
And there is no arguing this
down. This is the straight positive
fact before us today. The workers
have no control over their jobs and
they have no control over their liv
ing or the living of those dependent
upon their labor. If it seems good
to the owners of the means of pro
duction or distribution that the jobs
cease they cease, regardless of the
fare or the fate of the workers
therein.
What we want is that this should
be changed. We want It changed
from top to bottom. The workers
want it changed so that hereaftei
to every man that works will be the
opportunity to work and the means
of living. We want to see no para
sitic director controlling our lives
and our jobs. We want the righi
to live by our labor and to see that
no idler lives thereupon. We want
to see that the Hartleys that lie and
that mislead and that misrepresent
the facts of the case be placed
where they can do no such harm.
We want to control the industry
—that’s it, not the job but the in
dustry, so that its democratic ad
ministration by the workers therein
could redound to a greater human
happiness and a greater human wel
fare. We want to abolish the pro
fits that are wrung from the tears
and the sweat of labor, from wo
men’s virtue and from manhood’s
health. We want to make this
world a better and a brighter and
a braver place to live in, where no
man durst make another afraid and1
to every man that labors shall be
afforded from his labor ample and
sufficient as there comes an ampli
tude and a sufficiency under modern
conditions of socialized production.
We want real industrial freedom
and that will come only through
industrial unionism. It will not
come through the Hartleys be they
ever so fair spoken or ever so hypo
critical. It will come from organized
labor alone.
WHEN IN TOWN
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MERCHANTS CAFE.
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SEATTLE
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WAVS SHIP IN COLD STORAGE
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SWTSETNESS.
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Men’s Women’s Children’s
Since the opening of Navigation we have received 3270 pairs
of SHOES and RUBBER FOOTWEAR. Every boat brings more.
“There is a reason”. Our prices are right and our business has
been built by satisfactory service to our patrons.
P A. PETERSON SHOE CoT
Milo's
Cafe
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Next dour to Pacific Gold
Storage.
LOMEN BROS.
Prescription Drugists
and
Drug Sundries
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HEINZ
57 Varieties have arrived at
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211 FRONT STREET PHONE, MAIN M
Steamer Arctic
will sail for St. Michaels and all way points including Solomon,
Bluff and Chinlk, August 24.
For Information call up Al-aska Lighterage A Com. Co. or
U. S. Mercantile Co.
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LADIES
Going Outside
SHOULD SEE OUR LINE OF
Toilet Rolls
Rubber Lined
Just received. They are almost, a necessity .travelling and
Certainly very Convenient.
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For Seattle Direct
BAILING FROM
NOME
OCTOBER 3
OCTOBER 25.
BAILING FROM
SEATTLE.
SEPTEMBER 20.
OCTOBER 12.
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Commercial Agent,
Front St. and Steadman Ave.
ALASKA L. & C. CO.
AGENTS
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LEAVE SEATTLE:
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OCTOBER 15.
LEAVE NOME.
OCTOBER 10.
OCTOBER 29.
R. A. Carroll, Agent, Nome
For
Mackinaw Coats
LOGGERS SHIRTS, STETSON' HATS, FLORESKEIM SHOES,
FLANNELL SHIRTS AND A GOOD SELECTION OP UNDER
WEAR. LATEST VICTOR RECORDS AT
Cheap John Store
Tel. Main 48.
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General Transfer & Freighting
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Phone Main 139.
MR. MINER
I HAVE PURCHASED WHILE OUTSIDE THE BEST LINE
OF FURNISHINGS AND WTNTER SUPPLIES TO BE HAD, AND
AM DETERMINED TO MARE THIS STORE THE BEST PLACE;
IN ALASKA TO TRADE.
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MURPHY HAS THE HOODS
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Opposite Industrial Worker.
FIRST CLASS MEALS.
Served In
FIRST CLASS STYLE.
Under Mew Management
OPEN ALL NIGHT.
Phone Main IBS.
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tween St., Michaels and all
way points, including Bluff,
Solomon, Nome, Teller, York,
Tin City, Deerlng, Candle and
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