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Some, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, May 1!), 101(1.
THE HEAL HEMEDV.
Tho Coast Seamen’s Journal right
ly enough complains of the methods
employed in tho enforcement of
some sections of the Seamen’s Bill
which effectually reduce those sec
tions to a nullity. The orders of the
Department of Commerce to the
subordinate inspectors of hulls and
boilers and those having In charge
the enforcement of the law, are such
a nature to prevent the taw operat
ing as it was fully intended it should
operate.
Now that's a common experience
in reference to labor legislation. Ii
is the experience which makes so
many workers distrust legislation of
such a nature as not intended to be
enforced.
We needn’t go to Frisco to dis
cover some example of this. We
dont have to leave Nome and vlcini
to discover labor laws reduced to a
nullity, and while tho authorities
can find time for entertainments, lit
tle or no time have they to give then
paid attention to the enforcement of
these laws.
We refer principally to the eigt
hour law. I’nder a ridiculous subt
erfuge called a contract drawn up by
a pseudo sea lawyer called v. notary,
‘ partners" are hired to work so that
as partners and not wage workers
coming under the scope of the lav;
they can work against the lav,
nine, ten, twelve or thirteen hout'3
a day.
We know and everyone else known
that such a partnership agreement
is merely a pretense whereby men
may be Induced to work under
ground in violation of the law more
than the legal number of hours.
It would be too much to exyecl
that officials burdened with the
heavier pursuits of up-lifting the
community to a higher plane ot
morality and more leisurely devoting
attention to the worship at the
shrine of Thalia, would find time
for the more tedious routine work
of seeing that such labor laws are
literally enforced.
We find a disinclination everywhere
to burden employers with the oner
ous enforcement of the legislation
passed and enacted in the interest
• of employees, and while other sta
tutes are not to be so idly ignored,
labor laws are equally honored in
the breach as in the observance.
You cannot expect anything else.
Officials usually take their cue from
the class with which they have been
most closely connected. And since
they have no memory most of them
of any association with wage work
ing. they are little concerned about
enforcing laws in the Interest of the
wage workers. On the other hand
most of this failure lies with the
workers themselves. We cannot
escape that. The neglect or failure
of government officials to see to the
enforcement of labor laws is quits
to be expected. But if the workers
themselves make up their minds
that these laws will be enforced and
the eight hour day underground ri
gidly carried out, regardless of any
roundabout method of circumventing
that legislation, it certainly will be.
And if the workers are properly or
ganized and a unit in such organiza
tion all these attempts to work the
employees more than eight hours a
day will fall of their own weight.
When men do work under move
than eight hours under any pre
text under ground, whether bogus
partners or not, it is evident that
there has been a failure somewhere
upon the part of organized labor to
show these workers the folly and
unhappy consequences of their acts.
They should know that they arc
not bettering themselves but are bet
tering the boss, and they are allow
ing themselves to be hooked like a
lot of suckers by a piece of paper.
The ability of employers to over
ride labor legislation everywhere is
the one striking fact of present day
law and enforcement. Every little
measure con obtain attention no
matter how trivial be the enactment
except the labor law. No attention
is paid to that. You can drive a
dog team and sled through any that
the territory has pasesd apparently
and there's not a soul to say nay.
That has been the historic way and
is a most forcible argument for labor
organization. When labor is proper
ly organized and educated along
the lines of class interest you will
not need even eight hour laws. The
workers can enforce an eight hour
day themselves. It is a sound fact
that what reforms have been perma
nently gained for labor did not come
through legal enactments but
through organized enforcement. The
strength of an organization can in
variably be guaged by its ability to
enforce its betterment of conditions.
Where unions have been strong legal
enactments facilitated there their ea
forcement. But that was because
the unions had the economic power
which in turn was reflected in poli
tical, and hence in the executive field
of the political world.
Without a labor organization strong
land healthy to enforce labor laws
every two by four operator can
laugh at them without fear of mole
station. While the government might
be put to extraordinary expense to
convict some eptty offender against
some petty social enactment or
against some petty statute to pro
flect property, there is no enthusiasm
in pursuing either the pettiest or
the largest offender against either
the most important or moot trivial
, labor 'aw.
j Interview some of these officials
I on the subject. They’ll tell you to
j swear to a complaint, to ban I them
the direct testimony on a platter,
they want you to convert yourself
; into a voluntary stool to secure for
them the evidence so that after all
was in they might if they had a
mind try to enforce the law.
The workers can therefore depend
upon themselves alone and that
through labor organization. Up
lifting or other officials with axes to
grind may speak fair, but fine
words butter no parsnips. Am! when
it comes to delivering the goo 13 anc.
seeing that both the letter and the
spirit of the law is lived up to, as
far as labor legislation is concerned,
they simply are not there. They
haven’t time for any such work. It
is outside the province of tho day’s
routine which prefers to live tho
life of ease with dignity comes from
a perfunctory enforcement of such
statutes as will convey to the worlu
at large the idea that “It is a law
abiding community”.
The real remedy is labor organiza
tion. The workers must unite or
the proposition. They have common
interests and the concern of ons la
the concern of all. If not they should
make it so. They have all the same
labor power to sell whatever variety
of that labor power It may be, and
in effecting that sale they are all
on the same field. Combination ot
all on that field is the csesntial thin*
and if that is realized there will be
little trouble enforcing literally and
in dead fact the eight hour day, law
or no law, officials or no officials,
contracts or no contracts.
It’s a dead wrong steer to have
the workers signing agreement with
an employer. They get It In the
neck every time. Their agreemeni
must be with their fellow workers
and if they organize to that end, the
control of the job is theirs.
NOTICE.
Non-Union men l>eing employed
on the construction of the new
Goggin building the Carpenters
Union lias declared the work unfair.
LOCAL 1780 CARPENTERS AND
JOINERS OF AMERICA.
Affiliated with A. F. of L.
• BY ORDER OF COMMITTEE.
Anything In the line of Job work
tffUOMlWI TO.
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 I
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, j
in the Council City Recording Di
strict, Territory of AlasKa, and de
signated as Mineral Survey No.
1172, which said placer mining qlaim
is described according to tlie 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-? j
meter, in earth mound, scribed 14
j Ab 1 1172 on N. face, whei ce U. S.
L. M. No. 1172 bears S 59 deg. j
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. 1370.6 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.ciit No. 1172 is
a schist stone 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. \V.
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 ana
southeast, claims unknown; all un
surveyed.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date cf first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
CARRIER'S LI EX.
NOTICE OF SAFE.
Notice is hereby given that the
i’acific (’oast Steamship Company, a
corporation, having a common car
rier's lien on tiie personal property
! hereinafter described, in the sum of
One Hundred Twelve and 40|100
($112.40) the amount of the just and1
reasonable charges for carriage1
thereof from Seattle, Washington,
to Nome, Alaska, will on the 29tn
day of May 1916, at the hour of
twelve o'clock noon, at tho Alaska
Lighterage & Commercial Company’s
Dock, Front Stroet, in the City of
Nome, District of Alaska, sell at
public auction to tho highest and
best bidder for cash in hand the fol
lowing described personal property,
to-wit:
1 36 X 6 ft. Air Receiver
54 c. f.
1 Crtd. Gas Engine 143 c. f.
1 C. L. Fly Wheel.
1 Galv. Iron A. Tank 6 c. f.
I Bx. Eng. Parts.
II Steel Post Caps 1255 lbs.
1 Bx. Iron Riffle Bars.
1 C. I. Friction 275 lbs.
1 Pc. Shafting 135 lb's.
1 Sk. Shaft Collars 1 c. f.
now located at Alaska Lighterage &
Commercial Company’s Dock, Front
Street, In said City of Nome, or
such part thereof as may be suffici
ent to pay such Hen, and costs of
keeping and selling said property.
The name of the consignee of
said property is Kougarok Dredging
Company: the name of the owner
or reputed owner is Kougarok
Dredging Company.
Dated, Nome, Alaska, May 3rd,
1916.
ALASKA LIGHTERAGE & COM
MERCIAL COMPANY.
By R. S. POLLISTER, Agent.
Agents for Pacific Coast Steamship
Company.
Date of first publ., May 4, 1916.
Date of last publ., May 26, 1916.
CARRIER’S LIEN.
NOTICE OF SALE.
Notice is hereby given that the
Alaska Steamship Company, a cor
poration, having a carrier’s lien on
the personal property hereinafter
described, in the sum of Fifty Six
and 05| 100 Dollars ($56.05) the
amount of the just and reasonable
charges for carriage thereof from
Seattle, Washington to Nome, Alas
ka, will on the 29th day of May,
1916, at the hour of 12 o’clock
noon, at tho Alaska Lighterage &
Commercial Company’s dock, From
Street, in the City of Nome, District
of Alaska, sell at public auction to
the highert and best bidder for cash
in hand, the following described
personal property, to-wit:
1 Crt. Engine, 77 c. f.
1 Fly Wheel, Eloct. Supplies 10 c.h
1 Fly Wheel, 10 c. f.
1 Bx. Elect. Supplies 10 c. f.
2 Bx. Inc. Lamps, 12 c. f.
1 Crt. Dynamo, 14 c. f.
1 Pump, 2045 lbs.
sow located at Alaska Lighterage £
Commercial Company's Dock, Front
Street, In said City of Nome, or each |
part thereof as may be sufficient to i
pay such lion, and costs of keeping j
and of selling said property.
The name of the consignee of said
property is the Kougarok Dredging
Company; the name of the owner or
reputed owner Is Kougarok Dredg;
ing Co.
Dated, Nome, Alaska, May 3rd,
1916.
ALASKA LIGHTERAGE & COM
MERCIAL COMPANY.
By R. S. POLLISTER, Agent.
Agents for Alaska Steamship Co.
Date of first publ.. May 4, 1916.
Date of last publ., May 26, j916.
WAREHOUSEMAN'S LIEN
NOTICE OF SALE.
Notice is hereby given that the
Alaska Lighterage & Commercial
Company, Agents for the Maine
Northwestern 'Development. Compa
ny, a corporation, having a ware
houseman’s lien on the personal pro
perty hereinafter des ribed, in the
sum of ten hundred seventy sevm
and 40-100 Dollars ($1,077.40) the
amount of the just and reasonable
charges for safely keeping and stor
ing the same at the request of the
owner or lawful possessor thereof,
will, on the 29th day of May, 1916,
at the hour of twelve thirty o clock
in the afternoon, at the railroad
yard of the Maine Northwestern De
velopment Co., north of First Street
and East of Steadman Avenue, in
the City of Nome, District of Al
aska, sell at public auction to the
highest and best bidder for cash In
hand, the following described per
sonal property, to-wit:
1.—Lot Lumber said to contain
65,000 feet, amount of feet un
known.
1.—Lot of iron, shafting, castings,
etc., articles and quantity un
known.
now located in the yard of the Maine
Northwestern Development Co.,
North of First Street and East of
Steadman Avenue, in the said City
of Nome, or such part thereof as
may be sufficient to pay such lien
and costs of keeping and of selling
said property.
The Name of the owner or re
puted owner is Kougaroic Dredging
Company.
Dated, Nome, Alaska, May 3rd,
1916.
ALASKA LlGHn H.RAGE & COM
MERCIAL COMPANY.
15y K. S.POLL1STER, Agent.
Agents for Maine Northwestern
Development Co.
Date of first publ., May 4, 1916.
Date of last publ., May 26, 1916.
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WAREHOUSEMAN'S LIEN.
NOTICE OF SALE.
Notice is hereby given tint the
Alaska Lighter tgo & Commercial
Company, a corporation, having a
warehouseman's lien on the personal
property hereinafter described, in
the sum of Eight Hundred Thirty
IOno and 121100 Dollars ($83i.l2)
; the amount of the just and reason
! able charges for safely keeping and
storing the same at the request of
I the owner or lawful possessor the-e
I of, will, on the 29th day of May,
1191G, at the hour of twelve o’clock
noon, at the Alaska Lighterage &
Commercial Company's Dock, From
Street, in the City of Nome, District
of Alaska, sell at public auction to
the highest and best bidder for
cash in hand, the following describ
ed personal property, to-wit:
Est. Est.
Wts. Meas.
1 Upright Gas Engine 450
1 Lot Washers & Paint 225
1 Lot Castings, Grease &
Washers 130 1
1 Vice and Anvil 280
1 K. D. Wheelbarrow 8
1 Lot Ore Sacks & Matting 11
1 Lot Paint & Oakum 51
2 Bdl. (.5) Plates 100
1 Coll Rope 4
3 Wheels & Sk. Washers 625
1 Bbll Pitch 6
20 Sx. B. S. Coal 2000
1 Bdl. (2> Brooms & 1
coil hose
1 Handle & 1 Torch
1 Ctr. press & 1 Cs. Bolts 200
1 Cs. Bolts
12 Pc. Gal. Sheet Iron 960
130 Pc. Bolts 14;>v
1 Bbl. Oil
2 Bdl. (6) Plates 50
2 Bdl. Washers 100
74 Pc. Shafting 7000
1 Pc. Shackel 50
14 Wheels 2800
1 Coupling 100
3 Clutch Levers 120
6 Pullys 240
1 Gas Eng. Wheel 400
1 Ro. Belting 2
(90 Bdls Lumber
18 Pc. Lumber
Approx. 3500 BM)
1 Pc. Shaftings 50
1 Bdl. (2) Tongs 2
5 Bx. Bolts, etc. 3000
17 Pc. Ir >n pipe, etc. 800
1 1-2 Keg Nalls 40
1 Air Receiver 64
1 Crtd. G. Eng. & 1 Fly
Wheel 575 143
1 Galv. Iron Air Tank 6
I Bx. Engine Parts 4
II Steel Castings 1255
1 Bx. Irons & 1 Friction 275 1
1 Pc. Shafting & 1 cack
collars 135 1
1 Crt. Eng.&Fly Wheel 87
3 Bx. Elct. Supplies 22
1 Crt. Dynamp & 1
Pump 2045 14
now located at Alaska Lighterage &
Commercial Company’s Dock, Front
Street, In said City of Nome, or such
part thereof as may be sufficient to
pay such lien, and corts of keeping
and of selling Baid property.
The namo of the consignee of
said property is n.ougarok Dredg
ing Co.; tho name of tho owner or
reputed owner is Kougarok Dredg
ing Co.
Dated, Nome, Alaska, May 3rd,
1916.
ALASKA LIGHTERAGE & COM
MERCIAL COMPANY.
By R. S. POLLISTER, Agent.
Date of first publ., May 4, 1916.
Date of last r>ubl., May 26, 1916.
WE WILL PURCHASE
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IN GOOD CONDITION |
8 Cents Each I
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Kent Transfer Oo.
General Transfer & Freighting
Qoai & OIL
Phone Main 139.
MURPHY HAS THE GOODS
Summit Shirts, Stetson Hats,
and Connelly Shoes
l)IiI-IiAK CLOTHING. A Suit of this will answer any miners
requirements, anil has proven the best goods of the kind on the
market to date.
PHIL IWUBPHY
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WATER
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Prompt delivery— Blizzard or
Shine at usual Rates 10
Backets tl.OO. 50c. a Barrel.
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