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Nome Mine Workers’ Union. No. 240. Western Federation of Miners.
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•early as possible. Is a worthy object of aDy tood government. —
anranam Lincoln
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Entered as second class matter March 1. 1911, at the post office at
Nome, ■ Alassa, under the Act of March 8, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, March Hi), 1010.
It is about time the workers ol
Alaska were giving some attention
to the facts of tho wage working
world outside. The most important
fact is that in all the metalliferous
districts, mine working has received
anywhere from 25 per cent up in
crease in wages. This docs not re
present much of an improvement
over conditions which prevailed four
or five years ago, as the cost of liv
ing has also increased, but it cer
tainly represents an increase just
the same.
In southern California camps,
wne working Is now for a day of
eight hours paid at the rate of $4.00
as r.dverticemont8 in the papers can
be seen.
Mine working in many stations
of Nevada has increased fifty and i i
some places one dollar a day. Butte
miners roceive an increase of 2 3
cents in the dollar, Michigan cop
per mienrs 30 cents in the dollar.
Utah copper miners 22 1-2 cents.
Missouri miners forty cents, an<
Idaho miners arc !n demand at from
up.
Contrast this with conditions in
Alaska, where not even at attempt
lira been made to secure better con
ditions over those which prevailed
ten years ago, v/hor. prices v/crc in
many cases 50 cents less for licceS
sacies than they are today.
While efforts are being made to
rejuvenate business conditions in
this country, it is about time orga
nized and unorganized workers
sought to improve labor conditions
The organization that sits on its
oars drifts down stream a.nd that.’
exactly what the workers in Alaska
have been doing in all lines for the
pa >t several years. Wages have not
gone up. Wages have remained
stationary and prices for all that a
worker needs have soared beyond
recall.
War time conditions prevail out
ride. Everything is gone up in
price. Necessities no lc:.-: than any
thing else. This summer prices
will be stil higher. Food, clothing,
materials of all kinds will lie iu
(• ‘tided. Why not wages? Or fat!
mi actual increase in wage' wliv
not a shorter wot
It is certainly n ■ t ■ ■ ■ w ers
. themselves. There must be a rally
ing of union and unorganized to ef
fect any increase. All classes of
workers must come together and
talk over the wage proposition. Its
the most important question that is
faced in this camp. It is the ques
tion that affects every man who has
to sell his labor power, it is the
question that has to be answered
and which is not receiving any at
tention. It is a question* that all
along some one is side tracking for
political or other purposes. While
dallying with this and with that
question which is really no concern
of the workers, unless as this or
that may bear on tho labor and
wages question, it is noticeable that
this wages question is neglected.
A kindred question to the ques
tion of better wages is the supreme
question of organization. No few
men can settle the labor question.
It's what the majority want to work
for, the general sentiment, that
must decide It. Therefore is organi
zation of all workers the essonttal
of tho hour.
This organization getting all clas
ses of workers together to discuss
the wages question will also be iu a
position to decide it.
Now more than ever before the
demand for a strong organization of
workers is a necessity. The wages
question and the labor question
which is with us three hundred and
sixty five days an average year, and
three hundred and sixty-six this year
of grace, is the all important, filia
tion: It cannot be settled, solved oi
decided upon without organization.
One man, the individual, can do
nothing; class efficiency, mass ao
tion, in a word solidarity, is the
main requirement. Therefore now is
organization needed.
The summer is coming when most
of those who have been idle all
winter will have a chance to get
work. The pay roll will be ro-opeu
ed. By organization the workers
whose names will be on the pay toll
can say what tholr rate of remune
ration will be.
Outside, the improved conditions
in the mining industry are quite re
markable enough ^o warrant a jour
nal declaring that the wages are the
highest ever paid. The writer over
looked Alaska. But there is nothing
to record about Alaska. Failure of
all so many to organize is the rea
son why Alaska wages have not. in
creased. and have in fact decreased
in many instances.
The situation depends upon orga
nization.
The delay reporting the investiga
tion of Justice Brandeis by the
Senate Committee is especially signi
ficant. The apparent unwillingness
to admit the public to their decision
shows the importance attached to
this nomination.
The plutocracy of the United
States is under no illusions as to
where the real government lies,
and they feel that even one so mild
ly radical as Brandeis is unfit for
the Supreme Bench.
All of which would appear to indi
cate to the common man that if the
United States is to be a real demo
cracy, the appointment and approval
of judges, let alone their decisions,
should be in the hands of the people
from the highest to the lowest.
Nothing has been too small to
allege against Brandeis to avert
tails, the most insignificant state
such a disaster to the interests as
his confirmation. The pettiest de
ments and the smallest incidents are
magnified in the hope that his con
firmation may not become an ac
complished fact.
However, this much is certain,
Hie plutocracy and their servant
senators could have picked out no
morn efficient methods of attracting
the people’s attention to the power
of the Supreme Court than this
fight over Brandeis, and whether he
is confirmed or not, the Supreme
Court has not heard the last of it
self.
The Mexican trouble, the Euro
pean war, and other matters of high
moment for the present are success
ful in diverting attention elsewhere,
but it is quite apparent that the
people are going through that quite
unusual process of doing some tall
thinking.
Canada bids fair to be soon a dry
Dominion. What with Nova Scotia,
Alberta. Sascatchewan, Manitoba
all on the dry list and British > o
lumbia, Ontario and other provinces
on the way, the liquor men will be
hard put to it to find one lonely spot
wherein they can purvey their
wares.
It cannot be doubted that the war
has had a whole lot to do with it.
On both sides the wet and the dry
movement is actuated by very mate
rial motives with both sides raisins
side issues which* are not rea’ly in
volved.
Thus the wets object to an inter
ference with personal liberty and
decry the right of any person to dic
tate to another what he shall ana
what he shall not drink. On the
other hand the drys declare that
closing the saloons will improve the
health and morality, especially the
morality, of the people.
But back of both these arguments
there is the one of dollars and cents.
Saloonmen, Brewers, wholesalers,
distillers, fight the dry movement
simply because it threatens. their
moans of making 'a ■ living and their
incomes. The personal freedom ar
gument is more or less only a frill.
On the other side the drys are sup
ported financially and argumenta
tively by employing interests because
pf the fact that the workers who are
sober are more efficient than those
who are dopey from the effiects of
booze indulgence.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Co
lets this be known without any kina
of a doubt. In the company's Bul
letin putting the kibosh on booze, it
says; “The man who spends his
money on booze is not on the road
to success whether he is a coal dig
ger, a steel plant worker, or as
officer of the company. The men
who break records for getting out
coal and those who draw the highest
wages are not those who spend most
of their time in the saloons.
Exercising your arm lifting glasses
does not give you the kind of
strength that puts a punch into your
work with the pick”.
That’s what a good many of the
employers who advocate the dry
state are after, the punch in the
pick of wage slave. They dont care
two cents about the welfare and up
lifting and improved morality of the
workers, any more than the brewer
or the saloonists care three haws
about the personal fredom of the in
dividual worker.
It’s good to understand this sec
tion of the movement.
One of the most important sec
tions of Secretary Redfield’s annual
report is that a board of naval ex
perts be appointed to pass upon the
hulls of vessels. Although not say
ing so in clear and dofinlte langu
age, this is practically r.n admission
that an inspector of hulls cannot
himself do the work.
. Without doubt Red field has the
Eastland disaster in his mind when
making that suggestion, but he can
not attribute that disaster to the In
ability of the hull inspector to rea
lize the steamer’s unfitness for
traffic.
Every sailor on the great lakes
knew the crankiness of the Eastland
and the steamer had been as good
as condemned by them long before
the disaster. It probably is true
that the Inspector of Hulls did not
feel strong minded enough to con
demn the steamer. The interests
are so powerful and exert so much
power that the man who opposes
them in official life can. not expect
promotion and often cannot hope to
retain his job if he acts as his con
science directs him and as his duty
declares he must act. He become?
a good fellow; is known as “ail
right”, and basks in the smiles ol
influential men with a sense oi
duty undone benumbed by a club
welcome and a slap on the back.
This condition is wonderfully
general. The interests serve tc
teach the people to abhor the duty
struck man as an officious nosing ,
rascal interfering with trade and j
business. The fate of Dr. Wiley is I
before them and they take warning. {
Now everyone knows that there j
are ships carrying passengers which j
should be relegated to the junk pile, i
Hundreds arrived in Nome oi j
asthmatic packets which had no j
business to be passed. With cement i
bottoms where should be solid steel, |
they were not worth their insurance j
money.
Obviously this is due to the per- I
functory discharge of their work by j
the inspectors. It is not that there j
is an insufficient number of these j
but that there is a deficiency in the i
mental quality of the men. They {
lack the official courage to efficiently j
do their work and like many a rotten i
ship they passed as all right and j
seaworhy, they should bo officially j
relegated to scrap pile themselves. !
A board of naval experts could _
much more effectively discharge
their duties. In union there is
strength and two men are better
and stronger mentally and morally
as well as physically than one.
WHEN IS TOWN
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From now until the 20th of March
we offer first class tailor made Suits
at outside prices, your choice from
118.50 up in all wool material. Fit
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Between Segerstrom & Hagen ano
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PHYSICIAN. & SURGEON.
Office & Residence:
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Office Hours: 3—5 and 7—8 p. m.
Phone, Main 20.
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QUAIL BRAND PEACHES, Gal. Cans, 45c. per can.
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SEA PORT PEACHES .$4.00 per case.
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