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Hatty Nome Snhuatrial Marker.
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Wi Nome Mine Workers’ Union, No. *40. Western Federation of Miners.
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■early as possible, la a worthy object of any good government.”—
Abraham Lincoln
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Entered as second class matteF March 1, 1311, at the post office at
Home, • Alaska, under the Act of March I, 1371.
Nome, Alaska, July 27, I!)!(>.
AN INTERESTING REPORT.
A committee was appointed by
the British Minister of Munitions
with a v;svv of increasing the effici
ency of the workers in munition
plants f.inl their reports have been
of very gnat interest.
Put nothing is more interesting
that the personel of that commit
tee. There were no lawyers or en
gineers or efficiency experts ap
pointed; there was not a single
man who could by any stretch of
imagination be considered a politi
cian and no scientific management
expert at all.
They were almost all physicians,
aided by factory inspectors and
others familiar with working con
ditions. Here are the names Sir
Geo. Newman, M. D., Sir Thomas
Parlow, M. D., G. Belhouse, Fac
tory Department, Home Office, Pro
fessoi Boycott, M. D., J. R. Clynes.
M. D,. E. L. Collis , M. B. Factory
Department, Home Office, W. M.
Fletcher, M. D., Leonard E. Hill,
M. B. F. R. S„ Miss R. E. Squire
factory department, Mrs. H. J. Ten
nant, E. H. Pelham. The first
named was Chairman, the last Sec
retary.
The first thing that struck the at
tention of the committee was the
greatly increased number of women
employed, the law against women
Being employed nights being sus
pended during the war. They found
however that the twelve hour shift
was useless because the last few
hours yielded but little output.
They urged a shorter work day
because they found that the hours
that conduced most to a satisfactory
home life and to health, conduced
also most to output. The three shift
of eight hours each produced thev
said the best results. They also
urged that a portion of Saturday
and all of Sunday should be devoted
to rest. They made an especial note
of the probability of the develop
ment of physical disabilities from
overwork and urged that precau
tions again such must be taken.
They oppose night work in general
principles and offer the following
objections:
1. It is uneconomical. Thougn
the wages paid are higher, the
rate of output especially during the
last few hours is lower.
2. Supervision is always unsatis
factory.
3. Workers experience great
difficulty in sleeping during the day
and their efficiency is impaired.
4. The unfamiliar meal hour
makes it difficult for the workers lo
consume substantial food, and the
digestion is likely to become de
ranged.
The most succesful factory was
that wherein the men employed
were compelled to take a fifteen mi
nutes rest during each hour of la
bor. The employees were engaged
upon piece work and objected and
the management had actually to
■employ a vest foreman who enforced
the vest compulsorily. The result
Thawed a greatly increased output
The committee investigated the
evidences of fatigue and treated the
mutter as an industrial disease, go
ing to the length of making a spe
cial report thereupon. They went
further and insisted that it should
be the duty of the management to
detect signs of latent fatigue in em
ployees and to see that they were
rested properly if neces-ary with
compensation. They lamented that
had the management foreseen the
necessity exists for a proper weekly
rest, diminished capacity due to this
fatigue would have been reduced to
a minimum.
The Investigators went further. A
special report was also devoted to
occupational diseases of the most
searching nature and their recom
mendations are exhaustive.
On the whole the report is quite
an extraordinary one In that It do (
votes itself almost exclusively to ,
■ the human factor. With scientific
I management as is understood in
this country they have little or no
! thing to do. For inefficient labor
they have one cause: fatigue, and
they say that it is for scientific
management to discover the point
where the workers time is uneco
nomically spent by reason of that
and that a period of rest being ar
ranged that will eliminate it.
In America the method is differ
ent. That it is better is another
question. The expert first of all
forgets all about fatigue or the
worker as a human being. He re
gards the worker as a machine.
May be a machine with limited en
durance, but none the less a me
chanism. He observes the move
ments of that human mechanism
whether it is loading iron or laying
bricks. If necessary, and he is truly
modern, he takes a motion picture
of the man in action. He reduces
all unnecessary motions. If a mm
takes a step forward and a step
I backward and raises his hand to the
I right ai d then to the left, four mo
j tions in all, and the expert finds
I that it can be done in two, the em
ployee is compelled to eliminate the
I superfluous two. He is then tested
.and speeded up with his two mo
tions until eh accomplishes them in
about half the time he could other
I wise accomplish the work in. The |
'stop watch is used until the highest
possible efficiency of action is
achieved. This gait is demanded by
I the employers of their employees
and when they cannot any longer
make it, they are scrapped. The
I mechanism is industrial junk like
[ an out of date or worn out
| engine.
After that, the worker drifts to
l jobs less Highly remunerated. Ills
| earning capacity goes. He is the
: first to feel the effect of an indus
trial depression and broken down
I he passes away to be interred in the
Potter’s field. The majority of the
J workers have this experience, and
there is no greater tragedy in the
j United States than a working man’s
j gray hairs. It is a tragedy and it
is a disgrace, and it is due to the
fact that the industrial Bystem has
resulted in men being literally wast
ed for the sake of profit.
The same thing has been done in
Eug’anU. Before this war Or»at
Britain held human life in sma'l
esteem. Its slums and its poverty
were appalling. But this war has
shown that it is not upon factories
alone that a nation’s greatness or a
nation’s security depends. It de
pends upon the welfare of its popu
lation. It depends upon the health
and the vigor and happiness of the
people. The happier the munition
workers were, says this committee,
the greater was the output in all
the government factories, and any
thing that conduced to a healthy
and happy home life conduced also
to a better and more efficient out
put.
Again and again the committee
deplores the lack of foresight and
conservation of human life that re
duced *he productive capacity of
the population and created so many j
weaklings. The Royal Commission j
to stimulate recruiting has done
exactly the same thing. The num
ber of defectives at first appeared ,
alarming until the discovery was
made that proper food, healthy and
regular exercise made new men out
of many who were regarded by the
army examiners as physically unfit.
It has taken a great war witn
andless misery, suffering, destltu
:ion, destruction, maiming, strain
and nervous stress to force this
apon the people of England. They
now discover in the day of wrath
;hat after all profits are as nothing,
wealth is as nothing, but human
ife everything if they are to main
;aln their national integrity.
They are compelled, not from any
iwakened social conscience, but
rom motives of selfish materialism,
o consider the worker as a human
)eing and to consider him as a hu
nan being who can produce neces- '
lary munitions to carry on the war.
rheir ideals are not a bit higher
han those which animate American
employers, except that they have
iiscovered a new and hitherto un
iusj>ected value in human life. They
•ealize that the workers produce all
wealth and munitions are the chiet
wealth demanded just now by the
nation.
In America the employer, thanks
Lo an unlimited immigration could
regard as unimportant the human
factor. The men employed in the
steel rnilis were subjected to thr.
efficiency and speeding up system
which have here been briefly out
lined. They were scrapped as old
junk or wasted with occupational
disease or again slaughtered for
profits in the fearful industrial ac
cidents that increase as productivity
ncreases.
And it is most important to ob
serve that the lesson that England
s learning in this war is absolutely
gnored by the American manufac
urers. England now realizes that
here would have been no prepared
less for this struggle upon wihch
she Is engaged like the preparation
night have been attained by a little
ittention to human life, a conserva
;ion of its energy, the husbanding
>f its health and the protection of
ts body. Now the United States
shanks to the most insidious and
he most fallacious propaganda ever
'ooled a people, is preparedness
nad. But it is still taking no
stock of the human factor. It is
ncreasing its women in the indus
;ries. It is erecting slums that
will shortly make the slums of Eu
rope take a back seat. It is ai
owing occupational diseases sweep
:he scythe of death through the
•anks of thousands. It is unawed
the PUh of the sweat shop rnd
:he tenement that decimates its
children with infantile paralysis. It
'aces tuberculosis with foolish
palliatives and the last thing It
ffiinks of building its preparedness
upon is a contented, a healthy, a
vigorous, a comfortable, well housed
uid well clad working people.
Let os estimate on your Job Work
OVERSTOCKED
ro the Public: —
We have just finished stock tak
ng, and find that we are heavily
>verstocked so are making enorm
)us reductions in Hardware—as
nuch as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
side, especially in Hardware ana
Vletal Goods, we are still selling on
.lie basis of goods purchased the
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until
sve bring our stock down to the re
tirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; we can save you
money. We have proved it oo
others, we can prove it to you.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
HOLT’S NEW & 2ND HAND STORE
WATCH US GROW.
2nd hand Quicksilver pr. lb $1.25
Silver Plate per foot.11.00
Sewing Machines . . .. $5. to 10.00
Phonographs . . .. $2.50 to $20.00
Stoves, Ranges & Heaters $2.50 to
$35.00.
Mason Jars, per doz.76c.
Mining Screen 15 and 20c. per foot.
Electric Washing Machine and
motor .. ,. .. .. .. .. $30.00
3 h. p. Boiler, complete... $35.00
16x20 Tents.$15.00
Furniture, Trunks, Guns, Rubber
Goods.
SAVE 50 % at
HOLT’S CASH STORE.
Tel. Main 06. 411 Front St.
The House that Saves You Money.
RELIABLE TAILOR SHOP.
Front St. 3 doors west of Alaska
Bank.
We do the best
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We Deliver The Geode.
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For Seattle Direct
SAILING FROM
NOME
AUG. 3RD
AUG. 29TH.
SEPT. 25TH.
OCT. 25TH.
SAILING FROM
SEATTLE.
JULY 20TH.
AUG. 15TH.
SEPT. 11TH.
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ALASKA L. £ C. OO.
AGENTS
At Dock.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. VICTORIA
LEAVE SEATTLE:
JULY 25.
AUG. 23.
SEPT. 18.
OCT. 15.
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AUG. 7.
SEPT. 5.
OCT. 1.
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VICTORIA LEAVING NOME JULY 11 AND AUG. 7 will
call at Seward, Valdez, Cordova; Steamer will also visit Colons,
bia Glacier. At Cordova steamer will remain long enough to al
low excursionists time to make special trip out over the raHnal
to Miles Glacier, from Cordova the Steamer will return direct
by the outside route to Seattle.
R. A. Carroll, Agent, Nome
We have reseived on the
Umatilla a nice line of
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For Hose, Tents,
and Canvas, See
PHIL MURPHY
MURPHY NAS THE SOOSS
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ad oat four laundry.
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