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Abraham Lincoln
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Koine, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879
Nome. Alaska. April 2H, 1910.
THI-i IMMIGRATION HILL.
The immigration bill is very
frankly supported by the loaders ol
organized labor. They have been
backing the measure since its first
introduction, and they have mot op
position in its passage into the
statute books of the land by several
interests.
First of all are the powerful cor
porate interests. The groat factories
mines and mills of the country have
needed a constant renewal of labor
available and only through an un
hampered Influx of immigrants could
that, they think, be secured.
The Catholic hierachy also has
opposed the bill for the reason that
the vast majority of the illiterates
are co-religiouists and the more co
religionists come to America the bet
tor and stronger will the church
bo.
Last of all, and in a small minor
ity are interests which object to the
measure on bioad general grounds j
in that it subjects one class of peo
ple to an unjust discrimination,
obliterates the right of asylum to
political refugees and places the loi
ter at the mercy of those powers of
tyranny which they fought against
in the older countries, and which
they would be purnished by had
they no chance to make in escape.
The opposition of the capitalist In
interests to the measure needs hard
ly an explanation. It is from their
standpoint reasonable enough. They
kill maim and victimize so many
from occupational diseases and ac
cidents that life must be cheap for
them for an unhampered continu
ance. of the system. Safety first
only becomes a slogan when labor
power lias to be conserved, and
when the failure to provide safety
appliances reacts upon tlioir success
ful enterprise. Unrestricted immi
gration lias helped that very great
ly. It has given them an unlimited
field to draw upon and they certainly
make the most of th^ir opportunity.
In fact so goneral has this immi
gration been made U3e of that it Is
unite correctly stated that the labor
of American industry is beeming a
foreign south European labor while
the Americans or North Europeans
who approach most cio.'iy American
standards of living are driven by
the incoming south Europeans far
afield.
Because the capitalist interests
support this unrestricted immigra
tion is the very reason why the lea
ker Leaders oppose it. They have
felt the effect of this unwieldy mass
of immigration upon their standard
of living and can see no way out of
tho difficulty than by putting up
harriers which are distinctly of :i
doubtful nature.
The support of the immigration
bill is a practical confession of or
ganization opnkruptcy upon the part
of those labor loaders and those or
ganizations which support it. They
have found that they cannot other
wise handle the proposlticn and this
immigration restriction Is a last re
sort
Now practically speaking the more
men in the labor market, the lower
will he wages. They are in direct
competition and as a commodity
called labor. This is instinctively re
cognized by everyone. And it is be
cause the problem of controlling the
disposal of that commodity is even
now a difficult one to labor leaders
they do support tho immigration
bill
Yet even a restriction of immi
gration will not make more easy
their problems. In tho first place
they will limit the productive capa
city of tho nation an a wholo an.l
in doing so they practically remove
the American industrial world from
competition in the markets of the.
world. That would not bo a very
regrettable thing in itsolf, docs it
not show also that it oventunll/
means that the home market will
thereupon soon become unable to
absorb all the local labor available
and the workers will be intrinsiclly
little better off than before. It
merely means a maintenance of the
status quo with labor re-producing
itself at a faster ratio than before,
and capital filling the ranks of labor
by the centralization of wealth and
the elimination of many today who
are just outside its ranks.
Even if the American workers be
came so efficient that with a restrict
ed number available for production,
American industry could then still
engage in a world market contest,
American labor would be pitted into
direct competition with the foreign
labor denied admission to America
The labor that is denied admission
here returns to its homo. Is there
exploited and sends the product of
that exploitation to markets where
it comes into direct conflict and di
rect contact with the product of Am
erican workers.
This struggle of the classes has to
be played in the open, without any j
assistance asked for by purely artifi
cial barriers that merely hamper the
issue. The issue is clearly exploita
tion, not the degree of exploitation
but exploitation itself. It i3 because
this fact is ignored or denied or for
gotten by labor leaders they concern
themselves wholly and solely with
some temporary expedient will alle
viate the degree of exploitation and
which in the long run only inten
sifies the struggle.
It is because those labor leaders
have not organized the immigrants
they would keep out; have met
them with open opposition and de
nied them all association in many
cases, they are obliged to fall back
upon artificial barriers to prevent
the influx of struggling laborers
they have refused too long to meet
upon terms of an equal and frater
nal footing in a damned foolish su
perior sort of way: the snobbery and
pride of the man who ha3 got no
thing and is dependent and who re
fuses to realize his condition.
Because they have failod or un
able to organize they would now re
strict labor from entering. But that
3iirely is only an indictment of the
methods which obtain in the labor
movement and call for their reversal
or removal.
IX THE RANKS OF THE I’NrROS.
I'EHOl’S.
The announcements of wage in
creases by the .United States Steel
corporation and other great compa
nies are likely to create the impres
sion that the American laborer is
enjoying a period of fat prosperity
He is not.
The steel corporation’s 10 per
cent wage increase, which wont into
effect on February 1, was stated in
press dispatches to add a maximum
of $15,000,000 to the annual pay
roll. It affectB 250,000 men. This
indicates and avorago annual wage
of about $660 per man. The same
result is obtained by multiplying tho
rate per hour—22 cents for un
skilled labor—first by 10, as the
average number of hours worked
in a day, and then by 300, which
Is probably abovo the maximum
number of days worked in a year
It has been a foresighted policy
among steel manufacturers, blessed j
as they have been with an unlimited '
supply of unskilled labor from j
abroad, to attach to their service a
number of men considerably in ex
cess of those that they could employ
at any one time, or at least for any
appreciable time. Consequently it
is extremely probable that very few
laborers in this Industry actually
earn—or rather, actually receive—
$660 for a year's work for this cor
poration.
Besides this, it has to be remem
bered that the $660 rate is an aver
age, and that there must be wages
which fall below $660. Seven hund
red dollars a year, according to the
careful computations of numerous
investigators, Is the minimum
amount on which the average
workingman can bring up a family
in bare decency. “Bare decency '
excludes nearly everything tha.: we
call luxuries. It signifies a condi
tion under which a workingman is
practically, in brutal terms, no bet
ter off than a breeding animal. If
merely makes it possible for the
race of workingmen to continue.
Where a man's income falls below
>5700 it has to be made up by actual
deprivation (which means hunger,
ccld and sickness), by child labor,
bv ihe labor of women, by over
crowding, or, in the individual case, ]
o> the simple expedient of remain
ing unmarried.
At Youngstown, Ohio, where the
recent riots occurred, it was esti
mated that “the average head of a
family among foreign born steel
workers, who constitute more then
TO per cent of the entire force,
earns less than $500 a year.” The
Youngstown Steel and Tube com
pany is not a member of the steel
trust, but its working* conditions
are similar to those under the steel
trust. On such a basis the compa
ny has paid 8 per cent in dividends
for the past eight years. Since 191'!
it has paid 8 per cent on a stock
dividend and 50 per cent, making
12 per cent on the original capital
ization. The steel trust, for the past
few years, has been splitting its
gross income almost half and half
between wages and salaries on the
one hand and interest and profits,
under various names, on the other.
The stool industry might, the ob
server infers, pay living wages and
still be able to survive.
The steel manufacturers are not
solitary offenders. By some com
parisons they are quite munificent
Of more than 2,000,000 adult wags
schedules examined by the census
office 10 years ago 4 7 per cent fell
under $500 a year; on railroads in
1911 the average wage for unskilled
work was $2.08 a day; and so on
indefinitely. Late statistics rre hard
to get, but it seems, on the whole,
that wage advances have all, or
moro than all, been absorbed by a
higher cost of living.
After considering these facts it is
difficult to take very seriously the
boasts that this nation is immensely
wealthy or the charge that it is over
fat. A few of us are wealthy, but
not many. Prosperity means, for
millions of us, .lust the chance to
work steadily at very hard laoi.r
for wages which will just keep our
families in existence. I'ndoubtcdly
most foreign workingmen are far
worse off. The criticism of the Am
erican systems is that its wages axe
not in proportion to the national
wealth. America has sucked the
human marrow from Europe, brok
en open the treasure-houses of its
own fields and mountains and
taken out wealth which it did not
not create and can not replace. The
process has seemed to work so well
that we have grown proud of it.
How bad all this is for sound
business it is easy to imagine. Our
home markets are barely tapped for
the sufficient reason that millions of
possible consumers have no money
with which to make purchases.
These home markets are certainly
more important to us than foreign
ones, but it is the foreign ones that
that our great business men and
statesmen worry about and our navy
is held ready to defend. A wiser na
tion would satisfy home needs first
It is no argument to add that no na
tion—least of all England, the very
home of surplus wealth—has ever
done this.—San Francisco Bulletin
t.’ET THE wBWS UK.HX. KEAU
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MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 0283
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
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,
in the Council City Recording Di
strict, Territory of Alaska, and de
signated as Mineral Survey No.
1172, which said placer mining claim
is described according to the 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
meter, in earth mound, scribed 14
Ab 1 1172 on N. face, whei ce U., S.
L. M. No. 1172 bears S 59 deg.
34 min. \V. 380.3 ft. Thonce N. 35
deg. 35 min. \V. 544.4 ft. to Cor.
I No. 2; thence N. 56 deg. 27 min.
E. 1376.6 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. \V. 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 oC
Council City. Council City Re
cording Precinct, Alaska. Lo
cation monur.cni 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 oi
Melsing Creek, on the south side
thereof, in latitude 64 deg. 55 min.
N., longitude 163 deg. 39 min. W.
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 Creok; claimants
unknown; on the northwest ana
southeast, claims unknown; all un
surveyed.
G. A. ADAMS.
i i Register. " . '
Date of first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ:, Jufie 21, 1916.
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