Ilatty Nornr Snimstrial Morkpr.
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Norne, Alaska, \ugu>t 2K, 11* I T.
MAYOR HOI.PH'S HK.BIKK.
The rebuke administered by
Mayor Kolpli tao Big Business in San
Francisco no doubt was well de
served.
Big Business is incurably ignor
ant and stupid in dealing with the
workers Big Business stili thinks
that tli*- only way to do things with
strikers is not to meet the demands,
not to consider their right to orga
nize but to bulldoze through their
operations by sheer expression of
force in the form of gunmen or po
lice ami to hell with the living con
ditions of employ>•• s.
They insist upon their own right
to organize, to cui .-olidatc aid de
mand full frt • .torn lor tiic.r finan
cial operate and toast the demo
cracy wlr. a sanctions flint coiull
t ion.
But they ci v. as helots without
r'glit to have any say in the wages
paid those who are employed by
them.
Mayor Roiph, a very rich man
and a man who is not any way stu
pid. wdio sees as far as any man.
who understands industrial condi
tions as few men in business, is
well aware that labor is neither so
docile nor subordinate to the In
dustrial overlordship ns in years
j»()i f. by. He is not blind to the
growing solidarity that is mani
fested in spite of archaic forms of
unionism, and he realizes the fUil
tdgnificance of all tiiese facts.
Peg Business is controlled by men
who have the ideas of the Quarter
dcC.; of a buncko ship or an old
time man o' war where the eat o |
nine tails was a speedy remedy for.
insubordination and walking the
plank was the cure for mutiny.
Serve God and honor the em
ployer is the text of some, but when
God's service and the employer s>
conflicts, naturally every rigid
minded employee will serve the
employers.
Gig Business still thinks in terms,
of violence. it believes that its
position is maintained by a crush-,
ing display of force. It depends
greatly upon armored autos and
upon machine g anl y^rs
armed with billy and with gun.
Hence when a strike occurs, it is
playing right into their hands when j
a little trouble breaks out. It is i
the excuse for guns and bayonets,
and for a general beating up.
It is able through it3 officials
whom it lias helped to elect often
times to take the law- into its own
hands and railroad or deport those
who stand In the way.
There is n,o such thing so vile
as to be infamous when crushing a
strike and the peace it insists upon
is the peace of its own industrial
absolutism.
It is extraordinary how little is
known of actual conditions in the
industrial life of the nation. Some
times when editors let themselves
go in lofty patriotic articles, we
wonder if they ever stop to realize
actual conditions in industry. When
the writers take a whirl exalting
democracy abroad and for the world
we wonder sometimes if they ever
think how severely democracy has
been pressed at home
And they grow justly Indignant
about it if they are rebuked, for
they are both thoughtless and ignor
ant and stupid as the bosses whom
Mayor Rolph stigmatized as such.
No man, for example, could rise
from a perusal of the report of the
Industrial Relations Commission,
without keenly feeling that there
are some places nearer home than
Kurope that need to be made safe
for democracy. Yet how many read
lhat report? How many have read
it? How many have given their
time to analyzing the tremendous
forces which have been working lor
a score and more vears to bring
about in industry a condition of in
dmiri.il absolutism?
Because men live through the
very conditions of change that is
taking place about them they ignore
it: they cannot see it; they do not
knew anything about it. The
change itself is so imperceptible
from day to day that only when a
sudden cataclysm takes place they
rub their eyes and wonder in God
how it all happened.
There is something infinitely
pathetic i'11 that story of the whin
ing littl.c runt of a Tzar, the Lord’s
annointed and the Lord's vicar, sud
denly p • i cing that the tyrannies
of which I was the center sudden-,
ly reft him and all the Romanoffs
of their c rown and their pow. t\
They were so completely Ignorant
of the trend of things they had
never for oic- second conceived sin li
a thit a as possible. When the
people complained their answer
was a Bloody Sunday, or Siberia
or the saber of the Cossack, just
as our own industrial autocracy
have answered with the gunman
and the machine gun. They have
replied with Ludlows and Holly
Groves. with Bis bee deportations
and Little assassinations.
When the workers demanded a
sufficieiu thy were answered with
a denial and when tlie workers
struck they answered with their
gunmen. They were indeed incor
rigiblv stupid and ignorant.
We say that tHe failure to under
' stand industrial conditions and to
I realize that t lie workers today are
i in no mood to lie willing to take
1 things as handed out to them by
' the employers is merely one of the
sign.- of the times—nut it is an
ominous and significant sign and
it would be well to take warning
in time, if there is not something
much more serious than mere in
dustrial unrest, and mere agitation
and talk testing to disturb them.
They have denied the workers the
right to organize and they are
organizing. They have refused the
demands for wage increase and they
are striking and these conditions
are taking place when the price ot
bread never was so high and the
profits in industry never were so
gigantic.
As we see it, there is nothing
more evident than that this state
of things will not continue long
wi-hout cracking. Industry is car
rying too big a load. Something
lias got to happen and it's going to
happen when no one expects it and
no one is prepared for it. This to
tal lack of irresponsibility in regard
to living conditions on the part ot
"■ir Meyers. this absolute concentra
tion on business as usual and profits
raised to the nth magnitude is the
certain precursor of a social storm
that no one can foresee the end
ing.
It is absurd and it is ridiculous
and it is O. so childish and futile
to blame unions, to blame agitators
and to blame the I. W. W. and to
demand repressive legislation and
what not to stifle these, when it is
the conditions forced upon the
workers by profit-making employ
ers arrogant in the wealth of divid
ends that create just the very
tilings that are complained of.
This hap-hazard policy has no
thing in it but ted ruin and black
! terror. It has nothing before it
but the Abyss. And it is the wise
man that realizes it in the country
and warns accordingly.
Verily for the employers was
the warning of Mayor Rolph such
a wise precaution. Is there to be
no such thing as the application
of the doctrine of Safety First to
the social organism as well as to
the mechanical sections of indus
try? As we ?«e it, the cardinal
point of safety is that which takes
stock upon tlie consequences of
human actions upon human society.
Again and again and again we
have said that history teams with
instances where the failure to take
cognizance of the consequences of
certain acts and policies led to re
volution and the industrial chiefs
who aim to have society nothing
but a vast money-making machine
with a total disregard of anything
but how the units therein advance
their material wealth, which ignores
the craving for happiness, for the
satisfaction ct the human desires,
the e::i ;?a‘: j: of human ( motions
ami plods on its own evil way cl
protitc Ting as the be-all and end-all
of human existence leads to
one place only, utter social ruin'
and complete social chaos.
No person but will clearly under
stand that when men organize and
demand pay adequate to support life,
and the company refuses absolutely
to recognize that organization and
insists upon paying same scale
still relying upon Us ability to
starve them into submission and
when they have by such a process
rendered the strikers desperate to
club and gun and jail them into
absolute subjection, the limit is
reached in time when men will no
longer submit to such a program.
Yet it is the program that its
I hallowed by precedent among all
j the great employers. It has al
) ready started an almost civil war
i in West Virginia and in Colorado.
The strikers themselves fought
] savagely back in the latter state
1 and all organized labor issued a
! call to arms to defend the workers
against the encroachments of the
great employers. They meant it,
too. Volunteers were called for to
fight—to return violence for viol
enee and there was no way out ex
cept through anarchy. It was then
that the federal government took a
! hand and sent in 1'nited States
i-avalry that would be regarded not
:.s the men at arms of tlie Colorado
Fuel and Iron Co. as the state mi
litia was in truth and fact.
Quite clearly that was only a lo
cal instance. But there is always
the grim possibility drawing nearer
and nearer and closer and closer
that it will he no sticlt thing as a
local instance. The industrial un
' rest today was never so nationwide.
Strikes ere stirring up till the states
i;i the Union. Although there is
| a propaganda carried on incessantly
] to draw all Americans together, the
blindness and tlie stupidity of the
employers insists upon driving the
wedge deeper and deeper in the
split between them.
Is that anything else but the
supremacy of folly? Or is it tin
pan of deliberate malice—only a
disguised folly - which would force
tlie issue and settle it for ail time
■ j in the peace that comes from a
cowed, crushed, beaten and badly
punished working class?
That might he well enough, if it
could be for all time. But un
fortunately it cannot be. The his
tory of society is the history of
class struggles. All the civilizations j
of the past have been built upon
a government of classes. The
Athenian democracy that gave us j
the brightest minds of all time was '
a slave holding democracy and it j
vanished in the Homan tidal wave]
that engulfed the world. The j
Human Empire built itselt upon the
shn j of the conquered nations
r.r. ; the disintegration of the
ii .nan dominion owed itself to this.
The feudal nations of middle ages j
fell because built upon the sandy
foundations of serfdom, and it is
the height of folly that would be
lieve that anything can be perma
nently founded upon a working
class enslaved by its exploiters.
Certain it i3 that there is nothing
today would go to show that such
an attempt at industrial oligarchy
will have any permanence. Al
ready the murmurings are growing
to a clamor and there is not a state
or section of the nation immune.
Even the measures taken to crush
this ecanomic discontent only add
fuel to the flames. Is it any wonder
that the Mayor of San Francisco
expresses his exasperation at the
narrowness of mind which will
not realize the truth?
MACHINERY GOES OFT.
The machinery for the Bessie
dredge is now being shipped out to
the scene of construction. Much or
this arrived on tlie freighters which
were here last week and the con
struction crew is already busy
building.
NO WAR PRICES A I
HOLT'S ( ASH STORES.
Fresh snuff per box 5c.
Star Tobacco per pound 50c.
Large size canvas .gloves, blue
knit wrists two pair for 25c.
Pearl oil. can SI.Oil, case 83.75.
(i inch gal. iron pipe, joint 25c.
I> inch black stove pipe, joint 25c.
Lenox soap, I liars 25c.
Matches, all kinds 1 for 25c.
No. 17 heavy Meddlecott Under
wear $2.25.
Spring clothes pins, 5 doz. 25c.
Fruit Jars, 5c., 10c., 15c.
Jar rubbers 10c. a doz.
Shoe Packs $1.50 a pair.
Rubber Roots $7.50 pair.
Stop Kicking at prices
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On Aug. l«th, Wellington Coal will be $2:1.00- per ton in yard.
On and after September 25tli, Wellington Coal will be $25.00 pr
ton in yard. Briquets will rontinue at $18.00 per ton in yard.
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coal for winter use and cannot guarantee having any quantity
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