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**, Nome Mine Workers’ Union. No. *40. Western Federation of Miners.
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“To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
•early as possible. Is a worthy object of any good government"—
aoranam Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker.
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 1S4
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Nome, Alassa, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, l*ceeinl>er SO, 1915.
The report of Mining Inspector,
ft'aloney to Governor Strong for the)
y ear 1915 is now published. It is j
a, comprehensive review of mining,:
conditions in the Second and Fourth
Divisions of Alaska and Important
matter is collated for the informa
tion of the Department.
In our estimation some more em
phasis was due the fact that labor
in the various divisions is in excess
of actual requirements, and that
there is no diminution in the ten
dency of several firms year after
year to defraud the workers of
their wages.
The Territory has appointed the
work of the Mining Inspector, and
the functions attaehod to the posi
tion arc more in the nature of a
publicity agent than anything else.
The Industrial Worker will ven
ture to say that for this reason the
Fourth Division will take offense
at the fact being pointed out in the
Fairbanks district the g id output
has diminished, and is expected to
diminish for reasons stated therein,
and operators generally don’t like
the fact made public that all the
fatal accidents were avoidable.
Yet the value of these reports lies
in their correctness- in- detail,, not.
the correctness of the generaliza
tions which may be very deceiving.
Inspector Maloney’s report ap
pears to be accurate in almost all
the important details, and he is
careful to state when aud why the
exact facts are not available.
Plainly stated the report would
not be selected by a publicity body
for boosting up Alaska. Such facts
as are therein contained show that
as conditions are at the present
time Alaska is handicapped severely.
This is especially so with regard to
the transportation rates in the In
terior and the wonder is not so
much that the gold output or min
ing industry shows a decrease but
that it should be so flourishing as it
really is. ,
Moreover we think that more at
tention might Well be paid to labor
conditions in Alaska. It is ail very
well to state that labor's wages van
from three dollars a day in winter
to five dollars a da/ in Summer
with board. Both in summer and
in winter wage3 paid have been
much less than 1 ... figure/., al
though it must be admitted facts
are not easily obtained by any of
ficial on this proposition.
On the whole however the report
Is a very complete one. Its accu
racy is not to be questioned. It is
not given to extravagant boosting
when there is nothing to boost, nor
to intentional knocking when there
is nothing or no reason to knock.
It is what official reports are often
not at all, confined to the facts as
ascertained by the officials making
the inspection, and gathered for the
•information and instruction of the
Department.
It is just as well that a man like
Maloney ic in charge of the office
It will bring home to the Depart
ment the need exists of some re
form in come things and to the le
gislature the need of legislation on
others.
Prospective Republican Candidate
Root told the Pan-American Scienti
fic Congrossionaliots that only th<3
strictest international laws can re
strain the nations.
Root’s a lawy. r, and the law to
him is a fetish. It moves with un
seen but mysterious power to per
form wonders.
Bat, Alack the Dpy, infallibility
■and omnipotence dont go together.
The law may be infallible but may
*way in no way the nations.
It is clear too that like national
laws, international laws are made
to be broken.
Some one pointed out that the
main function of a corporation
lawyer is to tell corporations how
tnr they can go within the law and
how tar they can go without the
lav and at the same time be suc
ouMfully defended. When a great
jconoinic force in a nation makes
up its mind that although a certain
course is lawless, its existence re
inires that that course be pursued,
it will be pursued. The Sherman
Act cut no manner of figure in pre
renting commercial combinations
In restraint of trade. The reason
is the corporations were might
ier than the law; mightier
than the courts. So with interna
tional law. international law wRl
be obeyed just as long as it is the
interest of the stronger nation to
obey it. If justice is the interest of
the stronger, so al30 is International
justice or applied international law,
the interest of the stronger nation.
Laws do not amount to a hill of
beans unless there is behind the
law the physical force that govern
ment is ready to apply to sustain
them. What would lawyers care
for judicial scoldings when they
scorned the courts, if back of this
judicial verbal severity was not the
actual severity of fine and imprison
ment. In this way the most stupid,
the most crooked, the most imposs
ble judge can exact respect from
the most impertinent or the most in
dignant.
The- metaphysical coneept of the
power of the law as the law, is only
a figment of the imagination, unless
back of this law there is the power
to penalize for its infraction.
This is true of national laws, it
is true of moral lews. It is true of
international law'.
Root’s idea that international law
will be able to keep the nations in
order is absurd unless back of this
international law there are battle
ships and armies and munitions,
greater than the predatory nation
possesses, to maintain the interna
tional code.
There will always be Bclgiums..
There will always be scraps of pa
per where there are Beilgiums.
And thus we come to the fact that
international law is only a halluci
nation introduced to bolster up a
civilization which it is undesirable
should be understood as founded
upon force. But suppose at the out
break of a Great War the neutrality
of not Belgium but a nation strong
and powerful as Russia was afforded
the Germans as the only chance of
a successful invasion, does anyone
think that the neutrality would have
been but a scrap of paper. Not at
all. Because back of the neutral
nation there would have been an
ample force to maintain its neutral
ity, that would have been respected.
There’s- not a belligerent nation
today that would not ride rough
shod over every single one of the
principles of international law if it
were to Us own interest, and it were
strong enough to do so with impu
nity.
In international law there i-; only
one right and that is might. The
strength of the international code
will lie not in the extensive recog
nition is given it by civilized na
tions, but in the physical strength 01
the nations to avail themselves 01
an omnipotent violence to maintair
it against any one who should viol
ate it-.
They have builded this civiiiza
tion- upon force, and without forc<
it is impi tsible to control thy pre
datory instincts of the nations wher
the very social system is oaili
upon tiie predatory tendencies ot
exploitation for profits.
This is the A. B. C. of the mat
ter. It is simple. And this war it
wiping away a whole lot of the me
taphysical stuff that conceals th(
real truth.
As recently shown by a contem
porary a relatively fow proprietor;
own practically the ontir© resourcei
of the bolligorcnt countries in Eu
rope. Yet H is interesting to noti
that the income off the Standard Oi
Co. in 26 1-2 years in greater thai
have been the combined income
during that time of the Tzar o
Russia, the Emporor of Austria, th
Kaiser, the King of Italy, the Roys
family In England the King of
Spain, the King or Bavaria, the
King of Saxony, the King of Bul
gium, the King of Wurtcmbc.rg, the
King of Sweden, the Queen ci Hol
land, the King and Crown Prince of
Denmark, the King of Greece, the
President of France, the King of
Rumania, the King of Servia, the
King of Norway. The latter total
is for 25 1-2 years $865,396,963,
while Standard Oil’s during that
time has been $929,000,000. Nine
American millionaries possess a
combined fortune of three billion
dollars in American investments.
The investigation of the Money
I rust by the Pujo Committee
showed that less than twenty men
controlled the financial situation in
the United States, and a half n
dozen the entire railroad industry,
two or three control the timber
industry, and a few the coal indus
try. The men who control the
steel industry, the powder industry
and the mining industry can be
mentioned in one breath
One of the most interesting and
important facts brought out by the
last census was that while the scope
of American industry had increased
enormously in volumo, the number
of employees increasing vory great
ly, there was no maintenance of the
proportion between industries and
employees, and proprietors. The
latter relatively increased not at all.
Out of 571,000,000 acres of the
public domain disposed of to indi
viduals and corporations, there have
been but 116,000,000 acquired by
the exercise of the homestead rights.
The railroad grants amounted to
123,000,000 acres from Congress
without any return to the govern
ment, while state grants to rail
roads amounted to 200,0j0,000. In
1870 there were only 3400 farms
which contained more than one
thousand acres. In 1910 there were
50,135. In 1910 the number of
farms mortgaged had increased 17.7
per cent. In 1880 there was only
1 a tenant per centage on the farms
: of 25.5 per cent, while in 1910 the
per centage of farms operated by
tenants paying rent numbered 37.1.
' And these per centages are rapidly
increasing.
In industry seventy-eight trusts
control fifty per cent or more of the
product of the industries, fifty
seven control 60 per cent, 26 con
1 trol eighty per cent.
It is well to understand that while
there are very great numbers of
■ smaller property owners and ope
1 rators in the United States, they
are relatively to the increase in in
' dustry, becoming fewer and fewer
1 The industries and resources, the
J land and forests and mines, are
' being controlled by a proprietor
■ class that bids fair soon to equal or
1 eclipse conditions in Europe.
XMAS GREETINGS.
Again the season suggests the
pleasure of extending to all hearty
good wishes A Merry Clrristmas
i and a Happy and Prosperous New
‘ Year.
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NOTICE or FOnarBHTVRB.
To Oalif Nelson, your heirs,
executive, assigns or personal re*
presentatives:
You are hereby notified that i
have expended in labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dol
lars each year during the
years of 1912, 1913, 1914
and 1915 on the first tier
bench claim No. 2 adjoining N t 2
above on the right limit of El Do
rado creek a placer mining claim
recorded and more fully described
in volume 194 at page 88 in the
lecords of the Cape Nome Mining
and recording district, in the
.Second Division of the Territory of
Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended in order to hold said claim
under the provision of the Law, con
cerning annual assessment wot it
upon Mining claims, being the
amount required to hold said claim
And you are fui-ther notified, that
if within ninety days after the lest
publication of this notice, you fail
to contribute your proportion of
said expenditure, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned your Co-owner
unefir section 2324 Reviced Statutes
of the United States.
MARTIN MARUM.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Nov. 24, 1915.
Date of last publ.,' Fdb. 23, 1916.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION.
NO. 0146.
In the united States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 2, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that
Charles McIntosh, of Nome, Alaska,
as successor in Interest of E. L.
West, who on the 30th day of
July, 1907, filed In this office Coal
Land Declaratory Statement No. 4,
for the E. L. West Coal Claim, has
filed In this office his application to
purchase said land under the Act of
Congress, approved April 28 th,
1904, amendatory to the Act of
June 6th, 1900, extending the coal
land laws to the District of Alaska,
said coal claim being in the Noatak
Kobuk Recording Precinct, Alaska,
and designated as U. S. Survey No.
463, and more particularly de
scribed in the field notes and plat
now on file in this office, as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, iden
tical with N. W. loc.. cor. on face ot
bluff on shore of tho Arctic Ocean;
said corner being impracticable to
maintain because of danger from ice
and snow in winter, a witness
corner is established 10.08 ch3.
south from same on line 1-4,
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1 bears S.
15 deg. 32 min. W. 9.96 chs;
thence east, var. 22 deg. 45 min.
E. 40 chs. to Cor. No. 2, identical
with N. E. loc. cor., a fir post 4 in.
sq. 4 ft. long, in earth and stone
mound, scribed E. L. W. Cor. 2,
on S. W. face; thonce South, Var.
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor.
No. 3, identical with S. E. loc. cor.
a fir post 4 in. sq. 4 ft. long, in
earth mound, scribed Cor. 3, E. L.
W. on N. W. face; thence West, Var.
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor.
No. 4, 'dentical with S. W. loc. cor.,
on line 1-2 Gertrude West Coal
Claim a sand stone 24x12x5 inches,
chiseled cross on top surfaco for
true point, and Cor. 4 E. L. W.,
on N. E. face, earth mound on N.
side of rame; thence North, Var
22. deg.. 45.- min.. E. 29.92 chs.
Witness Cor. to Cor. No. 1, a sand
stone 28x12x4 inches, 14 inches in
ground, cross chiseled on top for
true point and W. C. Cor. 1, E. L.
W. on N. face, with rtone mound 30
inch base, 18 inches high along
side, 40 chs. to Cor. No. 1 and
place of beginning; containing an
area of i 6 0 acres.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely the land described, or de
siring to object for any reason for
the entry thereof by applicant,
should file their affidavits of pro
test in this office o. or before six
months after the expiration of the
period of publication of this notice.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register U. S. Land Office.
Date of first publ., Dec. 4, 1915. .
Date of last publ., Feb 5, 1916.
ORGANIZED LABOR.
WESTERN FEDERATION OF
MINERS.
Headquarters 606 Railroad Build
ng, Denver, Colorado.
’has/ moter, ernest mills.
President. Sec.-Treas
LOCAL 240. W. F. M.
i The regular meeting of the Nome
Mine Workers’ Union, Local No.
140, of thO W. F. of M., is held
every Saturday evening at 8 p. m. at
■ Miner’s Hall. Office hours 1 p. m.
to 6 p. m., 7 p. m. to 8 p. m.
JOHN A. WILSON. President
ANDREW BECK, Sec.-Treas
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.
Local'Union 1789, Carpenters and
olners of America, meets every Fri
day at A1 Orland’s shop Front St.
Carpenter's Headquarters, Feder
al Labor Hall,
at 8 p. m.
FEDERAL LABOR UNION.
No. 12681, American Federation
it Labor, meets every Monday ai
Tt80 p. m. la tbe F. L. U. Han.
■■■"< A DOOSE, Pres.
flMB OLSBN, See'y-Treas.
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