NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER
TRI-WEEKLY
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My Nome Mine Workers’ Union, No. 240, International Union oi Mine,
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Entered as second claSs matter August 6, 1918, at the Post Office
«tt Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
NOME, ALASXA SATURDAY, NOVEMBER, 2, 1018.
ORGANIZATION
With the close of navigation, it is
naturally time for us to take stock.
The closed season gives those who
remain here time for thot, those who
are on the Outside never have.
To the workers in this camp the
most important consideration is the
question of organiaztion and organiza
tion for the future to improve their
condition. There’s quite a number of
workingmen, strange as it may appear
to us, who have no earthly use for
a labor organization.
Some of these trust to their own
connections, in say a fraternal organ
ization, club room friendship or per
sonal influence or the like to secure
them, a job and they feel.^hat they
themselves have quite enough to do
to look after themselves.
But sooner or later the fact is
driven home to them too that they
cannot stand by themselves atone and
that in union and in union alone is
strength.
The scab who gets high wages,
shed£ no sweat on the job considers
himself lucky and thinks that he was
foolish indeed to let the thot of or
ganization bother him. But he gets
By easily because of the simple fact
other men are fighting his battles.
Common sense tells any person that
reads the papers tWat at no time in
the history of this country has the
Labor organization made so much
progress or has it enjoyed such a
position of extreme importance in
the affairs of the land. It is becom
ing recognized now that the old days
when the organizations of labor could
bo told directly and emphatically to
go to hell have passed and will never
return.
It is true the conditions that then
prevailed today also prevails in spots,
hut those spots are Retting smaller
and smaller and the time is coming
when the man who i3 not a member
of organized labor and who is a scab
'will be an outcast among men. despis
ed both as a fool and as a knave as
well as known to be a coward.
We cannot stand alone. We must
have the aid of our fellows. Co-op
eration is le role sheet anchor of
labor and unless (he workers organ
ize the workers w:ll never gain their
ends.
While for the individual it s a case
of every mail for il aim the d- • il j
take the hindmost, M is the pol'cy of a I
labor organization to eliminate the!
devil. And of this we may be sure I
that although the itidlvdual may for a
lime be in that chosen few in tlie i
front line, it’s only a matter of time!
until he is in that lagging rear that!
the devil of defeat and down and out
ir.m sooner or later gets.
Go outside into the activities that
now are witnessable on every side and
the man who has not a union card !
is regarded with feelings that it is.
impossible to describe. No working
man understands him. He is either j
•sunk so low that manhood does not
fire his breast or so backward and
ignorant that he is incapable of thot.
Of course be is despised. The man
who will not join a union to protect
himself and his fellows could secure
nothing but contempt front those who
know that every step of progress made
is due emphatically to labor organi
sations.
Even when concessions are made
to workingmen where there is no
union, it is made in nine hundred and
ninety nine times out of a thousand
in order that the employer may not
be compelled to give more thru such
a thing as a union.
To such men who live outside the
saving pale of unionism we would j
fain address a word. Many men have
been non union men who joined and
made splendid workers in the cause.
Let the dead past bury Us dead', ac
knowledge the error of your ways
and join in the militant throng that
thrives for labor’s betterment. No
undue obstacle will be placed in your
way. Fellowship will be -given you
such as you never knew before and all
the world over fraternal greetings
will be extended you.
Indeed the friendship that exists
between the workers who are organi
zed, \he fraternal solidarity that is
found to exist between such the
world over is the very fraternaism
that is imitated but never successfully
or completely in fraternal organiza
tions.
The masonic organizations, sup
posed to he the greatest organization
in the world, is merely the rehabilita
tion of the dying guild of the masons
of England although much mystic his
tory is claimed for it by ts devotees.
The labor organizations is tiie world
fraternity,'the symbol of the brother
hood of man and the opening key to
the heart of real men everywhere.
Everyman who leaves Nome as all
will sone time or another or as we
all intend to some time or another,
who belong to a labor organization re
ceive on leaving a card that opens the
friendship of thousands of men to us
in any part of the world. The labor
organization is the living symbol of
the brotherhood of man, and it is lim
ited in its prospective only by the
consumation of that desired end.
We look forward to the time when j
“man to man the wide world o’er
shall brothers be for ’a that,” and!
with this plan in view, the movement!
sets Itself to improve the lot of the j
working class everywhere.
No laboring man can afford to stay [
outside the ranks of organized labor. ■
It is his shield and buckler in the j
struggle for existence. It is the real;
hope of working class salvation and
it and it alone will make better and
happier the lives of him and his.
Men should think clearly on this
proposition. It is because they do not
that they have betrayed everything
and unfortunately although they may
not presently realize it, they so surely ^
follow in his steps.
You recall the historic appearance
of Judas the great betrayer. He sold j
out, for thirty pieces of silver, just1
as the present time scab sells out for
a poor temporary job. Yet Judas
Knowing what he had done as all
scabe must come eventually to realize j
what they do. could stand it no longer j
and went out and hung himself with a
halter. They's great symbolism there.
The betrayer destroyes himself al-j
ways. So does the scab. He is com-'
milting moral if not physical suicide ;
when he betrays his fellow workers i
and he is killing his whole future for ,
the bettering of his condition for a
few*months. You know what they did j
with the money that Judas felt to
scorch his hands, the blood money,
tie threw it back to Ihejn. the priests
and they bought a potters field.
That’s what is done with the profits j
from the scab, a place to bury the de
parted hopes of the workers.
There’s food for thot in this. Sure
ly no man who is a man will attempt
to scab, but if thru ignorance and
foolishness he has done so, surely
ought he before beyond hope, make
amends and square with the labor or
ganizations that, he attempted to be
tray before too late.
The time is fast coming when for
the scab there will be neither wel
come i^ir friendship and nothing but
the Ibast of conte'mpt and contumely.
Shares in the Strand-Hcd alining
Co may lie obtained from \V. J.
Rom. This company is now issuing
five thousand shares at one dollar
each and entire sum thus raised to
he used in development work, actual
operations ■ilretuly having been open
ed up <m new and promising lodes.
Adv.
PAID ADVERTISEMENT
I
HON. CHAS. A. SULZER
(DEMOCRAT)
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
ELECTION, NOVEMBER, 5, 1918
FOR REPRESENTATIVE »
JAMES J. BOGAN
(DEMOCRAT)
ELECTION NOVEMBER, 5th 1018.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
ALMER (Slim) RYDEEN
(DEMOCRAT) of Candle.
ELECTION NOV. 5th, 1018.
For Re-election
JOHN A. WILSON
For Road Commissioner
Election, November 5, 1918
paid AommwiBNm
FOR RE-ELECTION TO THE TERRITORIAL
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
JAMES P. DALY
(DEMOCRAT)
ELECTION NOVEMBER Stfa, 1918.
FOR RE-ELECTION
A. A. -SCOTTY- ALLAN
(REPUBLICAN)
SCHOOLS—ROADS—8 HOUR DAY
— equitable freight rates—
*•“ ,V , T I'W (ELECTION, NOVEMBER 3, 1918.
FOR SENATOR
JAMES FRAWLEY
(DEMOCRAT)
»
ELECTION, NOVEMBER 5, 1918.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
E. B. -Duffy- O’CONNOR
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE
FAVORS EIGHT HOUR LAW, INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM;
OPPOSES INDUSTRIAL MONOPOLY
ELECTION NOVEMBER 5, 1918.
FOR REPRESENEATIVE
RUSSELL J. DOWNING
(DEMOCRAT)
ELECTION, NOVEMBER, 5th, 1918.
WASHINGTON STATE
FEDERATION OF LABOR
EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
EVERETTE, WASH. Sept, 9th, 1916.
To Trade Unionists of Alaska,
Greeting. « ,
Ordinarily we would not think of making any sugges
tions to you concerning political candidacies in your Territory
but in the- present situation we feel justified in doing so. Tho
interests of labor in tho pntire northwestern gr<yip of states
and particularly Washington, is closely allied with the interest
of labor in Alaska. Wo have watched with growing concern
the efforts of large corporate aggregations to tighten their
hold upon tho wealth of your country and havr watch^l tho
splendid fight waged in Congress by your Delegate Mr Wick
orsham.
It is because we believe Mr Wickorsham is fighting in
Congress against tho exploUation of labor and the great nat
ural wealth of Alaska by powerful private interests, that wo
aro taking tho Uebrty of urging our fellow unionists in Alaska
to rally to his support in his campaign for re-election.
Knowing that you will accept this communication in tha
spirit in which it is written and assuring you the continued co
operation and good will of your fellow trade unionists, wo beg
leave to remain,
Fraternally Yours,
' E. P. MARSH
President Washington State Federation of Labor.
CHAS, R. CASE
Chairman Legislative Committee, Seattle Central Labor Council.
J. G BROWN
President International Shingle Weavers’ Union of America.
WILLIAM SHORT
See.-Treas. Dist. No. 10, United Mine Workers of America.