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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly at possible. Is a worthy object of any good government."—
aora&am Lincoln
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Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 111
Entered as second class matter March 1, 1111, at the post office at
sfome. • Alsssa, under the Act of March S, 1S7I.
Nome, Alaska, January 3, 1018.
EFFICIENCY.
Workers oppose scientific man
agement or efficiency because they
must bear the burden of its defects
and yet receive none of its benefits
Objection cannot be urged against
efficiency itself, but only against its
use to enrich employers. Workers
■want real efficiency.
We may well inquire why a given
task should be completed in less
time than rs now required when al
ready the workers are in enforced
idleness for about four months in
each year on the average. Effici
ency is harmful to the workers and j
to society in general so long as it
does not stop the waste of poten
tial human energy during this term
of involuntary unemployment.
Duplication of effort exists in
every branch cf industry; useless
petty officials are added daily to
the officialdom of city, county, state
and nation jmen who have attained
skill are forced to do unskilled la
bor; only one man in ten thousand
is doing the work for which he is
litted and in which he takes a plea
sure; and millions of hours of la
bor power are lost thru the unem
ployed. Amid all this, without a
thought as to its absurdity, the cor
respondence school graduate stands
with his split-second watch in hand,
peering uown the collar of a sweat
ing laborer to see that an inffnite
simla fraction of a second may be
added to the credit of the employ
er's ledger!
Men do not willingly do useless
work. Experiments have shown
that the average man would quit
the job rather than to dig holes
and fill holes and fill them up]
agian even when the rate of pay
was comparatively high. Any lack
of efficiency is due to society being
organized upon an inefficient
oasis.
Workers want real efficiency. No
real efficiency can be had short of
industrial liberty. When the work
ers are free to voluntarily co
operate in the production of useful
things we will have the kind of ef
ficiency that is really worth while.
THK DOLLAR AGAIN.
The dollar, as we know it, is a
fraud—be sure of that. An hon
est dollar would not be made pay
able "to bearer." An honest dollar
would be a certificate of services
performed for society by a particu
lar person. Then the possession of
a dollar wuhl be an exact measure
of the right of the holder to de
mand goods and services ot' others.
If a man had $100, we should know
that he had performed services of
100 times the value of those per
formed by one who had only one
-dollar. If a man had nothing, we
should Know that he had done no
thing. or else had already been paid
for all he had done. Now, a man
may perform most valuable ser
vices—he may help make the food
to keep the race from starving—
and still have so few dollars that
ho seems entitled almost to every
thing.
J trust I have somewhat satisfied
the desire of my correspondent that
1 should “write something about
the dollar." Not for his benefit, but
possible of some others, I will add
a few observations on my own ac
count, the first or which follows:
Don’t get excited about the dol
lar!
It is dishonest, it is true. It
ought not, in its present form, to
exist., it Is true, But the dishonest
dollar is only a had cog in a bad
wheel, and it is the wheel, rather
than the cog that is crushing hu
manity.
What is the bad wheel? The bad
wheel is the system that enables a
few men to own all the tilings that
the rest of us must use and then
compels os to tight to get hack
enough of the things we have made
to keep us alive. We Socialists call
•that the capitalist system, because
capitalists own the natural re
sources and all the great industries
of the earth and charge the rest of
the warld for using these things.
The capitalist’s profit, which is tak
en from the amount produced by
labor, is the charge that the capi
talist makes for the use of .the ma
chinery, or the coal, lumber or
iron.
SOCIALISM WILL NOT ALTER
HUMAN NATURE.
“Socialism is a beautiful theory,
but it can never be applied—it
won't work because it is against
human nature." After every other
objection to Socialism has been met
then it is that some semi-idiot
takes the floor and launches the
above. The postoffice and our pub
school suystem illustrates, as far as
it is possible under capitalism, how
industry will be conducted under a
Socialism administration, and there
is no record of any antagonism be
tween human nature and these pub
licly owned institutions. Uncle
Sam carries our mail at cost of the
service and sclsl stamps to Farmer
Jones at the same price he sells
them to John D. Rockefeller, and,
and, as far as known, human na
ture has so far stood the strain
very well. And there is the Panama
canal, one of the biggest feats of
industry the world has ever known,
and the government got away with
the job without making the slight
est change in human nature.
Suppose the southern cotton
farmer could put his cotton in a
public owned warehouse and then
take his warehouse receipt and go
to a postoflice bank and borrow
money on it at three per cent, does
anyone doubt for a moment that
the cotton farmer would welcome
the opportunity and take advantage
of it without stopping to change his
human nature or his shirt?
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by giving every man the opportun
ity of supplying the needs of
others. What is there about that
against human nature?
Socialism would have men make
things because they were wanted
and not because other men wanted
to make a profit in the making.
Surely this would net be against
human nature. Socialism will pre
vail and It will “work,” not In spite
of human nature or through any
change in human nature, but be
cause it is in harmony with human
nature to be happy and live in a
world of peace and plenty. It is
the present system which is against
human nature, not Socialism.
A human nature that can cause
a Ludlow massacre and teach a
Sunday school class at the same
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time is not a normal human nature.
The world can well do without that
nil d of human nature.
BREAKING DOWN.
Why not frankly face the fact
that private ownership of railroads
is breaking down here as it long
ago broke down in most of the
; other leading nations? That its
broakdown is unavoidable because
of the irreprcsitle conflict between
private and public interests in
transportation? And that it would
be wiser to act on this fact toward
a permanent solution than to patch
the old system for a delay which
can at longest be but brief, and
which may Increase the ultimate
cost of the foreseen inevitable—
government purchase
Not in private ownership lies the
remedy for the nature of private
ownerhip of a monopoly service is
to rob the many for the few—take
away the chance to do this and at
once the man incentive for private
ownership ceases.
Why wait Why not take the
railways over nowi If the people
must pay the bills, why should't
they have the benefits as well?
l-ORD'S PROFIT SHARING.
As a result of the ten months’
operation of the Ford profit-sharing
plan employes have purchased on
contract homes valued at $5,000,
000, for which they have made apy
ments aggregating $1,500,000, have
taken out Hie insurance to the
amount of about $3,000,000 and
have saved on an average of $48.65
per month each, which rather dis
counts the pessimistic theory of an
ti-Socialists that when we have de
cent working hours and wages we
will spend our time and money in
the saloon, but they’ll continue to
preach it just the same. And the
fool workingman will continue to
believe it.
A dog in St. Louis was given a
funeral that cost $500, a sum that
would keep a workingman’s family
for a year, as the workers exist
now, but the workingman voted to
lot the dead dog have it.
The eight-hour movement in the
United States began in 1868, says
a historian. And it could have
been ended successfully in 1868 if
the voters hadn't wanted “some
thing right away.”
All right. Believe in religion.
Stand by your home. What we wish
you to do is to join with us in
stopping the robbery of the worker.
That alone is the issue. That alone
is Ihc Socialist proposal.
Take yoor Lunch and Dinner at
tho Board of Trade Lunch Counter,
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NOTICE.
Pursuant to an order of Court
entered on the lltli day of Decem
ber, 1917, notice is hereby given
that a Cenerad Term of the District
Court, Second Division, Territory
of Alaska, will be held in the Court
House, In Nome, in said Division
and Territory of Alaska, commenc
ing at tho hour of eleven o’clock
A. M. on Saturday, January 12,
1918, and lo continue thereafter ac
cording to further orders of 'he
Court.
Given under my hand and with
the Court’3 seal affixed this 11th
day of December, 1917.
(SEAL)
THOS. McGANN.
Clerk, district Court, Secord Divi
sion, Territory of Alaska.
THIS SPACE IS VACATED BY THE
Alaska Lighterage Com,l Co.
Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor .
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING A TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF W. STEIGELMAIER AND OF CEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILL# RE
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