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“To secure to each laborer the whole product of hli labor, or as
nearly as possible. Is a worthy object of any Good goverament."—
apranam Llncola
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Entered as second class matter March l, 1911, at Iks post office at
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Nome, Alaska, January IB, 1918.
A PERVERSE VIEW.
To avoid the Irutli, to escape the
right, to persist in confusion to the
end, from the cradle to the grave,
seems the sum of all conscious hu
man effort.
A lordly and powerful merchant,
a lawyer, a doctor, a rabbi, a lone
some and excited labor leader, pro
feasors and certain wise men and
women foregathered to solve the
question of unemployment with the
evident knowledge that to actually
do so would be to pull down upon
their heads the superstructure of
their own temple!
The fruits of their labors for
three days, a report, will be a
mass of misinformation and way
ward platitude effectively obscur
ing whatever of truth that might
have filtered into their inquiries.
Withal, let it be said here they
were kindly and benevolent—will
ing indeed to make any sacrifice ex
cept the one essential thing, to get
off the backs of the workers!
In no great wisdom but in
simple devotion the writer submits
the following demonstration.
Unemployment is due primarily
to exploitation of labor, essential
under fie w.'ges system of wealth
production, in that—
Goods and commodities sell or
exchange on the average at their
value. They must be produced at
a cost in wagc3 to labor below
their value, otherwise there would
be no object in employment what
ever. Indeed that is the sole occa
sion for non-employment when ob
jective profits are removed, due to
the fact—
That this process creates an un
consumable surplus since wages
sufficient to buy back at their val
ues the products created are not re
cctv.d, rna resulting in no sense
from the state of need of the peo
ple but from choir inability to buy
under wages which mer.sure short
of the values of the products. To
illustrate:
Lot all industry be represented
by a bakery, whoso proprietor owns
all capital, and ten bakers repre
sent :.ll labor, and $100 w'orth of
bread the value or selling price of
the product. But the bakers must
receive less than that as vve have
seen. Let us suppose them com
pletely organized into a union and
receiving a ‘‘fair” wage of -5.00 a
<iay. Ala: ifostly then $50 wouid
represent the buying power ol the
labor employed. Suppose that the
proprietor is physically able to con
sume twice as much as any single
baker, or $10, and that he is will
ing to waste In ostentation and pa
rasitic retinue an amount double
ills own power to consume, mak
ing in all the total consumptive
power of the public $80, and leav
ing an unconsumable surplus of
$20, which accumulating laily for
the industrial season removes all oc
casion for employment, and bring
ing on a—"crisis.”
This would result in time, with
out contributing or “secondary"
causes, such as the increased pro
ductiveness of labor due to im
proved machinery or “increased eili
iconcy.” Therefore there is no prim
ary remedy except the abolition of
the wages system cf production in
its entirety, and the substitution
therefor of a system of wealth pro
duction by co-operation which
would work no arbitriry limitation
upon consumption of either neces
saries or luxuries sliorl of the needs
and desires of any ^ loss whatso
ever.
It is agreed of course that this
cannot be done ny any sudden over
turning of the present order of
tilings. indeed it may never be
done until there is a more or less
common opinion supporting it and
developing a statesmanship cap
able of bringing about the orderly
change. Hence a few further re
marks.
Secondary, or to speak more ac
curately, aggravating causes acce
| lerating tne recurrence of periodic
crises due to enormous unemploy
ment and hastening inevitable cata
strophe and universal war, are in
creased personal efficiency and the
amvazing development of machin
ery, and, to subsidence of develop
ment.
Machine methods and their mar
velous and multiplied improvement
have led us to a point where the
industries of the country are now
capable of employing no more than
approximately five per cent of the
total labor to meet the normal pro
j duction demands alone, eliminat
i ing the production incident to de
velopment periods which constitute
in reality the only prosperity or
“good times” we ever know.
But we tend always toward a
time when we will have only nor
mal production demands to meet
and even that a relatively diminiifh
ing factcr due to essential explolta
| tion under the wages system as in
; dicated above. Now this point had
j been reached in European and Ori
1 ental countries at about the time
| wc began to look upon the settle
: meat among us of foreign peoples
! as an “emigration problem.” De
j velopment had subsided in those
: countries to where their industries
j were unable to engage at labor a
I sufficient number of the people to
! keep them all alive, resulting in
! an overllow of labor. Enormous as
j the burden has been we have fairly
well absorbed that overflow to date
I because of the amazing develop
! inent periods, throngs which, unfor
| tunatcly tor private investment jn
I terprise, we are emerging. Such
j development was so rapid becauso
! of the exceedingly profitable invest
ment and re-investment of the stu
pendous profits —surplus values—
the unconsumable surplus of pro
duction mentioned above. Certain
products of ours have of
course tounu markets abroad but
;this affords a temporary relief
j only, for in every country not de
I lanaling with the cannon and ha
j voc of highly emphasized national
| competition, the axes of their own
development are ringing, and pre
sently we may expect them to be
looking for markets upon a profit
able rattier than upon a mutual ex
change basis. In short, we have
reached the ultimate and western
shores of our possibilities, and even;
now face an overflow of labor,
which will probably be unwilling
to starve to death for the glory of
either God or the country.
Even considering the Panama
canal ard the development entered
upon by many sub-governing units
in public improvements our collec
tive development is negligible in
deed.
Will we eater with unfaltering
[ courage upon tne genuine mission
of civilization, the conquest of di
sease and the great natural fore33
lit a collective development period
which will make the Panama canal
look like a wheelbarrow job? Will
we make a fruitful and beautiful
garden of the earth, reclaiming our
[desert, waste and logged-off lands,
emerging a diseaseless and happy
race? When we have entered upon
this will we divide the work to be
done in terms of hours by the num
ber of adult able bodied workers
and let the quotient be the movable
work-day?
Do we want this or do we want
war, the avoidless end of empha
sized competition? >
There are 374 inhabitants per
square mile in the United King
dom, 193 in France. 19 in \ussia.
311 in Germany, 222 in'Austria,
•158 in Belgium, 143 in Serbia, ?£•
in Turkey, and 356 in Japan
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Wa Loerpabel and Sarah A.
LoerpabW, your heirs, exscutors,
assigns or personal representa
tives :
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned have
expended in labor and improvements
during each of the years 1914, 1915
and 1916 the sum of One Hundred
dollars upon each of the following
dfecribed placer mining Claims, all
situated in the Concil City Record
ing Precinct, Territory of Alaska,
tA wit: the Limestone Group, asso
ciation claim, situated on the Casa
de Paga River, notice of location
being recorded in vol. 22 at page
187. records of said recording pre
ct&ct; the Polar Bear-Group, asso
ciation claim, situated in llie Casa
dd Paga River, notice' of location
being recorded in Vol. 22 at page
189, records of said recording pre
cinct; the Cinnamon Bear Group
association claim, situated on the
Casa de Paga River, notice of lo
cation being recorded in Vol. 22 at
page 188, records of i?atd recording
precinct; and the Bear Black Group
association claim, situated on the
Casa de Paga River, notice of lo
cation being recorded in Vol. 22 at
page 190, records of said Council
City Recording Precinct, Territory
of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if you fdil to
contribute your proportion of said
expenditure within ninety days after
the last publication of this notice,
your interest in said claim will be
come the property of the under
signed, your co-owner, under sec
tion 2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
EUGENE W. GRAHAM.
KARL KARLIN.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Nov. 7. 1917.
Date of last pubt., Feb. 7. 1918.
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