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•early as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
abranam Lincoln
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Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, ai the post office at
foome, Alassa, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome. Alaska, December 18, 1915.
The attention of the Industrial
Worker has been called to a min;
now being onerated on Center creek
where the employes, about a halt .
dozen Russians or so, are working
ten hours.
There is an eight hour law pas
sed by the Territorial legislature
and Congress has ordered that the
federal officials in Alaska see to the
enforcement of those territorial
laws.
Goodness knows that the federal
officials are not over burdened with
work. For the majority of them
fed ral jobs in this Division arc
sinecures pure and simple, except
when an occasional hootch peddler
is caught in the toils.
Hut this eight hour law is a labor
law and although there was last
summer also, we believe on the
>ame ground, a continuous infrac
tion of the law not an effort was
made to see that the law was car
ried out.
Are wo to understand that labor
laws in this Division are to be dea i
'letters on tb.c statute books because
the officials who have as much time
on their hands as it is possible for
officials anywhere to have, do not
wish to disturb the leisure that an 1
official position graciously confers j
upon them
We are not particularly directing
attention to the employers. They
will pay as little and work as long
hours as they can with impunity.
Hut we do want every publicity
given the fact that the only labor
law that the Territory has beer,
pleased to pass, is a dead letter ia
this division because of official in
difference to seeing that the law;
are carried out as they have been
sworn to do.
This matter should be taken up
directly with tlie Department of
Justice by the minors so that a di
rect remedy can be found for this
condition.
The agitation of the Dime creak
miners for a recorder will, it is to
he hoped, receive attention fro a
the District .fudge at an eariy date
The welfare of this division is so
Hosely wrapt up in the welfare and
accomodation of just that class of
men who travel far a.'i. Vl to develop
with their own ! itory.
that it has always u;cu customary
*o accede wherever possible to the
wishes of the prospectors and mili
ars in this respect.
To have to travel so far atield as
'ouneil to record claims or to flie
deeds is subjecting the miners in the
Koyuk to an unjust expense and a
burdensome hardship.
it would appear almost obvious
that the appointment of either a re
corder or deputy rcccrdcr on the
ground is a right to which these
men are entitled. Officialdom should
he made for the people who develop
this country, and not the people for
'he accomodation of officialdom.
The Bureau of Immigration is
•making ready to receive the in
creased immigration that is antici
pated after the war. Yet it ic doubt■
ful whether such an Increased* 1m
migration will really occur.
The countries affected will re
quire every available man to re-con
struct the disorganized industries
that are now in suspension and the
work of generally ro-building the
nations \yill have to be undertaken.
The necessity of labor to the bel- -
ligerent nations will never be so
manifest as after the war. The war
had dissipated an enormous quan
tity of the accumulated capital or
wealth of the nations. That can only
tic made good by the employment ol
labor • and that production which
will spring therefrom. While de
nied by capitalist economists that
labor is the source of all wealth
when engaged in polemical writings
against the socialists, they none the
lees in actual operations recognize It
as unquestionably true.
Therefore it is exceedingly prob
able that immigration will be dis
Louragcd and every effort made t
retain the wealth producers who
are the workers after the war. and
it this class which provides emi
gration to the United States with its
rhisfest supply.
On the other hand,.it is argue 1
that after the war such an indus
trial chaos will supervene during
the reconstruction period, that while
the demand for labor wlli later on
be enormous, it will be several
months maybe a year, before it
finds expression in the labor market.
This unquestionably may be the
case, and yet it is right to say that
every conjecture as to the condi
tions after the war are theories
merely which may be upset by the
real developments. It is possible
the entire industrial system in the
warring nations may undergo a
complete change and with that
change no less important and signi
ficant a change in the relations of
the workers to employment alsc.
It is a thing that it would be well
to avoid prophesying upon.
The Industrial Worker under
stands that the mail committee of
the Nome Chamber of Commerce
has mapped out a program for ac
tion in trying to better the winter
service to Nome. That is certainly
a step in the right direction. It is
to be hoped that they will keep up
the good work and endeavor to have
all the mail forwarded even by
special contracts if necessary. All
special contracts issued were issued
because of the active work of the
mail clerk or the people themselves
and the completely false pretense
that there was no congestion in those
days, at any rate did not obtain an;,
sway over those who had made up
their minds that they wanted the
mail and were going to agitate to
get it. It is true that they were
fortunate in the co-opcration of
M'Manus who kept a bead on the
location of practically all the inconi
ing mail. But the fact that special
contracts were secured, is due to the
action of the people themselves.
Comment is made that even so
great an epochal event as the war
has not resulted in any stirring
poetic compositions startling the
world. Rut is there any reason U
should? The Napoleonic wars sure:.'
did not give birth to any school of
poetry, and when the Poem of Hate
finds expression, the literary people
of the world ought to think that
they have been doing very well in
deed.
it is correct, we believe, that it is
not such a stirring event as is this
war which reaches into men’s souls
so that these strive and do find ex
pression for deeper thoughts, but it
is social revolutions which affecting
the very life stream of society, pro
duce men with “thoughts that,
breathe and words that burn".
The period of the Frencn revolu
tion certainly found itself reflecting
among the literary men of many
other lands the force of its social
energy, and was productive of th.;
inspiration of such poets as Burns
Shelley, Byron, Keats, Coleridge, the
earlier Wordsworth and any num
ber of others of lesser fame.
New ideas and new codes, and
new conventions-—these are the
things that stir new thoughts and
these find powerful expression in
the genius that the new system
develops. But war is such an old
subject and such a threadbare topic,
the struggles of nations and races
against other nations and other
races, are such ancient functions in
the struggle to exist, they stir no
new feeling, no new sentiment, no
novel emotion.
And it is also quite true that the
literary ability of the bourgeoisie,
who have most at stake in every
nation in this war, has about ex
hausted itself. The mine of litera
ture that will be developed under
the flux of the new social movement
and the new social system will he
opened up among the working clas
ses. Their efforts even now to ^nd I
jxpression for the great ideas of Jn- '
lustrial democracy, individual liber- j
ty and collective welfare "rn mani
fest. Indeed these have long been i
manifest since the advent of fall '
fledged capitalism. Walt Whitman
In America was the first prophet (
Df the new order, and in him it ear- |
liest found expression. But since ]
then there have been many others
none of whom perhaps displayed
the strength of native genius which
he has shown, but even at that ma
nifesting an intellectual advance
even from him.
It will be possibly a different
thing to the poetry of the past.
There is a radical difference in the
poetry and the poetic in cverv age.
Literature has to accomodate
Itself, like religion, like mo
rals, like law, like govern
ment, to the economic condi
tions of every time. No one woui.t
expect an Iliad in the era of the
steam engine, the turbine, the dy
namo or the phonograph. And
without a doubt the complaint ot j
so many that there ore no literarj
geniuses today such as have mam- !
tested themselves in tile past, is due
to the very fact that the critic,
themselves fail to make allowance-;
for changed conditions. The next
great poet may write photoplays.
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION.
NO. 01 AO.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 2, 1915.
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 Apr! 1 28th,
1 904, amendatory to the Act ot
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.
453, 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 the Arctic Ocean;
said corner being impracticable to
maintain because of danger from ice
and snow in winter, a witness
corner is established 10.08 chs.
south from same on line 1-4,
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1 bears S.
15 deg. 32 min. W. 9.96 ehs;
thence east, var. 22 deg. 45 min.
E. 4 0 clis. 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; thence 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, identical with S. W. loc. cor.,
'on line 1-2 Gertrude West Coal
I Claim a sand stone 24x12x5 inches,
| chiseled cross on top surface for
I true point, and Cor. 4 E. L. W.,
Ion N. E. face, earth mound on N.
side of :ame; 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 160 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 cf last publ., Feb. 5, 1916.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT NO. 0264.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, October 23, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that Frank
Dolan, a citizen of the United
States, over the age of 21 years,
whose post office address Is Nome,
Alaska, has made application be
fore the United States Land Office
at Nome, Alaska, for a United
States Patent for the Kathleen
Placer CJaim in the Cape Nome
Mining District, Alaska, being Min
eral Survey No. 1157; said claim
being more particularly described
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■ th* Held motes and plat of the
>fficial survey thereof now on file
n said Land Office at Noma, Alas
ta, a* follows, to-wit:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, ldentl
:al with N. E. Cor. of location,
with Cor. No. 2 Sur. No. 478, Bella
fraction Placer and with Cor. No.
1 Sur. No. 418, No. 13 Dexter
Ireek Placer, being a fir post 4
ns. sq. 2 ft. above ground, in
nound of earth, scribed 2 478 B
r, 4 418; 1, 1157 K. for Cor. No.
[ of this survey, whence U. S. Loc.
Mon. No. 4 bears N. 78 deg. 56 min
(0 sec. E. 5467.60 ft. U. S. Geolog
cal Sur. Mon. on King Mt., bears
N. 26 deg. 29 min. E about 1.5
niles; thence S. 35 deg. 41 min.
W. (Var. 18 deg. 37 min. E.)
>53.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2, a fir post
!.5 ft. long 4 ins. sq. set 21 ins. in
;round scribed 2 1157 K, with
nound of earth 24 ins. base, 16
ns. high around feme; thence S.
S3 deg. 40 min. W. (Var. 19 deg.
)0 min. E) 788.00 ft. to Cor. No.
!, a schist stone 24x12x3 ins. set
12 ins. in the ground, chiseled 3
L157 K, with cross (x) cn top sur
:aee for true point, with mound
jf earth 24 ins. base, 16 ins. high
jorth side of same; thence N.
) deg. 33 min. W. (Var. 19 deg.
25 min. E) 558.30 ft. to Cor. No.
1, a schist clone 24x12x6
ns. set 12 ins. in the
ground, chiseled 4 1157 K,
with cross (x) cut <-n tcp fcr true j
joint with mound of earth 24 ins.
jase 16 ins. high, north side of
same; thence N. 87 deg 04 min.
E. (Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E)
1171.00 ft. to Cor No. 1, plrce of
jeginning, containing an area of
L 1.884 acres.
Said claim is situated on unsur
^eyed ground on the divide between
3rass Gulch and Specimen Gulch,
about 5.75 miles N. 13 deg. E. from
the town of Nome, in the Cape
Nome Recording Precinct, Alaska.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 34 min. 45
sec. North and Longitude 165 deg.
21 min. 00 sec. West.
U. S. L. M. No. 4 to which said
claim is tied is a limestone block,
about 4x6 ft. 6 ft. high, chiseled
U. S. L. M. No.4 on top surface
with mound of stor.c cn same. Is
situated on the south or right bank
of Dexter Creek, about 140 ft. south
of same and about 1000 ft. Westerly
from mouth of Joe Gulch, in Lat.
64 deg. 35 min. N. and Long. 165
deg. 19 min. W. in Cape Ncme Re
cording Precinct, Alaska.
The original location notice of
said claim is recorded in Vol. 168
Page 282, records of said district.
The adjoining claims are, on the
North Summit Bench Placer, un
surveyed, cn the Eas*, South and
West, unsurveyed claims, claimants
unknown.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely said mining ground or any
part th reof, are hereby required to
file their adverse cl'.ims, according
to law, in said United States Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, within the
time prescribed by law.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date cf first publ., Oct. 25, 1915.
Date cf last publ., Dec. 26, 1915.
ORGANIZED LABOR.
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.
Local'Union 1789, Carpenter* an.i
olners of America, meets every Fri
day at AI Orland’s shop Front St.
Carpenter’s Headquarters, Feder
al Labor Hall,
at 8 p. m.
FEDERAL LABOR UNION.
No. 12631, American Federation
jf Labor, meets every Monday at
7:30 p. m. in the F. L. U. Hall.
A. DOOSE, Pres.
JENS OLSEN, Sec’y.-Treas.
WESTERN FEDERATION OF
MINERS.
Headquarters 606 Railroad Build
ng, Denver, Colorado.
'HAS/ MOYER, ERNEST MILLS,
President. Sec.-Treas
LOCAL 240. W. F. M.
The regular meeting of the Nome
Mine Workers’ Union, Local No.
240. of the 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
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