§attg Nmnt Juikiatral IBorkrr.
Published Daily except Sunday
By Nome Mine Workers' Union, No. 240, International Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers.
"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly as possible is a worthy object of any good government.”—Abra
ham Lincoln.
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Address all communications to Daily Nome Industrial Worker.
Box 2X0, Nome, Alaska. Fhone. Black 134.
Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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on to noor
Thomas Riggs Jr.
is the name of the
political parasite
who is anxious to
fill the gubernat=
ional chair at
Juneau.
Riggs the work=
ingnians friend
“Nit”
Keep your eye
peeled & observed
who his support=
ers are.
(The following is a letter from Henry
Miller, a workingman now in jail at
Fairbanks, Alaska, with others, be
cause of activities for* th^ improvement
of the conditions cf the workers which
did not fit well into the schemes of
the Alaska politicians. Many will find
it hard to believe that such tyranny
could take place under the American
flag.)
Fairbanks, Alaska, Jail, Oct. 28.
Kilitor, Weekly People;
Dear Comrade:—I have endeavor:-.i
|to correspond with you for a long- time,
[to let j ou know what Is going on in
this famous Alaska railroad camp, and
liow a clique of loot 1 politicans is dol
ing out "justice" that would make
I he Ka novice at th<
p'.mc. But duo to the fact that all the
lights of a human being arc withheld
IrAm me, as from others, it is very hard
|o gt t word to you. The circumstances
|hat led to our arrest were these.
I was a contractor foi th Alaska
engineering Commission til the time,
londucting a grading t mp eleven
iles from Nanana for over two
bonths. The unfairness of the tom
lilssioner, Mr. Kiggs, who is in charge
|f the railroad, to the workingmen,
well-known here. In July. 101
IvindK'U fourteen or fifteen wor-klng
ken, myself included, out of a days
Ity, and in the fall of the same year
ftcit the employees of the Clovernntent
break a strike of the longshoremen
hiployed ljy the Wfnite Pass Co., it
livate corporation. Not feeling dis
used to lie used as jt strike breaker
■was discharged on that occasion. In
|e spring of this .'car, under the pre
nce of raising the wages 10 per cent,
|ggs reduced the same 10 to 12 per
• t. 1 came to town on July 9 to
|t /n some orders for supplies. Four
U'.' days prior to my arrival, some
the men who were working on the
|e! yutf.g. quit their work to form a
|iou. :i.imi to petition the President
,:1 . other influential officials to
Iso tbfeir pay. as the present rate of
Iges, which is ,1j cents tin hour, is al
jei her too small for a person to get
ough the winter with, a fact which
Biggs, the F. S. Attorney, Mr.
|h. . nil .ill the business people of
camp acknowledged. They formed
|nion in order to protect tiiemselvi -
at the encroachments of Higgs. This
Ion T joints', and everything went
lug till right, but as the organisation
|hoed members in large numbers
i.vl.'g at tills time about 200 mein
•s) and It.ol ftilr prospects of union
ig ull of the Alaska Kngineor'ng
mmission’s employees, Higgs • e
ao alarmed. He telephoned to the
?cral authorities qf Fairbanks, to
S Attorney Itoth, ajirt to TT. S.
Itrsltcl Ihvin, to stop tin men fnun
lizing. This they readily agreed
to, if for no oiher reason, than that of
playing for the favor of Higgs, who is
supposed to have prospects of becom
ing the governor of Alaska. The de
mand of the men for more money
might result in closing the railroads,
and Rlgg’s chances would be ruined
thereby. As commissioner he receives
$10,000 a year, something worth being
alarmed over.
When the Federal officials arrived
in Nenana they interviewed Bob
Smith, the temporary secretary of the
union, and told him to quit, but he
asked them whether or not he was
doing anything unlawful, and being
told ti'.at he was not, lie could see no
reason why ho should quit the union.
The evening when Higgs was to ad
dress the meeting the representatives
of justice got in some fancy work
that will forever stand as a blot on tbe
present Administration, unless it will
appoint some one to investigate this
affair, and punish the unscrupulous of
fenders and make good the injuries
and loss perpetrated upon the peace
able and freedom-loving victims.
About six o’clock they arrested the
temporary chairman, Charles Lestor,
on a trumpedup charge of having
made seditious utterances, and later
convicted him thereof and sentenced
him to one year-- imprisonment an 1
• 1 '*00 fine, which is equivalent to twe
years, four months and 15 days.
Wishing to,have l-osler present at the
meeting, bonds were given, and J.estor
should have been free at 'fhe time the i
meeting started, but the local marshal
was in a hiding place, and could not
befound. Smith, who was also active
in securing bondsmen, was told that
Hestor wished to speak to him in jail.
When he got there’ the doors were
| locked behind him. and he was told
I that he was under arrest, and was
also prevented from being present at
the meeting, Smith has only his first
citizenship papers out, and they used
that as pretense for accusing him of
being an alien enemy.
The unwarranted action of the guard
ians of law and order, of which Riggs
is believed to be the instigator, an
gered the men, and it was decided that !
the invitation extended to Riggs to
address the. injecting be withdrawn.
Having been elected temporary chair
man, I announced that fact, a motion
was put and carried, and Riggs will's,
drew. At 3.110 p. m. the marshal show
ed up and released Lestor. After the
meeting tlie marshal arrested another
! man, Fred Barrinsohn, also on tlie
charge of being an alien' enemy; he
also had his first pipers out. These
men had done absolutely nothing that
any fair-minded person could find
fault with.
Next morning, seeing that the rep
resentatives of justice, by their brutal
and high-handed conduct had ''queer
ed" the whole situation (which was
(a a fair way to being amicably ad
justed) I started for my grading caimp.
While crossing the street 1 was hailed
by some one. and told that Roth, the
1’. S. Attorney, wished to speak to me.
1 was asked whether I was a I'nited
States citizen, t said that I had my
first papers. Roth then said, that ho
believed that I was an agitator, and
an alien enemy. I told him 1 was not
responsible for what he bettered,
whereupon he called the marshal and
put me in jail. T told him that t was
on my way to finish my contract with
the Government and that he stopped
me forcibly from helping to build the
Alaska Railroad, the very thing that
he pretended to stop other men from
doing.
We were all transferee! to the Fair
banks jail, and have been held here
ever since, now for about four months.
The treatment that we are subjected
to Is such as a murderer would not be
deserving of. We are held absolutely
eiKom.municado; we are not permitted
to breathe a breath of resh air, we arc
given no exercise, and even medical
treatment is denied me. I am almost
going blind hi the dungeon that we
were hreswn into. The doctor promised
that he would seiiTl me something to
bathe my eyes with, and that he would
send ime eye-glasses. I have asked
for them constantly,' nothing Was
done, until very recently T \vnS*per
mitted to purchase eye-glasses at my
own expense, which is quite a con
ession. My eyes are ruined, perhaps
for life. I am suffering from apendicitls
and I have in my personal effects
things that X used to alleviate the
pains. •
i Even to get these things is denied
me. and I had to purchase them the
second time at my own expense, as
the doctor is not to be depended upon,
and my personal effects are ruined and
scattered. I am at a loss to account
for the cowardice and brutalities of
these guardians of law and order, hu
manity and democracy, as I have
never personally harmed them in the
least.
I ask, comrades, if this letter should
reach you that you may give these
facts a wide circulation, and if possi
ble bring pressure to bear upon the
Administration, so that these cases
may be investigated, and these pre
tenders of law and order, and other
sacred rights may get their just de
sert, as I do not think that the Ad
ministration is quite in accord with
such brutalities.
Henry Miller.
(New York, Dec. 29. 1917.)
BROTHER .JONATHAN
UNCLE SAM AND
WILL SAY SOME
NOTICE OP APPLICATION FOR
PATENT. NO. 0332.
In the United states Land Office at
Nome, Alaska. March 1, 1918.
NOTICE IS HffiKEBY GIVEN,
that Marie Neibling, a citizen of
the United States, over the age
of twenty-one years, whose post
office address is Nome, Alaska, has
made application before the United
States Land Office at Nome, Alaska,
for a Patent for the Sener Placer
Claim, situated on the right limit
of Dry Creek in the Cape Nome
Recording District, Alaska, Mineral
Surrey No. *199, said claim being
more particularly described In the
field notes and plat of the official
survey thereof now on file in said
Land Office at Nome, Alaska, to-wit:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identical
with Cor. No. 2, Sur. No. 328,
Beatrice Bench. U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 49 deg. 46 min. W .4550.00
ft Witness Cor., a fir post 4 ft.
long, 4 ins. sq. set 2 ft. In ground,
with earth mound 24 ins. base, 16
ins. high around same, scribed W. j
C. 1-1199 S B, 2-328 B B, bears
N. 18 deg. 54 min. W. 31.70 ft.;
thence N. 18 deg. 54 min. W. 361.70
ft. to Cor. No. 2, thence S. 55 deg.
26 min. W. 65 ft. to Cor. No. 3;
thence N. 29 deg. 12 min. W. 765.60
ft. to Cor. No. 4; thenceN. 53 deg.
50 min. E^ 630.60. ft. to Cor. No. 5;
thence S. 25 deg. 57 min. E. 1377.00
ft. thenci S. 79 teg. 14 min. W.
577.90 ft. to beginning, containing
an area of 16.569 acres. The varia
tion herein is from 19 deg. 15 min.
to 19 deg- 30 min. K.
Said claim Is situated on unsur
veyed ground on right limit of Dry
creek in Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska.
Mineral Monument No. 11 to
which this claim is tied is a fir post
6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground with
stone mound around same 6 ft. base
3 ft. high scribed U. S. L. M. No* 11,
about 2.5 miles N. N. E. of Nome,
Alaska, and in Latitude 64 deg. 32
min. N., Longitude 165 deg. 22 min.
! W.
The Notice of Location is recorded
in Vol. 86 Page 37, records of the
Cape Nome Recording Precinct,
Alaska.
The adjouring claims on the East
is No. 2 above Dry creek, Sur. No.
464; on the West the Beatrice claim
Sur. No. 328 and also unsurveyed
property and on North and South
is unsurveyed ground.
There are no conflicting claims.
THOS. McGANN,
Register.
Date of first pub. March 6, 1918.
Date of last pub. May 6, 1918.
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