Nome Industrial Worker
Published Every Friday.
By Nome Mine Workers Union, No. 240
Western Federation of Miners.
PAUL TURNER
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Capitalist morality begins and ends
in—Profit.
Everything today is excused except
failure. Get on or get off, is the
slogan. ______
The ethic of today is: Dog eat dog |
—eat or be eaten.'1 Only one God \
and ideal—Profit.
Love, religion and art have ever
walked and ever will walk hand in
hand. Art is the expression of man’s j
joy in his work; and art is the beau- \
tiful way of doing things.— Ex.
A great accumulation of wealth does
not make a nation either great or
prosperous. Without an equitable
distribution of it great wealth is a
curse to a nation, since it becomes an
instrument of oppression.
“Overproduction will throw from
seven to ten million men out of work
in 11)07-8. The army of unemployed !
will get bread by fair means or foul, j
during the coming industrial depres
sion.—John I). Rockefeller, at a ban
quet in New Vork city, June -1. 1905. I
Strong men infuse into their work a
deal of their own spirit, and their
words are charged with a suggestion
and meaning beyond the mere sound.
There is a reverberation that thrills
one. All art that lives is thus vital
ized with a spiritual essence; an es
sence that ever escapes the analyst,
but which is felt and known by all
who have hearts that throb and souls
that feel.—Ex.
Money is now exactly what moun
tain promontories over public roads
were in old times. The barons fought
for them fairly—the strongest and
eunniugest got them; then fortified
them, aud made every one who passed
below pay toll Well, capital now is
exactly what crags were theu. Men
fight fairly we will, at least, grant so
much, though it is more than we
ought, for their money, but once
having gotten it, the fortified million
aire can make everybody who passes
below pay toll to his million and build
another tower to his money castle.
Aud 1 can tell you, the poor vagrauts
by the roadside suffer now quite as
much from the bag-baron as ever they
did from the crag-baron. — Ruskin, “A
Crown of Wild Olive.’’
When Potter Palmer, several years
-ago, declared that for a decade he
waged as desperate a light agaiust or
ganized labor as was ever made by
mortal man, and that it cost him over
one million dollars to learn that the
unions form a permanent institution
and that their members constitute the
most intelligent and faithful working
people, his unexpected admission
created quite a sensation. Palmer's
experience was duplicated (in fact
doubled) by Orange Sard, formerly
president of the National Association
of Stove Manufacturers and one of
the most bitter opponents of organ
ized lator. For twenty-one years he
fought the unions, but recently he
testified in New York that he had
committed a costly error.
“I have been through the mill, so
to speak,” said Mr. Sard. ‘‘I have
fought the union. I have thought it
was to the interest of manufacturers
to destroy the union. Hut I have
been shown the error of my way, and
1 am prepared to say now, and have
thought for many years, that it is the
wise employer who encourages, rather
than discourages, unionism. ”—Ex-.
‘‘A crime is a crime, and it makes
no difference whether the wrong is
perpetrated by plutocracy or by a
mob, by a capitalist or by a wage
worker.” Yes, it does, Mr.Roosevelt.
If the crime is alleged to have been
committed by a wage worker, you
shut your eyes to the illegality of his
arrest, proclaim his guilt in advance
of trial, send your Man Friday Taft
to Idaho, to make a campaign of de
famation against him, and put all the
influence of your patronage at work
to procure his conviction and get him
hanged. If the crime is well known
and for many years has beeu well
known to be habitually committed by
a rich corpration, you go after that
corporation with a “stuffed club” and
make a great ado when it has been
sentenced to a line which, as you well
know, will never be enforced. That
is the difference.”
Since the time ot the Roman aris
tocracy what has any aristocracy done
for art and ilterature or law? They
have for over a thousand years been
in possession of nearly the whole re
sources of every country in Europe.
They have had its wealth, its libraries,
its archives, its teachers at their dis
posal ; and .vet was there ever a more
pitiful record than the list of “Roya*
and Noble Authors?” . . . The
painting and the sculpture of modern
Europe owe not only their glory, but
their very existence, to the labors of
poor and obscure men. The great
architectural monuments by which its
soil is covered were hardly any of
them the product of aristocratic feel
ing or liberality.—Uodkin, “Problems
in Modern Democarcy. ”
“Illiterate Socialism.”
In its issue of the 14th the official
j organ of the Guggs, the Standard Oil
uud other corporate exploiters of
I labor, under the heading of Fairbanks
Labor Troubles, says of conditions
| there:
“There is something un-Alaskan
about the idea (that of bringing U. S.
I troops upon the scene; something
that savors altogether too much of the
shady regions where illiterate socialism
holds sway. ” Then with much lion
joyed commendation of the “law and
; order” mob which there as everywhere
' endeavors to subvert the legitimate
i function of soldiers and police to
! their own private ends and with the
same old hackneyed cry of “anarchy
and disorder” endeavors to turn the
smypathies of its readers against the
men who are battling bravely and
against odls for the rights of the
working people.
Why is it that these official mouth
pieces of the profit sharks are contin
uously harping about the “illiterate
and wicked socialists?” Can it be
that the socialists who, originally got
their inspiration and courage from
the great philosophers Marx and En
gles, and who now maintain that the
facts of everyday life affirm the truth
and logic of the conclusions of the
socialist, can it be that they are
ically as illiterate and wicked as their
enemies represent them to be? From
every thotful and honest person comes
the answer, NO!
If the socialists were as illiterate,
wicked and bad” as the mental prosti
tutes of the plundering class repre
sent them to be, it would be un
necessary for the Guggs and Rocke
fellers to establish journals and em
ploy “editors” to tell the public of
the “wickedness and degradation” of
these representatives of the working
class.
The facts are that socialism is recog
nized as the science of the production
and distribution of wealth; as the
key to the explanation of social or
ganisms and social changes; that it is
the very breath and anchor of the
hopes of the wronged and exploited
prletaire; that in its rays sooner or
later exploitation of labor must melt
away, and that simultaneously will
arise the working class republic, the
refuge and hope of the downtrodden
and oppressed of earth.
In its vituperat ve and unwarranted
attack upon the workers of Fairbanks,
the local organ of the Guggs has once
more demonstrated its character of
venality, which should bring down
upon it the condemnation of all wage
workers.
The Best Code of Life,
During the week just passed there
has been much public discussion in
Chicago of the subject of ethical and
moral training, with special reference
to the education of the young. It
appears to have arisen mainly from
the Japanese imperial rescript of ed
ucation sent by the govfrnment in
Tokio to the president of the Board
of Education of this city. This re
script, or Japanese code, one would
imagine from thefoulsome things said
about it, is a document containing
principles that, once put into prac
tice, would revolutionize society and
produce a new and highly civilized
race. The president of the Chicago
Board of Education says of it that
“This rescript seems to fill the bill.
It teaches the highest kind of prin
ciples, ethical and moral, and incul
cates in the youthful mind the BEST
CODE OF LIFE, that of truth and
honesty in home, business and na
tion.”
We have read the code and are
compelled to say there is nothing in
it that, put into universal practice,
could by any possibility, change the
degradation, poverty and misery of
the human race which have prevailed
universally from the eurliest recorded
time to the present, aud under every
form of government that has been
tried. In order that our readers may
judge the code for themselves, we
quote in full the really essential part
of it, which is said to be “one of the
most remarkable documents ever writ
ten:” /
“Be filial to your parents, affection*
ate to your brothers and sisters; as
husbands and wives, be harmonious;
as friends, be true. Bear yourselves
in modesty and moderation; extend
your benevolence to all; pursue learn
ing and cultivate arts, and thereby
develop intellectual faculties and per
fect moral powers. Furthermore, ad
vance public good and promote com
mon interests. Always respect the
constitution and preserve the laws.
Should emergency arise, offer your
selves courageously to the state; and
thus guard and maintain the prosper
ity of our imperial throne,coeval with
heaven and earth.’’
There is nothing here but the veri
est commonplaces of capitalist moral
ity. This accounts for the warm com
mendation it receives from a capital
ist school board president.
The “best code of life” is a mean
ingless phrase when used in connec
tion with a code that ignores the
basis of life. The basis of life is
material. It has to do with the pro
duction and distribution of wealth.
No code that fails to recognize the
material basis of society is worth the
paper it is written on as a guarantee
for the security of society, and every
code that excludes consideration cf
the fundamental fact that wealth
should be enjoyed only by those who
render to society some socially useful
service, is unethical and immoral,
whether it comes from Japan or Pal
estine, whether conceived in an orien
tal mind or that of an American cap
i italist.
lhe best code of life would pro
vide for the teaching of these prin
ciples: Every child born into the
world shall lie equally provided with
the best education, the best of every
thing for the development of all its
faculties, surrounded by the best en
vironment known to science for the
formation of character, and guaran
teed the enjoyment of an equal share
with every other child in the wealth
of the society into which it is born.
All the codes ever written have been
the devices of the ruling or exploiting
classes, and necessarily precluded any
consideration of justice to the pro
ducing class: for that reason they
have all proved abortive and upon
them as base no superstructure of;
order, wisdom and happiness could be,
raised.
A rational and civilized society
would lind science of production,
science of distribution, science of
forming character (education), and
science of administration in these de
partments of social activity. No such
exalted view of society has been had
by any statesmen in the history of
America or of the Japanesa dynasty.
The people, and especially the work
ers, suffer because of the political,
moral and religious superstitutions
that, iu chaotic confusion, are kept
alive by political, moral and religious
fakirs, iu the interests of the injus
tice of private pioperty in the indis
pensable meant of life and progress
and happiness.
The (jouutless evils endured by
humanity emanate from the codes—
political, moral and religious—all of
them built on sand, because they
ignore the true foundation of an en
lightened equality, which is that
society now has tho knowledge and
the means of providing amply for ALL
those physical comforts which only
the few enjoy.
The Japanese code, like all other
emancipations of its kind, is valueless
because of what it excludes.—Indus
trial Union Bulletin, of Nov. 9.
Had to Dismiss the Case.
The dismissal of the cases against
Vincent St. John, Elmer Vice, A. E.
Johnson, Jerry Sexton, R. M. Rogers,
Harry Jardine and Ben Donnelly, at
Goldfield, Nevada, on charges of con
spiracy to murder one Silva, a res
taurant keeper in the mining camp,
without even the formality of a hear
ing in the courts, is virtually an ad
mission by the state that the campaign
of vilification and slander inaugurated
by the Mine Owners’ Association and
the Citizens’ Alliance against the In
dustrial Workers of the World and the
Western Federation of Miners was
without justification. It is also an
indication that the wrong pommitted
against Preston and Smith by the
business interests of Goldfield is to be
righted.
There was never any conspiracy in
the taking off of Silva. The facts are
so clear that when granted a new
trial, as they should be, Preston and
Smith will be restored to the liberty
of which they have been deprived
since last April. The shooting occur
red in the stormy period precipitated
by the Mine Owners’ Association and
the Citizens’ Alliance in their con
spiracy with the A. F. of L. to de
stroy the 1. W. W. Preston shot a
man who had threatened his life, and
the fact that his own life was threat
ened was proved. Smith, a former
business agent of the Miners' union,
as the Nevada Workman says, “was
convicted under a statute abrogating
the distinction between principal and
accessory, although it was proved
that Smith was in his home at the time
of the shooting, that the shooting was
unpremediated and that no collusion
m to the act could have existed be
tween the two convicted men.”
St. John and hie aix associates were
arrested solely for the purpose of pre
judicing court and jury against the
men on trial. Had it been possible
the business interests of Qoldfield
would have sent the seven to the pen
itentiary along with Preston and
Smith. But the state admits its in
ability to make good. The admission
of the state is a practical condemna
tion of the real conspirators and of
the entire proceedings.
We of the Industrial Workers of the
World, against whom the slandercus
campaign was directed, demand jus
tice for Preston and Smith. The
hatred of a few owners of mines should
not prevail against the growing opin
ion that a great injustice has been
done the two men now confined at
Carson City. —Industrial Union Bul
; letin Nov. 1.
Financial Statement of
Sherman.
Financial reports sent out by lianne
manu from 148 West Madison, for the
first nine months of this year, copies
of which are in our possssion, reveal
some curious facts. The principal
source of income during that period
was the musicians' “department,” of
which Wade Shurtlff is secretary and
organizer. Shurtleff, according to
Hauuemann's report, has sent to the
former headquarters of the 1. W. W.
i 8836.43. But Shurtleff, according to
the report, has rceeived on salary ac
count and for organizing expenses
; 8048.29—or 8118.80 more than the sum
received by Hannemuuu. As a matter
of fact, none of the money reported
as received was in all pr obability ever j
sent to Madison street, for the reason
that Shurtleff often “receives” on the
same date that he “remits” and in
identical amount What probably
t occurred was merely an exchange of
| receipts.
Another curious item in the report
! is the inclusion among “receipts” of
81.040.00. which was the amount dis
tributed from funds in the Prairie
state bank by the court, in September,
1007, with the consent of Hanuemanu,
which “consent” was forced by his
own attorney and M. P. Haggerty in
behalf of the I. W. W. None of this
money was ever “received” by 148
West Madison ; Hannemann never saw
a dollar of it; every dollar was paid
out by the court—8500 to the Butte
Mill and Seltermen’s Union and 8540
to the W. F. M. defense fund. Yet
liaunemaun includes the 81;040.00 in
“receipts.” By so doing the report!
makes it appear that the “receipts” |
in September 1907, amounted to
i 81,334.64. Deduct from this total the 1
amount he did not receive and the
; actual income for that mouth was
8294.64. Getting down to hard pan,
! you see!
i Turning next to the “expenditures”
for September, also padded and mis
■ leading, it is claimed that the total
paid out was 81,398.11; but this in
i eludes 81.040.00 paid out. by the court,
as stated above, which amount figures
neither as receipts or expenditures
and has no proper place whatever in
the report. It was simply used to
makeja showing in the face of a van
ishing support,an attempt to maintain
a desierate situation until the October
mutuil-iuterest convention which
meetsin January?. The expenditures
in September, if the report is to be
credifcd, really amounted to 8358.11—
863.471 more than receipts.—Industrial
UuiomBulletin.
INDUSTRIALISTS
IN GREAT BRITAIN
The Industrial Union Conference of
Great B itain, was held at Birming
ham, E iglaud recently. Delegates
were pri ent from London, Woolwich,
North K nt, Reading, Sheffield, Birm
ingham. lunddee, Glasgow, Edinburgh
and Lei L>. The conference adopted
resolutions setting forth that “this
coufereui i pledges the British advo
cates of I dust rial Unionism to devote
thier enemies to building up the Brit
of the I. W. W., in order
n the hands of the wage
e weapon with which to
hains of wage slavery from
bs, and so for e7er free
otn economic bondage.”
urghjdelegation presented
favoring the publication
monthly jouraal, which
isb secti<|
to place
workers
strike the!
off their 1$
humanity !
The EdH
a resoiutic
of an officii!
was agreed! to and “The Industrial
Unionist” Ihosen as the name. The
lines of tie constitution followed
closely thatpf the parent organization
in the Unit« States.
The mainlebate occurred on a mo
tion declarpg that politics is a
weapon whim the working class can:
hot ignore, tut is one which, prop
erly used, cal be of immense advan
tage,” and dis was finally adopted
unanimously]
Sure They Vould.—“Your customs
are enough toenake any civilized man
boil!” exclaiaed the missionary, in
dignantly. “pith the help of a little
dry wood,” resented tie Cannibals,
gravely.
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