NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER
WEEKLY
Published Saturday
By Nome Mine Workers' Union, No. 240, International Union of Mine,
Mill anil Smelter Workers.
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“To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or ae
nearly as possible Is a worthy object of any good government.”—Abra
ham Lincoln.
Address all communications to Tn -Weekly Nome Industrial Worker.
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Kntered as second class matter August 6, 1918, at the Post Office
•t Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
GOVERNMENT!
CONTROL OF
RAILROADS
President Wilson has exusnded con
trol over the railroads in the United
States for twenty one months of er
conclusion of peace and Senator Lewis
has pledged the Democratic party tor
Government ownership of all railroads
the utter policy he! ’g surely they
more acceptable to the common peo
ple. That some step in this direction
must be taken has been fully made
plain pot alone to the people but to
the government since this country en
tered the war as an active participant.
Look at Germany, faced as she was
by a ring of powerful enemies and who
were capable of an irresistible cam
paign, her railroad equipment has
served her miltiary and industrial
needs. Germany has had lots of
trouble in a social way but the pro
duction for her fighting forces has
been kept up. nothwithstanding her
lack of raw material while the whole
Industrial system in the United States
collapsed. We have an immense sys
tem of railroads in this country, but
their only excuse for being in exist
ence was profit. The needs of the
country were a secondary considera
tion with the financiers. Bleeding
the people thru excessive railroad
rates and stock jobbing on Wall Street
wore the mainsprings and causes thru
which most of the great fortunes of
the so-called American magnates have
been amassed.
Why should the whole industrial
system in the U. S. have collapsed?
If not for the reason that the rail
roads and industries did not come up
to the needs of the people.
We had plenty of miners, yet suf
fered a shortage of coal thru mis
management and incompetence of the
responsible railroad officials, who or
iheir superiors the directors not heed-:
ing the warning of Jim Hill, who de-i
dared sometime before the outbreak
of the war that it would be necessary
to invest five billion dollars in new
equipment to bring the railroads up to
the present day needs, let the road
beds and railroad equipment deteiorr
ate thru their greed tor dividends.
That the government is facing an
enormous task in taking over the rail
roads for good is piain from a state
ment of a prominent railroadman who
is quoted in the Cleveland Plain Deal
er, as saying:
It may not sound exciting or strike
the imagination as a huge undertak
ing, but literal}’ untold millions will
have to be poured into trackage con
nections and additional terminal fa
cilities "so that the sidetracks and
terminals of the various roads can be
linked into one system. Only when
this is done will the 'use of railroads
as a sngle system be possible to the
fullest extent. It will relieve the con
gestion in yards and terminals more
than anything else.
But it is our humble opinion that
PncleSam will be equal to the task.
That the principle industries with
the exception of those directly under
government control had virtually col
lapsed thru the inability of the rail
roads to give adequate service and
that something other than prvate con
trol over (hem is absolutely necessary
is plain to all. The idea that such an
enormous task as the management
of the railroads can he better perform
ed thru the efforts of individuals as
has been the contention of most of
the so-called professors of economy
teaching at institutions endowed by
capitalists has been exploded. That
something will have to be done is
plain to even the most dense Intel
I
lect because it is ridiculous to imagine i
that after peace has been made our
troubles will cease automatically.
Will' Fuels I’rvjudlcr Against Femi
nine Workers; Question Ik Only
Whether They Are Available.
New vocations open to women are
reviewed by Miss Margaret Scott,
Woman's Division, United States Em
ployment Service, Department of La
bor. who receives many queries from
j»irls (.ifsatisfied wit.i the work in
which they are engaged and from
those who desire to prepare them
selves for service during the war.
Miss Scott says: _
“Opportunities offered through the
Civil Service Commission include:
Registrar in the Civil Service, scien
ttific assistant, law clerk, stenog
rapher, negative cutter, market as
sistant, field Jtnd lab oratory assistant j
In plant pathology, scientific assistant
in marketing, specialist in agricul-j
ttirai economics, freight car record j
clerk, geologic aid or assistant gao!o-l
gist, map colorist, rural mail carrier,I
trained nurse, file clerk, laboratory
assistant, biochemist, artist-drafts
man, laboratory helper in soil physics,
laboratory aid, curative worker, me
chanical draftsman, topographical
draftsman, printer, office machine op
erator. blue printer, expert linguist,
field examiner, research agent, tele
grapher. telephone operator, coder,
economist, finger-print classifer.
Each month new fields are opened.
“Broadly speaking, I should say
that a change to almost . any work
heretofore known as 'man’s' work
would be excellent for a dissatisfied
woman worker. The war has or will
have, depleted the supply of teachers
of mathematics, assistant teachers of
chemistry, and teachers of other sub
jects usually assigned to men. The
chemical laboratory and the drug
store especially invite newcomers. So
do mechanical drawing and drafting
of various kinds—not architectural
mark you, for that has been hard hit
by the war, as haB the newspapers and
magazine publishing profession. And
! on good authority I am toB that this
condition will prevail foi*a year or
two after peace is concluded.. So don't
decide to take a course in journalism
at this time. Leave that tufed architec
ture to the distant future.
“Medicine and denistryw are two
more professions which hold great
possibilities, and in the present and
near future at that, for wosaen. Really
all a worker bent on a change of oc
cupation need do is to rea^ the news
of the industrial and professional pre
paration for war and, keep||g in mind
her own natural bent and her qualifi
cations, experience, tastes and income
make her own selection of a new busi
ness or profession and proceed to
qualify in it gradually, slowly, but
surely, or intensively, as her circum
stances permit.
“One of the most recent avenues
opened to women is that of optical
glass workers. Untl the war started
this country obtained most of its opti
cal instruments from Germany. But
the optical- glass problem has been
solved, except for skille'cl workers. To
meet this shortage the Ordnance De
partment of the Army has established
in Rochester, N. Y. a training school
for operators on precision optics. A
living wage will be piad during the
six weeks’ course, on the completion
of which the students wiUBoe able to
enter one of the optical munition fac
tories.
The woman who has longed to be
a welfare or social-service worker has
a greater chance than ever before of
finding employment. Stores, factories
schools, colleges, corporations, com
munities, cities, counties, States, the
Nation, here in America and abroad
all have need for this kind of female
w:orker. »
'A great day has dawned for the
woman with a mechanical turn of
mind. Now, properly and safely
garbed in ‘womanalls,’ she can run
this, that, and another machine or
make parts of machinery and, even in
experienced, make a better salary than
she could Sn school or office to stait
with, in some instances making a bet
ter salary than she could at the end
of wo decades in classroom or office.
Then, too, a great day has dawned for
inspectors. But here are experienced
and inexperienced inspectors, and the
; salary for the latter does not compare
| with that of the former."
The above article was published
in a circular issued by the Department
of Labor. That as the article says,
many avenues of employment have
been opened to women during this war
and that many manufacturers are full
of praise for the way the women have
aquitted themselves as workers in jobs
and office is true enough. The Press
is full of eulogies about their capabili
ties. but one wonders '■wether all the
admiration so fulsomely .expressed is
entirely due to the capable way they
have in a good many instances replac
ed men even at hard physical labor,
or whether there is a nigger in the
wood pile somewhere. May not the
fact that women are invariably com
pelled to work'cheaper than men have
a lot to do with the praise bestowed
upon them?
That manufacturers prefer such an
arrangement Ms plausable enough.
Less trouble with those pestiforous
Labor Unions, more docility and a
shirking of the payroll. Lovely thot.
But will the dear women take the bait
we doubt it very much. Besides what
becomes of that famous slogan, the
womans place is her home? Will
that bull con be peddled any more, or
is that and with so much more to be
relegated to the limbo of forgetful
ness?
SHALL PREJUDICE
||ULEP
There is sqme great force in Amer
! ica that is working for the destruction
I of all organiazed efforts that are aim
ing at Industrial Democracy. The I.
W. W., the Socalists, the A. F. of L.,
the Bolsheviki and the Non-Partisan
League are all slated for destruction.
Prejudice is the chief weapon that
is being used. Some one is putting
poison in the press dispatches about
every radical that is opening his
| mouth or writing a line to giim utter
ance to any protest whatever;*
| The following news item went the
| rounds of the capitalist press. It
| was an inspired dispatch from Butte,
I Montana. We think that the govern
j ment might do well to investgate who
1 the guilty parties are that are send'
j ing out such misleading statements.
If papers be in one thing, then we
! should not he expected to believe any
j thing they say and each individual
r,ust therefore be compelled o draw
i ail of his own conclusions about all
I tilings that are happonng in this and
other lands.
Here is the dispatch, which is
j known to be a deliberate lie so far as
; the paper mentioned Is concerned. We
: make a big guess that the other part
j is equally faite
Si air of I. \V W. Journal .-seized.
“BUTTE, Mont. Sept 14,—Federal
and city officers assisted by United
Slates infantrymen, raided Industrial
Workers of the World headquarters
here arm il e offices of the Butte Bul
letin, a daily newspaper, the publica
tion of Which has been forbidden by
j the State Council of Defense, and ar
rested the entire staff of the paper.
“The arrest follows circulation here
of an appeal to the miners to cease
work, declared by officers to 'have
been issued by the I. W. W. The
members of the newspaper staff were
taken to police headquarters for in
vestigation in connection with articles
published in connection with the at
tempted strike, according to the au
thorities.”
If the i. W. W. have a headquar
ters in Butte, Montana, now, they are
certainly some brave fellows. In fact,
it is a pretty sure thing hat they are
only used as a bugaboo while the Non
Partisan League is being destroyed,
- for the Butte Bulletin is the official
organ of that organization. The Non
Partisan League carried the primaries
n Butte county. Jeanette Rankin w's
backed by them for U. S. Senator and
tbe country was carried for he*
The State Council of Defend has
caused the arrest o the Bulletin edi
tc.r and its business manager for dar
ing to criticize them.
it will be interesting to watch this
f'ght, for he Non-Partisan League is
n farmer organization with a big hold
t il North Dakota. South Dakota and
Minnesota, and is spreading n a
s milar manner as the Populist move
ment did thirty years ago.
"•lie thing is certain, and that, is,
tla the class struggle is in thi" fight
'll Butte and the mine owners who
burg Frank Little seem to be still on
the job in Butte, Montana.—The
World.
WAR AIMS OF
THE WORKERS
i
The outstanding fact of world poli
tics at the present time, and when
peace comes ths fact will be made
clear, is that a great tide of revolu
tionary sentiment is rising in every
country. Everywhere the people are
becoming conscious of their power.
They are beginning to ask Questions
about the policies that have brought
the world to the edge of ruin. In this
war the people have shown that they
are capable of the greatest sacrifice
and endurance because they love lib-1
ertv and are desirous of peace. But
the people will not choose to entrust
their destiny at the peace conference
to statesmen who are not prepared j
to make a peace which will be re
ceived with favor by the people. Ai
peace which will substitute right for
might, either by force of arms of the
power of the almighty dollar.
That unless the war has been
fought in vain, politics in the future
will be dominated by the common
people. They are getting more and
more organized imbued with the aim
to establish a more equitable form
of government on this earth, drenched
with the blood of the worlds best
manhood, and wet with the tears of
humanity. A World not dominated
by a spirit of hatred and revenge, ex
pressing itself in a trade boycott but
by human brotherhood.
The people (excluding the ammuni
tion manufacturers and other profi
teers) or weary of the war. They
have been subjected to the present
capitalists form of government too
long and have seen its faults in the
most blaring form. It ■ took this
world struggle to open the eyes of the
people as nothing else could have
done. Untold misery has been brot
upon the world thru this war but
this cataclysm will do more to ad
vance the cause of labor the world
over than a century of peace. It is
up to the working people to insist up
on justice being dealt to them.
Only lack of harmony and divided
counsel among themselves can wreck
this movement.
GOLD
A lot of foolish rot is being written
these days about gold. Some facts
bring us down to brass tacks in con
nection with its function as a medium
of exchange and explode the notion
that credits will be sustained or re
habilitated by any increase of produc
tion under intensive subsidizing.
At the end of the yearf 1915, the
stock of gold in the world functioning
as money in gold bullion reached the
total sum of $8,258,213,000. jThis
sum is increased at the rate of about
$471,000,000 a year during normal
production periods. Compare these
facts with the facts as to bonds, war
debts and so forth and understand
that gold is not the basis of security
but the national wealth, hte product of
mines, mill, factory, field and farm.
Why since he United States mint
was established a total gold coinage of
$3,278,099,628 was coined.
The annual industrial consumption
of gold is relatively small and bears
the proportion to the total production
as 35 s to 50, a very small proportion
indeed^when one considers that gold
has been the main working metal of
manufacturing jewellers.
Security for payment of debt is
best devised upon the product of the
farm or factories, or upon the stored,
or present or future output of them,
as is guaranteed by the property law.
It is upon property in these forms o
national wealth that the national cred
it is secured: the national wealth and
the national resources and not upon
the national gold supply which is to
day little more if in excess three and
a half billions, not equal to one single
flotationof Liberty bonds. These are
secured by the natural wealth and
the natural resources of the United
States thru the right of the nation to
tax those who own them to liquidate
the payment of all indebtedness.
MAKE FARMS PRODUCTIVE
WASHINGTON.—Farm-labor prob
lems in France are being taken up
serously by the American Committee
for Devastated France, which has com
municated a plan of its work to the
Department of Labor. The commit
tee's aim is to increase the produc
tivity of French farms as much as pos
sible and to make France as nearly
self-supporting as it can, so that the
produce from American farms can be
supplemented by grain and other food
stuffs grown at home. * '
Because of the near approach of
winter the committee is not attempt
ing this season to deal with abandoned
farms, but is working wth farms al
ready under cultivation.
The committee is particularly in
terested in two types of refugees—the
farm owners and the hired laborers.
Many farmers, driven fram their own
lands by the invaders, want to be
placed on land where they can earn
a livelihood for themselves and their
families. Many of them have been
able to take wth them a part of their
live stock, and the committee places
them, when possible, on its farm colo
nies.
The committee has, all told, about i
1,200 acre?, but there are 29,000 refu
gees in the Kure-et-Loir alone since
the last offensive. It is the ‘practice
of the committee to pay men 5 francs
a day and women Sfrancs when it
hires them for farm work.
A new bill enacted in France makes
it possible for an abandoned farm to
claim S7S on acre for cultivation.!
The object of the bill is to facilitate I
the cultivation of abandoned or partly
abandoned soil in France.—Depart
ment %of Laborr
NOTICK TO CREDITORS
—
In the United States Commissioner's
Court for the Precinct of Cape
Nome, Secorfd Division, Territory
of Alaska, in probate.
In the matter of the estate of Christen
Anderson, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been appointed admin-'
istrator of the estate of Christen An
deron, deceased, by the above named
court.
All persons having claims against
said estate are requested to present
them, with the proper youcbers. with
in six months from the date of this
notice, to the undersigned adminis
trator, at Nome. Alaska.
JOHN A. WILSON,
Administrator of the estath of Chris
ten Anderson, deceased.
PUB—Nov 30. Dec 7, 14. 21, 28.,
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
M. A. No. Q339
M. S. No. 1215
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OF
FICE AT NOME, ALASKA.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
Archie McDonald, a citizen of the
United States, residing at Nome.
Alaska, and whose post office address
is Nome, Alaska, has made applica
tion before the United States Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, for a United
—*— T'J » r-—. ■* ■■■ ■ ' i .1
States Jtatent tor the PLUTUS AS
SOCIATION PLACER mining plot—
situate on the left limit of Dry Creek,
between the beads ot Peluk Creek and
Franklin Gulch, about 2 % miles N. ft.
of the Town of Nome, in the Cppo
Nome Mining and Recording District,
Alaska, Second Division, being Miu
ral Survey No. 1215; said claim being
more particularly described in the
field notes and plat ot the official sur
vey thereof now on file in said Land
Office, at Nome, Alaska, as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identical
with Cor. No. 3, Sur. No. 1209, Mead
ow Associaton Placer, a fir post 4 ins.
sq., 2 ft. above ground, in earth
mound, scribed M.-3-1209 and 1-1215
P. whence U. S. L. M. No. 19 bears
N. 78 deg. 34 min. E. 4822.4 ft;
thence S. 22 deg. 43 min. W. (Var.
18 deg. 03 min. E.) 1473.60 ft. to Cor.
No. 2, a fir post 4 ft. long, 4 ins. sq.
in earth mound scribed 2-1215 P;
thence N. 63 deg. 05 min. W. (Var.
18 deg. 10 min. E.) 1218.10 ft. to
Cor. No. 3, identical with Cor. No. 2,
Sur. No. 1209, Osiris Placed; thence
N. 17 deg. 51 min. E. (Var. 18 deg.
03 min. E.) 1226.70 ft. to Cor. No. 4,
identical with Cor. No. 1, Sur. No.
1209, Osiris Placer; thence S. 74 deg.
16 min. E. (Var. 18 deg. 03 min. E.)
1329.30 ft. to Cor. No. 1 and place ot
beginning; containing an area of 39.
253 acres. Total area applied for be
ing 38.401 acres.
That said claim is in conflict with
and overlapped by purvey No. 1209,
Meadow Association Placer to the ex
tent of 0.589 acres, and by Survey No.
1209, Myrtle Claim Placer to the ex
tent of 0.263 acres, all as shown by
the official plat and field notes of sur
vey thereof, but that said areas 30 in
conflict with the Plutus Association
Placer are hereby excluded from this
application and patent for same is not
hereby or hereunder applied for.
That said claim is situated on un
surveyed ground on the left limit of
Dry Creek, between the heads of
Peluk Creek and Franklin Gulch,
about 2^ miles N. E., of the Town
of Nome. U. S. L. M. No. 19, to which
this claim is tied, is a fir post, painted
white, 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground,
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 19. in earth
mound, situated on the right limit of
Otter Creek, about SO ft. from the
railroad and 2% miles North of Ber
ing Sea, in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min.
North, Longitude 165 deg. 17 min. W.
That the original notice of location
of said claim is recorded in Vblume
190, page 5 of the records of the
Cape Nome Recording District
Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: Ou the
North. Survey No. 1209, Mrytle Claim
Placer and Meadow Associatioa
Placer, Eskimo Gold Dredging Co.,
Claimant; on the East 40 Acre Tract
Association, unsurveyed: on the
South claims unsurveyed and claim
ant unknown; on the West, Sur. Ko.
1209. Osiris Placer, Eskimo Gold
Dredging Co., claimant.
THOS McGANN
Register.
NOTICE OK FORFEITURE
To J. N. Flack. Nome Kougarok Con
solidated Mines Company and Jaeoh
Zemifn, your heirs, executors, admin
istrators and assigns:
You and each of you, are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars dur
ing each of the years of 1914, 1915,
1916, and 1917, upon the following
described placer mining claim, situate,
lying and being in the Kougarok Re
cording District, Territory of Alaska,
to-wit: The upper one half ( %) of
Creek Claim Number Three on Dahl
Creek in the Kougarok Mining Dis
trict.
You are further notified that if
within ninety (90) days after the
publication of this notice you fail or
neglect to contribute your proportion
of such expenditure, your interest ia
said mining claim if any, will become
the property of the undersigned, your
co-owner, under section 2324 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States.
AL CAREY
Co-owner.
Published —Nov. 23, 30. Dec. 7, 14. .
21, 28.?ian. 4, 11, 18, 25. Feb.l, 8, 15.
KINAKj NOTICE
In the U. S. Commissioner's Court
for the Cape Nome Precinct, Sec
ond lflvision. Territory of Alaska.
In probate.
In the matter of the Estate of
WILLIAM SCHKOEDER, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that James
J. Stokes, Administrator of the Es
tate of William Schroeder, deceased,
has filed his final account as such
administrator and his petition for the
final distribution of said estate, and
that Fiiday, the 22nd day of Novem
ber, 1918, at 2 o’clock P. M. of said
day at the courtroom of the Probate
Court income, Alaska, has been fix
ed as the'tiine and place for the hear
ing of the said account and the ob
jections thereto, if any, and for the
dictribution of the residue of the
said estate.
t,.,:
JAMBS J. STOKES.
Administrator.
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