NOME liH WORKER
WEEKLY
Published Saturday
Bf N'jih Mine Workers’ Union, No. 240, International Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers.
SubtcfyfaoB Price
Ste Months ..55.00
fine Month .... ..... 1.00
“To secure to each laborer the whole product of h^b labor, or as
(Marty as possible Is a worthy object of any good government ”—Abra
ham Lincoln.
Address all communications to Tri -Weekly Nome Industrial Worker.
Box 210, Nome, Alaska. rhone. Black 134.
All changes In advertisements must reach this office before SA. II.
•n day of publication to insure insersion in same issue.
Advertising rates made known on application.
Entered as second class matter August 6, 1918, at the Post Office
•t Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
NOME, ALASKA SAMLRDAV, DECEMBER, 28, 1918.
OMINOUS AND
SINISTER CLOODS
ON HORIZON
I
The smug serenity and sweet con
tent of the world’s ruling class is
being shaken loose from its normal
placidity by the appearance of a cloud
upon the horizon that is frought with
such sinister and deadly significance
as to bring affrightened shivers to the
soul of even the most callous and
phlegmatic of the ruling and robbing
tribe. That terrifying cloud that is
rearing its hideous and sinister bulk
so threateningly is the c’oud of "re
pudiation." The Russian Revolution
ists announced its coming, and the
shivers of fright began to go "over
the top" along the financial spine of
the rolling class giant. And or.e af
ter another among those who are ad
mitted to be peculiarly qualified to
speak with authority upon financial
lore, logic and possibilities, are con
firming the Bolsheviki prognostica
tion that the complete repudiation of
at least what are termed national
debts. Is a foregone conclusion for the
near future. Of course, the threat
ening approach of such a terrifying
probability will cruelly wrench the
heart-strings of all those of the tribe
of plunder whose eggs are largely
stored in the government loan bas
ket, but if they have sufficient brains
to enable them to understand a very
simple mathematical problem, they
will find perhaps soothing salve for
their torn and lacerated heartstrings
and sweet solace for their harried
souls in the comforting assurance that
all debt will be liquidated in the same
manner, for the very simple reason
that no other solution is mathemati
cally possible.
* * *
Debt is contracted in connection
with the production of exchange
values and the passing of those values
from one person or persons to an-j
other person or persons in the process
of finally disposing of such values
by consumers thereof. All exchange
values arep roduced by human lobor j
and by thot force, quality or attribute
alone. There is nothing outside of the
labor of the hand and brain of man
that can and does bring forth such
value. All transactions that may take
place in connection with the produc
tion and subsequent disposition of
«--.UCv> values are primarily based upon!
an*/ determined by the amount of j
humart energy—commonly termed la-'
. bor puweP—that has been necessarily'
expended in the production of the
articles beng dealt with. The magni
tude, of the exchange value embodied
tn the article or articles being dealt j
with is determined by the amount
of human labor power—measured by
time— necessarily embadied in their
production. This being so, and the
fact that labor alone produces or
brings forth all exchange values,
clearly sets forth the reason why pay-[
meut to the laborers for having pro-j
dneed or brought forth these values
is absolutely impossible. Being the I
producers of all exchange values, they i
could not be paid therefor except by j
receiving equivalent values in ex
change. The manifest impossibility j
of this is found in the very fact that
the laborers in question produce all
exchange values. Payment can only
be made by the handling over of
equivalent values. As no one can
come into possession of exchange
value—in tne shape of articles carry
. ing such values—without obtaining
such in some manner from the pro
dusers thereof, and as there is noth
. ing outside of that which the laborers
bring forth by their labor that can
possibly possess exchange value, it is
manifestly clear that when such val
ues are found to be in the possession
of others than the producers them
selves. these values must have been
obtianed without any payment what
soever. No equivalent could have
been given because no equivalent ex
isted. It seems that such a conclu
sion is self evident.
* * *
As it is impossible to pay the work
ers for the things they produce by
their labor, the difficulty is overcome
under the present system of slavery,
by the masters taking their products
away from them and giving them a
promise that payment will he made
in the future. This promise is termed
money ami is to be redeemed out of
the products already taken away front
the workers holus bolus, and only
calls for a bare sufficiency out of such
product to enable the workers to con
tinue the process of producing ex
change values for the master class
to appropriate. When this so-called
money is redeemed, as far as the
workers who receive it are concerned,
it still continues in existence and
I .
keeps on passing from hand to hand
indefinitely. Each particular piece of
it is a promise to pay that can never
lie put out of business except by re
pudiation. This may be accomplished
in numerous ways. It may be de
stroyed by fire or some other calamity
or withdrawn from circulation by; the
authority issuing it, which is also
equivalent to its destruction or repud
iation. Being issued against stolen
goods or values, and issued solely for
the purpose of covering the theft and
retaining the goods, it can not be
eliminated thru payinen, for the same
reason that the workers who produce
the goods are not paid for what they
produce. There is nothing in which to
make payment. The goods remain
stolen from the producers thereof,
utterly regardless of what transfers
of ownership of such goods may have
been made between individuals and
concerns during the process of wear
ing them out or otherwise getting
rid of themi.
w * * *
All stocks, bonds, deeds, mortgages
loans, debentures, etc., belong in the
same category as that which ts termed
money of currency. All this stuff i9
credit. It is all in the nature of an
obligation that the future is supposed
to redeem or pay. It is all a promise
that the future is supposed to keep,
to make good. It does not represent
wealth that is particularly in exist
ence at the present .moment, so much
as it represents, or consists of an
order upon wealth, that Is to be pro-|
duccd in the future, even by genera
tions as yet unborn. And with the
exception of such limited portion of
it as may. at a given moment, still
be in the hands of the wealth pro
ducers, the workers, it represents,
not wealth that has been saved thru
the ‘ thrift and abstinence" of the
holders, but the paper shadow of that
tail
which has been stolen from the pro
ducers faring; the past hytfcair. rulers,
master end patter. It is the legal
ghost of all the iniquity end infamy of
the past that has. been perpetrated
upon the. enslaved toilers of the world
by the self-conaUtuted and autocratic
chattel slave masters and feudal lords
of old, and that is still being most
gloriously perpetrated and emphasiz
ed by tbe gallant capitalist rulers and
champions of democracy and the
higher culture of today.
* * *
And will the repudiation of all this
swindle inflict a wrong upon even
a single individual? Most emphati
, caliy no! The goods have, been long
since stolen and consumed. The
I amount of the theft is almost beyond
: human computation. The figures run
f up into the hundreds of billions al
ready, and are mounting at a speed
that is dizzying in its intensity. The
world debt, which by the way, is the
world capitalization, has long since
become staggering in both magnitude
and folly. It is only blind and stupid
fools who are still unable to see the
absolute mathematical impossibility
of It. That goods, things, merchan- :
values, brought forth solely by i
t.ha labor of men could be taken from
the producers thereof and sold thru
out the the earth in any other man
ner than upon credit, a credit that
could never he redeemed except by
wiping it off the slate, i3 a conception
so absurd, so utterly impossible that
j-t could find lodgment only in a most
profound simpicity. To any one pos
sessed of even the rudiments of an
understanding it should be as plain
as a pikestaff that whatever is possi
ble in the way of payment, must be
made, and can only be made, by the
producers themselves, and this can
only be made in the energy they ex
pend in producing the values In ques
tion. There is no other coin of ac
tual pajment. All others are subter
fuges. They are promises that can
not be kept. They shoud be repud iat
! ed by the slaves of production. And
they must be so repudiated if the
slaves are to free themselves from the
yoke of bondage they have borne all
down thru the ages. Their freedom
can mean nothing less. Until they do
that they are.still slaves.—Exchange.
_—_.MJJIJ_
LODGE AND THE
PEACEfAIMS
*
l
Senator Lodge of Massachuotts
seems to be squarely opposed to
President Wilson's Peace aims, judg
ing fron^his utterances on the floor
of the Senate.
WouUMt not have been, better pol
icy to have informed Preident Wilson
before he departed for Europe that
he and seemingly a good many other
Senators are not in harmony with
the President’s peace aims? Did he
and his clique not consider it an op
portune *time. to threaten he Presi
dent that they would refuse to ratify
a peace treaty which included a set
tlement ot_the questions of the free
dom of the seas, reduction of naval
armaments' and tse removal of eco
nomic barriers?
Did tta speech, delivered by the
;itj^g(h|P*em|ir, ^loyd George and
Winston Churchill, give them the
needed backing in their opposition?
Do they think that President Wilson
will on account of their opposition
change his views over night for the
sake of expediency?
Why are they so insistent that they
will not stand for a reduction in naval
armaments? Were we not told daily
that once the German military ma
chine were destroyed, peace would
resign forever and a day?
The only menace then existing, ac
cording to some journalists, to a
universal niiDemium. were the Hoh
enzollerns and the German military
party, whose boundless ambition to
conquer the whole world kept Europe
an armed camp. This danger has
been removed and Germany for quite
some time to come has been eliminat
ed as the so-called most disturbing
factor in world politics. Why the.n
this insistence on naval supremacy?
Surely the Allied nations when they
made their protestations of amity to
ward each other did not keep their
fingers crossed while doing so.
Will the struggle of the different
nations for the control of the world
market be resumed more bitterly
than before? Even Japan who has so
valiantly fought to spread some of her
democracy, is if reports are to be re
lied upon increasing her navy and
army establishment** fifty per cent.
(The tonnage of her navy as to pres
ent constituted is a matter of much
doubt, even among those who are sup
posed to be well versed in such af
fairs) Is Japan looking for trouble
in the Orient, especially China and
Siberia, the latter fat morsel lying
helpless at her door ready to be swal
lowed if Japan has her way unopposed
The only reason Japan has for her
contemplated increase in her fighting
is possible future trouble, with some
of her present companions in arms.
Shes urely would not burden her al
ready overtaxed population unless she
has to her shrewd oriental mind good
reasons for doing so. One of the
main factors seems to be that she is
well aware that sooner or later her
commercial ambition and her greed
for expansion (certainly peaceful at
] all times, witness Manchuria and
China proper) will run counter and
arouse the ire of some of her present
friends among the nations. President
Wilson it seems was well aware that
there were squalls ahead and that is
why in our humble opinion he con
cluded to make the trip to Europe
to attend the peace conference de
spite the fact that it would be a fine
opportunity and not to be over looked
by his opponents of the Lodge type
' to hinder him as much as possible.
The task ahead is no enviable one for
President Wilson. It is enough to
daunt any man to undertake to con
ciliate and bring into harmony so
many national ambitions that so
greatly conflict with each other.
Well, here is hoping that the dele
gates under his guidance will be able
to form a more equitable peace treaty
than the one held at Berlin in 1878
to settle the Balkan imbroglio, which
botched affairs owing to the jealously
among the different powers among
themselves and especially between
Russian and England kept the sick
man of Europe a factor in Balkan
politics up to the present day and
where realy the foundation for the
late unpleasantness was laid.
.'■.. ■ "■ "
GAME LAWS ARE
REVISED'ALASKA
The revised laws forf the protec
tion of game in the Territory of Alas
ka which became effevtive August 1
1918. have been sent out from Wash
ington for the edification of Alaskans
and while many of them bear the Dr
Hornaday-Roosevelt earmarks, they
are a decided improvement over the
former ones.
Regulation :t—The killing of fe
males and young of certain animals.
The killing of female mountain
sheep, female deer, mountain sheep
lambs, mountain goat kids and the
fawns of deer and caribou, south of
the Arctic Circle is hereby prohibited.
Regulation 7—Sale of Moose Meat
between latitude 62 degrees and the
Arctic Circle—.
The sale directly or indirectly of
moose meat in Alaska between lati
tude 6a degrees and the Arctic Circle
between December 25 and August 19
both dates inclusive, is hereby pro
hibited, and no moose meat shall be
procured for serving and served in
any boarding house cafe, cannery,
eating house, hqtel, mess house or
restaurant by the proprietor thereof. *
<r his agent in Alaska between lati
tude 62 degrees and the Arctic Cir
cle. between December 25 and August
19 both dates inclusive.
Regulation 6—Sale of meat, car-1
cusses or parts thereof, of moose, car
ibou, mountain sheep ami mountain
goat south of latitude <12 degrees—
The sale directly or indirectly of
the meat carcasses or parts thereof
of moose, caribou, mountain sheep or |
mountain goat in Alaska south of lat
itude 6 2 degrees and between longi
tude 141 degrees and the western out
let of Lake Clark in longitude 155 de
grees and the shipping of the meat
carcasses or parts thereof of said ani
mals for sale from Anchorage, Sew
ard or other points on the Kenai pe
ninsula, is hereby prohibited; and no
meat, carcasses, or parts thereof, of
said animals shall be accepted for
shipment to other points in Alaska
unless accompanied by affidavit of the
owner that they were not purchased
and are not intended for sale.
The meat of moose, caribou, moun
tain sheep or mountain goat shall not
be procured for serving and served in
any boarding house, cafe, cannery,
eating house, hotel, mess house oi^
restaurant by any proprietor thereof
or hfa agent n Alaska, south of lati
tude 62 deg rasa and between longi
ude 141 degrees and the western out
let ot Lake Clark in longitude 166 do-,
grees. t )
Regulation 0—Hiring Hunters Is
Prohibited^-—
The hiring of any person, directly
or indirectly to kill or capture game
birds or game animals for any board
ing house, cafe, cannery, eating house
hotel, mess house or restaurant In
Alaska, south of the Arctic Circle is
hereby prohibited.
Regulation 10—Open Season for
Mountain Gouts—
The killing of mountain goats ip
Southeastern Alaska east of longitude
1*1 degrees and on the Kenai penin
sula is hereby limited to the period
from September 1 to October 31, both
dates inclusire.
Regulation II—Killing of caribou
and Mountail Sheep on the Kenai
Peninsula—
The killing of caribou oa the Kenai
peninsula east of longitude 150 de
grees (the location of which is defin
ed by a north and south line passing
through the Stalter place on the I£e
nai river) is hereby prohibited until
August 1, 1920.
Regulation 13—Killing Game to
Feed Dogs or Foxes—
The killing or permitting the kill
ing of deer, moose, mountain sheep,
mountain goat, or any game bird, for
feeding dogs or foxes of for baiting
traps of any kind in Alaska south of
the Arctic Circle is prohibited.
Regulation 13—Preventing > De
struction of Game by Dogs—
Killing or preventing the killing of
moose, deer, caribou, mountain sheep,
or mountan goat wth dogs, permit
ting any of the said animals to be
killed by dogs or permitting dogs to
hunt moose, deer, caribou, mountain
sheep or mountain goats in Alaska
south of the Arctic Circle is hereby
prohibited. On the Kenai peninsula no
dogs shall be allowed to run at large
unless under the control of their
owners or custodians, shall he allowed
outside the immediate vicinity of
Hope, Kenai, Roosevelt, Seldovia,
Seward and Sunrise. For the purpose
of this regulation the immediate vi
cinity of the towns shall be considered
to mean one mile in any direction
from the postofllce.
Regulation 14—Game Killed by
Natives, Miners or Explorers.—
Game kiled by natives for food or
clothing or by miners or explorers in
need of food shall not l>e sold directly
or indirectly, nor served in any board
ing house, cafe, cannery, eating house
hotel, mess house or restaurant.
REVO $8.50 PBR DOZEN AT LEH
MANN'S
GET THE iVKWS RIGHT. RKA8
THE WORKER.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
[in the United Slates Commissioner's
i Court tor the Precinct of Cape
| Nome, Second Division, Territory
of Alaska, in Probate.
In the matter of the estate of
FRED LARSEN, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been appointed admin
I istrator of the estate of Fred Larsen,
! deceased, by the above entitled court.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to present
I them, with the proper vouchors, with
j in six months from the date of this
1 notice, to the undersigned adminis'.ra
I tor, at Nome, Alaska.
J. C. WIDSTEAD
Administrator of the estate of Fred
; Larsen, deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
I -
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court, for the Precinct of Cape
Nome, Second 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, l,y the above named
court.
All persons having claims against
said estate are requested to present
them, with the proper vouchers, with
in six months from the date of this
notice, to the undersigned adminis
trator, at Nome, Alaska.
JOHN A. WILSON,
Administrator of the estate of Chris-j
ten Anderson, deceased.
PUB—Nov 30. Dec 7, 14. 21, 28.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
M. A. No. 0339
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
s.t*tat Patent tar tho m^XFTtyk A3
•WaWfTION PMkCBR mining «Wm
»n tho l«K limit «t jpry
th» bonds of Pdak rw|
Ftahklin Gulch, about 3-^fe ^Qnn. X.
et the Tow® flf N®sie, j* gfe® rj®-,
No** Minin* and Recordi®g
A tanka, Swand Dinguo®, *,1®, jy®.
r*l Survoy No. ,** eUllo
m«w» particularly described la (*•
field note* and plat ot the offlclal aar
vey thereof now on file in said T.a«u
Office, at Nome, Alaska, a* follows:
Beginning at Cor No. 1, identical
with Cor. No. », Sue. No. 1309, **ud
ow Aseoclaton Placer, a fir pout 4 Ms.
sq., 2 ft. shove a round, in earth
Jhouad, scribed M.-3-1209 and 1-1225
P. whence U. S. L. M. No. 19 bwys
N. 78 deg. 34 min. E. 4822.4 ft;
thence S. 2.2 deg. 43 min. W. (Var.
18 deg. 03 min. B.) 1473.80 ft. to Cor.
No. 2, a fir post 4 ft. long, 4 1®». M.
in earth mound sorihed 2-1216 P;
thence N. S3 deg. 05 mia. W. (Var.
18 deg. 10 min. B.) 1218.10 ft. ta
Cor. No. 3. identical with Cor. No. 2,
Sur. No. 1209, Osiris Placed; thence
N. 17 deg. 51 mi*. E. (Var. It do*.
03 min. E.) 1326.70. ft. to Cor. No. 4,
identical with Cor. No. 1, Bur. No.
1209, Osiris Placer; thence S. 74 dag.
16 min. E. (Var. 18 deg. 0.3 min. *,)
1329.30 ft. to Cpr. No, 1 and place of
beginning; containing an area of 39.
263 acres. Total area applied for be
ing 38.401 acres.
That said claim is in conflict with
and overlapped by Survey No. 12*9.
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 so ia
conflict with the Plutus Association
Placer are hereby excluded from this
application and patent for same is net
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*6 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 e.vrth
mound, situated on the right limit of
Otter Creek, about GO ft. from the
railroad and 2Vt miles North of Ber
ing Sea, in Latitude 64 deg. 32 mlh.
1 North, Longitude 165 deg. 17 min. W.
That the original notice of location
of said claim is recorded in Volume
190. page 5 of the records of the
Cape Nome Recording District
Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North; Survey No. 1209. Mrytls Claim
Placer and .Meadow Association
Placer, Eskimo Gold Dredging Co.,
Claimant; on the Bast 40 Aero Trust
Association, unsurveyed; on the
South claims unsurveyed and claim
ant unknown; on the West, Sur. No.
1209, Osiris Placer, * reskifpi. Gold
Dredging Co., claimant.
THOS McO&klt ]
Register. '
NOTICK OK KOHFKITUKK
To J. N. Flack, Nome Kougarok Cea
nolidated Mines Company and Jauk
Zeman, your heirs, executors, edmia
istrators and assigns:
You and each of you, are heiejiy
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended in labor and improvement*
the sum of one hundred dollars dur
ing each of the years of 1914, 1919,
1916, and 1917, upon the following
described placer mining claim, situate,
lying and being in the Kougarok Re
cording District, Territory of Alasltu,
to-wit: The upper one half (%) ef
Creek Claim Number Three on Dalil
Creek in the Kougarok Mining Dis
trict.
You are further notified that if
within ninety (90) day?, after the
publication of this notice you fail er
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 CARRY
Co-owner.
Published—Nov. 23. 30. Dec. 7. 14,
21. 28. Jan. 4, 11. 18. 25. Feb.l. 8. 16.
KINAIj NOTION
In the U. S. Commissioner's Court
for the Cape Nome Precinct, Sec
ond Division, Territory of Alaska.
In probate.
In the matter of the Estate of
WILLIAM SCHROHDER, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that James
J. Stokes. Administrator of the Es
tate of William Schrocder, deceased,
has filed liia final account as such
administrator and his petition for the
final distribution of said estate, and
that Friday, (he 22nd day of Novem
ber, IBIS, at 2 o'clock P. M. of said
day at the courtroom of the Probate
Court in Nome, Alaska, has been fix
ed as the time and place for the hear
ing of the eald account and the ob
jections thereto, if any, and for the
distribution of the residue of the
said estate.
JAM MS J STOKHS.
Admiaistrator.