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No. 40
Vol. 2
Nome, Alaska, Friday, APRIL 3, 1908.
SOMERS LUMBERMEN
HOLD BIG SMOKER
Somers, Mont., Feb. 5.—On Febru- s
ary 2nd, the I. W. W. lumbermen of i
Somers, Montana, held a big smoker
at Sliter’s hall. The affair was under t
the auspices of Local '584, I, W. W. i
,£t being Sunday, many lumbermen <
laid off and attended.*- There are
about 1,200 lumber workers here or- '
gauized in Local 1484, so the hall was i
literally packed with workers, who i
came out as an evidence of their in
terest in unionism.
During the entire afternoon excel- '
lent music was rendered by the Som
ers I. W.„\V. orchestra. Cigars and
refreshments were on hand in abund
tnce and a good time was enjoyed by
ill.
In the evening a number of good
ipeakers were present an$ addressed
he workers upon the question of in
lustrial unionism. l’’red W. Hessel
vood, Executive Board Member of
he I. W. W., delivered the principal
ipeech. He was listened to with
narked attention by the hundreds of
umber workers who were present.
Sesselwood dealt mainly with the
[uestiou of the importance of labor’s
lolidarity, and his arguments were
veighted with facts to prove that the
udustral organzatiou of the working
class is the only effective method by
which the economic and political
power of the working class can bs
weilded to strike the herculean blows
necessary for labor’s emancipation
from the tyirauies of capitalist ex
ploitation.
At 12:00 m. the meeting was dis- ,
missed, the workers going their way
feeling that much good had been ac
complished for the cause of unionism
by a day of recreaion and enjoyment. '
A number of lumber workers took 1
advantage of the occasion to enroll 1
themselves among the union men.
This makes the great majority of the
camp now completely organized.
FISHERY WORKERS
MAKE AGREEMENT
San Francisco, April 1. —The men
vho follow the fishery work have
eached an agreement with the Alaska
flishery Association, and the strike
thieh was expected to occur has been
iverted. Negotiations had been pend
ng between the employes and em
doyers for some time; finally a detin
te agreement lias been made.
A conference between n comimttee
of the wage workers and a similar
committee from the Union Alaska
Packers have agreed upon a wage
scale, which is the same as last year
and the tishermeu were holding out
for.
Now that a settlement has been
made, several thousand men will re
reive employment, which will he some
relief to the depressed industrial con
iitious. The first vessel left Friday,
March 27 ; there are about forty ves
sels engaged in the trade, and in a
short while they will all sail for Alas
kan waters.
CIVE WORK
TO MANY
Philadelphia, March, 31.—This city
has negotiated a loan of ten millions
of dollars with which to employ tbe
thousands of destitute men, who are
roaming the streets in enforced idle
ness. The men will be given work at
improving streets and parks and do
ing other public service work. The
question of the unemployed in Phila
delphia became a serious thing, as it
has in other cities of the country. It
is thot that the loan raised and the
plans for improvements will greatly
assist in solving the question of what
to do with the unemployed in this
•ity.
TO SHIP LOGS
Vancouver, B. C., April 1.—During
the next few mouths, the British
Columbia loggers will unload a half
million dollars worth of logs from the
mills of Puget sound. Ordinarily
such acbiou would be against the ex
port laws of the United States. But
an overstocked market has caused
Hon. F. J. Fulton, chief laud com
missioner, to give permission for the
logs to be exported from the states.
This enlivening of the logging in
dustry will give employment to many
men and will to some exbent aid in
relieving the needs of the unem
ployed.
THE MILWAUKEE
WILL EXTEND
Seattle, April 2. —The Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul railway com
pany announces that it will immedi
ately begin work on its Seattle termi
nals ; and that it will also push con
struction work all along its lines from
Chicago to Seattle. Many men are to
be employed. This announcement is
hailed with delight by wage workers
and others, as the industrial depres
sion all over this part of the countcy
has entailed much hardship and
suffering among the working people.
If the plans of the Milkwauee are car
ried out as announced, the depression
will be somewhat relieved. The
Milwaukee now plans to run trains
from Chicago to Seattle over its own
tracks by the opening of the Exposi
tion.
i LIVING IS HIGH
—
J The cost of living, according to
| statisticians, has increased phen
omenally since 1896- According
to Bradstreet.s Commercial agen
cy the cost of living has increa
sed 54.8 p. cent since July 1 1896
This means that if it cost a man
$100 u month to live in 1896 it
now'costs him $154.80 a month
to live in the same manner now.
Arthur J. Brooker is sparing neither
time nor money in staging "Only a
Miner’s Daughter,” on April 4.
REFUSES TO
PAY FINE
Chicago, Aqria 1— A dispatch to
the Record-Herald from Wabash,Ind.,
says: Mrs. Lacy Burris, owner of
two farms and much city property,
and who was lined by a Wabash cir
cuit court jury one cent for assault
and battery on her farm tenant, Tom
Sivets yesterday was taken to jail
because she refused to pay the flue.
The jury gave her the least possible
line. Mrs. Burris, although wealthy,
stubbornly asserts she would never
pay a cent. She is a widow and
manages her own affairs.
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TO MEMBERS OF THE WESTERN FEDERATION MINERS AND FRIENDS OF, THE NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER
Time and again tlie enemies of this paper have said they would get control of it, or crush it. Every means known to crooks and lickspittles have been used in there efforts to aecomplish|itheir
infamous purposes. The explosion which occured in the rear of the Industrial Worker failed to put us out of business; likewise the campaign of lies and slander directed against the
management of this paper have failed to decive the miners The latest attempt to get control of th*e paper and subvert it from its proper channel as a union paper and make [it] [an
organ of the capitalists and ward politicians is a frame—up with the printers who have been working on tire Industrial Worker- The two printers whom the miners union and|the miners
paper have defended long and well, have turned traitor and gone over to the enemy. An attempt was made during the last week to disable the press and the type, setting
machine, and the hand of suspicion points unerringly toward the aforesaid persou. This issue is got out under many difficulties by the editor with the assistance of some of the loy
al friends of the miners union. We now have an opportunity to secure competent printers, who can get out the paper in better shape and at less expense than was possible with] the|two
printers who turned Judas. Action will be taken upon the question of securing competent printers at the next meeting of the union, tomorrow night.
COME TO MEETINC
TOMORROW NIGHT