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Wtf Nome Mine Workers* Union, No. 240, International Union of Mine,
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NOME, ALASKA SATURDAY, JANUARY, 4, 1918.
CAPITALISM AND
THE FUTURE
AH indications poin^ to a resump
tion of the struggle for the markets
of the world, in a more intensive man
ner than ever, the motto inscribed on
the flags of the capitalistic nations
to be ‘Every nation for itself and the
devil take the hindmost.” All govern
ments seem to show little inclination
to disarm or even consider a reduction
in their armament especially their
navies, because they know, that no
matter what peace will be arranged
trouble may occur between them
when they resume to market their
surplus manufaetuered products.
Every nation even the neutrals will
he anxious and in fact must protect
their home industries and how can
that be done unless import duties are
imposed to give them a chance to
compete with the manufactured pro
ducts of countries that may be able
to produce cheaper than they can.
England, France and Italy have for
some time made preparations to turn
their factories who have been turning
out war materials into establishments
to manufacture agricultural machin
ery, automobiles, machinery for all
purposes of manufacture etc, hereto
extensivey imported from the U. S.
England and Germany. It is a fact
that all countries will have to raise
money, some of them an enormous
amount, to pay even the interest on
the debt incurred by them during the
war, and that some of the govern
ments will try to raise part of the
required revenue thru the well estab
ished custolm of import duties, which
wil act as a barrier to trade with
other countries.
But this flooding of the world
markets with surplus products will
have, to come to an end when there
will be no more markets for the sur
plus products of the manufacturing
countries, and at that movement the
present capitalistic system will col
lapse and follow slavery and serfdom
into the discard. The number of
countries that consume more than
they produce is steadily growing less,
because they are struggling towards
selfdevelopment. For a long time the
South American countries were great
consumers of surplus products. But
lately several of these countries have
almost ceased as importers of manu
factures, importing to a great extent
only machinery and raw materials.
Japan was for a good many years a
grand duinpingplace for our surplus
products, but she has now surplus
products of her own to dump upon
other countries.
How pleased the manufacturers of
the United States were some years
ago over the enormous amount of
machinery exported from the United
States to Japan, accompanied by ex
perts to show the Japs how’ to manip
ulate these machines. But now thru
the exportation of this machinery,
goods manufactured in Japan are
flooding the United States with the
product of cheap Japanese labor. The
market of China has always been
looked upon as a lasting dumping
place for goods, but how much longer
will it remain that. What does the
phrase "the open door in China”
really mean? Nothing else but that
no nation should have the advantage
thru treaties in the Chinese import
trade. The time to coerce China
seems to have passed, and that China
will yield to foreign pressure as she
did in 1909 when she proposed to
build the Hankow railroad without
European assistance, with Chinese
capital, but had to yield to the pro
tests of European and American bank
ers backed by their respective gov
ernments seems to have passed.
Nothing can give one a better idea
of the power wielded by international
capital than the fact that President
Taft asked the Regent of China to
give the American bankers a chance
to grab some of the bonds to be issued
for the construction of this road.
Then China yielded as it did in 1841
when Great Britain with guns and
battleships, during the so-called
opium war forced the Indian opium
upon China, never caring a whit that
the Chinese government wanted to
stop the import and use of this dan
gerous drug.
But England did not seem to want
to go to war in 1907 when China pass
ed a new opium exclusion law. The
time don’t seem to he far off when
China wil refuse to yield, and when
that happens, look out for squalls.
Whenever countries who are con
suming the surplus of manufactures
cease to consume, times become hard
in the countries producing the sur
plus, factories close down and a panic
ensues. The closing of the factories
tends to restore the balance although
at he cost of considerable suffering of
the working class. This occups more
often the more other countries de
velop their manufacturing abilities,
and at some time in the future all
countries will be producing a surplus
and there will he no place left to get
rid of it. Then the present system
will break down because there wil
be no more profits to be made from
the export trade. When profit ceases
Capitalism will cease and industry
will have to established on a new
basis. And when Capitalism goes to
the wall, war, poverty, destitution,
most of the crime and a good deal of
disease will be also abolished. And
since the breakdown of the present
capitalistic system is In the course of
time inevitable, why should we wait
at an enormous cost in suffering and
lives until the rotten system works
out its own destruction? Why not
end it now, the world is ripe for the
change.
WAR OR REVOLUTION
(By J. S. WOODSWORTH)
What is Revoluton? Many assoc
iate It with bloodshed. It is true
that revolutions have often been ac
companied by bloodshed or ushered in
A)y bloodshed. It is true that some
advocates of the social revolution
can see no other means of accomplish
ing their ends than bloodshed. In
this, they are, of course, simply ac
cepting the principle on which this
war and every war is justified. But
whether or not revolution will be ac
companied by bloodshed is at most
incidental. It is not as the school
men used to say, essential to revolu
tion. Ultreatmeot of slaves disap
peared wlien chattel slavery as a sys
tap was aboljabjs*. Jp .|he United
States this gt;eat social change was
accpnipanied l^,a war; in British pos
s.ejaqqnp it was,brought about without
bloodshed. The end was the same—
tfie freeing of the slaves—the aboli
tion of an antiquated social system.
This is essentially what we mean
by revolution—the freeing of the
slaves—the abolition of the anti
quated social system. Since the in
dustrial revolution a new species of
slavery has grown up—a social con
dition in whch workmen not owing
their tools of production are depen
dent upon others for their livelihood.
Poduction has become social; owner
ship and control have remained in
the hands of a few privileged individ
uals who exercise a life and death au
thority and reap wealth undreamed
Qf by the old slave owners. Under
these conditions the old system of in
dividual ownership and control has be
come antiquated and must be replaced
by a system of social ownership and
control. This means revolution—a
turning of the world upside down—
or rather, since the world is now
wrong side up, it means turning the
world right side up. When icebergs
drift into warmer waters the submer
ged parts gradually melts; the center
of gravity is changed; the state of un-!
stable equilibrium cannot be longj
maintained. So one day there is a big
splash—over she goes—upside down
—right side up—now in a state of
stable equilibrium. In this present
social system the centre of gravity
has stiffened—confessedly we main
tain a very wobbly and precarious ex
istence. Revolution is inevitable—a
revolution that will bring not disas
ter but a state of stable equilibrium.
Revolution means the end of blood
shed because it means the end of
blood money. Why this war? War is
not a thuder-bolt out a clear sky. It
is not an unrelated phenomenon. It
has a definite cause or combination
of causes. It has been estimated that
already in this war "the killed and:
dead by fighting alone comes to over
ten millions of the best men in Eur
ope.” A little spark may kindle a
big fire, but surely a murder in Serbia
can hardly be held to be the sole and
sufficient cause of the turning of the
world into a shambles. Why this
war? It is not a religious war tho
Kaisers and would-be Kaisers may
call it a holy war. Catholic fights
against Catholic, Protestant against
Protestant. Mohammedan against Mo
hammedan. It is not a racial war,
black men and red men and yellow
men fight side by side with v/hite
men against white men. National
aims and prejudices play their part—
and a very important part, but this
world conflagration bps swept from
one nation tp another—-jumped all
boundries. It Is something deeper
than that. It is a war of democracy
against autocracy. So we British are
inclined to think and who does not
hope that out of the welter of it all,
democracy will emerge victorously?
But No Man’s Land is not a line that
divides autocracy from democracy. At
the beginning of the war England
Joined hands with Russia. “Democ
racy,” if you will, in league with
world-detested Tsarism.
Why the war. German aggression.
Even if Germany alone were tp blame
why German aggression? Why seek
new colonies? Why seek an outlet
in the East? Why seek ports on the
Atlantic? Why increase her navy?
Why so jealous of England? Why?
Trade! “Gentlemen,” said a prom
inent Canadian manufacturer, “we
must recognize that this is funda
mentally a trade war, and we must
prepare for the war after the/ war.
And so long as the existing indus
trial and commercial system exists,
we may look forward to war. Our
Canadian .manufacturers are already
planning to take advantage of wider
markets after the war. So are the
manufacurers of every civilized coun
try in the world. So are the manu
1 facturers in the countries which till
recently have been “new fields for
I exploitation.” Where the the new
j morkets to come from? Rebuilding
devastated Europe may take a few
years, and then we shall need to
knock it to pieces again or our work
will cease! That, of course, taken
for granted that Europe can pay us
for our work of rebuilding, but how
repa-y us except in goods which we
; don’t want, lest they should ruin our
own industries.
No! The advocates and benefi
of the present system can show
us no way out.
“It is possible,” says a writer in
The Nation, “that the human race has
now entered upon a generation, an
age,, or an aeon in which war will be
• the normal state, and peace extraor
| dinary; war the rule, peace the ex
jception; war contnuing almost unin
| terruptedly, and peace breaking out
j only now and then.”
| Permanent war—or Revolution!
Surely the human race will not be so
blind as to refuse the alternative.
Even without the aid of machinery
) or scientific knowledge, man was able
j to produce enough to sustain himself
| and devote considerable time to art
and religion. With ohr modern equip
anent, if instead of grasping after
more profits, we could produce what
we need, there would be eneugh for
all and to spare.
AUTHENTICITY OF
BOLSHEVIKI PAPERS
A good deal of comment has been
made in the capitalistic press relating
to the supposed Bolsheviki activities,
and there has been reproduced what
is supposed to be incriminating evi
dence as to the Bolsheviki intrigue
with Germany. In view of this com
ment, the following from the New
York Evening Post on this matter will
be of interest:
The Bolsheviki Documents
“Mr Creel is confronted by a sim
ple and immediate duty. He should
supply the newspapers with facsimile
reproductions of the documents that
Mr Sisson brought with him from
Europe and whch, in the English
translation, have been given to the
press. We do not ask for this be
cause we think the material as given
out by the Committee of Public Infor
mation does not correctly represent
the originals, but because we believe
that the documents themselves are far
from being above suspicion, and
should therefore in their exact form
be subjected to as wide a scrutiny as
possible.
“In the material as printed, there
is plenty of ground for doubt. It may
be that the publication of the Rus
sian or German facismiles will sup
ply other evidence. The plain fact
is that some of the most important
charges and documents brought for
ward by Mr Sisson were published in
Paris months ago and have, on the
whole, been discredited. Mr Sisson
remarks of Document 2, printed in
the Petit Parisien, that ‘the Petro
grad Bolsheviki papers proclaimed it
a falsehood.’ He does not tell us
what new reasons there are for be
lieving in the authenticity of Docu
ment 2 in vfew of the very solid argu
ments that were made against it.”
The Post then goes on to say that
the Sisson Documents now have only
on academic interest, as the policy of
the Allied governments has been de
termined by other and more power
ful data. It then continues as follows.
“We are coming nearer to condi
tions with regard to the whole war
in which the character of the govern
ment's information must inevitably
influence its policy in a tremendous
world crisis. The ‘facts' upon which
the administration and the American
people base their opinions and poli
cies must be, indeed, facts.
“A dlose but by no means exhaus
tive study of the first instalment of
the Sisson documents raises the fol
lowing doubt:
“(1) The circular of the German
Imperial Bank concerning remittan
ces to Lenine, Trotzky, and others is
dated March 2, 1917. This would be
a week before the revolutionary
troubles began in Russia and nearly
two weeks before the Tzar was de
posed. Did the German Imperial
Bank forsee the overthrow of the
Tzar so precisely? In Europe this
document, No. 2, has ben repudiated
on the ground that it was written
long before the events, by a Russian,
who thought in the Russian chrono
logy, which is thirteen days late, and
that March 2 was really a mistake for
our March 15 when the overthrow of
the Tzar was an accomplished fact.
This charge requires an answer.
“(2) Document No. 2 speaks of
the arrest of a certain agent having
on his person the original of the Im
perial Bank circular of March 2 1917,
'with notations and stamps of the
Petrograd secret police (Okhrana).’:
Now, the offices of the notorious Ok
hrana were stormed by thee rowds in
the first days of the revolution, say
on March 10 or 11. We must sup
pose, therefore, that a-circular issued
by the German Imperial Bank on
March 28. and addressed to bankers
ip Sweden, had time to get to Petro
grad, to fall ino the hands of D
Okhrana, and to be stamped by the,
Okhrana ofiicals, in just a week. The
thing is almost incredible and points
to fabrication.
"(3) Document 5, a letter from
the German General Staff to the Bol
shevik! government, accrediting cer
tain . German agents, is dated 'Oct.,
1917’. In Oct 1917, there was no
Bolsheviki government. Their coup
was delivered on our November 7.
We must suppose, therefore, that
the German General Staff dated his
letters by $e Russian cfcrjijjplogy.fc
Even then, Oct, l$\?Ncai)aQt.])e later, ,■
than November 12, so that five day a •
after the Bolsheviki coup the German.
General Staff is assigning its agents
to the Bolsheviki minister of Foreign
Atfairs, and minister of Finance. And
always on the supposition that Berlin
thot in terms of the Russian calendar.
“ (4) Document, is a letter from
the German General Staff to the Com
missary of Foreign Affairs ordering
the election of a large number of
Bolsheviki leaders to the general exe
cutive committee by the Soviet con
vention. These leaders are spoken
of as ‘candidates for re-election’, so
that fhe Soviet convention must have
been in session. The convention was
opened January 25. But the German
letter is dater January 12. Again
we must suppose the general staff at
Berlin to be using the Russian chor
nology which would make the date
exactly January 25—a striking coin
cidence.
“These are but specific items. The
general tone of the documents Is a
strain upon credulity. The ordera
and instructions and demands and
responses have the directness of a
thieves’ kitchen; it is not the way in
which government conspiracies are
couched. Mr Creel owes it to the
country to do his best to find out
whether we are really face to face
with the most extraordinary cabal in
history or whether Mr Sisson is the
wictim of a gigantic hoax.”
CHARGES HAKEI
WASHINGTON, Dec 31—Senator
Chamberlain of Oregon, Chairman of
the Committee on Military Affairs,
charged Secretary of War Baker with
extreme and unexplainable slowness
in paying to the U. S. soldiers their
war risk insurance. He also blamed
Secretary Baker for the lack of hos
pital facilities for returned wounded
soldiers.
The Secretary claimed in his de
fense that his department has handled
all war risk insurance claims as ex
peditously as possible and denied
Chamberlain's charges of inadequacy
of hospital facilities entirely.
PORI) INCREASES WAGE
DETROIT Jan 2—The Ford Motor
Company of this city concluded a very
successful year by paying a two hun
dred per cent dividend to their stock
holders. The company after the dis
tribution of this melon most gracious
ly raised the minimum wagescale of
their employees $1 per day paying
now $6 per day to $5 paid formerly.
BHVO $3.50 PER DOZEN AT LEH
MANN'S
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THE WORKER.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the United States Commissioner’s
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
I dersigned has been appointed admin
istrator of the estate of Fred Larsen.
I deceased, by the above entitled court.
Ail persons having claims against
i said estate are required to present
; them, with the proper vouchers, wlth
j in six months from the date of this
notice, to the undersigned administra
i tor, at Nome, Alaska.
J, C. WIDSTEAD
| Administrator of the estate of Fred |
i Larsen, deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
I In the United States Commissioner's
Court for the Precihct 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, by 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
ten Anderson, deceased.
PUB—Nov 30. Dec 7, 14, 21, 28.
NOTICE OK APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
M. A. No. 0339
M. S. No. 1215
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OF
FICE AT NOME, ALASKA. 4
NOTltE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
Archie McDonald, a citizen of the
United States, residing at Nome,
Alaska, and whose post office address
i* Nome, Alaska, has made applica
tion before the United States Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, for a United
rrr.-j: 'J”."''11-' t-il1 1UL, A
PLUTOS AS
SOCIATION PLACER mining «tota
situate on -the le^Mipit »f Dry Cr**k,
between the headaofPeluk <J^pk $*&
F«yikl}n<Julch,*ipnt Z& oQ($i N. *.
of the Town of Noma, in the Gape
Nome Muting and Recording District,
Alaska, Second Division, being Mjn.
ral Survey No. 1215; said claim being
more particularly described la the
field notes and plat of 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. 1202, Mead
ow Associaton Placer, a fir post 4 fins,
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.) 1473.80 ft. to Cor.
No. 2, a fir post 4 ft. long, 4 ins. sq.
in earth mound soribed 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, OBiris 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. S-)
1329.30 ft. to Cor. No. 1 and place of
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 Survey 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 so 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 nn
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 50 ft. from the
railroad and 2 % miles North of Ber
ing Sea, in Latitude 6 4 deg. 32 min.
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: Ou the
North, Survey No. 1209, Mrytlo Claim
Placer and Meadow Association
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. No.
1209, Osiris Placer, • Eskimo Gold
Dredging Co., claimant.
THOS McGiANN
Register.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To J. N. Flack, Nome Kougarok Con
solidated Mines Company and Jacob
Zeman, 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 thie 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.
Yon 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 in
said mining claim if any, will become
the property of the undersigned, your
co-owner, under section 23 2 4 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States.
AD CAREY
Co-owner.
Published—Nov, 23, 30. Dec. 7, 14,
21, 28. Jan. 4, 11, 18. 25. Feb.l, 8, 16.
FIN A I,'NOTICE
In the IT. 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 SCHROEDER, 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 Friday, the 22nd day of Novem
ber, 1918, 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 said account and the ob
jections thereto, if any, and for the
dictribution of the residue of the
said estate.
JAHIS J. STOKES,
is..._ Admimlstrgtor. j