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“To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
•early as possible, is a worthy object of any stood government. —
anraham Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134
All changes In standing advertisements must reach this office at six
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, a> the post office al
home. Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, December 17, 19K>.
The Industrial Worker V
tended in the past ar.d rente id.
now. that whatever reforms labor | <
can secure and maintain secured i I
will come, through tho strength.)
of its own organization on the eco- i
nomic field; and when labor legis-j'
lation is obtained from any source1 <
other than * from labor itself, that ;
legislation wiil he a dead- letter un s
less labor itself has the means and
strength to enforce it. And if it ;
has that strength to enforce legis-jl
lation. no legislation will be needed i
for it can enforce it, of course, .
without it.
Yet it is recognized that others
differ with this view, and pin their
faith to political possibilities which
facts hardly endorse.
Tako the eight hour law in this
community. It is violated with
impunity. The employers with their
interest as employers to consider
and to direct them, will get as
cheap labor and as long-houred
iabor as they can. There is no rea
son from their standpoint to make
gains why they should not. They
are to he expected to manifest no
interest in enforcing such a thing as
the eight hour law.
On the other hand, the unorgan
ized unionman who has boon victi
mized at the gambling tabic o<
other resort finds himself penniless,
without means of support, and
roadily violates the law working his
ton hours In ordo- to get a job by
which to live. Economic compul
sion drives him to do that, for he
faces the competition of other non
unionists situated as he is himself
and needs must when the economic
devil drives.
It is not impossible to imagine
however federal officials so devoted
to the laws and tho enfcrccment
thereof, that they would he at pains
to see that they were lived up to
and not violated; but one hardly
expects that under the present sys
tem. Those officials have other
views and other ideas concerning
the enforcement of labor laws and
look on with apparent indifference
when more honored in the breach
than in the observance.
It is quite unnecessary to point,
out the intimate t( lation between
the gambling the* imen carried
.11 in Nome and ;i 1 f the
night hour law. Fi: i tie g - ..lblers
victimize the non-unionman, and
then the non-uinonraan works ten
hours a day when he get - a chance.
Uut why do not the federal offici
als suppress gambling if it is not on
account of this very intimate rela
tion exists between the violation of
the labor laws and the victimization
>f workingmen? Thrt's what we
would very much line to know.
Suppose, therefore, the Union
puts this matter to a crucial test,
ollocts data concerning violation ot
the eight hour lav/ and tho brazen,
flagrant g milling that has been
going on in this camp tor the past
twelve months; properly attest this
collection of data, and trancmit the
entire data to thy Department of
Justice, and put it up to them that
they see that the laws are here
enforced.
The Industrial Worker cees no
reason why the enforcement of tho
laws should be left to the private
individuals and that the officials
who are paid to do it should require
private citizens to collect evidence
upon which they can secure convic
tions. Only, the Industrial Worker
contends, by closing both eyes to ob
vious facts can the truth as to law
violations in the matter of gambling
in this town be unknown to official
dom and such ignorance of real con
ditions would appear to be an emi
nent reason for dismissal for lncom
potency. Moreover, the assumption
of that ignorance is the most chari
table construction can be placed
upon official indifference and there
are many will not concede it at all.
Now then, tho Union can collect
this evidence which the officials wili
not; and giving these facts the ut
most publicity send the same to the
■•(•partraent of Justice end demand
hat officials hero bo instructed to
arry out the laws which they hav -
lean sworn to do, or get out i' i
he good of the service.
A well known correspondent at
Vashington says that complaints
ir charges against federal officials
ire received at about the rata of a
core a day in every department,
fliese have no chance of obtaining
i hearing unless it can be shown
hat the senders are not soreheads
>ver political matters, disappointed
obbites or men expecting to get a
ob. In the event that they are sent
n by individuals or associations
laving no possible objects to gaii.
hey reccivi immediate attention.
When the Nome Mine Workers
Union collects data concerning the
;ambling that prevailed here and
prevails here; collects its data as tc
the violation of the Territorial eight
hour law and petitions for redres'
of such conditions have followed
irom the apparent immunity froir
the penalties following such viola
tions of the law, no person can ac
cuse the union of political bias
favoritism, or job seeking. TV
I’nion has only one object and the.
is to see that these laws which ar‘
not enforced be enforced, and the
if the present officials do not en
force them, others who will tal-i
their place.
In this there will be no frame-up
no secret affidavits, no behind-the
doors mystery; but full publlcit;
for all the facts, full publicity fo
all actions because there is nothin;
to hide and secret action in this i
as foolish as secret politics and se
cret diplomacy.
The idea that private citizen
should make themselves the butt o
a gambling clique in town becaus
the lazy, indfferent or ignorant offi
cials drawing fat salaries will nr.
do the work, is quite absurd. Th
idea that workingmen who may i
consequence be black-listed by em
plovers for their acts in this regarii
should have to furnish leisure-lov
ing officialdom with the facts as t'
violations of labor laws before the;
will make a move to enforce them
is too rdiculous, and if the worker
do collect the facts let them collec
them for the benefit of Wasliingto;
and put it up to Washington wheth
er or not it is the idea there tha
an Alaskan federal position is t
become a sinecure and men who ar
not salaried, have to become th
stool pigeons of such sinecurists.
Back of the action that would b
taken, the miners have the entir
strength of organized labor in th
United States, and through Denve
and through Washington tha
strength should be availed of to tii
full. This can easily be brougli
to hear upon the highest officia’
and upon the members of Congress
who will recognize the reasonable
ness of this petition, and we can b
assured as we l|vve been assurer
that many of these as in the pas
will be even from a political pole
of view, anxious enough to see ths
the laws such as they are, are et
forced.
If laws are to obtain respect it i
manifest that they cannot as t
their enforcement be treated wit
disdain by those responsible fo
that enforcement, and assuredl
when all is said and done, the moi
positive method of bringing all int
contempt is to manifest activity i
one class direction, and none at a
in another.
it certainly is time that some a<
tion of this nature should be takei
unless the workers have alread
fully made up their minds that littl
can be expected f'om any of thee
officials, high or low, but even t
that, it would be worth whil? knov
lng how far the violation of som
laws and not others esn bo carrle
on by those who do so, because the
are merely labor laws or laws whic
protect in some measures tt
working class from certai
parasitic influences all tending 1
keep him in sujectlon.
As one man says in twenty-four
hours the laws would be obeyed it
he officials trusted with their en
forcement made up their minds
that they w’ould be.
If this legislation is all humbug
meant for occasional show and for
political purposes, it is well to know
it. It is easily ascertained. Some
laws as now administered in this
division are a humbug pure and
simple;; it would be purposeful
for the workers to understand
whether in Washington that condi
tion ic approved of and upheld. The
case is apparently clear.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Gretchen P. Meyer, D. B. Keith,
John T. Campion, your heirs, ex
ecutors, asseigns or personal re
presentatives:
You and each of you are hereby
: notified that I have expended in la
bor and improvements the sum of
one hundred dollars each year for
the years of 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905.
j1906, 1907, 19 0 S, 1 909, 191 0, 1911
j and 1912 on the following claims
located on Solomon river in the
Nome Mining and Recording district
Eva claim, Bel claim, Mamie ctaim
| and Gretchen claim, all four situat
ed on Solomon river, recorded and
more fully described, Eva claim *n
Vol. 5, page 15, and the other three
in Volume 91, pages 353, 35 1.
and 355 of the location records of
the Nome Recording precinct in the
Second Division, District of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
; pended in order to hold said claims
pended in order to hold said claim
under the provisions of the law con
cerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being the amount required
to hold said claims.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice you fail to contn
bute your proportion of said expen
diture, your interest in said claims
will become the property of the
j undersigned, your co-owner under
j section 2324 Revised Statutes of
| the United States,
j (Signed) WM. NIELSON.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publi., Dec. 10, 1915.
Date of last publ., March 10, 1916.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION.
NO. 0140.
! hi the United States Land Office a1
I Nome, Alaska, December 2, 19X5.
| Notice is hereby given thal
j Charles McIntosh, of Nome, Alaska
-, as successor in interest of E. L
West, who on the 30th day ol
j July. 1 907, filed in this office Coa
i Land Declaratory Statement No. 4
for the E. L. West Coal Claim, has
s filed in this office his application tc
purchase said land under the Act ol
Congress, approved April 28tli
1904, amendatory to the Act ol
: June 6th, 1900, extending the coa
; land laws to the District of Alaska
■ said coal claim being in the Noatak
. jKobuk Recording Precinct, Alaska
and designated as U. S. Survey No
L 453. and more particularly de
scribed in the field notes and plai
i now on file in this office, as follows;
Beginning at Corner No. 1, iden
tical with N. W. loc. cor. on face ol
' bluff on shore of the Arctic Ocean:
said corner being impracticable tc
i maintain because of danger from ic<
and snow in winter, a witness
corner is established 10.08 chs
south from same on line 1-4
; whence U. S. L. M. No. 1 bears S
t 15 deg. 32 min. W. 9.96 chs
! thence east. var. 22 deg. 45 min
E. 40 chs. to Cor. No. 2, identica
with N. E. loc. cor., a fir post 4 in
- sq. 4 ft. long, in earth and stom
! mound, scribed E. L. W. Cor. 2
■ on S. W. face; thence South, Var
j 22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor
No. 3, identical with S. E. loc. cor
a fir post 4 in. sq. 4 ft. long, ir
' earth mound, scribed Cor. 3, E. L
„■ W. on N. W. face; thence West, Var
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor
No. 4, -Identical with S. W. loc. cor.
on line 1-2 Gertrude West Coa
[ Claim a sand stone 2 4x12x5 inches
■ chiseled cross on top surface fo:
true point, and Cor. 4 E. L. W.
. on N. E. face, earth mound on N
side of :ame; thence North. Var
* 22. deg.. 45. min.. E. 29.92 chs
Witness Cor. to Cor. No. 1, a sand
, stone 28x12x4 inches, 14 inches ii
ground, cross chiseled on top fo
true point and W. C. Cor. 1, E. L
1 W. on N. face, with rtono mound 31
1 inch base, 18 inches high aloni
t side, 40 chs. to Cor. No. 1 an'
. place of beginning; containing ai
area of 160 acres.
Any and all persons claiming ad
s versely the land described, or de
3 siring to object for any reason fo
;1 the entry thereof by applicant
should file their affidavits of pro
r test in this office c. or before si
' months after the expiration of th
t period of publication of this notice
3 G. A. ADAMS.
Register U. S. Land Office.
Date of first publ., Dec. 4, 1915.
Date of last publ., Feb. 5, 1916.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOI
PATENT NO. 026-4.
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In the United States Land Office a
Nome, Alaska, October 23, 1915
Notice is hereby given that Fran
Dolan, a citizen of the Unite
States, over the age of 21 yean
whose post office address is Nomi
Alaska, has made application b<
fore the United States Land Offic
at Nome, Alaska, for a Unite
States Patent for the Kathlee
Placer CJalm in the Cape Norn
Mining District, Alaska, being Mix
eral Survey No. 1157; said claii
being more particularly describe
1b tk« MU aotaa an* plat of tkc
official lurrey thereof now oa file
In said Land Office at Nome, Alas
ka, as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identi
cal with N. E. Cor. of location,
with Cor. No. 2 Sur. No. 478, Bella
Fraction Placer and with Cor. No.
4 Sur. No. 418, No. 13 Dexter
Creek Placer, being a fir post 4
ins. sq. 2 ft. above ground, in
mound of earth, scribed 2 478 B
F, 4 418; 1, 1157 K. for Cor. No.
1 of this survey, whence U. S. Loc.
Mon. No. 4 bears N. 78 deg. 56 min
30 sec. E. 5467.50 ft. U. S. Geolog
ical Sur. Mon. on King Mt., bears
N. 26 deg. 29 min. E about 1.5
miles; thence S. 35 deg. 41 min.
W. (Var. 18 deg. 37 min. E.)
653.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2, a fir post
3.5 ft. lohg 4 ins. sq. set 21 ins. in
ground scribed 2 1157 K, with
mound of earth 24 inB. base, 16
ins. high around same; thence S.
83 deg. 40 min. W. (Var. 19 deg.
00 min. E) 788.00 ft. to Cor. No.
3, a schist stone 24x12x3 ins. set
12 ins. in the ground, cbioeled 3
1157 K, with crocs (x) cn top sur
face for true point, with mound
of earth 24 ins. base, 16 ins. high
north side of same; thence N.
0 deg. 33 min. W. (Var. 19 deg.
25 min. E) 558.30 ft. to Cor. No.
4, a schist rtone 24x12x6
ins. sot 12 ins. in the _
ground, chiseled 4 1157 K,
with crocs (x) cat - n tcp for true
point with mound of earth 2 4 ins.
base 16 ins. high, north side of
same; thence N. 87 deg 04 min.
E. (Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E)
1171.00 ft. to Cor No. 1, plrce of
beginning, containing an area of
11.884 acres.
Said claim is situated on unsur
reyed ground on the divide between
Irass Gulch and Specimen Gulch,
tbout 5.75 miles N. 13 deg. E. from
he town of Nome, in the Cape
t'ome Recording Precinct, Alaska,
is in Latitude 64 deg. 34 min. 45
sec. North and Longitude 165 deg.
21 min. 00 sec. West.
U. S. L. M. No. 4 to which said
claim is tied is a limestone block,
about 4x6 ft. 6 ft. high, chiseled
U. S. L. M. No.4 on top surface
with mound of stone cn same. Is
situated on the south or right bank
of Dexter Creek, about 140 ft. south
of same and about 1000 ft. Westerly
from mouth of Joe Gulch, in Lat.
64 deg. 35 min. N. and Lcng. 165
deg. 19 min. W. in Cape Ncme Re
cording Precinct, Alaska.
The original location notice of
said claim is recorded in Vol. 168
Page 282, records of said district.
The adjoining claims are, on the
North Summit Bench Placer, un
surveytd, cn the Ens’, South and
West, unsurveyed claims, claimants
unknown.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely said mining ground or any
part th reof, are hereby required to
file their adverse cliims, according
to law, in said United States Land
Office at Nomo, Alaska, within the
time prescribed by law.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date cf first publ., Oct. 25, 1915.
Date of last publ., Dec. 26, 1915.
ORGANIZED LABOR.
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.
Local Union 1789, Carpenter* and
olnerg of America, meets every Frl
lay at AI Orland's shop Front St.
Carpenter's Headquarters, Feder
il Labor Hall,
it 8 p. m.
FEDERAL LABOR UNION.
No. 12631, American Federation
if Labor, meets every Monday at
":30 p. m. in the F. L. U. Hall.
A. DOOSE, Pres.
JENS OLSEN, Sec’y.-Treas. I
WESTERN FEDERATION OF
MINERS.
Headquarters 606 Railroad Build
ng, Denver, Colorado.
’HAS/ MOYER, ERNEST MILLS,
President. Sec.-Treas
LOCAL 240. W. F. M.
The regular meeting of the Nome
Mine Workers’ Union, Local No.
240. of the W. F. of M., is held
every Saturday evening at 8 p. m. at
Miner’s Hall. Office hours 1 p. m.
to 6 p. m., 7 p. m. to 8 p. m.
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ANDREW BECK, Sec.-Treas
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