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NOME, ALASKA TUESDAY, AUGUST, 13, 1918.
ELKINS: SCIENTIST
lieorge Vv'. Perkins knows how the
trust originated. Further he knows
why legislation of another day is un
suited to business conditions of the
present. He told all about it in a
paper read at the convention of the
Aherican Association for the Ad
vancement of Science.
Perkins, former associate of Mor
gan, director of many combinations,
also multimillionaire sees quite
clearly that business changed with
the advancement of technical inven
tion and that railroads, the telephone
and the telegraph not the tariff brot
about the trust.
Perkins in this we can all agree
with, especally inasmuch as socialists
said the same thing long before Mr
Perkins was ever head of.
Hut when Perkins delves into the
social side of this economic problem
and declares that the people insist
upon laws destructive of such busi
ness combinations, because they do
not realize that business evolved with
scientific progress, he is all wrong.
The people are not sore upon the
trusts because they are economic
facts representing a higher "type of
business combination or organization.
They are sore on the trusts because
they know that the trusts have light
ened their load no whit; that they
have where they could get by with
it come down hard exacting their
pound of flesh from the people; that
they have sought to control legisla
tures. railroad rates and to intimidate
when they could not exactly induce
the public to see that they were
humanitarian institutions and where
they could not intimidate they de
stroyed.
Now the people paid the piper. They
paid the piper so excessively that even
the Supreme Court went to the length
of amending a Congressional act so
that they would meet the economic
conditions with which they were con
fronted.
Will any person who has a modi
cum of intelligence compare the in
teresting decision of the United
States Supreme Court in the case of
Standard Oil and in the case of the
American Tobacco Co, with decisions
of that same body in the Hitchman
Coal cases affecting the United Mine
Workers, or in the Kansas anti-Coer
cion Act, or rather recently in the
■Child Labor Law. And will the peo
ple, using that very little modicum
of intelligence that is required in this
consideration, please consider the
reason why in one case economic
fact is so important as to suggest a
“reasonable” interpretation of the
law, while while in the other the
economic and social fact are inci
dentals not worth a red cent’s at
tention.
THE EIGHT HOI It 1>AV
It is amusing to hear those scab
apologists insist that the eight hour
•lay is all right, but a man should
be let work overtime. In point of
fact everyone is willing to concede
the eight hour day “in principle” but
they want to work ten or twelve,
'with overtime at straight time.
They do not want the eight hour
day. They want the ten hour day
and the twelve hour day—they want
so scab and they have not the guts
enough to own up that they are scabs.
That's about all there is to that. In
the meantime we observe that the op
erators who are not making good,
\vho would not make good if they were
Vo operate to Doomsday, who are
-promoters grafting upon the^ people
outside, are taking steps to hold the
strike responsible for their own in
capacity.
That’s an old dodge. When the
third beach petered out and the fall
ing off in gold production here was
very noticeable, the government re
port itself blamed a local strike for
it.
Now dredging in this section of
Alaska has not been a success at any
time. That is because most of those
who engage in it have not the brain
capacity of the common or garden
louse. But the fact remains that
here there and everywhere dredges
went broke and many a time and oft
the men went without their pay.
But do the operators blame them
selves? You bet your sweet life they
dont. They blame the transfer man,
they blame the fuel man, they blame
the creeks, they blame the type of
machine, they blame labor, they blame
every blamed thing but that the fact
that they should never have ventured
into the arena of operating mines in
Alaska and certainly would not if
Chance that takes no stock of men’s
capacities has not seen fit to pitch
fork mental exhaustion as typified in
them, to such a condition when
they could raise other people's money
to enjoy a spell of operation.
HOT AIK
It is noticeable that a good many
socialists are asking that the anti-war
resolution passed at the St Louis con
vention be repealed, and it is also
noticeable that the Wisconsin soc
ialists who control the party will do
no such thing. All of which ought
to show that the party is mixed up
exceedingly. It is likely to stay there.
In any event the point is this: the
war came upon the people of Europe
in the year 1911, with the people of
Europe quite unprepared. That war
was forced upon the people of Europe
as shown conclusively by the Lich
nowsky memorandum by Germany
itself. It is not a debateable matter
or a questionable matter any longer
A good many and especially a good
many socialists said that the war
would be of short duration. Finan
cial and economic considerations they
said would force a decision. So they
proceeded, ignorant of fact and cir
cumstances to take sides, and to take
sides as their national fancy dictated.
Now the Industrial Worker was
not one of those which held this view
and in November 1914 this paper
after a consideration of the whole
facts pointed out that this world war
would reach a demension that no
mind could then possibly circum
scribe; that the estimate of the Brit
ish Secretary of War that it would
last three years was under rather
than over the probable length. More
over, this paper pointed out that civ -1
ilization was affected to its very '
foundations by this war, that it in
volved questions of paramount im
portance to the human race, and that
for that reason it would beyond ques
tion also involve ultimately this
nation on one side or the other.
Moreover this being so. the Indus
trial Worker pointed out that the
only wise and sane policy for the
workers was to prepare and organize
so that when the Day reached them
also in this country, they too would
know precisely how to act.
It may be granted that the sugges
tions of this paper were without
weight and were merely thrown out
as exceedingly desirable if ideal from
the point of view of tactics.
But what did happen? Why our
scientific international socialists and
radicals began at once to dispute
and argue and discuss the merits or
demerits of the Allies side or the
German side; to read Fatherlands
and to let the future take care of
itself. They fiddled when Rome was
burning and frittered away their
time, when above all things they
shoulc have been looking ahead.
And so when the war did eventually
come here, they lost what heads they
had. Some went this way and others
went that, but all save a noble few
and those have been sacrificed, obey
ed the nationalistic impulses which
in spite of all, gnawed like the worm
that dieth not and burned, like the
fire that is not quenched.
The superlative silliness of a St
Louis resolution culminated from the
control of the party falling to the lot
of those whose sympathies and feel
ings were not internationalist as they
pretended, but were distinctly pro
German, and now at this day some
who are heartily ashamed of their
actions, in view of the Rape of Rus
sia.o f the disgraceful obliteration of
the Finnish socialists, of the confes
sion made by Prince Lichnowsky, of
the absolute hopelessness of revolu
tionary Germany, are demanding that
the silly resolution be rescinded.
It has been the bone of the socialist
party that it is under the thumb of
nationalists like Berger and political
craftsmen like Hillquit; that it was
not, is not and did not reflect the ac
tual opinions and will of the workers;
that its executive while claiming an
intellectual kinship with the ideas of
the workers, stood as far aloof in
actual life from the standpoint of the
man on the job as any exploiting
employer of many men..
Think you Truth's a farthing rush
light to be pinched out when you
will
With your deft official fingers and
your politician's skill?—Jas Russell
Lowell.
A short time ago the Labor Party
swept every seat it contested and rode
into power on a splendid majority
vote in Queensland. Australia. For
obvious reasons the capitalist press
of America and Canada had not a
word to say: they were too busy
blackguarding the Bolsheviki.
Don’t overlook the fact that the
German capitalist regards the Bolshe
viki with the same disfavor as the
capitalists everywhere else.
If government by Soviets as exem
plified in Great Russia is declared
to be pro-German, why is it that the
bourgeois Rada of Ukranian Russia
is so obviously devoted to the Kaiser.
The eight hour day will be the
vogue in this section when the present
so-called operators are rustling work
outside.
Did any of you people ever stop
to think of the conspicuous success
in life those operators made in the
past who bucked the Union?
GET THE NEWS RIGHT READ
THE WORKER.
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Precinct. In probate.
In the matter of the estate of
J. F. Hobbes, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by tho
undersigned, the executrix of the
£ast Will and Testament of J. F.
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Dated at Nome, Alaska, this 13th
day of July, 1918.
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Testament of J. F. Hobbes, deceased.
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CHRISTINA KOUDELA, plaintiff,
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FRANK KOUDELA, Defendant.
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Is August 13th, 1918.
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Court for the Territory of Alaska,
Second Division, and the seal of
said Court hereto affixed at Nome,
Alaska, this 1st day of July, 1918.
THOS. McGANN
Clerk of the District Court for tho
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PA 11) ADVERTISEMENTS
WASHINGTON STATE
FEDERATION OF LABOR
EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
nr • EVERETTE, WASH. Sept, 9th, 191C.
To Trade Unionists of Alaska,
Greeting.
Ordinarily we would not think of making any sugges
tions to you concerning political candidacies in your Territory
but in the present situation we feel justified in doing so. The
interests of labor in the entire northwestern group of states
and particularly Washington, is closely allied with the interest
of labor in Alaska. We have watched with growing concern
the efforts of large corporate aggregations to tighten their
hold upon the wealth of your country and have watched the
splendid fight waged in Congress by your Delegate Mr Wick
ersham.
It is because we believe Mr Wickersham is fighting in
Congress against tlio exploitation of labor and. the great nat
ural wealth of Alaska by powerful private interests, that we
are taking the liebrty of urging our fellow unionists in Alaska
to rally to bis support in his campaign for re-election.
Knowing that you will accept this communication in the
spirit in which it is written and. assuring you the continued co
operation and good will of your fellow trade unionists, wo beg
leave to remain,
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w.-.v.. :■> . ■■ ..-t't-•- « ; !'
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President Washington State Federation of Labor.
■'TCT.-.w' ' • CHAS, R. CASE
Chairman Legislative Committee, Seattle Central Labor Council.
mfJfc'-’W*!*' ''■*'» J. G. BROWN
President International Shingle Weavers’ Union of America,
gjyjjgj- 't ' V WILLIAM SHORT
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