NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER
WEEKLY
Published Saturday
tBy Mine Workers’ Union, No. 240, International Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers.
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“To secure to each laborer the whole product ot his labor, or as
nearly as possible is a worthy object of any good government "—Abra
Jkam Lincoln.
Address all communications to -Weekly Nome Industrial Worker,
itox 2X0, Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134.
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Entered as second class matter August 6, 1918, at the Post Office
mt. Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1379.
IN 1917
When the eagle giggl'd in 11)17..
Bill Jazzbo was staked to a junior
partnership in the walking depart
ment of L'ncle Sam’s overseas circus.!
ii.' was out to make the world safe
for democracy and Home Guards
Bill paddled his dogs down Tremont1
Street between two rows of cheering
cuckoos who couldn't hear the bea
ver bark unless it was on a dollar
bill. From his corns to his army
haircut, bill was dolled up in the reg
ulation O. I), pedestrian trousseau.
Hs wore a number seven boiler on
his skull and toted a trench piano
■nnd accessories on his spin,'piece.
liill weighed about 792 pounds
trtnehside in his hobnailed feet, of
which 178 pounds were Bill. The
rest was garnishing* Something
Vztow exactly what it was all abouti
but he knocked so many Jerries loose;
flrcra their life-insurance that they
Pinn-d enough medals on his chest
to baiunce the load on his back. This
made Bill look like a sandwich man
-for a hardware factory.
About this time Jerry figured that
’he bad a blouseful and took it on the
loop for the old home plate. Bill
bad one flipper shot away and had
lest all the legs that a guy can con
veniently spare. He had been laid
«ip ut th ptomaine poisoning from
Siting a Jerry in the neck, which
earned him another yard of medal
pieces. Bill wasn’t vicious but any
thing as a change from the O. D.
rmy beans.
In order to save Bill'' tlnitib, the
rmy surgeo,, had a sputa' , d his
‘.lie finger at th. elbow, but Bill
inured that there was just enough of
li.’\ left to hold his old job down
vhen ha again parked his hobspiked
jogs on tile Union Jack
he c ty and vicinity.
cal estate of
The beaver!
ad giggled with a chorus by the e:i
and Bill was coming)
irs company
ionic.
Coming up the bay. a herd of tug
boats whistled in eight colors and
pink. The sam,e cuckoos who had
cheered Bill east were there to cheer
him west. They wined him and
cheered him and dined him and
cheered him.
Bill was wondering about his old
job, but nobody could 3top cheering
him long enough to put him hep.
Everybody cheered themselves dizzy
but Bill couldn't figure where things
had changed much since he anklad
down the big highway two years ago.
They were still doing the cheering
and h.‘ was still doing the walking.
When they mustered Bill out they
slipped him enough kale to take him
home, provided that he didn’t livv
more than a nickle away. Bill walk
;cd up the old street, tuv<! ttfflt
1 other cheer in between. He asked a
; traffic cop the way to his old building
j and the cop gave him three cheers
; but no directions.
Bill figured you couldn't get fat
on cheers until sonic bird invented a
| method of harnessing acoustics. He
linally dug up the old building and
walked up thirty-^jx flights or stairs
as the elevator boy was out cheering
a parade. When he flatwheeled in
to the office the boss got up on the
mezzanine floor of his desk and
cheered Bill dizzy.
Bill tried to ask for his old job
sack, but all the boss would give him
was three cheers.
The eagle was still screaming, but
Bill was wishing he would stop the
Caruso stuff and lay a few eggs.
After the office force had cheered
him on his way. Bill popped into two
hundred and sixteen other offices,
but all he got was a complete sst of
cheers. Bill hoofed it down Tremont
Street, puffing like a mule trying to
do a locomotive’s work.
Bill had made the world safe for
everybody but himself.—Boston
Courier.
BULL TURNING OUT
I WAR MATERIAL
Economic conditions in France haw
improved since the signing ot
e armistice. The people are suffer
5 intensely, with no means of re
ess in sight.
Thus tar there has been no de
tibilt/.ation of the French army,
idlers are receiving approximaltly
2 oasts per day with some additional
•iowaneas in case they have families
pendent upon thi in. The soldiers’!
jjq* are however, wholly inade
te to meet the situation. Mu
jtlon factories are still turning out
Jilt ions because the government
T-ii not turn loose a flood of un-J
aj.iloyment.
'There arci relatively few unetn-1
yed men in France because most j
the able-bodied men arc still in ;
army, but the number ot un
ployed women >s large and is on
increase. The government is
iV’iug an attempt to regulate em
ploj ment so that all of the women
who need work may he able to ob
tain at l ast enough to cover the
minimum expenses of life. The wages
received under these circumstances
are wholly Inadequate and the streets
are filled with women—hungry and
without living quarters. Two Amer
icans, walking ror five blocks along
the Boulevard des Italiens, were ap
proached hy 11G women who were
looking tor a meal and a place to
•sleep.
The condition of the poor is des
perate. There is practically no coal
in France for h ating purposes and
most of the cooking is done with
wood. Benzine, gasoline and kero
sene are not on the market. Most
of the people are using candles for
light and ordinary eight-inch can
dles are selling for 16 cents. The
prices of other things are correspond
ingly high.
Fruit is almost out of the ques
tion—apples are 25 cents and 30
cents each, oranges 15 cents and 20
cent3 each, meats and fats are vir
tually beyond reach of the poor. In j
the face of these high prices the ]
men in the army are receiving piti
fully meagre wages ,and even the
men anti women in industry are
frightfully underpaid.
The situation is complicated by
the fact that the government is vir
tually bankrupt. The total debt of
Frante at the present time is 185
billons of trance, the budget for
this year is 18 billion and the rev
enue in sight is eight billions. t
The failure to demobilize the
army, the continuation of the pro
duction of munitions, andthe failure
to restore normal industry make
any increase in taxes improbable.
Meanwhile, the population is suffer
ing from unemployment and high
prices.
ANSWERED PRAYER
• By George Bernard Shaw.
There was once a vicar who was
very fond .of garden parties and mo
toring. There came an exceedingly
fine summer, and he enjoyed him
self extremely. But the farmers
were dissatisfied with the weather,
and asked him to pray for rain. He
was in the difficult position of not
being able to do thiis with sincerity.
The dry weather continued, and feel
ing became so strong in the district
that at last he had to yield to it and
accordingly, at an evening service he
offered a prayer for rain. “Send us
we beseech Thee, lin this our necessity
such moderate rain and showers, that
we may rereive the fruits of the earth
to our comfort and Thy honor.” When
, he had reached that point in the pray
er, a thunderbolt struck the spire of
l the church and sent the steeple crash
i ---
ing thru the roof into the nave. At
the same moment the clerestory wit
clows were lighted up by a blinding
flash, and were shattered by the hail
storm which drove in on the wings
of the hurricane and drenched the
congregation and the vlicar. The
vicar after a pause of astonishment
shut his book sharply and said," Oh
God, this is ridiculous!”
Now, why did I want to tell you
this old tale? Well for the la3t four
years our governing classes, includ
ing our leading imperialists and the
governing classes in France and Italy
have been praying very loudly for de
mocracy and the collapse of thrones
and arbitrary powers generally and
th- answers th^y have received, first
in Russia, and 'now in Germany, may
possibly have brot into my mind this
story of the vicar.
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By SSOTT NEARING
; Fifty-four foreign-born agitators—
| Norwvigans, Swedes, Finns and Rus
sians—are scheduled for deportation
| by the Federal authorities. The
! prisoners, confined in a special train
I under armed guards, are described
as I. W. W trouble makers, bearded
labor fanatics and red flag support
ers.
For the first time in its history
the government of the United States
has adopted a policy of deportation
which “will entirely solve the great
est danger of an industrial unrest
during the reconsctruetion period.—
| 1 simple : What a
sure remedy for social tills. When
ever a class of men or women dis
agrees witht he rulers, throw them
out!
What will the Statue of Liberty
think—unless it has lost its power to
think during these two last years of
turmoil—as fifty-four champions of
industrial liberty pass her on their
way back to their native soil—to
Europe in revolution? These men
have spoken; they have written, they
have agitated against industrial des.
potisrn. “Throw them out.” yells
the politicians. “Throw them out."
shout the editors. “Throw them out.”
scream the tories, the junkers, the
pirates of finance and industry.
“High and low, first and last, throw
them out!”
Throw them out! Roger Williams
John Smith and William Penn—for
eign agitators, disturbing the peace
of a primeval continent.
Throw them out! Thomas JefTer
l son, George Washington, Benjamin
i Franklin. James Madison. John
Adams—Transgressors of the law
.... Ivy Hiu XlrapinilH
George III of England.
Majesty.
em out! Lat'eyette and
-European trouble mak
Throw tht
Muhlenberg
ers!
Throw them out! German revolu
tionists, Irish Nationalists, French
Huguenots, Italian patriots, lovers of
liberty, champions of freedom, pro
phets of the new day. who have
sought these shores for three centur
ies. Throw them out! They have no
place in plutocratic America. Throw
them out!
I
Six members of the first Nome
draft quota returned on the S. S.
Victoria, namely, James and John
Hogan, Fred Fisher, Fred Hairing,
Fred Bourdon and Edwin Hoven.
These boys left Fort Davis Sep
tember 8th 1918 on tht transport
Sherman picking up the boys from
up riv .r at St Michael, proceeding to
Seward, where supplies were taken
on board. The citizens of Seward
gave the boys an excellent time. I
After leaving Seward the Sherman’s
next stop was Fort Liscum where the|
Southeastern Alaska draft contingent;
was taken aboard. At Fort Seward j
ih.‘ last stop in Alaska the balance
of the Alaska draft came on board
bringing the total to 96 5 men. The
Sherman arrived on Sept. 28 1918,
at San Francisco where the boys were
quartered at the Presidio, doing no
duty but taking 1n the town to their
hearts content. On October 2nd the.,
were embarked on troop trains for
Camp Dodge, Iowa arriving there
on October 7th, being treated royally
on the way, the men in high sprits
and enjoying the trip immensely.
Bands playing and girls s renading
them and giving them coffee, cake,
cigar. Us and et.c at every stop. Fi -^
days after their arrival at Fort Dodge
all eveepting five members of the
company from Nome were sick. Some
were sent to the hospital immediate
ly while others tried to fight off the
attack of the Flu in the barracks
Several of them were more dead than
alive when they finally had to give
up the struggle and go where medical
aid could be procured. The sick
were examined daily at the regimen
tcil infirmary and those unable to
j leave the barracks were sent to the
j Base hospital, which at one time con
tained 14.000 patients. Doctors and
j surgeons were busy night and day.
Our informant states that il wa;
easy to separate the quacks from the
good doctors as the latter had that
tired look, but were always cheerful
and doing their utmost to alleviate
the suffering of the boys. Some of
them, the boys say, deserve more
credit than a lot of those heroes who
came back from the lighting front
all plastered with medals.
We have been told that the first
pay day at Fort Dodge is one that
will long be remembered by those
who were present, as the names were
called the response would come,
“'here” or "in the hospital” or ‘dead"
as the case might be. Gloom was
cast' over the Camp as the news fin
ally came of how many of their fal
lows had passed away.
The Nome boys who passed away
were, John Olsen, Ralph Dalberg,
Paul de Ronne, Henry Weber and
Henry Gieger. Pete Bloomfield was
given up as a hopeless case several
times, his lungs were tapped three
times and he was finally sent to
Arizona where all tubercular cases
are being taken care of. James Bogan
Clifford Allyn, and John B.llmark
were for more than a month under
treatment at the Base Hospital. The
14th Regiment was finally moved to
Camp Grant on December 12th.
James Bogau being to weak to travel
vas transferred to the 16th Depot
Brigade and was discharged Jan
uary lDth. On , December 10th the
first of the boys were discharged
while the last did not get their re
lease until May 28 th at Fort Lawton
near Seattle.
Cliff Allyn, is married and running
the Bon Ton restaurant at Everett.
Washigton, J.ms Thompson is in the
fishing business at Seattle. John
Nicholas is working in the Zero bar
bershop at Seattle. Carl Jorgensen
and Milo went to San Francisco.
Andrew Hollum is dredgemaster
somewhere in Oregon. Hecla is in
Michigan, Minatel in Washington,
Joe Gravel in Minnesota. John Bill
mark is w-orkng in a logging camp.
Earnest Ldeen, is in Minnesota, Al
bert Lokke, Pat Gurley, Richard
Sundquist and Harold Lyle reinlisted.
O'Rourke was still at Fort Grant
when last heard from.
The boys are glad to be back again
but are rather surprsed at the cool
reception they received on their home
| coming. None of ou patriotic flag
| "/avers were in evidence and they
are wondering whether our people
! got rid^of all the cheers in their sys
tem the day the boys left town for
Fort Davis. We are told that the
boys have opinions of their own, con
1 cerning the “Why” of it.
TELEGRAPHIC
NEWS
CLIMB DOWN
PARIS, June 2z—According to a
message received here from Rome by
the Paris office of Reuters limited,
the Italian Peace delegation has been
directed by the Italian government
to accept the proposition for the set
tlement of the Italian controversy
regarding the Dalmatian claims, made
by Premiers Lloyd George, Clemen
ceau and President Wilson.
The fall of the Orlando Cabinet is
supposed to be mainly responsiole
for this volte face of the Italian gov
ernment.
OPPONENTS OK LEAGUE ON RUN
WASHINGTON, June 20—Accord
ing to reliable information the op
ponents of the League of Nations
have abandon -d all efforts to force
a test vote in the Senate on this sub
ject, before Germany has acted on
the P ace Treaty.
All hopes of forcing a roll call on
Senator Knox’s resolution has vir
tually been abandoned and some
Senators are of the opinion that the
resolution will be permitted to die
in Committee without even coming
formally before the Senate for ac
tion.
ARREST STUDENTS
AMOY, China, June 20—Reports
received here from Fuchow state that
six thousand students were arrested
by the Chinese and Japanese mili
tary authorities. Anti Government
activities by the student body is re
ported to have been responsible for
this drastic action.
SINK CRUISER
LONDON, June 20—Reports re
ceived here from the commander of
the British fleet which is operating
in the Gulf of Finland state that the
Bolshevik cruiser Oleg was sunk by
a British submarine.
The^Oleg sank a few minutes after
the torpedo had struck her amid
I ships and only a few members of her
I crew are reported to have escaped
I with their lives.
RECEIVES DEGREE
BRUSSELS, June 20—Amid the
ruins of the once world famous li
brary at Louvain, the degree of
Doctor of Laws was conferred upon
President Wilson yesterday. The
ceremony, which was of a very im
pressive naturt.* was attended by
many notables.
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