Baily Name Industrial Worin-Ins
Published Daily except Sunday
By Nome Mine Workers’ Colon. No. 240. Western Federation of Miners.
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911. at the post office at
Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, 'Alaska. Phone, Black 134
Nome, Alaska, August 20, 1913.
The importation of armed guards '
by the powerful copper mining com
panies of Michigan to ostensibly pro- !
tect property, and those who will :
act as strike breakers, surely can- ;
not with the experiences in West ,
Virginia fool anyone. These "uards
are being introduced after the Gov
ernor withdrew the military because
there was no reason for keeping the
military there, and the civil authori
ties were able to maintain peaceful
conditions in the copper fields. The
guards therefore are being introduc
ed expressly for some other purpose
than merely to keep the peace. The
mining companies have no such
obligation to the state', and there are
regular civil policing authorities j
whose duties it more clearly is to
perform that function.
These guards in West Virginia
f-rnished by the Baldwin agency
were men who were in every sense
of the word desperadoes. They were
the scum of the earth. The leader
at one time was an ex-convict who
escaped the gallows by the skin of!
his teeth, three-fourths of them j
were ex-convicts who had committed
felonies and who now were hired by !
the companies to uphold “law and
order.” It was a grim joke in very
truth.
Precisely the same purpose is
behind the importation of these
guards into Michigan where the
members of the Western Federation
of Miners are on strike, as was
manifest in the purpose which re
tained them in West Virginia.
If anything could possibly reveal
what is the real power behind the
government it is the fact that the
courts sustain these importations.
The police power is essentially a
function of government. It ts an
accepted fact that the government is j
responsible for the maintenance of
the peace and the execution of the j
laws. For this purpose the govern- '
ment is armed with plenary powers, j
and with armed forces to execute;
the plenary powers at their disposal, j
But what we see now happen is that !
the industrial barons usurp this
function of government without as
much as a by your leave, maintain J
their own standing army which will,
execute the orders, wishes, desires j
and purposes of the industrial chiefs
who maintain them. And the courts !
justify this. They justify the mov- j
ing of a standing army privately ,
owned from one state to another, for
the very purpose of supporting and
carrying out the wishes of the real :
men who are a power behind the ]
government.
The sovereign state of Michigan
does not any longer dominate the
situation within its own borders, j
The sovereign State of Michigan must '
accept the c-ondtions which the mine !
owners dictate through their own !
armed hessians, just as the sovereign
State of West Virginia had of neces- j
sity to bow to the superior will of j
the coal barons as executed through ;
the private soldiers which the latter |
maintained.
This is surely a most interesting
development in the land of the free i
and the home of the brave. Here 1
is an armed force which the people j
have no more to say in than have !
the Russian peasantry in the con- ;
duct of the soldiers of their Tzar. I
Not only that but the courts by a
decision handed down see to it that i
they cannot be interfered with. It
is in fact an astonishing condition, 1
and one which furnishes food for
thought.
It is preposterous to say that the
introduction of these armed retain
ers of the capitalist chiefs is a
necessity. The State of Michigan
Itself has abundant military re
sources whicn were withdrawn from
the scene of the strike because the
country was peaceful and there was
no necessity for their presence at
the location of the industrial con
flict. The civil authorities further
more took the precaution of having
many extra police to do any extra
duty that might be required of them,
but in spite of these things the
guards are now being placed around
the mines and in the mining dis
trict to spread the same red
hell that marked their work in
the coal mining regions of
• West Virginia^—conditions which
produced but a short time back such
1 astonished comment from the peo
: pie and press of the entire nation.
! From the first to last we hear
much of the lawlessness of the
workers. We hear rightly or wrong
ly certain violent activities denounc
ed in language which is neither tem
perate nor sane at times—these peo
ple overlook in their insane partial
ity for the interests the utterly un
justifiable conduct of the industrial
chiefs who usurping the place of th«
government bring all government
into contempt and more surprising
yet, when that usurpation is called
in question by the strikers, the
courts sustain the usurpation in
language that is unmistakable.
Violence, it is a mater of positive
| fact, begets violence. Not a single
j violent activity the world over but
is in itself the resultant of previous
acts. There is no way in which this
can be gotten over. It is one of
those stern warnings that social
laws provide for us all no matter on
which side of the struggle we may
be lined up. Who sows the wind
shall inevitably reap the whirlwind
and who lives by the .sword, it is
still emphaticaly true shall perish by
the sword.
What capitalism by such a usur
pation of governmental functions, a
shocking and a degrading usurpa
tion in a land where is supposed to
be liberty, is doing is to invite re
prisals, and the day is coming when
if such acts are persisted in and such
unmistakable subversions of the
common law of the land are permit
ted they will redden the land with
the blood of human beings.
Because the initial encroachments
upon the functions of the people's
administration were permitted, pat
ronized and tolerated when the pror
ate detective agencies began their
first usurpation of police power, con
; fessing thereby the impotence of
government to police the state in
i the interests of either caiptal or la
! bor, the greater usurpation when
! the army, and these armed guards
[ with their guns and machine rifles
are truly a small standing army,
passed from the hands of the state
to the powers behind the state as
represented in the person of the in
dustrial chiefs, also must be recog
! nized and tolerated whether the peo
' pie will or no.
Possibly all these things have got
to be in the evolution of society.
That may or may not be the case, but
this much is certain that it is full ot
ominous portent for the future, in
no way less ominous when the de
; fiant usurpation of the powers of
government pass not only without
objection from the people but with
the full and sustaining approval of
the courts.
Imagine what the consequences
would be were the labor organiza
; tions throughout the states to retain
: an agency which would make a
; speciality of supplying armed guards
i to the unions when they go out on
i strike. One can easily see what the
! consequences would be were the la
bor organizations of America to
rush into the scene of the conflict
in Michigan a rival standing army j
to that which organized capital'
is now placing in the field. No mar j
no matter how blind he might be as i
a partizan could pretend to think j
I that he believed that peaceful and |
law abiding conditions would result
And yet in self defense sooner or
later organized labor will have to do
that which capitalism organized is
doing. It is being forced upon the
workers that they will have to con
trol the armed forces of the nation
if they are to be unmolested; if they
are to be free from detestable moles
tation to which they have been sub
ject in West Virginia, and elsewhere
in recent years. They are facing
desperate facts, and they are being
compelled to face them with facts
no less desperate.
These things bode not well for the
peace of the land, but it cannot
be repeated too often violence as
surely as the sun shines, begets
violence, and as one sows that shall
he surely reap.
No pleasant harvest is before the
country that tolerates the prepara
tions for violence, that tolerates and
approves such preparations for
violence as is now being prepared in
[Michigan, and the responsibility of
the court that sustains such dis
orderly conduct cannot be evaded
after the event.
CITATION.
In the Probate Court for Solomon
Precinct in the District of Alaska.
In the Matter of the Estate of John
Veidt, deceased.
To Daisy 'Veidt, guardian of
Theresa T. and Braxton, J. Veidt,
minor children of John Veidt, de
ceased, an dall others whom it may
concern:
You are hereby citated and re
quired to appear before this court,
in the Precinct of Solomon, in the
District of Alaska, at the court
room, on the 4th day of October,
1913, and then and there show
cause, if any, why the petition of
the administrator of the above estate
for the sale of the real property 0f
said estate should not be granted.
IVitness the Honorable JJohn B.
Ross, Commissioner and Probate
Judge, In and for Solomon Precinct,
District of Alaska, with the seal of
this Court, affixed this 2nd day of
August, 1913.
J. B. ROSS,
Probate Judge.
CHAS. HEDBERG,
Administrator of ' the Estate of
John Veidt, deceased.
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