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Nome, Alaska, December 31, 11)15.
Labor organizations are now
taking stock, of the progress which
bas been made in the work of ad
vancing the cause of labor.
it is very difficult to estimate the
The benefits which unions have con
ferred. because these benefits are
often purely negative.
Thus, labor may have not advan
ced a step because of organization,
hut may have at the same time not
receded an inch, and that recess! n
..was avoided because of the exist
ence of the unions.
Itecause of this negative benefit
which labor organizations achieve,
and in a very great many cases it is
3ili that they can achieve, many
pessimists are inclined to see no suc
cess in the work of organizations at
all.
It is very doubtful If any human
activity is given to so much search
ing criticism as are the labor
unions, even though they are given
also to much self praise which very
often is not at all warranted. But
if labor is to progress, criticism
and severe criticism, is to bo ex
pected and to be accepted withal
its chastening effect.
Certainly it is no use peddling.
Unions must, iike everything else,
be judged by their work. Their
justification is in what they do, and
■not in what they strive to do or in
tended to do. If they cannot per
form that which is expected of
them, the reason must be discover
ed, and the machinery of organiza
tion adjusted to the needs of the
occasion. The success of any move
ment whatever is in the complete
adjustment of the means whereby
the end is to be gained, to the ef
ficient accomplishment of that end.
This can only be obtained after ex
periment and experiences which are
often unpleasant, often disastrous
and often very foolish.
We dont think that le
bor has sufficiently pro
lilted from its experiences or
from the criticism of its methods
-It it did we would have seen long
.since the archaic craft system of or
ganization gone out of business,
when the craft system in industry
went out of business altogether.
The industrial way is the only
way, and it is the only way despite
what we may do or say to argue
against it.
Skilled labor today is mighty
easily replaced. Within recent years
the employers have allowed the
•most skilled men to walk out, unti
their places were taken, by mrj
who never saw the machinery be
fore, with great success. Yet thest
unskilled men who took the places
of the men who walked out would
not be allowed to join the craft
union.
We are still in the age of crafts
according to some organizaions with
(imitations of memberships, restric
tions as to employment, high fees
and non-admission of the uninitiat
ed. But the "mysteries” whicn
might well have existed among the
■guilds of the era of craftsmanship,
■ Have no reason for existence today
.and hence the system that belongs
to an industrial system long since
defunct, should have no place in mo
dern organization. It is not adjust
ed to the requirements of the situa
tion, and there is no method where
by it can be—not even syndicalistic
boring from within.
The argument is brought up thar
for the most part these craft unions
such as they are, afford the only
protection that the workers have
got in the industries wherein they
sexist.
This however is only partly true
and their strength io only acquired
at the' expense of the rest of the
workers when the craftsmen can
build up an aristocratic union, clos
ing its books to others, denying
■membership and making its fees
-prohibitive. Moreover as a fighting
organization when threatened b.v
the stronger capitalist organizations
■these never do amount to'anything.
They were hopeless before the steel
trust, liopeless before the Erectors
Association, and only by an alliance
with the unskilled have they been
able to do anything. . ,
And furthermore they have time
and time again stood in the way
of one another. They have broken
out in jurisdictional squabbles with
one set siding with the boss and
scabbing on the rest of the work
ers, and have time and time again
remained at work helping to main
tain the fight of the boss against
the men who were on strike.
These are everyone of them un
deniable facts. They are facts that
ought to make the workers ask are
such organizations any earthly good
at all? Are they or are they not
better fought out of existence, and
the workers left unorganized to
fight their battles and to build u’>
their fighting machine from the ex
igencies of the situation and with
tactics and organization built up
frem the industrial needs—in other
words construct an organization
which will be adjusted to the real
purposes of the labor movement
which is not for improving a few
workers at the expense of the many,
or bettering the condition of some
few while the masses suffer from
reaction, but which is to make the
concern of one the concern of all in
the promotion of common interests
of all the workers.
Men may theorize until they are
black in the face, but this adjust
ment between the means to be used
and the end to be achieved must be
brought about if the movement is
to be successful. Its success wii.
be measured always in the perfec
tion of that adjustment. Today the
, unskilled man is the key to the si
tuation. The mass of activity in fac
tory, in mine, and in mill is con
fined to tending the machine that
is easily learned. In the shops
craftsmanship has had its day; an
artizan with autumatic machines is
made in a few weeks.
Organization is of first importance.
But organiaztion must be equal to
the situation if it is to accomplish
anything. It cannot set impossible
standards nor can it set up an ari
stocracy of labor when the essence
of industry is collective democracy
it is by labor organization that
everything will be gained. But how
much men have lost and how much
time the movement is delayed by a
useless archaic system of organisa
tion, is well worth consideration.
The most interesting figure and
the most instructive at the Schmidt
trials in Los Angeles is not the de
fendant nor is it, although striking
enough, Ortie M'Manigal the spy,
hut it is Special Prosecutor Noel.
The interest lies in the special
prosecutorship. Unquestionably al
though it was protested by the pro
secution that labor was not on trial
it is labor that is being prosecuted.
The M. and M. association was con
sulted in the drawing of the Grand
Jury so that men friendly to that
association in its fight against labor
would be secured to return an in
dictment. The Burns aetective
agency whose speciality in working
up cases against labor, In spying
upon the activities of labor organi
zations and whose services are en
hanced by proprietory inventions
like the dictagraph, took a leading
part In the testimony for the prose
cution, and because labor is on trial
a special prosecutor is brought ail
the way from Indianapolis because
of his familiarity with the preced
ing cases against the members of
the Structural Ironworkers that no
unseemly slips might occur aad
Schmidt’s conviction be duly
cinched.
During the past ten years multi
farious and varied were the crimes
that have been brought home to ca
pital in the fight against labor—
crimes red as blood. Men have
been slugged, assassinated, shot
down. Only the other day in Wal
senburg, Colorado the editor of a
paper who sided with the strikers
was killed by some midnight as
sassin and bloodhounds traced the
crime to the camp o£ the company,
j Yet during those ten years not
once has an employer, as an em
ployer, been tried and convicted.
Not once has the grand fury been
subjected to special visement; not
once has the government allied It
self with private detectimes to trace
out the guilt; not once has a special
prosecutor been brought from afar
to drive home a conviction.
Theoretically all are equal in the
eyes of the law. Theoretically also
all are innocent until proved guil
ty. Why should not the same pains
be manifested by government to se
cure an acquittal as to secure a con
viction? Why should government
not seek to defend with the same
vigor as it seeks to convict? Why
should it not be serving justice
equally to establish by artificial
means innocence as to establish guilt
by an artificial procedure? Why
should the men who have no money
be compelled to face magnified ma
chinery for the purpose of convict
ing them and not have such ma
chinery at their disposal to prove
their innocence?
These questions are solved in the
presence of the Special Prosecutor,
in the presence of the Burns men,
in the presence of Ortie M’Manigal,
in the letter submitting the Grand
Jury to the M. and M. association.
Take this M'Manigal. He is relied
upon above all others to convict.
He is a self confessed perjurer, and
his evidence is to outweigh that ot
the defendant who i3 no such thing.
He is a ’confessed murderer and to
convict another man he obtains re
mission of the penalty due his
crime. He is placed in the hands
of expert detectives who have ms
training for months and months.
He is in the hands of special prose
cutors who go over and over an«
over again the field of his testimony
to be given on the stand. He is a
highly “trained” witness who can
be expected within reason to defy
the most expert cross-examination.
You could, did you depend upon
such a trained evidence, hang any
person with M’Manigal. Givon ouch
conditions of testimony and no one
is safe. And yet all that is not
sufficient but lest any break dov/n
should in an unexpected place occur,
the most expert of special prosecu
tors is hired to make everything
certain for conviction.
Someone said that Justice is blind.
But when a blind man plays with
his own loaded dice ho is quite safe
againpt being defeated. And it
would appear that’s the kind of
shake that labor gets in L03 An
geles.
Let us estimate on your Job Work
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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,
1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911
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 in
Vol. 5, page 15, and the other three
in Volume 91, pages 353, 354,
and 355 of the location records of
the Nome Recording procinct in the
Second Division, District of Alaska.
The above amonnt 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
undersigned, your co-owner under
section 2324 Revised Statutes of
the United States.
(Signed) WM. NIELSON.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publi., Dec. 10, 1915.
Date of last publ., March 10, 1916.
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION.
NO. 0146.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 2, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that
Charles McIntosh, of Nome, Alaska,
as successor in interest of E. L.
West, who on the 80th day of
July, 1907, filed in this office Coal
Land Declaratory Statement No. 4,
for the E. L. West Coal Claim, has
filed in this office his application to
purchase said land under the Act of
Congress, approved April 28 th,
1904, amendatory to the Act of
June 6th, 1900, extending the coal
land laws to the District of Alaska,
said coal claim being in the Noatak
Kobuk Recording Precinct, Alaska,
and designated as U. S. Survey No.
453, and more particularly de
scribed in the field notes and plat
now on file in this office, as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, iden
tical with N. W. loc. cor. on face of
bluff on shore of the Arctic Ocean;
said corner being impracticable to
maintain because of danger from Ice
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.
15 deg. 32 min. W. 9.96 chs;
thence east, var. 22 deg. 45 min.
E. 40 chs. to Cor. No. 2, identical
with N. E. loc. cor., a fir post 4 in.
sq. 4 ft. long, in earth and stone
mound, scribed E. L. W. Cor. 2,
on S. W. face; thence South, Var.
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, in
earth mound, scribed Cor. 3, E. L.
W. on N. W. face; thcnco 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 Coal
Claim a sand stone 24x12x5 inches,
chiseled cross on top surfaco for
true point, and Cor. 4 E. L. W.,
on N. E. face, earth mound on N.
side of fame; thence North, Var.
22. deg.. 45. min.. E. 29.92 chs.
Witness Cor. to Cor. No. 1, a sand
stone 28x12x4 inches, 14 inches in
ground, cross chiseled on top for
true point and W. C. Cor. 1, E. L.
W. on N. face, with stone mound 30
inch base, 18 inches high along
side, 40 chs. to Cor. No. 1 and
place of beginning; containing an
area of 160 acres.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely the land described, or de
siring to object for any reason for
the entry thereof by applicant,
should file their affidavits of pro
test in this office o. or before six
months after the expiration of the
period of publication of this notice.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register U. S. Land Office.
Date of first publ., Dec. 4, 1915. .
Date of last publ., Feb 5, 1916.
ORGANIZED LABOR
WESTERN FEDERATION OF
MINERS.
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’’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
Minor’s Hall. Office hours 1 p. m.
to 6 p. m., 7 p. m. to 8 p. m.
JOHN A. WILSON, President
ANDREW BECK, Sec.-Treas
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.
Local'Union 1789, Carpenter* and
oinera of America, meets every Fri
day at A1 Orland’s shop Front St.
Carpenter’s Headquarters, Feder
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at 8 p. m.
FEDERAL LABOR UNION.
No. llfil. American Federation
it Labor, meets every Monday at
TtSO p. m. In the F. L. U. Hall.
A. DOOSB, Pres.
JENS OLSEN, Bec’y.-Treaa.
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