NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER
TRI-WEEKLY
Published Tuesday. Thursday,
and Saturday.
By Nome Mine Workers' Union, No. 240, International Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers.
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“To secure to each laborer th» whole product of his labor, or as
nearly as possible is a worthy object of any good government.’’—Abra
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Address all communications to Tri -Weekly Nome Industrial Worker.
Box 210, Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134.
Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
fs’ome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
NOME, ALASKA TUESDAY, JUNE, 11, 1918.
MR. WAGE WORKER
ORGANIZE
Signs are not wanting that aj
period of ronewed activity is on
in Nome as far as organized labor
is concerned. That is well, and all
the better if the good purpose is
not allowed to die, but persisted
in, for persistency always in or
ganization brings success.
In no way can the workers hope
to better their conditions, and not
nnly to better their conditions but al
so to maintain whatever status of
advantage their condition may have
attained, than by organization. The
enforcement of the eight hour law
depends entirely upon the workers
themselves. It is a simple proposi
tion that one man cannot effect, as
much as two, that no two men's
influence is as much as three and
that, a body of men is likely to suc
ceed in their demands wherein in
dividuals would fail. The necessity
of the hour for the workers as work
ers to come closer together. By.
whatsoever differences they may
have been kept apart, or is keeping
them apart, those who become dis
united all suffer equally. The one
loses whatever advantages he might
gain from the association of the
other, and both of them present a
broken front to those who employ
them, to the advantage of neither
set of workers, but only to the
advantage of him who would hire
as cheaply as possible. Indeed
that this is so cannot admit of a
doubt and the facts ar? so simple
that it is nothing short of madness,
as such a poor policy is always
when persisted in, detrimental /to
the best interests of the working
class. There is no reason in this
camp why there should be union
m n and non-union nun r mong the
working class. They have all a3
workers the same interests, and they
have all as workers to face the
s; me conditions of labor.
Possibly and probably personal {
differences have a good deal to do*
with the fact that th re ar£ work
ers who are not unionmen in this
camp. If so that is a most unfor
tunate occurrence and most unfor
tunate that such a trifling matter
should ’ keep workers apart.
As has been said signs are not
wanting that th re is renewed ten
dency to get together on the part
of the workers, a healthy sign in
deed, and a most welcome one at
that. At no time in the history of
thiei labor movement has such ne
cessity existed here as everywhere
else for the workers getting solidly
together. It is every man’s duty.
It is every man’s privilege and it
is every man’s right, to as3ict in
promoting that solidarity now so
necessary. If difference of opinion
exist, as they do and will exist,, let
them bo thrashed out on the floor
of the union hall, among unionmen
for the advantage of the workers,
the majority of the workers if not
till of them. >
Great advantages will accure from
ra strong united organization of the
workers, while everyone knows, und
■everyone realizes that without a
strong union, the workers will
•.subject themselves to all sorts of
disadvantages some of which are
loo unpleasant often enough even
to think about. But think about
them we must, realize them we
must, and realizing the disadvan
tages which come from a failure
to gift together, from a failure of
the non-’unionman - in assisting to
build up a strong organization, wo
should leave no effort undone to do
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the best we can toward making
the unions strong, united and deter
mined bodies.
In this up building of the. union
overy workingman can and should
share. No man has a positive know
ledge of what is of the best advan
tage to the welfare of the workers.
The best of us and the worst of
us instictively realize that nothing
can help us in our struggle for
hotter conditions, to maintain what
ever we have gained, like a strong
organization, however manifold or
diverse maybe the views of the
members making up that organiza
tion.
The time has arrived for the
Nemo Mine Work rs Union, and the
Longshoremens Union to contiu
uously persist in carrying on their
campaign of organization until t
successful termination has been ac
compllshed. The question is verj
simple, it will be easily solved, tin
general eight hour law will be on
forced, and better conditions wil
prevail as soon as the workers ir
this community realize that it is tc
their best interests to unite anc
stand solidly together. It is nc
uso boating about the bush—it is
impossible for the workers to bet
ter th ir conditions unless they art
organized. “None know this lac
any better than does the employe]
himself.”
Just at the present time the in
terva! between the closing of th<
winter season and the opening ui
of the summer work would he s
moot auspicious time to get tin
workers in organized shape to faci
the summer.
There are many old timers lier<
who have their heart and soul witt
the union cans-—although some o
them do not belong to the union
thoir assistance along these line:
is gr atly appreciated by members o
organized labor—This camp is
not as prosperous as it was from an}
standpoint. But it could be madi
much better for the workers by i
wholesale campaign of organization
The union certainly needs it, am
the camp needs the union—at leas
the money earn d by unior.mon—I
should not take much to show thos<
who are outside the fold that ii
organization is strength and it is
the only effective way whereby label
conditions can be maintained. Above
all times is the present, when th<
outlook for labor is none to brigh
in (This section of the country, nov
is the time when by organization
labor can effectively enforce th(
general eight hour law which has
been declared unconstitutional b}
Judge Bunnell of Fairbanks.
It Is not so much when every
thing is booming that campaigns o
organization arc most essential. Ot
the contrary then tho workers wil
themselves join the organization
But it surely is when the outlook is
darkest and wheu conditions ari
none of the best that, a concertec
effort on the part cf unlonisn
•should be made to bring it horns
to all workers.
Tho camp is getting down t(
cases. It is getting down to easel
good and plenty. Dreams of amass
iug wealth from the arrival here o
forlorn workers are not very re
assuring and the business men hav.
come to the conclusion that this
camp's prosperity is best foundet
upon a community of workers ani
not a population spending mest o
its time looking in vain for em
ployment.
Common sense might have tolc
that long ago; but tho horse has
got to be stolen before people will j
think of locking the barn. Labor)
conditions in Nome have ft, ■ i: far;
more ideal. Tho man with the
fradulont tme check where-with to
pay off his employees has for some
seasons put in a blossoming ap
pearance; labor laws such as the
eight hour workday arc by a piece
of trickery declared unconstitution
al and cleverly evaded “on account
of the workers not being thoroughly
organized;’’ a few of tho larger
mining concerns bring in from the
outside some of their meu (who
don’L spend $10.00 in Nome during
their sojourn here.) Said concerns of
times make strenuous efforts to
conceal the cheap wages which they
are paying, and when companies,
such as -have been many dredging
companies in Nome, have a quantity
of useless expense to settle lor,
their tendency to employ the cheap
est labor possible is net to be over
come with resoluting.
The. main trouble with Nome op
erators and indeed with Nome gen
erally is that there are too many
trying to live off the backs of the
workers. Some dredging companies
have whit? colared staffs that pro
duce no money which would bank
rupt the Standard Oil Co., if rela
tively carried out by that firm.
These seek refuge in cheap labor;
it’s what they believe in, and it is
what they wil believe in until the
last chapter.
Wo would like to see the eight
hour law enforced for “old timers”
in this camp as Well as for the
choechacoes, and some time that will
ovcntually, be brought about, but
it will be brought about by labor—
THROUGH ORGANIZATION. It is
the duty of each and every member
of organized labor to do his ,or
her share, to induce non-union work
ers to join the union. Mr Unionman
don't leave it entirely to tho officers
of the union to organiz? the. camp.
Do your “Bit” and bear your
j share of the burden, whatever it
i may be.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Probate Court for Cape
Nome Precinct, Territory of Alr.skr.:
Second Division.
In the matter of the Estate of
Garibaldi, Fillipo, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, administrator of the
Estate of Garibaldi Fillipo, deceased,
to the creditors of, and all persons
having claims against, the said
deceased, to exhibit them, with the
necessary vouchers, verified as re
quired by law, within rix months
from the date of this notice, to the
undersigned, administrator, at the
office of J. F. Hobbes, at Nome,
Alaska.
Dated, May 14th, 1918.
Joseph Firenze,
Administrator.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 253
In the Probate Court for Cape
Ndei> Precinct, Territory of Alarka:
Second Division.
In the matter of the Estate of
W. F. Parker, accent"-d.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, administrator of the
Estate of W. F. Parker, deceased,
to the creditors of, and all persons
having claims against, the said
deceased, to exhibit them, with the
necessary vouchers, verified as re
quired by law, within six months
from the date of this notice, to the
undersigned, administrator, at the
office of J. F. Hobbes, at Nome,
Alaska.
Dated, May 14th, 1918.
Frank Warsing
Administrator.
Trunks, Suit Cases, Fishing goods,
Rugs, Lenileum, Hardware, Gents
Furnishings will arrive Victoria at
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When in search of a good warm
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week or month.
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