Published Tuesday. Thursday,
and Saturday.
Hy Nome 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 of his labor, or as
nearly as possible is a worthy object of any good government.”—Abra
ham Lincoln.
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Address all communications to Tri -Weekly Nome Industrial Worker.
Box 210, Nome, Alaska. Tbone, Black 134.
Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
IVome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
NOME, ALASKA TUESDAY, JUNE, 25, t!M8.
When this issue reaches our read
ers the first of the Outside fleet
will either he in the roadstead or
approaching these shores, and as it
is likely that some of the workers
there upon may have access .o tins
columns, we would address a few
pertinent remarks to them. They
are entering the labor market lure
■where they want to dispose of their la
bor power to the best advantage. They
are welcome, such as it is, to such
opportunities for the sale of the
commodity they have to dispose of
“providing they dispose of it in con
formity with the rules established by
Organized Labor in Nome.'’
The only protection the workers
get, is brought about by organiza
tion. in this town there are labor
■organizations, and those now ar
riving are invited to place th-m
eelves in direct communication with
them. There are halls here where
they can secure all information con
cerning the labor market, where if
they have to wait for employment
they can have access to an abun
dance of reading matter and where
they can b > assured at all times
a cordial welcome.
The Miners Union doses its doors
to no workers. All are welcome
there, a id tho arrivals who will
s*'ll their labor power in the Nome
market are urged to nr kc them
selves at home; if old time mem
bers, to return tb their membership,
and if new comers to join the or
ganization.
The Miners here have realized
for som\r time that organization is
a necessity to protect themselves, and
realize now, too, that they must all
get together to assist one another.
Such help the new comers are in
vited to share in. and s > all can
have the greater protection, all
ishoul.’ join.
“The wage scale which has been
established by the Nome Mine Work
ers’ Uunion is $5.00 (five dollars)
Iter day and board and recognition
of the union for an eight-hour work
day, for all work performed, in, and
around mines, open-cuts, dredges
and on reads.”
It is up to you men who will
be looking lor employment to re
number the aforesaid law which
“HAS BEEN DECLARED CON
STITUTIONAL BY ORGANIZED
LABOR."
It is to your advantage as well
as to ours who have been here all
the winter, to seek employment ac
cording to the aforesaid conditions.
So it is as well for von to bear that
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in mind.
The officials of the Miners Union
and the officials of all the other
labor organizations whose names can
be seen in the advertising columns
of this paper will cheerfully let
you know if you wish any informa
tion concerning labor conditions in
this camp, information given by
men in office for the express purpose
of conveying all such information
to the workers, and helping them
along in the rough road a wage
worker has here rs elsewhere to
travel.
The Miners Union hall is over
the Northern Soft Drink Emporium
on Front Street, the sign is on the
building and you are welcome to
make yourself at home there at any
time. The Union is for the workers,
not the workers for the union; if
unions are useful to the workers
they are fulfilling a useful function,
Local 240 International' Union of
Mine, Mill and Smeter Workers has
tried to keep this before it as its
motto and has successfully done so.
IT WANTS EVERYONE TO PRO
E1T BY ITS MEMBERSHIP AND
URGES SOLIDARITY.
ORGANIZATION
IS ALL THAT’S NECESSARY TO d.AKIKY THK ATMOSPHERE FOR
THE WA<JE WORKERS.
Apparently, the wage workers
throughout Alaska pro nt last giv
ing serious attention to the eight
hour workday—as well as to the
wage question.
The following are a few facts
pertaining to the wage working
world outside. The most important
fart is that in all metalliferous I
districts, where rtie work is eor.tin
uous almost the year round, mine
workers have received anywhere from
25 per rent up increase In wages.
This does not represent much cf an
improvi n'.! nt over conditions which
prevailed four or five years ago, as
the cost*of living has also increased,
hut it certainly r presents r.n l.i
•c-rease just the same.
In southern California camps, m!:i
working is now for a day of eight
hours paid at Ilia rale of $4.25 as
advert’semeht-i in the papers can
ho seen.
Tho wages for mine workers in
many reetiens of Nevada has in
■oroaaed fifty and in x me places on"
d ]t-” p day.
Butte minors have'recently re
volved oil increase of 28 cents on
the dollar.
Utah copper miners 24 cents.
Missouri miners forty cents on the
dollar, and Idaho miners are in
•demand at from $4.25 up.
Contrast this with ,conditions In
Alaska, wlioro conditions are prac
tically the same as those which
prevailed ten years ago, when prices
were in many cases 50 ’per cent less
for necessaries than they are today.
While efferts are being made to
rejuvenate business conditions in
this country, it is about time or
ganized and unorganized workers
sought to improve labor conditons.
The organization that ails en its
oars drifts down stream.
Wages have not gone up. Wages
have remained station-..i-y (especially
in r gard to mine working) and
price.-; t-.r all the. a worker needs
have soared beyond reecll.
War time conditions prevail out
side. Everything is gone up in
price. Necessities no 'less that, any
thing else. .
The prices will be still higher
this summer. Food, clothing, ma
terials of all kinds will evidently
keep soaring.-—Why not wages go
the same' route? Or failing an ac
tu. 1 increase in wages why not a
shorter working day?
It is c rtainly up to the wcliters
themselves. There must he a rally
ing of union and unorganized to
effect any increase. All classes of
workers must come together and
talk over th - eight hour and wage
proposition. It’3 the most important
question that has to be answered
"Which i* Bow receiving aone
rtd^TH'r'ifckii'fe iSr^olltJcai 'or:,othef
purposes. While dallying wUli thil
and with that question which is
really no concern of the workers,
uhleSs as this or that May bear
on the labor and wage question, it
is noticable that the eight hour and
the wages question is now the para
mount issue of the day amongst
the workers in this community. The
only permanent way to settle it, is
through a strong—WORKING CLASS
ORGANIZATION.
A kindred question to the question
of better wages is the supreme
question of organization. No few
men can settle the labor question.
It’s what the majority want to work
for, the general sentiment, that
must decide it. Therefore is or
ganization of all workers the essen
tial of the hour.
This organization getting all
classes of workers together to dis
cuss the wage question will also
be in a position to decide it.
Now more than ever before tile
demand for a strong organization
of workers is a necessity. The
wages question and the labor ques
tion which Is with us three hun
dred and sixty five days an average
year, is the all important question.
It cannot be settled, solved or de
cided upon without organization.
One man, the individual, can do
nothing; class efficiency, mass ac
tion, in a word solidarity, is the
main requirement. Therefore now
is organization needed.
Tlie summer work will soon com
mence, and these who have been
idle all winter will probably get an
opportunity to go to work. The
pay roll will bo re-opened. By or
ganization the workers whose names
will be upon the pay roll can say
what their rate of remuneration
for an eight hour workday will
be.
Outside, the improved conditions
In tho mining industry are quite
remarkable enough to warrant a
journal declaring that the wages
are the highest ever paid. The
writer overlooked Alaska. But there
is nothing to record in Alaska.
Failure of so many to organize
is the reason why Alaska wages
have not increased.
Tin: SITUATION DEPENDS EN
TIRELY UPON ORGANIZATION.
There’s many a slip twixt the
| election and the political job.
Who said that Nome is not preg
' nant with embryonic statesmen?
It’s the man that hires tho muck
stick artist, is the one who usually
plays the sure thing game.
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Th« Pope wait*’ * “fair-’ peace,
^very one
about.*7
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Those who talk of the blessings
of poverty never let their envy of
the poor man’s lot get the better
of them so that they give away all
that they have and join his ranks.
A Juneau paper carries a column
of hospital notes most of which are
concerned with injured miners. How
that compensation bill does relieve
the companies! Safety first—forget
it.
There’s a society to eliminate the
causes of war established in the
United States. No, they don't pro
pose to abolish capitalism and they
never did hear of the man who tried
for years to wheel daylight into a
dark hole.
The dignity of labor is a very
real thing in a low drift where the
candles don’t burn any too well,
but the men that talk about it
take good care to avoid being them
selves a horrible example.
| Ohio physicians saved the sight
I of a man whose eye was injured.
They substituted the eye of a
pig. If that man tries to hog every
thing in sight you can’t blame him.
And by the same-token for a whole
lot no substitution is needed.
A shop emnloycc of the Bethle
hem steel works confessed that the
company sold defective guns, in
which iron had been substituted for
steel, to the government at great
i profit. What does the unsophisticat
ed employee think? That Schwab is
in business for his health.
An exchange informs us that the
police found a revolver in the stock
ing of a woman and she got ninety
days in the New York house of
correction.. She claimed in defense
that she was an advocate of pre
paredness but the Judge couldn’t
j see it that way. How unreasonable
; men are!
War babies in England do not
mean quite the same thing as in
Wall Street, Pauline. In England
the expression was coined to explain
away the number of children born
following the outbreak of the war
and military concentration and whose
birth was accompanied or nnpre
ceded by wedlock.
The playful spirit of the American
financier refers to his war stocks
as his war babies. That’s the gay
humor of the cat worrying the cap
I tured mouse.
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•Formerly Delbar’s store—
The place where you can
reasonably buy anything
from a needle to an
anchor
Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF W. STEIG ELMAIER AND OF LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILL RE
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We serve Hot Cake, Ham and Eggs etc. frow 7 \. M. t« 1 P. M.S
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