TRI-WEEKLY
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By 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 a3
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. rhone, Black 134.
Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
NOME, ALASKA THl'llHPAY, JUNE, 27, 1!>18.
I*LAIN' PROFITEERS
The one conspicuous fact in con
nection with industry outside and
especially with w'hr.t is known as
War Industry is the close co-opera
tion between the government and the
labor organizations. And no less
conspicuous is the fact that the
eight hour day is in such industry
so universal that the longer work
day is practically unknown.
The nation is engaged in a great
war; nothing is more important
than the prosecution to a successful
conclusion of that undertaking, the
most mammoth that even the United
States, successful in giant under
takings has ever been called upon
to face. Because it is gigantic in
scope and effort, the wise policy
of the administration has been
therefore one well calculated to se-j
cure the co-operation and confidence i
of the American Federation of La-:
bor leaders, with the result that
there has been an unusual progress
made in the organization of unor
ganized plants, and the War Labor
Adjustment Board has submitted
basic terms upon which questions
arising between employer and em
ployees must be settled.
With this condition obtaining out
side. strikes have been reduced to
a minimum in all essential indus
tries, while in the non-essential in
dustries they are few and far be
tween.
Now here in Nome the main pro
ductive industry is a non-essential
industry and although interested fi
nanciers have brought all kinds of
pressure to boar upon the govern
ment to have gold mining declared an
essential industry, they have not
been successful so far. Yet this
is the only part of the nation and
the only industry where the greed
of the profiteer insists that the
twelve hour day or the ton hour
day obtain, and the sanm conditions
of unhampered exploitation still pro
long themselves in our midst.
More than that, these greedy
profiteers have sought and in some
rases been successful in obtaining
men, skilled men, in war essential
industries and have brought them
here to waste, their labor in a non
essential Industry not that the coun
try may win the war, but that
th'y a3 avaricious men may further
increase their profits.
It does not matter how many
badges these men may wear, of a
patriotic nature, when they put
their own profits first., they were
simply qualifying for tlv Iron Cross.
Four men who came up on the
Victoria admitted coming up here
to work for companies twelve hours
a day, of having left important and
highly skilled positions in the ship
yards where every such skilled me
chanic was sovely needed. In other
words these Seward Peninsula prof
iteers have been with consul -ruble
success carrying on a propaganda
1 to sneak labor away from the gov
ernment to scab up her , and they
hav.- the. immaculate e ffrontry th >
unqualified gall to pose as patriots.
If they are not preforming pro-C v
man work, it simply is because they
thems lves give it another name,
but they are most decidedly bring
,ng aid and comfort to the national
,.iu my, and are strictly treasonable
in their activities.
It makes one’s blood boil to.wit
i! ss the action of men suffering
from profiteering maggots whose
<-awl-tig souls have never been able
to follow a greater inspiration than
carrion taint,d gold, and ■ at a
tune too when tlie flower of Ameri
can youth and strength is devoting
its life and hopes on th > battle
fields of Franc • to the national
c uso and blie national ideals—at
this very time .t is those' profiteers
seek to sneak from the absolutely j
r-ssential industries that labor which j
still has not reformed itself of its|
jobbite pretensions, and for the tem
porary social association of a few;
weeks with a boss, will accept a
price to become strike breakers.
But we intend to drag the mask
from these pretenders be they em
ployers or be they employees, and
after endeavoring whole they could
to stab the nation in the back, tho
cheap trick of asking the other
follcw to subscribe to seme war
fund can deceive nobody, but the
nerve of those industrial traitors
should bo widely advertised. Nome
is evidencing in the fight against
the eight hour law a most vicious
example of the limits to which
profiteering will cary the mon.oy
mad who have one God, cnc country
and one flag and that's the dollar.
THE METRIC SYSTEM
As everyone knows there is a con
stant agitation going on for a hun
dred years to abolish the English
system of weights and measures and
introduce the metric or decimal
system.
Just a short time ago tho Ameri
can Institute declined to see that
the metric system was superior hut
declared that there were grounds
for believing quite the contrary.
This action is endorsed by a con
vention of manufacturers in New
York City and these heartily approve
the opposition to any change just
now because of the increased tax
ation and other burdens which the
war had piled upon industry.
Any time industry groans about
the war burdens which it bears,
just pass it smiling. It’s only the
grossest affectation; industry is now
and has been coining more opulent
millions for some time than ever
it dreamed of during its nights ot
avaricious dreams.
But the important point that is
thus disposed of by the manufactur
ers in convention assembled is im
portant also in revealing how the
economic wish of industrial overlords
compels its impression on the rest ot
the nation. While it is apparent in
the resolution adopted by the Man
ufacturers that they are merely en
dorsing the position of the American
Institute, it is to be suspected that
the not wholly unworldly members
of the Institute were shrewd enough
to preceive the wishes of the em
ploying and manufacturing class as
a whole as to Hie proposed change.
It is true that able scientists have
expressed regret that a decimal rather
than a auocecimai system obtained
in (he calculating world, because
of the more satisfactory fractional
parts within the latter. hut it
seems absurd that we should hf>
struggling along with the legacy
of a peculiarly illiterate age of a
peculiarly illiterate race and have
to cudgel our minds to l am cal
culations in any but the simpler
forms that nature first revealed its
possibilities in the count of our eight
fingers and two thumbs. i
But tho requirements of a master
class in the industrial world are as
c ompelling as the requirements of a
ruling class in the political world
and it is in all probability the cor
rect forecast to state that the adop
tion of a metric system is as for off
as ever. One finds economic de
terminism cropping up in the
strangest of strange pact's.
,HST A WORM OF WARNING
Many of those who recently ar
rived in Nome hope to work incog
nito here and return to the Outside
without tho reputation of their hav
ing scabbed hero becoming known
Now they might as well get that
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lotion out ot what UUJp JSf*y «Wt
«r they m&eago to cultivate within
heir vacuous noodles. They will
jave their local activities duly re
:orded and those unions with which
hey have maintained connection
mtside will be duly apprised; apT
prised, too, long before they reach
;he outside. The day is past when
i union man can go to one place
md scab and return to another and
:urn in a withdrawal card, and at
oast a§ far as Nome is concerned
that day is past and although in
geward Peninsula many card men
practiced this habit of secretive
scabbing to a standstill, they will
realize that the unions on the out
side have not only volunteered to
co-operate with the Union Miners
to suppress this scabbing, but in
tend to take strenuous steps to make
those who do realize the gravity
of their offence by expelling and
fining those guilty.
NEWS NOTES
HERE TO STAY
Reports Were in circulation that j
tht fast and commodious steamer*
the Silver Wave would, leave for the
Outside and so would not be in
the Kotzebue and way point service
this summer and the owners deny
that there is a bit of truth in the
rumor and they are here to rustle
passengers and freight or charter
business thruout the season. The
Silver Wave has been remodelled
thruout and is now just “as good
as new.”
HOED A GABFEST
Several mining operators—and the
man who first used that word to
define mine employers surely had
a surgical table in mind—held a
closed meeting yesterday. They did
not look very cheerful but declined
to state what occurred at their
meeting.
FAMOUS EMPORIUM CHANGES
HANDS
George Sykes a veteran pioneer
of the North finally disposed of his
stock to Lomen Brothers today and
he will bid the Seward Peninsula
metropolis farewell.
PREPARE FOR INDEPENDENCE
DAY
The committee named to arrange
for the celebration of July 4 held a
meeting last evening and made pre
liminary arrangements Another
meeting will be held tonight when
sub committees will be named to
take up the actual work. It is
desired to make the demonstration
of the day to bo in keeping with the
spirit of the times.
RECEIVES HONOR FRAG
The Iv-r.or flrg awarded to this
Division for exceeding its quota in
the Liberty Loan was received todaj
by D. E. Crowley who had charge
of the lrst drive.
Keep Posted, Read the WORKER,
GOING OUTSIDE ,
About fifty workingmen will leave
on the first fleet for the outside.
They are most of them centering
upon the government war industries
as the future scene of their labors.
Some of them are married men and j
are taking their families along with ^
them. They figure that under pres
ent offers of mining employers they
car. better thorn by about fifty per
cent on .he outside.
WII.L FINALLY SKLL OUT
S L Lewis who has been identi
fied so prominently with Nome
mercantile life since the establish
ment of the camp returned on the
Victoria with the intention of dis
posing of his stock ar.d store in
town. Stock, lock and barrel are
'•to be disposed of, rfr.d real bar
gains may be looked for.
ICE ACROSS THE STRAITS
Recent arrivals from the west an
nounce that as late of June 18 and
as far as they could discern with
the naked eye a condition obtained
which they have never known at that
time of the year before. The straits
were frozen solid across. There was
what appeared to be a very small
channel in the middle of the straits
where there was broken ice and an
occasional ard irregular but always
small pothole of water. With this
condition obtaining it is small won
der that there has accumulated
such a bleak desert of ice so late
in Bering Sea.
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RECEIVES SAD NEWS
| Charlie Dankhrrt cf Candle who
■ was a receipt arrival on the Victoria
I received the sad news upon his ar
! rival hero that Mrs Dankhart who
'has been somewhat unwell for a
J considerable time, passed away at
tlioir home in California. The news
was a crushing Blow to Mr Dank
hart and the greatest sympathy is
felt for him by his numerous
friends.
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via Seward and Cordova
June 29th
R. A. Carroll Agent, Nome
Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVEK THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF YV. STEIGELMAIER AND OF1 LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILL RE
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