NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER
WEEKLY
Published Saturday
By Nine Mine Workers’ Union, No. 240, International Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers.
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Entered as second class matter August G, 1918, at the Post Office
•t Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
NOME, ALASKA SATURDAY, MAY, 24, 1»1!>.
TOO MUCH TO EAT
WE MUST STARVE
It is remarkable how the capital
istic press is talking these clays. Ii
Is not often that we run editorials
from them, but this one is too gooc
to miss. Just read the last sentence
of this “San Francisco Call" editor
ial and add “The only new methoc
that will solve the question is the
program of socialism."
Are We Too Productive?
Among the “ five hard and terr!
finally challenging facts" which c
writer in the Dial says are worryinj
farsighted American business met
are these:
1. That now. thru war orders w<
have speeded up industry to an ex
tent which has increaseel our annua
volume of manufacture from abou
$25,000,000,000 to about $46,000,
000,000. utilizing every human bein)
—hale halt or lame— who could bi
impressed into service; raising *h<
enormously grave question whethe
we can hope to keep this pace on thi
cessation of war orders; and wha
will happen if we can't ke?p thi
pace.
2. That labor has become accus
touted to somewhat inflated wartinv
standards of wages and living, a
will (from the point of view of tin
business man) present a very seriou
psychological problem in itself whei
necessity calls for re-establishmen
of levels more normal. Boiled dowi
these two propositions are:
1. That American industry is not
capable of producing $21,000,000,
000 worth of goods more than it pro
, duced before we entered the war.
<x 2. That though all wages are paid
| fiDm these goods, it will be necessary
■, because of the increased productive
| power, to pay labor less than it Is
: j now getting.
In other words, the m,ore we pro
' duce, the less we shall have to dls
•: tribute among ourselves. Because
. the public has not the purchasing
power to buy as much as government
i and public together bot in wartime,
I we shall produce less, because if we
*! produce less, labor will earn less, and
I because lebor earns less, it will be
I able to buy less. If a government,
in control of all industries, were to
- propose such program, its leaders
; would be regarded as insane. If a
II government, able to regulate indus
■j try allows it to happen, the fact will
•|be evidence of insanity. The Im
s j mense Increase in the ( productive
t, power of mankind is one of war's
si chief gifts. The civil population in
I the Allied countries have managed
- to eat and be clothed while millions
■ of men at the most productive age
j have been economically nonproduc
si live. We ought to be all the richer
’' for the return of these men to thejr
i i
places in industry. If we fan not be
, made so under the old methods, we
ought to devise new ones.—The
• World.
WHERE ARE
MY CHILDREN?
It is not so long ago that a part
of the country was very much (and
very needlessly) wrought up about a
moving picture bearing the title
“Where are my children?" The film
was really a harmless piece of work,
seeking to make capital out of the
birth conrtol talk going on at the
time. That same title might be used
today ln a different sense. Nor there
are many folks who. terribly in earn
est n their opposition to birth control
quite shamelessly forget the children
i once they are born into the world.
I Where are the nation s children to
day? On what road have they en
tered? Take a state like Massachu
setts. which is suppossed to be the
seat of education, and which con
tains the oldest educational institu
tions In the country. When records
show that the school enrollment is
14 per cent below the normal figure,
something is wrong. Similar condi
tions exist all over the country,, bro:
■on, of course, by the abnormal condi
tions of war. According to some es
timates. 50,000 children were taken
into industries that should have been
learning elementary facts at school.
Nor is this all. Just for a moment
photograph this picture on your
memory: Maryland possesses, to
gether with Virginfa, 270 canneries.
In these canneries there are at work
1,004 children under fourteen. Some
of the tots are so small that in order
to roach the tables upon which the
work is done they ha^e to stand on
boxes. The surroundings are wet
j and damp.
Pictures like this could be mul
tiplied in great number. What is to
be done about it? Unscrupulous
I urofit-hunters. despite government
declarations, have seized upon the
■ war as a good excuse to squeeze a
few more drops of gold out of the
infant bodies. They are not amen
| able to the logic oof humanity. In
| deed, that lis one of the great defects
j of the profit system as a whole. It
[ does not understand human logic.
The anly way to affect them is thru the
pocketbook. And something must be
done. If the^e is anything more
important than tomorrow’s men and
women, we would like to know it.
What becomes of all the. cant
about the future, when our profiteer
ing employers profiteer on the living
future? Isn’t that just what these
tots are?
What is the use of saying that we
have shed our blood and treasure
for the America of tomorrow, when
we sap the very life blood of that to
morrow’s America with work that
is beyond their strength, their years,
their delicate organisms?
Isn’t that a species of slow canni
balism? is it not a method of de
vouring our own young? Did not
the government say that even under
the stress of war production it did
not.need the efforts of children in
the factories? And shall employers
in peace, profit from the labor of tots
that even in the peril of war the gov
ernment refused?
One newspaper summed up the
matter in unmistakable words—
words til the more significant in that
they appear in a column that only
a few months ago would have con
demned the same talk in any other
paper as beiing too radical. “Busi
ness that cannot make a profit with
out employing children has no right
to profit. The sooner they learn how
to make profit without children, or
the sooner they fail and go out of
existence, the better for the nation.
Let the business be destroyed if that
is the only way the children can be
saved. And let this be done as soon
as posi ibie. Let us not moutp mushy
\vor<l> :il out wanting to save (be
weaker nations from the Huns until
we have saved the weak children
from the Hun-souled employers.”
Not all the Huns are in Germany.
Not all the oppressed are in Belgium
Not all the anarchists are in Russia.
Not all the Prussianism is confined
to Prussia. We must learn to call a
spade a spade. And any person or
group of persons that think so little
of Americanism as to blot its name
with Hunnish practices in industry,
deserves not only scorn—these crea
tures are little affected by emotional
manifestations—.but active, prompt,
efficient steps toward putting them
out of business.
Any busniiess built upon a child's
body must go under.—The New Ap
peal.
THE DOOM
OF
EMPIRES
I
The traveller standing amid the
ruins of ancient cities and empires,
seeing on everyside the fallen pillar
and prostrate wall, asks. Why did
these cities fall? Why did these em
pires crumble? And the ghost ol
the past, the wisdom of ages, en
swers: These temples .these palaces,
these cities, the ruins of which you
stand upon, were built by tyranny
and injustice. The hands that bore
the burdens also bore the marks of
the lash. They were built by slaves
to satisfy the vanity and ambition of
thieves and robbers. For these reas
ons they are dust.
Their civilization was a lie. Theit
laws merely regulated robbery and
established theft. They hot and sold
the bodies and souls of men, and the
mournful wind of desolation, sighing
amid their crumbling ruins, is a voice
of prophetic warning to those whc
would repeat the infamous experi
ment, uttering the^reat truth: thal
no nation founded upon slavery
either of body or mind can stand.
When I take into consideration the
agony of civilized life, the failure
the poverty, the anxiety, the tears
the withering hopes, the better re
alities, the hunger, the crime, the
humiliation and the shame, I am
almost forced tod say that cannibal
ism after all is the most mercifui
form of whiich man ever lived upor
his fellow men. It is impossible foi
a man with a good heart to be sat
isfied with this world as it is now
ORDERED TO SHOOT TO KILL
Down Los Angeles way a strike
is being investigated by the wai
board and some interesting data !s
being accumulated.
The Pacific Electric Officials weri
seemingly loaned the marines bj
some one, presumably by a Pacific
Electric dollar-a-year man. Wher
the carmen align!fled their intentior
to join the strike last July they were
confronted with the order t' the ma
rines on the car: “If these men at
tempt to leave this car, shoot—ant
shoot to kill.” i ,1
Petty officers of the marines ar
rested officers of the strikers at Lonj
Beach. The town was never undei
martial law, and the police of the
city even protested against the mili
taristic procedure in a supposedly
free civic government.
The investigators are horror
struck at he action of the army ant
Pacific Electric officials, but that it
as far as it will go. Street Car Co's
are immune from prosecution. II
you don't think so see news items ol
San Francisco regarding grand jury
action on Densmore report and the
new whitewash of Fickert. Well it's
just like that down in Los Angeles
with the Electric Pacific.—World.
MANY KILLED BY EXPLOSION'
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May 23—
A terrific explosion which occurred
today n the Douglas Starch Works,
reduced the buildings of the latter
company to a mass of ruins.
Twenty dead bodies were removed
from the wreckage while the wound
ed number more than one hundred.
Property of a value of more than
three million dollars has been de
stroyed by the force of the explo
sion, that was felt thruout the neigh
borhood of this city.
An investigation into the cause of
the disaster will be made by the au
thorities.
Officals of the Douglas company
state that it is their belief that the
loss of these lives and the destruction
or the property was due to a dust
explosion, an always present danger
in flour and starch mills.
(But which can be easily avoided
by proper, but somewhat expensive
ventilation. Ed.)
FIRE DESTROYES
AMCSEMENT ZONE
TACOMA, May 24—A fire which
s reported to have started in a ntov
No man can truly enjoy even what he
knows to be his own, knowing that
millions of his fellow men are in mis
ery and want. When we think of the
famished we feel that lit is almost
heartless to eat; almost ashamed to
be well dressed and warm . One
feels as though his heart was as cold
as their bodies.
In a country filled with millions
and .millions of acres of land waiting
to be tilled, where one man can raise
the food for hundreds, millions are
on the edge of famine. Who can
comprehend the stupidity at the bot
tom of the truth. Is there to be no
change? Is the law of supply, inven
tion and science, monopoly and com
petition, capital and legislation, al
ways to be the enemies of those who
toil?
Will the workers always be ignor
ant and stupid enough to give their
earnings for the useless? * * * *Will
they always build temples for ghosts
and phantoms, and live in huts and
dens for themselves? Will the lips
unstained by lies, forever kiss the
robed impostor’s hand? Will they
finally say that the man who has had
equal privileges with all others .has
no right to complain, or will they
follow the example of their oppress
ors? Will they learn that force to
succeed must have thot behind it,
and that thought must rest upon the
cor^erftbne of justice?—Robert G.
i IngeVsoll.
ing picture theatre completely w:ped
out the Amusement zone at Camp
Lewis.
The Camp Lewis fire brigade after
heroic work succeeded in preventing
the spread of the conflagration to the
other structures of the camp.
The property loss will reach a
considerable figure. An investigation
into the cause of the fire is now be
ing made by the commander of Camp
Lewis.
WANTS AGITATORS DEPORTED
WASHINGTON, May 24—Repub
lican Representative Johnson of
Washington in an impassioned speech
in Congress urged the deportation of
' all Bolshevik agitators.
Johnson who laid the blame of the
recent strikes, especially on the Pa
cific Coast upon the Bolshevik, de
clared in his speech that "This coun
try has made a woeful mistake in al
lowing these aliens, dirty of body
and treacherous of mind to come into
the country.”
Johnson urged his coolleagues in
the House of Representatives to pass
j stringent legislation empowering the
, Federal authorities to round up and
deport all those individuals who are
keeping the laboning classes in this
country in turmoil and putting the
anarchistic notions Into their heads
I of wantng to have their conditions
bettered.
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the WORKER Advertise It.
I
D ET ATlSOF ~ N EW
REVENUE ACT
The following oftiical telegram from
Collector of Internal Revenue Wil
liams addressed to revenue officers,
druggists and tire press was received
yesterday. As will be observed the
message applies to the provisions of
the new Internal Revenue Act, deal
ing with the increased taxes Imposed
on commodities classed as semi-luxur
ies, which include, in addition to toilet
accessories, clothing, both male and
femaie, purses, valises, carpets, rugs,
lamps and lighting fixtures, watches,
clocks, silverware, furs and a wide
range of other articles) As the in
creased taxes indicated will affec
i practically every individual In soim
degree, the telegram possesses an in
torest to the general public which
should not be overlooked.- The act
became effective May 1, 1919. Denud- i
ed of headings, address and other ex
traneous matter, the message reads a3 l
follows: • i
Section 907: Commencing May 1.
1919, th» tax on proprietory medicines i
and toilet preparations will be collect- i
ed by stamp affixed to the article in- i
stead of by monthly payment by the ;
manufacturer, as hereotfore. The new i
tax is at the rate of one cent for each ;
twenty five, cents or fraction of twenty '
five cents of the price paid by the
consumer, who is required to reim
burse the retailer for the value of the
stamp. The retailer is responsible for
collecting the tax from, the consumer
and for affixing the stamp to the bot
tle or other container so as to seal the
stopper, wrapper or cover thereof. If
the retailer prefers, he may stamp his
stock of taxable articles before actual
sale to the consumer. Postage or doc- i
umentary stamps cannot be used for
this purpose. Prprietory stamps to
denote this tax will be issued in den
ominati ns of from one cent to five 1
cents and eight cents, ten cents and
twenty cents. Proprietor}- stamps
should be ordered from the Collector
of Internal Revenue and each order
should specify the kind, number and ;
denominations of the stamps desired.
The tax of two percentum on ’kales by
the manufacturers of such, will expire
April 30, 1919, but no refund or allow
ance for taxes paid at the former rate
will be made on articles taxed to and
sold by a manufacturer prior to May
The tax on toilet soap and toilet
soap powders is not payable by stamp
but will be collected on monthly re
turns by the manufacturer, as hereto
fore. Serums and anti-toxins are ex
empt from tax, as are also such vac
cines and bacterines as are not adver
tised to the general lay public. Med
icinal preparations not advertised to
the lay public are tax free when sold
by a physician to a patient whom he
personally attends.
Dealers in Alaska will necessarily
be delayed in receiving stamps order
ed by them. They should in the mean
time keep a record of their sales and
report and remit the total tax thereon
to the Collector in a lump sum.
Section 908, effective May 1, 1919.,
section,904 of the Revenue Act of 191S:
fixes the maximum .price at which so j
called "Semi-Luxuries” may be sold
tax free to the consumer and imposes ^
a tax of ten percentum on the amount
paid in excess of such maximum. The
purchaser is required to pay the tax
to the retailer, who must in turn report
and pay it over to the government at
the end of each month. Dealers con
cerned should apply to the Collector of
Internal Revenue for Luxury Tax
Blanks, which will contain full in
structions for their preparation. The
following is a list of the articles so
taxed end the. maximum tax tiee price
prescribed for each.
1 Carpets and rugs, including "•her,
except imported and American rugs
made principally of wool. Maximum
(ax free price, $5 per square yard.
3 Picture frames, nr. ixinium tax f'-.-e
price $10 each.
3 Trunks, max’nu'm tax free nice,
fifty dollars each.
1 Valises, traveling bags, suit cases.
! hat boxes, used by travelers, and fitted
! toilet cases, maximum tax free price
$25 each.
5 Purses, pocket-books, shopping and
hand bags, maximum tax free price
$7,50 each.
6 Portable lighting fixtures, including
lamps of all kinds, and lamp shades,
$25 each.
7. Umberailas, parsols and sunshades
$4 each. Fans $1 each.
8 House or smoking coats or jackets
and bath or lounging robes $7,50 each
10. Mens's waist coats sold separate
ly from suits, $5 each.
11. Women's and Misses hats, bon
nets and hoods $15 each.
12. Men’s and boys hats $5 each:
13. Men's and boys caps $2 each.
14. Men’s, Women's and Misses and
boy’s boots, shoes, pumps and slippers,
not including shoes or appliances made
to order for any pe'-son having crip
pled and deformed foot or ankle, $10
per pair.
15. Men's and hoy’s neckties an I
neckwear $2 each.
16. Men's and boy’s silk stocking)
or hose $1 per pair.
17. Women’s and Misses silk stock
ings or hose $2 per pair.
IS. Men’s shirts $3 each.
19. Men's, Women’s, Misses and
boy’s pajamas, night gowns and under- ;
wear, maximum $5 each.
20. Kimona's, petticoats and waists,
maximum $15 each.
The Luxury tax does not apply ti
nny of the articles from 2 to 8, Indus- 1
Ise, If such article is made of or orua- '
mented, or fitted with precious metals,
or imitation thereof, etc.
Effective April 1, 1919, Section 905 j
of the new- Revenue Act Imposes a tax ,
on everything in the shape oc lewelry,
whethe.r rea. or Imitation, si.vorw.ue, •
diver plated ware and, in shore, every
thing except surgical instruments, that .
is made of those metals, or Ivory. The ]
tax applies also to watches, clocks op- 1
ora glasses and binoculars and Is fixed 3
it five percentum of the price for
vhich any such articles are sold by or
or a dealer to a customer for con
iumption or use. An important feat
lre of this tax is that It is to be ac
counted for by the dealer or vendor,
■egardless of who manufactured or
inished the article, and in this respect
is well as in its extended scope, it
liffers materially from the tax on
ewelry imposed by the Act of 1917.,
vhich required the manufacturer or
rn porter to report and pay the tax to
he government. Not only jewelers,
herefore, but every other person sel
ing any of the enumerated articles
vill be required to render return and
>ay the tax of five percentum on sales
>ceurring on and after April 1, 1919.
In order that such persons may be
placed on the mailing list for blank
•eports and further information, they
ihould immediately communicate their
lames and addresses and the nature of
:he tax in which they are interested
;o the Collector of Internal Revenue at
racoma, Washington. Jewelers who
ire at present rendering returns under
:he 1917 law will receive blanks with
)Ut special request.
Section 900: re-tax on automobiles
ind accessories, candies, shooting
foods, etc. effective February 25, 1919,
he new Revenue Act imposed new or
ncreased taxes measured by percent
iges of the price upon certain articles
vhen sold, or leased by the manufact
urer, producer or importer. The list
>f articles so taxed includes automob
les, motorcycles, tires, parts and ac
:essories, pianos, mechanical musical
nstruments, and records therefor,
(porting goods, chewing gum. cameras,
photographic films, and plates, candy,
lire arms and ammunition portable
slectric fans, thermos bottles, smokers’
irticles, automatic slot vending and
weighing machines, livery, hunting,
(hooting and riding garments, furs,
pleasure boats and canoes and toilet
«*ap and toilet soap powder. Manu
facturers of such articles must make
ponthly report and payment of the tax
to the Collector of Internal Revenue,
rhe first report, that for the month of
March, is due in April and should in
clude all taxable sales under the new
taw for last four days of February..
Fteports and payment of the tax must
be made with the Collector of the dis
trict in which the manufacturer, pro
iucer or importer has his principal
place of business.
Signed: DAVID J. WILLIAMS,
, Collector. .
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Probate Court for thq Cape
Nome Preainct, Second Division,
Territory of Alaska: Before the
Honorable Hugh O'Neill U. S.
Commissioner and Ex Officio
Probate Judge.
In the matter of the estate of
FRED SEGER, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned that he has been duly ap
pointed Administrator of the estate
of Fred Seger deceased and all
persons having claims against the
said estate must exhibit the sam^,
with the necessary vouchers within
six months after the first publicaffdn
of this notice to the said Administra
tor at the office of Fred Harrison,
Attorney for said Administrator,
Rooms 9 and 10 Wild Goose Build
ing, Nome. Alaska, the same being
the place for the transaction of the
business of the said estate in the
above Precinct and Territory.
Dated May, 6th, 1919. i
CHAS. H. MILOT,
Administrator.
First publication May 10, 1919.
Pub. May 10, 17, 24, 31, June 7th.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Felix Brown, your heirs, legal
representatives, or assigns:
You are hereby notified that I hare
expended in labor and improvements
luring each of the years of 1906 1907,
1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913,
1914, 1915 and 1916 the sum of oBo
hundred dollars ($100) on Plaeer
ilaim No. 1 above on Newton Gulch
No. 1 a tributary to Dry Creek in the
Cape Nome Recording Precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska; notice of location of
which is recorded in volume 105 page
579 of the records of said Recording
Precinct. Said labor and improve
jients having been done on said claim
lor the purpose ot holding same under
Jie provisions of Section 21424 Revised
Statutes of the United States.
You are hereby required to cob
rlbute your proportion of said ex
lenditure, ns co-owner to the under
iigned withiu ninety days from the
inal publication of this notice or yotrr
nterest in said mining claim will he
orfelted and become the property of
he undersigned, your co-owner, as
irovided by said section of the Re
ised Statutes.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, February
6, 1919.
AUGUST HOMBURGER
Co-owner.
•ublished—Feb. 22. Mar. 1, 8, 12,
2, 29. Apr. 5. 12, 19, 26. May. 3, 1»,
7, 24, 1919.