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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
feam Lincoln. ,
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Entered a3 second class matter August 6, 1918, at the Post Office
•t Nome, AlaSka, under the Act of March 2', 1379.
NOME, ALASKA SATURDAY FEBRUARY, 1, 1910.
I
Dr Charles B Steintnetz, chief elec
trical scientist for the world-famous
Gentral Electric Company, of Sche
nectady, N. Y., Is considered one of
the greatest living electrical experts.
Dr Steinmetz is a Socialist as well
as a scientiot, and his opinions are
always interesting because he invari
ably expresses them so succinctly.
The "International Steam Engineers”
printed an interview with this wizard
which we are glad to quote in part:
Dr Stelinmetz startled his inter
viewers by the declaration that “that
society should aim at the abolition
of wdrk.”
“What 1 said about work ,” the
wizard explained, “will have no mean
ing at all unless we understand what
is meant by work. I do not want to
abolish energy or occupation. In one
sense of the word we shall work more
When we work less.
“Doing the things we want to do
is not work, not the work we impose
on the workingman. Engineering is
not work to me. It is my life, my
way of expressing myself. T spend
twelve or fourteen hours a day at
engineering. I spend half an hour
a day at work, reading the things or
doing the things which I feel I must
read or do, but that are in themselves
disagreeable and uninteresting.
“But standing in front of a punch
press is all work. No one can possi
bly be interested in the monotonous
turning of the machine. No one does
it because he wants to do it.
* # * *
If any one uses his faculties con
stantly at a disagreeable task he can
not use them to express himself. They
become dulled. The more disagree
able the task, the greater the dead
ening process.
“Eight hours a day is too long, far
too long for a human being to tend a
machine. The man who works in a
shop eight hours today works longer
than the man who worked twelve or
fourteen hours years ago. In those
days his occupation may have been
crude, but he could get interested in
it. He was making something, a shoe
or a wheel or a box. There was much
disagreeable labor thrown in, but his
occupation gave him some play for
his creative faculties. The machine
hus taken that opportunity away.
* * * *
“The day's Work should be reduced
to four hours. Men could stand that
much drudgery and have initiative
enough left to enable them to take
up interesting occupations. Society,
instead of being impoverished by the
shorter workday would be enriched
by all the greater accomplishments
these men would undertake.
“The tendency of the machine it-.
self is to bring about the very change i
There is no reason to believe that the
labor saving machine has reached a!
final stage of development. Inven-J
lions must go on. But heretofore
the labor saving machine has meant,
a tremendous increase in production j
instead of an actual reduction in the,
hours of labor and each machine has;
required the service of a machine |
tender
“Yet now automatic machines the1
machines which superintend them-j
selves, are coming in. These are sup-j
planting human ,drudgery. I see no
reason why the factory may not be
changed as much in this respect as it
has already changed in the transfor
mation from hand to machine produc-j
tlon.
“A little drudgery will perhaps al
ways be necessary. But this is not a
hardship, where It <is associated with
the things you like to do. Lying on
your back in the hot sand and letting
the dirty oil trickle in your face is
not a pleasant occupation in itself.
But you don't mind occasionally if
you own the automobile and you have
a passion for automobiling. You get
out and under with considerable pride
in yourself for knowing how to fix
the machine.
"But suppose you are doing the
same thing for $3 a day. Then it is
unadulterated work. The chaffueur
does.
"Society is organized or disorgan
ized today so that all the disagreeable
things associated with disagreeable
occupations can be shifted to the
shoulders of a certain class of people.
We call them the working class. To
that class even many of the poten
tially agreeable occupations become
drudgery, due to the social stigma at
tached to them.
“if we had a rational organization
of society very much of the drudgery
of today would be found exceedingly
interesting. You can hire a man to
work in your garden for starvation
wages, and the work at once becomes
disagrecabe, socially dishonorable.
Yet when fortune smiles on you and
endows you with leisure and a home
of your own the chances are that you
will put in your time at the same oc
cupation and it will prove delightful.
• * * *
“If it is necessary for the disagree
| able duties of life to be shifted I
! certain shoulders, there ought to be a
| premium on that particular work. If
! there is to be a distinction in rewards
and honors the people who do the
most distasteful work of all should
receive the greatest rewards and the
highest honors. Why should I be
honored or paid more than the ditch
digger? Society could worry along
for some time without its engineers
but it couldn't get along without its
laborers.”
Dr Steinmetz was itting in the mar
velous laboratory of his Schenec
tady residence. His salary is fabu
lous, but there is no evidence of ex
treme luxury here. Mysterous elec
trical apparatus is installed through
out the building, giving the impres
sion that much of his income is spent
in forcing nature to yield up more and
more of its wonderful secrets. Sev
ered arjres of rather wild ground
where he delights in studying plants
and butterflies, and a capacious con
servatory. rilled with rare cactus and
orchids, are apparently his only ex
travagance.
* * * *
"I don’t need more than any other
person,” he said. “I don't consume
more than any one could consume if
society were organized. You may
think I have more than others could
have, but comparatively few would
want to be bothered with land if it
were not for its commercial value.”
“What do you mean by a rational
organization of society?” The inter
view'er had recovered himself enough
to ask the question.
“Socialism,” said the Wizard. “An
organization of society in which the
things we need would be manufactur
ed in order to supply those needs. We
make things today not to use but
to sell. The result is a fearful social
loss, not only in profit, interest and
rent, but in the abnormal waste of
wealth, energy and iibiftlik lire Ilf
competitlTe prdActioM. '.
ftf prp
"Eliminate ^0al waste
dti&lon nifeans work to a
nitiltmunit”
' ni»* . ■ '■* ■" 1" . . -■
BY LINCOLN
' “I see in the near future a crisis ap
proaching that unnerves me and
causes me to treihble for the safety
of my country. As a result of the
war,corporations hive been enthron
ed, and an era of corruption in high
places will follow, and the money
power of the country will endeavor
to prolong its reign by working upon
the prejudices of the people until all
the wealth is aggregated in a few
hands, and the republic is destroyed.
I feel at this moment more anxiety
for the safety of our country than
ever before, even in the midst of war.
God grant my foreboding may be
groundless.
“Monarchy itself is sometimes hint
ed at as a refuge from the power of
the people. In my present position
I could scarcely be justified were I
to omit to raise a warning voice
against the approach of returning des
potism. It is not needed nor fitting
here that a general argument should
be made in favor of popular institu
tions, but here is one point with its
connections not to be hackneyed as
most others, to which I ask brief at
tention.
“It is assumed that labor is avail
able only in connection with capital,
that nobody labors unless somebody
else owing capital, sombbow by the
use of it. induces him to labor. Labor
is prior to and independent of capital.
Capital is only the fruit of labor and
could not have existed if labor had
not lrst existed. Labor is the super
ior of capital and deserves higher
consideration. I bid the laboring
people beware of surrendering the
power which the’’ noss»«s nnrt which
if surrendered, will surely be used to
shut the door of advancement for
such as they, and fit new disabilities
and burdens upon them until all their
liberty be lost.
“In the early days of our race, the
Almighty said to the first of man
kind, ‘In the sweat of thy brow shalt
thou eat bread’. And since then, if
we except the light and air of heaven
no good thing can be employed with
out first having cost labor. And, in
asmuch as m,ost good things have
been produced by labor, it follows
that all such things by right being
to those whose labor has produced
them. But it has so happened in all
ages of the world that some have
labored and others have, without
labor, enjoyed a large portion of the
fruits. That is wrong and should not
continue. To secure to each laborer
the whole product of his labor, or
nearly as ro"'-'- is & worthy object
of any government.
“It seems strange than any man
should dare to ask God’s assistance
in wringing bread from the sweat of
other men's faces.
“This country with its institutions,
belongs to the people who inhabit it."
AND SCIENCE
For the benefit of the big wooden
guns of Vancouver’s civic and social
circles, whose present fad is a “BaH|
the Hun” Association, we reproduce
the following part of an address de
livered by a Mr Qutggin in the sen
ate house of Cambridge University,
last May.
For Cambridge, said Mr Quiggin,
ignorance of German would mean in
tellectual death. Even before the
war, German outside the Latin coun
tries was the medium of intercourse
throughout Europe, and in the realm
of learning :.t occupied the position
held by Latin during the middle ages.
After the war this would even more
be the case. The thought of the great
er part of the European continent
would be garnered in German, and in
order to obtain access to that store
house of knowledge German would
be requisite. By discountenancing the
study of German in schools they
would deny their students access to
a fountain-head of knowledge. Our
intellectual life was largely depend
ent upon Germany. But there were
also other reaosns for studying Ger
man. He need hardly say that per
haps the greatest poetic achievement
of the last two hundred years was the
I work ot a German and in the estima
tion of many the two greatest drama
I tic writers of the nineteenth century
wrote in German. It might be said
that German poetry and German
literature particularly the poetry, had
a direct appeal to the English which
the verse of France rarely or never
had. Again, as a form of mental
discipline German undoubtedly far
excelled French, and German in a way
formed an avenue to all the languages
of Europe outside the Latin countries.
All these languages had been pro
foundly influenced by German and if
our men wanted to study Russian,
Polish. Hungarian or Scandinavian,
they would do well to take German
first. He hoped that, if the report
was referred back to the syndicate,
they would consider the making of a
reading knowledge of German oblig
atory upon all candidates for honors.
They did not wish to see their col
leges degenerate into so many social
and athletic clubs; but that he was
convinced would be the result, if
they cease to study the languages of
the European continent, and espec
ially German. -—British Columbia
Federationist.
LABORS BUREAUS'!
OF QUEENSLAND
Under capitalistic governments the
Queensland State Labor Bureaft was
merely an employment agency con
ducted much in the same way as
the private employment agencies are
conducted. Recognizing the serious
public evils arising out of unemploy
ment, the labor government of
Queensland, shortly after it came in
to office, reorganized the bureau and
substantially increased its functions.
It aimed at making labor more mobile
by establishing complete and intricate
machinery for ascertaining the re
quirements of employers and the con
ditions of the labor markets over the
whole of the state;ascertaining with
the greatest possible accuracy the
number of men in the various dis
tricts requiring work, and classifying
them according to capabilities; keep
ing a data treating to the above
thoroughly up to date that at any
time tho '"formation was never more
than a week old; advancing fares, or
portions of fares, to men anxious to
work at distant occupations waiting
for them but which without money
they could not take up; placing ap
plicants in whatever suitable availa
ble work nearest to their respective
homes; and providing the managers
of the many rapidly-increasing state
enterprises with complete up-to-date
information as to the conditions of
labor in the various districts, so that,
as far as consistent with meeting
other requirements, the progress at
least of some of the undertakings
may be adjusted in such a way as to
have a steadying and levelling effect
on the market.
It is not too much to say that the
bureau has developed rapidly in the
direction Indicated. The statistics of
the number of people placed in posi
tion fully proves this. As a result
unemployment has been lessened to a
marked extent, while the mobility of
labor has been increased. Under the
old order men in one part of the
state would be idle while other parts
would bo starving for tnen Today all
that is done away with. There is
established a network of exchanges
throughout the country and city dis
tricts of the state, and a system of
sending to headquarters every seven
days a full account of industrial con
ditions throughout the state. Thus
every seven days the headquarters of
the bureau in the capital city knows
just how labty- is throughout the
state. These statements give full par
ticulars about each applicant for work
and what the work is he requires.
The same list shows what wd&
ployers have td bffer, together with’
all particulars as to wages, etc. Thus
at the end of every week the Lhbor
Bureau of the State Labor Govern
ment can say with some degtee iof
certalnlty where there is work to be
had and where men are out of work.
As a result of the good work that
has ben done it is necessary to state
that since the Labor Government
started operations in this way—in
October 1915, up to the end of June
1916, no less than 13,716 men had
ben found work in the state, a per
centage of 51.4 per cent of all men
asking for help being thus placed in
positions. . It may be asked why
all have not been found work; why
only half have been placed in Jobs.
The answer is easy to find. Many
men—probably half of them—regis
ter as soon as they are out of work
but find jobs of their own within a
few days, and consequently do not
need the assistance of the bureau, al
though they have registered.
The method by which applicants
are selected for work is by the rota
tion principle, those registering first
obtain preference and so on. This
method ensures a complete absence
of political interference, and no fairer
way of chopsing men could be devised.
All are given equal opportunities; the
man longest without work gets the
first call, and the employer is fully
protected, inasmuch as he is under
no obligation to continue employing
an idle or incompetent worker. Of
the 13,716 assisted with work, as
shown above during 1915-16, 6,383
asked for and were granted assist
ance in the way of railroad fares—the
greater part of which money has
since been refunded.
Among other functions discharged
by the government bureau is the sup
ervision of private labor exchanges
and the safeguarding of the industrial
awards and registered agreements of
wages and conditions. In cases
where a private employment agency
is found overcharging an applicant
for a job, the punishment is swift
andl sure, while where employees are
paid less than the award wages the
bureau also makes the employer of
labor disgorge the rightful wage, be
sides prosecuting him for tampering
with the rewards. Dusing the year
1915-6 no less than 431 prosecutions
under this heading were carried out
with good results.
TEXTILK HTItIKE
LA WHENCE, Mass, Jan 28—A na
tion wide strike of all organized
American Textile Workers is being
advocated here.
The aim of this proposed strike is
to be for a limit of fourty eight hours
a week instead of the present fifty
four a week. The same pay for fourty
eight hours will be asked as has been
customary for fifty four per week.
That the Textile workers will have
a great struggle on their hands should
this trike be called is acknowledged
but the majority of the workers are
in favor of calling the strike as soon
as possible.
WlMi A KG I K APPEAL
WASHINGTON, Jan 28—The ap
peal for a new trial of Eugene Debs,
convicted under the Espionage Act
will be argued before the United
States Supreme Court.
Tt*c conviction Of Dabs, will be ask
ed by his attorneys to be set aside
on the grounds that the Espionage
Act is unconstitutional.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the United States Commissioner's
Court for the Precinct of Cape
Nome, Second Division, Territory
of Alaska, in Probate.
In the matter, of the estate of
FRED LARSEN, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been appointed admin
istrator of the estate of Fred Larsen,
deceased, by the above entitled court.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to present
then!, with the proper vouchers, with
in six months from the date of this
notice, to the undersigned administra
tor, at Nome, Alaska.
J. C. WIDSTEAD
Administrator of the estate of Fred
Larsen, deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court for the Precinct of Cape
Nome, Second Division, Territory
of Alaska. In probate.
In the matter of the estate of Christen
Anderson, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been appointed admin
istrator of the estate of Christen An
deron, deceased, by the above named
court.
All persons having claims against
them, with tH'e p
in 8& monijut from the date of thtt
notice, to the u«!ersftn& admlnis
trator, at Nome,' Alaska,
joiw a. wiLsok,
Administrator of the estate of Chris
ten Anderson, deceased.
PUB—Nov 30. Dec 7, 14, 21, 21.
NOTICE OP APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
M. A. NO. 0339
M. S. No. 1215
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OP
PICE AT NOME, ALASKA.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
Archie McDonald, a citizen of the
United States, residing at Nome,
Alaska, and whose post office address
is Nome, Alaska, has made applica
tion before the United States Land
Office at Nome, Alaska,' for a United
States Patent for the PLUTUS AS
SOCIATION PLACER mining claim
situate on the left limit of Dry Creek,
between the heads of Pelnk Creek and
Franklin Gulch, about 2 % miles N. E.
of the Town of Nome, in the C&pe
Nome Mining and Recording Diatrfct,
Alaska, Second Division, being Min
ral Survey No. 1215; said claim Mag
more particularly described in the
held notes and' plat of the official sur
vey thereof now on file In said Land
Office, at Nome, Alaska, as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identical
with Cor. No. 3, Sur. No. 1209, Mead
ow ABsociaton Placer, a fir post 4 ins.
sq., 2 ft. above ground, in earth
mound, scribed M.-3-1209 and 1-1215
P. whence U. S. L. M. No. 19 bears
N. 78 deg. 34 min. E. 4822.4 ft;
thence S. 22 deg. 43 min. W. (Var.
18 deg. 03 min. E.) 1473.60 ft. te Cor.
No. 2, a fir post 4 ft. long, 4 ins. aq.
in earth mound scribed 2-1215 P;
thence N. 63 deg. 05 min. W. (Yar.
18 deg. 10 min. E.) 1218.10 ft. to
Cor. No. 3, identical with Cor. No. 2,
Sur. No. 1209, Osiris Placed; thoape
N. 17 deg. 61 min. E. (Var. 18 deg.
03 min. E.) 1226.70 ft. to Cor. No. 4.
identical with Cor. No. 1, Sur. Ho.
1209, Osiris Placer; thence S. 74 deg.
16 min. E. (Var. 18 deg. 03 min. ■.')
1329.30 ft. to Cor. No. 1 and plaeo of
beginning; containing an area of 29.
263 acres. Total area applied for be
ing 38.401 acres.
That said claim is in conflict with
and overlapped by Survey No. 1299,
Meadow Association Placer to th« ex
tent of 0.589 acres, and by Survey Ha
1209, Myrtle Claim Placer to the ex
tent of 0.263 acres, all as shown by
the official plat and field notes of ear
vey thereof, but that said areas so in
conflict with the Plutus Associativa
Placer are hereby excluded from this
application and patent for same Is nst
hereby or hereunder applied for.
That said claim is situated on un
surveyed ground on the left limit nf
Dry Creek, between the heads of
Peluk Creek and Franklin Gukk.
about 2Ms miles N. E., of the Town
of Nome. U. $. L. M. No. 19, to vkhk
this claim is tied, is a fir post, painted
white, 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground,
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 19. in earth
mound, situated on the right limit of
Otter Creek, about 50 ft. from the
railroad and 2 Vi miles North of Ber
ing Sea, in Latitude 64 deg. 32 mte.
North, Longitude 165 deg. 17 min. W.
That the original notice of iocatlnn
of said claim is recorded in Volume
190, page 5 of the records of tea
Cape Nome Recording Distrlst
Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On ths
North. Survey No. 1209, Mrytle Claim
Placer anil Meadow Association
j Placer, Eskimo Gold Dredging Co..
I Claimant; on the Bast 40 Acre Trast
Association, unsurveyed; on the
South claims unsurveyed and claim
ant unknown; on the West, Sur. No.
1209, Osiris Placer, Eskimo Gold
Dredging Co., claimant.
THOS McGANN
Register.
NOTICK OF FORKKITUBK
To J. N. Flack, Nome Kougarok Con
solidated Mines Company and Jaeeb
Zeman, your heirs, executors, admin
istrators and .assigns:
You and each of you, are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended in labor and Improvement*
the sum of one hundred dollars dar
ing each of the years of 1914, ISIS.
1916, and 1917, upon the following
described placer mining claim, situate,
lying and being in the Kougarok Re
cording District, Territory of Alaska,
to-wit: The upper one half (%) of
Creek Claim Number Three on Dahl
Creek in the Kougarok Mining Dis
trict.
You are further notified that if
within ninety (90) days after the
publication of this notice you fail er
neglect to contribute your proportlea
of such expenditure, your interest ia
Bald mining claim if any, will become
the property of the undersigned, your
co-owner, under section 2324 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States.
AD CAREY
Co-owner.
Published—Nov. 23. 3*. Dec. 7, 14,
21, 21. Jam. 4, 11, IS, 2S. Feb.l, I, IS.