WEEKLY
Published Saturday
By H im MIm Workers' Union, No. 240, International TcIm of Mine,
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NOMK. A I.AKKA SATURDAY, MARCH, 15. 1H10.
WHY THEY
OPPOSE PEABE
i
By C. H. King.
The rampantly reactionary capital
ist papers anti politicians are all op
posed to peace on any terms. They
want the war to continue regardless
of what the Germans are willing to do.
.And they are bitterly opposed to
peace on the basis oT Witson's four
teen points and five principles.
The S. F. Daily Journal of Com
merce quotes the American Economist
organ of the American Protective
Tariff League, as follows:
“In the great sisue of ISIS, far
more is involved than the release of
nations from the tyranny of Germany.
True, that, is the rallying ground—
the reason why the Allies and the
boys from America are lighting so
desperately. But back of all the
shouts for liberty and freedom is the
bare cold fact that this is an economic
war. a war for national supremacy
and security.”
The Tariff' League is. of course thoi
political arm of big business. When.'
Lodge and Poindexter and Iyahn and
the rest of that gang of reactionistsJ
talk, they are merely saying what the
Tariff League tells them the interests
of Big Business demands- During the
first year of the war, i. e.. 1917. Capi
tal in the. I'nited States increased in
Volume front i billion dollars tu 18
billions. "So let the war go on.” Anil
when it is proposed' to hare peace,
.with, a League of Nations, and uo eco
nomic war after war, and before we
have consolidated our conquests, p.f
:he markets of South America,-China
and Siberia, the Big Business puppets,
howl in dismay and anger: "But the
present war is XO\V an economic
war."
The New York World comments as
follows:
“There are hundreds of thousands
of Republican voters in the American
army. There are hundreds of thous
ands of Republican fathers whose
sons are fighting in France. There
nre thousands'of Republican mothers
whose heroic boys have already given'
the last full measure of devotion.
"We wonder what they think of
this cold-blooded, sordid, mercenary
proposition tbat the American Eco
nomist put4 forth? We wonder what
they think of the claim that their sons
have not been lighting for human
freedom, have not -been lighting for
the liberty of mankind, but have bat
tled merely for economic gain, for
dirty dollars to be stuffed into the
swollen pockets of Steel and Wool and
Cotton?-—Oakland Worker.
ANTI-TRUST LAW
A DEAD LETTER
The Dcp.irmont of Justice has an
nounced its willingness to postpone
for one year the prosecution of the
anti-trust cases under the Sherman
law. For a long time these cases
have been awaiting trial, and now.
finding that he coroporations involved
by reason of their trustification have
been able to produce materials for the
war with staggering efficiency .the De
partment of Justice postpones the
ca ses.
The action of the Department of
Justice has tailed forth in the press
a storm of sarcastic criticism which
refh cis the tone capitalist evolution
is taking.
The Evening Mail in an editorial,
"‘Drop the Anti-Trust Cases.” ap
pra ses the situation very neatly:
‘ The Attorney General's motion is
vis ■ and reasonable, so far as it goes.
Jtnt why merely postpone? Why not
strike nU these cases from the dock
ets? The Sherman anti-trust law
is the deadest thing in the statute
book. Why arouse il from its peace
ful slumbers.
* K these corporationss would be
hampered in their war activities if
the lc iriiii-s ore lo he held now why
would (hey not be hampered in their
peace industries after the war is over
and America will need every ounce
of In organized industrial and finan
cial power to meet, the immediate
Ji •.'Veins?
‘‘The anti-trust cases have been
ik”- pries,-V. by tile common -'“nse
of the American people, based upon
the -laperleuce of the past four me
lror'-il yean of industrial achiovc
m ' '!>• can not. the Do put‘.men*
of J r.'cogn.-/ • the v
■ public opinioh and call off these case*
just cud of postponing them?"
The anti-trust cases have been
‘rolle prossod” by the edict of eco
nomic development which The Mail
| chooses to call "common sense." The
Sherman anti-trust law is a ghost.
The roller of capital st evolution
made short work of it. Tho trust is
.he culmination of the development of
] he tool of production and can be leg
j isiated out of existence no more than
; ‘he tail of the tadpole can he legi:
j -ate«l into a lrog. The existing oen
i ra!i-/.ation of industries. the gigantic
d"'l trust and others, which have
j grown while the anti-trust law lay
dead on the statute book, makes it a
i farce, enacted as a sop to the middle
class which is being round out by the
trusts, rhe era of natoinal com pet i
;i rusts. Tht era of national competi
operation to meet International com
petition is here, and what makes anti
trust laws the laughing stock is that
the government itself is a most active
j agent In bringing about the central
ization and organization of industries.
Co-operation instead of competition
eliminates waste and anarchy in pro
duction, and. therefore, increases the
. magnitude of production. The past
years of wholesale destruction of
: wealth furnishes a conclusive proof
; of the tremendous increase in the pro
1 ductivitv of the working class due to
jthe improved machinery and inrius
I trial co-operation or trustification un
i dor government control. The trust is
II he acme of accomplishment of tho
j capitalism's final contribution to the
I forward march of mankind, since in
j the trust is the instrument for oreat
I ini; in ahusianc? -usd. with oa*c tits
#^«||0rnh*f to IlWund to be
happy. L .
The trust, in itself, as a means of
produet ion is a good thing. The own
ership of the trust by the ind^trial
barons is the bad thing. It hah be
come the social tool of production
which all must operate to creatj the
things of life, and because the peo
ple can not exist without tool
of production, the owners of the tool
become the social masters whojlone
reap the fruit of the advanced Meth
ods of creating wealth.
The Socialist Party teaches* the
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working class how to separate; the
good and evil,elements in the trust,
how to preserve the one for society
and regulate the other to the social
rubbish can. The trusts must be own
ed and controlled by all the people
as a whole; that is the only way in
which the good that the trusts carries
in its womb will be borne into the
lives of all the people. The working
class, using the instrument of indus
trial unionism supplemented by rev
elutionary political action, will be the
surgeon.
CONSTITUTION OF
RUSSIAN REPUBLIC
DECLARATION OF RIGHTS AND
THE RIGHT TO VOTE
The Nation N. Y.. City, of January
I, has none a distinct service in print
ing. in full, the Constitution of the
Russian Socialist Federated .Soviet
Republic, in its latest form as adopted
July 10, 1918.
The constitution cor.taiits about
3,000 words. Tho,. commissioner.of
education is ina'ructed to have the
study an.I explanation of its. basic
principles introduced in all schools -
end educatoinal institutions.
We show here parts of article One,
Article Four and Article Six.
Article One, Declaration of Rights
1. Russia is declared to be a Re
public of Soviets (Councils) .of wots
•rs, soldiers and peasants. All th»
central and local powen? belong to
these soviets.
3. For the purpose of realizing the
socialization f land. all private prop
erty lu land is abolished, and the En
tire land is-declared to be national
property and is to be apportioned
among husbandmen without any com
pensation to- the former owner*, In
the measure of each oue’s ability to
till it. ,
A(1 forests, treasures, of the earth
andi waters of general public ■tility,
all implements whether animfte or
innniinatc. model farms aud agricul
tural enterprises, are declared to be
nat onal property. ,
As a first step towards complete
transfer of ownership to the Soviet
Republic of all factories, mil's, miues,
railways and other means of produc
tion. the Soviet law tor the oontr^f by
workmen *nn t He estai>Hil»»enf -tor
the Supreme Soviet of National econ
omy is hereby confirmed so as to ad
sura the power of the workers over
the exploiters.
The transfer of all banks irttef the
ownership of the Workers' and Peas
ants' Government, as one of the con
ditions of the liberation of the toiling
masses from, the yoke of capital, is
confirmed.
I'niversa! obligation to wor^k is in
troduced for the purpose of eliminat
ing the parasitic strata of society and
organizing the economic life of the
country.
For the purpose of securing the
working class in the possession of the
complete power, and in order to elim
inate all possibility of restoring the
power of the exploiters, it is decreed
that all toilers be jmned. and that a
Socialist Red Army be organized and
the propertied class be disarmed.
4. Expressing its absolute resolvej
to liberate mankind from the grip of;
capital and imperialism, which flood
'd the earth with blood in this present;
.most criminal of all wars, the third j
Congress of Soviets fully agrees with!
he Soviet government in its policy of
breaking secret treaties, of organizing,
on a wide scale the fraternization of;
!be workers and peasants of the bel-‘
Mgercnt armies, and of making all
NEW DIGNITY
OF LABOR
By Secretary Daniel*
The world after peace .shall have
been won will no* go back to condi
tions such as existed prior to our en
trance into the mighty struggle.
The people will take on new dig
nity. What labor earns will find its
way into the pockets of labor. New ;
conditions will Impose new duties.
Statesmanship of vision will create
new opportunities for American com
merce and guarantee to labor the
bread it has earned.
Political shibboleths that men heed-j
ed in lfilfi are as dead as the mum-1
mles of Bgypt, and public men who;
try to galvanize them will be interred;
in the catacombs that overlook Salt!
River.
This war is fundamental. Its effect'
will he to change everything. Trade;
and commerce and finance will seek1
new and broader fields. Men will
set up nobler standards. The i:u».o
retort’s f'Om farm and factory nil
not go to the few !>u will be apnoi
tlured to men of b;\.in and bra -11 .11
1 r portion to the -mliie of their eoi;
.r bution.
there will be a fore equitao': di
vision between capital and labor, Hut
no Uolalievrain, no tailure to p-jte< t
alike property and labor no c lass
iloi illation .:iat let.-ls itself lo injus
tice or wn>dgt can ‘ionrisb n ibis
continent. I ualicc presides over Ixih
tl'c rights ol man and his rights of
property.
There i- III be no place in ibis new
world fer ’he leadership either of
timid men or those who grasp at the
shadows of issue which the war has
relegated to the scrap heap. The man.
who prates of doctrines good in an
efforts to conclude a general demo
cratic peace without annexations or
Indemnities, upon the baa:a of the
free determination of the peoples.
Article Four—-.The Right to Vote
The right to rote and to be eject
ed to the Soviets is enjoyed by the
following citizens, irrespective of re
Igion, nationality, domicile, etc., of
the Russian Socialist Federated So
wiot Republic, of both sexes, who
ihall have completed their eighteenth
roar by th day of election.
All who have acquired the means
af living through labor that is pro
ductive and useful to society., and
ilao persons engaged in house-keep
ing; which enables the former to do
productive work. i. e,. laborer and
employees of all classes who are em-j
ployed in industry, trade, agriculture
sts,;ahd' peasants and Cossack agri
cultural laborers who employ no lieip
fdr the purpose of making profit.
Soldiers of the amy and navy of
lie Soviet?.
Vi'Tz.rs of the two •».coding cat
st.m -s '"ho have to an • degree I -st
their •opacity to work
The ' following persons enjoy
neither the right to vote nor the right
to be voter for, even tho they belong
to one of the categories’enumerated
above, namely:
Persous who employ hired labor In
order to obtain from it an increase
in profits. '
Persons who have au income with
out doing any work, such as interest
from capital, receipts from property,
9ts.
Private merchants, trade and com
jierciai brokers.
Monks and .qlergy of all denomijia
tlohs.
Employees and agents of the for
mer police, the .gendarme corps, and
the Okhrana (Czar’s secret service,),
also members of the former reigning
dynasty.
Persons- who have in legal form
been declared demented or mentally
leticient, and also personsss under
tuardiansbip.
Persons who have been deprived
by a Soviet of their rights of citizen
ship because of selfish or dishonor
able offenses, for the period fixed by
•he sentence.
Article Six—Coat of Arms and Flag
The coat of arms of the Russian
socialist Federated Soviet Republic
consists of a red background on which
i golden scythe and a hammer are
placed (crosswise, handles down
ward) in sun rays and surrounded
by a wreath, inscribed: “Russian Soc
ialist Federated Soviet Republic.
Workers of the World Unite!
The commercial, naval and army
(lag of the Russian Socialist Federat
ed Soviet Republic consists of a red
cloth, in the left earner of wheih ton
top near the pole) there are in gold
en characters the letters R. S. F. S.
R . or the Inscription: Russian Soc
ialist Federated Soviet Republic.
/> Ac ' T -
isolated country will bare empty
benches for an audience.
During the war we have not hesi
tated at any action,, however radical
it was regarded by conservatives in
i other times, that would help win the
war. We have employed weapons both
ancient and modern.' Some of our meu
are wearing coats of mail, others are
mounting the heavens. The javelin
of the case-dweller has its place with
the latest concoction of poisonous
gas. Even so, in the new time shortly
at hand our real leaders will be those
who will not reject a. method or a
principle because it is old or embrace
it because it is new.
We will prove all things in order
that we may hold fast only to that
which is good for an heritage to be
handed down by the generation that
stood in its lot in these days and
sa ved the civilized world.
' THE CRY OK Rl lJ’JR.S THE HAMH
AH IN CHARLES* TIME
j The Russians have thrown off the
| Romanoff dynasty, the Germans have
; apparently' got rid of the Hohenzol
ern rulers, and have defeated the mil
i itaristic regime that has so long ruled
the Central Empires. And we find
somewhat similar conditions of mind
on -net. of those in authority, as
prevailed at the tune of the civil war
in the time of Charles the First of
England. There the respectable ele
ment, or in other words, the rulers,
and their adherents, <were loud in
their denunciation of any act of vio
lence, and of the methods that were
necessary, at the time to do away
with the then reigning head of the
country. At this time! we tind that
the bourgeois*? element in all lands
is raising a protest against what they
call anarchy in Russia. and at the:
same time expresses fears as to the
outbreak of anarchy in other lands.,
It has repatedly been .stated in the
Federationist, that repressjv^ and au
tocratic methods of government in-i
evitably resnlt in violence when the!
people first obtain their release front!
autocracy. This is practically appll- J
cable to Russia, which was govern-j
ed by the most despotic government t
on the fact ait the earth prior to the!
revolution. The following extracts;
from an essay by "Macaulay” pub
lished in the Edinburgh. Review, Au
gust, 1825. are particularly applies-!
Ule at the present time, i
"If it wore thought that a peoplel
brought up under an intoteiam. ana
-O' that
system without acta s>f cruelty and
folly, half the objections to despotic'
power would be rumored. Wo should j
in that case, be compelled to aeknow-.
ledge that it at least produces noj
pernicious effects ou the intellectual j
and normal character of a nation.!
But the more violent the outrages, t
the more assured we feel that a revo-i
lution was necessary. The violence’
of those outrages will be proportioned1;
to the oppression and degradation
tinier which been accustom
ed to live. Thus it was in our civil
war. The heads of the church and
state reaped only that which they
had sown. The government had pro
hibited free discussionit had dona;
its best to keep the people unacquaint-j
i ed with their duties and their rights.
The retribution was just and natural.1
if our rulers suffered from popular1
ignorance, it was because they had
themselves tal.cn away the key of
knowledge. If they were assailed with
blind fury, it was because they had
exacted an equally blind submission.
“It is the character of such revo
lutions that we always ses the worst
' of them at first. Till men ha ve been
souse time free they know not how to
! use their freedom. The natives ol
wine countries are generally sober.
In climates where wine is a rarity,
fntumperence abounds. A newly lib
•-rated people may be compared to
i northern array camped on the
Rhine or the It is said that
when soldiers in such a situation first
find themselves-able to indulge with
out restriction in such a rare and ex
pensive luxury, nothing is to he seen
hot intoxication. Soon. however,
plenty teaches discretion, and after
wine has been for months their daily
fare, they become more temperate
than they had been in their own coun
try. In the same manner, the final
and permanent fruits of liberty are
wisdom, moderation and mercy, it:
immediate effects are often atrocious
’crimes, conflicting errors, scepticism i
on points the most clear, dogmatism
on points the most mysterious. It
is just at this crisis that its enemies
love to exhibit, it. They pull down
lh'- scaffolding from the half-flnish-d
edifice: they point to the flying (lust,;
the falling bricks, the comfortless,!
the frightful Irregularity of the whole j
appearance; and then ask in scorn i
where the promised splendor and j
comfort is to be found, if such mis-j
erable sophisms were to prevail there!
would never be a good bouse or a j
good government in the world.
“Aristotle tells a pretty story of a
fairy who, by some mysterious law
TV'-' ■ 1 . . 1
of her nature, was condemned to ap
pear at certain seasons in the fono
of a foul and poisonous snake. Those
who injured her daring the period Of
her disguise were forever excluded
from participation in the blessings
which she bestowed. But to those
who, in spite of her loathsome aspect
pities and protects her, she afterwards
revealed herself in the bantifu! and
celestial form which was natural to
her; accompanied their steps granted
all their wishes, filled their home*
with wealth, made them happy in love
and victorious in war. Such a spirit
is liberty. At times aho takes »Jh*
torsi of a hateful reptile. She grov
els she hisses, she sting-.. Hut wo*to
those who in disgust shall venters
to tu»eh her! And hM'i'f are those
vbo have dared to recV w her in hof
degraded and frightful shape, shall
at length be rewarded by her in tho
t>mQ of her beauty and her glory!
There is only one cure tor the evils
wtav h newly acquired freedom pcu
inifcft; ;->r.d that is cur.-, few freedom
V 'i‘;n a prisoner fir-it hie refl
in* c-ir.not bear.the,Hguvi*C day; he
’s .ur.ble to diserimii'S’i* colors. or
• ucogr ize faces. But the remedy la
not to remand him to his :luoge»>i hut
to i.-'*i:stom him to the rays <*.f the
sjh. The blaze of tml!i and liberty
m..v at first dazzle an < bewilder na
tions which have become half blind
in the house of bondage. But let them
gaze on and they will be soon ho able
to bear It. In a few years men learu
to reason. The extreme violence of
opinions subsides. Hostile theories
correct each other. The scattered
elements of truth cease to contend,
and begin to coalesce. And at leogtlt
a system of justice and order is educ
ed oat of the chaos. <,
“Many politicians of our time are
in. the habit of laying down as a self- <>
evident proposition that no people
ought to be free till they are fit to use
their freedom: The maxim is worthy
of t£e fool in the old story, who re
solved not to go info the water till
he bad learned to swim. If men sro • *.
to whit for ilbefty fill they become
wise and good in slavery, they may
indeed wait foreveri”*—Exchange.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
•' ' •« . __ ‘
To Felix Brown, your heirs. l*gg!
representatives, or assigns:
You are hereby notified that I hare
expended in tabor and improveaaean*
durihgeach ot the years of 190tf 1911.
1905. 1909, .1910, 1911, 1913, 1913.
1914, 1913 and 1910 the sum of oha
hundred 'dollars ($100) on 1‘taear
' above oj* r.nph
No. 1 a tribute.,- to Dry Creek fn the
Cape Nome'Recording Precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska; notice of location of
which is recorded in volume 105 page
379 of the records of said Recording
Precinct. .Said labor and improve
ments having been done on said claim
fqr the purpose ot holding same jurist'
the provisions of Section 232* llevisect
Statutes of the United State*.
You are hereby required to con
tribute your proportion of said ex
penditure. a-s co-owner to the under
signed within ninety days from tits
final publication of this notice or you<
interest in said mining claim wlli be
forfeited and become the property of
the undersigned, your co-owner, as
provided by said section of thu Ra
rised Statutes.
Dated at Nome. Alaska. February
15, ,1919.
AUGUST HOMBURGKR
Co-owuer.
Published—Feb. 22. Mar. 1. 8. 1-2.
22. 29. Apr. 5. 12, 19. 2d. May. 3. 1».
17. 24. 1919.
N OTH IS OK KOKKKITI’IIK.
To Joseph Kramer, Herman Piper,
John Brennan Max Auger, C. N.
Brown and D. M. Brogan, your heirs,
legal representatives, or assigns:
You and each of you are hereby no
tified that I have expended in labor
and tnprovements during each of tli?
years of 1906, 1907. 1908, 1909, 1910,
1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, and
1916 the sum of one hundred dollars
($100) on the St Anthony Associa
tion Placer Mining Claim, situated
on the left limit of Newton Gulch No.
1 a tributary to Dry Creek in the
('ape Nome Recording Precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska; notice of location of
which is recorded in volume 111 page
40S of the records of said Recording
Precinct. Said labor and improve-'
intents having been done on said clatw
for the purpose of holding same under
the provisions of Section 2324 Revised
Statutes cf the United States.
You and each of you are hereby
required to contribute your propei
tfon of said expenditure as co-owner
to the undersigned within ninety
days from the final publication of
this notice or your interest n srld
mining claim will be forfeited and be
come the property of the tindersgned.
your co-owner, as provided by said
section of the Revised Statutes.
Bated at. Nome, Alaska, February
15, 1919.
ACGl STv HOMBURGEft
Coownor.
Published—Feb. 15. 22. Mar. 1, 8. 15,
22, 29. Apr. 5, 12. 19, 26. May. 3, Id,
17, 1919.