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Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 2, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, December 11, 1015.
Peace talk servos as a pleasing <
interruption from the earnest inten- <
tion of the warring nations to beat !
the stuffing out of one another.
Von Bethmann Hollweg’s state- i
ment is sufficiently general to leave i
matters precisely where they were, i
without hinting too broadly that i
providing the others are willing to i
say they had enough, Germany
will also say the same thing.
But there’s not a sign of peace in
the world, unless it be the Ford
peace delegation and those cooing
doves are on the high seas and may
be submarined before they get into
the war belt of Mother Earth.
It is difficult to see why anyone
pinned their faith to a hope that
would arise from a Reichstag peace
talk. There can be only substance
behind such a peace talk when the
enemies of the Vatorland signify
that there is also among them a
longing to quit a too strenuous
game.
As yet the belligerents are fight
ing with their first wind, and what
will happen when their second wind
is restored to refresh, Heaven only
knows. As far as anyone can see
this war has an exciting movie ser
ial beaten forty ways from Sunday.
Every little development merely
puts off the final denouement a
ittle farther. The plot thickens and
it’s not easier to see an end through
the thickening plot now than it was
at the beginning.
Every nation is working to add
to its strength for fighting purposes
and not one of them seem to have
signified even a willingness to ae
cept any such nebulous terms as
hinted at by Von Bethmann Holl
weg.
That an end will be reached in
the financial resources of Great
Britain or France or Russia's quite
possible. But we have no reason
to think that that will end the war.
It merely means that there will be
an adjustment in the means of ex
istence in those countries such as
has already been made in German;
in several particulars, so that the
war can be carried on at a mini
mum of expense. This may be a war
caused by the profiteers, but it Is
going to be ended not by them.
They have aroused forces which
they cannot control and
the national movements whose nor
mal intertia has been overcome by
such a prodigious economic force as
caused this war, have acquired a
momentum far beyond the original
impelling force, and God knows just
where it wdll end.
The formation of a working Al
liance between the three largest
and most powerful unions in Great
Itritain: the Transport Workers, the
Railroad Workers, and the Mine
Workers, gives that Alliance econo
mic control of the British industrial
world. It is of enormous signifi
cance, and cannot be without im
portant developments.
Now it is a mistake to believe
that in Great Britain craft union
ism such as prevails in America is
not extant. Indeed it is, and they
have as many little unions of differ
e.nt trades as they have in America
and quite as conservative and quite
as reactionary. They inherit all the
evils of the guilds without even a
particle of the modern trade union
a.ggressivism which is found from
time to time elsewhere.
Vet it is without question that the
consolidation or amalgamation of
the railroad, mining and transpor
tation industry workers springs na
turally under the regular economic
evolution due to economic forces
from craft unionism to their conso
lidated industrialism.
Such an evolution was forced
only gradually, and through a ser
ies of concrete experiences gained
by struggling for better conditions
At one time the most disintegrat
ed industry in Great Britain was
the railroad industry as far as
unionism is concerned. Every diff
erent vocation such as engineers oi
engine firemen had their engine
driver’s union or their railroad
stoker’s brotherhood. Not only that
but they had also their different
and non-affiliated brotherhoods on
different roads. The Northwestern
engineers and the Midland engi
neers had no affiliation, nor had any
of the Irish unions affiliation with
those the Scotland or England and
vice versa.
Strikes that failed were the severe
means which natural economic for
ces chose to drive home the lesson
of solidarity’s necessity, and the
Amalgamated Society of Railroad
Servants united all where before
was craft union chaos.
Similarly in the mining industry.
Every mining field had its own lo
cal and not only its own local, but
its own autonomous and non-affih
ated union. Repeated failures of
strikes, demoralization of unionism
and the resultant degrading condi
tions to which the wage workers
were reduced, struck home a lesson
that was sorely needed and soreij
appreciated.
The immense power of the orga
nization such an Alliance represents
cannot be over-estimated. This Al
liance can tie up the industries in a
day and with a degree of perma
nence that cannot be overcome by
the employing classes. Such an alli
ance brings working class control
much nearer than anything wj
know of in the labor world. It
brings it much nearer than can any
political action, much closer than
can any other policy which may be
suggested or even thought of.
It provides also for America 1
unionism an object lessen which it
is safe to say will not be accepted, j
much less an example which may be
followed. The tendency towards in
dustrialism in American unions is
marked enough, but it is without
driving power and bends before the
slightest opposition. And the oppo
sition against such industriaism is
not slight. It is so powerful that it
embraces almost an united official
dom. It embraces one of the most
perfect machines that can be ima
gined.
it is true that there is nothing
to prevent different crafts in one
industry coming together under the
American Federation of Labor as
far as any organic law of the orga
nization forbids. It is The struc
ture that prevents it. Thus everj
craft union has a myriad of salaried
officials, all doubtless necessary to
maintain the interests ol’ that craft
as a craft, and when in any one in
dustry there are a dozen or so of
such craft organizations, naturally
and inevitably the whole official
staff of such craft unionization-,
stand like a stone wall against the
obliteration of these subdivisions
which means the obliteration of tlio
offices which means the obliteration
of the salaries.
One striking experience of indus
trialism in the various organizations
has been that such industrialization
reduced to a minimum the waste
and inefficiency of superfluous offi
cial staff. And it is not to be ex
pected that such an elimination of
superfluous officialdom will be ac
complished without a struggle upon
the part of the officials, who refuse
naturally enough to perceive that
such very useful function as they
have believed themselves to per
form, were not only useless but
wasteful, harmful and exceedingly
inefficient.
The arguments which have justi
fied industrial consolidations upon
the part of the captains of industry
1 apply with ten fold force to the
wage workers’ organizations. They
increase the labor solidarity. That
is unquestioned. They throw ofl
the burden of many salaried inuti
lities. That is beyond denial. They
increase the union efficiency of la
bor by promoting industrial solidar
i ity and eliminating useless expen
> diture of the sinews of war.
If the unions which now exist it
' the one industry would consoldate
if the salaries now dissipated in a i
dozen or more figureheads of more |
r less necessity in o—lrr to keep up j
the existence of such cr;.T unions,
were now all paced under cno fcoao <
in one industry, and the moneys ’
formerly used to support a dozen j
craft unions, utilized for organiza- ,
tion purposes, for bettering the con- i
ditions of the workers, Unionism in i
America would travel with seven ?
leagued boots to control the indue- j
trial situation. !
Solidarity is power. Craft union i
ism is a dissipation of energy in the 1
division of power and the decrease .
of solidarity. i
This fact is grasped by the Alii- I
ance which occasions these remarks, I
and some time it will be grasped lc j
the United States labor crganlza- :
tlons also. '
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATOR’S
SALE OF REAL ESTATE.
In the U. S. Commissioner’s Court :
for tho Torritory of Alaska, Secona
Judicial Division, Cape Nome
Precinct. In Probate.
In the matter of the Estate of ;
Ivor Grinaker, Deceased.
Whereas under an order of sale :
made and entered in Eald court on ,
the 23rd day of November, 1915, 1
was directed to sell the following
described real estate situate, lying
and being in tho Cape Nome Pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska, to-wit:
An undivided one-fourth (1-4tlx) of
the Meadon Association placer min
ing claim, and Lot Eight (8) in
Block Sixty-three (63) of the Town
of Nome, Notice is hereby given
that on Wednesday the 29th day of
December 1915, at 11 o’cock A. M.
of said day, at the front door of the
office of the U. S. Commissioner of
said Precinct, in Nome, Alasak, 1
will sell the above described premi
ses at public auction to the highest
and best bidder for cash.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this 26th
day of November, 1915.
CHAS A. WECKMAN.
Administrator.
27, 4, 11, 18.
Anything in the Line of job work
at the Industrial Worker Office.
Satisfaction assured.
NOTICE OP APPLICATION.
NO. 0146.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 2, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that
Charles McIntosh, of Nome, Alaska,
as successor in interest of E. L.
West, who on the 30tfl*day of
July. 1907, filed in this office Coal
Land Declaratory Statement No. 4,
for the E. L. West Coal Claim, has
filed in this office his application to
purchase said land under the Act of
Congress, approved April 28th,
1904, amendatory to the Act of
June 6th, 1900, extending the coal
land laws to the District of Alaska,
said coal claim being in the Noatak
Kobuk Recording Precinct, Alaska,
and designated as U. S. Survey No.
453, and more particularly de
scribed in the field notes and plat
now on file in this office, as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, iden
tical with N. W. loc. cor. on face of
bluff on shore of the Arctic Ocean:
said corner being impracticable to
maintain because of danger from ice
and snow in winter, a witness
corner is established 10.08 chs.
south from same on line 1-4,
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1 bears S.
15 deg. 32 min. W. 9.96 chs;
thence east, var. 22 deg. 4 5 min.
E. 40 chs. to Cor. No. 2, identical
with N. E. loc. cor., a fir post 4 in.
sq. 4 ft. long, in earth and stone
mound, scribed E. L. W. Cor. 2,
on S. W. face: thence South, Var.
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor.
No. 3, identical with S. E. loc. cor.
a fir post 4 in. sq. 4 ft. long, in
earth mound, scribed Cor. 3, E. L.
W. on N. W. face; thcnco West, Var.
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor.
No. 4, identical with S. W. loc. cor.,
on line 1-2 Gertrude West Coal
Claim a sand stone 24x12x5 inches,
chiseled cross on top surface for
true point, and Cor. 4^ E. L. W.,
on N. E. face, earth mound on N
side of tame; thence North, Var.
22. deg.. 45. min.. E. 29.92 chs.
Witness Cor. to Cor. No. 1, a sand
stone 28x12x4 inches, 14 inches in
ground, cross chiseled on top for
true point and W. C. Cor. 1, E. L.
W. on N. face, with rtone mound 30
inch base, 18 inches high along
side, 40 chs. to Cor. No. 1 and
place of beginning: containing an
area of 160 acres.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely the land described, or de
siring to object for any reason for
the entry thereof by applicant,
should file their affidavits of pro
test in this office e. or before six
months after the expiration of the
period of publication of this notice.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register U. S. Land Office.
Date of first publ., Dec. 4, 1915. .
Date cf last publ., Feb. 5, 1916.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
1 PATENT NO. 0264.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, October 23, 1915.
f Notice is hereby given that Frank
t Dolan, a citizen of the United
States, over the age of 21 yearB,
whose post office address is Nome,
Alaska, has made application be
fore the United States Land Office
at Nome, Alaska, for a United
States Patent for the Kathleen
Placer Cjaim in the Cape Nome
Mining District, Alaska, being Mln
2 eral Survey No. 1157; said claim
being more particularly described
in the field notes and plat of the ,
official survey thereof now on file j
in said Land Office at Nome, Alas- j
ka, as follows, to-wit: ;
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identl- j
cal with N. E. Cor. of location, j
with Cor. No. 2 Sur. No. 478, Bella j
Fraction Placer and with Cor. No. j
4 Sur. No. 418, No. 13 Dexter i
Creek Placer, being a fir post 4 j
ins. sq. 2 ft. above ground, in (
mound of earth, scribed 2 478 B
F, 4 418; 1, 1157 K. for Cor. No.
1 of this survey, whence U. S. Loc.
Mon. No. 4 bears N. 78 deg. 56 min
30 Bee. E. 6467.50 ft. U. S. Geolog
ical Sur. Mon. on King Mt., bears
N. 26 deg. 29 min. E about 1.5
miles; thence S. 35 deg. 41 min.
W. (Var. 18 deg. 37 min. E.)
663.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2, a fir post
3.5 ft. long 4 ins. sq. set 21 ins. in
ground scribed 2 1157 K, with
mound of earth 24 ins. base, 16
ins. high around same; thence S.
83 deg. 40 min. W. (Var. 19 deg.
00 min. E) 788.00 ft. to Cor. No.
3, a schist stone 24x12x3 ins. set
12 ins. in the ground, chiseled 4
1157 K, with crocs (x) cn top sur
face for true point, with • mound
of earth 24 ins. base, 16 ins. high
north side of same; thence N.
0 deg. 33 min. W. (Var. 19 deg.
25 min. E) 558.30 ft. to Cor. No.
4, a schist rtone 24x12x0
ins. set 12 ins. in the
ground, chiseled 4 1157 K,
with crocs (x) cut '.n tep for true
point with mound of earth 24 ins.
base 16 ins. high, north side of
same; thence N. 87 deg 04 min.
E. (Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E)
1171.00 ft. to Cor No. 1, plrce of
beginning, containing an area of
11.884 acres.
Said claim is situated on unsur
veyed ground on the divide between
Grass Gulch and Specimen Gulch,
about 5.75 miles N. 13 deg. E. from
the town of Nome, in the Cape
Nome Recording Precinct, Alaska.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 34 min. 46
sec. North and Longitude 165 deg.
21 min. 00 sec. West.
U. S. L. M. No. 4 to which said
claim is tied is a limestone block,
about 4x6 ft. 6 ft. high, chiseled
U. S. L. M. No.4 cn top surface
with mound of stone cn same. Is
situated on the south or right bank
of Dexttr Creek, about 140 ft. south
of same and about 1000 ft. Westerly
from mouth of Joe Gulch, in Lat.
64 deg. 35 min. N. and Lcng. 165
deg. 19 min. W. in Cape Ncme Re
cording Precinct, Alaska.
The original location notice of
said claim is recorded in Vol. 168
Page 282, records of said district.
The adjoining claims are, on the
North Summit Bench Placer, un
surveyed, cn the E°.s*, South and
West, unsurveyed claims, claimants
unknown.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely n:.id mining ground or any
part th reof, are hereby required to
file their adverse clilms, according
to law, in said United States Land
Office at Nomo, Alaska, within the
time prescribed by law.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date cf first publ., Oct. 25, 1915.
Date cf last publ., Dec. 26, 1915.
ORGANIZED LABOR.
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.
Local' Union 1789, Carpenter* and
olners oI America, meet* every Fri
day at Al Orland’s shop Front St.
Carpenter’s Headquarters, Feder
al Labor Hall,
at 8 p. m.
FEDERAL LABOR UNION.
No. 12881, American Federation
jf Labor, meets every Monday at
7:30 p. m. In the F. L. U. Hall.
A. DOOSE, Pres.
JENS OLSEN, Sec’y.-Treas.
WESTERN FEDERATION OF
MINERS.
Headquarters 606 Railroad Build
ng, Denver, Colorado.
’’HAS/ MOYER, ERNEST MILLS,
President. Sec.-Treas,
LOCAL 240. W. F. M.
The regular meeting ol the Nome
Mine Workers’ Union, Local No.
240. of the W. F. of M., is held
every Saturday evening at 8 p. m. at
Miner’s Hall. Office hours 1 p. m.
to 6 p. m., 7 p. m. to 8 p. m.
JOHN A. WILSON, President
ANDREW BECK, Sec.-Treas
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