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Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1S79.
NOM.IS, ALASKA THURSDAY, JULY, 18, 1018.
COAL AM) OTHKK THINGS
Coal lias been increased in this
community to the fancy pric deliv
ered of over thirty dollars a ton,
which being brought within the
range of the averag math mutual
mind may bo interpreted as sightly
over a cent and a half a pound.
This is done upon instructions
from the outTclo, so that the Alaska
Lighterage Co may not do business at
•i h ss. That's the idea of business
The satisfaction of the needs of
a community is a secondary con
sideration, the necessity that when
the profit and loss account is bal
anced, the balance will be on the
right side of the 1 dger is the im
perative need of all good- business.
Now no one should imagine that
the Alaska Lighterage Co is in
business for the m re pleasure of
business or for the health cf those
who own its shares, or for any
specific philantrophic function it
bar. discovered a delight in per
forming. It is not an eloemesynany
corporation; it is interested primar
ily and ultimately in its profits.
And when it comes to supplying
Nome with coal, it insists that its
business will not be conducted at
a loss, what particular degree of
profit the company insists upon of
course is another question.
So it is, the company increases
the price of coal and. everyone -with
a degree of unanimity damns the
corporation as a souless mercenary
and so forth, as if today or yester
day business corporations r.re any
different and had any other higher
function ir. life than that of ex
ploiting the public need at a profit.
The most important, the most in
< cresting and by far the most ig
nored feature of it all is that the
company’s say-so goes. There’s'the
price set for the community. If you
want, coa! you pay it. If not, you
gel none. Over it ycu exorcise no
control in the world.. It is cut
and dried for you, and w'. ••titer you
are an operator, mutiny or a shoe
string and the favor of tlio bank,
cr- whether you are a man w’tc
practices physical culture for an
other's profit with a number two
if you need coal you will pay the
money.* The fiat has gone forth
and before you will partake of tht
use cf black diamonds you will
come thru. The cntrol of that com
modity is absolute.
So far so good. Now there’s
another commodity you’ve heard o
t rnted labor power. The man wh<
works for wages sells it. It’s th<
only thing he lias got to sell, foi
men will sell everything they havi
to purvey before they will hire ou
their bodies for the labor powe
therein. Well when the worke:
goes into the world to sell his labo
power he sets on it a price. Tha
price is gem rally settled by th.
cost of living and reproducing sim
ilar quantities of the labor powe
he sella. But that cost is constant!
increasing and the laborer is at hi
wit’s end to keep pace therewith
II cannot do like the compart;
which controls tlio sale of coal. II
cannot publish a notice in the paper
announcing that as Mr Jinks th
coal man has increased the pric
cf fuel, as Mr Snobbs the grooe
has heaved up the price of coffe
and sugar and bacm a half doze
notches, that as Mr Choctaw the dr
goods man wants double the price c
overalls or gum boots or a suit c
hand-me-downs, that as Mr Gottrox
the butcher has chucked up hi
stew m at out of reach of the avei
age pocket book, the common worl
cr too must increase the cost of hi
labor power. Ho finds that whil
the coal man or the butcher me
or the baker man by cnmmereic
wares may bo, the whole damned;
community of butch- rs and bakers j
and candlestick makers rises in in
dignation agdinst him when he'
wants his pay increased or his work
day shortened so that he may cul
tivate a war garden and cut down
the high costs of living. An opera
tor or two runs around "with nose
in the air and radiating scorn from
an excited person declaring that
the worker demanding higher pay
or the shorter work day is an ill
disposed person, full of disloyalty
and sedition and all kinds of vices
and. dispositions leading right into
the criminal categories. “Wie are
at war,” says the operator with fine
patriotism, “and these workers want
the eight hour day. The nation
n eds its labor power," he further
j avers, “and these malcontents would
j strike." “He asks for more” says
[ the Nome Mr Bumble, with horror
I stricken gaz r.t the working Oliver
' Twists who demand the eight hour
! day and be tier living conditions.
' Just look at the other side. The
i Alaska Lighterage and Commercial
1 Co in the plenitude of its business
! wisdom and in the security of its
coal monopoly increases the price
• of its coal. The community grum
bles under its breath, the storc
| keepers feel that they are real
| martyrs, and after heaving a sigh
or two would melt a heart of stono,
1 also coni' tl^ru, admitting that
freight ra*?s are higher, coal at the
1 mines cos's more and Business, by
the Hokcv Pokey, is Business.
tVh'n the Miners with one record
ask for the eight hour day, O by
Hcck, that’s another qu stion .alto
gether. Is labor never satisfied?
Hoes it want tlm world by its gluteal
region and a down hill pull? M li re
will it step? Isn’t it lime some steps
were taken to curb the growing
demands of labor? Must all in
dustry suffer becaus • of these agi
1 tutors who would not lie satisfied
if they had Rockefeller's millions?
I And so forth and so on and on
and on until you m et a man run
j nlng for office and he says—he is
in favor of the eight hour day.
On the square it’s some tragic,
j joke all this and it’s on the wage
slave. You can find men aplenty
J to justify an Increase in coal that
will maintain the profits cf a coal
company. But the business inter
ests that will approve, the workers
getting such improv d conditions a?
will maintain "he standard of living
'' are as scarce as hen’s tooth. And
II th moral of all this is” workers
■, unite.” Your improved conditions
1 d -pends upon yourselves alone. Be
- cause corporations have realized
. that the only way they can be s
■ public utility and get by with theii
■ profits, is by a strict control of thf
■ commodity they sell, so the workers
: should take a lpsson from that ant
> by their solidarity control their laboi
- power and quit thinking of what tlx
• other class says of you; it's nevei
> complimentary.
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The announcement that China wil
build ships to relieve the tonnag'
shortage is one of the most import
ant industrial items that has heel
reported for some time, taking tin
dispatch at its face value as cor
rect.
Long before the war began, 1
will be recalled that an effort wa
made to secure Chinese workers to
the United States and since th
nation entered Into the war, am
especially among the employers oi
the Pacific Coast, the demand for tli
Introduction of a horde of Chines
coolies haseon quite insistent am
impressive.
In. Ohina life has for the masse
itself into a very simpl
mm
equation indeed. They are paid just
as little as will maintain life, and
themaintainence of that life has
been reduced to the very lowest term
in human standards. It is so little
and so inexpensive that it is sim
ply extraordinary the small and sim
ple quantity and quality of nutri
ment that the human system by care
ful habit can accustom itself to
live upon.
Hence in China with such lowly
standards of living, life has reproduc
ed itself excessively. The fecundity
of the population has limited itself
only by the very cheap standard
upon which the Chinese life could
sustain itself, and this social but
compulsory asceticism of living upon
the part of the Chinese has been
attained with an ability to labor
and to toil that is the wonder and
mystern of the western world.
It is not too much to say that
today China is the greatest reservoir
of human labor power. In other
nations among the Caucasian races
what with the diversion of men
into other and unproductive ways
of living, the supply once plentiful
enough has reach d the minimum
of excess so that the supply is but
little over the demand. Hence too,
the capitalists who are instinctive
economists ''where they do not In
telligently reason upon the propo
sition. look longingly towards this
field as an .inexhaustible source of
exploitive labor power.
Opposition to flooding the country
by Chinese labor is strong; not be
cause it injures the working man.
But because the Chinaman with his
lowly concept of human standards
has brot thrift to a fine art. And
with his willingness to forego stand
ards of living he has never been ac
customed' to, he < nters business and
become s not only a rival of the
worker, but the successful rival of
the business man. So while he is
kept out of the country to aid the
toiling masses, he is really pro
hibited entering to assist the man of
business hold on to his own.
Tile last thing the capitalist of
another country desires is to s- e a
Chinese capitalist class develop the
resources of China along modern
lines. Somehow the various capital
ist cliques tliruout the world have
considered those resourc s to be
their own legitima prey. The un
sightly scramble of all national capi
talists fer a chunk of the natural
wealth of China is too well known
to-need r.ny attention.
But the Chinese capitalist is an
accomplished fact. Ho is building
railroads and he is opening mines.
He lias his machine she ps. He has
even now his shipyards and his blast
furnaces and his coal mines of al
ma:.t unimnginod productivity devel
oping cii a scale hitherto unknown.
He will be able coon to utilize his
own cool; class and to reads heights
j of civilized industrialism so long
have been denied him. He will
I soon have liis employers liability
1 acts, his compensation acts, his
I brochures upon occupational dis
! - ases, his struggles for the eight
j hour day, liis economic progress
1 marked definitely by the class strug
g!e that arises not from books bul
from industrial enviroment.
Oh ev. n China may rise to the
stars, and the little intimation thai
even now it has its foot upon th<
steps of the Jacob’s ladder tha
leads to the Piertian heights of in
dustrialism and commercialism anc
their glories, is not to* be passec
lightly over.
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION
No. 2782
la the District Court for the Ter
ritory of Alaska. Second Division.
CHRISTINA KOUDELA, plaintiff,
vs.
FRANK KOUDELA, Defendant.
The President of the United States
of America to Frank Koudela, the
above-named defendant,
Greeting:
You are hereby summoned and
required to appear and answer the
complaint of the plaintiff on file
in the office of the Clerk of the
above-entitled court in the City of
Nome, Territory of Alaska. Second
Division, within thirty (30) days
from the service of this summons
upon you, to-wit: with thirty (30)
days from the 13th day of August,
1918, or judgment for want thereof
will be taken against you.
And you are hereby notified that
if you fail to answer the complaint
the plaintiff will apply to the Court
for the relief demanded therein.
The date of the order of pub
lication of this summons is July
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The date of the first publication
of this summons is July 2nd, 1918.
The date of the last publication
i3 August 13th, 191S.
Witness the Honorable Wm. A
Holzhcimer, Judge of the District
Court for the Territory of Alaska,
Second Division, and the seal of
said Court hereto affixed at Nome,
Alaska, this 1st day of July, 1918.
TIIOS. McGANN
Clerk of the District Court for the
Territory of Alaska, 2nd Division.
By W. C. McGuire,
Deputy Clerk.
Seal
NOTICE OF MARSH AT/S SALE
Public notice is hereby given that
under and by virtue of a Writ of
Execution issued out of the District
Court for the District of Alaska,
Second Division, upon a certain
judgment rendered on the 6th day
of September 1917, and entered In
favor of S. L. Lewis, plaintiff, and
against W. L. Springsteen and
Ernest Hester, defendants for the
sum of thirty four hundred twenty
seven ard 70-100 dollars, ($3427.70)
together with costs taxed at ninety
eight and 75-100 dollars, ($98.75),
witli interest at the rate of eight
per cent (8%) per annum, amount
ing in all to a total of $3757.55 to
date, I will on the 5th day of
August 1918, at twelve o’clock noon
i of said day, at the front door of
the United States Court House at
Nome Alaska, as command d in
said writ, offer for sale at public
auction, and sell to the highest
and best bidder for cash, all of the
right, title and interest of the de
fendants at the present time or at
any time since the date of attach
ment, Sept. 18, 1915, In and to
certain real property situate in the
Cape Nome Recording Precinct,
Territory of Alaska, Second Division,
known and designated as placer
mining claims No. 2 above Dis
covery on the East Folk of Bourbon
Creek, No 3 above Discovery on the
East Fork of Bourbon Creek, and
the Ralph S. Fraction, on the right
limit of Bourbon Creek, adjoining
said above named creek claims.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, July 3,
1918.
E. R. JORDAN
United States Marshal. Second
| Division, Territory of Alaska.
| July 4, 11. 18. 25. August 1.
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