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UNIONISM VS POLITICS.
Apparently the political situation
will wartu up considerably towards
spring, and during the coming sum
mer. Efforts will be made to interest
the workers in the whirlgig of capital
ist concerns, and they will be httinded
a sugar contra pill which they will be
induced to swallow, whatever be the
narcotic effects of such doses of cap
italistic politics the workers who ven
ture to pirtake of such dope will be
well advised to such conditions themsel
ves us they will t>e able in a strong
union of the workers to present an
effective antidote to its effects. The
opportunity for such organization !
work is here anil now. The opportunity
Is offered every wage-worker to get
into the union and getting in right, so
that what concerns him most, his work
on the job, will be better looked after.
There is every likehood on the other
hand should any worker, permit himself
to he carried away by his political in
fatuation. that the labor organization,
and that alone is the only thing which
will protect him from the "stenchful
vapor of political parasitical vultures
and their pinkerton henchmen." Per
haps there are some who believe that
they will have their interests better
looked after by their boss, or the po
litical parisite than by themselves, and
hence they perfer to present themsel
ves to such an aggregation as a non
union man.
Perhaps there are others who fear
to join, that should they join the union,
and tight to better their conditions they
may lose their jobs and hence will
have none of it. Such spineless spec
imens of humanity are truly to be
pitied. Without strength of mind
sufficient to stand up before their em
ployer anil ask for what they want,
ashamed of being with a class of men
who know what they want and are de
termined to fight until they get it,
these men are the poor weaklings in
the class struggle, who exist only by
»u (Terence.
The struggle for an existanee under
the capitalist system is surely very
keen. But there is no reason why,
when the workers organize to help
themselves and their fellows, to take
the keeness from that struggle least
they lose their jobs should (hey en
deavor to burst the!.1 bonds. In all
such, the instinct of the slave and the
slave-driver, is so fully developed that
it seems to them the only natural
force within them.
In Alaska there are thousands who
sooner or later hope to emerge from
within the Territory and its severities
with a handsome fortune. They often
peddn to themselves that it is their lot
to be among the very few who will
draw a prize from its cruel rigors, and
they don't want to -be troubled with
union or unionism. They are going
around wrapped up in dreams "with
millionaires” heads upon working mens
shoulders, and within their skulls is
the intellect of a mule. Such as these
will, of course, scorn to have any
thing to do with a union. They will
often rig up in "operators boots and
Khaki suits” and persuade their poor
foolish selves that they are on the high
road to prosperity when in reality they
are driftnig down the trail of despond
ency. t
It would be interesting, and valuable
as well as interesting, to learn the
number of men who came to this coun
try and has reaped a eompenteney. It
would also be valuable to know the
poor percentage of those who rose
above the wage-working class, and
earned a competency for the rest of
their lives. No man who lias carefully
examined this paper and will reflect
upon it, but will realize only too clearly
that the average is unfortunately very
low, even lower than that which has
followed the workers who are steadily
employed on the Outside. True enough
that the operations carried on here
have by those who owned the claims
in some instances produced wealth for
the proprietor a thousand fold. Fur
thermore it must be pointed out that
with the modern appliances used in
working the gold fields of Alaska the
scope of the individual operator is
rapidly fading away, and if the work
ers are without organization pitted
against the larger companies who will
in all probability sometime in the fu
ture operate the auriferous ground.
The members of the Nome Mine Work
ers Union are devoting considerable
lime and labor to the work of organi
zation. It is necessary work, and the
results of such work are more than
encouraging up to the present time,
they have altogether exceeded their
I expectations of those who first under
| tr< k the work, and all workers will
be welcome, for In prompting this work
! of organization, they are, after all
“promoting what is the most important
concern.”
UNCLE SAM AND
BROTHER JONATHAN.
(Continued tram Yesterday)
B. J.—But Isn’t that a logical conclu
sion flowing from your attitude of dis
carding “immediate demands."
U. S.—Not at all. On the contrary,
we are willing to take all the "immed
iate relief" that we can get, but we re
fuse to make that the issue, because it
Is not the issue. We hold that with
an ever rising and swelling and de
termined chorus of working class
voices demanding full-fledged Social
ism and yeilding to nothing else, there
will be a greater flow of "immediate”
palliatives coming from capitalist uart
! ers than a Socialist Party can achieve
by making palliatives the issue. The
larger the working class army with its
eyes on the one abject,—Socialism—the
greater will the capitalist forces feel
the dangers and consequently manouver
to stave it off by granting concessions,
—relief. This procedure is far differ
ent from "demanding Socialism over
night.” This is a matter of strategy.
B. J.—Well?
U. S.—Well, strategy will determine
whether’ we get to the Socialist goal
as soon as i-ossiblc, or whether we shall
he interminably delayed and dissipate
our energies with palliative.
J. B.—How so? ,
U. S„—Your Socialist Party method
of “getting nearer” to the working
class by taking1 up capitalist issues will
keep the working class interminably
involved in those issues. The enemy ]
can keep you forever busy "chewing j
the rag” over some "immediate issue".
One day it is the "high cost of liv- !
ing;” another! day it is "the war;" still
another lay it is "the war taxes"; yet
another day it is “the injunction;” and
then there is the raft of "issues" called
workmen's compensation, unemployed
insurance, old age pensions, minimum
wage taws, maximum workday, etc.,
etc., measures with out end, and none
of which aim at Socialism. You, with
your “immediate demands”, keep the
working class fooling around with is
sues which a capitalist class can well
take up and grant, and you get no
nearer to Socialism. And you call
that “pracitoal.’
B. J.—Looks around for tin answer.
| U. S.—And when we point out to you
| the ONLY practical method of pro
cedure, the method which marches
straight upon the goal and is not side
tracked by side issues you object,
“dogmatists," “irapossibilists”. “stiff
necks,” “you -want it all at once.” Do
you call sruch conduct of yours logic,
or do you call it being stumped for
argument? Answer me, Jonathan.
B. J.—You ’ll never get there.
, U. S. —like your regular S. P. an
swers; you’ve got to dodge.—Weekly
Peoples.
WEATHER
REPORT
U. S. Weather Bureau.
Feb. 12, G A. M.
Temperature: Max. — 0.
Min. —3 l.
Barometer: 30.321 inches.
Weather: Clear.
Wind: N. E. 4 miles per hour.
Precipitation: None.
F°l*. 12, 6 P. M.
Temperature: Max 2. Min.
—- 1.
Barometer: 30.105 inches.
Weather: Clear.
Wind: S. W. 2 miles per hour.
Precipitation: None.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Wm. Loerpanel and Sarah A.
Loerpabel, your heirs, exscutors,
assigns or personal representa
tives:
You and each 01' you are hereby
notified that the undersigned have
expended in labor and improvement*
during each of the years 1914, 1915
and 1916 the sum of One Hundred
dollars upon each of the following
decribed placer mining Claims, all
situated in the Concil City Record
ing Precinct, Territory of Alaska,
to wit: the Limestone Group, asso
ciation claim, situated on the Casa
de Paga River, notice of location
being recorded in vol. 22 at page
187, records of said recording pre
cinct; the Polar Bear Group, asso
ciation claim, situated in the Casa
de Paga River, notice of location
being recorded in Yol. 22 at page
189, records of said recording pre
cinct; the Cinnamon Bear Group
association claim, situated on the
Casa de Paga River, notice of lo
cation being recorded in Vol. 22 at
page 188, records of .aid recording
precinct; and the Bear Black Group
association claim, situated on the
Casa de Paga River, notice of lo
cation being recorded in Vol. 22 at
page 190, records of said Council
City Recording Precinct, Territory
of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon,
mining claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if you fail to
contribute your proportion of said
expenditure within ninety days after
the last publication of this notice,
your interest in said claim will be
come the property of the under
signed, your co-owner, under sec
tion 2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States
EUGENE W. GRAHAM.
KARL KARLIN.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Nov. 7, 1917.
Date of last publ., Feb. 7. 1918.
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