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Address ail Communications to Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 36, Nome, Alaska.
Telephone, Black, 134.
THE REAL PEACE CONGRESS
Last month in the City of Copen
hagen was held the real peace Congress
of the world. It was convened at the
request of no crowned head, nor chief
executive who was the real or titular
head of the war department of any na
tion, and so tilts convention did not
carry within itself the contradiction
inherent in all capitalist congresses—
“Peace, Peace, and there is no Peace!"
It was the International Socialist
Congress, and thereat were delegates
from all nations, men representing the
•workers, gathered together in virtue
of, and in accordance with the lasting
advice of the illustrious founder of
scientific socialism “Workers of the
world, Unite!” Came up for discussior
at its deliberations the present arma
ment of the nations, and significant
resolutions were passed denouncing
militarism and urging the workers to
refuse to fight against their fellow men
Surely here Is something more im
Tiortant than the tentative suggestions j
as to disarmament which one power
makes to another from time to time, i
especially when the bourgeoisie of the j
countries grow weary of the endless |
•array of expenses that must be met
with taxation—more important even
than the intermittent oratorical effu
sions of an intinerant ex-president, long
•on advice and instruction, but wofully
short on action and practice.
Not a single war, ever since the
great civil war in the United States,
"but has been entered into without real
justification, or, where there was put
•forward a shadow of justification suf
ficient to deceive, the passing time
•showed it to have been a pretence
merely, and the cloak beneath which
operated the hand of capitalism to
wards its own cunning ends!
Mr. Dooley’s well known opinion—
and it 1s not original by any means—
that if the rulers of the world would
settle their differences by doing their
own fighting upon one anothers sacred
person, war would come to a sudden
end, contains more truth than poetry.
Who doubts but that were the capi
talists to fight other capitalists on the
field of battle to settle heir differ
ences and adjust their grievances, the
regimental strength of the nations
would be reduced to less than a cor
poral’s guard.
When the capitalists of Germany In
their anxiety to gain more markets
were willing to’ war with France over
’Morocco, the socialist workers of both
countries met and said “no," and there
was no war. When the capitalists of
Sweden on the secession of Norway
from the combined Kingdom of Nor
way and Sweden, desired to fight the
Norwegians in order to maintain in
tact the union which gave them a com
mercial preponderance, the Swedish
proletariat said “no,” and there was
no fighting.
When the men whom the other fel
lows believe have been ordained by the
Almighty to stop bullets and to feed
on powder, want to know the reason
why and the wherefore of hostilities,
and refuse to be hypnotized by the
patriotic appeals of the capitalist,
(press, and the capitalist preachers,
-clerical and lay, the end of the rule of
'the war-god on this earth Is In sight.
And It Is In sight right now. When
hundreds assemble In the Danish capi
tal from the four corners and seven
seas of this turbulent old world, re
presenting the workers of all nations
who In any event must do the fight
ing—meet together, and declare against
war and armaments it marks an ach
ievement higher, more real, more per
imanent, than a dozen Hague confer
ences did they last till Doomsday.
Tor, be it well known, the social
ists of the world are striking at the
causes of the war which no capitalists
In Congress may not do without de
stroying the reason of their own exis
tence. Wars, beyond yea or nay, have
since they began, even before record
lias been taken of them an economic
season and a careful Investigation
will show that the underlying causes
of all were economic and not, as is
generally taught, the ambitions of this
or that great man.
Not the least of the great missions
of the socialists will be to destroy for
ever the causes of war and bloodshed.
I.et capitalists retain on their payroll
chaplains who are presumed to be dis
ciples of the Prince of Peace—to bless
flags, and war drums, and cannons, and
armaments of all kinds, to say pray
ers more or less elaborate for vic
tories, the socialists are teaching that
economic freedom will delete all the
causes of war from the book of life,
and lead finally to that state where we
can live in accordance with the greater
doctrine “Do unto others as you would
them do unto you.”
While the extravagent proposals are
made here and there for the wasting
of human labor power in the build
ing of engines which will destroy life
and the means of living, the social
ists of the world are appealing to the
workers all over, to unite that they
may gain a world of harmony, and
brotherhood, and freedom.
Whence we say the International
Socialist Congress met In Copenhagen
last month, there was convened the
real peace congress ofa th?_ '\orld.—
Floreat!
THE USUAL CRY
! _
If an individual or corporation is at
war with its employes, and in the
course of that war any kind of an out
rage happens to be committed, it is
quite a venerable custom of the em
ployers to charge it to the striking or
locked-out employees.
This was so during the miners
strikes in Idaho and in Colorado, it was
so during the street car strikes in
Philadelphia, and quite recently in
Columbus, and it was also so during
the great A. R. U. strike in the early
nineties.
Every outrage, or at least a vast ma
jority of the flagrant cases just cited,
have since been traced to the secret
service men In the employ of the cor
porations, and while at the time of
their occurrence, naturally enough, it
was impossible to prove this, the capi
talists through the medium of the
mental prosptitutes whom they em
ployed, were sedulous to spread the re
port that these outrages were commit
ted by the union men so that public
opinion, public sentiment, and public
sympathy might veer to the side of the
employer.
What has all the appearance of a
similar calumny is printed as a tele
graphic dispatch accounting for the ex
plosion in the Times building in Los
angeles as “one of the most dastardly
deeds ever committed by men calling
themselves members of organized
labor.’’
Everyone is familiar with the labor
conditions of the Los Angeles Times.
It made a specialty of combatting un
ionism at all times with a vindictive
consistency. In order to smash the
power of the typographical union, Otis
established a school for printers and
from this breeding ground of scabbery
he recruited a sufficiency to get out
his paper. Latterly the Times has been
falling into disrepute in Los Angeles,
and sympathy is much heeded. Ac
accordingly when an accident, or ex
plosion which was not an -accident,
occurs, it is heralded to the world as the
dastardly act of organized labor.
Anyone who knows anything about
the typographical unton knows how
absolutely Improbable is the charge
that they would abet or aid, directly
or indirectly, any such foul and- stu
pidly ineffective outrage.
Nevertheless, it was to have been ex
pected that Otis would gladly seise
upon the opportunity, he seldom over-,
looks, of blackguarding unionism, and
union men, but it Is to be deplored that
the unsubetantlated charge of a fan
atic or a mental prostitute is so
greedily seised by a paper claiming to
be fair, and published even telegraph
ically that the outrage was unequi
vocally the work of a member or mem
bers of organized labor. •
It is certainly surprising that a paper
conducted in the main by members of
the typographical union, and flaunting
the union label so conspicuously,
would assist In circulating without the
support of even a shadow of evidence,
or mention of substantiating circum
stances in the remotest degree, the dis
graceful charge.
The Industrial Worker is not by any
means an admirer of the typographical
union as a labor organization. Some
of its rules are archaic to say the least,
and some of its methods in these days
of machine gun policies are as inef
fective as an old blunderbuss; for all
that we would hesitate long before as
sociating even in a remote degree with
that body the occurrence in the Times
building where the employes lost their
lives in consequence of a disaster not
at till accounted for, and certainly we
must condemn the action of the press
agent of the Nugget in reporting the
occurrence, and asserting it to be the
work of union men when no facts
were furnished at all in substantiation
of the report.
Press reporters are as a general rule
fairminded enough to qualify suspicions
as such, and not to submit as facts
matters not fully demonstrated to be
true. There are however, in the pay
of the capitalist class in all such com
munities as Los Angeles, creatures
without a spark of manhood with am
bitions their puny minds will never
be able to realize, grovelling in the
region of the cuspidor for unconsider
ed trifles whose discovery or alleged
discovery, it Is fondly hoped, may de
light the masters for whose sake they
wear knee pads.
Undoubtedly such a one takes the
opportunity- of wiring here the fact
that the explosion is the work of union
men, and we believe In absolute fair
ness to an organization which, when
all is said and done, has effected con
siderable improvement in the condi
tions under which its membership la
bor, that the Nugget would do well to
warn its correspondent to be careful
when making allegations of the black
guardly nature of Saturday's telegram
to send forward at the same time
proofs in substantiation of the
charges. ,
THE GOLD DUST THEFTS
A couple of weeks ago Nome was
startled by the information that there
JtgJIhagn nowaidomhln tlilovina, at
dust from the Pioneer Mining Co.
Arrests were made in Seattle and
in Nome, although afterwards the par
ties arrested here were said to be
innnoent. Furthermore there was re
covered from certain cabins in the
Sandspit much amalgam, nuggets and
gold dust and although the matter Is
not fully known to the public, It Is a
fact that the amount recovered total
led up a very respectable sum. Yet it
is extremely difficult to learn any
thing about the particulars and there
seems to be a desire to avoid publicity
by all means.
It is said, and we believe it to be
true, that one of the miners but re
cently “on the carpet,” for complicity
in this theft, has gone to the outside
and is at the present tir^e a passenger
on the Senator, but for all that, It is
certain that on the arrival of certain
others here developments will take
place which will be important and far
reaching.
The fact appears to be that the
Pioneer Mining Co., paid in the past
lower wages, and certain of its em
ployes seem to have recouped them
selves by other and more Irregular
means. For many years now the dif
ficulty that the Nome Miners Union,
encountered in organizing this camp,
apart altogether from the opposition
of the management, has been the fact
that many of those working for the
Pioneer Mining Co., saw opportunities
for self-advancement not in accordance
with the code, and the report that has
been in circulation to the effect that
a number of these lowly paid workers
have retired to their native land where,
they acquired mansions and estates
as a result of their labors for that
corporation, seems to have good foun
dation.
High grading and low wages, some
how seem to have gone hand in
hand in this camp, and now when an
expose Is possible, although there
may be a reluctance to press the mat
ter, it is to the interest of all that ie
be made, and made fully.
It Is no longer the personal matter;'
of this or that individual, or corpora
tion. As a consequence of what the
public knows and following the ill de
served slur that has been caatupon the
miners of this community, perhaps un-j
intentionally by the llljudged attempt
of the city council to regulate the sale
and purchase of gold dust. It Is only
right, just and equitable that a
thorough Investigation of all these al
legations one way or another, be
made.
Nor must we forget to call atten
tion to the remarks of him of the
house-raffling proclivities before the
Committee on Territories last Spring,
when he gave them the benefit of his
wisdom anent the Western Federation
of Miners.
Mr. Fink thereat took the opportu
nity of identifying the Western Fed
eration of Miners with high-grading
in those camps where it was organiz
ed, and cited the evidence of his
friends—birds of a feather no doubt—
to bolster up his absurd proposition.
In the interest, then, of truth and in
order to discover for the general pub
lic whether the high graders were
some of those very interesting and
sometimes lowly paid Laps whose
introduction here so many keenly ap
preciate, or whether they were mem
bers of the Western Federation *of
Miners a full investigation should be
made. It will assist all such men as
Fink in the free bestowal of unsoli
cited opinion In future.
HEADQUARTERS
Old LEWIS HUNTER Rye
Cedar Brook
Direct from Bonded
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Henry BAndebet, J.S.Hoffman, Mrs.J.S.
Hoffman, J. C. Jacobsen, W. Cole, and
W. Heitmann, your heirs, assigns, success
ors or personal representatives:
You and each of you are hereby notified that
1 have expended In labor and Improvements the
sum of One Hundred Dollars each year for the
years 1906-7-8-9 on the SEA GULL Association
Placer Mining claim, adjoining the Toro
association claim, situated on the Sin
ook River, in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict in the Second Division of the District of
Alaska, and described and recorded in Vol. 157,
at Page 55 at the office of the said Recording
District.
The above amount has been expended in or
der to hold said claim, according to the pro
visions of Section 2324 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States and the Amendments
thereto, approved Jan. 22,1880, covering annual
labor upon placer mining claims.
And if within ninety days after the last pub
iicatiouof this notice, you fail to contribute
undersigned in the above described claim, your
interests in said claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner, under the
provisions of the said Section 3324.
HENRY SCHULTZ
Co-Owner
Date of first publication, July 1,1910
Date of last publication, Oct. 4,1910
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To NIELS CHRISTENSEN and Geo. A. Hoch- I
bann, your heirs, representatives, successors j
or assigns: *
You and each ol you are hereby notified that V
I, Otto Hlcksteln, have expended In labor and I
improvements, during the year 191*0, the sum* ol
One Hundred Dollars, on the GLENBROKE
Association placer mining claim, situated on f
Honey Creek, a tributary of Penny River, in i
the Nome Recording District, and described I
and recorded in Vol. 140 at Page 183 in said
Nome Recording District in the Second Divi
sion of the District of Alaska,
The above amount has been expended in or- I
der to hold said olaim according to Section 2324
of the Revised Statutes of the United States
and the Amendments thereto, approved Jan. 22,
1880, covering annual labor upon placer mining
claims.
And if within ninety days after the last publi
cation of this notloe, you fall to contribute your
share as co-owners to the undersigned in the
above described claim, your Interest in the said
claim will become the property of the under
signed, your co-owner, under the provisions of
the said Section 2324.
OTTO HICKSTEIN,
Co-Owner
Date of first publication, July 1, 1910.
Date of last publication, Oct. 4, 1910.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
CAPE NOME PRECINCT, SEC
OND DIVISION, DISTRICT OF
ALASKA.
In the Matter of the Estate of Fred
Retbel, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been duly appointed ad
ministrator of the estate of Fred
Reibel, deceased, by the above named
Court, and all persons baying claims
against the estate are hereby required
to present the same duly verified with
vouchees to the undersigned adminis
trator, at the Law Office of J. W. Belly
over Nestor’s store, in the City of
Nome, Alaska, within six months from
the date of this notice.
Dated Nome, Alaska, September
27th, 1910.
OHAS. A. VOGEL,
Administrator of the Estate of Fred
Reibel, Deceased!
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