NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER
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NOME, ALASKA THURSDAY, JUNE, 20, 1018.
FIGHTING A COMMON FOE.
(By the Rev. Charles Stelzle.)
Christianity is largely responsible
for the social unrest which char
acterizes the present generation.
For centuries it has been present
ing to men the high ideals which
are resulting in nobler aspirations.
The people have responded to the
appeal made in the name of its
'founder, and we dare not now repu
diate the resultant demands which
have become so insistent.
Christianity has been teaching the
value of the individual. The prac
tical application of that teaching
is found incarnated in the labor
union's insistence upon the right of
every man, woman and child to live
the life which God intended should
be lived by them.
Because of the Church’s teach
ing it must stand by the working
man in. his fight for the child. It
must fearlessly support him in his
■endeavor to relieve the almost un
endurable condition of the woman
who toils.
Because of its repeated messages
in respect to cleanliness it must
champion the workers in their strug
gles to secure for themselves bet
ter sanitary conditions in the home
and in the shop. It must fire
volley after volley into the sweat
shop and into everybody and every
thing that supports it, until the
thing is absolutely wiped out of
existence. Because of its well-known
teachings it should give no peace
until the workers have the fullest
opportunity for developing the high
est type of manhood and of citizen
ship. If only one life were in
volved, all this would be demanded.
But there arc millions in whose
behalf the fight must be made.
So let us get together—the
Church and Labor—in the name
of our common Leader, to put to
rout every foe of the higher life
whether that foe be found in our
selves, whether he be in our own
ranks, or whether he be an out
sider who is dominated by the
greet' for gold.
Just how this shall bo. one must
depend upon local conditions. I
have no panacea. I am an appor
tunist I believe in getting all that
1 can as soon as 1 can. Therefore,
without elaborating a “cocksure
scheme, 1 would mention some
everyday principles which are tun
damcntal.
Bo definite in your demands, it
you vourself do not know what you
aro aft,er, you must not expect
others to know it.
Be consistent. If you believe m
relieving sweat-shop conditions and
if ynu dcsiru the enforcer.', -nt of the
eight hour taw. and abolish Sunday
labo”, beware of adding to the bur
dens of these whom you profess to
be trying to relieve.
Bo patient. There is no short
cut to the millennium. Rome was
not built in a day. You will not
correct all of the evils of your
generation, but your reasonable,
definite, consistent campaign will
.surely bring some things to pass.
♦‘PATRIOTIC?” PROFITEERS
Herbert C. Hoover has answered
the claim of members of the Illi
nois Live Stock AsoOciaticn that
there. Is no necessity for “meatless”
and “wheatlcss” days. The food
administration charges that these
persons are "endeavoring to raise
the price of rn°at,’’and that such ac
tions “are comparable to opposition
to the draft. Nc more foolish or
unpatriotic utterance has been made
that the statement referred ,o,” he
says.
Let us estimate on your Job Work.
“Within a generation everybody
in the United States will be working
for his living,’’ said an economist
a few years ago. And by everybody
he meant women as well as men.
The prophecy seems likely to come
true ahead of time. America's
leisure class is small. After the
war, if not sooner, it will disappear.
More than half the labor of the
United States in all industries is
of foreign birth. The percentage
is 58 foreign, 42 native. Of this
native, one-fifth is Negro. This
leaves about one-third of the native
white population engaed in manual
labor. What will this country do
for cheap labor after the war? The
answer is it will do without cheap
labor. But there will be plenty of
men to work for living wages when
our army of 5,000,000 men comes
home. The day of cheap labor has
passed and a day’s work is going
to mean a living in comfort for
thrifty and industrious working
men.—Cappers Weekly, Kansas.
WAGKH VS. I’RH’KS
Nowadays scarcely a week passes
in which some commodity of com
merce, some necessity of life, of
food, clothing, fuel, of she It' r, or
other necessary, does not advance
in price. This, we are told, is due
to several causes: decrease of do
mestic or world supply, increase of
population, tax manipulations on
the part of the Government, the
great world war, which we ought
C have mentioned in the first place
greed of the human heart, and
■Trious minor causes. Prices are
often advancing overnight. Our
captains of industry are in a po
sition to le able to say, “We must
have an in- rease in profits,” and
profits increase.
The wages of the workers go al
ways up last, if at all. And when
they do secure a raise, it remains
at the increased rate for years,
usually, before getting another ad
vance—a few notable exceptions al
ways granted—while prices of var
ious things which they badly require
are constantly ascending.
It does not ncem to us that there
is a real excuse for this continual
advance in prices. If population in
creases, so do the inventions and
facilities for making the soil pro
duce more prolifically and with less
labor; likewise ease of transpor
tation increases and keeps pace with
the general march of progress.
If the men who today are at the
head of big business cannot per
form their part of the world’s work
without advancing prices of all the
necessaries of life, then the logical
thing for the workers to do is to
organize mere thoroughly. both
economically as well as politically,
individually and collectively, and
bring their combined power to bear,
just like capital does, and keep up
in the procession of life by frequent
advances in the price at which they
sell their labor power. The work
ers constitute the majority. They
can be powerful if they will. Our
captains of industry cannot make
capital produce without labor, and
its aid. Money does not work, and
has never worked. Labor can lead
capital as mervy a chase as capital
now leads labor. It can drive the
owners of capital to the wall just
as easily as they are holding labor
down at the present time.
If only the working people of our
country were thorough;y organized
r.t, the prorent time, < rganlzed as
they should be, to control the des
tines and better the conditions of
the workers—and they are the peo
ple—of cur country, where would
the other side got ofT at, in their
organized effort to keep prices con
stantly advancing? Our country
would be—and we say this advisjdly
and without feav of contradiction—
in. safer hands than it is at the
present time,
Under our existing economic sys
tem tho two main factors composing
the same—and as far as that goes,
tho great big human family—cannot
do without the other; as an individ
ual the worker lia§ the advantage,
for ho knows how to wrest subsis
tence from nature far better than
does the—very often—idle inheritors
of wealth, born “with a golden
spoon in his mouth.”
For this senseless scramble of
these men for money there seems
to be absolutely no reason. Nature,
for the present at least, still pro
duces an abundance of food, cloth
ing, shelter and fuel for every
member of the great human family.
And the implements for producing
them without undue hardship on the
part of anyone are at hand. No
doubt it is true that the terrific
rush of commerce and industry ac
celerates the development of the
human being. But if man would
spend his surplus energy in the
pursuit of all that is kind and
noble instead of constantly chasing
after material wealth, he would aid
his growth far more; and his greed
would not then cause him to over
ride his fellow-beings and cause
the great majority of them to spend
their lives in discontented poverty
and hardships while a few individ
uals scornfully loll in luxury.—
(Baker’s Journal.)
United States Food
Administration
REMEMBER THE DAYS
SUNDAY—One meal Wheatless;
one meal Meatless.
MONDAY—All meals Wlieatles:);
one meal Meatless.
TUESDAY—All meals Meatless;
one meal Wheatlcss.
WEDNESDAY—All meals Wheat
less; on.: meal Meatless.
THURSDAY—One meal Wheat
lcss; one meal Meatless.
FRIDAY—One meal Wheatless;
one meal Meatless.
SATURDAY—All meals Porklecs;
one meal Wheatlcss; one meal
i Meatless.
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LABOR’S ECONOMIC PLATFORM
Following is the Economic Plat
form adopted by the American Fed
eration of Labor:
1. The abolition of all forms of
involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime.
2. Free schools, free text books
and compulsory education.
3. Unrelenting protest against
the issuance and abuse of injunc
tion process in labor disputes.
4. A work day of not more
than eight hours in the twenty-four
hour day.
5. A strict recognition of not
over eight hours per day on ail
Federal, State or municipal work,
and not loss than the prevailing
per diem v/age rate of the class of
employment in the '.ic:r.ity when
the work is performed
6. Release from employment
one day in seven.
7. The abolition of the contract
system on public work.
8. The municipal ownership of '
public utilities.
9. The abolition of the sweat
shop system.
10. Sanitary inspection of fac
tory, workshop, mine and home.
11. Liability of employers for
injury to body or Iocs of life.
12. The nationalization of tele
graph and telephone.
13. The passage of anti-child
labor laws in States whore they do
not exist and rigid defense of them
where they have been enacted into
law.
14. Woman suffrage co-equal
with man-suffrage.
15. Suitable and plentiful play
grounds for children in all cities.
16. The Initiative and Referen
dum and the imperative Mandate
and Right of Recall.
17. Continued agitation for the
public bath system in all cities.
18. Qualification iin permits to
build of all cities and towns, that
there shall be bathrooms and bath
room attachments in all houses or
compartments used for habitation.
19. We fiver a system of finance
whereby money shall be issued ex
clusively by the Government, with
such regulations and restrictions as
will protect it from manipulation
by the banking interests for their
own private gain.
WE CAN DO IT.
Peoples Laundry wash every thing
except the Baby.
W. ,J. WILLIAMSON, Prop
An entrance to Modini’s Lunch
Counter from the street is one of
the latest improvements to that
well known cafe.
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-Formerly Delbar’s store=»
The place where you can
reasonably buy anything
from a needle to an
anchor
Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF W. STEIGEL MAIER AND OF LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILL RE
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We serve Hot Cake, Ham and Eggs etc. frov* 7 V. M. to 1 P. M."
Lunches from 13 Noon to 7 P. M. Eveay Day.
We are in business to satisfy our Customers.
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