TRI-WEEKLY
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By Nome Mine Workers’ Union, No. 240, International Union of Mine, j
Mill and Smelter Workers.
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Entered as second class matter March 1. 1911, at tha post office at
Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
NOME, ALASKA SATURDAY, .JULY, I:!, 1!MK.
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A* the request of tiie Department,
of Labor, the commercial telegraph j
operators who had scheduled a
strike against the Western Union,
and the Postal companies, called
it off and postponed the strike In
definitely.
uBt there has not ended, even as.
it did not begin this labor trouble, j
The trouble began in the west f
wheer the Western Union forced j
the issue by discharging all those
employees it knew to have joined
the union.
Trouble had been brewing for
some time any way. The wages
paid were low, the employees were
denied the right to organize, an
elaborate system of spying and so
forth made work irksome, and the
moil themselves were getting des
perate. The Western Union is a
powerful corporation and it well
knew that it must keep its wires
busy, lock out or no lock out in
time of war.
It lias been a popular belief that
the Western Union adopted a policy
of directly antagonizing it3 labor
in order to force an issue would
result in the government taking
over the lines. While this may not
be true, and while the company
showed every disposition to carry
on its business and its fight against
labor at the present time, and in
such a way that it might by keep
ing its business moving, escape
government criticism, the fact re
mains that it did not succeed in so
doing and had in some instances
and very important instances at that
taken to mailing the dispatches it
had accepted for delivery and even
used private messeng' rs for the pur
pose of reaching the destination of
the messages.
It is quite evident that the Western
Union 1ms no original ideas as to
the treatment of its employees.
While it is excellent for owners to
organize, it is ‘he V"»y greatest and
most intolerable of i ■ ii.i for em
ploye s to organize. The notion of
the employee is as something to be
used, something wherefrom a certain
amount of profit-producing labor
has been wrung and then that some
thing dumped on the scrap pile
when that parUcular useful ness, has
been achieved.
liut this is all as archaic notion
Labor has left that far behind as
the goal which it strives to reach
;..nd the more progressive employers
also realize that they cannot deny
labor the right to organize and fur
ther cannot deny labor the right to
a voice in the management of in
dustry.
This latter demand is becoming
more and more insistent. And the
numb r of employers who have
heard it. paused, stood stock still
to consider the proposition, turned
it over as the alternative to severer
demands, have already ' announced
v that labor must have a larger voice
jn the direction of industries.
Of all the Significant things that
have found expression of recent
vir.rs, this that labor must have a
voice in the dir cflon of the indus
try in which it is employed, is by
for the most important. it is a
demand that is stirring tho nation
tvnd as one meets such troglodytio
conceptions of management as pre
vail in such organization as the
Western Union, one realizes the ab
solute social necessity for that di
recting voice in the management that
labor lays claim to.
The Western Union simply has
tho notions which employers all
held in a day rapidly passing. The
relations betweem them and those
who did the work resolved them
selves into the very simple relation
of mast' r and servant. They hired
labor to do certain work and that:
work was highly profitable and they)
congratulated themselves upon tlia'
far-seoiugf ability that secured their
profits. Labor directly or indirectly
to this notion of things has nothing
whatever to do with the succ ss
of the business. The success of the
business is due to management
and its profits come from the same
source in some mystic way. fhe
work is done by the employees of
course, but they are mere machines
just as important and just as neces
sary to the dispatch of business as
the telegraph keys, the wires and
the poles and precisely the same
category.
The fact that they are human
beings does not affect this concep
tion in the least, arid the very idea
of their entering into a share in
the direction of the enterprise is
so absurd as to be really laughable.
It is the position taken by such
companies as the Western Union
which makes reform difficult and
which in the future will create such
a class antagonism, such a clash of
class interests that reforms cannot
bridge them over.
To some extent the government i
realizes this. Of course the gov-I
eminent insists upon an efficient1
service just now, but it has no inten-j
| tion of exciting labor or permitting j
I such an organization as the Western i
: Union to do so.
As to the opinion that the West
! < rn Union wan's the governm ut to
assume the control of its lines under
sra'lrrly satisfactory guarantees as,
| to dividends have been assured the!
railroads this may all well be. These:
are « ;.certain times for any such
<1 c«ncer:i r.s tin Western Union,
and il woul i h,. very ..'ce indeed |
if all responsibility f< r service wr;(
-emovtd and h ■ surety of inr.nin
warranted by t e gov rnment.
ITCKKRT
The District Attorney of Sun
Francisco, the notorious Fickert is
again on the defensive.
And while he has b> en assuinng
the role of patriot and loyalist, the
facts of the case involved in the
prosecution of both von Bopp and
Charles Crowley, the latter employ
ed as the professional dynamiter
by Bopp, District Attorney Fickert
was actually particaps criminis with
Crowley in that he furnished Crow
ley with letters of introduction
•which were used as the latter start
ed out to do his dirty work for the
Kaiser.
Nor it th's all; it was thru the
district attorney of San Francisco
that the Gorman agents secured
Crowley as suited for their purpose,
testimony given at Die trial showed,
that Crowley ga.ve Fickert as a
reference when employed by Bopp,
At the very time that Fickert al
leged 'hat Mooney was coming un
der pro-German influence, the evi
dence shows that Fickert was recom
mending a dynamiter to the German
Consul.
I Oh, we are just at the beginning
of this dark and horrible scandal
that the L:> w’norder gang have been
framing up against Fickert, and day
by day ami steadily if somewhat
slowly t!ie activities of this man
Fickert are being uncovered by the
pains of Labor.
On June 14, 1915 Fickert fur
nished Crowley with a letter of in
troduction and thereupon this pro
, fessional dynamiter left for Buffalo,
Detroit and Canada to plant bombs
and to burn ships in the interests
of the German government. •
By all means we will yet learn
moro about the relations between
Fickert and this professional dyna
miter, and likely as not when we
do so, wo will fully understand what
share one or the other. took in the
bombing of the preparedness parade
and for which such a desperate ef
fort is being mr.de to hang Mooney.
Well said tho poet:
God's justice, tardy tho’ it prove.
Stops not until It reach delinquency.
And truly enough the delinquency
of these rogues in office such as
Fickert has long since cried to High
Heaven for exposure and for pun
ishment. That time is closer at
hand than most people had thot
possible. v
WAR AIMS MUST
FIRST AGE8MPLISHED
WASHINGTON, D. C. July 13—
It is formally stated that the Ad
ministration officials discover that
there is nothing that Germany can
do or say will bring peace percepti
bly nearer until all of the war aims
of America are accomplished.
This statement was issued follow
ing the declaration by von Hert
ling that they had committed Ger
many to r.o policy of annexation.
That Wilson wants war until Ger
many is doctroyed as stated by the
German Chancellor in the Reichstag
is taken here to signify that Ger
many'now begins to realize what is i
before it, and that the statement is!
coming from a beaten nation which !
knows the certainty of defeat.
WASHINGTON. L>. C. July 13—
It is announced that on July 12 the
Gormans made several desperate at
tacks with picked men p„gainst the
American positions in the Chateau
Thierry sector. All of those were
repulsed with sanguinary losses.
General Pershing reports.
PARIS, July 13—The French ad
vanced. five hundred jfirds in the
Autheiul sector.
These continued if local successes
are steadily breaking the morale of
the German troops. The entire west
front operations have for several
weeks now boon the scene of more
or less important gains by the en
tente forces some of them as the
capture of Langpont of extreme im
portance and the loss of which the
enemy cannot but feel.
WASHINGTON, D. C. July 13—
A Stockholm dispatch says that'Rus
sia has agreed to moot Finland in
a peace conference.
No further particulars have ar
rived as to the advance of Finnish
and German troops upon the Arch
angel railroad.
Dispatches from Stockholm where
tho Finnish white guard, has a
powerful publicity force, when re
ferring to mutters concerning Russia
anti Finland must be received with
considerable reservation r.nd the
fact that powerful interests are en
deavoring to color news matter for
their own benefit, must not bo for
gotten. There has come out of
Russia no dispatches confirmatory
of the Stockholm announcement.
WAVE OF PROSPERITY
SAYS OFFICIAL RECORD
WASHINGTON, D. C. July 13—
An official report says that the coun
try as now enjoying a period of
unadulterated prosperity and that
business is booming, crops were
never so gcod and that labor is
scarce and the wages arc Increas
ing to meet this demand.
The government has now under
consideration plans to have wages
uniform tliruout the nr.ticn, so that
the same variety of work in propor
tion the relative costs of living,
will receive the s^me pay. This is
to prevent the large turn-over in
places where wag r are below the
standards in otlio sections.
ITALIANS MOVING ON
IN ALBANIA CAMPAIGN
LONDON, July 1J—A Romo dis
patch announces a further advance
in Albania of ■eighteen miles.
The important pdsition of Berat
is now in Italian hands and with
it fell the considerable booty that
the Austrians had stored there for
the furtherance of additional cam
paigns.
The situation in Albania is fast
developing into one cf great im
portance and is having a significant
effect upon the position of the troops
in Macedonia.
CITY BATHS, HOT AND COLD
WAT HR, ALWAYS READY.
FRENCH CONTINUE TO
PROGRESS WEST FRONT
LONDON,—The French forces,
says an official I’aiis communique
issued today, after some brilliant
fighting captured the important town
of Langpont, between the Aisne and
the Ourcq rivers. The importance
of the town is emphasized when it
is stated to be one of the leading
depots on the Paris-Soissons rail
road and two weeks ago upon it
the Germans were proposing to es-j
tablish a base for future operations.
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