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•early as possible. Is a worthy object of any good government."—
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Nome, Alasna, under che Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, December 13, 1013.
Many i>oc;ile especially those who
disagree with him. refuse to take
Bernard Shaw seriously, and as he
doesn’t appear to take himself very
acerbity, and whose criticisms are
And that is very satisfactory about
any person whose wit is tinged with
acrebity, and whose criticisms are
too outrageously true to be at all
conventional.
Thus, when he satirizes the Fore
peace expedition and says that prac
tically as many are killed during
peace in the industries of the na
tions, and piling up wealth for the
Fords and the others, whose long
suit during peace is war and whose
long suit during war is peace, the
majority will laugh at the statement
as some huge unintelligble joke,
just because it is made by Shaw.
Shaw has discovered that fools
laugh easily, and he enjoys the de
monstration of popular folly when
they laugh at the corroding home
truths that he thrusts into the bod;
politic from time to time.
Now take this statement that
peace kills practically as many as
are killed in war. it would be- a
mighty hard thing upon the various
writers whose eloquent peas have
•have bee.n drawing red pictures of
the unusual horrors of this great
war, if we were to take Shaw seri
ously for Shaw uttered never a truer
word.
It is true not only of the Euro
pean nations, but it is true about
the United States as the Industrial
Worker from the very latest official
or other semi-authoritative statistics
•will submit.
And it is an opportunity that
must be availed of to drive home
the important lesson that a lot of
this war horror talk is all humbug,
and a lot of this spontaneous phi
lanthropic that finds expression in
far off fields in hypocrisy pure and
simple.
First we take the number of em
ployees killed or injured in the
steam railroad industry. In 1913
there were employed one million
seven hundred and sixty-six thou
sand, eight hundred and eigthy
three. Of this number an average
per day are killed of ten. While
killed and injured per year number
one hundred and seventy-five thou
sand, one hundred d thirty-two
The number killed in the coal
mining industry out of the six hund
red and seven thousand which is the
average number employed amounts
to two thousand two hundred and
seventy per annum.
In quarries per thousand employ
ed 1.69 are killed, 7.77 are serious
ly or fatally injured, while 40.SI
are injured.
There are forty-four thousand
six hundred and ninety three em
ployed in copper mining in the
United States, of this number 23S
are killed annually, or 5.33 pel
thousand; seriously or fatally in
jured, 1, 326 or 29.67 per cent per
thousand; injured 9,011 or 201.1
per thousand.
Those are accidents, but taking
the mortality among the miners in
the various lines we find tha thirty
(>er <ent died from accidents, 32
from tuberouosis and pneumonia,
and 38 from “other causes not d'r
ectly traceable to their occupation y
The average for coal miners is
about the same except that there are
less tuberculosis and slightly fewer
accidental deaths.
A compiled lint of fatalities
in occupations reveals that while
the United States army In war per
iods averages but 5.00 per thousand
railroad brakemen average 15.8 per
thousand, gunpowder manufacturers.
16.5 per thousand, fishermen on the.
east coast 13.3 per thousand.
Out of one thousand seven hund
red potters employed in the potte
ries according to statistics, one
thousand die from occupational di
sease. Out of eighteen hundred
tile makers employed eight hundred
odd die of occupational diseast, out
of eleven hundred and ninety eight
-zinc workers employed fivo hundred
oild die of disease contracted a'
their trade. More than half the
glass makers succumb to the disease
acquired in their business, and the
same can be said of such occupa
tions as carpenters, locksmiths,
ropemakers, wool operatives, tin
workers, coopers, brass workers,
quarry men and stone cutters, cut
lers and a large number of others.
It is almost certain that those em
ployed making water proof garments
will die from diseases following
poisoning at the work, first comes
chronic hysteria, for most of the
employees are young girls, and then
temporary blindness and ultimately
paralysis and death. Incurable lung
disease are certain ameng workers
where they are engaged in dust pro
ducing occupations. Any worker
who stays with the cement making
industry will die early of phthisis.
Professor Irving Fisher of Yale
University in a report prepared for
the National Conservation Commis
sion (Senate document 676. 60th
Congress second session) estimates
“that of 1,500,000 annual deahts in
the United States, 42 per cent or
630,000 are preventable or postpon
able. He estimates that three mil
lion are always on the sick list, and
“I)r. George M. Gould a noted me
dical authority, estimates that sick
ness and death cost the United
States $3,000,000,000 yearly and
that one third of this is prevent
able."
The socialist handbook quotes U.
S. Bulletin No. 109, Mortality Sta
tistics 1910, of the Bureau of Cen
sus, and the deaths listed are tabu
lated and show from accidental car.
ses. most of which are preventable
and almost all of which are indus
trial. entirely leaving out occupa
tional deaths, there arc forty-five
thousand four hundred and sixteen
listed as killed. Yet that list is con
fined to the vital statistics regisra
tion area, and if embraced the en
tire country it would show a list o'
annual fatal accidents totalling
seventy-eight thousand. All these
are victims of that beautiful peace
which forms such a delicate and
and delightful contrast to the hor
rors of war. The annual number oi
accidents fatal and otherwise, maim
ing, injuring or killing the workers,
the “killed wounded or missing” ol
peace, numbers according to the
tabulation of Frederick L. Hoffman
throughout the United States per
annum two million.
Yet the total losses of Germany
since the war begun hardly excels
this figure by many hundred thou
red thousand, and certainly for one
year’s war they did not exceed it
in Germany, in France, in England
Yet that’s during the piping times
of peace that look well to Henry
Ford. Suppose the workers of this
country would insist that more at
tention bo paid to the industrial ac
cidents, mortalities and fatalities of
peace, so that these preventable
deaths and preventable accidents
would be prevented, it is clear that
a fine field would open for these
up-lifting friends of mankind where
they could exercize their benevol
ence without chartering steamers
or having a national and interna
tional rumpus raised over it.
We dont wonder at the satire of
Shaw. What is to be wondered at
is the indifference of the workers
themselves in this country to the
facts and their significance.
There are many less dangerous
risks than the army for the work
ers; there are many places where
escape is less likely than on the
firing line in Europe.
But the mortality in making pro
fits for another man is scattered
over a wide industrial area, while
they are from time to time concen
trated during war within a certain
geographical localization which con
centrates also human attention and
arouses human horror.
Piling up the vast wealth of the
richest men in the United States
has cost far more lives, ruined far
more families, crushed far more
hopes than have the ambitions of
he European rulers even begun to
ause, ruin or cruel: ' the battle
ields of those nation^.. I when
Henry Ford goes on a pac*.:i ir,.3
sion gaping crowds applaud ana
when Rockefeller sends relief to the
distressed Belgians the kept pres?
accords him a triumph.
The significant fact about this
whole matter is that these details
of actual conditions are unknown
and where they are not unknown
hey are suppressed. The people
are taught to believe that when
they are mentioned they are ap
peals to "prejudice and passion"
That they are the mouthings of agi
tators; that they are best overlook
ed altogether and that by thus con
cealing the facts, economic con
tentment will prevail where is now
discontent.
Yet we have said nothing about
the living death of the prostitutes
driven to such an existence in order
to prolong their poverty stricken
lives; nothing about the pleasure
less existence of the average wag:
slave; nothing about the lonelv
starved miserable existence of *’>e
intermittent worker who has to beat
his way to fresh fields with the
varying seasons and is subjected to
every brutality of an abused police
power and the detestable tyranny
of every county or city Dogberry
who regards poverty of the indus
trial victims the very worst and
blackest of crimes.
Pile on these horrors in one en
ormous total, the victim of poverty
and unemployment and the victim
of employment, the number who fill
prisons, who are driven to crime
and the penalties of crime, the
suicide and the prostitute, and com
pare coldly and reasonably and im
partially this war with all its terri
fic horrors, and it will be doubted
that after all is said and done, war
hasn’t the best of it It at least feeds,
it at least shelters, it at least
clothes, it at least justifies, it may
be a murderer, but it kills with an
open eye and face to face. Peael
is the coward, measuring out a ling
ering death, killing with fearsome
and stealthy step from behind, and
as from an ambush. It hides its
horror and denies it. War admits
its iniquity and glories in it.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION.
NO. 0146.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 2, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that
Charles McIntosh, of Nome,Alaska,
as successor in interest oi E. L.
West, who on the 30th day of
| July, 1907, filed in this office Coal
Land Declaratory Statement No. 4,
for the E. L. West Coal Claim, has
filed in this office his application to
purchase said land under the Act of
Congress, approved April 28tli,
1904, amendatory to the Act of
June 6th, 1900, extending the coal
I land laws to the District of Alaska,
! said coal claim being in the Noatak
Kobuk Recording Precinct, Alaska,
and designated as U. S. Survey No.
453, and more particularly de
scribed in the field notes and plat
now on file in this office, as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, iden
tical with N. W. loc. cor. on face of
bluff on shore of tho Arctic Ocean:
said corner being impracticable to
maintain because of danger from ice
and snow in winter, a witness
corner is established 10.08 chs.
; south from same on line 1-4,
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1 bears S.
15 deg. 32 min. W. 9.96 chs;
thence east, var. 22 deg. 45 min.
E. 40 chs. to Cor. No. 2, identical
with N. E. loc. cor., a fir post 4 in.
sq. 4 ft. long, in earth and stone
mound, scribed E. L. W. Cor. 2,
on S. W. face; thence South, Var.
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor.
No. 3, identical with S. E. loc. cor.
a fir post 4 in. sq. 4 ft. long, in
earth mound, scribed Cor. 3, E. L.
W. on N. W. face; thence West, Var.
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor.
No. 4, identical with S. W. loc. cor.,
on line 1-2 Gertrude West Coal
Claim a sand stone 2 4x12x5 inches,
chiseled cross on top surface for
true point, and Cor. 4 E. L. W.,
on N. E. face, earth mound on N.
side of tame; thence North, Var.
22. deg.. 45. min.. E. 29.92 chs.
Witness Cor. to Cor. No. 1, a sand
stone 28x12x4 inches, 14 inches in
ground, cross chiseled on top for
true point and W. C. Cor. 1, E: L.
W. on N. face, with rtone mound 30
inch base, 18 inches high along
side, 40 chs. to Cor. No. 1 and
place of beginning; containing an
area of 160 acres.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely the land described, or de
siring to object for any reason for
the entry thereof by applicant,
should file their affidavits of pro
test in this office o. or before six
months after the expiration of the
period of publication of this notice.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register U. S. Land Office.
Date of first publ., Dec. 4, 1915. .
Date of last publ., Feb. 5, 1916.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT NO. 0264.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, October 23, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that Frank
Dolan, a citizen of the United
States, over the age of 21 years,
whose post office address is Nome,
Alaska, has made application be
fore the United States Land Office
at Nome, Alaska, for a United
States Patent for the Kathleen
Placer CJalm in the Cape Nome
Mining District, Alaska, being Min
eral Survey No. 1157; said claim
being more particularly described
in the field notes and plat of the
official survey thereof now on file
in said Land Office at Nome, Alas
ka, as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identi
cal with N. E. Cor. of location,
with Cor. No. 2 Sur. No. 478, Bella
Fraction Placer and with Cor. No.
4 Sur. No. 418, No. 13 Dexter
Creek Placer, being a fir post 4
ins. sq. 2 ft. above ground, in
mound of earth, scribed 2 478 B
F, 4 418; 1, 1157 K. for Cor. No.
1 of this survey, whence U. S. Loc.
Mon. No. 4 bears N. 78 deg. 56 min
30 sec. E. 5467.50 ft. U. S. Geolog
ical Sur. Mon. on King Mt., bears
N. 26 deg. 29 min. E about 1.5
miles; thence S. 35 deg. 41 min.
W. (Var. 18 deg. 37 min. E.)
653.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2, a fir post
3.5 ft. long 4 ins. sq. set 21 ins. in
ground scribed 2 1157 K, with
mound of earth 24 ins. base, 16
ins. high around same; thence S.
83 deg. 40 min. W. (Var. 19 deg.
00 min. E) 788.00 ft. to Cor. No.
3, a schist stone 24x12x3 ins. set
12 ins. in the ground, chiseled 3
1157 K, with cross (x) cn top sur
face for true point, with mound
of earth 2 4 ins. base, 16 ins. high
north side of same; thence N.
0 deg. 33 min. W. (Var. 19 deg.
25 min. E) 558.30 ft. to Cor. No.
4, a schist none 24x12x0
ins. set 12 ins. in the
ground, chiseled 4 1157 K,
with crors (x) cut '.n tcp for true
point with mound of earth 24 ins.
base 16 ins. high, north side of
same; thence N. 87 deg 04 min.
E. (Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E)
1171.00 ft. to Cor No. 1, plrce of
beginning, containing an area of
11.884 acres.
Said claim is situated on unsur
veyed ground on the divide between
Grass Gulch and Specimen Gulch,
about 5.75 miles N. 13 deg. E. from
the town of Nome, in the Cape
Nome Recording Precinct, Alaska.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 34 min. 45
sec. North and Longitude 165 deg.
21 min. 00 sec. West.
U. S. L. M. No. 4 to which said
claim is tied is a limestone block,
about 4x6 ft. 6 ft. high, chiseled
U. S. L. M. No.4 on top surface
with mound of stone cn same. Is
situated on the south or right bank
of Dexter Creek, about 140 ft. south
of same and about 1000 ft. Westerly
from mouth of Joe Gulch, in Lat.
64 deg. 35 min. N. and Lcng. 165
deg. 19 min. W. in Cape Ncme Re
cording Precinct, Alaska.
The original location notice of
said claim is recorded in Vol. 168
Page 282, records of said district.
The adjoining claims are, on the
North Summit Bench Placer, un
surveyed, cn the Eas\ South and
West, unsurveyed claims, claimants
unknown.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely said mining ground or any
part th reof, are hereby required to
file their adverse cl ’.ims, according
to law, in said United States Land
Office at Nomo, Alaska, within the
time prescribed by law.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date cf first publ., Oct. 25, 1915.
Date cf last publ., Dec. 26, 1915.
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jf Labor, meets every Monday at
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