BUYING
POLET'S FRESH ROASTED COFFEE
YOU WILL
ASSIST THE GOVERNMENT IN THE
PRESERVATION OF TIN
SATE YOWRSELF AT LEAST 16 to 25% ON YOUR COFFEE
EXPENSE AND IF YOU ENPREJUDICELY TRY YOU WILL,
MAKE YOURSELF BETTER COFFEE THAN OU HATE EVER
MADE IN YOUR LIFE.
FRESH ROASTED COFFEE UNDOUBTEDLY WILL MAKE
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A POLET
RETAIL CLERKS WANT
BETTER INSURANCE LAWS
CEDAR POINT, O.,—Enactment of
■workmen’s health insurance laws to
provide adequate medical care for
sick wage earners, sufficient cash
benefits to prevent destitution during
temporary sickness, active measures
to prevent sickness, and democratic
management by workmen and em
ployers together, without, interference
by profiteering insurance companies
is strongly urged in a resolution
adopted unanimously at the recent
annual convention of the Retail
Clerk's International Protective As
sociation.
“The high percentage of draft re
jections and other occurrences in con
nection with the war,” the resolution
states, “have shown that if America
is to do her full part in the protec
tion and support of democracy, efforts
must at once be directed towards
maintaining the health of our people.
Trade unionists in ten leading indus
trial countries of Europe which have
enacted health insurance laws to aid
the workers in time of sickness state
that these laws have been of inestima
ble benefit to their members and to
the laboring people in general.”
This advance action is in line with
resolutions favoring health insurance
legislation adopted at recent conven
tons of labor federations in several
states. In Wisconsin the Federa
tion’s favorable report declares that
“self seeking manufacturing and com
mercial insurance concerns” are at
tempting to check the spread of
health insurance by introducing
group insurance, “a socially undesir
able substitute which would tend to
shackle the workers to their jobs.”
The Wisconsin report also points out
that occupational disease compensa
tion is being urged as a substitute in
certain quarters. While sickness due
to occupation should be compensated
the same as accidents, it is pointed
out, the cases which can be definitely
proved as such constituted but a
small fraction, "not more at the out
set than one per cent, of the total
amount of sickness from which wages
earners suffer.”
In New York the State Federation
at its recent Rochester convention,
with only a dissenting vote .went be
yond its earler endorsement of this
legislation and adopted a bill pre
pared by its committee on health, fol
lowing two year's study and two state
wide conferences during the past
year, and placed the health insurance
bill at the head of organized labor’s
wartime demands to be actively press
ed for passage at the 1919 session of
the legislature.
Shares in the Strand-Hed Mining
Co may be obtained from AY. J.
Rowe. This company is now issuing
five thousand shares at one dollar
each and entire sum thus raised to
be used in development work, actual
operations already having been open
ed up on new and promising lodes.
Adv.
Political Advertisement.
Three days before the 6 4th Con
gress of the United States went out
of existence, in March 1917, Just be
fore the term of James Wickersham,
as Delegate from Alaska, came to
an end, a bill, now known as the
Smith-Hughes Act, was passed, sign
ed by the President and became a
law. The law extended Federal aid
to every state in the Union, for vo
cationad education; that is, gave
money out of the Treasury of the
United States to the several states
for the purpose of encouraging voca
tional education. It provided that
not less than $30,000 per year should
be gi.ved to every state. Either thru
the negligence of Mr Wickersham.
or inability, that act was not extende
to Alaska, and thereby the Territory
is deprived of a continuous minimum
appropriation of $30,000 per year,
which would increase corresponding.y
with the population. Charles A. Sui
ter, the present Delegate from Alas
ka, has introduced a resolution in
Congress, providing for the extension
of rbe ebnefits of this act to the Ter
ritory of Alaska, and he has absolute
confidence that he will be able to se
cure its adoption and gain for the
lerritory what it should have had
from the first enactment of the law.
Adv.
George Laiblin, employed on the
Victoria, was reported sick with
tonsilitis on that steamer.
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
.The Industrial Worker on Saturday November 9 will be issued
as a weekly paper, the Nome Mine Workers Union deciding tlint ow
ing to the decrease in the winter population, the needs of .the .camp
will be sufficiently met' by this frequency of issue.
Frankly, owing to this reason, the publishers were faced by
the alternative of publishing weekly or suspending publication for the
present. Facing this alternative it was natural .that .the .decision
here announced should be made. The weekly will be published Sat
urdays and the subscription price will be one dollar a month, or five
dollars for six months paid in advance.
Each weekly issue will contain a synopsis of the news from day
to day by telegraph and of course the week’s happenings in local and
mining alTnirs in this camp.
It is believed that the Industrial Worker is needed in Nome anu
it. is as well believed that for that reason the support that has hereto
fore been extended to it will not be found wanting.
A capable publishing board will have charge of the work of
getting out the paper and those going outside have an opportunity of
securing a reliable compendium of the week’s news by the payment of
the subscription as above stated which considering the increased costs
attendant, upon publishing a paper are reasonable enough.
The field covered by the Industrial Worker . will . be . covered
thoroughly and satisfactorily and every effort, will be made to reach
the needs of the people of this section as a fair exponent of the opin
ions aiul the requirements of the workers, miners and prospectors, as
well us others in this community. Now is the time to subscribe.
Papers cunnot exist on hot air nor by your reading the paper over the
other fellows shoulder. The paper is not published for profit, but
for a definite purpose in this far northern section.
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THE CONTEST CAMOUFLAGE
In his speech Monday night, says
the Juneau1 Empire of Sept. 23, Dele
gate Sulzer threw a light on the Dele
gate contest case that exposed the
camouflage of the Wickershamites in
this matter. Judge Wickersham has'
been telling the people of Alaska that
House Elections Committee No. 1,
which has been considering the Alas
ka Delegateship contest, has report
ed in his favor. The Dispatch has
reiterated this declaration and ac
cused Delegate Sulzer and The Em
pire of trying to suppress the facts.
Delegae Sulzer read a letter from
Congressman Benjamin F. Welty, of
Ohio, a member of the House Elec
tions Committee No 1 who said the
final hearing of the committee had
not occurred and probably would not
occur until after the election, when
Mr Sulzer and Mr Wickersham can
both be in Washington. He also read
a letter from Congressman Albert F.
Polk of Deleware, a member of the
committee, who said that he did not
know what the report of the commit
tee would be and could not tell it he
did know. Both Congressmen spoke
in the highest'terms of Mr Sulzer, th$
dignified manner in which he had
conducted his side of the election
contest, and expressed the hope that
he would be re-elected.
Now, if members of the committee
say the final hearing has not taken
place, that they do not know what
the report will be, that they could not
tell what it will be if they knew, why
should anybody else know more about
it? How can Mr Sulzer know, for
instance, if Mr Polk does not know?
The facts are just as Mr Sulzer and
The Empire have said many times:
The committee has not Reported, no
one knows when It will report or what
its report will be when made, and all
rumors concerning the committee’s
action have been conjectural.
Adv.
Are You Seeking a Patent? let
the Worker Advertise it.
Keep Posted, Read the WORKER.
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S.S. VICTORIA
will sail from Seattle for Nom on her last trip 10 a. m. Oct. 10th.
Last Sailing of the Season
LEAVES NOME
OCTOBER THE 20TH
R. A. Carroll Agent, Nome
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REAL BARGAINS
As we are [now preparing our stock to In- \
| ventory we find {many [lines of shoes[ in [which
I there are but few sizes left. Many of these shoes
are being sold every day REGARDLESS of COST.
Watch our Window. Every day we find new
bargains to offer,
nrZ^irERsoN shoecoT”
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This space reserved by
C. W. Lewis
-Formerly Delbar’s store—
The place where you can
reasonably buy anything
from a needle to anj
anchor
Announcement
Segerstrom &. Hagen
WELL LEAVE ON THE LAST VICTORIA FOR SEATTLE
The store will be closed for the Winter and will open
again on our return with the first boat in the Spring.
All those who wish optical service should call as early as
convenient and we will be glad to serve you in the best possible
way. .If you should have an accident with your glesses we have
j our prescription on file and a letter or telegram to our Seattle
address I*. O. Box 1914, will reach us and we will make required
parts and send them to you by return mail.
All of our stock will be taken outside and you will do well
to make selections of your Christmas presents now and secure a
substantial discount, as most of our bulky stock wUl be sold at
greatly reduced prices.
SEGERSTROM AND HAGEN
JEWELERS AND OPTICIANS
Our Seattle address will be
SEGERSTROM AND HAGEN
P. O. BOX, 1914.
SEATTLE, WASHNIGTON.
WE LEAD IN
QUALITY ANO SERVICE
THORULF LEHMANN
OURPRICES ARE THE
LOWEST IN NOME
ID THE PUBLIC OF NONE
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AND PATRONS FOR THEIR
PATRIONAGE IN THE PAST
A. WITTENBERG
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