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Hy N >me Mine Workers’ Union, No. 240, International Union of Mine,
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nearly as possible is a worthy object of any good government"—Abra
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Entered as second class matter August 6, 1918, at the Post Office
«t Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1S79.
NOME, ALASKA SATURDAY, NOVEMBER, 30, 1918.
SIX HOUR
DAY COMING
What will happen when the 20,
-000,000 men In the trenches return to
their homes? Will they go back to
■work under the same conditions that
pto’.ailed before the war? Will they
3m willing to eccept a long, arduous
v< rkday of eight, nine or ten hours?
Will they permit themselves to he
worked to death, with nothing of lei
sure and opportunities for seir-.level
op'ment in their lives?
These questions are being asked in
every land. Those who see the hand
writing on the wall know thr the
workers, after their taste of risk and
recklessness, will not come back to
the monotony of actory life and will
ingly accept the pre-war work condi
tion. The evils of the past will not
be tolerated when the fighting men
are released.
In this country several far-sighted
students of economic problems have
ventured the proposal that each re
turning soldier be given a farm. There
being millions of acres of government
lands still in the control of the gov
ernment, this may not be a difficult
matter for adjustment, though the
^question remains whether or not the
men will want to go to farming for
an occupation.
In Kngland, however, the problem
1s -i-"f,i-'div industrial, and for that
reason the men in positions of power
and authority are seeing it as an issue
that will have to be handled in the
v •” "-d the factories.
Lord Leverhulme multi-millionaire
head of a soap concern that is capi
talized at $200,000,000, discussed
this matter in London r cently, and
while speaking from the employers
viewpoint tie yet managed to give
opinions that ought to be highly ac
ceptable to many workers. This cap
italist. in aan authorized interview
said that the only way in which the
dready, mind-numbing, soul-deaden
ing monotony of factory toil may be
relieved is by the adoption of a six
hour working day.
It is Lord Leverhulme's idea (and it
1s highly convincing) that while the
maclianical machine would run for
twelve hours a day instead of eight,
the human machine if one may use
the phrase, would consist of two shifts
each workng six hours, and, in addi
tion, the output would be as large in
six as in eight hours. Men who are
overworked cannot produce much.
They are at their tasks many hours,
but their output is small because there
is utter absence of interest and energy
and enthusiasm in their movements.
While those who are employed fewer
hours, and given opporunities for
healthful recreation, produce swiftly
and wastelessly.
Lord Leverhulme says:
“I believe—and my belief s based
on practical experience—the human
machine could and would do as much
in six hours as in eight, except in a
few rare industries where exceptional
conditions prevail" while the etxra
hours worked by the mechanical ma
chine would enable such an increased
output to be obtained as to insure the
possibility of the same wages being
paid to the human machine for six
hours as are at present paid for eight
hours'work. For it is obvious that
the mechaanical machine, except for
a slight increaded cost of coal for
steam or drivng purposes, will work
for twelve hours at much the ame
cost as it now works for eight, and
with but little extra depreciation.
The war has altered many things;
it has broadened our horizon; it has
given us new points of viewr; it has
clarified our thoughts; it has intro
duced radical change in our social
industrial and commercial systems.
And while the war is rebuilding our
industrial systems, let it do it on a
basis of justice to those who do the
work. It can be done—-economically,
scientifically and profitably to soci
ety Tn:s will be especially feasible if
society takes over the ownership and
the operation of the principal means
of production . But even under pri
vate ownership, the six-hour day is
practicable.
PROBLEMS FOR THE
PEACE CONFERENCE
One is puzzled to know how some
•of the problems coming before the
Peace Council are going to be solved
and how conflicting Interests that are
bound to arise are going to he recon
ciled, and all the different war aims
especially the adjustment of boundary
lines as President Wilson expressed
St in his message to Cpngress on clear
ly recognizable national lines "will"
Jalk peace.
The national aspirations of the dif
ferent Allied Nations conflict in si
many of their aims that one without
being a seventh son of a seventh son
■and unable to lift the veil that hangs
over the future can see that it will
not be "one grand sweet song" when
the representatives of the different'
nations who not only have the fate
of the Central Powers but of prac
tically the whole world in “the hbllow
of their hands meet at the Peace Con
ference. Take Greece, are her claims
to many of the coast cities of Asia j
Minor to be granted? If so, what of
the population in the Interior whose !
control of the only ports of any im
portance will thus be denied them?
If Austro-Hungary has to cede Trieste
and Flume to Italy she will have to
relinquish the only good harbors in
her possition.
Will Italy's desire for the cession
of the Dalmatton coast be granted?
What of Avlotta which she has occu
pied and whch she claims is absolute
ly essential to assure her control of
the Adriatic. Greece wants Alvona
claiming posession on the grounds
that her national welfare demands
that it come under Greek rule. If
Avlonu is ceded to either power Al
bania if she becomes independent
will lose the only good harbor on her
coast. Should Dalmatia be handed
over to Italy where is Serbia going
to get an outlet on the Adriatic? What
$F Italy's clalm for >lt of Tyrol- up
to life Brenner PaBs. with a purely
Teutonic population with the Excep
tion of the southern part of the 'i'ren
tino hnd the border settlements? • A
frpilation wiMo devotion to their
homes and the house of Hapsburg Is
best exemplified by Andreas Hofer,
the “Sandwirth” leader of the revolt
against Napoleon Bonaparte.
Will Transylvania with a Rou
manian population of scarcely 45%
be ceded to Roumania? Had Aus
tria granted Roumanian demand for
the cession, Roumania would have en
tered the war on tne side of the Cen
tral Powers.) Shall the balance of
the Transyfv*ftian 'population consis
ting of Rathenians; HtiBjjarians and
Germans become subjects of Rou
mania?
Not to mention the Russian tangle
Alsace-Lorraine,, Schleswig-Holsctein,
Poland’s claims to the province of
East Prussia including the port of
Danzig, the claims of Bohemia and
other Natonalittes for independence.
That President Wilson will be pres
ent and take part in the peace deliber
I ations is the only hopeful sign that
the Peace Council guided by his judg
ment will so adjust matters that all
the different natons will be justly
dealt with.
■ 11 o' ■ ~
FEDERAL TRADE
COMMISSION
The fact that the Federal Trade
Commission keeps right on exposing
the industrial organizations which
have the nation by the throat in peace
or in war is accentuated by reason of
their report upon four tobacco con
cerns which have the industry com
pletely controlled, resulting in a prac
tical monopoly which by a system of
price discrimination makes their po
sition absolutely secure.
If there is anything big business
does not like it is shedding just such
light upon its machinations, but it
may reasonably be supposed that not
withstanding the protest and the in
dignation that is aroused from the or
gans of big business such light wil
continue to be thrown as long as there
are such machinations to be shown
up.
Yet in view of the chorus of indig
nation that came from the reptile
press when the profiteerng report was
published by the Commission we may
all expect that this time it will be re
peated in fortissimo.
Everyone knows what it is like, and
lest there may be any doubt in the
minds of anyone as to what class of
article that is, how stereatyped and
formal it has become, one may ven
ture to repeat here what is simply
a rehash of the general sentiment that
one hears expressed* * ^Rder the cir
cumstances it will we may predict
run somewhat as follows:
"Once again the Federal Trade
Commission acquires the unfortunate
reputation, a reputation unfortunate
ly too well earned, of interfering with
out any sort of,sound judgment in
legitimate business.
“The nation is at war. The hordes
of the Hun menace our shores. It
is a time for national solidarity. It
is a time when capital and labor and
the people generally should be getting
together. It is no time for throwing
monkey wrenches into the great in
dusrial machine and it is most unfor
tunate that anybody, quasi govern
mental should consider that such un
seemly duty is its own.
It is too pitiful that a body which
n ight be capable of fine construct've
work should devote itself to work
which is essentially destructive and
pander to the dentogogs who now in
fect cur nation.
It is a disgraceful condition that
such reports should be made public.
They disturb industry. They mini
mize efllciency and occasion a dam
nable condition of unrest and discott
tet. I is too bad that a body of men
should have no larger conception of
their duties than to be prepetually
probing into our industries which
feed all the support rrom government
they can get.
"America is proud of its great in
dustrial organizations: its Standard
Oil Co's, Its Tobacco Trusts, its Steel
Trusts, its Money Trusts. The brains
that conceived such organizations
were the best and bravest and noblest
wit)iin our nation. It is because of
the superb fitness of these men that
they accomplished What they did and
in view of their achievements, in view
of their contribution in an industrial
way to our civilization is any sane man
going to pretend that their profits be
they ever so huge, be they ever so fre
quent are in an.v way not justified. It
is the reward of their genius and it
would be a cold day if genius did not
have a reward in the shape of millions
so that it would have somethiqg to
strive Tor.
"It is unfortunate that the demo
gog is so insistant and persistent.
He dies hard. This was has shown
him to utter uselessness, and it is a
melancholy fact to consider that it is
just such reports as these that give
the agitator, the labor unionist, the
Socialists, the anarchist and the dis
contented another lease of life for
their hateful propaganda against suc
cessful men.”
Haven’t you read that sort of thing
before? Don’t you know that’s writ
en by smug faced editors who scram
ble for a few beans from the scatter
ed jack pots of the rich man’s de
bauch of wealth seeking. Don’t you
know that ft is a daily rhyme, varied
maybe in phrase, but ringing for ever
and ever the same unchanging policies
which “respectable" prostitutes of
journalism delight to adopt. It is
what is regarded as the safe, sane
and constructive policy which makes
the daily paper of many pages of ad
vertisements the miserable counter
feit of truth-telling journalism it af
j fects to be and the perusal of which
leaves a had taste in the mouth.
Yet one thing is certain, the very
fact that the "Federal Trade Commis
sion is performing its functions with
i a high sence of duty and unswayed by
! the powerful ifluence that has in the
I past at any rate been able to exert
| itself upon very high quarters, is in
I tself shown by no surer sign than
! that it elicits the acrimonious criti
cism of the reptile press thruout the
land.
It is enough to give pause when
these sheets turn to the performance
| of work and begin to praise it. Then
indeed everyone begins rightly to sus
! i ect the presence of the nigger in tHe
! wood pile, for this very suspicion is
born of p.»st experience forbids q ics
I t ion.
Imled, n'so as we have said fie de
nunciation has become so faviliar
to us that we may easily recognize
it and as easily paraphrase it to our
hearts content without striking a sin
gle varying note, so constant are tin*
chords that are harped upon when the
monopolies are hard set.
The one amazing fact in connection
: with the efforts of the officials to carry
out the duties imposed upon them by
: the law in collection with Big Biz is
! the very simple one that they are met
at the outset by newspaper opposition
1 that is and has been one of the most
dangerous propagandas ever America
had to contend with.
Tt has been the same way in almost
■ everything and it is not uncommon to
i find papers which cater to Big Biz,
the great misrepresenting, widely cir
I culating respectable papers of influ
j ence, denouncing this attack upon
. profiteering that has been provoked
; by a long suffering people. It is de
| manded that it be stopped, that it is
enemy propaganda that anyone should
denounce these well placed profiteers
and the outrageous profiteering that
has ben going on.
In fact it is denounced as pro-Ger
man to even mention the nrofiteers in
a slight tone, bordering upon sedition
and most unpatriotic. But none of
these members of the reptile press
ventures to tell us in so many words
what, if the denunciaton of it is sedit
ious, what s profltetering any how.
And is it that we are to regard it as
patriotic?
EIGHT HOURS NOT
A FAI1URE
That the I. W. W. were right In
their contention that the logging
companies by granting the 8 hour
day to their employees would be the'
gainer thru an increased output is'
planly shown by the following report
of J. C. Reynolds, Secretary of the'
Timber Products Manufacturers on
January 1 1918.
Figures complied by operators show
that the per hour producion per man
has increased 13% on the eight hour
basis in comparison with the per hour
production pet inidvidual under the
Old ten hour working day. *
Living conditions bate also under
gone a grfeat change fo'r the better
since the government under the man
agement of Colonel Disque has taken
over the control of spruce production
on the Pacific Coast. Anyone it even
only slightly acquainted with condi
tions in the logging camps as they ex- <
isted under private management was
aware that a change was imperatively
necessary. One may not agree with
the methods pursued by the I. W. W.
in their endeavor to bring about a
change for the better but the agitation
carried on by them was in the main
responsible for the change that has
been wrought.
One instance will show how one
of Colonel Disque’s lieutenants dealt
with one refactory logging company in
the vicinity of Port Angeles Washing
ton. An examination of the living
quarters furnshed by the company to
the men who were to be employed by
the government to get out spruce for
airplanes, showed that the camp
buildings were so badly infested by
vermine at to be unfit for human
habitation.
No attemptt was made to clean
them up. The buildings were set on
fire, new ones constructed and the
cost of construction charged up to
the company. The company officials
*made the welkin ring with their howls
They would not stand for such high
handed proceedings, oh no. but when
they were informed that if they were
not satisfied with the action that aad
been taken. Uncle Sam had no objec
tion whatever in taking the whole
management out of their hands and
relegate them to the background,
their indignation was quickly stifled.
Their bluff had been called and they
knew that they were up against Uncle
Sam and not a loggers union or an
I. W. W. delegate.
There are some companies not a
thousand miles from here that ought
to be accorded the same treatment.
DISARNAMENT
DISARMAMENT AONN
The recommendation of Secretary
of the Navy Daniels to the Naval Com
mittee of the House that the U. S.,
should proceed in the naval program j
without any let up, as the disarmar
ment question is one to be settled in
future, and that no one can forsee
the decision the other Allied Powers
may arrive at in regards to it, bodes
ill to all those who had the notion
that by smashing the military power
of Germany and Austria-Hungary
would usher n a new era of a world
wide disarmament. What the line up
of the different nations will be after
peaace has been made is a hard mat
ter to forsee. The administration is
showing wisdom in being prepared for
any and all eventualities.
SURRENDERS
RUSSIAN!
FLEET
LONDON, Nov 30—The British Ad
' mirality made the announcement that
1 all Russian warvesscls stationed in the
Black Sea. that were turned over to
‘the Germans after the Brest Litovsk
treaty have been surrenendered to the
Allies.
NOTK'K TO CREDITORS
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court for the Precinct of Cajte
Nome, Second Division, Territory
of Alaska. In probate.
In the matter of the estate of Christen |
Anderson, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been appointed admin
istrator of the estate of Christen An
deron, deceased, bv the above named
court.
All persons having claims against
said estate are requested to present
them, with the proper vouchers, with
in six months from the date of this
notice, to the undersigned adminis
trator, at Nome, Alaska.
JOHN A. WILSON,
Administrator of the estate of Chris
ten Anderson, deceased.
PUB—Nov 30. Dec 7, 14, 21, 28.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
M. A. No. 0339
M. S. No. 1215
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OF
FICE AT NOME, ALASKA.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
Archie McDonald, a citizen of the
United States, residing at Nome,
Alaska, and whose post office address
is Nome. Alaska, has made applica
tion before the United States Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, for a United
States' latest for tbePLUTtfs AS
SOCIATION PLACER mining' tl*i»
situate on the left limit of Dry Creek,
between the heads of Peluk Creek and
Franklin GUlch, about 2 V4 miles N. B,
of the Town of Nome, in the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording District,
Alaska, Second Division, being Min
eral Survey No. 1215; said claim being
more particularly described in the
field notes and plat of the official sur
vey thereof now on file in said Land
Office, at Nome, Alaska, as follows;
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identical
with Cor. No. 3, Sur. No. 1209, Mead
ow Associaton Placer, a fir post 4 ins.
sq., 2 ft. above ground, in earth
mound, scribed M.-3-1209 and 1-121S
P. whence U. S. L. M. No. 19 bears
N. 78 deg. 34 min. E. 4822.4 ft;
thence S. 22 deg. 43 min. W. (Var.
18 deg. 03 min. E.) 1473.60 ft. to Cor.
No. 2, a fir post 4 ft. long, 4 ins. sq.
in earth mound scribed 2-1215 P;
thence N. 63 deg. 05 min. W. (Var.
18 deg. 10 min. E.) 1218.10 ft. to
Cor. No. 3, identical with Cor. No. 2,
Sur. No. 1209, Osiris Placed; thence
N. 17 deg. 51 min. E. (Var. 18 deg.
03 min. E.) 1226.70 ft. to Cor. No. 4.
identical with Cor. No. 1, Sur. No!
1209, Osiris Placer; thence S. 74 deg.
16 min. E. (Var. 18 deg. 03 min. E.)
1329.30 ft. to Cor. No. 1 and place of
beginning; containing an area of 39.
253 acres. Total area applied for be
ing 38.401 acres.
That said claim is in conflict with
and overlapped by Survey No. 1209,
Meadow Association Placer to the ex
tent of 0.589 acres, and by Survey No.
1209, Myrtle Claim Placer to the ex
tent of 0.263 acres, all as shown by
the official plat and field notes of sur
vey thereof, but that said areas so iu
conflict with the Plutus Association
Placer are hereby excluded from this
application and patent for same is not
hereby or hereunder applied for.
That said claim is situated on un
surveyed ground on the left limit of
Dry Creek, between the heads of
Peluk Creek and Franklin Gulch,
about 2% miles N. E., of the Town
of Nome. U. S. L. M. No. 19, to which
this claim is tied, is a fir post, painted
white, 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground,
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 19. in earth
mound, situated on the right limit of
Otter Creek, about 50 ft. from the
railroad and 2 V■ miles North of Ber
ing Sea, in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min.
North, Longitude 165 deg. 17 min. W.
That the original notice of location
of said claim is recorded in Volume
190, page 5 of the records of the
Cape Nome Recording District
Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: Oil the
North. Survey No. 1209, Mrytle Claim
Placer and Meadow Association
Placer, Eskimo Gold Dredging Co.,
Claimant; on the East 40 Acre Tract
Association, unsurveyed; on the
South claims unsurveyed and claim
ant unknown; on the West, Sur. No.
1209, Osiris Placer, Eskimo Gold
Dredging Co., claimant.
THOS McGANN
Register.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To J. N. Flack, Nome Kougarok Con
solidated Mines Company and Jacob
Zentan. ybur heirs, executors, admin
istrators and assigns:
You and each of you, are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended in labor and improvements
j the sum of one hundred dollars dur
' ing each of the years of 1 !♦ 14, 1915,
| 1916, and 1917, upon the following
described placer mining claim, situate,
lying and being in the Kougarok Re
cording District, Territory of Alaska,
to-wit: The upper one half ( V6 ) of
Creek Claim Number Three on Dahl
Creek in the Kougarok Mining Dis
trict.
You are further notified that it
within ninety (90) days after the
publication of this notice you fail or
I neglect to contribute your proportion
| of such expenditure, your interest ia
said mining claim if any. will become
the property of the undersigned, your
co-owner, under Section 2324 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States.
ALCAREY
Co-owner.
Published—Nov. 23, 30. Dec. 7, 14,
21, 28. Jan. 4, 11, 18, 25. Feb.l, 8, 15.
FINAL NOTICE
In the U. S. Commissioner's Court
for the Cape Nome Precinct, Sec
ond Division, Territory of Alaska.
In probate.
In the matter of the Estate of
WILLIAM SCHROEDER, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that James
J. Stokes, Administrator of the Es
tate of William Schroeder, deceased,
ba3 filed his final account as such
administrator and his petition for the
final distribution of said estate, and
that Friday, the 22nd day of Novem
ber, 1918, at 2 o’clock P. M. of said
day at the courtroom of the Probate
Court in Nome, Alaska, has been fix
ed as the time and place for the hear
ing of the said account and the ob
jections thereto, if any, and for the
dictribution of the residue of the
said estate.
JAMES J. STOKES, i
Administrator. ^