iatlg Nome Industrial Uork^r.
Published Daily except Sunday
By Nome Mine Workers’ Union, No. 240, International Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers.
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nearly as possible is a worthy object of any good government.”—Abra
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NOME, ALASKA. ArRIL 20, 1918.
Three Congressional
Investigations
(Quoted From I*a Follette’s Mag
azine. January, 1918 issue.)
INQUIRIES INTO MILITARY AF
FAIRS, SHIP BUILDING AND
SUGAR, HAVE BEEN CON
DUCTED AT WASHINGTON
DURING THE PRESENT
MONTH—
MASS OF TESTIMONY GATH
ERED TOUCHING ON IM
PORTANT SUBJECTS
THREE IMPORTANT INVESTIGA
TIONS OF WAR ACTIVITIES ARE
BEING MADE BY SENATE COM
COMMITTEES
(Concluded.)
VIRTUALLY FIXED PRICE
Whilo the food control hill tv.is
pending in the Senate last year, Mr
Hoover made the statement that it
gave no authority to fix prices. Under
examination by Chairman Reed he ad
mitted that, by limiting the profit.?, tin
Food Administration virtually fixed]
prices of food. The food bill especially 1
exempts formers from licensing pro- j
visions, yet tin' Food Administration
Imd compelled Louisiana farmers who]
convent their sugar cane into sugar
upon their farms to operate under lie-;
cnce. Chairman Reed made Mr Hoov
er reluctantly admit that in the ad
ministration of the Food Liw, he was
exercising powers not specially con
ferred by the Act, and did so under
the advice of the legal advisors of his
bureau.
In contrast with the tender care
given to the American Refining Com
pany contract, is the testimony of C.
(I. Patterson, of Salt Lake City, repre
senting the Intermountain Association
of Sugar Beet Growers. !!• gave* de
tailed figures with ivs; . i : . tn con
dition in the* sugar beet industry, es
pecially among the beet growers. Me
s: id that he had personally visited
every beet growing section in Utah
north of Provo, and said that the farm
ers “will not raise beets at he prices
fixed for next year. They cannot af
ford it. Other mops will pay better."
Me said further that unless tretter
prices were paid to the farmers in that
^section 75 per cent of the sugar beet
•average would bo lost. Me contrasted
i bv prices which the farmers receiver
for the beets with profits of the beet
sugar 'manufacturers, and said that
Pie I’tah-Idaho Sugar Company lust
year in its factories "made a net pro
fit—and when I say net 1 mean net -of
$9.24 per ton, (on beets) and they paid
the fanner $5.50." He said that last
year this campany made in round
numbers profits of $6,000.0''' , »nd that
its capitalization until recently was
$10,1)00,000; that basing their invest
ments upon the rule that obtains in
the business of approximately $1,000
per daily ton cutting capacity, " I fig
ure that they made practically 100 per
cent upon their investment lest yenr."
BEET SUGAR MEN PRESENT
There wore representatives of beet
■growers from California, Colorado,
Nebraska and Wyoming, who were also
heard Among the witnesses were
Thomas L. Woclwine, District Attor
ney of Los Angeles County, Califor
nia, who presented a resolution from
the grand jury of that county reciting
that i! lad under way an investigation
of the beet sugar factories of south
ern California accused of being in un
lawful combination to fix the prices
of sugar beets produced in Coat section
is threatened due to the fact that the
sugar bent farmers refuse to plant
beets under the contracts offered by
the sugar factories. Mr Woolwine tes
tifled on Decamber 22nd. He said that
in the testimony before the grand jury
he called attention o fthe federal food
Administration and sent a telegram
to the president directing attention to
the serious curtalnment of sugar pro
duction that would ensue untess some
action was taken to protect the farm
ers. Copies of a number of there tele,
grams were placed in the record, and
he said that nothing effective had been
done at the time of giving this testi
mony to relieve the situation. He
said that in the testimony before the
grand jury, the Secretary and Manager
of the Santa Anna Refinery (beet fac
tory) said “this plant represents an
investiment of $1,250,000, and that it
made a net profit fo rthe year of 1916
17 campaign of between $800,000 and
$900,000. He said he thought the price
paid the farmers for beets was abso
lutely unjustifiable. He was also asked
if they could pay $10 per ton and
whether that would be a reasonable
price to the growers of 15 per cent
beets, and he said in substance that
would depend on how much the fac
tories wanted to make.” Mr Woolwine
testified tha their was testimony be
fore the grand jury to show that the
Los Angeles Sugar Refinery on an in
vestment of $500,000 made a profit of
about $1,000,000 in 1916-17.
(And yet the Patriotic ? Parasites
prate there are no profiteering graf
ters.)
"HOW TI1K I’EOI’LE must laugh to
scorn a Congress that deals thus ten
derly with war profits while dealing
with such severity with the common
hurmyi clay to be put against the gun!
To the Steel Corporation is returned
under the bill nearly $300,000,000 war
profits for this year; not of ordinary
profits, mind you, but of war profits,
computet! nndeh the terms of this bill.
Congress hands to the Steel Corpora
tion. because, forsooth, it has coined
the blood and the bone and the sinews
of the land into dollars the monstrous
sum of nearly three hundred millions.
Can you justify it? Can you justify it
particularly at this time, when you de
mam! the maximum of human sacri
fice?”-—Senator Hiram W Johnson.
“I BELIEVE that it is a fallacious
argument to say that we can make this
war popular by collecting the revenue
from the poor people and allowing
big business t > escape heavy taration.
I think it is very generally understood
that a very large majority of the peo
ple are opposed to any proposition
which will make it possible for the
money slackers to escape a just and
heavy tax on the profits and incomes
they are making out of this war."—
Senator A. .1. Qronnrt.
(A few excerpts from La Follette's
magazine. 19
“Great Britain, as has been sug
gested here so often, without her
business ruined—indeed, with her
business prosperous, after three
years of tremendous war—has an
80 per cent tax 011 war profits. If
we had levied that, according to the
amendment of the Senator front Cal
ifornia (Mr. Hiram W. Johnson), we
would have raised approximately
$3,200,000,000 on this tax atone.”
—Senator W. S. Kenyon.
“1 SAIL) SOMB TIME AGO on the
fllocr. and was denounced as an
anarchist by certain papers for say
ing it, that during this war no man
ought to have an income of over
$100,000. But the Senator from
Idaho (Mr. Borah) yesterday went
me 90 per cent better and took the
position that no man ought to
have an income of over $10,000 dur
ing those trying times. I agrre
with him.”—Senator W. S. Kenyon.
. .When in search of a good warm
room go to Modi id's Building (form
erly Schneider). Booms by the day,
week or month.
GEO. MODINI, Prop.
Keep Posted, Bead the WORKER.
"I DO NOT BELIEVE, Mr. Presi
dent, that any set of men in" this
country or in this body have any
monopoly of patriotism. It ljas been
customary here I know, when cer
tain Senators favored certain meas
ures and other Senators opposed
' them, to claim that the Senatois in
opposition were trying to injure the
! prosecution of the war. That is a
pretty old and threadbare argument.
It is very much like the advise oi
the old councilor who said, ‘When
in court, j.nd you have no case
abuse the attorney on the other
side.”—Senator W. S. Kenyon.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
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To Gus. .^yBu«I, your hairs, exe
cutors, assigns, or personal re
presentatives:
You are hereby .\SKtUed that we
have expended in labor and im
provements the sum of one hundred
dollars for the the year 1916 upon
each of the following described
placer mining claims, all situated
in the Koyuk Recording Precinct,
Territory or Alaska, to wit: The
Trcera Bench fifth tier left limit oi
Dime creek, the .Louise Bench, fifth
tier left limit, The Last Chance,
fourth tier left limit, and the Geld
Hill Bench, filth tier right limit all
on Dime creek, said claims being
more fully described in the records
of said Koyuk Recording Preoints,
Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
’ pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you' are further notified that
if you fall to contribute your pro
portion of said expenditure within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under section 2824 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
HENRY SETIIMAN.
CHAS. GOETZENBERGEK,
M Co-owner.
Bate of first publ. Jan. 28, 1918.
Dale of last publ., April 28. 19)8.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
This announcement is ' made for
the benefit of our patrons, and
ethers whom it may concern.
During a recent conference, of
which several similar ones have been
held, between representatives of the
Miners Union and Publishers of the
Nome Daily Nuggev, .and after care
fully considering the matter from
every conceivable point of view, dur
ing the past few months, the pub
lishers of the Daily Nome Industrial
Worker, have decided to cease the
publication of the Worker as a
daily newspaper, on and after May
1st, 1918. Thereafter, and until
further notice, the aforesaid news
paper will be published as a tri
weekly to-wit.- on Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday.
The Nome Daily Nugget will also
be published as a tri-wcekly, com
mencing May 1st, to-wit:- on Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday.
After the contemplated change
has been made, the price of sub
scriptions, and the advertising space
will remain the same as at present.
This change is being made to
correspond with existing conditions
brought about on account of the
World’s crisis now ragir.g in Europe.
Printing material of every descrip
tion has gone up nearly 400 per
cent since the war commerced.
There will be no reduction in our
telegraphic news service. We will
after the change is made, publish
two days telegra.phic messages in
each alternate day’s issue.
Instead of publishing the Worker
in the morning as at present. We
will endeavor after May 1st to pub
lish it on Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday at about 5:30 p. m., so to
reach the business houses before
.hoy close at 6 p. m. When the
above change is in vogue, there will
be. just one daily newspaper in
Nome, between 5 and 6 p. m. each
of the six days in the week (except
Sunday).
The tri-weekly Nugget on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday. The tri
wcekly Worker on Tuesday, Thurs
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