THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska
for encry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879
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PUBLIC ATTITUDE TOWARD
LABOR.
The more conservative elements
in Labor circles seem again to have
gotten back some of their courage
to oppose the Reds, for it has be
come plain enough that no matter
how much trouble it takes to do
it, the public is determined to rid
itself of the Red element and its
teaching. This being so, points out
the editor of World’s Work, there
is no reason for the conservative
Labor leaders to continue to fear
them. On the contrary, it is cer
tain that any union that accepts
Red leadership will have to accept
with it such an amountt of public
hostility as will make it powerless.
Consequently there is every incen
tive for the conservatives to assert
themselves, even though the steady
acceptance of union demands that
obtained for the past few years
cannot be continued. For Labor is
facing a new kind of test. During
the past twenty years, the public
has had the general purpose of
making Capital behave, no matter
how much it cost the public. With
the public in this state of mind, it |
usually gave Labor a generous meed j
of sympathy in its struggles with
Capital. But Labor overplayed its
hand. It asked too much. It
threatened strikes regardless of the
public comfort, even of trhe public J
safety. It played with, the enemies i
of the Republic. The public began j
to get mad. Its sympathies began:
to turn toward any one who would j
curb Labor. The political phenom
ena of the present time mage this
abundantly plain. The attorney
general, a candidate for the presi
dency, stretches the situation to j
use an injunction to stop the coal ;
strike. The governor of Massachu- '
setts is re-elected because he beat 1
the police union.
Perhaps 'the analogy between the '
public’s animosity toward predatory
capital (if not all capital) during:
the last twenty years and the pres-1
ent swing of opinion against Labor
may not be very close. Neverthe
less there may be a, useful lesson
in the comparison. In curing capi
talistic abuses, the public did itself
a great deal of unnecessary harm.
There is no benefit to be gained
by doing a similar injury' to our
selves in trying to get Labor to
get a better perspective of its re
sponsibilities and rights.
When the Clayton Adt was passed
it was announced that it began a
new epoch in which labor was no
longer to be considered as a com
modity and that the right to strike
could not be curtailed by injunc
tion. Whether labor is a commodi
ty or not is somewhat a matter of
definition. It is subject to the laws
of supply and demand as commodi
ties are. But, unlike commodities,’
it has a memory. It is not either
wise or safe to treat it except as
a group of human beings, for that
is what it is. Now, Labor very
probably remembers the talk at the j
time of the Clayton Act’s passage. |
It knows also that, despite the tech- ]
nical defense of the. injunction J
based on Ithe fact that a state of.
war still legally existed and that i
'the injunction only enjoined the
i leaders against ordering a strike—
| despite these defenses, Labor has
jjust cause for surprise and griev
ance. And to give a man who is
in the wrong a just giievance goes
a long way toward justifying his
position to himself. We do not
need to stretch the law or legal
! practice to deal with the Labor
situation. There is inherent strength
in the public to settle 'the problem
j without it.
Let us by all means use every
proper method to rid ourselves of
the Reds, but let us keep as un
heated, fair, and generous an atti
tude toward Labor as possible.
WAGES IN PORTO RICO.
Complaint that wages “as low as
CO cents for 11 hours’ work” are
paid in Porto Rico was made by
Peter J. Brady and Anthony Mc
Andrew, representatives of the Am
erican Federation of Labor, in a
letter they sent recently to Acting
Governor Jose E. Benedicto, de
manding “a living wage” for Porto
Rican workers. Messrs. Brady and
McAndrew were sent to the island
to investigate labor conditions. In
their letter to the acting governor
they denounced the situation there
as being of such a character as to
make Porto Rico a “living grave
yard.”
ine investigators asserted that in
some rare instances wages as high |
as $1.50 had been paid for 11 hours’
work, but only where the best and
strongest men could be secured.
“The rate of pay for women for
the same number of hours was 30
to 60 cents, and children get from
10 cents up,” they informed Signor
Benedicto. “Mafiy of these children
are far below the legal age for em
ployment. Necessities of living be
ing so high, it is impossible for
these unfortunate people to live as
human beings should.”
In asking the acting governor to
call a conference of the sugar inter
ests, the labor investigators request
ed that the minimum wage of all
male workers be set arbitrarily at
$2.50 per day of eight hours, and
at $1.25 for women and boys, but
that when the work of the latter
was equal to that of the men, the
rate of $2.50 be paid. They added:
“The sugar profits are enormous,
so there should be no excuse for
these soulless individuals and cor
porations and Porto Rican states
men. This starving condition of the
people of Porto Rico should not con
tinue a moment longer. The very
men who sit in the Porto Rican leg
islature are the worst profiteers and
the most heartless.”
It was after the receipt of the
foregoing letter that many of the
sugar operators agreed to advance
wages 30 to 50 percent, with $1 to
$1.50 a day as a minimum wage.
RED MENACE IN CHINA.
Danger that the Bolshevik govern
ment of Russia may make war on
China is pointed out in the Peking
Leader, by B. Lenox-Simpson, writ
ing under the pen name of Putnam
Weale. He is the author of several
j works on China and recently was
.retained by the Chinese government
as “statistician,” reporting directly
to the president.
Mr. Lenox-Simpson says that in
theory Bolshevism could not really
declare war upon a non-capitalistic
country where the millions toil as
much as do the Russian millions;
but. nevertheless, China finds her
border provinces deeply affected be
cause agreements made in years
pone by with the government of the
late Emperor Nicholas have not
j been definitely canceled, and also
j “because Japan is leaving no stone
j unturned to inherit those agreements
jand arrangements.”
| The author sees a possible cause
for a declaration of war on China
by the Bolsheviki in the fact thai
the old Russian diplomatic and con
sular establishment in China has
been supported by Chinese funds
from the Boxer indemnity account.
“It is quite likely,” he asserts, “that
the Russian revolutionary govem
Jment, as it penetrates farther to
| the East, will consider that this is
something more than an un-neutral
service—perhaps a casus belli and
a reason to strike at the regions of
Turkestan.” He predicts that Japan
will attempt to come to an arrange
ment with the soviet government of j
Russia and that “the price Japan !
will ask will have to be paid by
China unless she acts quickly."
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Pass trail, is a visitor in Nenana,
having arrived from the end of
steel last evening. He came in to
see about an inquiry which appeared
in The News this week, a brother
having written to the Fairbanks
chief of police seeking his address.
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Nenana, March 8, 1920.
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NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTION
Complying with the laws of Alas
ka, notice is hereby given that the
regular annual election will be held
in the town of Nenana,
Tuesday, April 6, 1920,
for the purpose of electing three
iehool directors to serve two years,
:o fill the vacancies caused by the
;xpiration of the terms of Robert
foseph Diven, J. A. Slippern, and J.
fl. Scott.
The names of candidates must be
n the hands of the Clerk of the
School Board not later than 5 p. m.,
VIarch 22, 1920.
The polling place will be located
n the fire hall, adjoining the town-1
>ite office. Polls will be open from
3 a. m. until 7 p. m. on the day
ind date of election.
J. H. SCOTT,
Clerk of School Board.
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NOTICE
Passengers are required to pur
chase tickets before entering trains.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is in
' the employment office, on the ground
floor of the General Office Building,
i Alaskan Engineering Commission, or
|at Camp 415 (North Nenana).
! Tickets will be on sale at :.ny
| time during office hours, and can be
purchased in sufficient time before
[the departure of the trains.
Regular trains for the south leave
the foot of A street on Wednesdays
and Saturdays at 8 a. m., and from
i Camp 415 (North Nenana), for
|Fairbanks, Tuesdays and Fridays, at
1 p. m.
The following is the schedule be
I tween North Nenana and Fairbanks,
subject to change without notice:
Leave Fairbanks at 7:00 a. m.;
| arrive North Nenana, 11:30 a. m
I Leave North Nenana 1:00 p. m
[arrive Fairbanks, 5:3* p. m.
| No tickets will be sold crossing
[the river. Those intending to irav
| el to Fairbanks must make the;r
own arrangements for reaching
iNorth Nenana.
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