The daily Nome industrial worker., 1915-12-24

mas been cdrTlGQ on HeT6. I1lS any thing been done to encourage them? Not, as we have been able to sec. the slightest. On the contrary in order to be sure of work in Alaska many have got to go outside each fall and return each spring for they instinctively feel from many winters hard experience, that if they re- main here they will not get work during the summer and that the work.
 While no doubt quartz cannot De carried on successfully under the present system without capital, any one who thinks that capital is any thing other than timid and cautious i in it's investments in new fields, have another think coming. Labor has first to show the way, and la- bor has to shoulder the real open l ing-up work always. Capital is Missourian and has to be shown. To hear some of the businessmen unfold their schemes for the camps development. they would imagine that those who have money for in- vestmcnt were suckers around a shell game waiting to be roped in.
 Anytime that miner or prospec- tor can show capital that he has property worth developing, has opened it up so that capital takes but little chance, they will be ready and willing to invest and not before.
 The days when the wise guy a gift to peddle effectively Of bull could entangle the money sharks of the east with the networ,,; of his hypnotizing eloquence are long gone. Capital plays today a sure thing game, everywhere, anC it is not taking chances. They arr hanging on to the birds in the hand and don't care three cents for the birds in the bush, until they are safely lined by labor and ready to be turned over gift,
 f So the entire future prosperity de- bends upon labor in the present l3 it has in the past. Labor is the goose that lays the golden eggs, even if capital loves to hatch them.
 Nome's prosperity cannot be main
 tained when men who prospected their all during the winter are left stranded every summer without a job, and they have to play the part of the stick around kids in the sum mer, while their chechacoe friends get the work.
 Every single wage worker who has the price on this condition oD- taining much further prevalence, will eventually if he has the price not waste it in the winter in Al aska, but husband it outside where he can get employment outside or do something for himself worth while. He is not going to stay here to eat snowballs or to swallow hls blankets for the simple pleasure of l fighting mosquitoes chasing a sum- mer's job that never comes. And that's all that the winter resident workers in this community have for the most part been able to do. Alp. parently to the businessmen who re, gister later complaints when the pay roll disappears, they can go as far as, they like in this. And they. dis cover that the workers don't care very much about going too far. : There hasn't been general ey- odus up to this, not because the workers haven't got their bellyful of ; idleness during Seward Peninsula winters and summers, but because it has been dull outside and there
 has been little work on the coast or elsewhere. But industrial condi- | tions are building up outside and il l, is certain that if the workers un- . derstand that they can get employ. ment outside they are not going te remain here to turn over their little savings to Nome business men. It is up to this community to set that the wage workers who stay : here get employment when they
 need employment; they should no be subjected to the summertime dis crimination generally practiced. I they are employed in the summer al they will take care of the winte