The daily Nome industrial worker., 1915-12-17

Department of Justice and demand i that officials here bo instructed to carry out the laws which they haya i been sworn to do, or get out fci the good of the service,
 A well known correspondent at Washington says that complaints or charges against federal officials are received at about the rate of d score a day in every department. These have no chance of obtaining a hearing unless it can be shown that the senders arc not soreheads over political matters. disappointed jobbites or men expecting to get a job. In the event that they ere gent in by individuals or associations having no possible objects to gail they receivl immediate attention. When the Nome Mine Workers Union collects data concerning the gambling that prevailed here aLG 1 prevails here; collects it's data as to the violation of the Territorial eight hour law and petitions for redress of such conditions have followed drom the apparent immunity from the penalties following such viola- tions of the law, no person can ac cuse the union of political bias, favoritism, or job seeking. The Union has only one object and that not enforced be enforced, and that if the present officials do not en- force them, others who will take their place.
 In this there will be no frame-up; no secret affidavits, no behind-the doors mystery; but full publicity for all the facts, full publicity for all actions because there is nothing to hide and secret action in this is as foolish as secret politics and se cret diplomacy.
 The idea that private citizens should make themselves the butt of a gambling clique in town because the lazy, indifferent or ignorant otfl cials drawing fat salaries will net do the work, is quite absurd. The idea that workingmen who may il consequence be black-listed by em- ployers for their acts in this regard should have to furnish leisure-lov- ing officialdom with the facts as to violations of labor laws before they will make a move to enforce them, is too ridiculous, and if the workers do collect the facts let them collect them for the benefit of Washington and put it up to Washington wheth- CT or not it is the idea there that an Alaskan federal position is to become a sinecure and men who are not salaried, have to become the stool pigeons of such sinecurists.
 Back of the action that would be taken. the miners have the entire strength of organized labor in the United States, and through Denver and through Washington thai strength should be availed of to the full This can easily be brought to bear upon the highest officials and upon the members of Congress who will recognize the reasonabie ness of this petition, and we can be assured as we ltve been assured, that many of these as in the past
 will be even from a political point
 of view, anxious enough to see that
 the laws such as they are, are en-
 forced
 If laws are to obtain respect it is
 manifest that they cannot as to
 their enforcement be treated with
 disdain by those responsible for
 that enforcement and assuredlE
 when all is said and done, the most positive method of bringing all into contempt is to manifest activity in
 one class direction, and none at al! in another.
 It certainly is time that some ac- ton of this nature should be taken unless the workers have already |. fully made up their minds that little can be expected from any of these officials, high or low, but even al 1 that, it would be worth while know : ing how far the violation of some , I, VIC and not otbers eap be carried , on by those who do so, because they are merely labor laws or laws which . protect in some measures tho i working class from certai1 : lparasitic influences all tending tt , keep him in sujection.