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technique; they bespeak the true man 4-and the true woman. too. --------.-------------.-=---.--- ALASKA
 NOTES
 The Valdez Miner will invest $10.000 in a new plant.
 J. J. Kennedy has been appointed postmaster al Haines.
 The Alaska gold production for the year 1914 was $l5,764,25O.
 Skagway is beginning to talk about it's annual horticultural fair.
 A till tapper touched up a Wrangel candy store for $1O one day last week. Wrangel is about to install a salt water pumping system for fire protec- tion.
 l J. E. Chilberg, a Seattle capitalist, has recently acquired mining prop erty at Devils Elbow, on the Stikine.
 As result of hot weather, the Skag- way river was on a rampage last week and threatened to flood the town.
 Railroad work in the interior of AL the statement of Thomas Riggs, jr.
 Another sale of lots in the new gov ernment townsite at Anchorage is an- nounced to commence on August 18th next
 A million a week was the value of the copper ore shipped from Cordova, the output of the Bonanza and Jumbo mines.
 torty-two hours actual running time from Fairbanks to Chitina is the record made by Bobby sheldon with a new six passenger car.
 A soda fountain tank left standing in the hot sung at Skagway exploded one day last week. causing considerable damage to the tank.
 Jerry Quinlan, formerly with the White Pass Co.,, has been chosen to take out the first construction train on the government railroad
 See America first, and see Alaska before the rest of the country" This should be a slogan promoted by the people of this territory.-Ex.
 Eighty seven acres of land adjoining the town of Seward, Alaska, has been withdrawn for townsite and railroad purposes by the government.
 Anchorage elected a school board on Aug. ?. It was predicted that he pub lie school at this place will start off with 90 pupils and three teachers.
 Six months in the Valdez jail was drawn by George McFall, who con- fessed having taken $35.50 from the cash register of the Horseshoe Bar at Cordova.
 The Cordova Times says that the city council of that place will soon pass an ordinance taxing itinerant peddlers under the new act of the territorial legislature
 A young lady of Seward, walking home at night, stumbled over porcu- pine and it took two hour to pull the ouills out of her shins.
 According to the July number of the 
 Manufacturer
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-09-09

Forty-two hours actual running time from Fairbanks to Chitina is the record made by Bobby Sheldon with a new six passenger car.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-09-09

A soda fountain tank left standing in the hot sung at Skagway exploded one day last week, causing considerable damage to the tank
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-09-09

School Supplies. See our window. lomen Bros.
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An Explanation Of an Attitude Often Misunderstood and
Closely Related to tie Public Welfare 1ouun BERRY

own welfare. relating to health, and
to hours, and to regulation Of service.
Instead of doingSharm to the world
by it's demands, M confidently asserts
that it does good, Through co-operat-
ing with the laW~that corrects those
things which are an injury to
great masses of human beings
harmful to all society, destructive to
generations of today menacing to the
generations to cONle.
The weakness Ar labor in the past
has been the adirecf,result of failure to
co-operate Vows has. learned it's
lesson. ThroughQut the country la
borers are struggling to work to-
gether as one man Their harmony
has been made areproachs From the
charges made against them. it might
reasonably be inferred: that, in being
allowed to work AT all, they were
granted a privilege. The absurdity Of
this attitude is plainly seen when one
asks what the world would be with
out them. AS a matter of fact, there
would be no civilization.
. But does not capital count for any,
thing? Surely it does. There would be
no civilization without the co-opera-
ton of capital. But what is capital ?
AS all economists now agree, it is
stored up labor. tits the surplus that
has. gone to thoseswho- have made a
profit from labor, the vast surplus
that stands, both Tor teeming prosper
ity of the world and for the appalling
economic inequalities.
The labor movement is essentially
humanitarian. Itsis struggle against
waste, against waste of human life,
Of human abilities and capacities, of
possibilities In the way Of intellectual
and moral and social development 1t
sees great rewards going to
the few, and bare living, or no living
at all, going to the multitude. More
over, it sees the few weakened and de-
graded by surfiet, ,seven while the null
titude suffers. Itssideal is the better
ment Of the wholesrace. It looks for
ward to the time when labor instead
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my, no! It is done to keep her a. a
school teacher. So she will not desert
and become a garment worker.
The same may be said of stenog-
raphers, clerks, mattresses; on even
through the @callings. Where one line
elevates itself. other lines must be
elevated by the employers in some
thing appearing like proportion.
If mattresses received twice as much
as any other woman in trade, then all
women in trade would soon seek to
become mattresses. The illustration
carries throughout.
r We have met men In what are
called the higher professions and
walks Of life, who imagined a labor
union was something 4menial pebian.
We have heard them laugh at labor
day parades. They have never stopped
to- figure just what the labor union,
organized as they are, had done for
every unorganized worker in the
world. ,... :
Lawyers and Doctors Organize.
And there are all sorts Of labor
unions, though they may be called al
most anything but that. , Take the
lawyer. He is surrounded by variety
OF safeguards. 1t is pretty hard to
become lawyer, just as it is bard to
qualify an q bricklayer or locomotive
engineer. The lawyer sees that the
qualification Is placed high so that
he may not be compelled to compete
with those who have become attorneys
over night or. who would degrade the
honorable profession. And the law
yer's charges are generally about what
the lawyer across the street would ask.
THERE'S no vast q ifference whore the
same amount tof work and wisdom are
required & The lawyer does ss this
throuEh his bar associatio on. which 81
- beaf Uni lvyerssm smeet
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EYER gu JONES CALLS
0il$;$$KEFELLERJR JR.
Son of Oil MAJ 4 e Spies "Angel
Of Miners in Audience; Asks
Her to Visit Him.
CHAMPION OF WORKERS
AGREEABLY SURPRISED
Tells MIR. Rockefeller He Should
Hear Something Else Besides
What Hirelings Say.

NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-Mother
Jones, the revered champion of the
cause of the miners, who has de-
voted her life to going into the
camps during times of struggle to
advise the men and aid the women
and children of the miners, was
taken by surprise at the hearing Of
the Industrial Relations commission
in this city last Tuesday when John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., sought her out
from among the spectators and
asked to have a conference with her
in regards to the conditions existing
in the Colorado coal fields as she
found them.
Asks For Information.
Mr.. Rockefeller was the first wit
ness called to the stand Tuesday.
AS he entered the room In the city
hall where the Industrial Relations
committee were conducting an in
quiry into the several philanthropic
foundations and the causes of in
dustrial unrest he saw Mother Jones
sitting among the spectators. He
approached her, and shaking her
hand, said, II wish you would come
to see me and give any Information
you have on the Colorado situation"
Mother Surprised.
Mother" Jones was visibly sur
prised.
'"That's very nice of you,'' she
said. II have always said that you
could know but little Of the condi-
tion of the workers in Colorado, and
that you should hear something else
besides what these hirelings tell
YOU"
After Mr.. Rockefeller took the
stand, Chairman Walsh read letter
written by Mr.. Welborn (president
of the company to Starr J. Murphy
of the personal staff of John d.
Rockefeller, Sr.
In the letter Mr.. Welborn said
that clergyman at Sunset had
made some remarks detrimental to
the company and that 1t had been
suggested that the clergyman be re-
moved. Although the clergyman
had "made indiscreet remarks, and
had socialistic tendencies" Mr.: We'll
born wrote that he hesitated to re-
move him.
AS a citizen, Mr.. Rockefeller said
he believed all clergymen should be
free to say what they please. 1t was
brought out that the clergyman in
question had been severe in his criti-
cism of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
company in connection with the con-
flicts at Ludlow.
did you know that Jefferson
Farr is a. sheriff and that for is
years your company has used it's in
fluence to elect him?' asked Mr..
Walsh. Did you know that just
before the strike he swore in 800
men as deputies and was told that
the Colorado Fuel and Iron COM
pany would furnish them with arms
| and paid them"
! Mr.. Rockefeller said that he
knew nothing about that.
Did Not Know of Violations. .
Mr.. Rockefeller said he had never
heard that detectives were employed
by the Colorado Fuel and Iron com
pany to spy on the men. He did
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UNION CARD IS
GROUND TO FIRE

- ~
= WASHINGTON, Jan 30-Tl1e right Of
a railway official to force an employe
to withdraw from a union under the
laws of Kansas was upheld by the
supreme court today. when it reversed
the decision of the Kansas supreme
court and the lower court which found
T. B. Coppage guilty of coercion.
Justice Holmes, Day and Hughes
dissented, Holmes reading one mi
nority opinion and Day and Hughes
giving second.
Coppage was a superintendent for
the Frisco road and as such, under
the charge, demanded the withdrawal
from the switchmen's union of A. r.
Hedges. On refusal of Hedges to re-
sign from the union, Coppage dis
charged him from the employ of the
railroad company.
The defense Of Coppage was that his
action as charged were not pub
lic offense, and that they did not con-
stitute violation of the laws of
Kansas.
If employers have the right to dis
charge men for no other reason than
that the men have Joined a union, the
labor attorneys pointed out, laboring
men would have no protection what
ever.
This case was clear cut under the
questions were allowed to enter into
the decisions of the lower courts
whatever.
For instance. it was not claimed
that the man was incompetent or un-
satisfactory for any other reasons than
that he persisted in remaining q mem
oer OF the switchmen's union.
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OHIO STATE HOLDS:
-SAFETYEXH|B|7

u cOLyMBUs, o.. Jan. 30 Ohio's first
annual Industrial safety exposition,
held in this city last week., was a
success and a revelation. The expo
s1t1On was arranged and conducted by
the state industrial commission, the
executive body that is carrying into
effect the provisions of the workmen's s
compensation lazy and other statutes
relating to industry. A large hall was
vices were arranged in booths. At
tendants demonstrated the utility of
each device.
Railroad companies, large steel con-
Germs. and other Ohio industrial cor
pOrat1onS were represented, while
other states occupied large booths. The
most important feature Of the exposi-
tion was the round table" discussions,
at which representatives of large cor
porations and representatives, of or
ganized labor discussed the relation of
measures to meet the problems pre-
sented.
President Voll and Secretary Don
nelly, Of the Ohio State. Federation of
Labor, took a leading part in tho de
bates. If even one-half of the better
ments claimed to have been instituted
by the companies is a. fact, these con-
Germs have ~revolutionized their meth
DDS in- dealing with employees since the
cured the enactment Of the workmen's s
compensation law.
The Ohio Manufacturers association.
at Its last convention, declared in IA
vor of cooperating with the labor
unions In making the compensation
law effective. Members Of this organic
ation resisted the adoption Of the law.
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being more than is deserved. We will
admit that. But still a fair liveli-
hood is afforded. Now, why does the
school teacher get this without or
ganization? Simply because Other
men and women have organizeds in
other lines,- thus pushing up the day
In their own line, and incidently rails
ing it in other lines until comparison
makes the whole labor world appear
to be on an even basis.
We will say that the women gar
! ment workers are organized. They re-
ceive each SIS a week. OF course,
this is q mere speculation for the sake
of proving point, but we accept it
as true.
Now, up to the time this garment
worker organized she received but
$40 week-not enough to live on de-
Gently, to remain healthy and fit to
work, and more than that, to hold
{ up her head in the world
So she organized and struck. She
won her fight and henceforth received
her SIS week.
The school teacher, unorganized in
| some localities has been receiving $40
a week, not enough for her, just as 1t
was insufficient for the garment
worker. When the latter was raised
through her union to SIS, the teacher
began to eye her enviously. That
$3.50 additional each year earned
and received by the garment worker
was vastly attractive to the skimpins
school. teacher. She pondered seri-
| ously the matter Of becoming a gar
ment worker that she, too, might re-
| ceive the SIS a week. But the world
needs school teachers just as 1t needs
garment workers. And so the school
teacher issraised to $14 or 315' q week
Iso that her salary will compare fay-.
lorsably With the zunsut uogkear,s Oh
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ORGANIZATIONS OF LABOR BENEFIT AII GLASSES

with a scale of prices and working
rules as the fundamental idea, the
labor union has benefited the un.
organized workers.
News Writers Should Organize.
Take newspaper writer's, for in
stance. They are unorganized; they
may form associations which are
purely local, but the profession knows
nothing that is of the labor union
brand. Yet the profession, men and
women is well paid. Why? Because the
vast majority of other professions and
callings are organized and have their
scales of prices. One worker, even
though he belong to an unorganized
craft, will insist that he be permitted
to live as well and decently as an
other workman. Therefore If plumb
ers and bricklayers organize and in
slst on IS, Sc or 81 for their days
pay-and get that amount through
their organization-the newspaper
writer's, working quite as hard al
though they may be unorganized, will
insist on drawing for their labor some
thing equivalent to what is paid the
plumber or bricklayer.
In other words, the unorganized
newspaper writer profits directly
through the organized printer,
plumber and bricklayer. It may not
be quite fair to allow some other
craft to build up the whole economic
structure through its own efforts. but
it is being done in many cases just the
same -, - -,
Teachers SHOULD Organize. :.
), Or take the school teachers. They
are not organized into even the sem
blance of a labor union, although the
thing has been suggested and will un.
undoubtedly come to&pass some day
Yet the school teacher draws q fair
salary. ss.[s Il might he higher without
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In this country one often notices
signs of misunderstanding in regards
to what labor is trying to do. From
the charges made one might think
that labor was destructive agency.
To it's friends, and to all that are re-
lated to labor, that is, to the public
at large, it seems worth while that
it's real nature should be emphasized.
Labor is not trying to destroy any
thing. It is essentially constructive
All it asks is a fair chance. It should
be borne in mind that labor~is not, as
has been claimed in the past, a mere
commodity. It is a human power. It
expends itself for the purpose ~of
maintaining, not only it's own life, but
the life Of those dependent upon it.
And those dependent upon labor in
clude the whole world. The very peo-
pie who exploit labor live on labor. In
the past they gave labor as little, as
possible. Consequently labor was
abused and degraded and weakened.
Out Of the labor market, like a great
pen Of slavery, came millions to be
sacrificed, consisting not only of men,
but Of women and children.
For generations labor has been
struggling to make this sacrifice i'm
possible and to place itself upon the
basis where it belongs, where it can
secure from the whole world the rec.
ognition OF its service. It knows, and
it is striving to make the world know,
that without it., human life cannot
continue. AS soon as a full UNDER
standing is reached, it believes that
its claims will be appreciated at their
true worth and properly rewarded.
The struggle of labor has been bit
ter and long. The failures have been
many and the successes have been but
few. But steadily it has grown more
enlightened. Now it asks as its right
for a share of its results that shall
enable laborers to devolope themselves
as men and women, as mother and "a
theirs, as sisters and brothers. AS it's
right to ask for a voice in the shap-
ing Of the conditions that affect it's
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of being despised as it is now, shall
be honored, when the worth of a man
shall be estimated, not. in the money
that; comes from the toll of others,
but In the service he is able to render
to society. 1t seems in the near future
a general realization on the part of
society that the: gambling in labor,
which is gambling in human life,
must cease, and that a new ideal must
be maintained placing the welfare
Of mankind above the present con-
Germ for property. With confidence
it looks to, the enactment of laws safe
guarding to everyone that comes into
the world a reasonable opportunity to
make living. !: ~,
Labor is aware that already laws
have been passed, greatly ameliorat-
ing the conditions of the labor market,
restricting the hours in certain de-
partments, and protecting the women
and children But these laws do not
reach the heart OF the matter. They
operate like parental kindness, like
fayors. = They are only steps toward
the establishing Of conditions where
all human beings born into the world
shall be trained to develop the best in
their nature and to give their most
efficient service. =
The treatment of labor in the past
is the tragedy of history. It has been
blasphemously accepted and .encour-
aged as the will of God. Now the world
knows that it is the result Of the
thoughtlessness, the selfishness and
the shortsightedness Of man. The
hope OF the future lies In the correc-
ton Of this deep-seated blunder,
which has weakened the foundations
Of human life throughout the world.
In the re-creating of society, with the
rights Of labor to q new era, far more
wonderful than any yet known rich
with the promise Of achievement and
with the prospect Of intellectual and
moral advancement, giving the whole
race a more certain hold On those
principles of wise living that alone
can lead to happiness.
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Urging support of the Palmer
Owen bill now pending in congress in
tended to prohibit the shipment = of
goods in Interstate commerce in the
making Of which child labor was
used,< Rev. c: j. Armstrong of the
Superior Congregational church made
child labor.
1T is only proper that we should
prevent Interstate traffic in child
sabor," Rev. Armstrong: said, land
as one. step toward remeding this
evil the Palmer Owen bill will be
necessary Hinder ats provisions, cilii-
dfen undera'14 will not Be allowed to
work. anywhere in the United States,
regardless of existing state codes.
Older children who do work will be
limited to eight hours every day.
Child Labor Unnecessary.
There is no necessity for children
working. It is detrimental to their
physical and mental development
The. wages ordinarily earned by men
are undercut3by the profusion of child
labor in the United States. It is un-
fair to organized labor of the nation
The bad moral effect is another seri-
GUS drawback Of the system of child
labor. The sooner it is abolished, OF
curtailed, the better off the people OF
the country will be.
What is accomplished by child la
Dor ? True, the children can do some
work much cheaper, but in the end il
is the most expensive kind OF labor
Child Actors.
ION the stage children are popular
but they are not clever actors OF
actresses, at their best they are but
good imitators. The children who have
been on the stage are received by an
audience with hearty applause be.
cause they do just what they are told
to do. People say they are so clever,
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and talk over their professional .ques-
t1ons and discuss charges, etc., much
like carpenters and miners do. And
the fact cannot be denied.
Or doctors! Their charges are much
the same in all cases and their pro-
fessional ethics are strict and high
class. Certain things are permissi-
BILE; others are, not. When a. doctor
does the thing which is not permissi-
BILE he becomes a sort of pariah among
his associates. He is taboo. He may
not be called a ''scab," but we imax-
inc the other members Of his profess
sion regard him as just about that sort
of thing. The doctors do these things
through their medical associations
which are very similar to the labor
union. 1t is right that they should
do so. Years of study and outlay are
required to become physician, and
then, all through life, they must keep
at their study. If the workman IS
worthy Of his hire then the doctor,
being also a laboring workman, is
worthy OF what he receives. $s =.
Druggists, storekeepers, merchants
Of all kinds, men in every business,
have their associations to- keep up
the price Of labor or Of commodities.
But they are labor unions neverthe-
less. Calling them by some orner
name cannot alter the fact. gzsst ss55| 4.
i En0u9h to 1--we Decently.
Then bring the matter home. The
coal miners are organized; have been
for years. They demand q certain
sum for their labor, based on hours
Of work, trade technice1ities and pos
sible output. The amount must be
enough to live on decently, to raise
the family, provide the M ifeg ana chill
dren with al the sneceas q fsws sof
the luxllries and. to asEay q bit
aina ths - = snua g
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BY SAMUEL j. LEWIS.

Ihere is something more important
than winning success at the polls
There is something vastly more es-
sentlal than putting this or that man
into public office. And there is some
thing the welfare of which must be
watched and promoted more zealously
; than any mere registering of voters
and herding them to the polls in the
interest of candidates.
And that thing is the labor union.
1t is the workman's haven in time
of peace: it is his hope in days of
storm and struggling; it is the beacon
light which guides his Individual craft
through the tempestuous waters of
oppression, coercion, abuse and evil
+ conditions.
S$@ For years and years it has been the
one element which has INCREASINGLY
d worked for good, for the uplift, for
happier homes, contented wife.
healthy children and stronger, more
efficient, more ambitious men.
) The labor union has brought men
of every craft to a higher plane of
usefulness; it has made better citi-
zens; 1t has cared for the sick and
injured; it has built it's hospitals and
employed it's doctors and nurses: it
has paid its sick benefits, and it has
buried it's dead members. t'has done
this humane work because it is found
ed on humanity, on a community of
Interests and a sort of cooperation
between the strong and the weak.
Reap Wage Benefits.
1t has raised wages in every line of
:, humane endeavor. Even in the un-
j organized pursuits it has done this.
. Even where men would not band
4 hem selves together in q labor unioa,