The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-06-02

living also demanding the sacTlnce of tho residue of their wages, the limit has been reached.
 Nome may have future. But in the meantime ways and means must be forthcoming to maintain a productive population if it is to maintain a parasitic population. Nome must have it's shows, it's en- tertainments, it's dances, it's chari- ties, it's annual this, that or the other thing. But every red cent and every silver dollar must be produced by labor. It will not come like mama from Heaven. It is not materialized by some business le- gerdemain in bank or store. It must come from the men who work. Other things are all subsidiary to the mining industry. The reason of Nome's existence here is the min ing industry. Everything else is a purely chance circumstance that exists because of that.
 You do not increase the wealth of the country one iota. one jot or little by buying and selling, even if one were to sell until Doomsday People talk of money making ven- lures wherein there is no produc- tive enterprise. They are literally money taking not money making enterprises.
 With the advent of higher prices then where is the camp to get on at? The camp cannot afford now to pay what it has to pay. It is too heavily commercialized and all the wizardry possible will not change that condition although tho town is boosted until Doomsday. Many
 merchants are here openly admit ing that they are waiting fol chechaco money and dsmning in tht
 meanwhile the dull times.
 But that's a broken reed. N: camp ever yet could live under sucl conditions and it's security and it
 permanence lies in tho productiv, population. The individual wh' tries to live by taking steak of his own body is doing what Nom proposes to do to survive.
 This is not a very heartenini . view, but it's correct and being ccT rect it must be faced.
 , If goods of all kinds are to b
 increased in prices, up must go tn wages if the workers are to renal :. in this camp. Somehow men hay
 remained here in Nome living an
 hoping against hope. They felt Tn
 stinctively with wage workin market played out, with nc wor
 during the winter in the mines with just a few small fry operatin on hay wire scale and then takin
 more out of the hide of the me employed than out of the "pa streak, at odds with themselves t , violate the law by some mean an trumpery subterfuge and all tn ., time prices soaring, soaring an
 soaring with the prospect of al taining invisible aviation heights i :, the near future.
 The people ought to face condl
 tions; not to peddle to themselves
 not to live in day dreams. Tn :, workers have no money to pay fo the higher prices demanded and
 is useless and vain to think the have.
 The imperative need is that whe , work is more plentiful during tn , summer the wages be generally In
 creased. The winter work is no,
 conspicuous by it's absence and whil here or there there may be pros
 pectors looking for the pay streaf
 they will not likely employ man
 men. But there is work here il
 the summer time and the wag scale, in proportion to the costs C living all the time increasing, is nc sufficient. Men do not earn a sutf i. ciency for their immediate nece? = sities and this thing has got to b l remedied somehow.