The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-05-12

(COULTOl the DuSlncSS COuCeTUS WHICH live upon these industrial activities.
 Tho frown or the favor of mining
 Juneau. It is no idle thing anywhere.
 It is no idle thing in Nome They
 control the means whereby the
 business men live, move and have their being.
 It is not meaningless thing for a
 business house whether newspaper
 or drug store or hotel or gro- cery or clothing store if 1t incur
 the displeasure of the management of the Gastineau or the Tread well.
 They have indeed to line up just
 as have the men from the mine and
 the mill to line up at the republican
 primary and vote, damn them, as
 they are told to vote.
 Not only that, but here VIC have
 brought home to us the vital need
 of an industrial as well as a political
 emancipation. You can't have poli-
 tical freemen where thoy have to
 endure the pale dread of industrial fear within their hearts. You can't
 begin to think community enjoys
 any sort of independence when they dare not repeat aloud or in the
 newspaper what happened and why.
 You cannot have political freedom
 in the real sonse of thu word if an
 industrial power greater than the
 law of the land, shall be able to say
 to men vote thus. and they have to vote that way. There's not living man but doesn't know that this is the case, and yet it's dollars to doughnuts the same papers that were afraid to mention the facts as to the republi- can primaries sin Juneau will be loudest in writing elegant apo strophes to the Spirit of '76 when the Fourth of July comes around. and will refer with reverence and respect and veneration to the De- claration of Independence and urge in high flown periods that the high. est, noblest and worthiest efforts of citizenship can be best directed to- wards upholding the letter and the spirit of that most venerable instrus ment. But, where is corporation do- minance entering into the vitals of the social life. taking away every semblance of personal liberty ana upon its ruins establishing an in- dustrial serfdom, where in the world can there be any such thing as free- dom?
 We noted an elaborate eulogy of the Trcadwell published the other day in the Empire. It was written by the manager and what he paid if he did pay for it's insertion. we don't know. It mentioned all kin,ls Of beneficient work that had been done to promote the happiness and well fare of the employees. It read like a story. But there was one line that most impressed this paper. That was to the effect that "a careful record is kept of all employees.
 You bet there is. They don't move but it's reported; they don't utter a word of agitation but it is told upon them; they never criticize or shirk or rest or take smoked" but it is informed upon them.
 It's a lovely condition that makes for welfare work and makes for the emasculation of every semblance of personal freedom at the same time. It's high price to pay for job. It's not worth it. And if anything shows the vital need of real union ism in Juneau it is just that such prevail
 The Treadwell has been eulogized also in the Juneau Post. And for approximately the same reason as the manager covered himself with the fulsome glory of self-praise. The Post explained that that was why there was no union in Juneau and in so many words none was wanted.
 But the Post-man did not know what unionism really means. What he said only showed its more vital necessity. It is when men begin hugging their chain that union agi- tation must above all things be kept alive and otherwise the community will stcgnate into that hopeless