The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-04-12

Considerable comment was made by many miners who attended the Boosters Meeting in the Eagle Hau that Labor received so little atten tion from the various speakers al though as these critics correctly point out, it is upon labor that the prosperity of this camp primarily and ultimately depends.
 True, 0 King. But blame not the orators of Sundays meeting. With them and the working class there Is very little in common. Their con cern is for themselves and their business and there is no reason why they should weep for LGbor when Ii Labor keeps on in the state of bum mery it is now :n, they will have plenty of reason to weep for them- selves end for their children.
 In fact although the eloquent speakers mentioned so Ettl2 about the workers the fact that there are so few wage workers this winter is what occasioncd the meeting. Ana if they can persuade themsclv s that they can boost the camp from its moribund state of non-activity by speech-makng they gre not to be ce- nied their privilege in th.s respect. It does good,
 They do not overlook the fact that in the last analysis the l&cH ol wage working is the real reason Tor the decline. and will be the reason for the fall of Nome if something is not done to develop pay roll. That in fact was the Banquo's ghost whose presence was clear enough to the minds eye of every speaker Just as it is clear as daylight to Tom Dick and Harry whatever may ba his business.
 There's no reason why such meet ings should be discouraged. on ,he contrary they may do lots of good; especially may they do good in that they afford us an opportunity ot ringing our burden that labor pro- duces all wealth and without labor you can have nothing.
 There's lots of w2gc working in the good old summer time. But it's not the sour dough who lives in and. endeavors to develop the coun- try who gets it. Take walk ou- towards Dexter, you members of the Chamber of Commerce, and observe the fine dumps that have been taken out this winter-thc sole reason one might say for all the activity hefe in Nome. And ask yourselves who did that work? The chechGco that comes in after the wild geese in the snring and hastens out with the geese in the fall? Not on your tin type, That work was done by sour dOughs who struggled around gett- ing job here and job there ana risked their scanty savings 1n in numerable prospect holes before they struck the pay that enables them to maintain some activity
 For years Nome existed in happy go lucky fashion winter after win ter on Center creek activities. After the summers open working had been done, men who made their little summer stakes went out to Center creek, got their lay and paid the coal man and the grocer and the freighter and tho rest of the business men, hard money they had hardly earned for an "outfit", and they took out year after year quite bit of money kept the camp alive and well, if not exactly prosperous.
 Without denying the Qpportunl- tics for making money which are here for investment, it must be in sisted that Capital has got to be shown. And it's not talk at boost CT meeting that capital wants. It is factsLthe facts that result from hard and dreary labor in opening mp and exposing to view the re- sources that do eyist. a.@ss..-...s- sa..i
 That's labor's function, and right we'll has labor performed 1t, But the, camp is passing through re- marifable stage wherein the work ers are as migratory as the operat- ors. and those who winter here do not get the jobs. s
 That's what the camp is up against, and which it will be up against until the companies and the