The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-06

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 The Sunday Morning Post which until recently was socialist paper, and is now of nondescrpt policies, had a recent notable article as to the reason why labor unions made no progress in Juneau mines. And the Post man went on to say that the reason was because of tho uni formly generous, fair and uplifting | treatment which the management meted out to employees. They had, the writer inferred, killed unionistic incliEations with kindness and there was no reason for the establishment of any such thing.
 The Post writer clSo went on to 1 give data concerning the up-lift po- | Hey of the companies and cited eX- amples thereof.
 Manifestly this is only half the casc. The writer in the Post should have investigated as to why the companies adopted this policy, ana what was in turn their attitude to- wards unionism and why.
 Some years ago employment ir the big mines in Juneau was hell upon earth. The superintendent in one inctancc was a gunman and ac- cused of crime in a variety of min ing camps where he left rcd trai! behind; every man going to work had to sign death warrant where by he relieved tho comp2ny of al; responsibility for accident, fatal or otherwise. The cookhousc was q mulligan outfit of tho slumgullion type, and brutality and brutishness characterized the entire situation.
 Then camo tho Western Fedora tion of Miners into tho ccmp and 1 a big fight resulted. The union losr out-we know it Hid; but as has happened almost everywhere else, even in losing the fight, concessions which year before the company would have scorned and rejected with dcr;Sion, became the order Of the day.
 The unions arc responsible for improved conditions which he Post man speaks of, but there are other features which the editorial writer did not dwell upon, but which show the vital need of organization.
 He did not tell that the conditions in Juneau today arc such that no employee has any reel freedom. He cannot join a genuine labor union. Any w. F. of M. card man is com pollod to get ontsif it is known Spotters arc everywhere and report upon any union activities and any union organizer whom discovered gets short shrift.
 In turn tho compGnioC have devcl- opcd an industrial faudal.sm which may commend itself to a lackcy heart, but is certainly repugnont tC any freedom loving soul.
 When the bill was before the Ics' Legislature whereby employees mulcted of doctor fees would elect their own physician, tho supporter. of that measure secured affidavit. showing that many who favored tht bill and employees of tho mining l; companies dare not come forward in it's support, and these wero fur : nished one senator who promised but did not keep his word, to re- , them before the senate. And unless , the Industrial Worker ic who'll! mis.nformed, tho lawyer editor O } the Post knows this as well, if no
 better than anyone.
 The necessity for labor orgcniza , tion in Juneau is exceedingly evid , ent when such g vicious article ap / pears in a quasi-labor paptr. Flo {, lit is vicious, as any statement whicl . is Q half truth is vicious and an, ! suppression of truth Is unquestion r ably oven moro vicious than an ac 3 tual outright falschood. But in 1;
 self 1t is testimony if testimony 7 needed, to the effect that the powe t of the Treadwoll and Alaska Q Gastineau is still invinciblc. el The very condition that tho Pos 5 man upholds has been similarly up