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

storekeepers and the banks come to an agreement and conclusion tha1 it will well repay them to make an effort to secure employment for the men who are here
 We have found nothing of that sort in evidence. On the contrary we find the Chamber of Commerce guilty in the past of a most ili-ai- vised advertisement which last fall was sent outside urging workers .o come here and offering all klnds of opportunities for them when most of the working class in this caup rave b een sucking their thumbs ano living on coffee and.
 Does any serious person presume to say that a thousand wage work CTS who have worked here all sum mer can take themselves anc their wad outside without the camp feel ing it's loss?
 But what inducement do the busi- nes men offer to the workers to re- The men discover that their jobs are best secured in Seattle or coming in on the boats in the Spring, anG for that reason they prefer to go outside and not to take chances spending their hard earned money during the winter here, developing the camp.
 Now we would like to sec the members of the Chamber of Com merce dwell a little on what has been already done in this country. l They will find that it has been done not by the chechaco, but by the sOul dough labor, and instead of aiding sourdough labor in every possible way, shape and form, they have aid ed and abetted condition Of things makes it highly advisable for every worker who can make enough to get out of this section each fall l just as fast as God and tho steam boats will let him.
 | However, maybe it's just as well 1 that the Chamber did not refer tt Labor. In that they clearly recoS nized what the workers themselves l should recognize, that it is upon the workers themselves that their wei fare depends.
 While business is organizing to help itself and acting shrewdly anG wisely and prudently as we must admit. why cannot the workers fol low suit and likewise organize to help themselves in wise and shrewd and prudent manner?
 The workers can if they want to, themselves control the industria! situation And if they like to delude themselves with the belief that any particular interests other than their own are going to hand them their fortunes on silver platters for the asking, they are like to starve to death.
 Quite an object lesson, now that we are on local matters, is afforded the workers how essential it is for them to organize to protect them selves is seen in the non-enforce- ment of the eight hour law in some underground operations. Just as we write this, Russian complains that friend of his has been working for some weeks for an outfit is em- ploying several men and they work ten hours underground. They sigh no agreement; they are not part ners, bogus or otherwise. They simply are hired, and fired just the same as if the law were never in existence, just the same as. if to make certain the enforcement Of the laws a most expensive and. elabo- rate official machinery was not here maintained for that purpose. Yet we have no kick coming, or should have none. If the men will not organize to enforce the eight hour day we can be certain that 1t will not be self enforcing It would be too much to expect of, the, ofiici- als that they would exercise. their highly expensive if less energied brain power in it's enforcement.
 The employers. are foolish, il. when the workers are willing to work ten. ltwe'yes or fourteen hours q day they don't do 1t. They would be foolish to pay any sort of a reasonable scale if tha ucrkoro arc wilItnr h w0rk