The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-10-18
SAME OLD STORY.

all summer without any pay for their labor for some concerns is not an unusual feature Of the Nome Fall. On the contrary except that this year there seem to be less men who failed to get their wages, It mas for some time been quite charac' teristic of working conditions here.
 There is no reason for this sort of thing. The fault lies primarily with the men themselves who either are afraid to ask for their money when it is due or they generously donate their wages for the employ ers' use so that they can hold thelr jobs.
 Constant exposure of this cohol' lion upon the part of this paper has had something to do with the lact that there are now fewer dead beat firms operating or fewer "ho blame upon the hard set Of elrcum stances which they had to contend againat the fact that they failed to pay their men. It is stated as a fact that only Ill Alaska will operators who are not engaged in profitable ventures be allowed credit But in Nome man! who have not a single thing to re commend them but their ability to peddle the bull, appear to be able 1o get what supplies they need. Finally when the storekeeper gets the worst of it he howls about his own discontinue.
 Now under such circumstances who can have any sympathy with a business man who has had such 1amentahle lack of foresight and why should anyone have pity for the Ia5orer who takes similar chances in order to get job?
 In point of fact. it has been ouite observable that workingmen who have sought credit although 4he certainty that they would repay was positive and secure have been refused. while here and there so- called operator can get all the ere dit he wants for the asking.
 However that does not help the -workingman any in this camp ahc his is our main concern. The man fact is that the workers ought tt make sure of their pay before evel they make sure of their job. Bu it is because they betray an anXlet! to get the job and take all kinds O chances in getting their pay, there are some at the end of the seasol find themselves with good hart hands. a fine appetite, sound muse les and no money.
 Obviously there is only one reme dv for this condition and that reme dy is to acquired by the worker themselves through themselves. l each and every man will first mak sure of his wages and then take tn job, he will be in much better con dition at the end of the season.
 But the trouble is that the indivl dual is afraid of the other man; n figures out that if he hesitates | 20 to work when he has chance if he dickers about the pay and pro ceeds to find out if it is all righ' the other slave with labor power | sell grabs the job ahead Of hlm an he loses the whole season. Wha Yben, Is it not clear as dayhgh that the only thing for the worker in this emergency is to unite wl' cne. another and being orsan'@c tbev can feel confident that tn scramble will not then exist. Fhe cap then be sure that th; othe -feiIcw will not be in the same unol ganized rush to get the Joo ar they can demand and they can r' ceiye the money they earn just soon as it is due.
 It is hard to have sympathy wit those workers who lose even
 whole summers wages. It IS pr marily their own fault. There is union here to which they should b' long and belonging to when the could protect others and themselve If all the workers in the mining Il dustry make up their minds to Joi this organization there will be I such sorry stories of defaulte wages at the end of the year
 It certainly is lamentable th' men will not have sufficient get-u in them to demand their wag when it is due. and fall victims
 the willy methods of some opeerato who are preparing homestake f' themselves. Such one.in the Sol mon district two years ago left u