The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-05
DON'T JOIN THE UNION.
By Our Organizer.

reasons why you should not join the Union:
 Don't join the union. as you might be able to secure higher ,vagcs.
 Don't Join the union. as you might securc a shorter working day, and that you know, would ney- CT do. It might affect your health. You know at oI e time people had to work ten, twelve or more hours, and it was considered crime to ask for eight hours.
 Don't join the union, as 1t might hurt the feelings of the master, and VOL know that would be terrible. Don't join the union, as you might be able, through organized power, 60 maintain the present scale of wages after the war is over.
 Don't join the union, for when the present war is over and 33.000,- 0oe workinsmen are thrown into the labor market To compete with yoa iur jobs, if you are lot orga- nized t,e corporations may Ged 1t convenient 10 cut wages and 'euent- au th. hours of labor.
 Don't join the auion, as you mialt ba aeie To protect yourself from Kai5r RocECte1Isr, Czr Nor gan and Emperor Guegonhaim. who los yor so much that they want rLa moss sorvile and che2p labor lhe4 can secure. and even now are looking with longing eyes toward China and Japan. with their tcgm- 5ug millions and arc hoping that iu some manner the bars can be lowered 50 that they can secure some of this cheap labor,
 Don't join the union, as the big boss might ba compelled 10 adopt safety devices, and you krow that would just be awful, as t might protect your life and limb.
 Don't join the union, &s it might mean longer life, more happiness and more enjoyment for the child !.
 Don't joiY the union, it might ''brcak up the home"
 Don't join the union, as 1t might t&kc away from the boss the ioh of doing your thinking. You know the poor fellow h.s to pro- vide you with job and also do that more strenuous duty, your thinking, and just think how dre d ful that would be. Why you might be compelled to do your OWL thinking
 Don't join the union, as you might want a better place to live You know some of you live in such beautiful co homes, that it would be a sin to live in any other, Some gre very palatial mansions and castles, built as they are, of corru- gated iron and lumber iron tomato candle and powder Doxes. D. J. jackIine cannot afford such home no sirrce, he is so poor that he mas 10 have the whole upper floor of the St. Francis Hotel in & n Fran ci3co, and his wages are so mcager that he can only afford to pay an -.nnual rental of thirty thousand dollars for quarters for his scrv ants. just think Of that,
 might want better environments. Some of you nave such beautiful surroundings such as open sewers and bog lands. that to live in any othLr aImc3pnere might contamhI- ate your health, It would :,ever do to live amid trees and flowers and green fields, your children might cease to love you.
 Don't join the uaiCn. as it might do away with the spy, who. when Nou are not organized, runs and tells the boss that you are loafing on the job, or that you are talk ing with your fellow workers about getting more money, or seeking a reduction Of hours If you should organize 100 Ter cent. why the boss would have no further use for the Spotter But then, tEat would be ireason.
 Don't join the union because the omon might want to enter into collective bargaining with the em-