The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-08
THE WAGE SCALE.

force on all underground placer workings. The legislature which has just adjourned. remedied the legal defect in the former law, and after the text had been submitted 10 the Attorney General it has been duly passed and approved
 Recognizing this, some firms which have been eyading the law heretofore, have now cut down the time worked and are paying the munihcent wages of $40 day. That surely is some wages i'll Alas la and it is wages which are indl- cative of the present standing or the camp when they received the approval of some business interests here who are even at pains to rustic men for this scab camp.
 The union men can regard the sl- tuation with equanimity. The scaps who work for those wages are sure ly not worth worrying about, and II emplovers as they doubtless will, nav them even dollar day or whereabouts during the summer or do not pay them at all-why should union men worry?
 They know very well that men who will work for such wages are those who are anxious for the Jop for the jobs sake. and do not care about what they are paid, just as long as they have a chance to work.
 They have the instinct of slave who as long as he got a place 10 sleep and something in the way of food. troubled not at all about the weight of the taskmasters lash.
 Here in this camp at the present time are many men working for three dollars a day for ten hours who rather than risk losing then iob would work for nothing at all. They will not dare join the union, and the last thing they would ven lure to do would be to get up courage enough not even to ask Iol higher wages, but even to ask i'll a whiningly humble way of the stra" boss what wages the employer was good enough to pay.
 These non-unionists who fear to call their soul their own, and who will not dare try to better the con ditions of labor. deserve scant sym pathv indeed from the workers, for in their cowardly inactivity they are a greater menace to the welfare of the working class than the em- ployers who openly fight and anta- gonize unionism.
 It is to be hoped that they enjoy their position, and that they Will have an opportunity of appreciatine the fact that they are in truth and fact peons, working for a peon's wage, for a good long time.
 The union men are frequently asked when the summer scale goes into effect The non-union Jobbites are anxious for the union to set the scale so that they can get the bene- fit of this union action. and thai the union men will force the fight ing for their benefit. They want tt get the summer scale but they have not nerve enough to ask for it much less manhood enough to in sist upon being paid it. Instead they lawn around the boss and tr! by getting into his good graces an' aping a humility that would mak' 1he humble Uriah Heap blush fo shame. by doing so they will b. able to retain their job, working for scab wages while the union mel act as catspaws in the whole mat ter
 The union men know very wei that they will be paid the uniol scale when they work, and the have no intention of just now batt ling for the bunch of .scabs win rely upon this action year afte year who dare not in their soul rise like men to share the work o bettering labor's condition.
 Unionmen know what they wor for and know what they will ge when they go to work. The non union man takes what he can get Sometimes he gets nothing bu pieces of paper and we observe tha time and time again they are look ing around the courts to obtain tn