The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-08-02
\ FINE EXHIBITION.

Little old Alaska can go some when it wants to make an exhibl- aion of itself as a free and demo- cratic country
 In witness whereof behold the Fourth Division.
 The Fourth Division has been eagerly wanting to bite off a chunk of pork which was being doled out in the form of a government rail- road.
 The moribund placer camps of the Tanana. long since robbed of their values by operators now settled all over the United States, have per suaded the government of the nation and the territory that all that was needed was government railroad 10 make the interior blossom like the rose.
 The fact that the government railroad was a white elephant pro- ject has already been itly exposed by Archdeacon Stuck who could not be accused of prejudice one way or another while the advertising agents of the Interior sat them up on their hind legs and howled.
 Fat, juicy, succulent government pork for hungry business interests is not to be sneezed at, even if the need of the country was more roads, Improved trails and control of the water ways by government.
 So when the government started F44ilding the road from Nenaua, the entire interior radiating around Fairbanks, rejoicing and was glad that the long expected would come to those who toiled not nor spun, but who watched and waited.
 The wage scale was low, lower than that paid already in the ill tcrior and that notwithstanding the efforts of the men to improve it.
 Several men organized conditions  workers and behold the press of the Interior cried' out in a loud voice against this outrage.
 They denounced them as pro- Germans, interned two or three jailed another for seditiOn and giv- ing aid to the enemy, a man whose eldest son died with the Canadian forces fighting in France.
 They blamed the l. ". W-s, they blamed the Germans. they blamed every blame thing but the wage scale paid by the government to its employees.
 They have liberty loving Mar shla named Erwin in that camp; a type of the democratic public serv- ant that ought to be appreciated by ihe people; one of those Alaskans for Alaska the remocrats love.
 Erwin speaking to Citizen re- porter, after these arrests of the so called labor agitators said "Tll fill tke jail so full of them that their See1 will stick out of the windows" Ca that vocal symphony to Liber- ty, "I Will". The United States government? The District Judge? A Jury after due process of Law? 0 nothing of the kind, just the United States Marshal who is to con stitute himself judge, jury, rope gallows and all.
 Upon ones soul the whole af- fair, this effort to strangle every liberty of action, of speech, of the workers would be comical if it was not SO tragic. Erwin discovered that one Miller was the most dang erous man of the trio whom he ar rested" the most radical in his ia roritism of Germany and his de munciation os the principles of the zJnited States. Listen to this ex- plantation of that: ''he was work fng with the steel gang out the line from Nenana and WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO AGITATFD THE STRIKE AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THE CREW, WITH THE RE SUIT THAT SIXTY MEN AP- PROX1MATELY WALKED QUIT By Heavens, a traitorous villain!! It is quite apparent that not Miller is playing ducks and drakes with the principles of the United States, but this same Marshal Erwin and