The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-26
DIME CREEKS FUTURE.

future of that camp is assured and that there Will be mining there to q good extent for years to come.
 The uea who went there and de veloaeG that country. taking the fat and the lean that came their way, deserve credit although it is likely that many will profit more by the results ol their Iabor-as usual than 1aeg will themselves. Four Hf;hs of the miners in that section are from the Nome vicinity and former members or actually still members of the Nome Mine Workers Union. Battling here for better conditions always when they saw that none but scabs in a good many of the camps could get employment, they went to the Koyuk and estab- lshed themselves there.
 Being experienced miners. more skilful and persevering than the average. and the most intelligent ot their class. their departure from Nome was d loss that could not be easily filed But it was on the whole a gain for the country for by their Iabors they have placed this new camp upon another than an un- certain basis. and all the business men of Nome have been reapng profits from the development of that country wherein they settled. Some Of the best union men i'll any country went 70 Dime creek and car ried with them the fine principles of manhood that always actuated them here and as long as they live and work there. it will be a mans camp where conditions will be such that whitemau can live and work.
 Here in Nome while scabherdera of the shoe string type are trying fo get men to work for thirty cents m hour. less than is paid under ground iu any mining camp in the .-atad States Of America, and where unfortunately We see business men aiding and abettiug at this cut throat condition. the miners in Dime are working for tour dollars and board for eight hours and on May i wiI get five dollars a day and board for the regulation eight hour work day.
 It is no wonder that so many businessmen in Nome are putting on the lamentation pedal on their trade organs about business being dull this season. The men who contri- buted to Nome's productive capacity were the same men who day in and day out sought to better labor con- ditions in the mines. and who foI this found that many employers did not want them at any price, and local men Of business aided and abetted this black listing by going out of their way to support scab camps and by sending out help to them from among those whom they knew were in such a hapless condl- tion as that they wanted the job regardless of the pay and who did not belong and had no intention Of belonging to organized labor. They made it their business to supply .chechaco uou-union or sour dough saab labor with jobs so that the ef- forts of the union mon to improve wage conditions and general condl- lions of labor might be futile.
 This resulted in many workers having to leave Nome. Not that they left much. The best they left was a poor job and their blankets went with them. These men went to work in such camps as Dime and by their own efforts opened up that country.
 The hardships of that life were preferred to intolerable associations with scabs and the still more lntol- erable conditions of labor provided by scab herders, and the pity of it is that now that development ot Dime creek is aiding the very men in business here who helped to make Nome what it is today, with payroll that is negligible and with several poor haywire outfits trying 70 get human beings to labor for $40 legal workday in the mines, lower than is being paid the Mex jeans under peonage conditions.