The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-09-12
UNCENSORED STUFF.

There is some wight in Seward, Alaska, who evidently in an inspired moment took his pen in hand to write some special correspondence to the New York World.
 He may have lots to sell, or it may be he has some of those mag niicent prairie farms that are to make Alaska Agricultural industry the greatest in the world.
 We don't know; but evidently his remarks were uncensored by any conscientious scruples as to the truth.
 We are told, for example, that wages in the interior of Alaska were rising to unprecedented figures and that the employers of Fair banks were bidding against one another for the limited labor sup ply, and in consequence It is stated as much as twelve dollars day had been paid ordinary pick and and shovel laborerst
 Although there are a number of id lers in Seward, white Collared and speculatlvely minded gentlemen, not given to abuse their muscles with physical culture such as is gotten from active service with a Number Two. we venture to say that should any of those clam eat CTS discover that twelve dollars a day were offered their services they would speedily cease writing "spe- cial correspondence to the World and hasten to the Tanana to beguile the feeting hour 7, with pick and shovel at the rate of twelve dollars a day
 How 1t comes that any normally minded man will write such stun as that to any paper with the quite evident intention of exciting to Seward or Fairbanks an Overplus of men one cannot reasonably eX- plain. Yet we suppose in the hope of attracting pick and shovel men who are to be misled by such a fanfare of nonsense, the owners of empty bunkhouses will conspire to say almost anything for the pur- pose.
 It is dollars to doughnuts that the wight. who dispatched this statement where under q date line of June 19 and inserted in the World of July 29, this year, and under a heading labelled "Interior Alaskt Suffers Shortage of Labor CTS" it is declared that ordinary pick and shovel workers have beon paid twelve dollars a day, thought that in thus reporting conditions he was performing a meritorious act and his patriotic chest swelled all over the performance.
 As everyone knows it is lot or burcombe. Men in the interior are working for hundred dollars month and less on government work, and the only reason there Is (. shortage in the Panama is because SO many of the miners there were in fRhe past paid off with worthless time checks at the rate of five dol lars a day that never matarialized, the miners who are able pay that same wage now, find that they cannot get men.
 The ,highest wages paid the aver age worker in any section of Alaska is the Marshal scale of six dollars a dcy for eight hours: thero ss no shortage there and there is no. likely to be There are hund- reds of men have arrived in Nome sirce navigation opened who left interior camps because they could not get five dollars day and be sure of their money.
 It was expected that during war time. the effort to bunco worklns man bv writing fake articles as to the opportunities in Alaska would be stopped. Publicity has already bcen given to the real facts, and there is little chance in getting by with this sort of bull in Puget sound camp. They know better. But the Ghrewd penman wisely enough sets his traps far afeld and hopes to catch the suckers in the east by these statements in the