The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-03-15

perity.
 1 It is great to develop a. country's wealth. It is great for this as well
 sas other cities to have abfg pay
 roll. It is great for the throngs of busy workers to infe.st the shipyards ] and the workshops of the industrial plants. the mines, the mills and the ! smelters Great indeed for all those | who live off labor. But how about Iabor?" How about labor that tolls
 lomg weary hours, driven by the fear | wealth which it may not touch and | may not enjoy.
 There is nothing great about that,
 fer any but the parasitic profit mon- gers.
 There is no properity, no matter | what people say. in such a condition.
 Because the shareholders of a company enjoys mighty and regular dividends,
 that is no guarantee that prosperity follows the earning of the dividends. All dividends come alike to the owner whether the slave labor of a rubber plantation, the peon labor of Mexico, the compound labor of an African or dividends from any other source. To shareholder there is no such 1 thing as tainted money. Alaska to be | really prosperous must have a pros porous people.
 Alaska's prosperity does not depend upon it's providing fat and regular div idends for stockholders in New York, Chicago, St Louis, Boston, London CT
 Paris. Alasl1a's prosperity begins with it's own people. Begins upon a pros porous community of workers. It is built uon that. Alaska's prosperity any more than the proseprity of any country does not depend upon long, houred working days and overworked exhausted workers. The shorter the work day, the better the wages, the DGIlel VIII DS lHe But if labor produces nothing for itself and everything for some one
 else, neither labor nor the country is going to be prosperous.
 The real prosperity of the country is
 to be measured in the return which is made to labor of the THINGS that are LABOR'S. Alaska has matchless resources. LABOR is the kING-PIN.
 without LABOR, Alaska has nothing And if Labor insists upon having nothing, and allows itself to be peon-
 ized in drudgery. it is goodbye Alas
 la's real we'll being.
 Labor must look out for itself La
 bor must also see that representatives
 of the Gug's, the Morgans and a similar
 class of financial vultures don't pur- suadc the government from operating
 the South Eastern COAL fields. These human buzzards realize that
 they can come very near getting al-
 most anything they want. WHY?
 Because LABOR will not look after itself.
 It is afraid to call it's body or its soul it's own when the boss recognizes
 neither the one or the other.
 LABOR talks about the eight hours and wonders why the eight hour law
 is often violated, but LABOR has so
 far failed to realize that until the work
 CTS are thoroughly organized, the eight hour law like many of the other so called laws will continue to be violated.
 or even set aside as being unconstitu- l tional.
 LABOR often expects politicians to
 do what LABOR won't do itself, It is a joke. but a tragic jest. LABOR thinks the work and the
 effort to better itself so onerous and | packs 1t on the back of a rrofe Ssional l politician who is no sooner bei:ini a | corner than he dumps it and loads up 1 | uurrmy, air inflated bag, full of
 wind Bags of wind are light and pack | ed without effort.
 "So get next MIR WAGE SLAVE"