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Published Weekly In The Interest Of The Wording-Cl
NO. 49.
FAIRBANKS. ALASKA, April 24,
Vol. 1
PEACE
By John M. WorK.
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1 Did you think I was jok
ing when I'said that there is
• a horrible peace £oing on in
the United States.'
Well I wasn’t.
Not on you? life.
If the European’ war has
anything ir.ofe horrible to
^show than rh^se horrors of
imee in the United States,
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[I want to know it.
Ye$ vye Socialists have not
raised ‘an insurecition In the
United Slates. We continue
to pay our taxes and't# other
wise submit to be governed
by the government.
Tills being 'the case, we
liyfe'ln a glass house, and we
af-’e not in a positibnto throw
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atones at tho German or the
French eojnrades
I refuse £6 condemn them
for acts which dknnot by any
stretch;of ftid'ifctfag’ifiation be
considered worsdthah ours.
I refuse to al’ov/ ahyoni to
staftJptfd^ihe* Into -parting
with-thy senses atfd passing
an untimely judgement ujbon
my German or French com
rades' 11T say German or
French, because both Qerma
ny and France,as welPas the
other b'/liigerent countries,
are in the war for selfish,
commercial reasons. If thfc
German comrades are culpa-,
tile, then the French 'Bm
rades are also culpable.
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The writer niithsr patronizes
nor beleives in the excellency of
the mail order house, but in the
interest of labor Ve 'give the fol
lowing ficts.
The two mail order houses com
manding the largest patronage
*are: Sears,'Bcebuch and Compa
ny and Montgome^', Ward and
Company.
*' Both of these houses are noto
rious enemies of Union Labor
and Socialism.
Yet til3 money of tens of thous
atids of Social sti and Union La
bor men'goes to swell their divi
dends.
There is in Chicago, a co-ope
rative mail order concern, The
Universal Trading and Supply
Uompanj', which is controlled by
L^ior and Farmers’ organiza
tiWs.
This concern has existed for
nine years and is or. a sound fi
-W* >n
[nanciBT'Wsis,
^ Its prices are as low or lower
than the prices of Hears, Roe
buck and‘Company, a’a they uo
not attempt to *W large, divi
dends,
' They pay living wages, and
wherever possible handle union
made goods.
Dnncan McDonald, for many
years, and at present an active
member of the Socialist Party,
and Secretary-Treasurer of 'the
United Mine Workers of Illinois,
is on the board of directors.
The concern has' the hearty
support of John H. Walker, Pres
ident of the Illinois Federation
of Labor and a member of the
Socialist Party.
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The Universal Trading ar.d Sup
ply Company has made an agree
ment with the National Office of
the Socialist Tarty, under which
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agreement, the Socialist Party
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WHO 0OT THE
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Some little time back a hunter
was arrested by one of the same
wardens in the vicinity of Chena,
for having in his possession ille
gally slaughtered mountain sheep
and moose. This man was lodged
in jail and eventually the court
matfe him pay $.60. for his indis
cretion.
So far, sc good. But ever since
the disposal of the case the man
convicted has been emitting a
large-sized howl, and if he tells
the truth he as well as the com
munity have a hcwl coming.
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This man asserts that the
meat taken from him was sold to
tho Marshal and used to feed <
him while he was incarcerated,
but that his dogs got nothing to
eat, as he puts it, he was charg
ed $60. for the privilege of eat
ing meat which he himself had
phot. Now whp gpt thp money
is to receive a minimum commis
sion of 5 per cent on all orders
for goods rec$jve4 through the
National Office.
This means that you must send
your orders directly to the the
National QfSe6 oi- the Socialist
Patty; 80*3*' W, ’ jladison' Street
Chicago
‘ft you must order a suit of
clothes from'ont of these 'piail
order houses,'cut out the spab
outfits and get' a union mape
suit'.
The National Office sells $20,
0C0 worth of literature yearly,
and they should he able to sell
$100,000 of necessities which
would mean §5,000 a year to de
vote to propagation work.
for this game? Did the Marshal
sell the seized meat to himself?
or did the government use that
to which it was the only one that
that had a clear title. “Sold"
would convey the idea of value
received for it.The pubic are en
titled to know who bought and
who : eld what we have always
been under the evidently erro
neous unpression was destroyed.
Give the workers less psycho
ogy and mo e hog and hominy.
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lie who votes with a capitalist
party fights in the ranks of the
enemy cf his class.
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There is no morality possible
under a system that exploits the
producers for the benefit pf the
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UNCLE
Mines Coal
We consider the fcjiowing
that wm; published some"’months
ago woj*th repeating.
The coal mine that the govern
ment mines i$ located a few
miles frpm Williston, North Da
kota. It is operated in connection j
withi the' reclamation service of j
the government, supplying the j
power house of the' cincern and (
ali other public demands for fuel
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in the work. The workings are
about 100 feet deep, the main en
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trance being from the side of a
hill, 2,000 feet in length six feet
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high and six feet wide. From;
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12 to J5 men are employed. The
mine is carefully drained and
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kept dry, while good air 13 sup-.
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plied by ventilating shafts. The.
outppt is about 100 ton3 a day,.
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and pay ranges from 60 to 80
cents per ton.
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Teamsters and laborers on the
track are paid from ?i.75 to J
a day. It maintains a mess at(
which a good meal is served for
25 cents. Every precaution is ta
ken and th.9. e has been not a sin
gle accident.
j_The cost per ton of the coal,
after paying all operating expon I
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ses, averages $1.78. Sleeping
quarters are furnished to the
miners free, and this includes
hot and cold baths with individu
al lockers.
Mr. Wickersham does not be
lieve in the government gping
into the coal business.
I do not advocate raising
an insurrection in the Um
t§d,'State:s ‘ a ”
'eBut H. do say that jf the Ger
man and 'Trem n comrades
bre blarflable lor not raising
an insurrection in their coun
tjries, then 'we are equally b’a
mable for not raising an in
surrection in this country.
For the conditions are equal
ly bad'here as they are there
In some respects, they are even
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worse.
The German and French com
rades could not'Have opposed the
war witlhany effect without rai
sing insurrections. If they had
merely refused to fight, the war
wpuld have gone oh as if nothing
had happened, TJie only way ir
which * ‘they could really have
done'something to prevent their
respective nations from going to
war'would have tieen to'raise in
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surrectiops. This would have gi
ven IVeso nations some fighting
to'do at'home, thus making fl
difficult for the time being, for
them to engage in war with oth
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e>- nations.
But,' is each nation the Social
j.f j • * '■ f t
ists are in a minority. Only a mi
nority of the voters were voting
the Socialist tk -et. And on'y a
fraction of those who voted tiii
Socialist ticket could be depen^
ded upon in an emei gency. There
fore, to have raised an insurrec
tion would have beer to invite ex
i, .it \ w '* 1 ' 4
termination
It may bo debalab ? as to v he
ther they took the right course
or not. May^e they should have
refused'to'figh- Or, maybe they
should have raised insurrections.
It remains to be seen. But I con
tend that it is at least probable
that the course they took was
the most wise and sensible oik
to take under the circumstances,
jl contend that the course they
took was thfe one vy'hlch will give
the Socialists the greatest influ
ence in the peace negotiations
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