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VOLUME 85. NO. 50. NOME, ALASKA. MONDAY, JULY 16, 1934. , I*»f Copy: lO cnt*.
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ENGLISH RACER IS CONVICTED MANSUUHTER
GENERAL STBI ““‘6 OVER STATES
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VIOLENCE BREAKS
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STRIKE IS CALLED
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GBNKRAL LABOR UNIONS
8TRIKK NOW IN NFFKCT
ON COAST AND IN HAST
PORTAiNl), July 16, A serious
and emphatic plea for a settle
ment of the longshoremen’s strike
was made here Sunday by Gen
eral Hugh S. Johnson, administra
tor of the National Recovery Ad
ministration, who was here to ad
.dress the Pacific Coast Advertising
Men’s Club.
"Why this situation should last
twenty-four hours longer is be
yond my comprehension,” Johnson
said, after declaring that the par
ties Involved should sit down at a
table and thresh things out.
Johnson said: "Strikes are like
wars; they are a necessary $vil,
but like wars they never get any
thing for anybody unless it was
blod shed and black eyes.”
He attrlblted the long strike to
the fact that the shipping Indus
try has no code; adding “Hence
labor does not have th® benefit of
Section 7-A. That section guar
antees teh right of men to organ
ize and insures the right of col
lective bargaining.”
Johnaon flew here from Salt
Lake City. He intends to go to
Francisco next, hut has not j
y«t decided how soon. He is on
* speaking tour of the West in the
Interests of tie National Recovery
Administration.
SAiN FRiANO»CO, July 15, The
President’s Mediation Board was
helpless tonight, to avert a mass
strike of union workers. Charged
with settling the dock and ship
ping workers strike which started
May 9th, the Board sought des
perately to obtain^ the sanction of
28,000 longshoremen and seamen
to arbitration under the auapiced
of the Board. Longshoremen aga'n
will l>e asked to vote by secret bal
lot on whether or not they are
willing to submit all their issues
to arbitration. The stumbling'
blofck of the entire strike situa
tion lias been tlial longshoremen
refuse to arbitrate unless employ
ers first agree to union control
and operation of hiring hails. The
single hiring hall issue is tanta
mount to union demand for a
closed shop stands in the way of
a truce which would send approxi
mately 60 -unions back to. the!*1
jobs.
If employers -grant the hiring
hall to longshoremen, they will re
turn to work and arbitrate their
demands for higher wages and
shorter hours. If the longshore*
men return to work so will the
seamen and all the other unions
which struck In sympathy with-it,
it was generaly asserted. The aba
men. who also want hiring halls of
thfilf own, will he asked to take
two votes. One will be to select
accredited representatives to deal
with employers and the Board.
The.other will he to determine
jrhether or not they are willing to
arbitrate all issues, including the
hiring of halls.
The Labor Board frankly admit
ted the sltwation is out of hand.
For weeks It haB tried without
success to bring employers and
employees together on a common
ground Voting in the union will
take more time, and there is no
assurance that the longshoremen
will abandon their hiring halls de
mand. Equally, there was no in
dication that shippers would yield
on that question.
It being Sunday, full force of the
situation was not felt. But there
were prospects that Monday would
be a strange day in San Francisco
life. Approximately sixty of the
a
hundred and seventy-seven nniona
in the city will bp on strike by 8
o'clock Monday morning. The city,
may be without motion picture
shows, for musicians and projec
tionists both plan to strike. Lack
jof transportation will make It
Impossible for the workers to
reach their places 'of employing.
Transportation facilities are now
only -twenty-five per“"cent - of nor
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mal in the city. Little has been
done in the wav of active plans
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!for ‘combatting the strike. There
was more of an inclination to
wards a passive attitude. Shops
which ran out of stocks were com
plaisantly closing while their own
ers went to the country for a va
cation.
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LUMBER FOR HALF—Reasonable
Prices. Inquire ut the Surprise
Store.
MARK FLIGHT TO ST.
LAYyRKjyCK ISLAND but
FOG 1‘RKVKNTS LANDING
Pilot Vic Ross of the Northern
Air Transport, in the Bellanca
pontoon plane. made a flight to
St. Lawrence Island Sunday, but
due to fog conditions was unable
to land there. In fact, the toe
so completely envelioped the island
it was impossible to see It.
As passengers in the plane were
jOtto W. Geist, Carl M. Franklin,
jhflgs Mary Mika mi, Wilbert Lane,
and W. A. Oliver. The purpose
of the flight was to land some of
thP Geist expedition on the island,
i where they intend doing exten
sive archaelogical work. The en
tire flight consumed about two
hours and twenty-five minutes,
l>0th going and returning.
This is the first commefcial
‘^flight ever made to St. Lawrence
iffctatTd. The weather was Ideal on
|leaving Nome, but when the plane
: neared the vicinity of St. Law
rence Island, fog conditions be
jcame more evident constantly.
IFlglng only ^bout fifty feet above
the le^el of Bering Sea. no sign
iof the island could be seen. The
; plane went up to about three or
■four thousand feet but still no:
iholes in the fog surrounding the !
itsland could be found. Finally, ft !
i wait decided, in view of the ad- I
verse conditions, that the only al
ternative was to , return to Nonf*.
The plane returned to Nome safely
and landed-»its passengers on the
field here.
MAN BAYONETED
SAN FRANCISCO -
WATERFRONT'
PC HEIIKK VIOLENCE IN
COAST STRIKE EMPHASIZES
EXTENT WHICH STRIKE
NOW DEVELOPED
(By The Associate I Press)
UNDATED, July 16, A man was
bayoneted In San Francisco ny
National Guardsmen today, and
may die as the result of the
wound, as the general strike, in
tended to paralyze the entire mer
ropolttan area of one million three
hundred thousand persons, began
at 8 a.m. this morning.
Plans are being pushed that all
po^lble unions shall participate
In the general strike.
In Portland, Oregon, three ne
groes were killed and three others
wounded. A white man was shot
at Houston, Texas, where long
shoremen and employers are in
trouble over the strike.
General Strike in South'
A general strike In t!he Alabama
cotton industry was proposed to
day by forty-two locals. A truck
drivers’ strike In Minneapolis is
set for tonight.
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| Hat Factories Open
Five hat factories are open to
Iday in Dandury, Connecticut, fol
lowing the settlement of a strike
| by twelve hundred workers who
demanded the right of collective 1
bargaining and a shorter week.
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'KOHLaEK, Wisconsin, July 16,
A general strike In a model Indus- ^
trial plant has been called here.
UNDATED, July 16, The food 1
'situation in the San Francisco
area wag estimated over the week-,
end as follows:
There is little fresh meat, and
that supply Is becoming exhaust
ed rapidly. Hundred* of free- 1
tanranta have already been forced
to close, and others will have to
close soon.
I One relief station is feeding
{hundreds of people dally and Is
now In a position where only beans
can be served.
Sunday, the food stocks in most
of the grocery stores were near
IS CONVICTED OF
MANSLAUGHTER
OF MECHANIC
*>4YN DON CONVICTKl) Ofc’
Mil NHliA rOHTKR
(By The Associated Tress)
lX>U(«LAi5, Isle or Man. July 16.
Kaye I>on, noted auto racer, wts
today sentenced to four months
imprisonment after conviction no
a manslaughter charge, concern
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iug the death of his mechanic in
an auto race May 28th.
■Notice of appeal was tiled imme
diately. The prosecutor charged
that I>on. failed to slacken speed
when rounding a dangerous curve
and consequently cracked up. kill
ing Francis Taylor, the mechanic
in the car with him.
ARMENIANS ARE CONVICTED
SI,A VINO ARCHBISHOP
(Hy The Associated Press)
NSW YORK, .Inly 14. Vine Ar
'‘V.st
menians were convicted today of i
the butcher-knife slaving of Arch-j
bishop Leon Trouian in the Holy
Cross Armenian Church on Christ
inas day. Two convictions car
ried the death penalty, and the
others were convicted of man
slaughter and will be sentenced to
from ten years to life imprison
ment.
-VO FI HTHKR WORD OK
RORItV CONNOR
(By The Associated Press)
HAKSDALK. July 10. Bobby
Conor is still missing and no clues
as to where lie may lie have been
unearthed. ..
PRES. ROOSEVELT 2
— ATTEMPTING GET
LOWER POWER
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WASHINGTON, July 16, Preai
lent Roosevelt moved tonight to
>btain cheaper electric power lor
• very person In the United States
and simultaneously ujurt filed big
lower companies that their rate*
were going to he equalized under
lew Federal power regulations.
Vhjle Mr. Rosevelt was enroute to
Hawaii the White House made
»ublic an executive letter ceratlng
i "National Power Policy Commlt
ee,” headed by Secretary of the
Interior Harold L.. Ickes, which
laid: ‘The committee's duty will
>e to develop a plan for closer
■o-operatlon ot the several factors
our e*®<’trJ<:»l power supply,
joth public and private, whereby
he National policy In power mat*
tors may be unified and electricity
lie made more generally available
at cheaper rates to industry, to do
mestic, and more particularly to
agricultural consumers. e
UOfvDON, July 15, Danger of
un unpereedented naval race In
volving the United States flaged
again today when It became
known that preliminary naval con
versations had broken down and
the American delegation Is leav
ing for Washington.
A deadlock In the talks, pre
liminary to ■ the proposed world
naval conference In 1935, resulted
in the decision to suspend nego
tiations. The talks may be re
sumed In October.
depletion. Milk and bread is ex
pected to be delivered as usual, al
though there is a possibility of a
stoppage of bakery deliveries pend
ing.
'Butter, eggs, and sugar are real
low, and are being limited to
each customer. Rigbteen restaur
ants designated by the strikers
are stlU remaining open so that
the downtown dwellers will not
Btarve. All others hare closed
their doors are planning on do
ing 8o by this evening.