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VOL. 11.
union, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 21, 1017.
NO. H I 17.
SEATTLE, Nov. 20.—Employers
of labor in this staie have for some
iin.e been losing ground both on
the actual field of the economic
conflict end before the bar of pub
lic opinion. Strike alter strike of
the last two years, when investi
gated from whatever source, offici
al and otherwise has revealed them
a,.-, grasping at the augmented war
profits but unwilling to pay em
ployes proportionately to the aug
mented cost of living.
til this predicament a new solu
tion, available because of tlie fever
ishness of war time conditions, lias
been found for their troubles:
Simply to raise the hue and cry
that their di-contented workers
have been inspired by the Kaiser
and have them raided in the name
of patriotism. The lumber work
ers of Western Washington have
been engaged in a struggle to se
cure better camp conditions, in
creases of wages and short r hour.-.
They have won out at every point
before the. Governor, Ernest Lister,
ant. before ihe mediation boatds
that have attempted to settle their
various strikes. But the new
rcherrie of charging them with se
Uitiou. activities has been applied |
to them with tbe result that their •
offices in the Alaska Hotel which I
is headqua:teis for their union of;
ten thousand members lias been |
raided by the agents ol the Federal
Department of Just’ce, aid all their)
membership books and records con
fiscated. So charges had been
filed against them and no arrests
were made. This is the third of a
series of wholesale raid.-i that have
been made without formal charges
and with no arrests being made.
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NEW INDICTMENTS
FOR SEDITION
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SEATTLE, Nov. 20.—The Feder
al Grand Jury fitting for the fall
term of the District Court have
just made public the series of se
cret indictments returned for al
leged seditious activities. These
are against Hulet M. Wells, Samuel
V. Sadler, Moritz and Joe Pas-j.
The first two, Wells and Sadler,
had previously been tried on the
same charges, resulting in a dis
agreement by the jury. Mr. Wells
is an employee of the City Light
Department holding his position by
appointment from the municipal
Civil Service Commission. He was
formerly President of the Central
Labor Council and a candidate for
Mayor. Mr. Sadler is a longshore
man, is a delegate to the Central
Labor Council and a member of the
Board of Control of The Union
Record, the official newspaper of
organized labor. The Pass brothers
have recently been extradited from
the state of New York for alleged
complicity with Wells and Sadler
in the circulation of anti-conscrip
tion literature prior t the enact
ment of the compulsory military
elect service act. Joseph Pass is
and expert machinery salesman and
accountant. Moritz is a young ar
tist and poet of promising ability.
The Pass boys who are believed by
the. authorities to have written the
'No-Conscription” pamphlets are
being held in the Federal Jail at
Tacoma. Washington, in-eommuni
cado and not permitted to see
friend -, relatives or attorneys.
The trials will be held in the Fe
bruary term.
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THE CZAR TO TRY
AGAIN FOR THRONE
PARIS, Nov. 20.—Reports con
firming tlie rumor5 that the Czar
and the Cossack,, are again to at
tempt the domination of Russia
have reached this city. A move
ment alreadj assuming consider
able proportions has been launched
whose definite point objective is to
ro. tore Nicholas Romanoff to the
throne of ali the Russians. The
movement which is believed to have
been designed in Vienna, the capital
of Germany's chief ally, is spread
ing among the Cossacks and has
tha suppor* of the former Czar. It
i,s well known that the German
Kaiser will gladly lend all possible
support lo such a movement as he
fears to have a large and powerful
republic established on his eastern
bolder.
HOME, Nov. 20.—The fate of
Italy is believed to be hanging in
the balance of the fortunes of war
lo be determined by the tremend
ous battles being fought on the
Piavo ri'%r today. The population
of all cities are anxiously awaiting
the outcome of the tremendous
conflicts.
BERLIN, Nov. 20.—The War of
fice here today ha3 isr.ucd a state
ment claiming that the field forces
on the Italian front have captured
the city of Mauro ten milC3 south
of Fellire on the Piave river, two
fortified mountains and to have
captured eleven hundred pri oners.
Vigorous efforts are being made 10
take Mount Looba and Mount Cor
nelia.
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PREPARE FOR WINTER
HEADQUARTERS, AMERICAN
FORCES IN FRANCE, Nov. 20.—
Many units of the American regi
ments here have temporarily ceased
the arduous drilling through which
they are being prepared for active
trench work as planned in the
spring because of preparations
which have begun for the winter.
A part of the preparatory work of
these forces has been the mainten
ance of an actual field trench, long
range artillery lighting and a field
patrol. These continue operations
an;l will not be interfered with by
the plans tor going into winter
qut rters.
PARIS, Nov. 20.—Heavy artil
lery fighting is reported to be in
progress or the Verdun front, ea t
of the Meuse, but the me.igre dis
patches convoy no inform.' tion as
to the details developing.
PARIS, Nov. 20.—The now French
war cabinet which has been in pro
cess of i'ormi .g for several month
is at last perfected. It is known
to have required the greatest press
ure to have persuaded former Pre
mier Clemanccau to accept a port
folio but lie yielde in the end and
is now pro idmg over its sittings.
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izing the advertisers of your paper,
Mr. Miner I
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Nov. 20 —
That strife torn Russia is to find
her new man of the hour in Kale
dine, orCalednicoff, (the spelling is
doubtful in the dispatches) is the
subtance of information reaching
here from sources in Petrograd
heretofore regarded as reliable.
This general who is head of all
Cossack hordes of the river Don is
commander of hundreds of regi
ments of fighters who are a sumed
control of the vital supplies upon
which the city of Petrograd is de
pendent for subsistence. He is in
possession of the national ware
liou es and granaries and also of
the principal supplies of coal and
fuel. Petrograd cannot live a week
if he chooses to witliold the bread
that is in his power and it is
thought that because of his control
of the food the city under what
ever faction cannot hold out very
long against him. His economic
and b'ilitary resources arc now
-imilar to that of the Czar before
tliB Revolution. His legion: . tlio
Cossacks, are the sani ■ fighters who
wore specially favored of the Czar,
enjoying freedom from taxation and
other gratuities, are held in sub
jection to military discipline simi
larly to the vas alage of the feudal
system. In fact the Cossack divi
sions arc still feudal in character.
The State Department continues in
a state of expectancy ever the Rus
sian troubles.
HINDU SUBJECTS DF
ENGLAND TO REBEL
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20.—
That the United States Government
is re olved that nowhere in its do
minion will the efforts of Hundus
or other subjects of England he
permitted to plan rebellion or to
carry on revolution, ry activities
with a view of ridding themselves
of the yoke of the British Em
pire, as we ourselves once did, was
made plain here today when forty
two defendants', charged under the
laws of this country with foment
ing a revolution in India against
the British rule of that country,
were brought to trial in the United
States Federal District court here
this morning.
Various Hindu and Ea t Indian
revolutionaries, scholars and doc
tors, were arrested in this state
prior to the beginning of the pre
sent war, for activities looking to
the establishment of a Young India
along the i;ne,s of ether modern re
publics and that the present move
ment has any connections bearing
upon this country's parUcipatlon
iii tlie European war is vigorously
denied.
Nevertheless tlie Federal author
ities have -eon fit to include in the
arrests many American sympa
thizers with the Hindu revolution
ary efforts together witii several
residents of this city who are of
German or Austrian origin The
trial of the cases promise, to drag
; out for several weeks end over
j three hundred witnesses have bee n
summoned.
DEAD LINE ESTABLISHED
FOR THE ALIENS
WASHINGTON, D. C\, Nov. 20 —
By virtue of his pcwer and author
ity as Commander in Chief of the
military and naval forces of the
country, and because of the stale
of war, President Wilson has is
-u<d a proclamation forbidding all
aliens owing allegiance to enemy
I powers to approach within one
j hundred yards of any of the
wharves, warehouses, or negators
in the United States. Efforts have
been made for some weeks to bring
about the removal of enemy aliens
from all points within one hundred
mile.., of the Atlantic sea coast be
cause of the unusual numbers of
fires and explosions of suspicious
origin and, as also appears, many
of these have occurred at inland
point, overt the whole country. The
President’s order i3 designed to re
duce the number of such accidents.
Its effect of course will prevent the
employment of other than Amer
ican citizens or the citizens of
friendly nations in and around such
establishments
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 20.—
Almost contemporaneous with .he
issuance of the President’s procla
mation forbidding the presence of
enemy aliens within one hundred
yards of wharves, warehouses and
elevators comes the news of a ter
rific explosion of over fifty thou
sand pounds of powder in the navy
yard storing at Indian Head, Mary
land. The accident was without
fatality of any kind and its cause
is not officially known.
EL PASO, Texas, Nov. 20.—For
the last several days Villatista
soldiers have been taking battle po
sitions on all 'ides of the cities of
Juarez and Chihuahua preparatory
to what is believed to be an ellort
to capture these two cities though
no attacks have so far been made.
The residents of these places recall
ing former experiences with Villa
do not expect that H' their cities
jure taking that the rebel leader
'will attempt their permanent occu
pation a,; he is not known *o at
tempt the • d Tense of a cultured
city, contenting himself with rest
ing and recuperating his forces, and
then departing for other conquests.
Several troops of Yillalistas are.
known to have swept the Mexican
side of the Rio Grande river west
ward for c-everal miles. They en
gaged tne Mexican constitutionalist
forces in a furious battle and de
feated them chasing them for
miles out on the Mexican plains.
They captured and occupied the
town of Vade Picdra, all armed op
position fleeing before them.
One notable difference is bei ig
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observed in the movement of the
Villa troops in contrast v.ltl:
remarkable adventurers forn.ci
practice in that several separate
bauds of then, appear to be operat
ing with little or no relation to
oath other and at widely different,
points.
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