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VOL,. 11.
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1017.
NO.
STRIKE WILL
SETTLED LIKELY TODAY
SEATTLE July 29.—While the
settlement of the ear strike is still
said to be imminent, both sides are
ready to continue the struggle, with
the company still ready with its
strikebreakers and the men not voi
nnteering to return pending proper
guarantees. In the meantime an
apparent amistice exists with no
street cars running and the con
veyances of every description cater
ing effectively to the public need.
The jitney is proving the friend of
citizen and striker alike, and if any
! force can bring the company to time
it is the operation ol' these inde
pendent concerns.
The conferences still continue and
the details of the settlement are
being worked out and it is possible
tomorrow may see. all the strikers
back at work with the entire diffi
culties laid before a board of arbi
tration.
Sentiment has been against the
company from the start and there
has been a determined effort to
make the most of the situation in
favor of the men.
In addition another feature in
terjected into the struggle has been
the activity of the municipal owner
ship men who claim that no such
stoppage of the system would be
possible under any such an owner
ship as is now witnessed in the au
tocratic methods of what is called
"a foreign corporation”. This agita
tion is guite evidently distressing
the traction interests more than
they are prepared to admit. It is
still growing.
SLAY ARMY IS
UNDER DISCIPLINE
PETROGR.AD. July 29.—The re-,
ports from Galicia today indicate
that gradually the government is
restoring discipline throughout the
army with the regiments which led
the mutinying being disciplined
rigorously by the army heads. The
Teuton forces are still advancing,
hut they are now meeting with de
termined opposition which will pre
vent any wholesale drive being car
ried out.
The Russian losses while the fatal
panic lasted were considerable and
the capture of supplies, munitions
and guns by the Germans and Aus
trians is admitted.
The campaign of demoralization
which unquestioned spies have car
ried on in the ranks of the Russian
troops is now properly appraised by
the Slavs themselves in the ruinous
and fateful conesuqences that fol
lowed.
The work of the whole earlier
campaigns has been lost; the terri
tory over run includes a consider
able portion that was wrested from
the Teutons after considerable fight
ing in Galicia in 1916 and includes
Tarnopol, Stanislau, Kolomea and
other strongholds that meant me h
to the Slavs.
Reports coming rrom other sec- 1
tions all show that the Russians
are lighting brilliantly and in Ru
mania especially they have made
substantial gains.
The loyal regiments themselves
destroyed wholesale their own com
rades who mutinied In one case
sweeping thousands out of existence
as they tied the Held.
Now is tne time to Bubscrlhe.
AMERICANS HAD AN
UNEVENTFUL TRIP
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, July
29.—The most recent arrival of an
American detachment is admitted
to have been accomplished without
any trouble and with no exciting ex
perience, probably owing to the
strength of the convoy. The ships
were adequately protected all the
way and the scouting fleet that con
voyed the transports saw no signs
of any hostile submarines within
dangerous distance. Several peri
scopes were reported, but the de
stroyers could not detect them when
they turned attention to them. If
they were submarines they sub
MAKY WINTER AT DREAM.
Tonight the prettiest young actress
now in the movies Mary Miles
Winter appears as the heroine in
“Always In The Way”. This five
part drama produced by the popular
Metro Studio, gives this clever
young actress a rare opportunity to
show her wonderful ability. Today
Miss Winter is playing to packed
houses in the States.
|\ CITY BATH HOUSE
j 'T has the largest
plf1 and only 6 feet
1 Bath Tubs In None. ^
merged.
The new arrivals will join their
comrades of the first expeditionary
force of which they will he a part
when assigned a position on the
west front, in the American head
quarters just behind the lines and
within earshot of the heavy and
lighter guns. The men will be put
through a through trench training
before they are assigned positions.
French troops are freely mixed
with the American soldiers and
there is a good deal of fraternizing
both in the work of the camp and
in the. play of the men during their
leisure time.
They have been very well received
at all points, not to say enthusiasti
cally but it is safe to say that ihe
men are delighted to be at the front
and will be glad to take up their re
gular position. Furl her detachments
probably will later arrive.
CHICAGO, July 27.—The switch-/
men may extend their strike to other!
sections which would seriously affect!
the moveemnt of freight. All .'.eight |
from this city is seriously delayed
and much that was to have been
shipped by rail is now being tran
shipped into Lake bottoms and is
being shipped by water especially |
to eastern terminal points.
The switchmen are asking for in
creased pay and tl e closed sbu 1
with definite agreements regarding
over time.
The Brotherhood of railroad
switchmen is not acting in consort
with the other brotherhoods, being
alone of all the railroad employees
in the operating department affiliat
ed with the American Federation
of Labor.
There is a prospect of the strike
being settled by arbitration at the
instance of the government. The
delay in the handling of freight is
exasperating many industrial con
cerns, especially when the car short
age is the source of general com
plaint throughout business interests
in (lie east and west.
Jt is believed that pending win
ning out in arbitration, the switch
men are likely to receive such con
cessions as will enable them to re
turn to work.
The railroad companies have been
using trainmen to perform most of
tile work while the switchmen ero
on strikt and the trainmen do not
take kindly to these imposed tasks.
Let "" estimate on /onr Job Wortt
LONDON, July 29.—With the
firilish hoKling all their gains made
up to the close of the week in the
Flanders sector, Field Marshal Haig
reports that raids only have su< -
ceded the active offensive. There
is ground for congratulation that
these extensive gains made followed
t heavy German offensive all being
laken in the heavy come hack of the
Mlied forces.
LONDON, July 29.—The Paris
['ommunique this evening lists an
other seiies of heavy attacks by the
Crown Prince's army in tin' Cham
pagne sector. They were as before
all repulsed. It is believed that tin
Germans are making these attacks
to ward off attention from their con
I tinned big accumulation of men and
| guns in the Meuse sector where
only occasional bombardments are
reported from.
LONDON, July 29.- The news
eoming out of the Admiralty indi
cates that the Germans are inclined
to let up on their submarine activi
ties, without doubt with the inten
(ion of throwing the patrol boats
off their guard.
The announcement is made that
of the munition material and food
supplies sent into Great Britain
from other countries, only 4.9 was
sunk in the past month compared
with C.56 per cent reported in the
month previously while the tonnage
sent to the bottom has decreased
some fiftyeight per cent. This con
dition is reassuring, but the papers
insist that the vigilance of the pa
trol fleet must not be relaxed.
DEMOCRACY’S DEMAND IS
NOW SWEEPING GERMANY
BERLIN, (via London), July ?.$.
—Agitation for immediate liberali
zation of Germany is growlrg daily.
Even newspapers of heretofore
strongly conservative tendencies are
urging reforms. A number of lead
ers of German thought, heretofore
reactionary, apparently new favor
greater reform.
Such newspapers as the Yorwarts,
(he Socialist organ; the Tageblatt
and the Vossisehe are pointing the
BRITISH STRATEGIST EXPLAINS
WHY ADVANCES ARE HALTED
LONDON, July 27.—“Why is it
after British forces have broken the
German lines, as at Bullecourt, Mes
sines or Vimy Itidge, they dont push
on through?”
One of England’s foremost stra
tegists was asked this question to
day. Here is his answer:
“The whole process of this year is
a matter of lines of communication.
The reason the British offensive
seems to nibble a bit of the Hinden
burg lino in the north and then
strike a few days later far to the
south, is the vital necessity of estab
lishing communicating lines anil of
consolidating positions.
When the British move forward
after a terrific artillery preparation
which has left little of the enemy
trenches but powder and corpses,
they don’t find many Germans there
—not live ones at least. The Ger
mans know a day or so in advance
when a big push is coming. They
can’t help it. They fall back to
their reserve lines in the rear, and
consolidate their guns and men,
ready for a counter attack.
The way to atop this counterattack
and hold the advantage we have
won is to rush up our heavy guns
and be ready to cut them to pieces
when they try to ‘come back’.
I have seen 45 miles of railway
laid in three days. Our engineers
at the front work night and day.”
Anything In the litre or Job work
at the Industrial Worker Office
Satisfaction assured.
way. But most significant was the
statement issued today by the hi
storian, Prof. Otto Huntze, He said:
"We Prussians cannot stand alone
in the midst of Germany, of Europe
and of the whole world and resist
liberalization. We are threatened
with dangerous isolation from the
world’s people.”
The greatest importance was at
tached to Prof. Huntze’s declara
tions, since he has heretofore never
given evidence of any liberal tend
encies.
The constitution committee had
been authorized to make recommen
dations by the kaiser himself. Its
suggestions, as announced, were:
To make the imperial chancellor
directly responsible to the Reichstag
as well as to the emperor.
Redistricting cl Germany, so that
the Reichstag may be more repre
sentative.
After having made the sweeping
recommendation as to the chan
cellor, the committee proceeded to
vitiate all the relorm nature of this
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suggestion by declining to give the
Reichstag any power over removal
of the chancellor. In other words,
they recommended the Reichstag
hold the chancellor responsible, but
did not suggest that the Reichstag
have any power of backing up its
authority.
The constitution committee,
headed by the pro-government So
cialist leader, Scheidetr.ann, is domi
nated by pro-government forces;
that is, by the chancellor and the
autocratic German machine. The
committee is to hold further ses
sions.
ATTENTION’ MOOSE.
All members and visitors from
other lodges are requested to bo
present at the meeting tonight.
NORVIN, W. LEWIS,
Dictator.
J. P. JONES, Sec’y.
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