Tshe Bnilg Name Industrial Ænrker
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VOL. 11
NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1917.
NO. 2401.
HELLO GIRLS WALK OUT ON COAST
ALL COAST STATES
SEATTLE. Nov. There is no
telehpone service in Seattle toilay
or in any other ot the cities of
Washington, . regon and California.
The long expectea Mrike became
an actuality tol.'.v -vhen the epe
rators and linemen of all lytteioc
left their job-. The i‘iui!<c coin
l>«cny is undertaking to give a de
sultory service to business houses
and officials.
The company officials are them
selves scabling on the girls, operat
ing switchboards and a few strike
breaking operators have been en
gaged, but no line work whatev.r
is being attempted. The cessation
of the service is complete as to the
65,000 residential subscribers in
Seattle a.one and has come after
several months of negotiations be
tween the companies and their em
ployes. The walkout had been
scheduled to take place two weeks
ago but was voluntarily set forward
by the strikers in order to offer no
obstacle to the campaign for the
second liberty loan. The service in
Settle wa._- discontinued precisely
at midnight et a t:mc when the
wires are least in use. The strikers
on their hand are prepared for a
long seige and it is stated that ccsJ
sation of the service will
continue until the com
panies accede to the strikers de
mauds. The Central Labor Council
under whose auspices the operators
were organized is actively suporting
th^m and will call a general strike
of all trades if recessary to win.
ANOTHER MINISTER
MOBBED ILLIONOIS
CARMI, 111., Nov. 1.—A few
niinute^ after the conclusion of the
religious services here last night
the Reverend Samuel Sibert, Pastor
of the Chureh of the Apostles,
was brutally assaulted and beaten
almost into insensibility. Mr. Si
bert had said in the course of hfc?
sermon that it is un-christir.n to
rtgl.t and exhorted hearers against
■wars and the makers of w«rs. The
x attacking party were members of
the new organization which Is pat
ter ted after the old war time so
cicty known as the .Kluklux kl.in
who are sworn to annihilate all pa
cifiicicts. All members of this
party were masked and hooded as
were the southerners during the
reconstruction dayH and whose ope
rations were then directed against
the carpet bag elements of the
federal appointees from Washing
ton during that memorable period.
The new organization with its sin
ister purpose of mobbing, beating
and even hanging already holds por
tions of Indiana. Illinois, Ohio and
Kentucky in a reign of terror. It
is known to liave oeen members of
this lawless organization who on
last morday had abducted and beat
on the eminent publicist and min
ister Herbert S. Bigelow with a
blgck snake having first stripped
him naked in the woods near Cov
ington Kentucky.
Clothing cleaned, pressed, altered
and repaired at the Nome Tailoring
Co., .next door to Segerstrom and
Hagen’s.
AMERICAN TRANSPORT IS
TORPEDOED DY GERMAN SUR.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 1.—
Secretary Josephua Daniels of the
Navy Department gave out official
statement today to the effect that
the American troop trail-port Fin
land had been torpedoed by a Ger
man submarine on her return jour
ney from the French coast where
she had successfully landed a large
contingent of American soldiers.
The ship was only slightly dam
aged by the enemy torpedoe and no
mention is made of any casualties
to her crew. So far it appears the
German submarine activities have
in no wise interfered with the for
warding of treops to France. How
ever all information regarding the
movements of American troops has
at all times been most carefully
guarded being witlield even from
American officials.
The Department of the Treasury
today extendede the credit of Great
Britain for four hundred and thirty
five million dollars by far the larg
est advance so far made to any of
the allied powers.
AN ATLANTIC PORT, Nov. 1.—
A high British Naval official,
whose name i.^ witlield, reported on
arival hero today that no less than
five German submarines are being
captured or destroyed every week
by the combined American and
British naval operations on the
high seas. At this rate It is thought
that the last kick in the German
submarine offensive will be removed
wi‘hin the year and the much
dreaded diver menace will be ended
for good.
LONDON. Nov. 1.—That Germany
h&* lost more submarines, sunk
and captured in the lart three
months than in the whole of last
year is (he statement made by Ged
dcs, First Lord of the British Ad
mit ally in the House of Commons
today and added that re-organization
plans are under way ;o develop the
naval operation along lines of even
greater efficiency in the methods
applied.
CHItlSTIANIA, Nov. 1st.—A new
turn to the international compli
cations besotting the German gov
eminent when the Norwegian gov
ernment forwarded formal commu
nication 10 tHo German ministry
protesting in emphatic terms
agaimt 1he sinking of several Nor
wegian merchant vessels.
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during this sale.
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GRAND JURY TURNS IN
TWENTY THREE TRUE BILLS
SEATTLE, Nov. 1—The Federal
Grand Jury sitting in this city has
just announced the Frl of twenty
three true bills of indictment, ten
of which are secr.’t or where the
names are witheld from the public,
presumably for smuggling, and for
minor offense, tw; alleged slackers
and Louise Olivereux f >r faLe af
fidavit. Miss Oli-’ereux had been
bound over by the United States
for activities in apposition to the
compulsory militais draft law.
Come on in the water's fine. Go
while goingis good.
'.MIAMI, Ariz., Nov. 1.—Instigat
ed by agents of the copper compa
nies the troops of the. United
States cavalry stationed here, last
night raided and completely demo
lished the I. W. W. hall together
with the headquarters of a legal
defense committee which had been
organized for the purpose of aid
ing the prisoners recently taken in
the governments raid against that
organization.
All property of the organization
was taken by the soldiers.
SEATTLE, Nov. 1.—At the lit ad
quarters of the Industrial Workers
in this city information has just
been received that in line with the
federal government’s campaign of
suppression militant labor and soci
alist newspapers, Solidarity, the
national organ of I. W. W. has been
raided and the entire plant with
many plates, books, papers and
correspondence seized by federal
agents supposed to have been act
ing under the provisions of the new
espionage law enacted by Congress
in the session just closed.
At Seattle the Industrial Worker
a paper published by the various
local organizations of the Industrial
Workers of the World continues to
issue and so fsr no indications have
been made that any repressive
movement is contemplated again-t,
although its editor Mr. J. B.
MacDonald has been held in jail at
Tacoma, Washington for some two
months, under the genral indict
ments issued earlier by a federal
grand jury against several hundred
prominent members of that orga
nization for some two months r?
nization. With him in the Tacoma
jail were held J. T. Doran. John'
M . Fo-s, Harry Lloyd, VVaUer
Snath, and James P. Thompson all
of whom prominent organizers anil
officials of the Industrial Workers
of the World, and all were removed
for Chicago this morning in charge
of United States Deputy Marshal
In the latter city what are undoubt
ed the largest and most lobor trials
are to be heard.
In this collection i* ternal ions/
I complications with the new H v sian
government are expecet'i because
of the arrest of L on Trotsky,
former editor of the N ‘.<v Voy Mir,
himself an industrial unionist and
a prominent and inhuenti,.! mem
ber of the Russian Workmen and
Soldier’s Council, hy far the most
powerful factor in the government
of new jtussia.
MINE STRIKE IS
THREATENED OHIO
COLUMBUS, Nov. 1.—All mem
bers of the United Mine Workers
have been called to meet in mats
meeting schedule d to take place at
Bridgeport tomorrow. The demands
of the miners is solely for an in
crease in the wege scale and have
been under negotiation for the past
two month':. On the part of the
mine workers it is claimed that the
increased cost of living makes a re
adjustment of the wage scale here
tofore obtaining absolutely essen
tial to continuance of operations.
The operators contend that it is
impossible to grant any increase
in wages under the Federal gov
ernment’s new regulation of coal
prices. A deadlock is expected
I
I
ana if the threatened walk out
takes place it will close all the coal
mines la the eastern Ohio field. A
committee consisting of the inter
national board member ror til-, dis
trict of the United Mine Workers,
the OUtrtct officers and executive
board members will meet with the
coal operators association next
Friday to discuss the increases de
manded but little hope of their
reaching an agreement is enter
tained in many quarters.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Nov. 1.—
Coal miners in every coal producing
region in America will be benefitted
under the operation of the agree
me ntconcluded hero today where
by by the miners in the centra*
competitive fields are to receive
higher pay. Thi^ agreement has
been reached after several weeks
of negotiations and Field Adminis
trator Garfield in charge of the gov
ernments operations to regulate the
prices of coal to consumers and to
prevent extortionate war prices.
Mr. Garfield states that the appli
cation of the advanced rate ot pay
will become effective thruoghout
the whole country since the new
rate is intended to gravitate the
prices to an equalized bai-is.
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GERMANY CLAIMS MANY
PRISONERS TAKEN IN ITALY
BERLIN, Nov. 1.—The German
war office here is claiming that the
German-Austro forces now invading
and engaging the Italian army un
der General Cadorna on the new
front, the Tagliamento river, have
increased the number of prisoners
take to one hundred and eighty
thousand and that the number of
guns taken will exceed fifteen hund
red.
PETROGRAD, Nov. 1.—The war
office today announced that Ger
many was continuing her with
drawal of troops from Russia,
leaving behind only forces sufficient
to protect the orderly retirement
of her. This is taken to mean but
one thing, that the Central powers
are preparing to cast their all upon
the outcome of a huge final upon
Italian soil.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov. 1.—
, The forecasts being made lately in
! many capital,;: that, a titanic strug
gle between the opposing European
armies is eminent on the Battle
front now on Italian soil appears
soon to be verified. Already the
| reports being to read like iliose
from that maddening furious hell
on the Marne, and this before the
British and French troops have not
I yet arrived tho speeding hitli. Ad
vices in hand here are to the effect
that the Italians have killed thirty
thou and German soldiers including
two generals in mere skirmishing,
a sort of a preliminary to the main
event. This means that in minor
fighting an entire army division has
been killed taking place on tha
Bainsizza plateau.
General Cadorna is rushing' re
serves forward with every prospect
of checking the German advance at
every point.
CANADIAN TROOPS IN' ACTION.
CANADIAN HEADQUARTERS,
France, Nov. 1.—Several companies
of Canadian troops in the field have
captured three fortified towns in
addition to the Mceteheele and
Crest farms.
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VIGOROUS AIR FIGHTING.
LONDON, Ncv. 1.—In vigorous
in Belgium tho British airmen
have successfully destroyed several
German military stations. In a
spectacular duel in tho cloudw a
German machine was winged and
brought to the ground.
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