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VOL. 11.
NOME, AliASKA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER », 1017.
NO. 2407.
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SEDITION CASES UP
AGAIN IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Nov. 8.—Information
roaches the Seattle offices of the In
dustrial Workers of the World to
the effect that the United States of
ficials of the Department of Justice
in Minneapolis have raided the
Minnesota headquarters of the In
dustrialists and have seized all their
books, accounts and papers upon
the claim that the government re
quires them in the prosecution of
the many cases it now has pending
in Chicago and elsewhere against
that organization. No arrests what
ever were made in connection with
the raids which were made without
warning and with little or no form
ality. Local officials and represen
tatives of the Industrial Workers of
the World denounce the course of
the government’s officials as utterly
unwarranted and as being made
with no view whatever of uncover
ing German war plots or of prevent
ing alleged treasonable or seditious
acts against the government’s prose
cution of the war, but with sole in
tent and purpose of destroying all
labor organization that tends effec
tually to decrease the war profits
exacted by employers every time
because of the opportunities for
such extortions by the war condi
tions. It is claimed by members
of this organization that in ,all the
mass of matter seized here and else
where'nothing will be found to con
vict them.
SEATTLE, Nov. 8.—In addition
to the raids reported upon the In
dustrial Workers of the World offi
ces in Minneapolis word arrives that
similar raids are being made
throughout the country wherever a
headquarters of that organization
has been e tablished. In Oklahoma
City which is the headquarters for
a very large branch of the Agricul
tural Workers Organization, the of
fices were raided as in Minneapolis,
the deputies taking all papers and
records. This is a department Of
the Industrial Workers of the
World and was organized two years
ago in Kan-as City by a convention
of farm and ranch laborers whose
delegates came from all the west
ern agricultural states and from
practically all of the states in the
Mississippi Valley and so rapidly
did the organization spread that it
is now said to include some six
hundred thousand members on its
rolls. In addition to the general
purposes of its parent organization
the Agricultural Workers Organiza
tion was devised along protective
lines to meet the abuses which prac
ticed upon migratory farm laborers
not alone by employing farmer; but
by the gamblers, bootleggers j^ul
parasitic camp followers of tiid an
nual havvest as it begins in the
south and moves northward through
the corn and wheat belts. It is
said that in the areas where the
organization has operated many
fanners welcome it as an improve
ment over former conditions.
HECKLA AT ST. MICHAEL;
REPORT WITHOUT MAIL
C. L. Ross yesterday afternono re
ceived a telegram direct from Heckla
captain of the ill fated White Bear
which indicates that there may yet
be seme doubt as to the recovery
of her mail which is believed to be
important and to contain a quantity
of gold bullion. The message which
is dated at St. Michaels is as fol
lows:
C. L. Ilos?, Nome.
Came in this afternoon without
mail. No show to get it until wind
changes to west. Open lead seven
miles from land. West wind will
close it. Will 1 go back and
Wait.
(Signed) HECKLA.
It has been understood that
Heckla had the mail with him at the
native village of Pitmalik. This
forenoon Mr. Itoss received a tele
gram from Postmaster Koen of St.
Michael;, stating that he was aiding
Hccla all he could to get the mail
into that port, having sent grub
and supplies to him.
At a late hour last evening Mr.
Ross who is heavilj 'interested in a
financial way wired back to Heckla
to take plenty of provisions and
supplies, return to Pitmatlik and
make every effort to get the mail
out short of hazarding the lives of
himself and hil3! men. Mr. Ross is
confident that with a favorable
change of the wind the mail and
whatever is specially valuable in the
White Bears cargoes will be
salvaged.
Let ns estimare on your .Too Wor»
UNITED STATES SEIZES
GERMAN SKYSCRAPER
NEW YORK, Nov. 8.—The huge
office building occupied and owned
by Hamburg American Steamship
Company in this city has been con
fiscated oy the Federal Government.
At the opening hour this morning
seventy five agents of the American
government quietly entered the
building and took possession of it in
the antr.e cf the United States. J.
P. Meyers, Vice Director of the
steamship line who was the respons
ible head in charge of the building
was given time to gather his per
sonal papers and was then put out
of the building. The transaction
occurred without demonstration of
any kind and Mr. Meyers was not
otherwise molested.
The building becomes the proper
ty of the United States government.
This is the most important sei
zure so far made of other than mar
itime property and no indication is
made of whether it is the govern
ment’s intention to beize the pro
perty of German citizens residing
in the United States but the pro
/■aSanl_la mall_act_in_«hla lnatun<-n
for the confiscation of the property
of German corporations.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 8.—
A thousand ton3 of what, foal and
other supplies are being speeded
from this country to Italian ports
to provide much needed relief to
the civil population. Five Amer
ican ships have been commandeered
and are rushing across the Atlantic,
while twenty additional ships have
been chartered to Italians for the
purpose of transporting other relief
stores a,-' well as supplies for the
Italian armies in the field.
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 8.—Several
German warships have been sighted
off Helsingfors, an important naval
station in Finland and it is taken to
indicate that Germany expects to
attempt another sea battle.
PARIS, Nov. 8.—French troops
in the field have made a vigorous
attack on a new sector of the west
ern front and have captured several
substance of a brief dispatch re
ceived from the French Field Head
quarters here today.
LONDON, Nov. 8.—British troops
comprising several Welch regiments
have pierced the German lines
southeast of Armentieres and have
captured a considerable number of
prisoners. German troops have
twice attacked the British lines of
Rouex but were repulsed in both
assaults.
WEATER REPORT.
U. S. Weather Bureau.
Nome, Alaska, Nov. 8, 6 A. M.
Temperature: Max. 15, Min. 1.
Barometer: 29.783 inch.
Weather: Snowing.
Wind: N. E. 3 miles in hour.
Precipitation: None.
Nov. 8, 6 P. M.
Temperture: Max. 18, Min. 13.
Baromter: 29.780.
Weather: Cloudy.
Wind: N„ 4 miles an hour.
Precipitation: .02 melted snow.
NEW YORK OFFICE
BUILDING COLLAPSES
NEW YORK. Nov. 8.—A tragic
accident recalling the Triangle shirt
waist factory fire occurred this
morning in Erooklyn when a four
story building collapsed, instantly
killing six women and two men,
and injuring twenty others. The
entire lower floor of the building
was occupied by a steamship traffic
offices and the upper floors: with
their ‘ contents catA'e crashing
through to the basement. Tjie three
upper floors ( have been used as a
storage place for provisions in
tended for the American armies in
France. In the last few weeks tre
mendous shipment: of beans have
been received to be forwarded in
bulk to General Pershings army
and it is supposed that the usual
weight of the beans crushed the
main pillars allowing Ihe overloaded
floors to come down between the
walls doing a great deal of dam
age to the Vtruoture ahd resulting
in fatalities mentioned. The city
building and engineering authori
ties are conducting the usual in
vestigation' with a view to locating
the responsibility for the accident
and are reported to be taking steps
for the prevention of further acci
derts in building similarly used for
the transhipment of overseas war
supplies. The families and relatives
of the killed and injured are grief
stricken over the disaster and in
dication is felt for laxity of inspec
tion.
ITALIAN ARMY TO
MAKE FINAL STAND
ROME, Nov. 8.—A general stiff
ening effect evidenced by greater
resistence is in evidence in the line.;
which are holding better than at
any time since the enemy forces
succeeded in crossing the Taglia
mento. The rear guard troops and
detachments of the Italian cavalry
are severely harassing the German
advance along the Livcnza river.
Military experts here assert that it
is not Cadorna’s plan to make a
stand upon thQ Liyenza but is mere
maneuvering to delay the enemy
long enough to permit the comple
tion of preparations now in progress
for determined stand on the Plavc
River where the French and Eng
lish reinforcements ate already
massing.
LONDON, Nov. 8.—Reports from
the invaded region in Italy arc j
reaching thi,.;, capital indicate that
Germany is pursuing the same tac
tics with tho Italian civil popula
tion and soldiers which she has in
varibly pursued on the Russian
front.
By means airship carriers she Li
distributing leaflets printed in the
Italian language telling of her de
sire for peace with Italy and that,
the Italian soldiers are in reality
fighting and dying for England.
German so’diers are to fraternize
with the Italians just as was uc
cossfully done in the fighting
against Russia with such telling
result, hut an the reports claim the
Italians so far are rejecting them.
UNITED STATES THREATENS
TO COMMAND LABOR
SEATTLE,, Nov. 8.—What pro
mises to be the most drastic action
ever taken by the Federal govern
ment in a capital and labor dispute
appears immediate in what practi
cally amounts to an ultimatum in
the form of a comunication which
has just been served upon the var
ious officials of labor organizations
involved in the vast shipyards i trike
in which some fifteen thousand men
i are. directly and indirectly Involved.
I This action conies immediately
upon the heels of the labor union’s
official refusal to sign the wage
scales which have been .awarded by
the Federal Government’s shipping
board after nearly two months ne
gotiatioa-i. The labor representa
tives claim that the wages awarded
by the government’s shipping board
is in no sense commensurate with
the increased cost of living. With
the exception of the large Skinny
and Eddy Corporation and a few
minor plants whose owners signed
up with the unions at the beginning
of the strike the shipbuilding in
dustry here is at a standstill al
though contracts are in hand call
ing for millions of dollars of mer
chant shipping. It is freely predict
ed that the men will resist if the
government’s threat is made good
in an attempt to conscript them to
work and serioit. rioting is expected
to result.
You’ll get ii right in the Worker.
TELEPHONE STRIKERS DIVIDED;
NEW CODNCIL ORGANIZED
i
j S BATTLE, Nov. 8.—Complica
: tions have arisen in the telephone
[situation which threaten to con
| tinue the deadlock indefinitely ae
I cording to tatements given out
(both by -he employers and repre
sentatives of the striking hello girls
'and the electricians. It appears
that the linemen and electricians
in California have returned to their
employments thus leaving the girl
operators who had walked out in
keeping with the tri-state agree
ment to strike until demands were
met, and arrangement which in
the states of California, Oregon and
Washington. The Electrical Work
ers Union, which is known as the
International Brotherhood of Elec
trical Workers, of the two latter
states have withdrawn from their
California colleague^, and now plan
an amalgamation with the electrictv
workers of Montana and Idaho and
because of the new move the strike
may be extended to those states, if
the new council is formed. The tic
up continues complete of all outside
and inside operatives and for all
practical purposes the telephone
holding out for recognition of tho
girl's union and an increase in
wages of one dollar per day.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
Notice is hereby given that there
will be a meeting of the Democratic
Club at the City Hall, Saturday,
Nov. 10th 1917, at S. P. M.
PAUL KJEGSTAD.
President.
GET THE NEWS RIGHT. REAo