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This Paper is Owned, Controlled and Published by Local 240 of the I. U. M. M & S. W
VOL. 11.
NOME, ALASKA. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, DMT.
NO. 240!>.
PROTEST PERSECUTION
DENOUNCE OUTRAGES
The Nome Miners Union at its
Tegular meeting Saturday night ap
pointed a committee to prei are and
report resolutions of protest in con
nection with the recent occurrences
at Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the abuses
upon workingmen and their union.*
which have preceded.
At a special meeting held in their
hall Sunday evening the resolution
was leported and adopted as fol
lows:
WHEREAS that portion of the
1’re s of the United Slates which is
unlcr the influence o'- ownership of
Ihe war profiteers and employers of
labor have for the last year and
more, conducted a vicious, lying
and prejudicial campaign of misre
presentation, calculated to produce
and arouse a lawless mcb spirit
ugaintt labor organizations through
out the whole country, and against
the efforts of laboring men every
where to better and improve the liv
ing conditions of themselves and of
their families, and
WHEREAS the Federal Govern
as we believe, has bene unduly im
pressed by such unscrupulous news
papers and accoidingly has caused
its Department of Justice to become
the oppres ive agent of the enemies
of labor in the pursuit and persecu
tion of labor unions, most notably
ti the Industrial Workers of t'ne
World, several hundred of wThoso
members and officials, have been
arrested and imprisoned under ex
cessive and unusual bail,—there
having been brought forth no sub
stantial evidence and nothing ex
cept these false imputations tending
to convict them of friendliness with
this nations enemies, and the said
Federal Agents have with unclue
and unju-tifiahlc zeal, raided the of
fices and meeting places and have
depreveel them of their papers and
books, their records and files, thus
utiwarrartedly obstructing their
business and the lawful pursuit of
their activities, ant!
WHEREAS, the course followed
by the Federal Government and its
agents in the Department of Jus
tice, has served to inflame, to insti
gate and to give encouragement to
lawless mobs of persons, either act
ing wilfully and maliciously or
under misappteliension of the true
facts, and,
WHEREAS, these mobs sometime,5
acting stealthily and sometimes in
the open light, have perpetrated a
long series of outrages: The’ mas
sacre of five or more men at Everett
Washington, the midnight torture
and strangulation of Frank Little,
at Butte , Mont., who had not even
been charged with crime or offense
ugEinft either the local or national
laws, the forcible deportation at
Bi-bee, Arizona, of a thousand of
our brothers and fellow workers
from their homes and families with
out even the semblance or pretence
at legal forms or orderly justice,
and
WHEREAS, we note that these
crimes and outrages continue to go
unpunished and that no substantial
endeavor is put forth by these upon
whose . uch a duty devolves, and
WHEREAS, we are even now- ad
vised of a late horror and consci
ctr less torture of i number of our
brthers and fellow1 workers at Tulsa
Oklahome, citizens of the Republic
in the pursuit of their lawful rights,
and with outrages perpetrated upon
.heir quivering suffering flesh that1
belong to that cruel- night ol man
kind, the dark ages, and believing
that the mon-ters who perpetrated
this deed were emboldened in their
outlawry by the attitude of the Fed
eral Government, and toy the acts
of its agents, the Department of
Justice, now
He IT THEREFORE RESOLVED,
that we the Miners Union of Nome
Alaska, speaking for and represent
ing the organized laboring men of
this District that wc protest against
the actions of the Department of
Justice complained of, and that we
denounce the lawlessness of those
acting without authority, and we
declare it further to be the sense of
our organization that we will hold a
continuance of these abuses to be
insufferable, and that we cannot
longer endure them with xiatience
and without at least casting about
to see what we may do to prevent
their repetion.
ANDREW BECK.
President.
AL. BRATEN
Secretary.
Nome Mine Worker's Union, No. 240
International Union of Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers.
Upon the adoption of the fore
going it was decuded to forward
copies to the Governor and to the
representative labor pre s . through
out the United States. Subse
quently a night letter embdyir.g the
sense of the resolution was directed
to be sent to Territorial Delegate
Sulzer at Washington, D. S , as fol
low s:
CHARLES A. SULZER. M. C.
Washington D. C.,
Please convey to President sense
of resolution adopted tonight by
Nome Miners Union protesting ac
tivities Department of Justice per e
cuting labor men and unions, our
belief that lawless outrages such as
murder Frank Little, Butte, and
tortures Tulsa result from attitude
Federal Government being made
agent fer our persecution and from
authorities failure to bring to jus
tice the perpetrators.
Nome Federal Labor Union Concurs
BECK, President.
GET THE NEWS RIGHT. KEA**
THE WORKER
KOAIE. Nov P.—The French and
Er.gli h troops sent by the Allied
potveis as re-in forcements of the
Italian defensive have arrived on the
battle front and have taken their
place in line.
The British Premier Lloyd George
and other r>roninent British offi
cials spent the whole of yesterday
inspecting the allied forces and ex
press themselves as .tighly pleased
with the conditions of health and
morale of tl.e soldiers. The con
fident belief h, entertained that the
| Teutonic invasion will extend no
further into Italy. The l'eeling is
in evidence everywhere that the
fighting ii. immediate prospect is
un loubtedly to be the most levcre
of the war. Germany on her part
is believed to be preparing to haz
ard practically all of her military
fortunes upon the outcome while the
allied fcrces in the Italian field are
as equally as resolved on their part
that the invader shall proceed not
another innh into Italy and that
ev-'-ry eftori will be made to drive
her back into the territory cf her
Austrian ally. The soldiery on ihe
German ide consist of the dower
and pick of the tremendous Gc man
armies while the commands and
army divisions of the allies have
been among those units of the
French and English torces that
have fought so valiantly to drive
the Germans out of Franco in the
N'crth. Military experts here as in
agreement that the superior advant
age.; r.re now by far on the side of
Italy.
BRITISH ARMY BELIEVED
TO BE IN HOLY CITY
LONDON, Nov. 9.—Advices from ^
the seat of British operations m
Palestine indicate that the Turkish
army thdoughout it’s entire front
is in full retreat before <i.
ooldiers. Tlie Turks were known |
yesterday to have fallen hack upon i
their defense, in I'ehrennon where,
it is thought they will make a de- j
cided stand. Pebrenon is one of
the existing towns mentioned in the
Bible, much older than eJrusalum j
and is only sixten miles out on the ,
plains to the southward of that
venerable city.
Jerusalem has been the main point
objective of the British operation
in Palestine for several weeks, the I
British forces against Turkecl hav
ing orders to take that city at all
costs. There is no special strategic
advantage to be gained from her
capture but it is esteemed of ad
vantage from a moral and tradition
al point of view that Christian
force; should occupy once mere the
Holy City, the scene of the world’s
great Passion as regarded by the
Christian nations at war. From
the rate at which the British lines
have been advancing on that front
it is confidently believed by the
War Office here that Jerusalem has
fallen and that British semrics are
even now stationed upon such .out
posts as Golgotha, the place of the
Sk.,11 and treading the ancient
ground of tl e Homan centurions.
Confirmation cl' this forecast is now
momentarily expected.
Let nt* estimate on your Job Work
GERMANS DESPERATELY
ATTACK FRENCH
PARIS, Nov. 11.—Fighting with
a desperation symbolyzed by the
POLITICAL MEETING HAS
WHIRLWIND FINISH
The Democratic Club meeting
which was the topic ot increasing
inters! in the concluding days ol
last week, and which was the sub
ject ot so much nail suppressed and
anxious hugger-mugger, ha.-i come
anc'. t-;on.\ Its passing was not at
ceided by the fireworks and pyro
technics which* ibis office had been
led to expect would accompany it.
We had been give!, to under
stand that the event was in no
wise to re et.ble a Sunday school
excursion. The Sporting Editor na*
redacted to cover the “beat” be
cause of his superior technical
knowledge of the famous Queens
bury rules, the roped arena, cock
pits, etc., and upon a few occasions
had reported bull jights in old Mex
ico. He returned to his desk wear
ing an aggrieved and disappointed
look if his time had been wasted
and flatly refused to write the story.
He stated that the meeting was
not altogether without pep as far
aa it went but that it was lacking
ill the gory conclusion which those,
who had boon tipping us off iiad j
led us to expect.
The meeting was called to or tie.'
promptly at eight o’clock by Chair
man Paul Kjegstead, President of
the Club, who had been publishing
hi, intention to do that very thing
for several days. About two hunt!-'
red citizens including a* few ladies
had qickly filled the City Hall.
Secretary Mike Walsh read the
purpose of the meeting as set forth
in the official call and which pur
ported to be for the selection of a
divisional committee man “and such
other business as might legally come
before it”.
Immediately thereafter some sharp
skirmishing occurred— which really
did pressage an interesting evening,
—over the question of whether the
membership rolls of the organiza
tion should be opened for the sign
atures of now converts before or
after the transaction of the bus
iness for which the meeting had as
setrbled. After some impassioned
oratory which indicated the gravity
and importance with which this
function of a Democratic Club is re
garded, it was decided to open the
rolls forthwith. This was done with
a result which must have been high
ly gratifying to the sponsors for the
meeting ind which must have thril
led the hearts of all democrats with
pride. Some sixty citizens who pre
sumably have heretofore remained
obdurate to the grand and gleriou's
principles of Thomas Jefferson and
Andrew Jackson, immediately
moved toward the books and there
by their solemn and binding •■igna
tures avowed and re-affirmed their
new found allegiances. ,
In a Epirit of cordial congratula
tion to our democratic friends we
are pleased perpetuate in the col
umns of this great daily newspaper
the names of those determined ci
tizens of Nome who thus have
chosen the aide'of democracy and
rightiousuers, as follow:
Taylor Payne, Charles llrown,
Charles Eckstein, I!. L. Wells, Geo
B. Mandy, E!nur Reed, Frank C.
Doan, Mrs. A. D. Modiui, A. B.
Miller, Cap*. F. Lopp, L. D. Lewi. ,
L. H. M'Cloy, A. M. Sittou, W. H.
Jordan, L. E., \Veith, H. W. Lilly'
C. C. Crooks, Bert M'Carthy, John
M. Johnson. W. E. Bartholomew,
Albert Matson, O. B. \ an Sickle,
Geo. H. Br.gley, John “Graylan, J.
H. Karazancs, J. Donovan, Fred
Janes O’Rourke, • R. B. Bcnsen,
John Felkel, James Panos, John
Read. N. M. Nicon, A. Wittenberg,
M. M. Rouse, H. J. Weber, Victor
Anderson, Sol. Warren, N. O. Lcd
ing, Ed Hovon, Frank Boyle, Fred
Leach. Janies Ferguson Chris Nei
bur, S. C. Anderson, George Mo
dir.i Fred Jenson, Fiederick Lar
on, A. L. Hcrmanson, L. A. Swing,
D. Andrew, Fete Nike, Dick Klein
starir.k, Otto Mills, Cl.ns F. Haering
G. K. Guemalis, John Jens, Dennis
Stack, JacK Douglas and Harold O.
: Ncilsen.
_i _
skuli anti cross bones in the insignia
jn the hussars cap the German for
ces in the Duabe wcods yesterday
made their characteristic ma s as
iults upon the French lines. A mass 1
of German soldiery that seemed i
without end or bound was thrown \
time after time into grilling French
artillery fire and the machine gun:
fire that played upon them as if!
from a thousand hoseS and a sheet
of infantry volley firing which time
after time repulsed them only to
And them re-forming and coming:
back again and again for mere. The I
enemy' losse were tremeiuluous
and sickening in the inexorable and
cruel disregard for life. The be
havior of the German troops in this
battle belies the reports that the
Central powers have been withdraw
ing their main fighting forces and
concentrating them upon their
southern aggressive. There seemed j
no weakening whatsoever in her as-'
a.-suits and the desperate fighting
Upon the conclusion of the fore
going ceremony .Chairman Kjeg
stcad caled the next order of bus
iness. which wts “unfinished Bu
siness”, but met with no response,
when with great promptness he cal
led for “New Business”. This was
the physiological moment for which
most every one was waiting, but
after one breathless dramatic pause,
the chairman’s gavel again had fal
len without response. He died for
the order of "Adjournment ’ which
was quickly moved and declared
carried. There was a slight indica
tion of disagreement with the Chair
man s canvas on the vote of ad
reminded all observers o£ the her*
culean efforts put forth by Germany
to reach Paris in the first months
of the wr.r. The more plausible
theory now is that she has been
drawing on her reserves to make
up her strength on all her aggres
ives and the plan of her strategists
is to push the fighting everywhere
without let uii for the in which Am
erican troops are preparing.
SMASHING V It TOIUOL’S lil.OiV.
LONDON, Nov. 11.—General Haig
has delivered another smashing
victorious blow on a mile front,
across the main road between Pas
scnchedalo and West Roose'oek. The
British and French forces will now
make a drive directly north head
ing for tlie German submarine
bate | on the Belgian s.eacoust.
Subscribe now for the Worker
and keep Posted.
journment but the congested condi
tion of tlio meeting di not permit
of a more accurate division of the
tom-cads from the graylings and the
crowd dispersed.
I'he busy marts of the trade in
Nome were immediately filled with
a merry joshing crowd. Those to
whom the moetirg had not resulted
favorably were good natured about
it, ami Front Street on Saturday
night cloicd in its accustomed
blaze of glory, jolty good will and
—conviviality.
In the meantime the victorious
Democracy moves on, ever generous
to its vanquished.