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NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1»17.
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GUNMEN ON THE WAY WEST
GENERAL STRIKE CITY CERTAIN
CITY A VOLCANO
READY TO BURST
SEATTLE, July 22.—This city is
a smoldering volcano. Apprehen
sion reigns everywhere. Tile pitch
of nervousness to which the public
is worked by the street car situation
is extreme. Newspapers here are
trying to play down the serious na
ture of the situation, hut the public
feels it. The entire labor world is
excited to the highest tension and
the gravity is hardly to be dis
disguised.
Professional gunmen have been
imported from Chicago to break j
the strike. Some of these are des- 1
peradoes of experience in Minnea
polis and other tranction strikes and
the company is going to put their
cars through no matter what the
consequences will be.
The volcano will hurst at the first
sign of bloodshed now declared
even in conservative quarters to be
inevitable should the tractionists
try to make use of their gunmen.
Eighteen thousand shipbuilders and
allie<l trades, five thousand water
front workers, s -von thousand mem
hers of other organizations, Hit j
building2trdes and every other labor
organization in the city announced
readiness to join the street ear men
in a general strike at a moments
notice or without notice being
given
It is this announcement has set
the city ablaze with excited appre
hension and no person knows what
the consequence will he.
WILL BE BATTLE
WHEN GUNMEN COME
SEATTLE, July 22.—The street
car situation will he the biggest
strike in the history of the west.
That unless it is settled before the
company starts putting its gunmen
on the cars, the entire force of or
ganized labor will tie the city up
seems inevitable.
Yesterday and today organized
workers of every union had deter
mined upon a general strike rather
than see the unionists go down in
defeat to the traction company. It
was argued in the meetings that if
the street car men are to be prohi
bited from striking for the right to
organize, it will be upon them that
the employers will turn next.
Every form of industrial activity
is affected by this decision and Se
attle will be the scene of an indus
trial struggle has never before been
witnessed in the west. The prob
ability that it may spread to every
city on the Pacific coast is far from
remote and it is impossible to deny
the menace which employers are
beginning to see in the strife that
lies before them. Especially in the
industries which have been booming
of late is there tremendous anxiety
foi the men all assert their inten
tion to walk out. As Seattle orga
nization has progressed by leaps
and bounds for the past year, it is
seen that these fears are all well
founded.
The repressed excitement that is
manifest on every street and in
every resort in the city these days
passes description.
WILL STAY WHERE
COLUMBUS, N. M., July 22.—
Twelve hundred men who were de
ported from Bishee have been noti
fied that they could return or were
at liberty to go as they please, ac
cording to a newspaper statement
given out today.
William Cleary, a Bisbee law-yer
8. 8. SILVER WAVE.
The mail schooner Silver Wave
Mails Sunday, July 22, for Kotzebue
Sound and all way points, For
freight or passage apply to the
THE ALASKA LIGHTERAGE and
COMMERCIAL CO„ Agents.
Freight for this trip will be re
ceived at the dock up to 4 o’clock
Saturday afternoon.
who was deported because ot his
supposed sympathy with the strik
ers, delivered an address and after
wards the men by a unanimous vote
determined to stay where they are.
They want compensation for their
deportation and losses contingent
thereto and refuse to move until
reimbursed.
The government has announced
that the feeding and the tenting of
the men will be continued inde
finitely.
The probability is that their re
turn to Bibee will be arranged by
the State.
GLOBE, July 22.—Governor
Campbell of Colorado today notified
the commander of the Home Guard
that he would prevent by force any
further depleting of Ilisbee popula
tion by the alleged transportation
of industrialists.
The companies have through their
gunmen sent out everyone whom
they believed opposed to them in
any way.
It is supposed that they will en
deavor to get coolie or peons to
operate the mines under gunmen as
guards, notwithstanding the high
prices of copper. The situation here
is unchanged.
CITY BATH HOUSE
has the largest
and only fl feet
Bath Tubs in Nome.
RIOTS FOLLOW AN
EFFORT RUN CARS
SEATTLE, July 22.—The third .
• ,to leave tlic barn ol' the street!
ear company since Tuesday was
parted by strikers on Saturday!
afternoon. In rioting that followed |
the niotornien on board were struck
and seriously wounded. They were
taken to the hospital. Six were
hurt among the sympathizers of the
strikers, and four were arrested.
The company announced that the
next attempt would be made to run
the cars on Monday when serious
trouble be anticipated.
The company has three trains with i
fifteen hundred strikebreakers sup-1
plied by a professional agency hi '
route from Chicago and these will j
be set to work to get the cars run
ning.
This information leaked out not
through tlie newspapers which ow
ing to the extraordinary excitement
and almost intense apprehension
everywhere visible are trying to pre
vent any further news being played
up which would aggravate the si
t nation
That xlie company is well aware
of the state of feeling there is no
doubt an i this has not attested their
determination to fight the matter
through. That serious consequences
are inevitable when the gangsters
start operating the cars, being vete
rans of many fights against the
unionists and all gunmen, does ttou
admit of any question.
ALL GROUND TAKEN
AGAIN BY TEUTONS
BERLIN, July 22.—An official
statement is issued by the General
Staff at the Grand Headquarters
that the Germans have re-taken
again all the ground which the Rus
sians gained since the reneway of
the offensive.
Only a small settion near Stanislau
remains to he cleared of the Rus
sians.
BERLIN, July 22.—The German
stalf announced to the people that
there is no danger to be apprehend
ed front the Russian soldiers as
they ore lighting only half heattedly
and show no disposition to stand
the strain of another campaign
su< h as marked the Brussiloff offen
sive in 1916. Without the tequisite
discipline that formerly they leared
they make indifferent soldiers.
PETROGRAD, July 22.—The Rus
sian headquarters while denying
the collapse of the Galician cam
paign frankly admits the withdraw
al of the Slavs before an enemy of
much greater numerical superiority.
It is pointed out that notwithstand
ing the tremendous reinforcements
which the Germans have )'■ cived to
support their own anti the Austrian
troops, they have been unable to
drive the Russians back from the
Zlota Lipa, the real positions
which they have sought to capture.
The Russian reinforcements are
being sent forward and will advance
to the offensive with increased
confidence.
BERLIN, July 22.—The fighting
in the Galicia sector which is con
tinued is new almost wholly a Teu
ton offensive with weaker counter
attacks upon the part of the Slits.
AMSTERDAM, July 22.—News
paper reports from Germany con
taining long articles objecting to
the pessimistic utterances of Aus
trian leaders and the denunciations
for the latter’s inclinations for a
peace without victory show that
the Germans are beginning to sus
pect the intentions of their powerful
ally and that the Austrians and
Hungarians are willing to make
terms is hardly to be disguised by
the strictest censorship.
ZURICH, July 22.— Socialists
who have communicated with the?
Swiss groups indicate complete dis
satisfaction with the policy of Dr.
Michaels, It is known that the
complete ignoring of tin social de
mocratic leaders who hate support
ed the government so far is far
from displeasing to the followers of
Liebkneeht and tlie other radicals
who also believe that the stand
taken by the new Chancellor makes
it difficult if not impossible to pre
vent a revolution.
BERNE, July 22.—The strong
war party is bitterly opposed to
Scheidemann’s declaration in reply
to the Chancellor that the subma
line policy has been a failure. The
strongest of the government organs
describe this declaration as treason
able and untrue.
It is charged that such utterances
do more to inflame popular discon
tent than all the attacks ol the
enemy uponi the field of battle.
The fact that crops ibis summer
have been affected by the drouth in
the German empire is causing con
siderable anxiety.
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