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VOL. 11.
NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1017.
NO. 341«.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19.—
Government officials representing
the Department of Labor are in
this city for the purpose of lending;
their gocd offices in an effort to
settle the long drawn telephone
, trike and of adjusting other la
bor difficulties here. \Vhat is of in
terest to labor in a nation wide!
sense is the fact that part of the
instructions undir which tne hoard
is acting is to investigate the so
<alled*San Francisco Bomb Trial-;
in which Warrer. K. Hillings, Tom
Mooney, and others prominent in
the labor movement are being sent]
to the i enitontiarv on what is al
leged to he frame-up testimony.
Billings who was one of ihe first
convicted had an appeal for rehear
ing pending before the Supreme
Court of California. I’gpn4receipt
of word (iiat the board is to investi
gate the cases Billing, has been
hastened to the penitentiary at
Folsom. Billings protested vigor
ously insisting that he be given a
chance to be heard on the merits
in his case by the government in
vestigators. But this was with
al
out avail, his application being
speedily denied and he was sent in
charge of officers to the penitenti
ary at Folsom.
Billings is believed to have
aroused the ire ol' the prosecution
and the influences back of the pro
secution of Thoma., J. Mooney,who
has been quite prominent in labor
circles of California for several
years, bv refusing to testify against
Mooney for a proffered bribe of
$5,000.
Billings was tried first, and sen
tenced to the penitentiary for life.
Although Billing; is a mere youth
he has been President of ;he Shoe
Workers Union and is a delegate to
the Central Labor Council of San
Francisco. Mooney himself has
likewise been convicted and the
trials of his wife, Mrs. Rena
Mooney, Weinberg and other labor
men have been denounced as
‘framed” convictions*, or those had
upon perjured testimony by labor
organizations all over the country.
SEATTLE, Nov. 19. -- It appears
that the Seattle street car men who
won so brilliant and so decisive
victory against the Seattle Elec
tric Railway Company employing
sixteen hundred men, are to be
robbed of their victory. Although
they had won the recognition oi
their right to form a union they
agreed to submit the Question ol
hours and wage, to a Board of ar
bitration composed of President
Henry Suzzalo of the University of
Washington, James A. Duncan, Sec
retary of the Central Labor Coun
cil and representative of the com
pany. The award as just made
gives them but a slight increase in
wage, and no reduction of hours
whatever. So great is the. dissatis
faction among the carmen they
have passed a resolution denounc
ing President Suzzalo for iiis part
in the proceeding although Duncan
the labor representative is support
ing the award. The men are bound
by agreement to abide by the arbi
tration award for one year without
striking.
(iKT THE NEWS ni<;HT. REA">
THE WOKKKR
U. S. EXPECTS SHOW DOWN ,
AT ALLIED CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov. 19.—
The attitude of the government ot
the United States in participating
in the inter-allied conference soon
to convene at Paris, at which this
government figuratively speaking is
to look its allien squarely in the
eye, may be summed up in the ver
nacular expression "Come clean’’.
This is the positive purpose of the
United States as gathered by news
paper men at the national capital.
This country is to put all of its
cards on the table: “We are meet
ing here not to co-operate in tlie
prosecution of the war but to put
our resources and men into one
huge army for carrying it forward
to favorable outcome. vVe have
only one aim—to crush autocracy.
What is your aim. gentlemen? This
is gathered from the determina
tion expressed by high government
that if any of our allies have any j
fjecert agreements to be made
with the central powers or with I
each other the terms of these agree
ments to be made with the central
powers or with each other the
terms of these agreements must be
made known to all. At this most
notable gathering ever assembled
when a real international govern
ing power may be ei:tablisi:ed, the
United States is to expect that no
international confidences are to be
witheld. No one will attempt to
foretell just what may result and
this government’s state department
expects looks upon the confcret.ce
as fraught with tremendous poss
ibilities.
KAISER REBUFFS
RUSSIAN REBELS
PETROGRAD, Nov. 19.—If the
astonishing semi-official reports
reaching the rebel forces now in
control of this city are true the
Kaiser nas made plain his deter
mination that there shall he no re
publican government, in Russia. In
response to overtures made through
the agencies of the Bosheviki to
the imperial German government
for a conference with a view to the
separate peace movement, which
in fact has been the mainspring of
the ultra radical propaganda, the
Kaiser is stated to have replied em
phatically that he would treat only
with the legal successor to the im
perial Russian government. This
is taken to mean that he has in
mind the restoration of the Roman
off dynai ty or the recognition of
some ruler who may successfully
assume and re-establish the lost
throne of the autocrat. If, contra
ry to so many expectations, this t,
to be the attiude of Germany, it
may be taken to mean that the
Kaiser continues in the fullest con
fluence of his power to defeat the
allied nations without regard to
what Russia may do and without
regard to the resources which a
eparate peace with her would
make available to his people and
KKXN'Kh (1,11! \rr.\\<;kmi:\ts
The directors of the Nome Ken
nel Club have set in moiion the
necessary plan lor team races on
Thanksgiving Day. A beautiful
trophy is to be the awtrd of the
winning entry, and this trophy
will ho publicly exhibited in a few
lays. From nine to a dozen entries
; re expected, the running to take
place under the u ual rules of the
i club. The course will be from Lane’s
way lo Nome River bridge, near
Ft. Davis and return, a distance of
nix and one third miles.
Full charge of arungements in
his armies. An effee't expected
here is that the anti-imperialist
elements in itussia without regard
to their separate shades of belief
will be solidified into a semblance
at least of union and opposition to
imperialist Germany.
he absance of board meeting was
vested in Huss Downing a,; manag
ing director. Other officials elected
for the ensuing season was L,.
Stevei son„ President, Fred M. Ayer
Nice President, A. A. (Scotty) Al
lan, Treasurer and VV. C, McGuire,
Secretary. Paul Kjeg tad the other
member wa,, given no office since
he is already held to have absorb
ing official duties.
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I SEATTLE, Nov. 1 9 — i ‘ insterna
; lion prevails among the organiza
1 tions of the very powerful but eon
iseivative American Federation of
Labor here over the action taken
j by shingle weavers organization of
Ballard, in cancelling the charter
j held by them from the American
Federation of Labor and going o'er
as an organized bod> into the In
dustrial Workers of the *.orld.
Ballard is the designation by
which that -ection cf the city of
Scuttle is known which is engaged
almost wholly in the manufacture
of shingles and is I'erhaps the
greatest center for the industry in
the world. Several cf its largest
plants have been sntokela s for
several months tlirough a strike of
its operatives which has been in
progress for a half a year. The
shingle weavers union is one of the
large t in the city and their action
in going over tc .lie I. W. W. is
being most anxiously commented
upon not atone in cnnsorvativc la
bor circles but by the Siattic
Times. a leading newspaper
through whose columns it is charg
ed that the astonishing action is
due to isinister German influences
but these charges are vague as
those being made regarding the I
\V. W. elsewhere. The shingle
weavers explain their condu-t on.
I the score ot dis-satii.faetion with
! conservative methods in iiandl'ng
1 the i trike.
CHRIST’S BIRTHPLACE
TO BE BATTLE GROUND
I
LONDON, Nov. 19.—That the
place made sacred by the birth of
Jesus of Nazereth may soon be the
scene of a bloody battle of modern
nations is the substance of dis
patches reaching the war offices it:
th% capital today. Jaffa in this
region, also a historical biblical
city had already been captured by
French and English troops from
the Teutons who had occupied it.
Already allied troops are marching
from the coast to participate in the
[struggle of arms that is momentar
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ily imminent in Nazereth. More
properly while Jesus was born in
Bethlehem nearer to Jerusalem, his
boy hood days are said to have
been spent in Nazereth and the
government of the time, the gov
ernment which hanged him, regard
ed him as a citizen of Nazereth in
the province of Galilca.
LONDON, Nov. 29.—Informa
tion has just reached the War Of
fice from the British headquarters
in Mesopotamia that General Maude
rotansanding the British forces in
hat department i dead from na
tural causes.
L.OXDON,, Xov. 19.—The British
forces in France oil the Arras front
ifter a lull of fighting in
that district of several w ;vk Itn v.
renewed active raiding operations.
English and Scotch troops in sever
B vigorous raids have penetrated
:he German line trenches tear
\lcnery Lesper ad and Give l and in
the Uoux dh.trv t.
BIG RAILROAD STRIKE
AGAIN THREATENS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 19 —
The railroad companies of tin;
United States have checked ap to
the Presidtnt the power and au
thority to take wl atevtr action
that may he necessary to prevent
the threatened walk out of the
lour railroads which admittedly
would paralyze the railroad trans
portation busmcts throughout the
entire country and might probably
bring in its wake the supen-ion of
all active business in the United
States. In shoit the companies
hate put the responsibility fully
-— «. -
upon President Wilson shoulder-. |
The President in furtherance of the
performance of part thus thrust
upon him is arranging to meet the
accredited official of t lie four Ltig
ra'irouds and expects to talk with
them over their present demands.
WASHINGTON. D. C., Nov. 19 —
Complications are arising between
the United State,,, and Holland as
of the discovery just made that cer
tain Dutch merchants and import
ers have been storing in their ware
houses a much larger amount of
foodstuff# than appear,. neeessary
for don i^lic consumption. It is
suspected hov.ever tie t the Dutch
government has aided in the trans
action that made pos, iblo tin
ac uniulatirn of sit h large quanti
ties of provision which an btiieved
in reality to be intended lor Ger
many.
Tit any event the excess of food
stuffs so accumulated mat be re
linquished to the United States for
(ha use of her troops in France
Anything in the line of Jolr wore
NO GOVERNMENT
IN RUSSIA NOW
l
WASHINGTON,, D. C. Nov. 10.—
Alt indescribable condition of chaos
and disorder is reported from Pe
trograd to prevail in Russia. The
country is without the slightest
semblance ol stable governnient
| according to dispatches received by
liable ironi American authorities
I in the diplomatic service in that
country. The American Ambassa
dor to Russia David R. Francis re
I siding in I’etrograd reports that so]
| far no violence has been to the per- j
1 sous or homes of foreigner and re
sidents not Russian citizens liu
states that lie is advising all Amer
ican women and men with ehildrei
to leave tlie capital, since withou
violence being done them directly
if the prerent unpuralled disorders
continue there must result a short
age in food supplies that would
make the situation of such persons
precarious in the extreme.
Consul General Summers repre
renting the United Slates govern
mont at Moscow reports similai
conditions in that city but says the
Maximilis-ts have gain, d i-iii: :-o!.
after 3CVoral weeks of hard light
ing v.hich at times threatened tin*
destruction of the city. A mini-sa
ilor Francis’s report included llio
inforraiition tiial Kerensky is s’ill
,11 fugitive nnci no knowledge what
ever of his whereabouts hive been
learned, although the search for
him continues with greutc. • - „y »
and thoroughnes .
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