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Vol. 4
Nome, Alaska, Tuesday, October 4, 1910.
No. 29&
ENGLISH CAPITALISTS TAKE
ALARM-LOCK OUT WORKERS
Special to the Nome Industrial Worker.
LONDON, Oct. 3—British capital
ists are thoroughly alarmed over the
growing disposition of trade union
members to take matters into their
own hands and disregard their self
seeking and so-called conservative
leaders when they have an urgent
grievance they want remedied. With
the announced intention of crushing
this “anarchism,” as they call it, the
Shipbuilding Employers’ Federation
yesterday locked out all the boiler
makers in the federated shipyards,
numbering 34.000 men.
All the allied trades are affected,
and suffering, as a result of thus be
ing forced out of their jobs, is bound
to follow among many workers. The
workers complain that their ■ officials
have been altogether too frinedly with
employers, and say that a strike is the
only means they have of enforcing im
mediate attention to their demands,
contracts or no contracts.
As a result of two strikes of boiler
makers on the Tyne and the Clyde,
both of which were spontaneous walk
outs, the employers announced they
have decided to take drastic steps to
prevent a recurrence of these sectional
disputes.
The present lockout of all the boiler
makers employed in the Federated
shipyards is the result of that decision.
If the lockout of boiler makers con
tinues there will be a gradual cesrrf -
tion of all shipbuilding work in the
yards affected, which practically
means all the shipbuilding yards of
Great Britain and Ireland, except those
at Belfast.
Andrew Furuseth, president of the
International Seamen’s Union of Amer
ica, who has been attending the Inter
national Congress of Transport Work
ers in Copenhagen, and who has ar
rived in London, confirmed the reports
that an international strike of seamen
was inevitable unless the shipping fed
eration adopted a more conciliatory
attitude toward the men’s demands.
“Realizing the consequences of an
international strike,” said Furuseth,
“we leaders are charged with consid
erable responsibility, and we deem it
our imperative duty to give the ship
owners and the public sufficient time
to take the necessary steps to prevent
such a strike by meeting the men. If
no response be made to our just de
mands a strike is inevitable.”
While the date and specific plans for
the strike are kept secret the general
program is that at given notice the
men are to leave their ships at every
port.
In America the first steps would be
toward dislocating the passenger and
mail traffic between New York and
, Europe. „
FREEZE-UP CLOSES SEASON
IN SOLOMON DISTRICT
The freeze-up has put in its per- ]
manent appearance in Solomon, ■ and
as a consequence of the rule of Jack
Frost open mining is closing down for
the winter.
Arriving on the Flyer yesterday af
ternoon were twenty-two passengers,
all miners, who had been working in
that district during the season just
closed.
Among the passengers on the Flyer
was a Mr. Blood who has been em
ployed on the Three Friends Dredge.
He had his hand caught in the bucket
chains and as a consequence that mem
ber was rather badly mangled. He
comes to Nome for treatment. He is
now at the Holy Cross Hospital under
care of Dr. Mustard.
On Shovel Creek, Chas. Hedbcrg,
who has been stoping out pay on his
claim, has ceased sluicing, and laid off
the crew save only a sufficient num
ber to block out and prospect the pay
streak thoroughly for winter opera
tions.
Oil Sunday Pearson’s camp on Mys
tery shut down and the men were
paid off, hut the dredge owned by this
company on Solomon River is still
working as are other dredges in the
district.
Arthur Johnson who is interested in
some ground on the Xiukluk at the
mouth of the Casadepaga Riv-er also
was a passenger on the Flyer. He
has been drilling the property with a
view of having a dredge placed there
on. His work has been quite satis
factory.
Steigelmeyer is operating the rail
road carrying freight in two cars
drawn by one horse as far as East
Folks. He has quite a number of
orders from the various miners and
prospectors who are geting their winter
supplies up before the snow flies.
The Big Hurrah Roadhouse which
has been purchased by the Flodine Co.,
is now closed and that well known
hostelery has become a mess house
and offices for the Dredging Company.
Mrs. Ginivin is running the road
house at East Forks, but will soon
close for the season.
The owners are now doing assess
ment work on the Big Hurah quartz
mine, and there are again rumors that
it may start up next season. *
The Solomon Hotel, Olson and Nel
son, is running as usual, and provid
ing for travellers in their usual hos
pitable style.
The last of the chechacoes have re
turned from Council as the Wild Goose
has closed down all work in that camp
for the season.
Frank Alden who is the owner of a
'likely quartz proposition on West
Creek also was an arrival here on the
Flyer. He is contemplating a trip to
the outside.
WILL MOVE BIG
DREDGE TO OSBORNE
The Gold Beach Dredging Go., at
present located on Dry Creek wall be
moved to 13 Osborne Creek.
Brower, the well known drill man,
has the contract of moving this big
gold saving machine, and will start on
the work as soon as the ground is
frozen solid enough to bear the huge
Weight.
It is the intention of the contractor
to move the dredge intact as it stands,
and he will not remove a part of the
machinery or material unless absolu
tely necessary. He figures on moving
it in the same manner as steam shovels
are moved up to the pits where they
work, that is to say, on sections of
rails which in tins instance will be
thirty foot lengths and wide .enough te
support the great weight without
danger of toppling.
He estimates that the weight of the
dredge is approximately two hundred
and fifty tons and that he will be
able to accomplish Hie work with little
trouble as soon as some machinery
which he sent out lor arrives on the
Northwestern.
It is about twelve miles fr&m Dry
Creek to that part of Osborne where
the dredge will be located, and it will
be thus seen that the job of moving
the dredge without taking it apart
represents no small undertaking.
WEEKLY COUNCIL MEETING
At the city council last night one'
hundred dollars was appropriated for
the transportation of the sick and des
titute following the reading of the re
port of Health Officer Hill. The
health officer reported an outbreak of
measles on the Sandsplt, there being
about twenty-five native children af
flicted with the disease. There were
some white children also affected by
the epidemic.
City Attorney Hobbes reported pro
gress, in preparing the ordinance to
regulate the purchase and sale of gold
dust, the Mayor remarking that this
was an ordinance that no honest man
would disapprove of!
The bonds of the city treasurer
Cowden were read and approved as
were the bonds of the treasurer of the
School Board, J. H. Guffey.
M. D. Samuels at the conclusion of
the council meeting registered a pro
tect against the excessive taxation to
which his property was subjected, be
declared that he was assessed nine
or ten thousand dollars too much.
As the board of equalization had
already met and dissolved the Mayor
said that they could not take any
action in the matter.
With the charge of the schooner
Helen Johnston through the herds of
walrus at 2 o’clock a. m. on July 1st,
1910, the picture taken shows the
mother instinct in the female walrus,
as they can be seen with their baby
walrus cliuging to their backs and
others holding them tightly with their
flippers or arms, in order to protect
them; many of them are so close to
the camera that the splash from the
walrus comes up in front of the camera.
You can see them at the Eagle Hall,
Saturday night.
The best collection of native enriea
at Chilberg’e T store.
ARREST
TRAIN
robbers
*8pecial to the 'Nome Industrial Worker.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 1—Police early to
tlay arrested Emil Freund, 41*5 Irv
ing Avenue, 'Chicago, who confessed,
the police sagf, that he and his pal, Al
bert Julian, also of Chicago, planned
the holdup Of the Burlington Pacific
‘Coast Express train in the St. Louis
■yards last night.
J. M. Wine, rear end flagman -of the
train was shot and instantly killed
when a lone -robber climbed over the
rear railing a -short distance from the
Union Station. Freund says he mis
sed the train, and is sought as the
man who killed Wine. Both men were
formerly stereotypers on the Chicago
American, published by W. B. Hearst.
WANTED
A iboiler and outfit complete, small
prospecting boiler preferred. Must-be
cheap. Cash. Inquire this office.
SWITCH
LEAGUES
Special to Nome Induatrial Worker.
SEATTLE. Sept. 29—After going down
in defeat to all the other teams, and
failing to land the pennant at any time,
the Seattle bail team in disgust with
drew from the Northwestern League
and enters from now on the Pacific
Coast League. The Pacific Coast
League comprises the folowing towns
on the circuit: Portland, San Fran
cisco, Oakland, Los Angeles Sacramen,
to and r Vernon. The Northwestern
League, which put up excellent ball
during the season just closed consists
of the folowing towns: Seattle, Ta
coma and Spokane. The withdrawal of
Seattle may disrupt the Northwestern
JUDGE REFUSES TD GRANT
POST AN INJUNCTION
Special to Nome Industrial Worker,
ST. LOUIS, Oct.l—Judge Smith Mc
Pherson refused the application of C.
W. Post, of Battle Creek, Mich., for an
injunction to prevent the Amjerican
Federation of Labor officials and the
Bucks Stove and Range company of
St. Louis from entering into a closed
shop agreement to-day. Judge Mo
Parson's opinion reads: “The closed
shop agreement was reached six weeks
ago, and Mr. Post as a stockholder in
the stove company knew of It and op
posed it. He has remained silent until
the last few days, when he filed his
bill of complaint asking for the injune
tion. He has given notice of this hear
ing to no defendant.
“Restraining orders should not be
issued except upon notice to the de
fendants, and then only when irre
parable harm will follow if such re
straining order is not issued. I utterly
fail to see where the harm will come
if the restraining order is not issued.”
The court says every employer of
labor has the right to determine for
himself whether his business shall be
operated as a “closed shop or and
open shop.”
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor de
nouneed the courts of this country
yesterday, in a speech before a great
crowd of laboring men at a park in
Kansas City. He told the Kansas City
men that judges are their foes, that
the court are far removed from the
people and opposed to labor, and that
though they are not actuated by evil
motives, yet they fail to administer tho
law for the great majority.
After mentioning the case wherein
he himself received a jail sentence, and
many other cases where fines wero
assessed against labor men, Mr. Gran
pers said: "It is all done in the hopo
of crushing the spirit of labor."
HEART FAILURE
CAUSES DEATH
Lying on the beach with feet to
wards the water the partially dressed
body of a man named Claus Lundell
was found by a man named Nash, Sun
day morning. At first it w’as thought
that the deceased had committed
suicide, but the medical testimony at
the inquest before Judge Schofield
and a jury impanelled by the coroner,
showed that death was from heart fail
ure following a shock of some kind.
The deceased was a miner and had
just won a law suit with the McKay
Hydraulic Mining Co. His partner
Chris Knudsen, also a well known min
er, says that he was worrying con
siderably over the lawsuit, and the
general opinion is that ho in a fit of
somnambulism he walked into the icy
waters and the shock proved fatal.
An examination which was made of his
fierrrt nurtutr i n t> a mi 1 ,,.-y utkIIjiui
and Sloan, tended to confirm this view
and it was the expert belief that
death was due to a heart failure fol
lowing a shock of some kind.
BUYS OUT
NESTOR CO.
Consolidation of the various Nome
business houses spreads space. Last
Saturday was consumated the bene
volent assimilation at a good price of
the T. J. Nestor Co., by The Nome
Brewery Co., Louis Stadie, Manager.
The Nestor Co., has been in business
here for a considerable unmber of
years, and at one time had practically
a monopoly of the local wholesale
liquor business. The new firm under
the capable management of Mr. Stadie
should continue to do a thriving busi
ness in the particular line handled by
the firm.
OBTAUMiOOD
ASSAY
Extraordinary valuable returns have
been received from ore submitted to
an outside assay office by Cha-rles
Olsen taken from his quartz claim on
Anvil near Banner station. The re
turns go away up in the thousands,
almost reaching six figures in platinum
and Yn gold. Outside capitalists are
interesting themselves in the propo
sition -and it looks as if a genuine mine
had art last been struck on the great
gold producing mountain.
The gold and platinum are returned
from the talc rock and the ore is free
milling not refractory. It is under
stood that the Pioneer Mining Co., at
one time had the property bonded but
failed to take it over. Outside capi
talists who scanned the assays of this
rock are anxiously inquiring if the
title is clear.
LOST
Between the City Bath House and
thr railroad track, as far as across the
railroad bridge, an old Ivory locket,
heartshaped, contains photo. Return
City Bath House. Reward.
#**#***#***#**#»
» BOARD OF TRADE, *
# Opposite A. B. Hall. *
# Russ Downing, Proprietor. $
«•••*•*******••••
Good prizoo for skillful bowlers at
tho Bowling Alloys.
UNION MEN
OUTWIT COURTS
Special to Nome Industrial Worker.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1—As the jury
disagreed for the third time in the
picketing cases, city prosecutors to
day showed a disposition to drop the
cases against the other men arrested,
thus indicating the union men have
won a victory. Following yesterday’s
failure to get a verdict in the case of
George Hart, who was arrested at the
Baker Iron Works, the case against
James Gray was practically dismissed
to-day by being “carried over.”
The veniremen were dismissed and
the case set aside. Court employes
state that they do not think any of
the twenty-nine prisoners in jail on
i will bo tried.
Attorneys from San Francisco ap
peared for the union labor organiza
tion to-day and began in earnest to
fight an injunction, forbidding picket
ing, issued several weeks ago by Judge
Bordwell. Louis Carlson appeared in
court in order to show cause why he
should not be cited for contempt for
failure to observe terms of repealing
order. The San Francisco lawyers
sought to prove Judge Brodwell ex
ceeded his jurisdiction. An adjourn
ment was taken to permit submission
of further authorities.
The injunction is one of several
issued at instance of firms who al
leged that tlie striking metal work
ers were interfering with their busi
ness by attempting to persuade work
men to join the strikers. They were
directed at .the metal trades council
and individual members of that or
ganization.
This-is the case mentioned some
time ago in which the strikers stated
that it was their intention to go to
jail and demand jury trials in tho
case of every man arrested for violat
ing the injunction issued, depriving
j them of their right to picket. After
! a number had been arrested, the court
got alarmed, realizing that the tax
payers would kick at the expense of
the large number of trials that would
ensue, and as a result they have drop
ped the prosecution, thus giving a
complete victory to the strikers.
GENERAL STRIKE SPAIN
SEEMS PROBABLE
Special to Nome Industrial Worker. |
MADRID, Oct. 2—The threat of the
General Labor Federation in Bilbao to
make the strike which it has inaugu
rated general throughout Spain bids
fair to be realized. The spreading of
the strike to Saragossa has alarmed the
government officials. It is now prac
tically certain that the strike will soon
include all of the industrial centers,
especially those in Barcelona where
the revolutionary spirit is more active
than anywhere else in Spain.
Should the strike continue, there is
little hope of the government being
able to hold the strikers back. Thero
arc- not enough dependable troops to
protect all the large industrial cen
ters. Rather than invite a clash with
a national labor movement, the moro
conservative leaders are urging that
the government immediately reopen
negotiations for a settlement of the .•
difficulty.
The clericals are accused of goading
on the strikers in the hope that a
general industrial upheaval will check
the anti-clerical policy of the govern
ment.
SHOE WORKERS WIH STRIKE
Special to Nome Industrial Worker.
SALEM, Mass., Oct.l—Fourteen hun
dred men returned to work here yes
terday after a general strike called in
the shoe factories nearly four weeks
ago.
The strike was called by the United
Shoe Workers of America for the pur
pose of abolishing the blacklist system
and after the firm of Straw & Dun
ham had locked out the men belonging
to the organization. A conspiracy was
proven to exist among the manufactur
ers to discharge all the union help in
their employ.
After the strike had been called sev
oral of the smaller firms involved im
mediately signed an agreement with
the union without any trouble, but six
of the larger firms decided that they
wanted to fight; however, the solidar
ity expressed among the members of
the union proved too much for them
and after a month’s contest the manu
facturers have settled with the United '
Shoe Workers of America, granting un~
ion recognition and a closed shop.
The firms last to settle are: E. S.
Woodbury, Joseph T. Hopkins, J.
Brown & Sons, the P. A. Field Com
pany and the L. G. Straw-Dunham
Company.
COURT FOR
IJHTAROD
FAIRBANKS, Alaska—According to
the demand of the people of the Idita
rod, it has been announced that a term
of the district court will be held in the
lower camp next spring or summer, for
there is already no little litigation un
der way and more In sight as Is
natural In a new camp. To date, how
ever, but three cases have been filed
from the Idltarod with the clerk of the
court, as the litigants are trying,
wherever possible, to settle their dif
ficulties before the commissioner.
On account of the number of cases
on.the docket in Fairbanks. Judge
Overfield will be busied here until
next spring, and so cannot get down
to the new camp this fall as the Idl
taroders had hoped.
The Iditarod obviously should be a
part of Nome district as it falls in that
Division quite naturally through It3
location. If a part of the Second re
vision it would be much better for all
concerned, as the Second does not have
nearly the litigation found in tho
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