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TOLOME XI.
NOME, ALASKA. SATURDAY FEBRUARY, 1, 1010.
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PROMINENT CHINESE
FOULLY MURDERED
WASHINGTON, Feb 1—Three
high caste Chinamen have been found
dead by the local police to>ce in a
fashionable home in this city. Alarm
ed by hearing quite a number of shots
fired in the residence occupied by the
Chinese Educational Commission, the
police made an investigation and
found Dr Theodore Wong, Director
of the Commission and his assistants,
C. H. Sire and Ben Wee dead from an
assassins bullets. The Chinese ser
vants employed by the Commission
have disappeared and all efforts to
locate them have so far been unavail
ing.
The Commission was dispatched by
the Chinese government to study the
Amerifscan educational system, and
their death it is feared may cause in
ternational complications.
The police have rounded up several
suspicious characters, but the mur
derers have left no clew behind and
the police are puzzling over the mo
tive for the assassination.
U. S. Secret service men are assist
ing the local police in unraveling the
mystery.
UNIONS ENDORSE
GENERAL STRIKE
SEATTLE, Jan 30—he Unions
comprising the local Central Labor
Council voted favorably on the sym
pathic strike to be called here to as
sist the striking shipbuilders.
A meeting to be held tomorrow
will settle and announce the day the
strike is to become effective.
Alaska faces starvation should the
strike be prqlonged for any length of
time as the longshoremen will join the
-strikers and no vessel will be loaded
to carry much needed supplies to
Alaska.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 28—Repre
sentatives of the U. S. Shipping Board
have officially stated that 30 thous
and shipbuilders may go on strike in [
San Francisco and the Bay cities on
February 1st, as a protest against,
the award made by the Macy Board
in the pending wage question.
The*Shipping Board officials stated
that should the shipbuilders persist in
declaring a strike on the date set, all
contracts for the building of vessels
for the Merchant marine, held by
local firms will immediately be can
celled.
It is not known what the shipbuild
ers intend to do regarding this threat
of the Shipping Board officials.
CONTRACTS CANCELLED
SEATTLE, Jan 27—Owing to the
Strike of the Shipbuilders on Puget
Sound, the Government Emergency
Fleet Corporation has ordered the
cancellation of all existing contracts
betwen it and the shipbuilding com
panies.
This will entail a very heavy loss
upon the Puget Sound communities
involved in the strike, if the cancella
tion becomes effective.
Hopes are expressed here that the
strikers may recede from their posi
tion and resume work at the old
wage scale, which oecmr. hardly likely
as the strikers look upon the proposed
action of the government as a threat
to scare them into suspending the
strike.
JAPAN WANTS
ALL THE LOOT
PARIS, Jan 29—The first serious
-disagreement between the great
Powers at the Peace Conterence has
resulted from the magnitude of
Japans claims in China and the Pa
cific. The other Powers have been
suable so far to induce her to mod
erate her demands.
Japan openly seeks and claims
dominance over China, claiming to be
entitled to it, as the greatest Power
•n the Pacific. »
Japan also lays claim to certain
Important islands an the Pacific,
which the other powers are unwilling
to see controlled by Japan.
President Wilson and the other
American delegates have firmly re
fused to recognize Japans claims for
the dominance of China.
The Chinese envoys expressed
themselves as enphatically opposed
to the claims of Japan, regarding
China. The disagreement seems like
ly to cause considerable friction
among the delegates owing to the un
willingness of Japan to moderate her
demands.
JAPAN AGREES
PARIS, Jan 30—It is reported here
that the Japanese Peace envoys have
agreed to abide by any decision the
Peace Council may make regarding
the disposal of all German colonies.
-The Japanese envoys are reported to
have stipulated that none of Ger
many's colonies must be returned to
ber.
Very stormy sessions are reported
to have taken place, owing to Japans
demands and only the epormous in
fluence wielded by President Wilson
is supposed to have induced Japan
to moderate her demands.
Japan had firmly insisted that the
bargain madQ between her and some
of the Allied powers which induced
her to enter the war for democracy,
be strictly adhered to.
Pressure brot to bear by President
Wilson and the Peace delegates from
Australia and New Zealand, wtio ut
terly opposed any further accession
of power by Japan In the Pacific has
Induced Japan to recede from her
pretensions.
The Japanese delegates are report
ed to be in a rather sullen mood over
their diplomatic defeat.
The disposal of the German col
onies is proving itself a hard nut to
crack and further trouble about it is
expected here in diplomatic circles.
U. S. RECOGNIZES
POLISH INDEPENDENCE
WASHINGTON, Jan 29—The U. S.
State Department has officially an
nounced that as Poland has estab
lished an Independent and stable gov
ernment the United States has grant
ed the Poles the desired recognition
as a free and independent nation.
The Polish people will bo repre
sented by their own envoys at the
Peace Conference where their claims
for the adjustment of their boundary
lines will be adjudicated.
The other great powers are expect
ed to recognize Poland’s independ
ence alsp, thus facilitating the work
of the Peace Conference in dealing
with the affairs of^ Poland.
The Polish societies in the United
States are highly elated over the ac
tion taken by the United States gov
ernment.
They expressed their confidence
that the other Great Powers would
endorse the action taken by the U. S.
ROSENE I»IES
SEATTLE Jan 28—John Rosene, a
well known Alaska pioneer, organizer
of the Northwestern Commercial Co.,
died here, as a result.of a sudden at
tack of heartfailure. Rosene was of
late years the guiding spirit of sev
eral large Alaska enterprises.
WANT MILLIONS
FOR UNEMPLOYED
WASHINGTON, Jan 30—Seer >tary
of Labor Wilson speaking before the
U. S. Senate Committee on Education
stated that at least one million me.r
were unemployed at present in the
United States with this number in
creasing daily.
According to his calculation more
men are out of work now than in 1017
Secretary Wlson urged the Com
mltee to make an appropriation of
one hundred million dollars to re
lieve '.he situation.
When asked whether he expected
to see the v-ages of the workets de
creased he stated that he did not
think it likely, but he expoo'.^l to
3ee a decrease in the cost of raw ma
terial.
WASHINGTON, Jan 2S—The U.
S. Senate Postofflce Committee favor
ably reported an appropriation of two
hundred and sixty million dollars foi
establishment of new, and the bet
terment of old postroads in the United
States for the next three years
Preference for this work is to be
given to discharged soldiers, wherever
feasible, to relieve the already over
crowded labor market.
WASHINGTON, Jan 27—The
House of Representatives unanimous
ly passed the bill allowing Mrs T.
Roosevelt a pension of $5,000 per
year and granting her the free use of
the U S mail.
WASHINGTON, Jan 28—The Com
mittee on Postoffice Affairs of the
House of Representatives has made a
recommendation that all government
control of the wireless and telegraph
systems cease on December 31, 1919.
This recommendation* will be op
posed by many representatives who
are in favor of government owner
ship of all wireless plants and tele
1 graph lines in the U. S.
RADICALS WANT
SOCIALIST REPUBLIC
BERLIN, Jan 28—The Spartacus
Radicals have pledged their delegates
to the newly elected German Assem
bly to be untiring in their efforts to
thoroughly socialize Germany and to
persist until the present economic
system in Germany has been changed
from a system of being beneficial to a
few to where it will be beneficial to
the majority.
The Radical delegates are pledged
to resign their seats if unable to pre
vail upon the majority to institute a
complete reform in the German eco
nomic system and the establishment
of a thoroughly socialistic republic.
BERLIN, Jan 28—The first act of
the newly elected German Assembly
w.il be to declare Germany a democ
racy and to establish a government on
thoroughly democratic ideals.
Some delegates have voiced their
sentiments in regards to the complete
surrender of Germany as being un
willing to submit to it. Some heated
discussions are expected to take place
when the latter peace conditons comes
up for consideration in the Assembly.
BERLIN, Jan $0—Reports from
upper Silesia state that the striking
coal miners of this district have
gone back to work and that the strike
which threatened to assume serious
proportions has been settled
LONDON, Jan 30—Reports from
Paris received by the Evening Stand
ard state that the Peace envoys have
elminated the question of forcing
Germany to pay the Allies the full
war costs incurred by them. The
delegates have agreed that repara
tion done for damage caused by the
German Armies will be demanded.
GET THE nKtt’S RIGHT. HEAD
THE WORKER.
STRIKE SPREADING
IN GREAT BRITAIN
GLASGOW, Scotland, Feb 1—Sol
diers are patrolling the streets of
this, city to prevent further rioting by
the striking shipbuilders.
Fifty three persons have been se
verely injured by the soldiers and
n^Mce when the latter attempted to
clear the streets and restore order.
The strikers were severely handled
owing to the resistance made when
soldiers were calld out to stop the
rioting.
GLASGOW Scotland, Jan 31—Ser
ious rioting by striking shipbuilders
has taken place here. Mounted Po
Ice endeavoring to clear the streets
and restore order, severely injured
many strikers in a charge made
against the mob.
Complete order has been restored.
Some of the rioters have been im
prisoned and will be severely dealt
with.
LONDON, Jan 28—The strike of
the shipbuilders for a reducti n of
hours is assuming serious proportions
One hundred and sixty five thousand
being involved In shipbuilding plants
on the Clyde Scotland and Belfast
Ireland.
While other tens of thousands sus
pended work in scattered plants all
over Great Britain.
LONDON' Jan 30—Three hundred
and twenty thousand shipbuilders and
Coal miners in Great Britain are out
on strike for a reduction of their
working hours to forty four per week
Industrial establishments employ
ing over five hundred thousand work
ers were forced to suspend opera
tions owing to the lack of fuel and
raw material All efforts to adjust
the differences betw'een the employers
and thes trikers have so far been un
availing as both sides refuse to recede
Unemployment owing to the strike
the suspension of many war indus
tries and the discharging of men at
the battle front is getting so preva
lent that the whole British nation is
alarmed and all kinds of rente lies are
suggested to relieve the labor mar
ket.
Sir Eric Geddes among others has
proposed that the workers take over
all British industries and operate
them on a cooperative basis. Much
opposition has been aroused to his
revalutlonary proposal, but condi
ditons are becoming so serious, that
unless something is done to find em
ployment for the ever growing num
ber of men out of work, serious con
sequences may arise.
British labor has become conscious
of its power, and is seemingly not in
the humor to knuckle down to the
British employer at pre-war wages
and go to work under pre-war condi
tions.
Several meetings of the British
Cabinet have been held to discuss the
situation and to find a way to relieve
the present disturbing situation.
BELFAST, Ireland, Jan 28—All
shipbuilders in this city have gone
out on strike, Joining the British ship
builders in demandiing a reduction of
their working hours to fourty fear a
week.
The employers have refused to
grant the demands of the strikers and
all construction and repair work on
all vessels has been suspended.
LONDON, Jan 28—Ten thousand
men engaged in shiprepair work have
joined the striking shipbuilders in
their demands of a reduction of work
ing hours to fourty four per week.
GLASGOW, Feb 1—Several thous
and strikers have at the Rosyth Nav
al Station agreed to return to work
pending a settlement of their de
mands by arbitration.