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NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1918.
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VIGOROUSLY FAVORS 8 HOUR DAY
PRESIDENT AMERICAN
FEDERATION LADOR
UPHOLDS 8 HR. DAY
CHICAGO, Feb. 2.!.- Federal Dis
Irict Judge, Samuel Ala d. tiler. who
is sitting as Government Arbiirator,
in the adjustment of the differences
of the packers end their employees
today listened to the testimony of
Samuel Gompers, President of the
American Federation of Labor.
Gompers. speaking in behalf of the
empoyees, recited to Judge Alschuler
the history of the eight-hour day.
The first agitation for the eight-hour
day was started in »M?il by the
striking employees c" the Gould
Railway System next came the i trike
at the McCormick Harvester Works,
at which time the police—who in
those days were mostly always equal
to the gun men of today, for igncr-!
ance and brutality—fired into t'.e
defenceless strikers killing some,
ajid wounding many of their num
ber. This happened on the third
day in May, 1886, the workers gath
ered at Haymarket Square, in a
great protest meeting; Everything
went smoothly until near the close
of the meeting when the barbarians
at that time composing the Chicago
Police, without any warning or just
ification brutally began to attack
those present. Then some of the
agents of the McCormack Co.—very
likely some sneaking Pinkerton—
threw a bomb, into the crowd.
killing seven men and wounding
fifty. Immediately the powers of
‘Justice’ were set in motion and a
number of men who had been prom
inent in organizing and addressing
the meeting were hung, and some
imprisoned. The prosecution, stood
on the same lame leg as all murder
ing prosecutors of labor stand the
men were charged with being anar
chists. A word at that time under
stood to mean the preaching of
violence.
Governor John P. Altgelt, when
he pardoned the imprisoned men in
1893, very conclusively proved, after
a thorough investigation of the case,
that the men were in no way con
nected with the throwing of the
bomb. The evidence very clearly
showed that the convicted men
were the unoffensive victims of po
lice injustice. He scathingly con
demned the trial as persecution of
the most damnable. Then came
the touble at Thiess’ Music Hall in
New York, when the boycott system
—very much in use at that time by
employers, against labor—was used
by the workers. Many of the men
were arrested, charged with violat
ing the anti-conspiracy law, found
guilty and sent to Sing Sing prison.
This sham so aroused the indigna
tion of labor that 36,000 signatures
were signed to a petition requesting
Henry George (the great Single Tax
Advocate) to run for Mayor ot New
York. George was elected beyond
a doubt, but the political crooks
counted him out—Just as they a
short time ago, attempted to count
out John B. Baer, the representative
of the Non-Partisan League of
North Dakota.
George originated the slogans
‘The Land for the People’ and ’The
Masses against the Classes’, which
was the first real awakening of the
people and struck terror to the
heart of plutocracy. The Chicago
murders and the ‘George movement’
were epoch-makers. Tammany Hall,
the incubator of such parasites as
Aaron Burr and ‘Bill’ Tweed, two
of the finest specimens of ‘Society
saviors’ that ever blackened the
pages of American History, was
shaken to its very foundations.
Then came the Great Pullman
strike n 1894, which, cost millions
in money and thousands of lives.
Mr. Gompers in closing his testimony
said that he would not urge the
adoption of the eight-hour day one
minute if he'thought it would re
tard the government one iota in
winning this war.
WM. MALONEY OUT FOR
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
One of the telegrams which were
handed into the Worker office last
evening, was from Juneau. It stated
-that Mr. William Maloney, the pres
sent Territorial Mining Inspector
has filed his petition with the Clerk
of the Court at Juneau, announcing
himself as a candidate for the office
of Delegate from Alaska. The tele
gram did not give the names ot
iho other candidates, it said there
was a strong opposition ticket in
the field, against the Sulzer, Jen
nings, Grigsby and Donahue com
bine.
(For many years past, we have
been personally acquainted with Mr.
Maloney. He was born in Virginia
nearly 44 years ago. He came
West when quite a young man, and
worked for several years throughout
the State ot' Colorado. Maloney ar
rived in Nome during the summer
of 1900. In the early history of
this camp he was one of the firm
known as the Maloney and Sutton
Penny River Ditch Company. The
Penny river ditch was practically
the first ditch of any length in
this section of the country. Durin
w
I the Palmy days of the Third Beach
line, he' was one of the leading op
| orators on the Diamond L claim,
! and as far as we know he has always
been fair towards organized labor.
Later he became dredge-master
for the Seward Dredging Co., at
Solomon.
!
Mr. Maloney ,vas appointed Tcr
j ritorial Mining Inspector in August,
| 19X3, and he has been re-appointed
' twice since then, by Governor
gStrong. Ed.)
SCHEIDEMAN SAYS WORKMEN
OPPOSED KAISER’S POLICY
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 28.—Phillip
Scheideman, one of the leaders o.
the German Socialists, in a speech
before the Reichtag, attacked the
Kaiser’s declaration, "German)
must fight, until the world ack
nowledges that she is the victor’’.
Scheideman said that he could say
' without any fear or contradiction,
that the majority of the German
people did not agree with the Kai
ser’s declaration, and that he was
positive from the information in
his possession, that, the working
people, as a whole were directly
opposed to any such policy.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 28.-- 1
The Bureau of Statistics, of the i
Department of Labor today Issued i
a statement showing that the cost j
of living has Increased, on the aver s
age, over 35% during the past ;, 5ar. i
Every article of food shows an in- J
crease In cost with the possible ex- f
eeption of potatoes, which decreased t
about 16?;.. Important articles 1
which have t" pcrienced an unusual t
increase are bacon fi:%, lard 53%, t
ham 42%, butter 25%, eggs 23%.
sugar 19',% and flor." 17dr. I’hese
increases are abnormal and entire!', f
unwarranted says the report and the i
)epartment now has a hall a dozen
nvestigation going on in different
arts of the country to ascertain
ust who mr.y bo responsible. Pro
ecutions have been started in some
nstances, namely, in the case of
Lmerican Butchers and packers re
using to buy millions of pounds
f frozen meat and thousands of
iead of cattle from Mexico, and
rill be instituted in other cases in
he immediate future.
Express and General Delivery,
iee Erickson at Mansfield's Cigar
itore.
POWERFUL!. FLEET OF
BATTLESHIPS HEADED
TOWARD PETROGRAD
COPENHAGEN, Eeb. 28.—A pow
erful German battle-fleet has been
sighted steaming Northward, at lull
speed, in the Baltic Sea This ’.as
led to the lit lief that Gremany ap
parently is plannng an attack upon
Petrograd from the sea It is also
reported hitr that Field JMirshal
vou Hindenbe rg, who has gone to
Dvinsk has ordered a cessation at
hostilities ui a mnsty mile front
between Viu bsk on the 1'sha river
and Mohliev on the Dnieper river
The workmen and soldiers continue
to pour into Petrograd from the
East, North-Eastand North, and
after being supplied with equipment
are being rushed to the different
battle-fronts to stem 'the German
tide. It is this constant pouring
in of new troops, thereby stiffening
the Russian resistance that has led
von Hindenberg to change his plans,
it is believed and the German fleet
will now be brought up for an at
tack from the sea.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 2S.—
The State Department has today
received a despatch from Moscow
dated February 26, in which it is
stated, that at that time the Ger
mans were advancing slowly to
wards Pskoff. The despatch as
serts that thousands of soldiers and
peasants are coming into Moscow
from the East and Southeast and
are immediately being rushed some
to Petrograd and the rest to the
various other battle fronts.
The despatch .also states that the
recent reports coming into Moscow
from Odessa, tend to confirm all
previous reports to the effect that
not only Odessa but mostly all of
Little Russia is now voluntarily sup
porting the Maximalists or Bolshe
viki government. The reuresenta
tives of the Bolsheviki government
express no fear of the Germans1
being able to take Petrograd but
cannot understand, since tlie Allies
have been so anxious, to see Russia
reenter the war, why it is, that now
since Russia has proven, that she
will not submit, to domination, by
the Kaiser, and that she is not
against the Allies; the Allies still
seem to look upon her sugjugation
by the Kaiser as a settled tact and
so far seem to be making no attempt
to break through tho German lines
on the West front.
The State Department fails to un
derstand how Russia can have such
a mistaken idea of the aims of the
Allies, and says that every effort,
is being made by the Allies to re
lieve the strain on the Eastern front
that they realize what a great store
house Russia will prove if overcome
by Gemany and how it would surely
prolong the w'ar for years.
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TOWNLEY ARRESTED;
PEEVED POLITICIANS
ST. PAUL. Feb. 28.—A. C. Town
ley, President of the Non-Partisan
League has been arrested here,
charged with conspiracy to oiscour
age enlistments and to obstrmt tii •
draft. Mr. Townley was a, very
active member in gaining control
of the state governments of Minne
sota, North Dakota and attempting
to gain control of all the North
western States for the Non-Partisan
League for the past two years or
more. The League succeeded in
downing the corrupted officials of
both the old political parties and
are now beginning to feel the pres
sure of these bloated croous, who
since they have been thrown out oi
their soft snaps are seeking the over
throw of the League and running
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true to form, they do not hesitate
to use the courts in their filth
methods.
Townly together with Secretary
Joseph Gilbert, who is also under
arrest were the twro most active m
going about among the farmers both
night and day, to form the League
for protection against the grafting
politicians of both the old parties.
Hence the singling out of these
two men, not because tluy were
doing anything wrong but because
they showed they had backbone
somewhat stiffer than jelly-fish.
They sent Mr. Baer to represent
the League in Congess, this being
another offense for which they
should undoubtedly be punished.
These carping ‘patriotic' hypo
crites use various methods to got,
, their victims, but if all other means
fail they resort to the dirtiest and
most cowardly of all, which is to
wrap themselves in the flag and
then accuse their victims of being
pro-German. The most filthy epi
thet that can be applied to a gen
uine American citizen, and which
immediately brings down the blind
wrath of the nation. To be accused
is almost certain to pro\e ones
guilt, although a salute to the flag,
from the low-down, vile, hypocrite
who does the accusing is in real
ity. more of an atrocious insult to
that Glorious Emblem than if it
had been trampled upon.
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APPALLING STATE AFFAIRS
IN AUSTRALIAN HOSPITAL
MELBOURNE, Feb. 28—What was
described as an appalling state of af
fairs wits revealed at a meeting of the
women’s hospital committee here to
day.
It was stated that 236 cases of sep
ticaemia had been admitted to the in
stitution since January 1st. The pres
ident, Mrs Brenan, said 19 patients
came in together, two days ago and
since then 14 of them died. It was
stated that there are 61 cases in the
hospital at he present time.
The Victorian Institution the
longest of its kind throughout the
country. When all the beds set apart
for these particular kind of cas ; an
occupied, the patients are accomodated
on verandahs.
Many patients came into the hospital
'n a dying ocpi’ltion, anl the recent
mortality has counted ag-.icst the fair
fame of the t.i«atution. wlroeh was one
of the most successful in Austral hr.
i IThe Covcrnmcnt has ^resolved to
make a thorough investigation .as to
the cause of this dfeadful disease.
(Septicaemia means putrid blood,
or a state of blood without secondary
abscesses, a kind of pyaemia with in
tense fever, and great constitutional
disturbances from blood poisoning. The
antiseptic researches of Lister and of
I’.istuer lead to the hope that septicae
mia will in future he of rare occur
ence. Ed.)
MELBOURNE, Eel). 28—Several
valuable nuggets have been found on
the surface in the Ballarat district
recently. One poor woman found a.
lump of gold, valued at 3G4 pounds
among the grave! and rocks on the
Smyth os dale road. Numerous .smaller
nuggets have been picked up on some
of the roads in Ballarat South, in the.
vicinity of abandoned alluvial mines.
Last w'eek Mr. J. Hardy, while
walking over the area of the old
Queen Mining Company, found a
quartz specimen containing 17oa.
of gold, valued at over 60 pounds.
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