AUSTRIAN LABOR REVOLTS
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NOKK, ALA8IA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1918.
NO. 2478.
BOLSHEVIKI DOING BIT FOR WAR
SOCIALIST SAYS
MONARCHY MUST BE
DEMORALIZED
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LONDON, Jan. 24.—The inter
esting speculation is being forward
ed in cuarters as to whether after
all the notwithstanding, its at
tempts at a separate peace, the Bol
sheviki are not accomplishing the
purposes of the allied nations in
halting the military aggression and
democratizing the nations.
The labor elements of the central
powers seem to be of a frame of
mind peculiarly receptive to the
propaganda of the Bolsheviki who
are growing more able as time goes
by to put their international peace
stuff across. (
The nows of the strike ar.d re
volt of the Vienese, workers is held
to be remarkable similar to the
wtrkers’s and soldiers uprising
which overthrew the Russian auto
crat and set going the present Rus
sian democracy. The Austrian
strike is against the government it
self rather than against employers
and the consternation overtaking
the dual monarchy is that, accord
ing to the dispo,tches, the govern
ment’s soldiers »re refusing to fire
upon the mebs of workingmen,
ami the entire Viennese garrison
have mutinied and are refusing obe
dience to military orders.
GENEVA, Switzcrand. Jan. 24.—
Dr. Adler, a socialist member of the
Austrian Chamber of Deputies in
addressing the Reichstag today an
nounced that the re\olt of the
workers has only just begun and
that what ever its vicissitudes it
will not end until the dual monar
chy is democratized.
You’ll see it first in the Worker.
BOLSHEVIKI REJECTS
GERMAN CONDITIONS
PETROGRAD, Jan. 24.—Every-1
things off again between Germany
and Russia and hostilities are ex
pected to be resumed so soon as the
reorganized Russian military forces
car*, be put in the field to drive the
Germans out of territory occupied
by them.
The Bolshevtki delegates return
ing from tho Bieot-Lilovsk confer
ence with the German envoys de
cided unanimously to reject tho
conditions imposed by Germany
which involved the surrender by
tho Russians of much territory and
her relinquishment of a considera
blc portion or her shore line on the
Gulf of Finland.
It is recalled that the Bolsheviki
delegates some woeks ago entered
the final stage of the conference re
solved to exhautt every possibility
for peace before abandoning their
labors and the present ou leone ia
regarded as meaning that Russia
realizing that h( no: able peace can
not be had must propter again for
action, notwithstanding the viol
ence to be done the new Russian
ideals
The delegates are conscious now
that throughout the conference the
German representatives have secret
ly been animated by motives utter
ly dishonest and arrogant, with no
serious intention of arriving at
poace basis.
The date set for the delivery of
their r.nswcr to the German de
mands is January 29th but it is not
believed that the unanimous deci
sion reached can now be altered
f..sid all hope of a successful nego
tiation has been abandoned.
Special New England Boiled Din
ner Wednesday and Sunday at Mo
dini’s B. O. T. Cafe.
CHAMBERLAIN DELIVERS
VIGOROUS REPLY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jail. 24.—
In a se* sr.tio*>al speech before the
Se-iate and it! galleries crowded to
capacity, Senator Chamberlain oi
Oregon flatly contradicted Presi
de-.t Wilson's statements regarding
the Senator's now famous New
York speech in which he had sharp
ly criticized tl.e Wilson ad'iiuistra
ticn in Us departments respons
ible for the conduct of the war.
The Senator proceeded to pro
dute proofs showing that he'did
consult ths President in regard co
the proposed bill to create the of
fice of Director of Munitions, not
withstanding the President’s state
! meat to the contrary, and proving
| that himself and Hitchcock had dis
cussed (he matter with the Presi
dent at the White House for an
hour and in a mo6t dramatic climax
I to his scorching remarks, reduced
a letter lram President Wilson dis
approving tho munitions plan.
Senator James of Kentucky in
terjected a defense of the President
stating that he believed Wilson had
referred to the measures creating
a war cabinet when siated that he
had not been consulted.
Seratcr Chamberlain proceeded
in a strain several denunciatory of
the administration. He denounced
the conduct of the war as a fiat
failure.
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SUBMARINES SINK SIX
MILLION THIS YEAR
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 23.—
That the German submarine cam
paign will cost the allied powers six
mHIion tons of shipping during the
present year was the sensational
statement made to the Senate In
vestigation Committee who in the
face of President Wilson’s known
displeasure is continuing its hear
ings.
William Denman former Chair
man of the Government’s Shipping
Board continued his testimony
throughout today’s inquiry and sub
mitted figures in support of his
estimates.
In the face cl' these conditions,
Mr. Denman contended that the
country could not longer afford to
neglect (ho building of wooden ves
sels, and insisted that the demand
for tonoge is so great that every
wooden ship possible should be
constructed.
GENERAL STRIKE
BECOMES REVOLUTION
IN VIENNA
BERNE, Switzerland, Jan. 24.—
By far the most outstanding fact
in tho news of the most outstand
ing war in history is that which is
arriving from Vienna the Austrian
capital.
With the world embattled and in
a deadlock grip of arms, with
starvation facing mankind, with
ruin and disaster overcoming civili
zation r.nd paralyzing the human
heart’s sense of horror and mercy,
the mission of militant labor comes
to the fore as the saving regenera
tive force.
The genera! strike of the Vienn
ese industrial workers appears de
stined to accomplish what the sta
tesmen, the diplomatists, the
strategists, the warriors and the
chanccllaries aro falling to do; to
bring the world slaughter to an
end.
The strike in Austria begins to
assume revolutionary proportions
and its success is well expected to
so mondify tho Teutonic war pur
poses as to maket hem tolerable to
the judgment ot mankind. Tho
walk-out conservatively estimated
upon the dispatches of today they'
are in a fair way to overturn tho
dual monarchy and the demand that
the war end and that a provisional
government be established on the
pattern of the Bolshevik! regime ia
Russia.
as estimate on roar Job Wort
ALASKA CORPORATIONS
PUT OVER ROUCH STUFF
Direct from Governor Strong.
JUNEAU, Jan. 24.— To the In
dustrial Worker: At the suggestion
of the Council for National De
fense, public hearings upon the pe
titions received by the Governor for
the suspension of the Territorial
Eight Hour, as affecting the lum
ber and logging industries, the
steamship and railway transporta
tion, and the operation of mines in
tho Territory, jvill be held at the
offioo of the Governor at Juneau,
beginning at eleven o’clock, Febru
ary 5th, next Tuesday.
Persons and companies desiring
to be heard either for or against
the petitions should be present or
arrange for authorized representa
tives to appear. (Signed)
f STRONG, Governor.
(Editorial Note.—To any one ac
quauted with the antagonism to
ward organized labor and to the
work people generally in the terri
torial capital the above is a grin
ning ghastly joke. What a fat
chance the workers of Nome, or
elsewhere for that matter have for
getting an authorized representa
tive at the hearing February 5th,
next! And what a fat chance they
would have to prevail if they were
there! The program of the sllck
Bters will go through.
The assumption of any need ex
isting for the suspension or evasion
of this just law adopted by the peo
ple is a raw piebald lie. Not a
town in the territory but that is
over supplied with men and as ia
Nome a great number of workers
idle, going in debt where ihey can,
to eat, and consuming next sum
mer’s wages in advance. The Cor
poration program will prevail—for
a while. >
WAR PROFITEERS
AMASSING WEALTH
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jon. 24.—I
Tho Federal Trade Commission in
making its report to Congress to
day on the leather industry hts ro
veaied most startling Increases in
profits extorted by the meat pack
er*. Swift and Company and the
Armour ar.d Company.
The Comission reports that the
stocks of h'dcs stored by these con
cerns is abnormally large while the
tanning plants are everywhere ope
rating lar below capacity because
of inability to secure tho raw ma
terials held at extortionate prices
by the packing concerns.
That the excessive prices of
shoes and leather goods iB the in
evitable result of these combina
tions is the conclusion of the Com
mission.
WASHINGTON. D. C., Jan. 24.—
In the face of hundreds of resolu
tions and protests for autocratic
methods and practices, the bulk of
which have come from labor orga
nizations in various parts of the
country the Senate today voted un
animously to confirm the renomfna
It will be recalled that the Gov
ernment’s Shipping Board was cre
ated for the purpose of speeding up
the building of merchant ships
with a view to keeping pace with
Germany’s submarine accomplish
ments. In his testimony yesterday
Mr. Derman showed that the yards
of the worldi were not keeping pace
with the submarine destruction of
shipping.
From the beginning Mr. Denman
has persistently expounded his no
tion that the construction of wood
en bhips offered the solution, if any
is to be bad, to the government's
chipping problems.
AT SONS OP THE NORTH HAIX
There will be Social Dance at
the Sons of the North Hall, Satur
day, Jan. 26, at 9 P. M. Every
body invited. A good time guaran
teed. COMMITTEE.
Fur garments made and repaired
at the Nome Tailoring Company.
bet nr estimate on /our Job Work
ion of Albert S. Burleson to be
Postmaster General.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21.—
rhat the control of the railroad re
cently assumed by the Federal Gov
ernment will terminate with the
conclusion of peace and the resto
ration of peace conditions is antici
pated as a result of the action of
:he congressional committee declar
ing the measure to be war emer
gency only.
Anything In the line of Job worlr
WEATHER REPORT.
U. S. Weather Bureau.
Nome, Alaska, Jan. 24, 6 A. .1.
Temperature: Max. 3, Min. 6.
Barometer: 29.105 inches.
Weather: Clear.
Wind: N., !) miles per hour.
5 recipitation: None
Jan. 24, 6 P. M.
Temperature: Max. —4, Min,
—9.
Barometer: 30,321 inches.
Weather: Clear.
Wind. N., 6 miles per hour.
Precipitation: None.