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VOLUME XII.
NOME, ALASKA. THURSDAY, AUGUST. 1, 1918.
2597.
GOVERNMENT TO
TAKE OVER LABOR
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The most
impoatrnt stop yet taken by the
United States government for the
conservation of labor for war in
dustries become an acomplished
fact today when the Department of
Labor takes charge of all recruiting
for war essential industries thruout
tho nation.
Under this order no employers of
over one hundred men, except a
farmer or agent for the railroads,
may advertise for labor or take ac
tive steps to get labor except thru
the United States government em
ployment agents.
The government will furnish Labor
thru these agents and all labor wants
will hereafter be attended to thru
these bureaus which will be di
rected by the State Directors of
Labor.
The Department of Labor will
be primarily responsible for the ef
fective operation of this system
which, lit is believed, will have a
very important effect in the dis
tribution of labor thruout the coun
try. The government had long had
such plans under consideration ow
ing to the especially heavy demands
made upon labor for many pursuits
notably in harvesting etc.
The government disclaims any in
tention of conscripting labor for any
of the industries, the whole plan
being merely an extension of the
methods which have been success
fully employed to meet the labor de
mands of the ship buliding industry.
It is boleved that the new plan will
do much to relieve a somewhat ser
ious situation owing to the uneven
distlibution of labor: some places
having too much and others too
little.
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ALLIES TRYING TO
FORCE TEUTONS OACK
LONDON,—The movement of the
Allies is evidently on the Aisne
Marne front directed to pushing the
German forces to the Vesle river
where the enemy would then be in
a much inferior strategic position
and would be open to a serious
attack on center and flank. The
Germans are offering a stubborn re
sistance and delaying the Allied ad
vance in every way, offering no op
ening as they withdraw slowly, and
countering with vigor. The most
important German attack in the past
twenty-four hours on this sector of
continuous fighting was at Seringes.
Vigorously attacking with a powerful
force of fresh troops, they gained
a temporary foothold in Seringes.
The Americans however attacked
writh the bayonet and drove them out
after severe hand to hand fighting.
The Allies are rushing up all
available troops to take care of the
situation on the Vesle river front,
while the Germans in turn are
stripping every available man from
other, notably the Flanders front,
to offspt the attack.
Newspaper comment believes that
the Germans are making their stand
especially stubborn in order to im
press Americans with the enormity
of the task before them so that
they will early grow discouraged.
The fighting has however made the
Americans confident that all they
need is more men to have things
completely as they want them. They
manifest more and more confidence
in the final outcome as the fighting
continues.
A feature of Wednesday’s fighting
was the clever bombardment of the
Rheims-Fismas road which the Amer
icans bombarded with their long
range guns most effectively. Their
artillery was handled with great
effect.
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PEASANTS IN RAGE
AGAINST GERMANS
COPENHAGEN . .German dis
patches show that the Ukranian
peasants are up in arms against the
demans all over the country and
have been hampering the grain
movements out of their territory
in every way. Very serious risings
of peasants are reported near Kiev
and the government of Ukranlia Is
powerless, notwithstanding the sup
port extended by German troops.
German papers, anxious to have
grain brought to Germany, are
urging that the situation demands
strong Teuton action and that the
disorders must be suppressed.
More conservative criticism of the
I situation shows that there is little
to be hoped from the Ukraine as far
as the German supply and that what
stocks may be brought out will be
needed for the army and will not
even meet the partial needs of the
military foces In this respect. Al-i
though an agreement had been made
with Switzerland to supply grain
from Germany in June or July, the
German government owing to the
fact that there is no grain avail
able in quantity fom Ukraine has
notified Switzerland that these
promised supplies cannot bo forth
coming. The resistance of the peas
ants is removing the hope that a
partial relief might be obtained
form this quarter for the famine or
near famine conditions in Austria
or Germany.
NATIONAL LABOR BOARD
MAKES OFFICIAL REPORT
WASHINGTON, D. C.—In its re
port the National Labor Adjustment
board goes on record as being op
posed to a uniform minimum wage
in all war industries as likely to
defeat the obejcts intended. The
board as an alternative says that
wages paid in each district and> in
dustry must be decided by local
conditions as the costs of living,
rents and so forth which the men
have to meet. Investigators will
submit a separate report to the
board for each district and industry
and. submit recommendations as to
wages.
The board emphasizes the opposi
tion it feels to the continuance of
unjust or excess profits on war con
tracts and insists that the reasonable
demands of labor be granted.
It points out as a result of Its
mediation an increase of forty per
cent has been granted to street car
raiilway employees thruout various
cities in the United States, nineteen
1 in all having come under the opera
tions of the War Labor Adjustment
Board.
The report is comprehensive.
ARCTIC ARRIVES
The Arctic arrived this morning
from Kotzebue Sound and way
points. Mr and Mrs Jones of Kotze
buo and Harry Dalby from York
wore the passengers. The Arctic
sails at sevon this evening for St
Michael and way points taking Uni
ted states mail.
KAISER SAYS NOT
SCARED BY YANKS
AMSTERDAM,—On the anniver
sary of the entrance of the German
empire into the war. the Kaiser
sends out a message to his soldiers
and his people declaring their inten
tion to fight to the end for victory.
“The Americans do not frighten
us,” says the Kaiser in hs message
commemorating the beginning of the
war. He declares that the German
people and their Allies will fight
until the Teuton enemies will for
the destruction of the German empire
GERMANS SWITCH THE
BRUNT TO RHEIMS
is broken.
WJiile the text of the message
appears to be couched in the same
vain glorious strain that marks the
previous proclamatons by the Kaiser
there is noticable an undercurrent
of concern for the future, especially
in his reference to American military
force not to he observed in his re
cent messages.
PARIS,—The Americans conti.lue
to adtance notwithstanding the st ff-’
ered opposition of the German for-es
Thursday, says the official com
munique, the Americans extended
their lines two miles along the
Jaulgonne-Fismes road front.
It was here that on Wednesday
the Americans performed such effi
cient work with long range artillery.
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PARIS,—Thursday the Germans
switched the fighting to the eastern
wing of the AisnieeMarne front, at
tacking and continuously southwest
of Rheims, only to be repulsed.
The Americans drove the Germans
from Munier Wood, south of Fere
Bn Tardenois using bayonets in this
work.
The Prussians counter attacked no
less than five times in this section
only to be repulsed.
The determined attacks of the
enemy have been especially direct
ed against the Americans.
LONDON,—Thursday saw no
change in the sudden artillery ac
tivity which began the preceding day
in the Picardy and Flanders fronts,
where both sides seemed to engage
in a duel of intense violence as if
by common assent. The possibility
that these duellings may fore
shadow active infantry operations
in these sections is not to be ignored,
although the experts do not think
that the situation is such as to
promise that this will take place
Intensive infantry attacks on either
side have been confined for the most
part to the Aisne-Marne front whcra
the battle is very bitter, not to say
ferocious.
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SLAV SITUATION IS
GROWING SERIOUS
LONDON,—The recent develop
ments within Russia and the Uk
raine are having a very serious ef
fect in Germany.
Germany now threatens to recall
its Ukranian Ambassador because
of the intensive nature of the anti
German agitation in Kiev and the
surrounding country. The pro-Ger
man government of Ukraine, con
sisting of the business and landed
interests with a sprinkling of the
old nobility and all the financiers,
is growing readily powerless.
I The German papers take care to
blame the Bolshevki for this condi
tion and Germany, is said to ho
ready to break with the Lenine gov
ernment also because, it is stated
that regime’s power is waning.
The Czecho-Slav army captured
Ekaterinaburg, near the Siberian
frontier and even the Bolsheviki
papers admit that the counter revolt
is spreading rapidly thruout the na
tion.
The Czecho-Slavs have united with
1 their efforts a strong anti-German
agitation which is strongly appealing
to the Russian people who every
where have been victimized by the
German soldiers where the latter
had reached in any force.
Very important developments may
be looked for In Russia in the near
future and the press dispatches via
Amsterdam and Copenhagen indicate
that the Teutons regard the futuro
Jn the east with considerable mis
givings.
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KIEV RADICALS KILL
GERMAN FIELD MARSHALL
AMSTERDAM,—A Central News
dispatch coming via Berlin announc
es that Field Marshal Eichori and
his adjutant Captain Dressier, of
tho German army aiding the Ukranie
Rada in suppressing the radical up
rising was assassinated by a social
revolutionist who bombed the car
riage in which the two military
leaders were riding.
The announcement has created a
profound sensation in Berlin, where
the difficulty of completing the Ger
manization of Ukraine and Russia is
now realized as almost insurmount
able . The Berlin papers, call upon
the government to take measures to
destroy for ever the rvolutl an ary in
fluence in Ukrania.
As Germany is looking to the
Ukraine to relieve the semi-famine
conditions which prevail thruout the
empire, the anxiety concerning con
ditions is natural. The German pa
pers blame the influence of the Bol
sheviki for the continued unrest in
Ukraine.
COPENHAGEN,—A wireless dis
patch from Russia says that the
effort of the reactionists to get con
NEW CAMP IS SHALLOW
The Render Brothers, Frank
Whitlam master, arrived in the road
stead this morning after leaving
■provisions and supplies in the Kus
Ikokwim centers. Among other
places touchccd at was the new
camp at Watermooso creek. Cap
tain Whitlam says they have about
la couple of hundred thousand in
eight, the diggings very shallow
trol of the situation in Moscow
proved a hopeless task when they
started street fighting with the sol-.,
diers of the Soviets. The peasants
and workmen’s groups which con
trol the government met the rising
with force and the street fighting
was suppressed after a number of
cadets had been killed.
and easily worked, but the exact
extent of the pay had not been
located. He did not expect the camp
would be long lived from present
indalctions. Captain Whitlam had
command of the Ruby in South
American waters before taking over
the Bender Brothers.
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