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NOME, ALASKA. -SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1918.
NO. 2528.
REPRESENTATIVES OF
LABOR, CAPITAL AGREE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 29.—
The Conferencoof Labor and Capital
urgently requested a short time
ago, by President Wilson, has finally
got down to business and announces
that it has arrived at a solution
which is agreeable to Labor, Capital
and the Public.
The representatives of Labor and
Capital after meeting here selected
Frank R. Walsh famous Labor At
torney and W. H. Taft, former Pres
ident of the United States, to repres
ent the Public on the new board
to be called, “The American Plan
ning Board.”
This board has boon holding daily
conferences ever since its organiza
tion has become completed.
It has been agreed that the great
est necessity confronting the Nation
today, and the most vital of all, in
the successful prosecution of the
a
war, 's the elimination o£ the con
stant friction between Labor and
Capital.
If the war is to bo won, Labor,
before everything else is necessary;
we can well do- without the profit
eers, it was shown but not without
Labor, therefore if we are going to
win the war Labor must be pacified,
and the National Labor policy as
promulgated by the Labor Planning
Board, i3 hailed by the leaders of the
American Federation of Labor, "as
a great victory for Labor.
The agreement provides first of all
for the recognition of Union, and
this alone Labor leaders declare is
the greatest Labor victory in his
tory.
The agreement further provides
for the establishment of a Supreme
Court of Labor and Capital, before
which all disputes of whatever
I nature arising between Labor and
I Capital, shall be adjusted.
| Common Labor is to be guaranteed
I wages in proportion to the high
cost of living. This means that the
minimum wages paid to the Com
mon Laborer shall be $4.10 per day.
All women workers who are now
or who may in the future take the
places of men shall receive the same
compensation as the men formerly
employed at that class of work.
And last, there is absolutely no
thing said about the open shop, this
means but one thing if it means
anything, and that is there will
hereafter be no open shop in Ameri
can industries.
The agreement is compiled by
ex-President Taft and will continue
in eftect during the period of the
war.
PLEDGE THEMSELVES
TO ASSIST HOOVER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 29
Leading men o the nation hav
pledged themselves, to Food Admin
istrator Hoover, to abstain fron
■white bread themselves and to se
that it does not appear on thei
tables again, until after tho nex
wheat crop is harvested and mad
into flour.
Confronted with the predictioi
of a world wide famine the Hous
today, passed by an overwhelmin,
majority, the Bill providing for ;
plentiful supply of seed to be furn
- ished the farmers the coming sea
s son.
The Bill provides that the sum of
1 17,500,000 be apprpriated for this
i purpose as recommended by Rep
p rescntative Miller of Minnesota, some
t time ago.
3 Mr. Miller told the Houce that
this system had been adopted in
i France in the beginning of the war
; and had proved quite effective.An
; other recommndation made by Mil
i ler, which, if adopted, by the Amer
- ican consumer, will do much, to
alleviate, both the scarcity off flour,
and the great waste of food values
in the manufacture of flour, is that
as many as posible of the American
housewives use the Italian system of
taking the whole wheat and either
grind it. themselves in coffee mills
or other small mills, or soak the
whole grain for twenty-four hours
and use it in Its enterity to make
bread. Bread made in either of the
above ways is much more whole
some and nutricious, he says, than
bread made from the white flour.
TWELVE BILLION DOLLAR
BOND TO BE ISSUED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 29.—
Representative Claude Kitchen
Chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee, and therfore one
speaking with authority for tho gov
ernment, announces that the next
issue of government War Bonds will
bo for $12,000,000,000 instead of
$8,000,000,000 as formerly an
nounced.
The bends will be issued in spite
of urgent recommendation of Kitch
on and may others of the House i
and a number of the members of ■
the Senate and even President Wil
son, himself, that the larger part
rt the money necessary for the pro
secution of the war be, raised by
taxation, that the nation may pay
L.3 it gaCS.
All recommendations looking to
v/r,rd3 tho financing of the war by
those who have money and are able
to finance the war, it would seem are
LONGE RANGE BOMBARDMENT
OF PARIS RESUMED
PARIS, March 29—The long range
bombardment of this city was resumed
this morning and has resulted In the
loss of the lives of 7 people, 19 ser
iously injured, a great many slightly
injured and a large amount of damage
to residence property.
As the shells seem to be coming from
different dnrection and appear to
come from a position closer to tlie
city, fears are being felt for many
o fthe famous buildings and French
Works of Art within the city.
The gun fire seems to be more regu
lar and at shorter intervals indicat
ing that the Germans must have moved
the position and increased the number
of guns.
to be ignored. 2
Senator Lafollette in the Senate
recommended tl’..-:t the war profits
of the Nation should be taxed at
least as much as they are in Ro
land, and for that he is to be
hounded from the United States Sen
ate by the profiteers.
Caulking Cotton, Oakum, Candle
Wicking, Cylinder Oils, Axle Grease,
Anchors, Everything at HOLT'S.
All Must Register
Who Became 21
Since Last June
WASHINGTON, March 29—The Sen
ate today passed the bill requiring all
men who have reached the age of
twenty one years since. June 5th of last
year, to register for the draft.
It Is estimated by Army authorities
that the number effected by this meas
ure will result in over 700,000 more reg
istrants who wll be immediately avail
able for service'.
FRENCH AIRMEN CAUSE
VAST DESTRUCTION!
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 29 —
French airmen swooped clown 01
the City of Mulliauscn in Alsaci
about sixteen miles from the Frencl
line and succeeded in dropping more
than five tons of high explosives 01
the large German munition plant!
| completely wrecking three of thi
larger plauts.
Thirty German planes were des
croyed by the French flyers anc
much damage was done to the rail
ways and depots.
The plauts, some of which have
bco:i recently established were furn
ishing thousands of shells now being
used in the great offensive.
Thousands of shells and hundreds
cf thousands of rounds of smal
arms ammunition, much of whicl
was already loaded in errs ready foi
shipment was completely destroyed
when the warehouses and cars
caught fire from the explosive bombs
While this will not have any mat
erial effect in slowing up the Ger
mm artillery fire immediately, ii
will effect the drive to a considerable
degree, if the present battle lasts
many more clays.
The French bird men all returned
safely to their hangars.._
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 29.—
General Pershing advices the Wax
Department that ho has offered the
American Army in France, for ser
vice in the great battle now raging
in Picardy.
He reports the British have suc
cessfully countered North of the
■ S:mae, and in so doing have reg-.in
i od several of the lost positions
i The French hrve captured Mouch
i cl, taking a number of German pris
i oners and machine guns and have
sucessffuUy retained all groin'd won
i in the vicinity of Mon.didier.
i GeneralJ. F. Bell, formerly Adjut
lant General of Colorado, and who
has recently returned from a trip
to France told the Senate Scmmittee
on Miitary Affairs, that all retire
ment movements by the British in
i France had been pre-arrar.ged and
that the retirement plan was now
about ended.
ne stated tne great army of re
serves now massed behind the Allied
lines would soon be launched on the
Germans who have now about ex
hausted themselves.
The French drive on the Noylon
salient is continuing to drive the
Germans from their new positions be
fore it was possible for them to
bring up their monster guns to cover
these positions in a manner suffi
ciently strong to protect them from
the French heavy artillery.
It is reported that not a single
peace of French heavy artillery has
so far been captured in this great
battle and that the entire credit is
due to General Focli.
Foeh is now acknowledged by all
General Allied Officers to be the real
genius of the Allied defense.
Pershing in his reports to the
War Department has continually re
commended that Gneral Foch be
named as Cotnmancrer i:t Chief of
the Allied Armies; Pershing realiz
ing that nothing but chaos coalcl
possible come of the hap-hazard
method of control.
Von Hindenberg in tho earliest
part of the war in conjunction with
Lmler.dorff, realized that there must
be .a War Head and Pershing has
not been studying the game in
Europe for nothing. In recognizing
i the genius in Foch, Pershing has
proven that his powers of perception
are very keen, and that when the
time comes to assure his duties as
Commander in Chief he will dadoed
ho a worthy successor, to General
F >ch—the Hero of the Marne.
It has been understood here in
official cirsle3 that the President ha3
been paying marked attention to
Pershing’s reports and that ho has
urged the recommendation of Persh
ing, for now comes the report that
FOch has been made Commander in
Chief. And Washington is well
pleased with judgement aid tact dis
played by General Pershing. He
has lifted a great weight from tho
shoulders of the American Army
and the American Nation. He. has
shown that he is not in the least
jealous of the ability of another,
that he is quick to recognize real
ability ad the people of all the
Allied countries can congratulate
themselves in at last gettir g in the
right groove.
President Wilson has cabled his
' congraulat’or.s to the commrider in
[chief.
FROM PARIS & BERLIN
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I PARIS, Mar. 29.—German offens
ive is apparently exhausted, and the
French counter attacks are causing
the enemy to fall back in many
places.
At al! other places the Allies
are offering a stiff resistance.
The German advance now seems
i deflnately checked at Montdidir.
I With the check to their South
west thrust, the Germans now seem
to be concentrating their forces for
the main drive on Amiens which
now forms the point of the angle
between the Somme and Avre rivers.
At the urgent request of Amer
ica, General Foch has been made
Commander in Chief of the Allied
ha3
caused great rejocing in this city and
throughout the entire country
France feels that no honor can be
too great lor the Hero of the Marne.
BERLIN, Mar. 29.—The War of
fice announces that the German of
fensive continues to progress in ac
cordance with the plans of the Gen
eral Staff. «. .1
More than 79,000 unwounded
prisoners and 2,100 guns have fallen
into the hands of the Germans since
the great drive commenced.
In the sector between Arras and
Albert thp British continue to retreat
Between the somme and the Avre
the British have been forced back
in a North-westerly direction. More
prisoners being taken near A ban
court and Warfusse.
Between Mondidier and Simpigny
the French are now delivering vio
lent counter attacks and the German
left flank lias been forced back for
a slicrt distance but the attack cost
the enemy many men.
The Germans are bringing up
reinforcements to protect both right
and left flank while the main blow is
being struck at Amiens.
The British and French are re
ported to bo bringing up more re
serves but have failed to halt the
main Goimm drive on Amiens.
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GOVERNOR APPEALED TOO
IN DEHALF OF MOONEY
SAN DIEGO, March 23— Governor
Stephens of Colifomia, who is a guest
at the Hotel del Coronado, is today in
receipt of a lengthy message from
President Wilson.
The Governor iulmits that the Presi
dent’s message contained an urgent
request for clemency for Thomas
Mooney the victim of the San Krancis
oo from® up gang who have recently
caused al faimiinded and decent peo
ple to hold their noses w-here-ever
the natme of the city is mentioned.
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He states, that he will issue a full
statement of his intentions tomorrow
after he has had time to consider the
President’s message.
It is Intimated here that the Presi
dent in his message clearly states that
he is now thoroughly familiar with the
miscarriage of justice in the Mooney
trial and frankly demands that the
(Governor accept this last chance, to
clean the fair name of the state of
California of the foul name of murder
er. the stigma placed upon it by "The
Lawroarder Robbers Itoost of San Fran
cisco." And that if Mr. Stephens does
not think that much of his state, hen
President Wilson will not hestitato to
use the (treat power invested in him,
and will grant Thomas Mooney a full
pardon and thereby clear the Nation
of any stigma, wished upon it by tho
Frisco “band of assassins.”
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