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VOLUME XII
NOME, ALASKA. TUESDAY, JULY, 30, 1018.
2500.
LOCAL UNION LA
VOICES ITS PROTEST
At the last regular meeting of the
Nome Miners Union, Local 240 of
the International Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers, by a
standing and unanimous vote of
those present at a well attended
meeting, a resolution was passed
condemning the action of Judge
Holzheimcr in appointing Mr Lomen
to the position of District Attorney,
in view of the latter’s pronounced
anti-labor stand in the matter of the
struggle of organized labor for the
eight hour day in this community.
The following is the text of the
resolution which was concurred in
by the Nome Federal Union, at
its regular meeting on Monday night.
WHEREAS Organized labor on
Seward Peninsula has been engaged
and is at present engaged in a
struggle for the enforcement of the
eight hour day:
AND WHEREAS in this strug
gle Organized Labor has experienced
the uniform opposition of several
mining corporations and individuals:
AND WHEREAS principal among
these latter has been G. J. Lomen
an attorney heretofore employed in
the service of sundry corporations:
AND WHEREAS it is desirable
that in labor troubles federal offi
cials be impartial administrators of
the law and be chosen from those
eligible for office who in no way
have been involved in labor diffi
culties, nor are open to the charge
of conspicuous partizanship:
AND WHEREAS Judge Holzhfl
mcr has seen fit to go out of his
way to appoint G. J. Lomen who is
a republican, notwithstanding his at
titude in the labor struggle in this
community, to the postion of United
States District Attorney:
NOW THEREFORE be it resolved
by Nome Mine Workers Union, local
240 of the International Union of
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, in
regular meeting assembled, that this
union denounce the appointment of
G. J. Lomen to the position of Uni
ted States District Attorney, and
emphatically protest against it as
unfair, unwise and unjust to organ
ized labor and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED
that copies of this resolution be
sent to Secretary Wilson of the
Department of Labor, Attorney Gen
eral Gregory, Sam Gompers. Presi
dent of the American Federation of
Labor and to Judge Holzheimor, and
that copies be furnished the press
for publication.
I jet us estimate on your Job Work.
VIOLENT BATTLE RAGES
NEAR VILLE EN TARDENOIS
LONDON,— Violent fighting con
tuues on the Aisne and Marne front
■with tho Germans using every avail
able man to stem the Allied advance,
wilh varying success.
Especially between Ville En Tar
denois and' Bubancy is the fighting
notedly heavy.
The French troops never faltered
in their advance between Aubilly
and Grand Rosozy, progressing to
wards the plateau between the Ourcq
and Vesle rivers, to reach which
the Germans are trying to prevent
the French at all costs.
In this fighting the Allies took
four hundred prisoners.
Around Buzancy a similar number
were taken.
The Germans it is announced in
this constricted battle area between
the Aisne and Marne have now
870,000 men battling about half a
million Allies. The Germans are
delivering counter thrusts of great
weight and have been successful in
driving the Franco-Americans from
the captured towns of Ctergss and
Beugneaux which are now held by
the Germans after bloody fighting.
It is here that perhaps the most
appalling losses were sustained by
the Germans, troops being driven
up against machine gun and. field
artillery so heavily and so frequently
until the machines were worked out
or ammunition ran short in the ter
rific work of slaughter. The Ger
mans charged over their own dead
in the final moments of this en
gagement.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Stat
Department is without confirmatioi
that Turkey and Germany hav
broken off relations.
An unconfirmed report, it is an
ncunced, has reached the State Do
partment that U. S. Ambassado
Vrancls has left Vologda, where h
lias been stationed since he lef
Cctrograd, and has proceeded t<
Arcvhangel. No details are given.
CHICAGO,—Kerensky, says
) story in the Chicago Tribune' of
i Tuesday, is now in America, travel
> ing incognito. The story says that
a telegram was received from i
• naval gunner who stated that Keren
■ sky had been a fellow passenger with
• him on the transatlantic liner where
! on .he served.
t It may well be that this is correct.
> The last heard of Kerensky wa3
when he was in England en route
to America.
i He caused a rumpus at the labor
conference when a question of ad
mitting him was up before tho body.
Many claim that the man who said
he was Kerensky was not the former
revolutionary president of Russia at
all.
BERNE,—Austrian soldiers have
again fired and inflicted great
slaughter upon mobs in new food
riots at Pilsen, Bohemia.
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REPORT SAYS TURKS
AT OUTS WITH 6ERMANY
LONDON—Tuesday morning pa
pers publish a sensational report
sent out by the Exchange Telegraph
Co’s news agency to the effect that
Turkey has broken off relations
with Germany.
ThiB dispatch says that in a dis
pute over Balkan ’erritory, the im
perial Gorman govornmtnt took sides
emphatically with Bulgaria, because
of the fact that relations with Bul
garia contained such a promised
stand. (
Turkey has endeavored to prevent
Germany taking sides in the matter,
so that the questions could be set
tled by a neutral nation later on.
This was not approved by Germany
which insisted, upon supporting the
Bulgar position and demanded that
Turkey acquiesce in. the settlement
as outlined by Bulgaria.
While the report is accepted with
reserve, it is known that friction
had been slowly developing between
Turkey and Bulgaria and that Ger
many was involved in the situation.
That Turkey would it this time
venture to server relations with Ger
many In real earnest is not believed
in any authoritatlv circles here, nor
for that matter In any of the Al
lied capitals. A strong Turkish na
tional agitation outsido tho Ottoman
empire has been advocating about
just such a condition as reported.
DELICIOUS FRESH STRAWBER
RIES 25 CENTS PER BOX AT
LEHMANN'S. 4
CHANGES HANDS BUT
HELD BY AMERICANS
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Today,
Tuesday, Gencrad Pershing Cabling
the Department of War reports that
that section on the Marne which had
been gained by the Americans re
mains still in their possession, al
though in the German efforts to
retake the same, the towns changed
hands four times.
LONDON,—Rcimgy, one ard a
half mil's from the German base of
Villr. Rn Tardeanis. rnd located to
tho south of Fere En Tardenois, the
German base, was taken by the
French, the Germans stubbornly re
i sisting all attacks. Southeast on
the Cierges, on the Jaulgonne-Fis
mes road many machine gun nests
are retarding the Allied advance.
PARIS,—The Allies continue their
advance on the Aisne-Marne front,
but more slowly as the Germans
better prepare to hold up the ad
vance nf the Allies The Rvstematlc
development of machine gun nests
and. the constant and rcckles3
thrusts made upon the victorious
Allies have been greatly retarding
the movement.
Today, Tuesday, however the ad
vance took on an acceleration in
th?! region closer to the Marne, and
also in the direction of the Ourcq
Vesle plateau, between the sources
of the two streams.
Keen Posted. Head the WOKKKK.
SMASH DOWN THE
TEUTON OPPOSITION
LONDON,—Sunday saw what has
really been the severest of the heavy
fighting in the Per en Tardenois sec
tor, with the fighting still proceed
ing with intense stubborness on both
sides..
The Americans smashed down the
heavy attacks of the Germans south
of Sergy. The counters in this par
ticular section were marked by the
bloodiest determination and accom
panied by terrific loss of life.
The German retreat continues.
Monday morning the new allied
line north of the Marne touched
Bouilly, Bligny, Chambecy, Olizy, St
Gemme, Cierges, Sergy, Fer En Tar
denois, La Pleshie, and Rheulu.
The most violent battle is now
raging east of Fer En Tardenois,
the Germans endeavoring to delay
the Franco-Americans while they re
move what they can from the mili
tary base established there.
WASINGTON,—The War Depart
ment announces that General Persh
ing confirms the news flashed that
the Ameriqans fyad crossed the
Ourcq river and had taken four
towns.
This movement places the re
tiring German forces now in extr; me
jeopardy.
LONDON,—Australians east of
Amiens were attacked in force by
the Germans who evidently intend
ed to distract attention from the
fighting in the Aisne-Marne sector.
The Australians counter attacked in
force and drove back not only the at
tacking party but advanced a third
of a mile on a four thousand yard
front holding the gained positions
in the face of repeated efforts of
the Germans to drive them back.
NIACKENZEN NOW IS
AT GERMAN HEADQUARTERS
BERNE,—A dispatch from Berlin
Tuesday states that Field Marshal
von Maekenzcn arrived at the Ger
man General Headquarters on Mon
day.
It is reported that he succeeds
Ludendorff as Quartermaster-General
of the German army, succeeding
General Ludendorff who is now chief
of Staff.
The Whereabouts of Hindenberg
is not mentioned in the telegram.
BERLIN,—A semi official state
ment appearing in all the papers,
and evidently furnished by authority
states that the German leaders wore
ablo to destroy all tho materials
stord at Fere En Tardcnois before
that place fell Into the hands of the
enemy and before the well prepared
retreat from Fere En Tardenois
took place.
Tho German people are taking
the situation calmly.
LONDON,—The reported changes
in the personnel of the German staff
IRISH LEADER WANTS
AMERICAN HOME RULE
I
LONDON,—Home Rule was the
subject of discussion in the House
of Commons on Saturday night with
the matter of conscription and home
government for Ireland the subject
of rancorous debate.
The report of the convention has
not been made public, although as
one Irish member said “all are
familiar with its contents.”
John Dillon the Irish leader in
discussing the Home Rule, said that
the situation in Ireland was going
from bad to worse.
Incidentally the Irish leader made
a suggestion that attracts considera
ble attention.
He proposes that the Home Rule
measure be submitt* <1 to an Ameri
can jury to be appointed by Presi
dent Wilson, and that the conclu
sions reached by that body be ac
cepted by the British government
and the Irish people.
The British government was handi
capped in every settlement by the
wish to placate the wretched little
section of Ulster malcontents who
laid no claim to being Irish but
who insisted that their minority
wishes should be the dominant fac
tor in the settlement of the Irish
question.
The papers comment freely and
not unsympathetically on Dillon’s
rmark&ble suggestion.
occasion little comment here. It is
pointed out that while these reports
have an air of authority, they are
seldom correct and. arc sent out for
propaganda purposes which may not
be evident at the time of their cir
culation.
Hence the report that Ludendorff
is in supreme command and that.
Mackenzen will be chief of staff are
accepted with little credence at the
prsent time.
STRIKE ENDS WHEN
VOTE IS TAKEN
LONDON,—The strike of the mu
nition workers in England ended on
Saturday when they voted to return
to work.
This might have been forseen. Tho
drastic action which George had
planned to take to handle the situa
tion, by sending the males of milt
tary age to the trenches, had with
out any doubt much to do with tho
vote to return to work.
Considerable concessions were
however promised by the govern
ment which had been denied up to
the time of the 3trike.
MAIL DELAYED
On account of the storm the Solo
mon mail did not depart at the
usual time, ten a. m. this morning.