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NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1918.
NO. 2300.
FIERCE FIGHTING IN ITALY
THOUSANDS QUIT AT ST. LOUIS
3,600 STRIKE, OTHERS
OUT IN SYMPATHY
ST LOUIS, March 7—The strikers of
the Wagner Electric Company, through
their representatives and Mr. James
O'Contvell of the American Federation
of Labor have appealed to the govern
ment to send Mediators to settle the
trouble. 3,600 more men came out to
day and the plant is now virtually
paralized. A new danger is now devel
oping in the district of the 6trike,
thousands are holding great mass
meetings at which the grievances of,
not only the Wagner Plant Is being
discussed, but the workers in all in
dustries in that district.
Business men. City and Federal offi
cials in general are now blaming the
Wagner Co., for not settling such a
small matter with the mem and for
what they now fear wiil end in a gen
eral strike of all St Louis industries
and as these astute ones reason
that the strikers once out, will now
roatize their strength and Increase
their demands. Federal control of this
plant and for that matter of all other
plants in the country is the only solu
tion to the present situation.
The reports coming from Washing
ton, of the passage of the amendment
to the Espionage Act, is irritating the
situation to a great extent, os no self
respecting worker wants to approach
the slave market any closer, by being
conscripted for private porfits. The
mass meetings, that are being held
here and all over the country to protest
against this vicious measure, which
to the workers looks like the coining
of their blood into private profits which
are doing the country at large absolute
ly no good.
KT LOUIS, March 7 Later—The
strike at the Wagner Plaint is now
spreading to all the adjoining plants
and this morning 1300 men employed
by Simons Hardware Manufacturing
Go., walked out and other shops have
served notice on the companies that
their conditions must be bettered im
mediately or they will strike. The
trouble Is now creating musunder
standings between the Business men
and the City officials and moot serious
complications are feared if the gov
ernment representatives do not arrive
quickly. The strikers today after a
great mass meeting, at which the con
scription of Labor was most bitterly
denounced, formed in line and march
ed through the main streets, carrying
banners inscribed "Down with profi
teering” and " we are fighting for De
mocracy not Prussionism.” Police re-^
serves were rushed from all parts of the
city and 27 of the leaders were arrested
for parading without a permit. This
too is aggravating the trouble as more
mass meetings arc being held and the
strikers are now considering refusing
to meet with the mediators unless their
leaders are released from jail Even
the police force is fast becoming
Americanized. Some o* them rave op
enly refused to do strike duty either
as scab herders or as protectors of
I roperty, which protection may entail
the tak<- t, „f workers life. They real
ize, as one of them stated yesterday
that they themselves will have to enter
the ranks of the iuwuuis — a very
short time, ium that the demands of
the strikers were more than reasonable
and that he and a whole lot more
policemen, would quit their jobs be
fore they would lift a finger against
the strikers
Henry W. Kiel, Mayor of St Louis
has been Importuned by certain of the
business clement to petition Governor
Gardener for assistance, fearing the
unrest among the workers In general
will cause rioting to begin and that the
p'dice will be unable to control the sit
uation.
President Urge Passage
Of Deficiency Bill
Wash. D. C. Mar. 7,-Pres. Wilson today requested the
Senate Committee on appropriations, to insert in the
$1,000,000,000 Urgent deficiency Bill, a provision to
completely divorce all German Interests, in the United
States, from hereafter, owning or controlling any prop
erty in this country. The Pres, and his advisers, have
had the matter under consideration for some time and
there is no doubt, that the Committee will insert the
provision as requested,
The Custodian of all Alien Enemy Property, will be
appointed by the President and will have power, under
the bill, to dispose of all said property under his jurisd
iction if he sees fit.
DENMARK ON VERCE
OF STARVATION
AN ATLANTIC PORT, Mar. 7.—
As a recult of the effectiveness of
the Allied embargo and the German
submarine blockade, Denmark has
been brought to the verge of star
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BUCK THE TIGER, ALSO TUI,
BIG EATS, FRONTIER NK.ili'.
. .The question answered—wear
lteer clothes Frontier night, and
have a large time bucking the tiger,
jus they will have plenty of money,
■to go all the way around.
ration. This statement was made
its rriay it y Peter Detresco, the
Danish Consul General at Chicago,
who has just returned from his
native land. He said the desilu
tion caused in Denmark by the great
war, was almost unbelievable unless
one lias been over there and ha
seen for oneself. Even the childr n
who were usuallly so happy and
care-frec were now hungry looking
and cross and no longer scorned
to have vitality enough left to want
to play. He has been instructed,
by the Danish goverment, to pre
sent the situation to the State De
partment and ask if seme means of
releif cannot be found whereby food
can safely be delivered to Denmark,
and assuring the American govern
ment that no part of such food shall
he turned over to Germany.
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TEUTONS & ITALIANS
FIGHT; MONTE TAMBO
ROME, March 7.—As a forerun
ner of the great battle now expected
at any minute between the mighty
armies assembled in North-Eastern
Italy, the Austrian-German troops
yesterday launched several succes
sive assaults against the Italian
lines, around Monte Tambo, in
what is believed to be a feint to find
a weak spot in the Italian positions.
The battle had been expected for
sometime however and the enemy
failed to catch the Italians napping,
they were consequently driven back
with frightful slaughter. The ene
mydrove forward in what appeared
like a tidal wave, of men, so closely
were they packed in mass formation
and it seemed that the Italian lines
must surely give way before their
mighty onslaught but each time
they approached the rock walled
positions of th|e Italians they were
literally crushed by the fire which
poured forth upon them like a solid
stream of molten metal.
In their first charge the enemy
almost reached the first line posi
tions but when our men witnessed
the terrible execution of their mur
derous fire, their confidence in
their being able to hold the position
in spite of the cool unwavering
rush of the Teutons, strengthened
and steadied them and the success
ive charges were met with such
an intense storm of fire and metal
that the oncoming troops seemed to
melt away like snow blown towards
the crater of som|e huge active vol
cano. Thousands were reported
killed in less than half an hour
the mangled bodies lying in great
furroughs in front of the trtanchea.
Regardless of the terrible sheets
of fire fromthe Italian positions,
before which nothing could possibly
live, the enemy formations drove
calmly forward In succeeding as
saults only to be swallowed up by
the war Moloch—Death. After the
fifth charge had failed, as had the
first, the Austrian-German com
manders seemed satisfied that the
lines could not be broken through,
as no more attacks were madie dur
ing the remainder of the day. Tho
Italian positions are now believed to
be impregnable according to General
Diaz, who claims these positions
can now bo held against any num
ber of the foe. Formerly it was
feared this would prove one of the
weak spots in the line and every
effort had been made to strengthen
it today’s fighting shows the re
ult. The Austrians have been bring
ing up large bodies of troops from
the Russian front ever since the
peace parley, with the intent of
launching a mighty offensive along
the entire line and this is thought
by military experts to be the begln
ing of their attempt to drive a
mighty wedge between the Piave
and the Asiago lines.
FRANK R. WALSH ARGUING
CASE THOUSANDS WORKMEN
REFORE JUDGE ALSCHULER
CHICAGO, March 7—Federal Judge
Samuel Alschuler, Government Arbi
trator In the packing house wage ad
justment, spent most of the day listen
ing to the closing argument of Attor
ney Frank It. Walsh, for the Unions.
Walsh speaking for the better part
of five hours, during which time he
summed up the entire case of the. work
ers, showed the glowing false
stataments of the packers, who he
termed “Prussian Prifiteers,” that the
packing house workers, both men and
women, were nothing but a bunch of
damned foreigners who were bent on
making trouble, not for the packers of
course, but for the government. The
packers, said Walsh, had not them
selves yet shown the people of theUni
ted States, just who owned the stock
of these companies, neither had they
made it an easy matter for the govern
ment to trace through the packing
house books and reconls just. Whose
name was being' used to hide the stock
of the Kaiser, the royal families of
, Europe in general and incidently a few
pro-Germans in this country. Before
j«ccusing working people of attempting
to hinder the filling of government
contracts, they might give the Ameri
can public an inkling as to the enor
mous unearned profits they had filch
ed from the government and the people
and which were finding their way into
the pockets of European parasites un
earned, whether German, Austrian or
any other nationality. They who ac
cuse the wiorkers of being unpatriotic
or pro-Germans should at least have
some semblance of cleanliness or de
cency before accusing the real bul
wark of the nation—the workers—and
should not only, not have their hands
in the nations pockets but they should
not accuse the innocent while their
own hands—yea their entire bodies are
stained with the life blood of a great
nation.
He declared that after all the work
ers had suffered at the hands of these
vampires the workers were still doing
the profiteers a great favor, in that,
they were saving them from the fate
which o\ ertook Russia tor treating the
workers, just as the American organ
ized plutocracy is today treating them.
Pent icracy has no greater support than
organized labor said Mr Walsh and to
take away the influence of organized La
bor and substitute the iron heel of the
plunderbund or oligarchy was to take
away the support of Democracy and
that ment rebellion. He pleaded with the
Arbitrator that the workers, be not
forced to resort to the last means of
redress, as the workers had been com
pelled to do in Russia.
DANCE, DANCE, DANCE, AND
BUCK THE TIGER, ALSO THE
BIG EATS, FRONTIER NIGHT.
AUTHORIZES ISSUING
$4,000,000,000 BONDS
WAS! il.VOTON, March 7 T1 c Sen
ate today paused the emergency meas
ure for organization of the $500,000
000 War Financing Corporation, by a
vote nf 74 to 3. Tills Corporation is!
created for the purpose of aiding, any
corporation engaged in the manufac
turing of government supplies, in din
posing of their stocks.
The measure while authorizing hut
$500,000,000 for the ^establishment
of the corporation the measure also
authorizes the issuing ef bonds up to
$1,000,000,000 for financing necessary
war Industries, Whether the money is
to be used for government plants only
or for any ami every' plant, which is
manufacturing war supplies for the
ovemtnoni, is not clearly stated.
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