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NOME, ALASKA. THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1918.
NO. 2514.
FROM THE DAILY
EMPIRE, JUNEAU
JUNEAU, Mar. 12-13—Worker:
Bill passed Congress not passed to
permit foreign ships to establish re
gular lines between American ports
but to enable tramp ships to carry
loads from congested ports to relieve
temporary congestion.
British lines running to Alaska
run on regular schedule. They do
not have to comply with strict Amer
ican navigation laws, so they can be
operated much cheaper than Amer
ican ships.
If permitted to carry freight be
tween Amorican ports all American
ships at once would be driven from
field, and entire business turned
over to foreign ships.
Alaska was expected to protest
rights of American shippers and
wages of American sailors who re
ceive higher wages than sailors on
British ships. No American believing
in the protection or American ship
ping and wages of sailors could do
otherwise than tako stand for this
exemption.
There, have been plenty of Amer
ican ships to move all freight that
has been offered in Southeastern
Alaska during the past year, there
was no occasion to destroy the
rights of Americans to turn business
that properly belonged to Americans
over to foreigners. All people in
this locality stand squarely behind
Sulzer In action he took, and Des
patch is simply endeavoring now to
make false impression at Nome based
upon statements entirely untrue and
without any foundation, for the pur
pose of boosting Wickersham. In
reference to the liquor question and
other allegations, the Sulzer Home
Rule bill on its face carries refuta
tion.
GAP’T ROOSEVELT
ACCIDENTLY SHOT
OYSTER RAY. March 13—Captain
Archie Roosevelt was wounded in the
arm and leg by pieces of exploding
shell b-ut not seriously injured accord
ing to a cablegram received here today
at the Roosevelt home.
REPRESENTATIVES OF TRUST
LORRYING AGAINST GOVERNMENT
CONTROL LUMOER INDUSTRIES
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 13.—
.Representative Pordney of of Michi- ,
gun, who really misrepresents the
people but wiho is the servile tool of
the Lumber Trust urgently appealed
to the Senate Military Affairs Com- !
mittee to modify the Bill, now under
consideration for the taking over by .
the President of all lumber industries. ,
He complains bitterly of the way
labor has "nobbed" this delicate baby
industry and is real peaved at the
Industrial \\V>rkers of the World for
compelling these bloated plutes to do
away with the hog-pens In which the i
men were formerly kept. He says f
this organization is purely pro-German J
and according to his theory any of
the workers who are not willing to
be herded like a bunch of hogs must
be unpatriotic. He has a very nice .
substitute for the bill which he is sure $
would satisfy his masters very well
which is to give the President author
ity to commandeer lumber but not let :
him have anything to say about the j
industry in general.
Senator Reed of Missouri in a very 1.
sarcastic manner asked Fordney if
tie thought the Committee was devis
ng ways and means for the lumber
r.dustry' or merely providing effective
near.s for prosecuting the war to a
mccessful finish.
Senator Sheppard of Texas said he
lordly considered the gentlemen’s pro
position a fit topic of discussion at this
Amp.
( He should be charged with being
)ro-Gemuin.)—Ed.
WASHINGTON, March 13—Flat in
ceases of 125% for all government
arwplojees who are present receiving
ess than $2,000 a year with the ex
;e>ption of postal employees, mostly
ill of whom belong to Labor Unions,
ire provided for in an amendment to
he Legislative appropriation ISill pre
sented in the House today.
Keating of Colorado vigorously at
acked the amendment claiming that
luch an Increase was unheard of, and
it this time rank extravagance when
vorkers were being condemned all over
the country for asking for even a ten
or fifteen per cent increase in their
wages and that the majority of the
workers throughout the United States
were extremely lucky if they received
$1,000 a year. Keating said that if any
of the government employees were en
titled to an ino.rease the postal employ
ees should come first.
WASHINGTON, March 13—Samuel
Rompers, President of the American
Federation of Gabor, as spokesman for
the American Alliance for Labor and
Democracy, has today sent a cable
gram to the all Russian Congress now
Assembled in Moscow, stating that the
Americans desire to aid the Russian
People in their struggle for freedom.
The ail Russian Congress as now
assembled and presided over by Len
Ine, has ofter a week’s deliberations
luring which time all plans of the Bol
sheviki Government were thoroughly
discussed, and after some minor
changes adopted as the only solution
of Russia’s present situation. The
f -ogress as also adopted the slogan
a "the Bolsheviki ‘‘Liberty or Death"
and infuses to consider the recommen
dations of Kerensky who has reccnt'y
ctme under the cloud of suspicion
owing to the discovery of a plot in
which some of his supporters took the
most prominent part.
'WASHINGTON, D. C.. March 13.—
The Senate today sent the ltailway
Bill back to the Conference Committee
thereby upsetting oil plans already
made by the Administration. The Sen
ate leaders had expected to send the
Bill to President Wilson for his sig
nature in a few days. This is ttie
first time in the history of the United
States that a conference report has
failed, of adoption, and was only turn
ed down at this time on. account of •
the insertion of a clause by the com
mittee, which nullified railway taxa
tion by individual states.
With the elimination of this pro
vision there is no doubt of the Bill
passing without a hitch.
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STRIKES AND MORE STRIKES
4,300 BUTCHERS NEW YORK
THREATEN WALK OUT
NEW YORK. Mar. 13.—After a
meeting of the Delegate of the
different Locals, of the Meat Cutters
and Butchers Union, last night it
was stated that they had decided
to call a strikfa which will go into
effect tomorrow morning. They state
that their Union controls over 4300
workers in thle meat trade at the
present time and that it Is very
likely that many of tluwttthsr work
ers in the meat business will follow
the action ot the Meat Cutters and
Butchers. The men had demanded
that they be granted an increase in
pay, an eight hour day with the
limit of not more than 62 hours a
week, and that they be paid for alt
over time at the rate of sixty cents
an hour. They were informed by
the Butchers Association that the
Association would not agree to any
such conditions and that if any of
their men did not like the condi
tions they could quit, but of course
they did not expect to have the
workers quit in a body.
John T. Hart, President of the
New York Local No. 108, which is
affiliated with the American Fed
eration of Labor, presiding at the
meeting and Anotliy Roth, general
organizer, made a stirring spearh in
which he said that the meat work
ers were human beings the same
as all other mon and were tired
of working 75 to 80 hours a week.
He called a general strike in Yonk
ers last week and the men won in
less than two hours and he told
the men that all they need d In
this case was to stick together.
Isaac Roth, who controls a chain
of stores, in speaking to one ot
the delegates after the meeting said |
that he certainly would not let any
of his men quit for the sake of a I
small diagreement and that the men !
could have had these conditions
20 years ago had they been thor
oughly organized. He has agreed to
all of the conditions and his men
will not be called out.
NEW YORK, Mar. 13.— Several
policemen had a hard fight with a
crowd said to consistg of several
hundred peopie here today when
they attempted to arrest Antoni Ka
rininski, 34 years of age, of 137th
street an alleged ‘ripper’ on Broad
way opposite the Trinity church,
charging him with slashing four
girls. He has been removed to tin
rombs.
His victims are all young women I
employed in offices of the financial
district, and all were slashed as
they pressed through the crowd in
lower Broadway at the lunch hour
today. The ladies are Miss Irene
Reilly', Miss Florence Rodgers, and
Miss Edith Fox of Brooklyn and
MissAbigail de Jongh of the Bronx.
Miss Roilly and Miss Rodgers were
so badly cutt that 'hey had to be
removed to a hospital for treatment.
The other two were sent home witn
but minor cuts on their persons.
Several other arrests were made
at the time as there was much con
fusion when the police arrived,but
later were released when they were
able to establish positive proof or
innocence.. But to all other out
vT°.T(l 1 •’ police toe
lieve they have the guilty man in
Karininski.
The Fowl Administration points
out that during the war the work
ing people in the European countries
aro having imposed upon them a
low standard of living by rationing
sind other devices to decrease the
quantity of food consumed.
It will be difficult if not impos
sible, for the European workers
after the war to raise the standard
WE CAN 1)0 IT.
Peoples Laundry wash ever} tiling
except the Baby.
W. J. WILLIAMSON, Prop
of living to the pre-war level it
they have to face the opposition o£
the employers.
For years after peace is declared
the European manufacturers win
have an abundance of cheap labor,
due to the hold-over war standard.
Consequently, if the American
capitalists are to be able to com
pote successfully" with the European
labor exploiters for a market for
what is enthusiastically known as
the “surplus of America,’’ they in
turn, must be able to buy an abund
ani'o of human labor power at a
price approximating that obtaining
in the labor markets of Europe.
The Food Administration's latest
pronouncement would scent to be
the start toward the necssary re
duction in the standard of living.
The present program is for each
person to cut the following amount
of food off the weekly grocery bud
get:
One pound of wheat flour, seven
ounces of sugar, seven ounces of
moat, two ounces of l'ats.
In a year this "saving'' would
amount (o the following for the av
erage workingman's family of five:
260 pounds of flour, 114 pounds
of sugar, 114 pounds of meat, 45
pounds of fats.
With the present prices of these
staples,47 percent higher than they
were during the pre-war period, it
is quite evident that the American
worker will be able to live on less
wages by the time peace comes and
the conquest of foreign markets is
in full swing.
FIERCE STORM
AT BOSTON
BOSTON, Mar. 13.—Heavy dam
age was done to property here last
night as the result of a heavy wind
and elect storm. Many telephone
poles and wires are down, and some
of the finest old trees were broken
down or had some of the larger
limbs torn off. Two unidentified
men were blown from the platform
of the elevated station at State
street and instantly killed by a train
which was just coming into the sta
tiion, before they could be rescued.
In Malden, William Sheehan was
instantly killed by a live wire which
had been broken down by the storm.
Coast guard men and the police
struggled for hours to give aid <o a
schooner off South Boston. Owing
to the monster seas they were ln
able to launch a boat and as nothing
has been heard of her since she was
seen to head for the open sea, it
is feared that she has been lost with
all on board.
The reports coming in from Jam
maca Plains, Brookline, Somer,
Cambridge and surrounding towns
all tell of great damage but no
loss of Iifeu Old timers around the
water-front say that it was the
worst storm that has struck Boston,
for many years past.
WILL HINDENBERG
BE MADE KIN8P
»
LONDON, Mar. 13.—It is report
ed that Hindenberg’s friends are
looking for a nice soft place for the
old war horse to light after he gets
through with Allied armies and in
■searching for this easy berth they
have hit upon the idea that finland
needs a king, so why not the be
loved Hindenberg.
‘ The report states that the Kaiser
ha3 recently asked him his opinion
of the matter and that his reply to
the Kaiser was mild enough, his
soliloquy on the matter is quite
unprintable.
COPENHAGEN, Mar. 13.—Re
ports coming from Petrograd stato
that whili soldiers were excavating
for heavy gun foundations, about
three weeks ago, just beyond Got
china, they wore surprised to IVal
' the earth* give way beneath them
and experience the sensation of
dropping a distance of tight or
ten feet. No one was injured
however and when they got over
their fright they discovered that
what had caused the drop was' that
they had beer, working over a i rgo
subterranean passage. The accident
was reported and orders w re given
to clear away the obstructions for
some distance through the passage
at the end of which the seachors
came upon a large compartment, in
which were discovered million of
books which turned out to be the
revolutionary pamphlets confiscat
ed by the Czar's police. It is est
imated that there ur<>' about 10,000,
000 copies, representing over 2,fi00
works, which have been accumulat
ing since the first revolution. The
books have been ordered turned
over to their original owners
wherever they can be located.