20 MILLION WORKERS OUT
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VOL. 11.
NOMB, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1018.
NO. 2467.
ASKS GOV’T TAKE MEAT INDUSTRY
30 MILLION TON
COAL TO BE SAVED
BY GARFIELD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17.—
Weeping and wailing and gnaistaing
of toeth, and—not to speak irre
verently,—“welshing”, was the
order of tilings around thi3 capital
today.
The plair.t and grief being so co
piously spilled is because of the
order of Fuel Administrator Gar
field, given with intent of conserv
ing the industrial fuel supply, not
remotely but immediately for the
purpose «f relieving the universal
misery of the people.
On the one hand it is estimated
that twenty million workers will be
thrown out of employment for a
period of five days but one the con
trary it is shown that thirty million
tons of coal will be saved for the
humanitarian purpose intended by
the Fuel Administration, which i3
it* say that it will be kept out of
the furnaces of the profiteers and
placed in the cabins cottages, and
residences of the people and head
off the pinching biting cold.
Certainly no storm nas ever
raged so furiously about the head
of any government official ss today
threatens Dr. Garfield. His action
in ordering a temporary suspension
of industry in order to make sure
of relief to the people everyone
agrees is drastic, and the represen
tatives and the spokesmen of the
profiteers are raving that it is ra
dical and imperialistic.
Some of the staunchest support
ers of hte administration and per
sonal supporters of the President.
Among these most conspicuously
| active is Senator Hitchcock who
after a hurried hugger-mugger
with other nabobs of the now fren
zied Democracy introduced a reso
lution setting forth the havoc that
will be occasioned by a five day sus
pension of all industries depend
ent upon the consumption of coal
providing for a cancellation of the
Fuel Administrator's order. The
"innocent bystanders”, most not
ably the representatives of the
press are amazed at the suddeness
[and fury of the rage developed by
the ailmini:tration order. Senator
Hitchcock went so far as to make
implications against the govern
ment for stupidity and inexcusable
lack of co-operation. In his fran
tic denunciation the Nebraska solon
screamed a lamentation that the
proper lodgement In Congress and
that the Administrative depart
ments were running amuck in a
stampede of wild reform.
Through all the furore the offi
ces of the Fuel Administration a
rail of tranquil serenity seemed to
have settled. When interviewed
Dr. Gar'ield shewing no nervous
ness whatever advised that proper
steps were being taken to protect
I he workers from any undue hard
ship because of the suspension
and stated very frankly that he be
lieved there would be none. The
Doctor exhibited a telegram which
he just caused to be forwarded to
tho Ex-President of the United
Mine Workers of America, Mr.
John P. White, who had resigned
his office as the head of that orga
nization to accept a responsible
place on the Fuel Administration
Commission at the instance, it Is
understood of Dr. Garfield himself.
Mr. White is in attendance upon
the national convention of the
Mine Workers Union now meeting
at Indianapolis and the purport of
the telegram was to request him to
apprise the Convention will assur
edly not close down any mines for
the period of the industrial suspen
sion ,and that he is making an ap
peal to the patriotism of all em
ployers affected, not to shift the
burden of the enforced » idleness
upon the workers anywhere during
the period contemplated in the
order.
Fuel Administrator Garfield furth
er announced that the coal opera
tors themselves did not stand to
lose even a temporary inconveni
ence since it was the intention of
the Government to purchase their
entire output for the period of the
five day suspension whether it
were under contract to industrial
consumers or not.
That the full strength of the
Wilson administration is in line
with the action of the Fuel Admi
nistrator is indicated by the fact
that in casual ordinary business
fashion he has forwarded a re
quisition to the Secretary of the
Treasury, Mr. McAdoo, for the
wholy negligible and insignificant
sum of Twenty Five Million dollars
to carry out the plan
i«t or estimate on your Job Work
TEUTON JURIST’S
SON HELD SPY
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17.—Frank
Schledor.ugge who :s alleged to bo
the son of the Chief Justice of the
Bavarian supreme Court has been
arrested and is now in jail here and
is suspected of being a spy.
The Federal authorities arc at
tempting to learn what he did
with five thousand dollars which is
bolieved to have beon given him
for enemy alien work. This
amount s known to have been fur
nished him by a wealthy German
woman understood to be a Mrs.
Nagle.
A letter was found on him which
stated that ten thousand dollars
mere would be available for a like
purpose.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17.—
Contemporaneously with the intro
duction in Congress of a measure
to provide for the immediate regis
tration of young men who have
become eligible for the selective
draft since June 5th, a proposition
is being considered by which it is
proposed to discharge all regi
strants who have become Ineligible
for the service by reason of having
reached the maximum age in the
same period or since June 5th,
1917.
The rule will not appfy to such
meljgibles as have already been in
ducted into the service. The Mili
tary affairs committee have con
curred in the arrangement.
Fur garments made and repaired
at the Nome Tailoring Company.
HUNGARIAN WORKMEN
DEMAND PEACE
PARIS, Jan. 17.—The important
information reaches this capital
that Hungarian workmen have
staged a peace demonstration in
Budapest yesterday.
No violence attented the mani
festation althoughit is known that
the government sought to suppress
the meeting.
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The fact that no effectual at
tempts at obstructing or suppress
ing the demonstration is taken to
indicate a heavy prepoderance of
sentiment opposed to a continuance
of the war on the basis contended
for by Germany.
Murmers of Hungarian disaffection
have been repeated since the basis
suggested, "No annexations, no in
demnities" has become generally
discussed. This information ar
rives direct from Zurich and doubt
of its correctness is nowhere enter
tained.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 17.—Pre
sident Hays of the United Mine
LABOR LEADERS
RELY ON WILSON
CHICAGO, 111., Jan 17.—Some
fifteen reputable labor leaders have
left this city today en route for
: Washington to lay before President
Wilson a request which indicates
a profound reliance upon the friend
liness of the Chief Executive of the
United States to the labor cause.
It Is the business of this delega
tion which presumably is acting
under Chicago instructions, to urge
upon the President the immediate
necessity of taking over the pack
ing industry, the live stock market
and the general administration of
tho meat supply of the United
States and operate these various
activities under government con
trol.
The labor elements have taken
this course after and because of a
refusal of the Chiefs of the great
packing concerns to submit pending
i disputes to arbitration, and the
courso taken is regarded as indi
cating the disposition of the labor
organizations to abandon the strike
policy in war time in order to avoid
the cessation of producing activities
and to throw their own interests
upon the sense of justice of the en
tire country.
It is stated that the labor people
notwithstanding an unusual short
age in the labor supply to guaran
tee a sufficient number of efficient
workers to operate the plants con
tinuously and the question of hours
and wages to the decision of the
President.
Anything in the line of Job work
GARFIELD ON
SENATE CARPET
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17.—
The Fuel Administrator Garfield
came in for a thorough panning be
fore the Senato Committee today
having been urgently summoned
to appear and explain his amazing
determination of the fuel supply
problem.
Dr. Garfield appearing to have
his situation well in hand stated
three distinct reasons for bis fuel
order, the first of which he stated
he believed justified the order with
out other support, to wit; to pre
vent people from freezing to death
in their very homes; second to in
sure American clipping to Europe
and to prevent importations
through lack of coal; third, to pre
vent the further piling up of manu
factured goods on the Atlantic
Coast.
The Committee showed impati
ence with Garflelds explanations.
His appearance before the Senate
Committee preceded the presenta
tion in the Senate body of Senator
Hitchcocks resolution and evidently
bis justification was not considered
sufficient to prevent the Senator’s
attempt to suspend the order by
Congressional action, which is now
being most bitterly debated on the
floor of the Senate.
The Fuel Administrator display
ed no agitation but intimated quiet
ly that the Administration expects
employers of labor to stand the los
ses of the employes wages.
GET THE NEWS RIGHT. READ
THE WORKER.
GERMANY YIELDS TO
BOLSHEVIKI ENVOYS
I
PARIS, Jan. 17.—Contrary to re
ports emanating from Berlin yest
erday it is reported today that tier
man militarists and political lead
ers have agreed upon compromise
peace terms with Russia.
The Teutonic government has
yielded the points so vigorously
insisted upon that there rhall be no
annexations and no indemnites,
which comprises in the maiu the
Bolsheviki’s well advertised de
mands.
It is to be stated however that
information is being reeoi/ed tiiat
ther is an unbridgeable variance
between the Bolsheviki anj Ger
:.ian conferee on other points. The
former have insisted that the Ger
man armies immediately evacuate
Poland and other areas of Russian
territory which have been occupied
by Germany in the progress of the
war, but the Teuton envoys have
announced that Germany would not
accede.
LONDON, Jan. 17.—Fairly well
confirmed reports have reached the
British War Office that mutinies on
the Gorman submarines are in
terasing daily. What is believed to
have been the most serious occur
ence of the kind happened at Kiel
when the mutineers succeeded
in killing over thirty eight officers
before they could be quelled.
Dissatisfaction in the submarine
corps has been rife for over a year
out sc far have been suppressed.
You’ll see it first in the Worker.
Workers of America before the an-1
nual convention of that organiza
tion now sitting in this city today
urged the delegates to ratify the
wago scale agreement which has
been entered into by the Union’s re
presentatives, the operators and
the Government.
ALBANY, Jan. 17.—Scores of ar
rests are expected to result from
the discovery of notorious extor
tions practiced upon persons in
aiding them to answer the draft
questions. Governor Whitman has
ordered an investigation.
It so it will pay you to investigate
rates of the Industrial Worker on
publication of application therefor.
REICHSTAG MEMBERS
CONDEMN POLICY
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 17.—Dis
patches from Berlin contain inti
mations of a heated debate in the
German Reichstag over the posi
tion taken by the German envoys
in the Brest-Litovsk conference.
Leading socialist members are
vigorously condemning the un
reasonableness and rigidness of the
Teuton stand in the conference.
They are demanding a repudia
tion of the expressed intentions of
German conquest and requiring the
envoys to accept the Bolsheviki
position to stand by the right of
all peoples to express their own
wills as to their future status of
government.
The socialist members criticised
the Chancellor's speech as^ being
vague andindefinte.
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