The Bnily Name Industrial Mnrkerl
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VOL. 11.
NOUS, ALABKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1918.
NO. 2l Ki
LABOR TO OPPOSE MOTOR WOMEN
WITNESS CRITIC OF
ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7.—
Of all the charges and counter
c harges that are being hurled in
volleys and with mitraileuses from
one department to another, and
from one official to another, noen
strikes closer home to where every
body lives than the statements in
cluded in the testimony given the
Senate investigation committee to
day. * (
Mr. Clifford Tjiorne reporting
for the Public Utilities Bureau of
the city of Philadelphia made the
sensational statement that the peo
ple of the United States are paying
one million dollars a day for the
mistakes of the Fuel Administra
tion Department of the Federal
Government.
Mr. Thorne stated' that the coal
operators throughout the country
are garnering enormous fortunes
from sales of coal under the prices
fixed by the government.
The remedy offered by the wit
ness is in line with the course re
cently adopted by the President in
the solution of the transportation
problems which had confronted the'
country in the administrations ef- j
forts to carry on the burdens inci-;
dent to the war,—that is, govern
ment operation. He suggested that
the governmei t fix a price approx
imating the cost of production and
purchase the coal output at the
mouth of the mines.
For the oest 50c. Dinner in Nome
go to the Board of Trade Lunch
Counter.
SEATTLE INDIGNANT
OVER MOB ACTION
SEATTLE, Jan. 7.—The destruc
tion of the publishing establish
ment of the H. C. Pigott Printing
Co. ono of the leading concern oi
its kind, by a mob last Saturday
evening has aroused this city to a
white heat of indignation.
Plied with liquor and incited tc
a fronzy of violence and led by ci
vilians twenty uniformed sailors
had forced an entrance into the
establishment and completely de
molished the printing presses
equipment and three linotype ma
chines, doing a total damage esti
mated at ten thousand dollars.
Mr. Pigott, the owner of the plant,
is a highly respected citizen and
business man, and, in politics, a de
mocrat in no wise connected with
the publications which are suppos
ed to have been marked for the law
less visitation. He publishes and
edits a paper on his behalf and in
addition docs a general job print
ing and lynotype business, printing
a r umber of papers for other pub
lishers.
The Daily Call, a paper which
has sprung up since the beginning
of the war and has reached an
enormous circulation in daily sales
appears to have been what the was
really after but is escaped un
scathed. Contrary to reports it is
not an I. W. W. paper but is a re
gular daily, sold in the ordinary
way with others by newsboys on
the streets. Its offending appears
to have tycen mainly in supporting
Dr. Anna Louise Strong, a Director
of the Seattle Schools, who is un
dergoing recall proceedings.
Buy your wife a nice new Range
or Heater or a good Cook Stove,
wo have them from $15 to $60. at
HOLT’S CASH STORE.
EXPLAINING LLOYD
GEORGE SPEECH
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7.—
High government officials and diplo
mats here are declaring that Lloyd
George’s speech before parliament
last week could not in anywise
change America’s position nor did
it indicate any new policy for this
government.
MAE MARSH AND BOBBY
HARRON AT DREAM.
Nearly everyone in this world de
votes the greater part of the two
thirds of life not spent In bed in
the search . of a sensation. This
state of affairs is well set forth in
the big "Triangle-Fine Arts’’ play
at the Dream Theater tonight
where opportunity to define the
particular kinds of sensation they
would like to experience. Just how
those various sensations are grati
fied constitutes a novel story which
has to be seen to afford the very
pleasant sensation of having curi
osity stated. Tomorrow tho 19th
chapter of “The Iron Claw’’.
Raviolis, Italian style every
Evening at Modini’s B. O. T. Cafe.
Clothing cleaned, pressed, altered
and repaired at the Nome Tailoring
O*., .next door to Segerstrom and
llagen’s.
It was declared in explanation
that the Prime Minister's speech
was designed to clear up disputed
points which British and French
Pacificists have been exploiting to
the embarrasment of the respective
governments.
It was stated on behalf of Presi
dent Wilson will remain as outlined
to the Pope in response to his ap
peal to the nations for peace. More
over as was pointed out the Prime
Minister’s Turkish policy is not of
the slightest concern lo the United
CORRESPONDENCE.
The Nome Industrial Worker
Nome Alaska.
My dear Sir:—I have this day
sent you under separate cover a
cover a copy of my brief and peti
tion for rehearing in the Alaska
Rate Case, and beg you to copy in
your paper the Jast paragraph on
page 120, the table on 121 and the
first long paragraph on page 122,
for the information of your readers.
So many men think that our store
keepers charge excessive prices,
and blame the “middlo-man” with
all kinds of boosting of prices,
when the real trouble is with tho
big transportation companies. Cer
tainly in Alaska the real cause of
iha high coat of living is the one
States since this government is still
at peace with Turkey.
But in the main it was contend
ed however that America Is in com
plete accord with Lloyd George’s
speech.
ALBANY, Jan. 7.— Several i
dozen persons have been arrested
here and charged with extortion
for the discovery of a notorious
practice of bilking in connection
with assistance to answer draft
questions.
big transportation concern with its
headquarters in Now York. Your
advertisers may bo interested in
knowing that their rates will ae in
craased early enough in the spring
to catch them on their goods com
ing on the first boats. The most
vital necessity for the consideration
of the people of Alaska is freight
rates, and I hope your paper will
give the matter of the control and
reduction thereof its consideration.
Very truly yours
JAMES WICKERSHAM.
Closing out Xmas goods. Large
Stock useful presents at HOLTS.
Fur garments made and repaired
at the Nome Tailoring Company.
COMPANIES SHOULD
PAY HIGHER WAGES
SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 7.—
Strong opposition was expressed
here today to the application pend
ing before the Public Service Com
mission on the part of the Puget
Sound Traction, Light and Power
Company, and the Tacoma and Bell
ingham Railway Companies for per
mission to use female crews in the
operation of their cars.
Ihe companies had represented
through their central management,
the Sone and Webster concern, that
because of a most unusual shortage
iii the labor market, male help for
railway crews wes no longer avail
able.
At their regular business meet
ing last Wednesday Evening tho
Central Labor Council considered
the matter of the concern’s efforts
exhaustively ana in the end refer
red the matter to the Ceund’s
public service committee who make
definite report today, and among
other things state that the applica
tion and representations it contains
are not made in good faith.
It is urged by ij^a Committee that
if the Railways will pay decent
wages their employes will not bo
leaving them and on tho contrary
that they will find an abundance of
desirably male help.
The Central Labor Council com
prised of delegates from '■•ver one
hundred local unions has re-affirm
ed its determination that woman
when entering the occupations of
men shall receive equal pay with
men.
GERMAN SOCIALISTS
TO FORCE PEACE
LONDON, Jan. 7.—From sources
regarded as reliable the news reach
es this city ot a new move on the
part of tho Socialist Party of Ger
many to force that government into
i more tractable attiude in the mat
ter of the consideration of a return
to world peace.
It will be recalled that the outset
3f tho war the socialists were the
plurality party in the Reichstag, or
Jerman Congress, and although op
posed to the war and all other wars
on principle, could not prevail
against the six other political par
ties supporting the Kaiser and Ger
man Junker class, and the steel
and munition manufacturers.
High authorities regard the meet
ing of the Gorman Socialists as the
most in^>ortant since the world war
began.
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 7.—The in
teresting information reaches this
city today to the effect that the
meeting of German Socialists now
taking place in Berlin had forward
ed to Russian Foreign Minister
Lenine a recommendation that lie
not consider the peace terms offer
ed by the German government,
the inference being that presently
more just and acceptable peace
terms will be forced upon the Ger
man government by political pres
sures within its borders.
i«t us estimate on vour Job Work
TO BLOCK GOVERNMENT
OWNERSHIP
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7.—
Certain big Business have a’ready
begun to show themselves as run
ning true to form and jealously
guarding the interests of the huge
business, banking and railroad com
binations whom they serve alone.
Even the crash and clangor of
world war does not deafen them to
their master’s voice, nor do the
sufferings of a bleeding world
soften them to the consideration of
the interests of the people.
Senators Gallinger and Watson'
ria\e introduced amendments to the
railroad bill providing for the ter
mination of government control and
aperation of the railroads upon the
conclusion of the war.
Both Senators admitted that here
proposals were designed to forestall
permanent government ownership
xfter the war.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7.—
rhe Senate today passed what has
been called the “Military Leasing
Bill’’, which by its terms opens up
to development by the public mil
lions of acres of coal, potassium
and sodium lands, heretofore held
in reserve.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7.—
A message to the state department
conveys the information that eighty
thousand persons are homeless as a
result of the Gautemala earth
quake and that the destruction of
the city is complete.
You’ll see it first in the Worker*
MINER’S FAMILIES
FACE STARVATION
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 7.—An
emergency call was telegraphed to
Secretary of the Treasurer McAdoo,
now railroad dictator, requesting
him to send an investigator at once
to examine into the car shortage
in this field.
Governor Cox who made the ap
peal declares that hundreds of
Ohio minor’s families are facing
early starvation because the mines
are unable to operate on account of
the car shortage and that unless re
lief of some sort Is not fortheom
mg the greatest suffering will pre
vail.
At the moment of forwarding
this dispatch no word had been re
vived indicating the Secretary’s
concern in the matter.
WASHINGTON D. C., Jan. 7.—
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
has designated next week as
‘Freight Clearance Week”, when
the aid of Governors, mayors and
city officials will be invoked to re
'.iete the car shortage.
NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—The Pre
sident and six directors of the
Dairymen’s League have been in
dicted by the Grand Jury for
conspiring to raise milk prices.
Complaints of overcharges have
been coming to the city’s Depart
ment of Weights and the attention
of the Grand Jury to the matter
was in response to a public demand.
Reasonable prices, and first class
workmanship at the Nome Tailoring
Company,