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NOME, ALASKA. SATURDAY, JUNE, 1, 1918.
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FRENCH AND GERMANS
FIERCELY FIGHTING
NEAR VIERZY
PARIS, June 1—The German
forces on the left flank of the
Aiane-Marne battle front have suf
fered a defeat at ho hands of the
Fronch reserves and have been
thrown back upon the Criz raver o
the South of Soisscns. The French
have recaptured the villages of
Chacriso, about seven miles t” the
Southeast of Scis.'.ons, and Viorzy
about seven miles to the South of
Soissons, in their count; r drive and
have also taken several hundred
prisoners, pieces of heavy artillery,
machine gur.s and email arms. The
German right flank evidently had
advanced to far beyond the pro
tection cf ihoil1 heavier*, batteries
and were neatly trapped by the
French reserves.
The Germans have failed in '
attempts to extend their sail s
Southward from the river Marne.
They have made three separate ef
forts to cross the river Marne but
were repulsed with the most terrible
losses. The emergency bridges
swung across the river by the Ger
man engineers were shattered by
the intense fire poured upon them by
the Allied Heavy artillery, while
the troops were crossing, and the
enemy lost thousands of men by
drowning and from thet terrible
rain of fire from the Allied bat
teries.
The enemy is now holding a front
of thirteen miles on the North bank
of the Meuse, between Thierry and
Chiezy .
Keep Posted, Read the WORKER.
MRS. STOKES SENTENCED
TEN YEARS PENITENTIAY
KANSAS City June 1—Mrs Rose
Pastor Stokes, who was recently
found guilty of having violated the
Espionage Act, by making what are
considered seditious utterances, was
today sentenced to ten years in
the Federal Penitentiary. The court
refused to grant a motion for a new
trial.
This is the woman who dared td
say that ‘‘No government for the
profiteer is for the people” and
whose case has been brought to the
attention of tho United States Sen
ate by Senator Borah demanding
that her conviction be justified by
Congress.
(What a farce is justice if the
prisoner is not given a fair trial
and what right have those courts
to respect who do not respect them
selves?) Ed.
THE ALLIES ARE STILL
CLINGING DESPERATELY
TO RHEIMS
PARIS, June 1—The Allies are
6 till clinging desperately to the
Rheims positions although the Ger
mans are making savage assaults
along the line between Dormans
and Rheims. Dormans is twenty
miles to the Southwest of Rheims
•n the Marne river. The Allies have
repulsed all German attacks, in
flicting heavy losses on the enemy
and are now strengthening their
posit on s.
LONDON, June 1—The Turkish
forces have occupied the town of
Alexandropolin, about 125 miles to
the Southeast of the Black sea port
of Batum and 80 miles Southwest
of the city of Tiflis, in Trans
Caucasia.
WASHIGNTON June 1—The State
Department is in receipt of a dis
patch which says that the peace
treaty between the German and
Finnish Governments was signed
on the 29th of May. The dispatch
gives no details of the terms of the
treaty. '
LONDON, June 1—To the North
of Albert, in the Aveluy sector the
British forces raided the German
trenches capturing a number of
prisoners. The British have recent
ly strengthened their positions in
this sector.
McGIVNEY WIRES
FROM SEATTLE
SEATTLE, JUNE 1—Victoria
scheduled to sail Sunday morning
June 2nd. Admiral Watson delayed
by ice in Bristol Bay, billed to
l«ive Seattle June 12 th. Thus
Victoria has all freight, and pass
enger space filled, most of steerage
passengers are booked for St Mich
ael, or up river points.
Few workers for Nome. All
dredgemen here figure on operating
during summer, except Buck creek,
Johnson dredge.
John Brower has drilling contract
from Alaska Mines Corporation.
Hod and Strand on way back,
they will drive tunnel on their
antimony mine.
Seattle booming. Labor short in
shipyards.
Farmers are offering help $4.50
and board per day for eight hours
work, farm hands scarce.
Keymen still on' strike and adjust
ment likely. Government insists on
settlement to prevent revolt of or
ganized labor. Your strike in Nome
fully advertised.
McGivney.
WASHINGTON, June 1—Samuel
Gompers, the President of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, while ad
dressing a meeting of the Ameri
can Labor Commission, which has
just returned from abroad, said
that the Socialists and pacificists
arp Pro-German.
(This is not the first time the
champion wind-bag of the American
Federation of Labor has placed
himself on record as being opposed
to the interests of the rank and file
of the American Labor movement.
He shows himself a fit companion
for the parasites who represent the
American, British and German
Junkers but he also shows that he
is entirely unfitted to represent the
American Labor Movement.) Ed.
BATTLE FRONT ONE
HUNDRED MILES LONG
LONDON, June 1—The Germans
have extended their operations on
tho Aisne-Marne front, to the North
west of Soissons and are now de
livering powerful blows on thje
Fronch positions between Couekle
Chateau and the Oise river. This
front is now linked with the Picardy
theatre making a battle line of one
hundred miles in extent.
The French forces in a counter
attack succeeded in capturing the
I village of Thillois, which is about
| three miles to the Northwest of
Jiheims.
The Germans are attempting to
cut off the Rheims lines of com
munication thereby forcing the
French to evacuate the oity.
LONDON, June 1—According to
lato information reaching here
from French quarters, the Germans
have succeeded in driving their
wedge to the right bank of the
river Marne. This makes their
greatest depth of penetration about
thirty miles.
PARIS, May 31— The Germans
are again massing troops to the
Northwest of Montdidier, near Can
tigny. They have begun to advance
are making every effort to hurl the
Americans from the advanced posi
tions surrounding the village. So
far all their efforts have been with
out avail, the Americans have
thrown them back with fearful loss
es and with reinforcements now
coming up will easily be able to
hold the village against any and all
attempts of the Germans to recap
ture it.
The Germans have obtained a
maximum penetration of twenty
miles on the Aisne front and are
now wiithin six miles of the riwr
Marne, where von Kluck made his
first stand, in the early part of
the war, upon being forced to
retreat by the French, under General
Foch. The Allies are now holding
fast on the present lines.
WASHINGTON, May 31—Gcnerfal
Pershing, reported the American
engagement at Cantigny, on May
29th resulted in very serious losses
to the enemy. The Americans cap
tured two hundred and forty pris
oners and a number of machine
guns.
WASHINGTON, May 31—Accord
ing to the opinion of prominent
American military authorities, the
present situation in France is dis
tinctly serious but not desperate.
This opinion, they stated, is not to
be taken as an attempt, by them
to belittle the German gains. The
Allies had found themselves great
ly outnumbered and very wisely fell
back, to more favorable positions.
LENINE SAYS REFORMATION
RUSSIAN ARMY, AND FI6HT
AMSTERDAM, May 31—Advices
from Moscow say that the Russian
Premier Nicholai Lenine, in a fiery
speech to the All Russian Executive
Committee said that there was noth
ing further that Russia could do to
maintain peace without being bull
ied by Germany and that Russia
will continue the war. The Russian
forces have been in process of re
formation for some time and will
j be ready to take the field against
the enemy in a very short time.
UNFAIR LIST
THE FOLLOWING NAMED PERSONS ARE CONSID
ERED UNFAIR TOWARD THE REST INTERESTS OF THE
WORKING CLASS.
THEY ARE VIOLATING THE EIGHT HOUR LAW
WHICH HAB BEEN DECLARED CONSTITUTIONAL BY OR
GANIZED LABOR.
NAME
EMIL JOHNSON
MATT LAWSON
JACK O’BRIEN
JOE FORTUNE
FRED HINTON
E DIMUS
„ JACK WARWICK
EI> (Nuftget) JOHNSON
JOUIS JOHNSON
• AL KERR
TOM LYLE
AXEL SONBERG
C. F. HAERING (Sr)
OSCAR GRAN
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H. P. HANNON
W. (Shorty) SEDLACEK
MARTIN ANDERSON
FRED (Capt) JENSEN
GREGORY DOMIANO
NELS LEDDING
JOHN FOSBERG
CHARLES VOIGT
JIM CORNELL
RICHARD MORRIS
CHARLES BAILEY
MRS W. H. LARSON
* ALL PERSONS WORKING UNDER THE JURISDIC
►J. TION OF THE NOME MINE WORKERS UNION FOR LESS
A THAN $5 & BOARD PER DAY FOR 8 HOURS WORK, ALSO
RECOGNITION OF THE UNION ARE CONSIDERED UNFAIR
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LONDON, May 31—The Finnish
workmen have held a series of mass
meetings throughout Finnland at
which committeemr n were selected
to form a Central Committee, to
appeal to the world in the name of
humanity, that pressure be brought
to bear upon the Finnish White
Guard and the German Government,
to put an end to the terrorism now
in effect in their unhappy country.
Seventy thousand workmen are now
imprisoned without any semblance
of trial and thousands upon thous
ands are "Starving to death. At
Lakhti. about sixty miles to the
North of Helingstors, the White
Guard with the assistance of the
German, troops have murdered over
a hundred and fifty Finnish women
in a single day.
GENEVA, June 1—It is reported
Jiero that in the city of Prague,
Bohemia which has recently been
the scene of rioting, the casualities
have reached a total of two thous
and. The Czechs, Jugo (Southern)
Slavs and the Austrian troops are
fighting almost daily in the streets.
SENATOR BORAH
DENOUNCES PROFITEERS
WASHINGTON, June 1—Senator
Brrali, of Idaho, while introducing
a resolution calling upon the ,Sec
re'.ary of the Treasury for informa
tion regarding profiteering said that
a woman named Mrs Rose Stokes
had recently been arrested and con
victed of having violated the Es
pionage Act. Mrs Stokes had stated
in delivering an address that, “No
government for the profiteer is for
the people.” The Senator wild,
it is now up to the Congress of the
United States, to justify the con
viction of thic wemr.n. Congress
has contracted a debt which will
draw upon American Labor for a
period of two hundred years and
Congress must see that the hard
earned money coming from the
people does not go to the scavengers
of civilization.—(The Profiteers.)
TRANSPORT PRESIDENT
LINCOLN TORPEDOED
WASHINGTON, May 31—The
Navy Department announced that
the American troop transport Pres
ident Lincoln, bound from Europe
to the United States has been tor
pedoed, by a German submarine
and sunk today. Tho D partment’s
announcement says that the trans
port sank an hour after being struck
but that no details cr casualties
are at hand just yet.
CHICAGO, May 31—Senator J.
Hamilton Lewis in a speech here
today stat'd that the American
I troops now in France, has now
reached the total of one million men.
The Senator said that he predicted
that by the first of December, the
American forces in France would
equal that of England.
LONDON, May 31—The Turkish
Sultan, it has been learned, recently
sent a message to'the Kaiser urging
him to moderate his ambition?. The
Sultan said that he believed if
reasonable peaco terms were offered
to the Allies at ho pr. sent time
that they would surly accept (hem
and bring this terribl • catastrophe
to an end. His appeal has not been
answer d by the Kaiser.