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NOME, ALASKA. TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1918.
NO. 2500.
AMBASSADOR ON WAY SIBERIA
FRANCIS AND STAFF
ARRIVE AT VOLOGDO
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 4.—The
Secretary of State today announced
the receipt of a cablegram by the
State Department, from the Ameri
can Ambassador to Russia Mr. Fran
cis. Mr. Francis advises that he and
the Embassy Staff have all arrived
•safely at Vologda but did not say at
what time he would start for Moscow,
Vologda is the Capital City of the
Province of Volpgla and has between
35,000 and 40,000 population. It is a
fiver port of importance on the Suk
honia River, about 350 miles directly
Fast of Petrograd and about 250 miles
north of the city of Moscow, to which
city it is connected by rail. The Am
bassador states that everything was
being done for himself and staff by
the Bolsheviki Government and that 1
so far they had not been subjected to
any inconvenience. !
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 4.— .
The house today passed the resolution i
exempting from classification as I
Enemy Aliens, ten Slav Nationalities 1
who are now subjects of Austria-Hun- 1
gary. The amendment to the Espion- <
age Act was also approved of. i
WASHINGTON, D. C.. March 4.—It
is reported here this morning from
Berlin that the Bolsheviki have ac
cepted the German Peace Terms. This
report if true will imjnediately bring
the Siberian question to a crisis and
force an agreement to Japans proposi
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Ion that she be given a free hand in
Liberia Reports from other sources
tate that the BolshevikI having learn
Hl, of the friendly proposition of
lapan to the Allies have become
alarmed by the fear of being attacked
>y Japan and are blowing up all the
irgest bridges of the Trans-Siberian
tail way near China, from which
ountry Japan is expected to alvance
nto Siberia. The State Department
ears that if these reports axe true
hat the American Ambassador, Mr.
'"rancis and his staff would be unable
o reach Vlodivostock. Francis had
.rders to leave Petrograd, when the
apane.se Government miade its pro
(osition to the Allies, that Japan
hould be given a free hand in Siberia.
INTRODUCE BILL REPUDIATE
JAP INVASION SIBERIA
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 4.—
Congressman Meyer London at New
York, today introduced a resolution
in the house calling upon Congress to
repudiate the invasion of Siberia by
Jiiipan. London claimed that Japan
had the most sinister motives in mak
ing such a proposition and that Ja
pan’s proposal also had unclean in
fluences in this country in operation
fostering the acceptance of its plans.
Lionlon said that for the United
States to carry out this diabolical
scheme of Japan, at this very time,
when this country has entered the war
for the sake of Democracy, would be
nothing short of subversive subter
fuge. He deplored the United States
taking any such action and said the
people of Russia at the present time
had the utmost trust in this country
and that to give our assent to Japan's
proposal, would not only destroy the
simple trust of the Russian people but
the trust of all other downtrodden
people the world over, who have al
ways looked up to American Demo
cracy as something worthy of aspiring
too. t
He said the Russian people are
thoroughly aroused to their danger
and had no intentions of giving in to
the Germans in spite of all the lying
reports to the contrary. Such report
have been spread by the enemies of
Russia to discredit her every effort
simply because the present Russian
Government would not bow the knee
to the autocracies and the profiteers
of the world of today. The discredit
able reports did not come from Ger
many so much as from the very peo
pie that professed friendship for Rus
sia, and that American profiteers had
surely done their share through the
kept press. The American profiteers
and plutocrates as well as the same
class in other countries, said. London,
hated above all things to see a really
democratic government in existence,
find he cited an issue of the plutocra
tic Wall St. Journal, tn which it was
stated that an unlimited monarchy
such as Russia was during the reign
of O'ar, was the best country in the
world for .American financiers to in
ves. their money. That the Russian
people, if given half a chance, will
drive the invaders out of free Russia
and he begged that Congress would do
Its part in seeing that Russia was
given this chance.
WILL CALL GENERAL STRIKE
IF TOM MOONEY IS HUNG
CHICAGO, March 4.—The Chica
go Federation of Labor today decid
ed that they would not order a
general strike in protest of the
hanging of Thomas Mooney, until
all other means had failed to securG
justice. They agreed to use every
possible effort to obtain a reprieve
and have requested Gompers and
Secretary of Labor Wilson to use
their influence to see that Mooney
was saved from judicial murder.
If this method is not successful every
city in thie United States will be
called upon to declare a general
strike as a mighty protest to Presi
dent Wilson against the murder of
innocent men to satisfy the blood
iust of these American butchers as
exemplified in the San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce.
CHICAGO. March 4th.—Attorney
Frank P. Walsh who is representing
the Unions, at the Arbitration Hear
ing today showed the under-hand tac
tics of the packers. Walsh showed
the packers playing the old game of
"shouting wolf whore there was no
wolf’ by the packers themselves hav
ing notices posted all about the Kan
sas City Stockyards, declaring that
unless the packing firms recognize the
Union that a strike would be called.
The packers then took immediate
steps to halt the strike by complain
ing to the Government that their em
ployees were threatening them with a
strike, which however, never mater
ialized. This, said Walsh was only
one instance, of the way In which the
packers attempted to discredit the ef
forts of the Unions, in their attempt to
settle their differences with the pick
ers. But at the present time, the
packers were so lustful for profits,
and still more profits, that
they wore ■ eomfant'y • trying to
force the men and women employed
by' them to strike, thinking that they
could very e-csily force the. govern
ment to Intervene In their behalf by
claiming that the strikers were pro
Gernmn and were trying to hinder
the lulling of government contracts.
If they could once make the govern
ment believe all these lies they could
consider themselves well on the way
to have the government approve the
importation of the 5,000,000 Chinese
Coolies, which scheme they and other
profiteers have been trying to make
the government swallow whole. The
workers feel that the g< od worr ac
complished by Wa!st> today "ill re
sult in their winning in their demands
RUEBEN GETS
24 YEARS
TACOMA, March 4.—Private Rue
ben, of the 166th Depot Brigade some
lime ago made the remark that he
would like to see the Germans win
Though the remarks was made in c
thoughtless manner it was reported t<
headquarters and ordered to be tried
by military court martial.
The court today sentenced him tc
twenty-four years in a Federal Peni
tentiary. It is expected he will be
sent to Fort Levenworth, Kansas.
Bring your forfeiture notices to thi
Industrial Worker
FIERCE FIGHTING
NEAR JERUSALEM
LONDON, .March 4.—The English
forces operating in Palestine have
! made another sudden attack on the
Turkich positions North of the citj
of El Kuds, (Jerusalem) capturing
2,135 prisoners and gaining ovei
3,000 yards on a 15 mile front.
The two small towns of El Jib and
Er Ham wee taken in this advance
after a most bloody battle in which
much hand-to-hand fighting was re
sorted to and in which more than
3,000 were killed and many thou
sands wounded. Most of the pri
soners taken were cut off from re
treat by a flanking movement and
surrendered without many of their
number being killed or wounded
but the Turks holding the positions
at El Jib and Er Ram mere mostly
all slaughtered by the British
machine guns. Many Jews who had
been prisoners for months in these
two towns, were liberated almost
dead from starvation and ill usage
by the Turks.
LOS ANGELES, March 4.—Hans
Gehemel, a structual iron worker, (
was instantly killed here today, ,
when he fell from the sixth story
of 45 Seventh St. Gehemel was
38 years old and leaves a wife and
five children. He has been employed i
oy the Broadway Cnstruction Co.
for over eleven years and was one
of their best workmen.
A poleeman who saw him fall said
tie was sure that it was caused by
i faulty scaffold and that the man
was in no way to blame as claimed
ater by the construction company’s
Superintendent H. G. Swartsel.
Express and General Delivery,
iee Erickson at Mansfield's Cigar
it ore.
Pnr garments made and repaired
it the Nome Tailoring Company.
LATE NEWS FROM DIME CREEK
One of the members of Local 240,
sends us the following interesting
news from Dime creek.
Haycock, Alaska, Feb. 23 1918.
Industrial Worker Office Staff:
Comrades, as the mail is about
to leave I take pleasure to drop
you these few lines to let you know
that some of the Union boys are
still alive and well. I read with
regret, the temporary difficultly
you’re having in the office.- There
are between 40 and 60 members and
ex-members of the Local here, many
of us have often diseased the
newspaper question. It was agreed
upon, at one -tof these meetings sev
eral of us held, t, at at any time the
boys in Nome need any financial,
or any other kind of assistance from
us to retain possession of the Daily
Nome Industrial Worker, tell the
Secretary of the Union to just let
us know and we assure you we’ll do
our share towards it. The unani
mous opinion of the boys down here
is. for you fellows in Nomfc to keep
the paper on deck, under any and
all circumstances. We were certain
ly very glad to hear changes had
been made In regard to the office
staff.
The camp here at present is
very quiet, with very little encour
agement in sight. Quite a number
of men are waiting for a chance
to go to work. John Nelson and
John Jacobsen are resting up, after
putting in a long shift in the woods
felling timber, and hunting and
trapping. John Christiansen had
the misfortune to meet with a
serious accident a short time ago.
he was cutting a quarter of frozen
reindeer with an axie, while steady
ing the meat with one hand he made
a swipe at it and struck the meat
and his hand, about the same time.
The axe made an awful gash in his
hand, he came near posing a couple
of fingers. His hand was fixed up
by one of the prospectors here who
is somewhat of a quack-doctor. We
tried to get Christianson to go to
Nomle, but nothing doing. He said
ho would if any serious complica
tions set in. At present his hand
don’t appear to be so very bad.
Harry Conrad and his partner are
prospecting on Peace river, they
went to depth of 115 -feet in one
shaft before they struck bedrock,
without, finding ny symptoms of
gold. They are still persistently
plugging along in hopes of locating
the paystreak.
Bill Sutton, Kristsen Madsen. Ail
tone Herman, John Sutton and l'eto
Anderson are sinking shafts on the
right limit of Rube creek without
results so far. Valentine and Porter
aro working full blast on NO. 6, a
few pans running as high as $15.00
to the pan were found in a crevise
in the bedrock on the claim, but
the pay on the average is about two
feet of 5 cent dirt. There are seven
self-dumpers working on the creek.
From 125 to 140 men are employed.
The average width of the paystreak
is about 50 feet. The Murray boys
are prospecting on Valentine and
Porter’s ground, they are trying to
locate the extention of the paystreak
which Glassner and Nass are extract
ing. Glassner and Nass have drifted
about 125 feiet up and down the
direction the crleek runs in pretty
fair paydirt. ' They have consider
able snow in their locality, but not
over-burdened with it.
A big dance was given on the
22nd by Porter, celebrating the New
Picture Hall which will be opened
up for business about the 5th of
March. There are several dumps
of fair paydirt on th,e. surface of
No. 5 above.
The coldest day we have had so
far, was 60 degrees below zero.
Milton Adams sold his wood cutting
machine to Ralph Williams and
Geisler. C. Bann and wife are
taking life leasy. Capt. Heikkela,
has opened a barber-shop. He also
intends to instal a bathtub which
is a luxury in this neck of the
woods.
25 men are working on No. 6,
they hoist on the average of about
400 40 pan cars per day on this
claim. There is very little cash in
circulation down here. Many of the
staple articles in the grocery line
are scarce, later on, this state of
affairs may have the tendency to
retard mining.
Carl Hansen and Andy Peterson
recently discovered fairly good pay
dirt on Discovery claim, on Dome
creek, and as soon as they can get
rigged up, will start hoisting paydirt
to th» surface. Peter Peterson, and
Ryan and Company are drilling on
Dome, they’ve found small pros
pects hut no rregular paystreak. 1
must say another word about the
dance, we had a swell time that
night in the new Movie Picture
Building, which is 25 x45 feet.
Nearly 100 attended the blow-out.
We were rather shy on the ladies
end of it, but we got along alright.
A delicious lunch was served, while
the dance was going on. The eats
were served by Porter and Co. (gra
tuitously)
Mrs. Hans Hanson serves about
100 meals per day at her popular
roadhouse, at $1.00 per. Unless
something else is struck round here,
and judging th<a way things look au
present, I believe Dime will be a
good little camp as a small pro
ducer, for about another two years.
There is some low grade ground
here, but commodities are so high
that is too expensive to operate
the same at present.
Ed Holt Is here, he has been
here for five or six weeks. He’s
looking as fat and prosperous, as
though he was the National Food
Administrator. Holt said that he
intended to leave for Nome within
the next few days. Well, boys I’m
going to bring these few lines to a
close. Continue to send the Worker
in the future as regularly as you
have in the past. Give my best
wishes to all members of Local 240.
1 remain yours for,
Industrial Freedom,
H. C. E. H.
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EX-SAILORS ARRESTED BY
SECRET SERVICE MEN
HARTFORD. Conn., March 4.—
Seven German sailors, who it is
said were a part of the crew of the
Vaterland and other interned Ger
man ships were arrested by U. S.
Secret Service men while working at
a brick yard just outside this city j
today..
They had worked their way North
with the £id of German countrymen
and had been working for sometime
when found by the sleuths.
The Federal authorities will start
South with their prisoners tomorrow
morning.
BAYONNE, N. J. March 4. Art
Smith announced here today that
h!e has perfected an invention that
will revolutionize the manufacture
of aeroplanes and at the same time
make them not only safo but as
cheap a3 Ford jitneys