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SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1918,
NO. 2474,
VOL. 11
BAKER WILL DEFEND DEPARTMENT
ALLIES OFFICIALS
REQUEST BETTER
TEAM WORK
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25.— I
By arrangcmnts with Senate offici-;
als today Secretary of War Baker
will be given an opportunity to de
fend the Department of War of
which he is the titular head against
the storm of charges and attacks
being made against it
Mr. Baker will appear before the
Senate’s Committee of Military Af
fairs and is expected to direct him
self squarely to the task of refuting
the castigations of Senator Cham
berlain of Oregon.
The Secretary has demanded the
right to make reply ir. a communi
cation addressed personally to the
Oregon statesman and will be ac
corded the privilege by courtesy of
the senatorial body.
Much significance is attacked here
to the fact that the embassies and
diplomatic representatives of our
allies who are resident in Washing
ton, have taken note of the confu
sion and wrangling which is feared
will delay America’s preparation
for actual participation in the war.
It became known today that re
presentatives of the French and
English governments have confer
red over the state of things in Am
erica and that as a result of their
consultation have cabled to Presi
dent Wilson’s confidential agent,
Colonel House, urging him to do
what lay in his power to secure
more effective team work, accord
ing to statements disclosed by a
secret session of the Senate Mili
tary Affairs Committee.
HUNGER THREATENS
STOP WAR WORK
NOTTINGHAM, Jan. 25.—What
is developing into ono of the most
important conferences ever held in
the history of England is in pro
gress here, in the form of caucus
of the British Labor Party being
held in this city, and now in its
fourth day.
W. C. Anderson, a delegate to the
conference and a labor representa
tive in the House of Commons,
made a most serious address of
today, and laid pronounced empha
sis on his observation that acute
hunger and suffering confronts im
mediately not alone the British Em
pire but the whole of Europe, and
which only the most rigid conser
vation of food can avoid.
The wisdom and common sense
of the Lloyd-George English gov
ernment in according to the labor
elements a place of dignified and
substantial responsibility is being
abundantly sustained, in the deli
berations of this labor conference,
and it is believed that Parliament
itself at no time has proven itself
more thoroughly capable and
statesmen like.
Mr. Anderson’s address was re
ceiped with evidences of the most
profound concern and attention as
ho developed his hypothesis that ac
tual famine menaces the industrial
situation, and as he painted a real
istic word picture of the wretched
ness being brought actually to the
cottages of England.
FACTS IN WAR
BACKGROUND DISCLOSED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25.—
Today has brought developments
which Indicate that the interna
tional situation is looming large
with portent as the fortunes of war
may fall, for good or ill.
The government officials wnose
departments are concerned are
pointing out that events of the
greatest significance are going on
behind the screen of the airtight
German press censorship. These
developments include:
First, German Chancellor Hert
ling's admission that th« Russian
peace negotiations are not proceed
ing satisfactorily which <sould not
be reconciled with his further
statement that he continues to hope
for a conclusion of peace with Rus
sia.
Second, the unexplained with
drawal of the German lines in North
ern Italy, coupled with what are
admitteed to be heavy Teuton rein
forcements along the Western
front;
Third, the British Premier Lloyd
George inviting the Irish leaders
into conference with a view to sett
ling once and for all the perplexing
Irish question, that ke ms bribing
up like a jack-in-the-box of English
tribulation;
Fourth, the marked increase in
the Bolsheviki sentiment among
Austrians and Hungarians .'or the
“no annexations, no in !<.tunnies ’
program, and
Fifth, the new allied war council
ready to convene at Paris at which
General Bliss will represent Amer
ica, and advices roaching here that
Austrian Government claims to
have repossessed itself of the situa
tion.
For the nest SOc. Dinner in Nome
go to the Board of Trade Lunch
Counter.
REAL ESTATE SHARKS
HAMPER SHIPPING
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan. 23.—
Admiral Bodies testifying before
the Merchant Marine Committee of
the House of Representat'ves
charged thc tho country is being
deprived o many thousands of tons
of needed shipping by the opera
tions of real estate speculators.
While the much sought shipping
is being so urgently needed for the
support of the armies the real
estate men buy up the really in the
vicinity of ship-building plants and
by gaining control of the bouses
and residential plots deprive the
workers of close-in housing.
Concluding his testimony the Ad
miral most empathically expressed
CONGRESSMEN DENT
SAYS NEWSPAPERS
CONCEAL TOO MUCH
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 25.—
In view of the ruthless decapita
tion of many too bold newspapers
whose business and circulation
have been destroyed under the
espionage Act, the sedition statutes
and the arbitrary rulings of the
Postal Department, the incisive
comment of Representative Dent
j before Congress upon the press is
! somewhat puzzling to newspaper
men. who as a class and regardless
i of private opinion, are anxious to
' aid the country and the administra- ■
tion in the conduct of the war.
The Congressman’s remarks were
made by way of preliminary to a
more extended address which he
has in preparation for the defense
of the administration.
Mr. Dent*s complaint at the news
papers is on the score that much
of grounds that have arisen for
complaint at the administration
and it* departments could have
been obviated if the newspapers
svil conditions had indulged a
who
said are first to know of
| broader publicity. On the contrary
he stated, the press in a mistaken
j sense of its duty had witheld its ac
| customed criticism and had prae
! tieed too much concealment in a
I sort of a voluntary self-censorship.
The Congressman proposes to re
ply at length to the unsparing at
tacks of Senator Chamberlain in
the upper House, admitting many
of the Senators’s charges but off
setting them by achievements.
You’ll see it first In the Worker.
PEACE RUMORS
REGARDED SERIOUSLY
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan. 26.—
Th?t the Dove of Peace hovers
wearily over the war torn world
and that a cessation of the conflict
may come as suddenly as it began
was the burden of the gossip forc
ing its way in diplomatic circles
here today.
Specific repoits have been con
firmed to the effect that Austria
Hungary will initiate a peace move
to America at an early date, im
pelled to that course by the rapidly
rising socialist tide and the unrest
and discontent because of the war.
The strength and persistence of
the peace talk is attributable to
cable dispatches from Amsterdam,
Holland, which are held by officials
| to be always the most reliabe and
scrupulous of any arriving from
the continent Those arriving to
day state that definite promises in
a peace direction have been made
to socialist representatives and la
bor leaders. ,
Count Czernln, the Austrian Pre
mier, is directly quoted in the re
ports as saying that Austria and
America are in entire agreement on
most of the vital issues of the
war.
The Austrian minister is also
quoted as saying that an imme
diate formal exchange of vievs
with America would be desirable
and might easily prove the begin
ning of concilliatory negotiations.
UNITED MINE WORKERS
SCORN I. W. W.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 2 5.-The
national convention oi the United
Mine Workers of America held its
stormiest and most exciting session
here today, in a hotly debated
struggle of what are coming to be
known in various labor organiza
tions as "two uaru aieii wuku >■>
to say the members of a particu
lar craft, who. retaining their mem
berships in the older and more
conservative brotherhoods which
hold control of the shops and for
economic reasons, but who through
sentiment or newly inspired ideal
ism have become imbued with the
himself as desirous of a favorable
report on the Shipping Board’s
Housing Bill.
BERLIN, Jan. 25.—The German
War Office announces the develop
ment of renewed fighting over a
large section of the Western front,
stating that the German aggressive
will be renewed on a magnitude not
heretofore known in the war.
Take your Lunch and Dinner at
the Board of Trade Lunch Counter,
only 50c.
principles or the much despised but
rapidly growing Industrial Workers
of the world, the younger la*>or
movement with its much more ra
dical purposes.
Many speakers deplored this ten
dency and pointed to instances
which are increasing where local
unions have Been slowly inundated
with “Two Card Men" and I. W. W.
sentiment, notably in the textile
and lumber industries until, captur
ed wholly by the “wobblies" as the
I. W. W. are derisively dubbed.
A few delegates had the hardi
hood to defend the two-card prac
DANCING SCHOOL.
At the Miners Home Club Hall,
Dancing Class every Tuesday,
Wednesday and lYiday, evening
from 8 P. M. to 11 P. M. Admis
sion to class $1.00. Private lessons
$1.00 per hour.
>IRS. GEO WALD HELM, Teacher.
Try a baby chicken in cassaroll
at Modini's B. O. T. Cafe, it’s fine.
Subscribe now for the Worker
and keep Posted.
tice on the contention that the
unions must kept pace with indus
trial development and that the
more efficient methods which must
survive in the »n l and that they
should be welcomed rather than ob
structed.
The resolution that herearter its
members should not bo allowed to
carry cards in the I. W W. upon
pain of expulsion from the United
Mine Workers. The Working Class
Union, a southern organization
which had run afoul of the mili
tary laws was likewise put under
the ban.
AT SONS OF THE NORTH ll lll.
Thero will be Social Dance at
the Sons of the North Hall, Satur
day, Jan. 26, at 9 P. M. Every
body invited. A good time guaran
teed. COMMITTEE.
Fur garments made and repaired,
at the Nome Tailoring Company.
Let ns estimate on /our Job Work
Express and General Delivery.
See Erickson at Mansfield's Cigar
Store.