Industrial Murker
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VOL. II
NOME, ALASKA. TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1918.
NO. 2512.
PROVIDENCE, U. T. Mar. 11.—
United States Secret rvice opera
tive, who have been detailed to
acquire all possible information of
crookedness on the part of railroad
officials in dealing with the govern
ment since and before the taking
over of the roads, have sent in their
report to Secretary McAdoo today.
The report containsample evidence
to prove that a conspiracy existed
and still exists, to discredit in every
way possible, government control or
ownership.
The government investigators
have uncovered asurprising mass of
incriminating evidence showing how
the officials put green men at the
heads of departments such as train
masters, traffic managers, division
superintendents, and train despatch
es, to delay in every way possible
the movement of trains, and the in
crease of cost of maintainance so
as to make i tappear that govern
ment operation, with its extravag
ance was folly. Th°y also mail * it
their busines to appoint green men
to be general and assistant yard
masters, who have charge of all
yard work where trains are switch
ed and mad3 up tyid carsare set for
loading and unloading, r.t indust
ries and wholesale houses and where
human life is continually in the
gravest danger even when the most
experienced men are used. They
also changed old men at the switch
towers and put new men, entirely
green at railroad work, at switch
tending so that not only main line
traffic would be tied-up and delayed
but yard work also. A green man
or boy would some tim-s be put in
charge of switches where at times
the mistake made in throwing a puz
zle switch the wrong way would
result in a wreck at a terminal
where main line and yard traffic
would be tied-up for days at a
time. Chief yard clerks and their
assistants wore placed in responsi
bio places when cars were mistagged
or wrong numbers given which
would delay both yard ar.d train
crews, compelling them to work
hours over the necessary time there
by causing discontent and dissatis
faction among tbe employees and
to help cut the general dissatis
faction the employees were constant
ly short in their pay, of course the
matt r was always ‘investigated’ and
‘sometimes’ the men received what
was coming to them the next month
The officials stopped at nothing to
make government control and own
ership a failure and yet the majority j
of the head officials and owners
wore actively engaged in ‘war work’
or were'patriotic’ membera of the
National Defence League who are
‘serving’ their country without any
remuneration whatsoever?
The department is preparing for j
the vigorous prosecution of these i
criminals at the earliest possible |
moment.
■WASHINGTON’, March 11—The
United States Senate today unani
mously passed the Urgent Deficiency
Bill which gives the President author
ity to sell all German owned property
in the United Suites. This clause was
inserted in the hill by the request of
1‘resident Wilson a few days ago to
enable the government to take over
the property belonging to the Ham
burg-American and other German
Companies owing dock warehouses
and other property along the New
York Water Front mostly, but will
also cover other properly by Alien
enemies. This Bill will farestall any
auit for damages against the govern
ment that might develop after the
wa r.
LONDON, Mar. 11.—The Turkish
forces in Mesopotamia yesterday
suffered a severe defeat at the hands
of the British under General Maude1.
The Turks were driven out of the
ancient town of Hit on the Euphates
river about an even hundred miles
due West of the city of Bagdad. The
English airmen played aprominent
part in the rout of the Turks by
sprinkling, the defenses of the town
plentifully with bomhs and doing
much damage among the Turkish
troops. I'he aeroplanes followed the
retreating army striking terror
to the hearts of the true believers
:u Mohammed and causing more than
5,300 to surender. Th- Turkish
army were pursued for more than
22 miles along the Euphrates river
toward Ana about 60 miles from
lilt. General Maude stated in his
report that it is now simply a
matter of bringing up suplies and
.a continuance of the puruit, as the
Turkish army is now completely
demoralized and he has wry hope
(of being able to drive th m entirely
from the Mesopotamian Valley.
PALM BEACH, March 11—Walter
Swanson, IS, a Volunteer lif saver,
yesterday swam to a flouting body in
the bay, near the end of the Ncuport
Pier, and tow the body to shore. While
working over the body in attempting
to restore life, lie discovered it was his
own sister, Josephine, aged 12. He
fainted and did not come to for si>:
hours, during which time all efforts to
revive him proved vain. He has been I
in a delirious condition cvwysince and!
doctors say he may die or go insane
as a result of the shock. Hundreds of
people witnessed the rescue of the
body by the young life saver and
gloat sorrow in being manifested beer
over the loss of the life of the little
girt and what now appears to be the
untimely ending of her brave broth
DKS MOINES, ia., March 11—Eight
Socialists who have been selected for
draft at St Haul have refused to serve.
They stated that tiirj objected to the
conscription of human life as long as
wealth and industry were not con
scripted also. Their cases have been
in litigation since June, at which,
time they refuse'd to register, but be
ing unable to convict them in the civil
court the cases were referred to a
military court. They claimed that the
.military court had no jurisdiction over
their cases us they were not yet a part
el the military establishment but their
objection was over-ruled and they
were each given from twenty to
twenty five years in prison.
AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE,
Mar. 11.—The American-French
forces today made a successful raid
on the German first line trenches,
after an intense bombardment last
ing for over s veral hours, during
which time the enemy defenses were
completely destroyed. The attack
ing troops penetrated the German
lines to a depth of 1,000 yards in
tho Champagne district.
No American or French troops
were lost or wounded in tho drive
and only two of tho enemy wore
captured, Tl, - two prisoners wer •
wounded Bavarians and were sent
to the base hospital.
Light skirmishes have taken
place betwv-n the Allied forces and
German troops at different places a
lo:’g I ho entire line for the past
week or more anil the Allies are
expecting the German drive to begin
at any time now as the spring is
about hero.
Please leave your order at the.
Nome Tailoring Co. (next door Seg-(
' erstrom and Hagen), for coal etc., I
press. Orders promptly attended to.
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j ST LOUIS, March 11 The great
I strike which started last week at the
plant of the Wagner Electric Co., is
si ill spreading, today (1,500 employees
of t!ie Tobacco Trust, at the Ligg’et
and Meyer Plant join d the strike.
They are demanding the abolition of
the I ton us system a nit the peace work
system and ask for recognition of the
Union, the eight, hour day and an in
crease in wages. The Federal Media
tors have arrived here but so far have
been unable to check the strike owing
to the fact that the WJagner Co., n fus
es to give an inch. The strikers
I whose numbers are being added to
daily continue to hold large mass
meetings at which the Amendment of
the Espionage Act is alluded to as
the American Slave Measure and cun
teamed as such in the most scatt
ing terms. All Senators and Kepresen
tatives of the State of Missouri have
been petitioned to use their influence
to have this vicious class measure re
pealed and failing to heed this ap
peal are warned that they shall never
again have the opportunity to repre
sent the people of Missouri. Petitions'
o being circulated at these mass |
meetings, already signed by thous- |
ands of workers, for the freeing of not
only Mooney but all who have been !
arrested with him for alleged connec
tion with the preparedness day bomb
plot. |
The strikers are daily parading th M
streets although this is against the city
ordinance and many of the strikers are j
being arrested, but this only adds fuel |
to the flames and causes more agita
tion for a general strike. The ern- j
plovers are surely up against it for!
scabs just now and if the State Gov
ernment interf ‘res the Unions have is
sued orders to all Gocals to be ready
to quit work in a body the minute a i
Militiaman steps into the strike, so the j
Governor is holding his hand hoping
that the Government Mediators will!
soon be able to effect a settlement, or
that the Government will take over all
the plants which arc now shut down
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on account of the strike. The men say
they will willingly return to work ami
; await adjustment of the wage scale and
j working conditions if the government
I will lake over the plants, that they are
not unpatriotic (no charge of German
money or pro-tJermanism always the
cry of the parasites or the simple mind
ed has so far developed in this strike)
i hut that they must tight for living con
ditions as they now know they will
only get what they fight for.
They say they have been starving on
promises and bunk for over a year now
land that they will never go back to
work on any more employers promises,
that the workers are the ones on whom
the government must depend to light
this war and to finance it also and that
since such is the fact tiie quicker both
government and employing—non pro
ducers realize it as a fact, just so
much the quicker will the war be won.
The workers organization in Hast St
Louis have held two great mass meet -
ings and pledged their support to St
Louis locals in case a general strike
is called.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Mar. 10.—
An American, supposed to be a re
tired army officer, who has just re
J turned from a two years stay in
France, expresses it as his opinion,
that the only reason that th: Ger
mans continue to win, is not be
cause of any superiority either in
I numbers of men or kind of men,
[ but because they are being directed
| by on1 head—the German General
I Staff, lie says lie is opposed to this
war and all other wars because they
are never carried on in the interests
of the people who must do the light
ing, but that if we must have them,
the re is no reason inthe world why1
they cannot be carried on in a scien
tific manner. He says that every
American realizes that the
United States must bear the brunt
of the war from now on and thati
since such is the case it is jio more
than just that this country should
insist, as it lias a right to insist, that
the war from now on shall be run
on a scientific basis—thatis, by a
War (lead similar to the German
General Staff. The war cannot run
on in the haphazard way it has ■
been run if we expect to win. No
business can be run in a successful
manner, where there is a dozen
heads of departments none of whom
recognizes the fact that their indi
vidual departments nun t be subser
vient to the success of the whole
and who do not acknowledge a
supreme authority. To illustrate he
shows the Germans with Hinden
berg and Ludendorff, as being Un
real military geniuses of the German
General Staff, which is in absolute
ontrol of all plans and operations i
of the Central Power.-. No military
operation of any con. iiuenco is loo
small to be "reviewed by this War
Head. He contrasts this system a it It
that in operation by the A1H< ■ and
tlio weak points ar (jute easily
seen. He likens the Allies to the
unsuccessful department store, and
shows that these department leads
are being constantly changed, they
recognize no buprenie authority and
they never se n to net in concert.
He says America must bring order
out of chaos and that only by the
exorcise of a Central authority
wielded by a Supr me War Head
can the Central Powers lie effectual
ly crushed.
..Don't forget wo save you a llttio
r’<v.■' ' '«• suup ,\ itny
liiug at Holt’s.
TOKIO, Mar. 11.—That Japan is
now considering the entering of the
war in earnest i sno long* r doubted
as a bill has just been introduced
In the Japanese Diet which is tiro
most, far-reaching and most up to
date method of prosecuting the war
which has up to the present been
used in any country outside of Ger
many. The member, of the Diet
in introducing this most drastic
m asure addressed the members at
great length explaining the working
out of the measure in its minutest
detail and finished his address
stating that since Japan had de
cided on its course, and that course
would be adherred to, to the, end
and that Japan would ro: bo content 1
with any half-way measures. The
bill provides for the immedito mob
ilization and requisitioning of all
industries and the conscription of
all wealth and labor. Japan evi
dently intends the launching of a,
mighty army in Siberia in the n< ;;r
future.
TOKiO, Mar. 11.-—Word has been
soceived here today from Pekin
that the Chinese Cabinet, has voted
$5,000,000 to defray exp uses
ol an expeditionary force of 40.000
troop:- to Siberia. A movement l:i
r- ported to bo afoot, to establish
an independent government in iCast
arn Russia or Siberia, with the cap
itol at Wharbin.