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NOME, ALASKA. SATURDAY, JUNE, 21, 1910.
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LABOR CONVENTION
AGAINST BOLSHEVISM
WASHINGTON, June 16—A great
multitude of people, mostly members
of labor organizations voiced their
protest against National Prohibition
from the steps of the Capitol today.
Many prominent labor leaders who
spoke against the Prohibition Amend
ment were fully supported by the
assembled crowds. Samuel Gompers
President of the American Federation
of Labor declared in his speech that
he was alarmed for the future of
Arr erica if the prnn bition amend
s', ent was incorporate 1 in the runsti
stulion.
WASHINGTON, June 17—The res
olution to repeal the War time Pro
hibition Act as it affects light beer
and wines was voted down ten to
three by the Judiciary Committee ot
tne House of Congress today.
ATLANTIC CITY, June 18—The
delegates to the Convention of the
American Fed. ration of Labor adopt
ed a resolution denying recognition
to the Russian Soviet . A resolution
to ndorse a general strike on July
4th as a protest against Tom Moon
ey’s imprisonment was voted down
but the Executive Council of the Fed
eration was instructed to work for a
new trial for Mooney.
ATLANTIC, CITY June 16—The
proposed strike of the Pacific Coast
telephone girls has been called off
according to a statement made by
Julia O’Connor head of the National
organization of telephone operators.
Miss O’Connor stated that this de
cision had been reached because of
the settlement of the controversy be
tween the electrical workers and
their employers.
WATERBURY, Con. June 20—
Heavily armed members of the local
police foBce and volunteer guards
are patrolling the suburb^ 1f( this
city to prevent a renewal of rioting
by the strking brass workers.
Machine guns have been mounted
near all public buildings and heavily
armed guards are in evidence tvery
where.
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IN WINNIPEG
"WINNIPEG. June 17—Ten of the
more prominent strike leaders were
arrested by the local authorities at
their homes, early today.
To avoid trouble with the strikers
who might resent this action, all
those who were taken into custody
were rushed by auto to some place in
the country, presumably storm v
Mountain.
Union leaders in Calgary and other
western Canadian towns were also
take into custody by the authorities.
The Royal Northwest Mounted
Polce raided and seized the
local Labor Temple, confiscating con
siderable literature claimed to be of
a Bolshevik nature. The police broke
the doors and windows during the
raid and seemed to take great pleas
ale in venting their spite against the
strikers on these inanimate objects.
WINNIPEG, June 1!)—The trial o£
the ten labor leaders, arrested here
for complicity in the general strike
was held today behind closed doors
The charge, under which, these
men are being tried,_ is sedition, con
spiracy aim overttrrow
the Canadian government.
The consensus of opinion among the
strikers here seems to be that a con
viction is inevitable as the Canadian
government and the local authorities
are determined to break up :Jie strike
by any and all means.
BELLINGHAM, Wash. June 20—
The delegates to the convention of
the State Ftderation of Labor, now
in session here, pledged the full
moral and financial support' of or
ganized labor in the state of Wash
intgon to the workers who are now
out On a general strike in Winnipeg
and Vancouver, B. C.
The resolution was passed pwtet
and the unions they represent to do
their utmost to assist their striking
co-workers in Canada to bring their
strike to a successful issue.
A resolution, demanding the im
mediate release of all political pris
oners in the IT. S. was also carried by
an overwhelming vote.
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SEATTLE, June 21—George B.
Grigsby left today for Washngton, D.
C’ _
SEATTLE, June 21Mayor Ole Han- |
son announced today that he will not (
be a candidate for re-election.
LONDON, June 20—The Exchange'
Telegraph Dispatches quoting a
message received from Copenhagen
says that the signing of the Peace
Treaty by Germany is as certain as
it the signatures had already been af
fixed to the document.
PARIS, June 20—An official wire
less message sent from Nauen, Ger
many this afternoon says that the Na-;
tional Assembly tried to constitute a;
majority in favor of signing the
treaty but were unable to accomplish
it owing to the division among all
parties.
All news rogardng changes in the
German Cabinet are announced to be
premature.
ATLANTIC CITY, Jue 21—Andrew
Furuseth, head of the Seaman's Un
ion attacked the Labor provisions in
the League of Nations covenant at
the convention o the A. F. of L say
ing that “if the U. S. becomes a mem
ber of the League, we will have lost
everything we ever struggled tor.”
BELLINGHAM, Wash, June 21—
Wm Short was elected president of
the State Federation of Labor de
feating F. B. Clifford, a radical, by
166 votes.
BERLIN, June 21—The German
Cabinet has resigned altho Ebert re
tains the Presidency temporarily.
WASHINGTON, June 21—Warn
ing was given the Senate by Senator
Sherman that the League of Nations
may end the separation of Church
and State and may bring the world
under the domination of the Vatican.
Sherman declared that the Roman
Catholic Church will be represented
in the League Assembly by 24 votes
out of 45.
WEIMAR. Juno 21—It looks here
as if Edward David will be the suc
cessor of not only Scheideman. but
of von Brockdorff-Rantzan also.
BERLIN, June 21—Mathias Erz
berger sent a note to Clemenceau ask
ing whether the Allies agree to im
mediately admit Germany to the
League of Nations. He also desires
to know if the Allied powers consent
to a limitation of Germany’s indem
nity to 100 billion marks in gold. The
note does not say whether Germany
will sign the treaty,, but by inference
it seems clear that she would accept
the treaty providing these conces
sions were made.
ROME, June 21—The King of
Italy requested Francesco Nitti,
former Minister of the Treasury to
form a cabinet.
ATLANTIC CITY, June 21— Sam
Gompcrs was re-elected President of
the A. F. of L.
WASHINGTON, June 21—The
War Department has perfected plans
to throw a punitive expedtion across
the Rio Grande as soon as word is
received officially of reprisals on the
part of Villa for the Juarez incident,
or in case of other contingencies,
tending to bring the Mexican situa
tion again to a stage approaching a
crisis. Orders for Buch an edvance
'will be accompanied by instructions
for military accupation of Mexican
territory nec< sary to insure the safe
ty of the expedition and absolute
protection of the border thru creat-1
ing a neutral zone south of the bound
ary line.
LEITH, Scotland, June 21—The
sailing of all foodships to Germany
has been stopped by order of the
British government.
PARIS, June 21—Travelers arriv
ing from Germany report that the
former Kaiser and General Hinden
berg have advised the German gov
ernment to sign the Peace Treaty.
VERSAILLES, Jue 21—All re
maining German Peace Delegates are
preparing for departure.
LONDON, June 21—The London
Times has been informed that Noske
will prolably be appointed Chancel
lor and Erzberger will replace von
Brockdorff-Rantzan as the head of
the Gorman Peace Delegation.
PARIS, June 21—President Wl
son intends to defer any action re
lative to the participation of the II.
S. in the Leagu.- of Nations until the
Senate has ratified or rejected the
Peace treaty and the position of the
U. S. concerning the League has been
definitely established.
ATLANTIC CITY, June 21—The
A. F. of L. convention endorsed the
League of Nations and the Labor
provisions in the covenant of the
League.
NEW YORK, June 19—-Six trans
ports, carrying twenty thousand
American sodiers arrived hero to
day.
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PAMS, June 1 - ft has been stated
her* that the Herman Peace belega
tion made the assertion in their re
ply to the Peace treaty that the en
emies of Germany have entirely for
saken peace and justice to which they
had pledged themselves in the armis
tice negotiations and have in its place
substituted injustice and might in
the Peace Treaty.
The reply to the official summary
whiefi was made public yesterday
protests against the proposed peace
terms and the German delegates de
mand a return to the original agree
ments.
—
PARIS, June 16—It has been1
stated on good authority that Ger
many i3 to be allowed to maintain
an army of two hundred thousand
men for three years. This is one
change in the original Peace Terms
which has been kept sedulously s-'C-l
ret. It has also been announced that j
Germany will be admitted to mem-]
bership in the League of Nations in
the near future.
VERSAILLES, June 16—The de
livery of the reply of the Allied gov
ernments to the German counter pro
posals has been postponed until six
p. m. this evening.
The revised Peace treaty will be
delivered to the German plenipoten
tiaries with the reply. The German
delegates will sign the receipt for
the Peace treaty, writing upon it the
exact time of delivery, from which
■e five das lyimitj, within which !
• must sign or reject the treaty !
lie counted.
VERSAILLES. June 16—The re-j
ply of the Allied governments to the ^
German counter proposals was de
livered to von Broe.kdorff-Rantzan.
head of the German Peace Delegation
at 6:49 this evening. A copy of the
n vised draft of the Peace treaty was
also delivered.
Immediately alter receiving muse
documents, von Brockdorft’-Rantzan
boarded a special train for t\ 'imar
Germany.
It is expected here that the trans
lating and printing of the Peace
Treaty will at least consume twenty
four hours. It is anticipated that
the German government will ask for
an extension of time in whch to form
ulate the.r reply in regard to the
final conditions.
LONDON Jun 1C—Bonar Law an
nounced today that the Peace treaty
presented to the German delegation
is the final reply of the Allied Gov
ernments.
PARIS, June 17—That there is
considerable ill feeling against the
German Peacv Delegation was illus
trated last night when the members
of the Delegation were attacked by a
ntob upon leaving their hotel.
A mob'of fully four thousand
gathered in the neighborhood of the
hotel, hooting and insulting the dele
gates.
This is the first demonstration
against the enemy representatives in
France.
Dr Theodor Melchior, one of the
] five principal delegates and Frau
Dorlbusch one of the secrttaries of
the German delegation were struck
on the head by stones thrown by
members of the mob.
PARIS, June 17—It is reported
here that in the reply of the Allied
governments to the German counter
proposals the principles of the orig
inal conditions have bee vigorously
upheld, but that some of the terms
have been modified.
These changes include the rectifi
cation of the frontier of West Prus
sia and the temporary increase of the
German army to two hundred thous
and men.
The Allied reply declared the in
tention of the Allied governments to
submit within a month of the sign
ing of the Peace treaty a list of those
Germans who are accused of violat
ing International law and the cus
toms of war.
An offer has been made to cooper- j
ate with the German governmeit on J
reparation, and Germany is assured
membership in the League of Nations j
if it fulfills the obligatons imposed!
upon it by the terms of the Peace |
Treaty.
The German Delegation has been!
granted an additional 48 hours’
in which to state their intention re-j
garding signing the treaty.
PARIS, Juno 17—With peace or;
war to be determned before seven j
o’clock Monday evening, the tension i
in Paris today recalled the time im- :
mediately preceding the opening of!
hostilities in August 1914.
The main topic of conversation is :
the possibility of the renewal of hos->
tilities as it is believed here that the
German government will refuse to |
sign the Peace treaty.
The Allied governments are report- !
ed to have sent what may be consi- j
i dered an ultimatum to Germany, de-!
daring that no more negotiations
will be entered into and that a re-]
fusal of Germany to accept the revis-!
ed Peace terms means war.
Very few units of the French army
j have been demobilized at present and
| the manufacture of war material is
I being carried on as extensively as j
during the time of the continuance)
of actual hostilities.
LONDON, June IS—Dispatches j
received here from Berlin indicate i
that the German Cabinet is evenly!
! divided on the question of signing)
! the Allied Peace Treaty. Seven of j
jthe members are reported to be in!
| of the Cabinet members are reported]
I to be absolutely opposed to this pro-)
j ceedure.
—
j WEIMAR, June 1S:—The German
j Cabinet members remained up all j
night reading tht Allied reply to the1
German counter proposals and the;
revised text of tl*> final Peace treaty.)
Indignation among the members i
of the Cabinet :s ir.cr. asing and ;
i several of them are strongly opposing !
signing the treaty. But the prospect
of Allied invasion of Germany, the
establishment of an economic block-'
ade. foodshortage and the danger of
the further spread of Bolshevism
among the German workers unless
the present distressing situation is
ameliorated, is the dominating influ
ence here at present.
While the acceptance of the Allied
Peace Terms by the present govern
ment is regarded as impossible,
nevertheless all signs point to the
German government affixing its sig
nature to the Treaty.
The tendency in the Gorman press
and among the people now is to criti
cise President Wilson for his failure
of compelling the Allied governments
to adhere to his fourteen Peace prin
ciples, which had been unequivocally
accepted by them.
America rather than Great Britain
or France is blamed for the situation
Germany now finds herself in.
COBLENZ June IS—The concen
tration of the American forces pre
paratory to a further advance into
Germany, if the German government
refuses to affix its signature to the
Peace treaty were begun today thru
out the whole of the occupied area.
Orders to this effect were -ead y s
terday from General Foeh who sent
similar orders to all the Allied forces
on German soil.
General Liggett, commander of the
American forces stated that every
thing was In readiness for an immed
iate advance.
PARIS, June 19—The eyes of the
whole civilized world are focused
upon Weimar, Germany where one
of the most momentous decisions in
the worlds history is now being made
While the Allied armies are ready
to march into Germany and the Brit
ish navy is taking up positions to
blockade the German coast if Ger
many refuses to sign the Peace
treaty, the German National Assem
bly, Cabinet and Peace Delegation
are assembled in Weimar to debate
whether the treaty shall be accepted
or not.
All indications point to acceptance
of the treaty as Germany is abso
lutcly at the mercy of the Allied na
tions and the reopening of hostilities
on her part would be absolutely
fruitless.
BERLIN, June 19—“Sign the
Peace Treaty and be thru with the
agony” is the universal comment of
the press and the people of this city.
The utter hopelessness of resisting
theyUllied demands is apparent to nil
and the government is being urged
to accept the treaty as the only way
to avoid further bloodshed. Tin
local journals, especially those ot a
radical tendency picture the future 'f
the German nation in the blackest
colors owing to the impossibility ol
ever being able to throw off the yoke
of slavery which has been fastened
upon the German people by the Al
lied nations.
PARIS. June 19—A letter express
ing sincere regret for the demonstra
tion against the German Peace Dele
gation and the stoning of two of its
members, was sent to von Brockdorff
Rantzan by Premier Clemenceau, as
president of the Peace Conference.
The latest version of the cause of
this demonstration is, that asthe Ger
man Peace Delegates motored to the
railhoad station at Versailles, two
women members of the delegation
are reported to have thrust out their
tongues at the crowd watching them
taking thpiv rlenartlire.
LONDON, June 20—Dispatches
received hire from Paris state that
the German National Assembly has
accepted the Peace treaty, after a
stormy session.
Th.- radical members were opposoc
to this action but the utter futiilitj
of resistance induced the majority o!
the members of the Assembly to vott
! for its acceptance.
PARIS, Juno 20—The Amoricai
Peace Delegation has received ad
vices from the Headquarters of th
American Army at Cablenz, that th
latter has been notified of the fal
of the Scheidoman government i
dispatches received from Weimar an
Berlin.
The members of the America
Peace Dolegatoin firmly believe tha
the acceptance of the Peace Treat
is now certain, as Sc.heideman is uj
iderstood to have been the chief of
I ponent to the acceptance of the r<
I vised terms.
ROME June 20—The Italian go\
eminent resigned last evening fo
lowing a vote against it in the Chan
her of Deputies.
This crisis was brot about thru
discussion of the Italian Adriat
claims, the Italian Premier Orl:
failing to induce the deputies to ei
dorse his policy as to Dalmatia, an
Fiume.
BERLIN, June 20—The Indepom
ent Socialists party published
proclamation today, demanding tin
the German government sign tl
Peace treaty and warning it again
refusing to do so.
The proclamation says only by su
mitting to the Allied Peace tern
can Germany he tranquilized, as
continuance of the present unsottli
coalition will drive the people in
body into the arms of the Bolshevik
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WASHINGTON. June 20—Tl
Sundry Civil Bill as reported todl
in the House of Representatives ca
lies the following appropriations f
Alaska:
For the continuation of work i
the goverment railroad $2,038,02
For the investigation of the miner
resources in Alaska. $7E>,000.
The bill carries the usual appi
priations for the care of the insa
\ education of the natives, medical t
! lief for the natives, and the prott
I tion of the fur seal and Alaska gon