Sally Nome Jnikiatrial Worker.
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By Nome Mine Workers' Union, No. 240, Internntlonal Union of Mine,
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“To secure to each laborer th» whole product of his labor, or as
nearly as possible is a worthy object of any good government.”—Abra
ham Lincoln.
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
NOME, ALASKA. APRIL 25, 1(M8.
Three Congressional
Investigations
(Quoted From La Follette's Mag
azine. January, 1018 issue.)
INQUIRIES INTO MILITARY AF
FAIRS, SHIP BUILDING AND
SUGAR, HAVE BEEN CON
DUCTED AT WASHINGTON
DURING THE PRESENT
MONTH—
MASS OF TESTIMONY GATH
ERED TOUCHING ON IM
PORTANT SUBJECTS
THREE IMPORTANT INVESTIGA
TIONS OF WAR ACTIVITIES ARE
BEING MADE BY SENATE COM
COMMITTEES
(Continued from Yesterday.)
SHIPS
Chairman Edward N Hurley ,of the
Shipping Board in his testimony as
sumed full responsibility for the fu
ture ship building program. Ho indi
cated that harmony rules the board,
and that the Goethe Is-Denman quar
rel had prevented the commandeering
of fifteen vessels. In his testimony
Mr Hurley said:
“When Admiral Capps and I join
ed the Emergency Fleet Corporation
on July 27, 1917, there were under con
tract 840,000 tons of wooden ships,
-07,000 tons of completed ships, and
587,000 tons of steel ships. Since then
additional contracts amounting t«> 3,
378,200 tons of steel ships and 504,000
tons of wooden ships have been placed.
“In addition, the Fleet. Corporation
has rendered financial aid to and is
directing the work of extension and
development in forty-two yards. The
remaining new yards are being con
structed by private capital. A por
tion of the contracts placed since July
27 were prepared and p. «-'i « !.#sed
by our predecessors.
' It must be borne in mind that this
vest program of construction undcr
taken in the last nine months was su
perimposed on a navy program which
was the equivalent in dollars, and
therefore in shipbuilding: effort, of the
construction of 2,500,000 tons of merch
ant shipping. The navy program ab
sorbed practically 70 per cent of the
eighteen prominent yards in existence
at the beginning: of the war with Ger
many, the remaining 30 per cent of
those yards being taken up with con-1
struction of merchant shipping for both
foreign and American accounts, which
was requisitioned under the order of
August 3. This tonnage is now be
ing completed under the supervision
and control *»f the Emergency Fleet
Corporation.
“The contracts of the Kmergency
Fleet Corporation have been let to 110
shipyards, of which 36 existed Jan 1,
1017. and 74 have been created since.
In addition theEmergency Fleet Cor
poration has requisitioned the vessels
which are building in two yards in
addition to the above, so that the
"Fleet Corporation is at present con
trolling work in 132 yards .of which
58 are old and 74 are new.*
In contrast with the statement of
Mr Hurley was that of Homer L F •:
guson, President and General Mu ri
gor of the Newport News Shipbuild
ing Company, a naval constructor of
17 years* experience and acknowledge
t 1 to bo one of the best informed au
thorities upon ship building in this
country.
lie declared that 3,000,000 tons is
the probable maximum production for
the year 1018. He says that Lloyd's
special report estimated the steel out
put at only 2.500,000 tons. He said:
“The housing problem is one of the
most vital facing1 the government in
the conduct of the war. You cannot
get the ships unless houses are pro
vided for workmen. We want to add
3,000 men to our force, and there is
nowhere in Newport News for them
to live. I understand that conditons
elsewhere are equally as bad.
“There is no limit to the amount of
ships this country can build if it really
sets itself to the task. The shipyards
already built and those building can
turn out 5.000,000 tons of ships annual
ly under proper conditions,
and the country could, if put to it, add
still other yards and produce 10,000,000
tons a year. But it cannot be done
without man power, and man power
cannot be obtained unless housing is
provided.
“It is just its necessary for the gov
ernment to build houses for shipyard
workers as it is for soldiers. It must
do it if it gets ships.”
VIEW OF FERGUSON
Concentration of shipyards in the
Philadelphia district was criticized by
Mr Ferguson as likely to increase
housing difficulties and to add to rail
road congestion. The industry, he said.
In uld have been scattered more along
the coasts.
Shipbuilding in cstablised yards,
was hampered instead of expedited Mr
Ferguson said, when the Fleet Corpor_
sition commandeered construction. Un
til December, he declared, the corpora
tion was unwilling to pay additional
cost for speeding up building opera
tions although the private owners of
ships under construction always were
ready to pay for speed.
The next day after this testimony
$1,200,000 was set aside by the Ship
ping Board to he expended for housing.
For months prior the ship builders had
been attempting to get an allotment
for this purpose, and had been unable
to do so.
Among the witnesses who testified
was Admiral Bowles, head of the con
struction department of the Kmer
goney Fleet Corporation. He said,
among other things, that this corpora
tion had let a contract to the Sloan
Ship Building Corporation of Olympia
Washington, to huihl sixteen wooden
ships at a cost of $7,840,000. The con
tract was negotiated by Major (leneral
(loethals and his counsel ,J. I*. Cotton.
There bad already been paid upon
the contract $1,724,000. Of this amount
$540,000 had been spent directly on
ship work: $237,000 indirectly on this,
work, and $500,000 private purposes, j
Of this $500,000 thus spent $400,000 I
was paid to the Clinehfield Naviga-j
tion Company of New York as a brok- \
erasre fee in landing tlie contract. I‘art
of the $237,000 went to the Capital
City Iron Works and the Anaeortes
Steel Co., subsidiary companies of the
Sloan Company, that is to themselves.
Q What did you do when you found
that out?
A W/t* took over complete control of 1
the Sloan Company, shut off the!
Clinch field Company from collecting
any more money, took a $750,000 mort
gage on tke Sloan plant, and took ever
bonds of the two subsidiary concerns.
I ‘resident Sloan of the Corporation was
drawing $25.00 a year salary. We cut
him down to $10,000.
Q What does Mr Sloan do to earn
that amount?
A He gets that for keeping* quiet
and helping t-» kepp things moving.
I admit that it looks like a good bit
of money but we did the best we could
under the circumstances.
Questioning by Senator Jones de
veloped that Contractor T. S. Kerris of
the Fleet Corporation bad given Chas
Unmet, Vico President of »be Clinch
field Company, a letter of introduction
to Getiral (loethals In-fore the Sloan
contract was let.
“Well now, we have spent nearly
$2,000,000 with this company. How.
many ships have they built?” demand.,
ed Senator Nelson.
“None, the most progress on any of
them is about 3 per cent,” answered
Admiral Howies.
(Continued tomorrow.)
NOTICE OP FORFEITURE
To W. W. Sale, Frank Kolash, P. H.
Watt, N. Galvin, W. D. Steward,
and W. Packwood, your heirs,
executors, assigns or personal
representatives.
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified that 1 have expended in
labor and improvements, the sum
of one hundred dollars ($100.00),
each year for the years of 1915 1916
on the Florence Association Placer
mining claim situated between Won
der and Holyoke in the Cape Nome
Recording Precinct, Alaska, note of
location of which is recorded in
Vol. 123, page 12? of said precinct
Records.
The above amount has been ex
pended in order to hold said claims
under the provisions of the law con
cerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being the amount required
to hold said claim.
And you, and each of you, are
further notified that if within ninety
days after the last publication of
this notice you have failed to con
tribute your portion of said expend
iture, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the
undersigned, your co-owner, under
section 2324 Revised Statutes of
the United States.
CHAS. A. VOGEL.
TT Co-owner.
Date of first publ., April 4, 1918.
Date of last publ., July 4, 1911.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT. NO. 0332.
In the United states Land Office at
Nome, Alaska. March 1, 1918.
NOTICE IS HflHEUY GIVEN,
that Marie Neibling, a citizen of
the United States, over the age
of twenty-one years, whose post
office address is Nome. Alaska, has
made application before the United
States Land Office at Nome, Alaska,
for a Patent for the Sener Placer
Claim, situated on the right limit
of Dry Creek in the Cape Nome
Recording District, Alaska, Mineral
Survey No. *199, said claim being
more particularly described in the
field notes and plat of the official
survey thereof now on file in said
Land Office at Nome, Alaska, to-wit:
Beginning at Cor. No. l, identical
with Cor. No. 2, Sur. No. 328,
Beatrice Bench. U. S. L. M. No. 11
nears S. 49 deg. 46 min. W .4560.00
ft. Witness Cor., a fir post 4 ft.
long. 4 ins. sq. set 2 ft. in ground,
with earth mound 24 ins. base, 16
ins. high around same, scribed W.
C. 1-1199 S B, 2-3 g.8 B B, bears
N. 18 deg. 54 min. W. 31.70 ft.;
thence N. 18 deg. 54 min. W. 361.70
ft. to Cor. No. 2, thence S. 55 deg.
26 min. W. 65 ft. to Cor. No. 3;
thence N. 29 deg. 12 min. W. 765.60
ft. to Cor. No. 4; thenceN. 53 deg.
50 min. E. 630.60. ft. to Cor. No. 5;
thence S. 25 deg. 57 min. E. 1377.00
ft. thenci S. 79 rt'eg. 14 min. W.
577.90 ft. to beginning, containing
an area of 16.569 acres. The varia
tion herein is from 19 deg. 15 min.
to 19 deg. 30 min. tfl.
Said claim ts vdtuatod on unsur
reyed ground on right limit of Dry
creek in Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska.
Mineral Monument No. 11 to
which this claim is tied is a fir post
6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground with
stone mound around same 6 ft. base
3 ft. high scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11,
about 2.5 miles N. N. E. of Nome,
Alaska, and in Latitude 64 deg. 32
min. N., Longitude 165 deg. 22 min.
W.
The Notice of Location is recorded
in Vol. 86 Page 37, records of the
Cape Nome Recording Precinct,
Alaska.
The adjouring claims on the East
is No. 2 above Dry creek, Sur. No.
4 64; on the West the Beatrice claim
Sur. No. 328 and also unsurveyed
property and on North and South
is unsurveyed ground.
There are no conflicting claims.
THOS. McGANN,
Register.
Date of first pub. March 6, 1918
Date of last pub. May 6, 1918.
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