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VOL. 11.
NOME, ALASKA. THURSDAY, JULY, 18, 1018.
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STRIKE TO GET AN
INCREASE IN WAGES
OAKLAND—The demand of the
boilermakers that the wages paid
its members thruout the Pacific
District be uniform having been
ignored by the construction com
panies, th<- boilermakers walked out.
Wages are higher in Seattle and
Portland than in San Francisco and
Oakland, where the Macy award
founded itself upon the costs of liv
ing. During the winter a conference
of the District Council of the. Inter
national Union of Boilermakers, Iron
Shipbuilders and Helpers of America
was held in San Francisco, and there
the officials determined upon a
uniform scale of wages for all the
different locals of the district.
The effort to enforce this order
was delayed by the necessity of sub
mitting the matter to the different
locals and Metal Trades Councils for
ratification or approval.
The strike in the Oakland yards
is due to the lower scale paid.
OAKLAND-—2500 members of the
I Shipyard laborers union struck here
Tuesday in sympathy v.’ith the strik
ing boilermakers.
OAKLAND,—Striking boilermakers
will return to work Wednesday and
will give shipyards until August 7
to fulfill the promises of an in
creased wage which they concede
just as soon as the accounts can be
audited and the classification of
workers adjusted for the new scale.
CITY I5ATH9, HOT AND COLD
WATER, ALWAYS READY.
SAN FRANCISCO—The fitful and
fateful tragedy of the Mooney case1
reached another act Tuesday when
Mooney was to bo taken to San
Qunetin to await his execution.
Committment papers wero handed
to the Sheriff Monday following the
failure of the Supremo Court to
issue a writ of probable cause.
Mooney has still another appeal
pending in the Supreme Court which
is to be argued Monday.
Meantime Governor Stephens who
is a candidate to succeed himself in
the position has so far ignored the
repeated requests of President Wilson
as to the Mooney pardon and has
given no sign that he intends to
take any action.
That he will not is of course
premature to say, for the attorneys
for the defense declare that any ac
tion by the governor would be im
probable until Mooney has exhaust
ed every legal resort and the last
appeal to the Supremo Court had
failed and there was nothing to do
hut to carry out the death sentence,
which is an indeterminate one as far
as an exact data is concerned.
The case is still taking a leading
place in all labor circles and recent
events have tended to excite more
intense interest in the matter for
several reasons.
The imminent danger of Mooney
being executed is not being ignored
dn labor circles by any means and
she situation is regarded as serious
as far as the defendant is concerned.
SAN RAFAEL,—Thomas Mooney
arrived on Tuesday evening at San
Quentin where he occupies a con
demned cell. Mooney did not appear
to be much affected by his position,
looking determined and well as he
was taken heavily guarded to the
prison.
SAN FRANCISCO,—While Moon
ey is now in his death cell, organ
ized labor is waiting the final ac
tion of the courts. Serious troubles
are apprehended should Mooney ex
perience the death penalty.
GREAT DRIVE PROVED
FIZZLE SAY EXPERTS
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Secretary
Baker told the Press on Tuesday that
the west front situation was very
satisfactory.
“All official reports in my posses
sion lead me to characterize it as
very satisfactory,’’ caid the hard
working Secretary of War to the
press reporters seeking information.
LONDON,—A Central News dis
patch published in metropolitan
evening papers Tuesday states that
the estimates of the German lor.ses
in the drivo on the Champaign and
Theirry front may not bo placed
at less than one hundred thousand,
proportionately the heaviest in the
intensive fighting that has marked
the German offensive since March 21.
. The dispatch continues to estimate
that the Germans made use of six
hundred thousand men, many divi
sions boing entirely picked men and
* chosen shock troops and v/ho were
shot down by the withering machine
gun fire at close quarters in wind
rows that could be seen black and
shapeless heaps miles and miles
away from the rolling hills back of
the battle fields, a most gruesome
eight.
PARIS,—It is announced with re
gret that Lt. Quentin Roosevelt, sor
of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, form
er President of the United States
j was shot down and killed on Sunday
j last while flying in the Chateau
i j Tfreirry sector.
WIRE CONTROL BILL
SIGNED BY PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON. D. C.—Monday,
President Wilson signed the Wire
Control Bill when it reached him
from Congress.
In signing it and in the announce
ment being made that it was now
a law, the administration gave no
indication when the wires would
be taken over by the government
or upon what basis of compensation
such control would be assumed.
In labor circles, the announcement
is received with satisfaction as a
large number of keymen have been
discharged for manifesting interest
in the comercial telegraphers union.
It is expected that such interest
will now revivified without any fear
of employees losing their positions
on this account.
The Western Union has stipulated
as a condition of employment that
the employees have no connection
directly or indirectly, nor any as
sociation with the American Fed
eration of Labor.
This attitude applied only to the
keymen, most of the electricians be
*ing members of the electrical work
ers union.
GET THE sTEWS RIGHT. READ
THE won
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ATTACK WEST FRONT
PARIS,—Today Wednesday the
American troops, along a ton mile
froht took on the offensive in co
operation with the French. Chosen
storming troops on the Chateau
Thierry front swept forward behind
a heavy barege fire and gained ail
their first objectives in less than
a half hour with astorisliingly email
losses. Whilo these Were digging
in they wore passed by a second
storming party who reached their
second objectivo carrying forward
the lines th n in a general advance.
Several miles advance was made in
this way and guns, machine guns,
supplies and thousands of prisoners
captured.
Tho Germans were completely sur
prised and seemed bewildered when
the Yanks drove forward. This with
the astonishingly successful offen
sive on the part of tho French troops
is taken to indicate that the steady
defensive on tho west front is, as
far as the Allies is concerned no
more.
PARIS,—The day’s offensive up
on the part of the French and
Am ricans and its decided success Ig
taken to be part of tile general
strategy of General Foch. Ho
struck the enemy when the Germans
least expected it. Evening reports
indicate that the success was even
more comprehensive than first re
ports indicated. Thousands of pris
oners, many pi ees of artillery of
various caliber, hundreds of machine
guns and supplies being taken, art
advance of two miles along the of
fensive front attained and th loss
n casualties small.
PARIS,—The French and Ameri-j
cans began counter attacking Wed- :
nesday morning on a thirty five j
mile front between the Aisne and
the Marne and have already ad
vanced. two miles. c
The offensive of the French and.
Americans lies northwest of the
present German drive.
The French on the Marne have re
captured Mont Voisin, Cheney La :
Reine and the heights overlooking i
the Marne. i
The situation looks very favorable i
and the Gorman gains in their recent <
costly drive have been practically l
overcome by the counter gains of the i
Allies. i
LONDON,—The Australians W! d
lesday is a strong offensive advanc
'd their front one mile east of
filliers Brcttoneaux.
They took a considerable number
)f prisoners, two field and several
nachine guns. They are still ad
vancing says the war office.
NEW YORK,—A summary of the
nost recent effort on the part of
ha Germans shows that no offen
livo was more carefully planned,
hat in none within the limited area
>f the drive was there a more el
ective concentration of picked men
md chosen shock troops, and before
lone had there be. n such an elabo
rate preparation behind (ho lines.
In spite of all this, the German
losses were merely larger than in
any preceding effort since March 21
and the gaine made smaller than in
any of their drives since the same
date. There is nothing could shew
how more and more firmly the lines
are being held against all those de
termined efforts which must there
fore soon subside.
PARIS,—It is admitted that tho
Germans made slight progress north
of Str.gnan.
FRESH FINNAN HADIEH AT
LEHMANN’S
LOCAL FIGHT TOOK
PLACE OF GENERAL DRIVE
LONDON,—Tuesday night the War
Office says that local fighting marks
the disposition of the concentrations
upon the part of the German forces
on the western front, and while it
is possible that the Teutons may
shift their pressure as on a former '
occasion, there is no indication that '
they will immediately do so until '
their divisions are again reorganized, i
The Germans are still striving to
irive down the Marne valley to
wards Epornay but so far are ef
’eetlvely checked. The French, who
withstood the brunt of the attack
ihis time, estimate officially their
otal casualties at Us? than 25,000.
rhe farthest point reached by the
Jermans being at Chonc La R>ine.
rile American troops are holding a
en mile front.
The French it is announced are
/
LENINE GETS READY
TO BREAK WITH ALLIES
AMSTERDAM,—Lenina, the Rus
sian Premier, the news Is announced
thru German sources is about to
break off diplomatic relations with
the Allies for landing troops tm the
Murman coast.
LONDON,—The news that Lenine
is making ready to sever relations
with the Allies for landing troops
on the Murman coast 13 hardly
likely to prove correct as the Arch
angel district Soviets invited the
Allies to do so. It is not impossible
that Lenlne will protest the pres
ence of troops there, but If he
breaks relations, it will be on ac
count of landing troops at VladUvos
retaining all the recaptoed posi
tions south of the Marne ar.d north
of Stangnoi.
Bor’in dispatches claim a victory.
They increase the reported advance
although they obviously pro in dif
ficulties owing to their being able
to mention any points held within
the "new territory.” They also
claim to have captured thirteen
thousand prisoners.
1-ES-'-HJJ
tock to aid the Czecho-Slavs who
aro fighting the Bolsheviki govern
ment.
On the Murman coast the Allies
are airding the Bolshevik! against
the Germans and Finns.
Shares in the Strand Hed Mining
Co may be obtained from W. J.
Rowo. This company is now is
suing five thousand shares of one
dollar each the entire sum thus
raised to be used in development
work, actual operations already
having been opened up on now and
promising lodes. Adv.
Keep PmM,
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