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VOL. 11.
NOME, ALASKA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY' 19, 1918.
NO. 249-1
RUSSIA PREPARING REENTER WAR
BOLSHEVIK! GOV’T
CONTEMPLATE EQUIP
MILLIONS; TROOPS
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 18.—It Li reported
here today that in spite of the fact
that Typhus fever has broken out, in
ports of Russia the Bolsheviki Gove-H
ment is making alii possible haste In
their preparations to re-enter the war.
Millions of troops are being assembled
and equiped just as quickly as the
factories, which are being worked
night and day in feverish has te, can
turn out new equipment or repair
broken parts.
The Bolsheviki Government, has con- j
clusively proven to the satisfaction of 1
the factory workers and the peasants, I
that Russia must still tight on; since
after showing their hand openly to the
German people; the latter still seems
willtng to not onl^ allow their own
rights to he trampled upon, but to
believe that the Russian workers,
after overthrowing one autocrat; in
the person of the Czar, will accept
another autocrat; in the person of the
Kaiser. In spite o f the contempt and
abuse heaped upon theon by the Ameri
can and English yellow capitalistic
press, is jpite of the sneers, violent
outbursts of indignation, condemna
tion and execration by the hypocritical
self styled, friends of democracy; the
spirit of the Russian working class
marches calmly on, satisfied in their
>wn minds that they know their own
ausiness best a.nd need pay no more
ittention (o the carping hypocrites be
yond their borders, than they would
i pack of yelping curs. They are pre
paring for a German offensive which
.vill in all probability be launched
igainst the Eastern front between
Riga and Dvinsk. The new army is
composed entirely of volunteers, and
Is not an army of oxen forcible driven
o slaughter. -*-**
FROM NEW JERSEY,
LONDON, TENNESSEE
AND SAN FRANCISCO
ENGLEWOOD PASSES CURFEW
LAW FOR GIRLS UNDER 18
HACKENSACK, N. J. Feb. 18.—
The Englewood cdty council has
passed the curfew odinance, and
girls of 18 or unler cannot be on
the streets after 8:30 p. m. unless
with a guardian. This agitation is
due to the new Camp Merritt, at
Dumont, three miles northwest of
Englewood, where several thousand
soldiers are now located. The Ber
gen county committee of one hun
dred are endeavorng to have every
•municipality surrounding Dumont,
adopt a similar action.
LONDON, .Feb. 18.—The arrest of
t'has. Humbert, member of the French
SHenate is today reported from
Paris. M Humbert is the owner of
the Paris Journal and was recently
called', as a witness in the Bolo Pasho
rreason. trial, being conducted by the
French Senate. While testifying he
became so exasperated by the pointed
tiuestions, asked by some of the Sena
tors, that he invited his own arrest,
so that he might face these veiled in
sinuations by direct refutation. His
request was immediately granted and
he is now facing a frontal attack.
HUNTINGTON, Tenn., Feb. 18.—
Armed women last night were
guarding the home of Dock Whita
Ker, alleged army deserter, following
the killing two -lays ago of his
brother, Cleve Whitaker.
When officers went to the place
to get the soldier, a deserter form
the 144th Field Artillery, who is
said to have refuserd to return to
his company at Greenville, S. C.,
after his furlough had expired, sev
eral women armed themselves and
went along. As the posse approach
ed the Whitaker home, they were
greeted with lead. The fire was re
turned and Steve was killed.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18.—Mr. H.
Sehroider, former German Vice Coun
sel at Honolulu, who was arrested
some time ago, for alleged complicity
in a conspiracy, to overthrow the
British Rule in India; today entered
i pllea of guilty in the Federal Court
and was sentenced to pay a fine of
f.1,000 and three months in the County
fail. Sehroider will commence his
jail sentence immediately. The fine
was paid by his attorney, the trials of
forty other defendants are now in
progress, and the Department of Jus
tice expects more of the defendants to
plead guilty. Sehroider was supposed
to have been the leader of the plot.
REFUTES STATEMENT
STRIKES UNPATRIOTIC
iJUSTUN, Fob. 18.—John c.
McDonald, secretary of tho Build
ing Trades council of Greater Bost
on, in a statement approved by the
trades council in session here teday,
replied to accusations that
th* big strikes were ' inspired
by unpatriotic union leaders to in
terfere with the government work.
The statement reads:
“These strikes have been called
because of the unfair attitude of
•ontraetors at Squantum and the
Watertown areena^-. We have tried
every means known to us tc adjust
these grievances without bringing
about any setisfaetory results to
•ur men.
“The public knows that our com
mittee had previously laid the en
ure dispute beforo the state commit
tee on public safety and later before
Secretary of tho Navy Daniels and
Secretary of war Baker. At the
request of the latter official, some
three week* age, we called off a
strike of our men at the arsenal, i
ponding an adjustment of the griev- i
ance to the satisfaction of organ
ized labor. After waiting over
three weeks for this job to be made :
fair and also the one atSquantum i
we’ve ordered strikes of our mech
anics on jobs being performed by
private contractors on government
work to register our protest against
these unfair conditions to labor.
"This is not a dispute with the
government dioectly, but with the
contractors engaged by the govern
ment on government work. The
strikes are called against the un
American condtions existing and be
ing continued on these jobs by the ;
main contractors and sub-contrac
tors.
“The Ayer cantonment was left
untouched, as we did not wish to
inflict a hardship on the men en
camped there during the cold snap
and don't desire to impede the Unit
ed States government in the training i
)f its conscript army. For the
lamo identical reasons no attempt
tas ben made by us to retard the
itting up of transports, now build
ig in East Boston or elsew here in
>ur jurisdiction.
“Many of our organizations have
nembers serving in the army or
tavy of the United States govern
nent and we are only striving to
ireserve the eonditons they helped
o create as civilians during the last
hirty years. The unfair contract
>rs, however, are endeavoring to
>efore the issue by tryng to exploit
ho governiiient tins the workmen
inder the guise wf patriotism. We
ire jjust as patriotic as they are
ind we believe more so, although
vo don’t wave the Amercan flag
iontinuously, or endeavor to use
t as a protecting shield to gather
n excess profits and break down
mnditions at the expense of the
rage earner.
KAISER DON’T BELIEVE
OVER 30,000 U.S.
TROOPS IN EUROPE
AN ATLANTIC PORT, Feb. 18—Dr.
Arthur Davis formerly personal dentist
to the Kaiser for 15 years just return
ing from Germany, says the Kaiser has
full information as to just how many
American troops, are at present in
France. That the Kaiser’s information
is authentic and that he stated to him,
that he was convinced there was not
more than one sixth the number of
troops In France as officially reported.
The Kaiser says that not over 30,000
American troops have landed in France
so far, that the German subs had done
very effective work, amongst the Amer
ican troop ships, successfully sinking
many of them. Davis reported the
food conditions in Germany; at the
present time very bad and growing
worse hourly. He claims that Germany
did not primarily enter the present
ivar for conquest but to subdue tho
\llies, whom, she conscientiously be
lieved to be immediately threatening
the Prussian Military system.
Fw garments made and repaii-ci)
it the Nome Tailoring Company.
Subscribe for the Worker.
PRESIDENT AND WAGE
DOARD WILL CONFER, TO
ADJUST GRIEVANCE
NEW YORK, Feb. 18—Convinced by
the plainly spoken promises of Presi
dent Wilson and confident, that the
President, will see that labor receives
i square deal; all members of the
Brotherhood of Carpenters and join
ers, whose walkout halted the con
struction on government ships, are re
turning to work this morning. John
Rice, national organizer and other
Union officials, after holding a confer
ence, advised the strikers along the
entire Atlantic Sea Board, to return
to work pending a settlement by the
Wage Adjustment Board. All' now de
pends on the action of the Board.
President Wilson last night, sent a
lengthy telegram to the Union Lead
ers promising', that the Wage Adjust
ment Board, will adjust .all differences
satisfactorily to the mien ;that the
government is now solely dependent,
on the workers and appealing to their
patriotism. He also stated that a ser
ious delay in ship construction work
at this time was a great help to the
enemies of Democracy. From the
opinions of different individuate mem
bers of the Board as already expressed
and considering the message of Presi
dent Wilson, the Union officials believe
that if the corporations come any ways
near half way in showing any patriot
ism whatever, all differences will be
immediately adjusted. Mr. Kice states
that the whole trouble lies in the at
tempt of the shipbuilding corporations
to hold up both the government and
the men at the same time; that the men
cannot help but see that in this way
they are being doublly robbed; 1st
directly by the corporation itself, and
2nd indirectly by the corporations rob.
bing the government, which is reitlly
supi>orted by the workers only. There
is no such thing as "iove of country”
by the human leeches who would con
tinue to suck the very life blood of
both workers and government, regard
les of the life and death struggle being
waged by the government at the pres
ent time.
Keep Posted Head the Worker.
BLOATED CAPITALIST SAYS
$2.75 PER DAY ENOUGH, WAGE
SLAVES FAMILY TO LIVE ON
CHICAGO, Feb. 18.—Mr. J. Ogden
Armour today, while testifying before
the 1’aekinghouse Wage Commission
gave it as his opinion, that $2.75 a
day was enough for the family of any
American workingman to live on, (pro
viding of course that the said family,
should abstain from aPl earthly pleas
ures, such as eating, sleepihg, the
wearing of clothes and wasting money
»n the movies.) What a great philan
thropist Mr. Armour is, if the working
men would only look close they
couldn't help but observe the "halo”
about his noble ? brow. For surely it
must be there, since he himself can i
feel it. Mr. Armour very condescend- s
ingly admitted, to the board, that not I
only was he willing to pay this wage I
(although of i course any "business” t
man could see it 'was not “good busi- <
ness”) but that he also would be will- t
ing, to pay the workers enough so t
they could lay by, a few dimes, to r
tide them over during any sickness c
they may contract In his “very sani
tary" slaughter pens. Isn’t it a shame
that the government has been so lax
in its duty, as to have failed so far in a
placing a bust of Mr. J. Ogden Armour, t
a the Hull of Fume. Mr. Olander,
ecretary of the Illinois Federation of
«abor, stated, that in his opinion, the
rinclple reason, for the collapse of
he war plans of both the Imperial
iovernmemts of Russia and Italy, was
jrectly due to the failure of both
lese governments to consider the
ights of labor. He said the most suc
essful nations in tihe present war
wed their success, to the fact that
tey were favorable, to Labor Unions
nd it would continue to be true, to
to very end of the war..
COMPULSORY FOOD
BILL WILL PASS
WASHINGTON, I>. C„ Feb. 18.—
The House Agricultural Committee
today reported favorably on the Hoov
er Compulsory Food Conservation Bill.
This Measure will give tihe Food Ad
ministration definite power to cheek
all the present waste of both the man
ufacture and distribution of food.
Some of the larger commission and
brokerage firms have been In the
habit, even lately, of bolding food
stuffs in storage, until said foodstuffs
were partly spoilt, and then hauling
the same off to be dumped, after first
having coal oil poured over it; so
there would he no possible chance, for
the poor of the slUms to pick out a
morsel fit to eat. All this to keep the
price up to the top notch. Hundreds
of thousands of dollars worth of food
stuff are wasted every year in this
way, not only be the large firms but
many of the small firms as well.
These Parasites would rather w.-iste
the food of the nation in their promis
cuous way than sell a few cents less
or give It away to the poor, the s.'une
poor o«f of whom the parasites are
waxing fat.