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AND ALASKA LABOR NEWS.
VOL. 1 NO. 10.
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1918.
LABI
RSD/
PRICE TEN CENTS.
TEUTONSAHE
ISIS FORCES
WINTER IS BREAKING AND
WEATHER BECOMES FAVOR
ABLE FOR ARMY ACTIVITY.
AUSTRIANS ATTACK ITALIANS.
German Airplanes Fly Over American
Lines to Take Pictures and as Re
sult Aerial Battle Takes Place Be
tween Opposing Aviators.
LONDON, Feb. 13.—On the west
ern front, Germany is massing her
forces and there is evidence of in
creasing alertness on her part. The
winter is breaking and weather condi
tions are daily becoming more favor
able for military operations.
After a day of heavy artillery lire
Austrian troops attacked in the sector
south of Sasso Rosso on the Italian
front and forced back the Itai la ns and
r ) captured nearly 180 prisoners.
The Austrians also resume'! attacks
on the northern front west of the
Brenta river but made no headway on
account of the Italian artillery, which
tore the attacking columns to pieces.
Yesterday was bright and clear in
the sector held by the American
troops and numerous German air
planes flew over the American lines to
take pictures. A number of aeriai
lights resulted between German and
American aviators. Artillery duels
were carried on by both sides.
The French today made th-ee suc
cessful raids and leached the German
fourth line between Lapre Tre- and
Mo; . M.h'p wood- rr> t » ", * v
tor. The French took many piisoners.
CHARLES PETERS DECLINES OF
FER r<) co TO Jl NEAL FOR
NOME \ND VALDEZ 1MONS.
1 - Pctei :', the owner of a mer
< :>n;' ■ establishment at Chickaloon,
has just been appointed postmaster
for Chickaloon and will assume his
new duties at once.
Mr. Peters is in receipt of a tele
gram from the American Federation
of Labor, local 240, composed princi
pally of miners in the Nome mining
district, asking him to serve as the
union’s representative at the meeting
in Juneau now in progress to deter
mine whether it is necessary or advis
able to modify or suspend the eight
hour law insofar as it applies to the
mining and the timber industries. The
telegram states that all expense in
curred by Mr. Peters will be borne by
the Nome union.
A telegram incorporating the same
request has been received by him
from the secretary of the Valdez
union.
After carefully considering the of
fers Mr. Peters has declined and will
continue his business at Chickaloon.
Mr. Peters came down yesterday and
while in Anchorage is staying at the
New Union hotel.
RUSSIAN PEACE
REPORT CONFIRMED
OFFICIAL REPORT RECEIVED IN
LONDON OF DEMOBILIZA
TION OF MUSCOVITES.
LONDON, Feb. 13.—Official advices
were received today by the British
government confirming yesterday’s re
port that Russia had withdrawn fron
the war and had ordered the demobili
nation of her forces on all battle
' ^ fronts.
A very few soldiers will be left al
certain places on the Russian frontiei
as border guards.
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY
ONE VICTIMS OF TUSCANIA
ARE LAID AT REST.
VILLAGERS AID SURVIVORS.
j Americans at Side of Grave Sing
“Star Spangled Banner” — Subjects
of Great Britain Render “God Save
I the King:.”
A SCOTCH SEAPORT, Feb. 13.—
Up to late night, just one week after
the sinking of the troop ship Tuscania
by a German submarine 171 victims
of the disaster had been buried at dif
fernt points on the Scottish coast. One
hundred and thirty one of these were
identified as American soldiers; thir
! tv-three were unidentified and the re
; maining seven were recognized
! members of the crew.
Villagers came miles to one place to
help survivors of the disaster bury
the dead. The bodies were brought t<
| the burial ground in a big motoi
truck.
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At the grave yard the American
l soldiers sang the “Star Spangled Ban
ner” and the villagers “God Save the
! King.”
Persons residing in this seaport
| have started a subscription for a
j monument for the American soldiei
1 dead. About six soldiers who had en
listed from the state of Washington
are among the interred victims.
ENTERTAINMENTS OF YARIOlk
KINDS ARE ARR VN(JEI> TO
AMUSE BORDER El ARDS.
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EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 12.—Soldier:
of the border district and the new cuv
a ry division now have a clubhouse al
of their own in the heart of the city
where they may read, play records o>
the phonograph, sing or dance if they
wish.
The El Paso war service board ha:
just leased a permanent home for th<
soldiers stationed at Fort Bliss and ii
the El Paso district. It is not a tern
poray structure hut a substantia
building of brick and stone with hard
wood floors for dancing, rest and read
ing rooms apart from the assemble
room and writing tables for the us<
of the soldiers who wish to write let
ters home while they are downtown 01
what they call “short leave.”
The building is in charge of a pah
employe of the local war service boarc
who is at the club house all day ant
during the evenings to answer any
questions the soldiers may wish an
swered about the city and to see tha
they are all made to feel at home
Moving pictures will be shown in tin
new clubhouse at regular interval:
and a series of dances, musicals ant
other entertainment programs are be
ing planned by the recreation commit
tee of the war service board.
POTATOES GIVEN
TROOPS IN FRANCE
EIGHT TONS OF MONTANA VEGE
TABLES WILL BE SHIPPED
T O S O L L) I E II S.
HELENA, Feb. 13.—Eight tons o
potatoes have been offered by potato
growers of this county as a gift to th<
United States fighting forces ii
France.
At a recent meeting of the potato
growers’ association, the member
promised to prepare for shipment twi
or three cars of their best product, ii
conformity with the government’s ex
port regulations, and arranged to sera
others as they were needed.
PREMIER LLOYD-GEORGE DECLARES IN ADDRESS TO
! PARLIAMENT THAT HE CAN SEE NO DIFFERENCE
IN POLICIES OF VIENNA AND BERLIN GOVERN
MENTS AND CHALLENGES OPPONENTS.
| ASQUITH APPROVES WILSON’S ATTITUDE
King George States That World Struggle Has Reached Criti
cal Stage, Which Demands Nation’s Energies and Resour
ces and That It Is Duty of England to Prosecute Conflict
Until Central Powers Recognize Principles on Which Peace
Can be Concluded.
LONDON, Feb. 13.—The corres
pondent of the London Daily News,
; who is in charge of the newspaper’s
bureau in the house of commons, to
: day published an article saying that
he was in possession of facts which
j indicated the possibility of a separate
peace between Austria and the cn
' tente allies. He declares great reluct
! ance is manifested in Austria town; 1
! the prospect of fighting against Brit
ish and American troops on the west
front. This contingent is almost
likely to come to pass now that peace
I has been effected on the east front be
tween Austria and Russia.
No Explicit Mention.
Lloyd George, premier of Great
Britain, in addressing the house of
commons yesterday after parliament
had convened in session, failed to
make explicit mention of President
Wilson’s recent address before con
gress, but the premier asserted that he
*■ cotild not see in the recent statement
of Former Minister Czernin, of Aus
tria, any nearer approach to reason
able peace terms than in the recent
address of Chancellor George von
Hertling, of Germany. The premier
declared, tire German chancellor's de
mand that English surrender her coal
| ing stations in different parts of the
world proved Germany was in no
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SENATOR LEWIS URGES AMEIi
il H ANS TO EIGH V FOR DEMOC
RACY OF EMANCIPATOR.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 13.—
j In the senate late yesterday, Senator
i James Hamilton Lewis, democrat, of
‘I Illinois, delivered an address on the
■ occasion of Lincoln’s birhtday anr.i-,
i versary. He scathingly denounced
Germany’s war lords and urged Amer
icans to fight for the democracy im
planted by Abrham Lincoln and ad
vanced by President Wilson.
In the house, Ben Johnson, demo
; crat, of Bardstown, Kentucky, in
; whose district Lincoln was born,
1 presided, and Representative Joseph
J. Russel], democrat, of Misosuri,
read Lincoln’s Gettusburg address.
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Virginia Honors Lincoln.
-| PETERSBURG, Va„ Feb. 13.—
Members of the Virginia general as
sembly yesterday attended Lincoln
birthday exercises at Camp Lee, which
i were conducted by the three hundred
i! and nineteenth brigade composed ex
| elusive!y of Virginians. This is said
. to be the first participation by a
southern legislature in an observance
of Lincoln’s birthday.
Honored at Springfield.
> SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 13.—
; Homage was paid to Lincoln’s mem
1 ory by a large crowd here where the
body of Lincoln lies. Two mass meet
> ings were held.
) GERMAN PUPILS DECREASE.
i COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Feb.
- 13.—At the local high school last sem
ester 150 students were attending
German classes. Now there are 80.
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mood to discuss reasonable terms of i
peace.
The premier concluded his address;
by challenging the house to take a
vote on a motion of lack of confidence ;
in the government, but the opposition
offered no such motion.
Herbert Asquith, member of the
house of commons and former pre
mier, followed the premier and declar
ed that President Wilson, in saying
that Foreign Minister Czernin had in
dicated a willingness to make peace
•while Chancellor von Hertling had
given no such indication, had discrim
inated justly in regard to the sub
stance of the declarations of Minister
Czernin and Chancellor Hertling.
Long Parliamentary Session.
The present parliament is one of the
longest in the history of Great Bri
tain. Its member have not gone to
the country since the beginning of the
war.
King George in his address in open
ing the session yesterday said that the
world struggle had reached a critical
stage, which demanded more than
ever a full use of the country’s energy
and resources. He declared that it
was the duty of the British to prose
cute the war with all vigor possible
until the central powers offer recogni
tion of the only principles upon which
honorable peace can be concluded.
UNIVERSITY PAPER AND CAKE
AND CONFECTIONERY WIFE
i BE SENT TO YOUNG TROOPS.
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j SEATTLE, Feb. 13.—A card index
j of the 1,000 University of Washing
ton men now in the army and navy is
being compiled by girls at the Univer
sity of Washington in Seattle, so that
the former students may be supplied
with the college daily paper. This file
of college boys in service is in work
ing order at many of the colleges. Pro
motions, changes of addresses from
camp to camp, etc., are noted in order
that weekly letters, in addition to per
sonal mail, will be sure to reach them.
“Chocolate Bar Days,” when contri
butions are taken to buy chocolate
bars for the Oregon boys in the serv
ice, is the latest plan of college girls
i at the Oregon State Agricultural Col
| lege, at Corvallis, Or. Women of the
[ home economics department of the
| Corvallis institution are also supply
| ing boxes of food to the college boys
j who have gone, at a remarkably small
| price. They have sent 200 boxes filled
with war cake, fruit, confections, nuts,
popcorn balls, oatmeal cookies, and
salted peanuts, to the Oregon men at
the cost of 20 cents a box. The candies
were all made of sugar substitutes,
such as honey and corn syrup.
NEW BLOOD SAVES LIVES.
LONDON, Feb. 13.—The practice of
blood transfusion in the cases of badly
wounded men in the army, is growing
in importance. Out of thirty five
wounded men who could not have sur
vived otherwise, twenty-two were sav
ed by this process. ,
ITALY SHOWS
MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
CHEEP PREMIER’S REFERENCE
TO UNITED STATES.
SITUATION BECOMES BETTER.
Head of Roman Cabinet Declares
That People of His Country Will
Remain in Great Conflict Until Bit
ter End.
ROME, Italy, Feb. 13—At the open
ing of the Italian parliament today
enthusiastic applause and cheers for .
America greeted Premier Orlando’s j
declaration that the war situation was
growing better due to the help of the
United States, which he said had re
replaced Russia in the ranks of the
allies.
The premier said that the Italians
would fight the war to the bitter end.
WORKERS RESTLESS
DESPITE HIGH PAY
FOURTH YEAR OF WAR WIT
NESSES SUSTAINED ACTIVITY
IN TRADE IN ENGLAND.
LONDON, Feb. 8.—The fourth year
of war has been remarkable for the
sustained activity of trade, the con-!
tinuous and cumulative increases in |
wages and the ferment in the en- j
ginering and munition industries, says
the Daily Telegraph.
During the past ttvelve months
wage increases to workingmen exceed
ed $100,000,000 and the increases dur
ing the three years 1015-16-17, to
gether with the rise in price of com
modities, have completely revolution
ized the pre-war economic basis of
British trade.
The unpleasant feature of the year
has been the growing discontent and
unrest prevading large sections of the
workers and this is seen in the number
of industrial disputes, often of the
most trivial kind. Official returns
from January to November indicate
there were 494 disputes during these;
months affecting 647,724 workers and
causing the loss of over 3,500,900
working days, the greatest loss of
time being recorded during Septem
ber, October and November.
The number of persons unemployed
is the lowest on record.
DEATHS ARE CAUSED
BY UNDERFEEDING
WAR ZONE STATISTICS RECALL
TERRIBLE EFFECTS OF
FOOD SCARCITY.
THE HAGUE, Feb. 9.—Some idea
of what follows in the train of under
feeding, which at present prevails
everywhere in Belgium, may be gath
ered from the following statistics
from an official source: since 1914 the
general mortality in Belgium has ris
en by 50 per cent; while births have
fallen about 42 per cent; in Ghent and
northern France deaths from tubercu
losis have multiplied sixfold.
ROOSEVELT’S HEALTH
IMPROVES STEADILY
PHYSICIANS DECLARE THAT DIS
TINGUISHED PATIENT IS
SURE TO RECOVER.
NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—The condi
tion of former President Theodore
Roosevelt, who recently underwent a
surgical operation for abscesses in the
ears, continues to show marked im
provement. Attending physicians say
there is not the slightest doubt of his
recovering.
MERCHANTS IB
MU ERE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
AGREES TO PURCHASE NO VEG
ETABLES FROM MARKETS IN S
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FAVORED.
Alaskan Engineering Commission Will
Be Asked to do As Much Trading
as Possible with Local Dealers.
Anchorage merchants will purchase
no potatoes nor other vegetables in
the states next spring or summer, but
will buy all such supplies from farm
ers in the Matanuska valley, accord
ing to an agreement signed at the
luncheon meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce. The merchants were un
animous in voting to use local prod
ucts whenever possible and to buy
nothing in the states that can be pur
chased from local farmers.
The chamber endorsed the plan for
the establishment of an industrial
school in Alaska, a bill Tor which has
been introduced in congress by Dele
gate Charles A. Sulzer. The measure
asks for an appropriation of $200,000.
The influence of the chamber will be
exerted towards securing the indus
trial school at Anchorage.
A committee, the members of which
will be appointed this week, will call
on the Alaskan Engineering commis
sion for the purpose of urging the
commission to purchase whenever
available supplies from Anchorage
merchants, instead of making these
purchases in markets in the states.
The question of compiling data re
lating to Anchorage and the entire
country in the immediate vicinity of
Anchorage was discussed and it was
decided to arrange this data in pam
phlet for mand to give it wide circu
lation.
THIRD WAR LOAN CAUSES AP
PEARANCE OF LARGE QUAN
TITIES OF SPECIE.
PARIS, Feb. 9.—The flow of gold
into the Bank of France was given a
fresh impetus by the third war loan.
After reaching more than 100,000,000
francs a week during the early stage
of the campaign and gradually declin
ing to a little over 1,000,000, the re
ceipts went up again to more than
2,000,000.
The total gain to the bank’s gold
reserve since the beginning of the
war now totals 2,250,000,000 francs,
bringing the reserve up to 5,351,000,
000 francs without recourse to any
other than persuasive measures.
KAISER EXULTS AT
RUSSIA’S COLLAPSE
WILHELM DECLARES PEACE
WILL COME ONLY WITH SUC
CESS OF GERMAN ARMS.
LONDON, Feb. 13.—Kaiser Wil
helm’s headquarters will be trans
ferred to Spa, where he will take
treatment at the springs. The kaiser
is not in robust health.
Simultaneously with the announce
ment by President Wilson of Ameri
ca’s plans for the emancipation of the
world came a statemnt from the kaiser
to the effect that peace will come only
with victory for German arms.
In a statement to the burgomaster
at Hamburg, the kaiser exulted over
the collapse of the Russians on the
eastern front.
WOMEN RULE VILLAGE.
FINDON, England, Feb. 13.—Fin
don is the first village in England to
be entirely guided by women. A wom
en’s village council has been set up.