SEVENTEEN ARE
FLOGGED UNTIL
BLOODRUNS
VICTIMS ARE TAKEN FROM PO
LICE AT TULSA, OKLA., BY
CROWD IN BLACK ROBES.
CALLED KNIGHTS OF LIBERTY.
Party of Captors Number Sixty and
Proceedings Take Place in Circle
Lighted from Lamps of Surround
ing Automobiles.
TULSA, Okla., Nov. 10.—Sixtj
black robed, black hooded men. cal!
ing themselves Knights of Liberty,
last night seized seventeen Industrial
Workers of the World from the police
here .took them captives to the edge of
the city, made them strip to the waist,
flogged them until the blood ran and
then tarred and feathered them.'
« Only Few Words Spoken.
Not a word was said during the af
fair except by the man in charge of
the captors who uttered words in the
name of the outraged women and chil
dren of Belgium as he applied hot
pitch to the bleeding backs of the cap
tives and then threw feathers on them.
Afterwards the seventeen industrial
workers were started toward the hills
and warned never to return to Tulsa.
The beating and tarring occurred in
the center of a ring of automobiles,
the headlights of which lighted the
proceedings.
Identification Was Impossible.
The black hoods and rooes mane me
identification of the vigilantes impos
sible.
Thirteen of the Industrial Workers
had been convicted in the police court
of vagrancy and the four others ar
rested had admitted on the witness
stand that they were members of the
Industrial Workers of the World.
The police fined the convicted men
$100 each but notified them their fines
would be suspended if they would
leave Tulsa immediately.
The vigilantes took possession of
the automobiles in which the police
were taking the Industrial Workers to
the city limits. The sixty vigilantes
covered the few policemen with revol
vers and forced them to surrender the
Industrial Workers.
IMPORTATION OF CHINESE.
Farmers in Philippines Want to Bring
in Asiatic Labor.
MANILA, Nov. 12—Whether Chi
nese labor shall be imported to the
Philippines to till the thousands of
acres of farm land which now lie idle
is the most important question which
is expected to be fought out in the
present session of the Philippine con
gress. Chinese immigi-ation is now
limited by the exclusion acts of the
United States and any attempt to im
port Chinese in large numbers must
have the consent of the administra
tion at Washington before becoming
effective!
The annual Farmers’ congress of
the Philippines recently voted to fav
or Asiatic immigration. This means
importation of Chinese since they are
the only laborers available. Combat
ing this movement on the part of the
farmers, representatives of organized
labor are preparing to make a strong
fight in the insular legislature against
letting down the bars to the Chinese.
CHIMNEY MAKER GOES OUTSIDE
William B. Dean, proprietor of the
Multiplex Chimney company, and one
of the first men to come to Anchorage,
left on the steamer Evans for Seat
tle, where he will remain for the win
ter. Mr. Dean will return in the early
spring and will develop the chimney
industry, being thoroughly convinced
that Anchorage will within the next
few years, support many manufactur
ing industries. Mr. Dean is the own
er of considerable real estate in town
and has refused many lucrative of
fers on the theory that in the next
few years Anchorage will be the real
metropolis of the entire northland.
Mrs. Dean and her son Leonard will
remain in Anchorage this winter.
ORGANIZED LABOR
BACKS PRESIDENT
BUFFALO, Nov. 10.—Frank Mor
rison, secretary of the American Fed
eration of Labor, which will open its
annual convention in Buffalo Monday
arrived here late yesterday. Four hun
dred delegates, Mr. Morrison said, who
represent the largest membership in
the history of the federation, stand
squarely behind President Wilson in
the war crisis.
STRIKE® .
TO DISRUPT
PRONE UNION
WASHINGTON AND OREGON,
WORKERS MAY QUIT PACIFIC |
COAST ORGANIZATION.
CALIFORNIA STAYS ON JOB.
Thirte^i Hundred Electrical Menj
and Switchboard Operators Parade!
Streets in Business Districts of Se- j
attle.
_
SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 8.—Advo-j
eating that telephone electrical work- i
ers and telephone switchboard oper- j
'ators in the states of Washington and,!
Oregon form an organization of their
own, William Delaney, representative j
of the two northwest states at the
Pacific coast conference in San Fran
cisco of electrical workers and opera
tors, submitted his report today to a
meeting of delegates from Northwest
telephone unions.
The northwest electrical workers
and switchboard operators have gone
on strike, and Delaney declared their
plan to tie up the entire system on
the Pacific coast of the Pacific Tele
phone* and Telegraph company was
not favored by the California unions.
As a result of his report, a confer- 1
ence will be called to meet at Seattle
at which delegates from all tele
phone workers’ unions in Washing-i
ton and Oregon will be present.
Eighty Per Cent of Paid Membership
of Labor Organization Consists of j
Danes, Swedes and Norwegians.
Although no formal vote was taken,
no opposition was apparent at last
night’s meeting of the Alaska Labor
union to a proposition to permit;
Scandinavian members to control af
fairs of the organization during the
coming six months. This concession j
was made because of the important
and significant fact that 80 per cent;
of the paid up membership of the i
! union, and the most liberal supporters
! of the Temple Holding company, are
Scandinavians. In the earlier days
of the union, the Russians and Greeks
outnumbered other nationalities, but
during the past year these people
have taken very little interest in its
affairs. The Holding company was
formed temporarily to finance con
struction of the union’s new home.
Not one of several men named last
night would accept the nomination for j
president. Among those who declined I
the honor were two former presidents
and the incumbent, Andrew Nylin.
dominations for secretary were Ed.
Christensen, a carpenter; Ben John-!
son, employed on the Turnagain Arbi
division of the government railroad,
and W. J. Henry, incumbent.
There seems to be abundance of
“timber” available for trustees, ex
ecutive committee and minor offices,
and with two or three exceptions
those nominated are of Scandinavian
! nativity or parentage.
Additional nominations are to be
made at the next two meetings in No
vember and the election will take
place in December.
Prominent members of the union in
the meantime will canvas possible
candidates for the presidency.
Ulabor^s
<♦♦+♦♦♦♦♦
ALL DOING OUR BIT.
Every man, woman and child in the
United States "is now in the war. If
not fighting as a soldier, or laboring
on a ship or airplane, he is paying
taxes on most everything he touches.
You cannot buy an article that has
been freighted by rail or water, you
cannot ride on a train, send a tele
gram, visit a theatre or ball park, buy
a bottle of patent medicine, a base
ball bat or any other kind of sporting
goods, a tooth paste tube, or any oth
er toilet article, own an automobile,
a motorcycle or motor boat, draw a
time draft, buy a bond or share of
stock, mail a letter or post card, buy j
a cigar, crewing gum, or a hundred ;
other things specially named in the |
revenue bill without paying your bit j
of the war expenses.
You are a soldier now and must pay
without complaining.
The great injustice of this tax is
that the little “barefoot boy with!
cheeks of tan” who buys a stick of \
chewing gum, pays the same amount;
of tax as the millionaire who buys a
stick of chewing gum. The stick of
chewing gum may cost the boy 99
per cent of his capital, while it costs i
the millionaire only one one hundred
millionth part of his capital. That
isn't fair but we must not complain
until that bloated, and blasphemous
blackguard is trampled beneath the
bloody boots of the boys at the front
who are giving so much more than
we are asked to give.
But Thanksgiving day is coming, j
and how thankful we should' be that
the war is on the other side of the
deep blue sea instead of on this side.
To complain at this stage of the
game is idle. Pay and pay it cheer
fnllv. If von have anv irripvanee
about the profiteers getting too much
of this money, remember that the sol
dier in the ti'ench is not asking about
that but fighting under the orders of
che commander over him. He is ask
ing no questions. Your commander
at home is Woodrow Wilson. If he
says pay the tax, pay it and pray
without ceasing for the end of the
war, that we may THEN give our at
tention to those who have robbed us
while the country was in peril. Now
is a good time to keep an eye out for
a tree with a good limb on it, but
say nothing. As soon as this war
is over, if the people of the United
States do not stand up against the
wall every man who has attempted
to rob the people during the war, then
our “democracy” will not have been
worth fighting for, and our boys at
the front will have died in vain.
But we cannot attend to these
American Kaisers NOW. Let us first
get the chief brute and end the mis
ery of the people who are being starv
ed to death, or butchered like dumb
cattle. United we stand, divided we
fall.
EMPLOYES ARE INSURED.
MISSOULA, Mont., Nov. 9.—The
Great Western Sugar company, which
has factories throughout Montana,
Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming has
announced a plan for presenting to
each of its employes who was in its
service for six months or more prev
ious to September 1, a life insurance
policy for the amount of wages re
ceived during the previous year, up to
$3,000.
Policies will be presented to new
employes on the same terms after
they have been with the company six
months, it is announced, and will be
kept in force during the period of em
ployment. The company maintains
sixteen factories and it is estimated
that the amount of insurance to be
thus written will total $2,000,000.
ANOTHER GREAT WILSON.
Secretary of Labor Wilson, ad
dressing the business men’s war con
vention said that unpatriotic men
seeking excessive profits are to blame
for the spirit of unrest among work
ing men. If you want peace at home,
he said, you must treat the working
men fair. To charge them exorbitant
prices is unfair and peace connot en
dure.
A TRADE FOR EVERY GIRL.
“Every girl, whether the daughter
of a millionaire or a seamstress," de
clared Prof. Frank 0. Kreager of the
state college, at a recent assemblage
of teachers at Yakima, “should have
a trade or occupation which will en
able her to earn her own living as
long as she wants to." This doctrine
is not new; it is in fact quite general
ly appreciated, but unfortunately the
idea of giving every girl a trade seems
to be taking the direction of trying
to make every girl an office girl. This
is a serious error, because office
girls always exceed the demand and
only about one in five of them does
much more than draw enough salary
to buy herself a few smart clothes and
keep her employer busy seeing that
she does some of the work she is
hired to do.
Comparatively few people, men or
women, are physically and mentally
equipped for efficient stenographic
work or with the capacity for figures
and details which is needed for most
office work. The inefficient or the
half efficient in these employments
are plentiful and cheap.
On the other hand there are trades
and businesses especially suited to
women and girls in which there is far
less competition and in which the
work is less exhausting. Most of the
high schools are equipped with so
called business departments in which
bookkeeping, typewriting and sten
ography are taught, but there are
trades which are to be learned much
better in shop and factory than in
high school and even the business de
partments of the schools only begin
to teach what is essential to any real
earning capacity.
What the average girl needs, or is
''.v.v.v,
is a trade to which she can turn for
temporary earning power, and the
available courses of the high schools
do not pi'ovide this.
LINCOLN INTERNED THEM.
There are many Socialist papers
that are complaining because the
government will not permit them to
publish any matter that will tend to
discourage enlistment in the war.
These papers should remember that
Abraham Lincoln during the civil war
interned more than 100 of the leading
citizens of southern Illinois for oppos
ing his war policy and he kept them
interned until the close of the “strife.”
When the war was over Lincoln turn
them all out and 1o1d them to quit
raising Cain and go to raising Corn.
They sought to bring action in the
courts to ascertain why they were
jailed but they never got any one to
tell them why. These followers of
Valandingham were glad to sneak
away and try and forget it. Lin
coln’s only regret was that he per
mitted these copperheads to roam at
large until they had caused so much
trouble in that part of Illinois. Wil
son will have regrets if he does not
jail the same class of people in all
ntn«fc nf rtofinn ic nn fimn
for settling local questions.
AN IDEA WORTH $10. <
Ikey Einstein and Abe Ritzwaller
were both residents of New York.
Ikey visited Brooklyn one day and
was walking back across the Brook
lyn bridge when he met Abe going
towards Brooklyn, when the follow
ing dialogue took place:
Abe—“Ikey, I will betcha ten dol
lars I can tell you vat you are think
ing about.”
Ikey—“I vill take der bet. Vat am
I thinking about?”
Abe—“You haf been over Blooklyn
to an’ you are thinkin’ you vill rent
a storeroom unt put in a stock of
cheap goods, take oud all der insur
ance you can get unt den dere vill be
a fire. Do I vin der money?”
Ikey—“Veil, you dond exactly vin
I der money, but take it; der idea ish
vort ten dollars.”
NO JOKE.
“The Honeymoon’s sweet,” said Old
Minndoe,
“But remember this, ere it is o’er;
“When Love flies out at the window,
“Alimony walks in at the door.”
STRIKERS ATTACK
NON-UNION MEN
OPERATORS IN GOOSE CREEK
OIL FIELDS IN TEXAS WANT
MARTIAL LAW DECLARED.
HOUSTON, Tex., Nov. 12.—Seven
ty-seven strikebreakers who were en
gaged to replace striking oil field
workers, were attacked and beaten in
the Goose creek oil field near here.
The producers have asked that mar
tial law be declared. v
punitDId
TO PAY LABOR
TEMPLE’S DEBT
SPECIAL COMMITTEE ASKS FOR
DONATIONS OR SUBSCRIP
TIONS OF $10,000.
_
The plan for cancelling the debt on
the Labor Temple and saving the
structure for its promoters, the mem
bers of the Alaska Labor Union, as
submitted to that organization last
night, was referred back with a few
minor changes for the approval of
those representing the labor union,
! the Temple Holding company and the
creditors.
The plan provides for raising of j
$10,000 by April 1, 1918, by direct
donations or by loans, at the option of
those desiring to save the building.
These donations or subscriptions are
to be in sums of not less than $10
| each. A considerable portion of the j
$10,000 is to be taken by members of:
the holding company, about 300 in
number, all of whom are active mem
bers of the labor union. Other mem- ;
i bers of the labor union will be given
opportunity to make donations or take |
subscriptions and are asked by the;
debt committee of the labor union to j,
! show in a practical way their loyaltv
to the organization which has been of
great financial benefit to all workers
not only in Anchorage and along the i
! line of the government railway, but j
also throughout the entire Territory.
Money Needed April 1.
Unless the full sum of $10,000 is
raised by April 1, all subscriptions or j
donations will be returned and the j
cerditors will take possession of the I
structure through court process.
“It's up to you, union men—to save j ‘
as the home of organized labor one of |
the finest buildings in Alaska—a .
building which is not only a credit toi
the city and the union, but a monu
ment commemorating one of the most
! important victories ever won by or
ganized labor in the United States—
the winning of a strike against the
government itself, because the cause ’
■ of the workingmen involved was just,
because they played fair and because
| in their dealings with the govern-1
; ment’s representatives their acts werej
squared by the Golden Rule,” said a'
member discussing the subject.
The report of the committee shows
that during the past year the indebt
edness has been reduced 35 per cent.
Ten thousand dollars of this reduction,
or one-fourth of the original debt, be
ing from the income of the building.
The building has proved a good in-:
vestment notwithstanding the predic-!
tions of pessimists. The report of the;
committee follows:
Question Before Labor.
“The question before the member
ship at large and all men interested in
the Labor Temple at persent is how
to meet the indebtdeness and hold the I
building in the name of the Alaska
Labor Union.
“In twelve months the membership
has paid in dues and assessments $5,
000 to the creditors; $6,787.68 has
been lent by the members of the
holding company; $9,000 has been do
nated by the members and business
men, and $10,000 has been collected
from the income of the building, mak
ing a total of $31,137.68 paid in to
date. We owe approximately $14,000
which, if paid, would forever place the
Labor Temple in the hands of the
workingmen of Alaska, and we call on
you for a pledge sufficient to clean up
the situation.
“We ask the" members to decide
whether they will lend or donate not
CABINET OFFICER W. B. WILSON
ARRIVES IN SAN FRANCISCO
FOR INVESTIGATIONS.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10.—Sec
retary of Labor William B. Wilson,
leading President Wilson’s mediation
committee, arrived in San Francisco
toady to negotiate a settlement of the
Pacific coast telephone strike.
He will also investigate the Thomas
Mooney bomb murder case at the re
quest of the president.
Warren K. Billings, who was sen
tenced to life imprisonment following
lis conviction as an accomplice in the
bomb murders, was *aken to Folsom
prison today. He had appealed his case
and claimed his removal from San
Francisco was a frame-up to get him
jut of the way before the federal gov
jrnment begins its investigation.
After spending a few hours today,
Secretary Wilson left for Sacramento
to confer with Governor Stephens.
The secretary said that he would be
jin his investigations tomorrow and
that the Mooney and telephone inves
tigations would be held simultan
eously.
ess than $10 each to pay the debt and
f sufficient names are secured to pay
j>10,000 we can handle the balance. If
>ve cannot secure $10,000 the money
»vill be returned or your obligation re
in oved and the building will go into
:he hands of the creditors. It is up to
►rou. Do you want a Labor Temple?
“If you can raise $31,000 in less than
l year you must surely consider it a
shame to hold back now when only a
small effort on your part will place
>n>u in a positon to say: ‘Workmen can
lo business in Alaska.’ ”
ANTON JOHANSEN
Seldovia, Kachemak Cay.
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