ISSUE STUDIED
BY ARB
FEDERAL ADJUSTMENT BOARD
HOLDS PRELIMINARY MEET
ING IN SAN FRANCISCO.
DECREE WILL BE RETROACTIVE.
Workers in Pacific Coast Cities Have
Left Settlement of Their Demands
for Higher Wages to Government
Mediators.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25.—The
federal shipbuilding adjustment board
held its preliminary session here to- i
day to undertake a permanent settle
ment of the wage controversy which
threatened a suspension of govern
ment shipbuilding and other war
emergency work on the Pacific coast.
It announced that any wage agree
ment reached by it would be retroact
ive in the case of Seattle, Portland
and San Francisco workers.
In all these cities striking ship
yard laborers returned to work, leav
ing the settlement of their demands
for higher wages to the federal ship
building adjustment board.
WOMEN OPERATORS DEMAND
HIGHER WAGES AND RECOG
NITION OF THEIR UNION.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27. — The
ultimatum of union telephone operat
ors for higher wages and recognition
of their union in Washington, Oregon
and California expired without a word
from the Pacific Telephone and Tele
graph company today and a general
coastwise strike at midnight tonight
seems inevitable.
hour women delegates representing
the operators' unions met with the of
ficials of the telephone company here
today in a futile effort to settle all dif
ferences.
Men electrical workers say that they
will strike unless the women operators’
unions are recognized by the company.
KEEP A CARD INDEX.
There should be some kind of a ,
card index kept on the actions of all
men during the war. The names of
all those who try to make an exorbi
tant profit during the war out of the
necessities of life, as well as those
who in any way delay the prepara
tions for war, should be put in the
-box, for there is where every
patriotic person will look for their
names after the war is over. Their
common street names will be on the
end of every man’s tongue when j
peace is gained, and in order that no
thing they do or say shall be forgot
ten when the time comes to attend
to their case, the card index should
be closely kept. After the war is
over and the victory won, many of
them will be around teling what won- j
derful patriots they were and how i
they helped in the good work. That1
class always wants to sit at the head
of the banquet table, when the lights
burn brightly.
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MR. HOOVER AND MUSH.
As Herbert C. Hoover is an able \
and educated man, it is not quite
clear why he persists in talking to
Americans about the necessity of sav
ing the flour for Europeans and eat
ing corn meal at home, because Eur
opeans do not find corn meal as pal
atable as flour, “not understanding
its preparation.”
If Europeans cannot take a printed
recipe for mush, published in their
own language, and make mush, how
on earth can they make war? Mush
is much more easily made, and is far
more delightful than any feature of
rightly-made war save a bloodless
victory.—Louisville Courier.
While trying to light an oil burner
in the boiler of the Bourbon power
plant recently two men, Cliff Allyn
and Dick Lisson, two inhabitants of
Nome, were badly burned.
A SCANDINAVIAN LIBERTY
BELL RINGS OUT
There is much talk in many of the
newspapers about the leaning of the
Swedish people toward the kaiser.
However this may be Old John Lind,
ex-governor of Minnesota, rings his
bell clear, for pure democracy. In a
recent address to his fellow Ameri
cans of Swedish descent he ex
claimed
“As a citizen of Swedish blood I
should deplore trouble between our
nation and Sweden, but you men in
this audience of Swedish blood and
descent must remember that we are
not of the Swedish household. What
ever kindly feelings we may have
toward the Swedish people, we say
to them unless they choose to have a
government in harmony with the as
pirations of the free peoples of the
earth they must suffer the conse
quences of the actions of their rulers.
“As to us Americans of Swedish
blood or descent, they are our friends j
in peace; aye more than friends, for
they are kindred. But in war, if such
should come—God forbid—they are
enemies.”
That is the kind of a ring that ev
ery American Swede’s bell should
have these times, whether he is a la
borer in the woods or on the rail
road. The Swedes in America who
carry the Lind banner will not try to
delay the government in its prepara
tion to defeat the enemy of all man
kind. A Swede that chooses Bill Hay
wood for a leader rather than John
Lind, is a very undesirable citizen
just at this time and should be
guarded with suspicion.
MUST HAVE LABOR.
The Canadian resolutions to im
port Chinese to replace the working
men who may be conscripted is de
scribed as merely a war-time meas
ure.
It will probably be carried out. It
has been carried out elsewhere. The
coolie laborer is so docile and so
cheap that it is a fact that he is ir
resistible.
It is true that he has not the
productive capacity of the white man.
But he can be increased in numbers
with ease and numbers will do what
the individual might not do.
In several places capital has
brought about a well-nigh ideal con
dition by this coolie system. Espe
cially has it been perfected in some
British colonies under a system of
indentures. There the owner of a
plantation and property becomes
monarch of all he surveys and the
laborer is bound to him.
The coolie produces wealth for the
wage that the white man would not
look at unless fresh from the bread
line and thus rendered super-docile.
Nor has it been an unknown condi
tion in the past. Serfdom arose as
such from the slave system of the
latifundists in the Roman empire.
The Athenian democracy was found
ed upon slave labor and Aristotle
doubted very much whether slaves
had a soul or not.
What a blessed old world it would
be if employes could be induced to
take what they could get from benig
nant employers; rest content forever
in their station in life and realize
that their masters held a stewardship
from God!
What a contrast with this inferno
today when economic discontent is
rampant; when strikes dislocate in
dustry and the workers refuse to ap
preciate the fine philanthropy of
employers! The malcontents insist
upon entertaining the belief that
they have rights; that they have bod
ies which should be pampered and
that they have souls just like employ
ers! Is there no way whereby indus
trial peace can be brought perma
nently to earth and these disturbing
beliefs in the hoi polloi dissipated?
—Nome Worker.
ARIZONA STRIKE SETTLED.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—The
president’s labor committee in the
west has telegraphed a formal an
nouncement of the settlement of the
copper miners’ strike in Arizona.
DON’T DELAY WAR
PREPARATIONS
During the time of war, the con
sideration of the labor question must
be made from an entirely different
standpoint from that taken in times
of peace when there is no danger from
the alien enemy. When the members
of a union strike for higher wages
they should at the same time consider
the fact that they are causing every
enemy of their country to smile with
satisfaction. They are doing the very
thing that the kaiser is now spending
hundreds of millions of dollars to have
them do. To delay the building of a
ship is the assassination of a thousand
troops at the front who are working
for less wages than the man who
strikes is receiving. That isn’t fair. It
is not treating the laboring man at the
front fairly.
Just at this time the house is on fire
and it ill becomes the brother out of
danger to be bawling about the price
he has to pay for a bucket to carry
water to quench the fire while there is
a brother inside being consumed by
the flames! These are times when we
can each afford to cry aloud “My king
dom for a horse.” Every man should,
during these times, exclaim, “Take all
I have for a ship, or an airplane.”
But, whines some pessimist, “These
men are making too much money out
of this ship building business! They
are grafting!” That may all be true
but while the house is on fire, don’t
stop to try a man who is attempting
to steal something from the smoke
house. We will hang him to the near
est telegraph pole after the fire is
quenched. There is only one man who
is a bigger criminal than the wax
grafter and that is the man who as
sists the kaiser in delaying our prep
arations for war.
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consider the opinion that the million
soldiers soon in France will have of
you after they return, when you are
pointed out to them as one of the men
who delayed a ship for a single day
that was to bring them food while
fighting the enemy ? How can you ex- j
pect the officers of the law’ to keep
them from taking you by the throat
and choking the life out of you? Will
these soldiers not remember the pangs
of hunger they suffered because the
ship was one day late?
There is no question at all about the
man who is grafting in war supplies
being despised by every one after the
war is over, but it will be an easy
thing to take his ill-gotten gains
away from him. That is one good
thing the war measures that have been
adopted assure us. That’s easy, but
if the kaiser wins, who is going to
make him cough up ? Are the strik
ers figuring, that inasmuch as they
helped the kaiser when the clouds
hung low, that he will make them rul
ers over this part of his world empire
when he wins? There would be some
sense in that view’ if the kaiser were
a just man, but, a fool knows that
should he, with the assistance of those
who handicap Uncle Sam, win the
wrar, he will enslave the world.
Then why assist him ? Why do
the very things that he prays you will
do ? Be it remembered ,nowr, that the
man who attempts to make profit out
of the dire distress the country is in
at this time, either by quitting work
or conspiring to obtain exorbitant
prices for goods, will, after the w’ar, be
loathed and despised by those soldiers
in France who are offering their lives
in defense of democracy for the people
of the w’orld. Whatever other crime
we may have committed while here on
earth we do not want one of those
soldier boys, after returning from
France, to point their fingers at us
and say, there is a skunk that delayed
the ship and caused a hundred boys
to starve to death on the battle field
of France.”
HAMPERING THE WORK.
It is hard for a loyal American cit
izen to understand disloyalty. It is
inconceivable how an American can
hamper the work of the government
at a time when the very life of the
nation is at stake. It appears that
such words as “home” and “country”
make no appeal to some of these tools
of the> kaiser, and it has become ne
cessary for the authorities to admin
ister a lesson in patriotism. The
country at large will hope that the
roundup will be complete.—Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
FREE SPEECH.
Some time, and it will be a much
cooler epoch when the emotions and
sentiments are more controlled by hu
man intelligence, someone will rise
to explain and suggest the necessity
of tracing the genesis of things as
quite essential to a proper under
standing of them, and equally essen
tial to a proper support of them in
society.
Take this matter of free speech.
Technically how did it originate that
men could not speak the thoughts that
were in them ? That in itself is an in
teresting question, but not more inter
esting than important to the proper
appreciation of the value of a condi
tion in society when men can express
their opinions such as they are with
out fear of molestation or punishment.
Of course we are a long way* off
such a consummation, and right today
there are a good many persons who j
would get mighty short shift if they i
were to say what they think about
profiteers during the war.
BANK OF ANCHORAGE FINDS ITS I
STORAGE PLANTS ARE SMALL
FOR BUSINESS OFFERED.
The railroad switch has been com- :
pleted connecting the large warehouse,
recntly built by the Bank of Anchor
age, with the main railroad line and
today shipments for different mer
chants in town are being received.
The warehouse has a capacity of
1500 tons and all space has been re
served and contracted for. The Bank
of Anchorage has recently purchased
for a warm storage warehouse lot 12,
black 43, from F. D. McCullough.
The purpose of the Bank of Anchor
age in securing warehouses was to
loan on warehouse receipts and rent
space to customers. The only mis
take appears to be that the space in
both warehouses is entirely too small
for the amount of business offered.
ALAMEDA AND ADMIRAL
WATSON ARRIVE HERE
With twenty-one cabin and four
steerage passengers and a large cargo
of freight, the steamship Alameda, of
the Alaska Steamship company, ar
rived Saturday morning from Seattle
and way ports. She made her de
parture for Puget sound at midnight
Saturday. Among her passengers
were: W. F. Rohbach, J. I. Simpson,1
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Brown, Mr. and
Mrs. L. D. Henderson, R. R. Heuter,
J. G. Watts, J. R. Beeson, J. J. Stur
gis, J. L. Waller, Carl Lind, A. Brand
strom, Fred Larson, F. A. Ross, R. W. j
Hart, S. S. Stannard, Mrs. S. J. Na-!
tion, Tex Jones, L. P. Bergman and
Harry R. Brown.
The steamship Admiral Watson, of:
the Pacific Steamship company, arriv
ed here Saturday afternoon from
Seattle and departed on her return |
voyage Sunday afternoon.
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WANT MORE WAGES.
CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 25.—The
executive committee of the Order of
the Railway Conductors and the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen,
representing all roads in the United
States and Canada, will meet in Chi
cago probably November 1, to consider
the advisability of requesting an in
crease in wages, made necessary be
cause of the high cost of living.
MURDER ON KUSKOKWIM.
Dan Shea, who recently arrived in
Iditarod from the Kuskokwim, has re
ported to the U. S. marshal at Fair
banks that Louis Huber recently shot
and killed Matt Schranthan, his min
ing partner, on New York creek.
There was no witness to the shoot
ing. At the preliminary hearing be
fore Commissioner Stubb, Huber was
held to answer and released on $5,000
bonds.
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