ANCHORAGE
TIMES
AND ALASKA LABOR NEWS
\ NO. 9.
ANCHORAGE. ALASKA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 31,1918.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
FIVE HUNDRED PERSONS VOTE
AGAINST ANY SUSPENSION
OF EIGHT-HOUR ACT.
PROMINENT CITIZENS SPEAK
.Members of Union Will Assemble
Again Tonight to Arrange for Rep
resentative at Hearing Before Gov
ernor February 5.
Further suspension of the territor
ial eight-hour law is opposed in a
resolution unanimously adopted last
night at a mass meeting of 500 work
ers in the auditorium of the Alaska
Labor union building.
The purpose of the meeting was to
arrange for a representative of the
union at the meeting in Juneau cal
led for February 5 by Governor J. F.
A. Strong to consider the question of
suspending the eight-hour law inso
\i far as it applies to the mining and
lumbering industries.
A collection amounting to $87.20
was taken up during the meeting for
the pui pose of defraying *l e expenses
of the representative whde at Juneau.
While the announced purpose of the
meeting was to appoint a representa
tive. action in this matter was defer
red until tonight, at which time a
meeting of the, members of the union
will be called and the representative
chosen.
Several speakers addressed the au
dience and strong opposition to fur
ther suspension of the law was ex
pressed. The speakers t f the evening
were Thomas Price, former represen
tative in the legislature of the An
chorage district; Rev. Jack Dunstan,
I)r. F. M. Boyle, Dr. E. F. German,
John Frame, Harry G. McCain, A. Ny
lin. Jack Sutherland, and John F.
Coffey.
The audience while composed most
ly of working men and members of
the union, contained a number of
wo::: a who are as interested as the
en in seeing the strict enforcement
of the eight-hour law.
REVOLT SUPPRESSED
IN HELSINGFORS
NO WORD IS RECEIVED AS TO
REVOLUTION IN OTHER
PARTS OF FINLAND.
COPENHAGEN, Denmrak, Jan. 30
—Complete control of Helsingfors
Finland, has been obtained by the
Russian Maximilist troops, and the
revolutionists in that city have beer
overcome according to advices tha1
have been received in Copenhager
from there.
No details have been learned as tc
whether the revolutionists in their up
rising killed any of the officials in
Helsingfors or as to the status of the
revolution in other parts of Finland.
PRICES ARE FIXED
„> FOR VICTORY BREAD
ADMINISTRATION WILL PERMIT
NO INCREASE OVER FIGURE
FOR WHITE LOAVES.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 30.
Victory bread, the new war bread pre
srcibed by the national food adminis
tration, must not sell at prices in ex
cess of those that now obtain foi
white bread.
This announcement was issued to
day by the food administration ir
view of reports to the effect thai
bakers were preparing to charge mor<
for victory bread than for white breac
on the ground that substitutes foi
white flour cost them more than th(
white flour itself.
HEINRICH VONECKHARDT IS
CHARGED WITH HAVING TRIED
TO BRIBE LEGISLATORS.
EMBARGO URGED ON SHIPMENT
Stopping of Oil Cargoes to England
Would Operate to Great Disadvant
age of Britain Which Uses it as
Fuel for Navy.
MEXICO CITY, Mex., Jan. 30.- |
German propaganda has reached such
a stage in Mexico that imperils the
country’s neutrality in the world war.
The Mexican government has been
j compelled to take notice of this pro
paganda and the legislative committee 1
of the national assembly has directed
the attorney general to investigate
charges of illegal activity on the part
of Heinrich Voneckhardt, German
minister to Mexico. He is accused of,
having been instrumental in efforts to
bribe members of the Mexican cham-1
her of deputies.
The German propagandists have en- ■
deavored to create a sentiment in fav- j
or of an embargo against the ship- j
ment to any warring nation of any
war material. Such a proposal, if car
ried into effect, would prevent ship-1
ments from Mexican oil fields and this j
would operate to the great disadvant- j
age of England, which uses Mexican
oil extensively as fuel in her warships.
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LIMIT URGED ON
RAILROAD CONTROL
—
SENATE COMMITTEE FAVORS
RELINQUISHING LINES WITH
IN YEAR AFTER WAR.
—
WASHINGTON, D. C.( Jan. SO.—
The senate committee on commerce
todav decided to amend the adminis
tration’s railway bill so as to make it
provide that the government shall re
linquish control of the railroads with
in a year after the termination of the
war. In the original bill, no time at
all was mentioned for the relinquish
ment of governmental control.
The committee’s amendment, it is
expected, will be the subject of con
tention when the bill is considered on
the floor of the senate.
VETERAN ALASKAN
IS LAID TO REST
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR THOM
AS COFFEY, AGED 63, ARE
HELD IN LABOR TEMPLE.
Thomas Coffey, an oldtimer in the
northland and a member of the Alaska
labor union, died Monday night at the
resident of J. Bunton where he had
been making his home for the last
year.
Mr. Coffey was 63 years of age and
had been in poor health for some time.
Funeral services were held in the
auditorium of the labor temple this
afternoon. D. H. Williams was in
charge of the interment in the An
chorage cemetery.
FIRE EXTINGUISHED
ON CARGO CARRIER
FORTY MINUTES’ BATTLE ENDS
IN SUBDUING OF FLAMES
ON ATLANTIC VESSEL.
AT AN ATLANTIC PORT, Jan. 28.
—Fire aboard the American steam
ship Deep Water was brought under
control after a fight of forty minutes.
The ship, which is under control of the
federal shiping board, is loaded with a
general cargo.
HERS ARE RESTLESS AND
POLITICAL DIFFERENCES ARE
KAISER IN MESSAGE TO REICHSTAG MAKES REFER
ENCE TO TROUBLESOME CONDITIONS IN HIS EM
PIRE AND LEGISLATORS ARE SAID TO HAVE RE
FUSED TO GIVE HIM VOTE OF CONFIDENCE.
LONDON, Jan. 29.—Disorders are
rife in Germany and Austria-Hungary
according to advices received in Lon
don.
In Germany, unrest among the
working people and everywidening po
litical differences between the pan
Germans and the non-militarists are
made the subject of reference in the
message that Kaiser Wilhelm today
sent to the reichstag in answer to its
congratulations on the anniversary of
his birthday.
The reichstag, mainly because of!
the opposition of the socialist mem
bers, is said to have refused a vote
of confidence in the government.
Pamphlets, which called on all
workmen to declare a general strike,
were distributed in Berlin Monday,
but only a few laborers responded to
the call.
Petrograd newspapers emphasize
the importance of disorders in Vienna
and Cracow, Austria. They declare
that the unrest is spreading through
out Austria-Hungary and that Aus
tria-Hungary has already offered to
make separate peace with Russia re
gardless of any action in the premises
by Germany.
INDEPENDENT SOCIALIST PAR
TY ISSUED ORDER FOR GEN
ERAL CESSATION OF WORK.
MANY INDUSTRIES AFFECTED.
Government Arrests Leaders and in
Order to Gain Control of Situation
Conscripts Thousands of Strikers
Into Army.
LONDON, Jan. 30.—Industrial dis
orders of the gravest sort characterize
the situation in Germany.
Dissatisfied with the lack of pro
gress in peace negotiations between
German and Russian representatives
at Brest, in the province of Litovsk,
in southwestern Russia, and disap
pointed over the withholding of elec
toral reforms in Prussia, the inde
pendent socialist party called a gen
eral strike this week.
Workmen in forty war material fac
tories in Berlin obeyed the strike
order and great disorders have oc
curred in the German capital. The
manufacture of aeroplanes has practi
cally ceased and also the output of
electrical machinery factories.
Laborers in the torpedo boat and
submarine factories at Kiel went on
strike, and similar obedience to the
strike order was given by workers in
Essen and the great industrial centers
on the Rhine.
The government has arrested six
prominent independent socialist lead
ers, including Adolph Hoffman, editor
of Vorwaerts, who is the party’s
sopkesman in the Prussian diet.
To gain control of the situation at
Kiel, the government conscripted
thousands of the strikers into the
army.
AUSTRIAN PREMIER
TO DISCUSS PEACE
COUNT CZERNIN GOES TO BREST
IN RUSSIA, TO MEET AGAIN
WITH MUSCOVITES.
AMSTERDAM, Holland, Jan. 29.—
Count Czernin, premier of Austria,
is reported at Brest, Litovsk province,
southwestern Russia, where peace ne
gotiations between Russia on one side
and Austria-Hungary and Germany
on the other side were scheduled to
be resumed late this afternoon.
ARRIVES FROM NENANA.
George Ellard arrived over the
trail from Nenana yesterday through
the Broad Pass and while in Anchor
age and is staying at the Hotel Mor
rison.
BOMBS ARE DROPPED IN ESSEX
AND KENT AND TWO MA
CHINES REACH LONDON.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED
Fifteen Teuton Airships Are Engaged
in Attack and British Aviators and
Anti-Aircraft Guns Resist the
Invaders.
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LONDON, Jan. 80.—In another aer
, ial raid last night by German ma
j chines, bombs were dropped in Kent
land Essex counties in England, and
: two of the planes reached the out
!
; skirts of London. The raiders had
! no military objective. Only civilians
; were killed and of these the majority
were women and children.
I British airplanes and anti-aircraft
i guns were employed to resist the in
Ivaders. All the British machines re
| turned safely to their hangars.
! Fifteen German airplanes partici
S pated in the raid. One of them suc
I ceeded in dropping bombs in the
! southeastern outskirts of London and
! another caused destruction of some
| lives and property in the outlying
I northeastern part of London.
IRON WORKS LOSES
$500,000 IN FIRE
EXPLOSION IN ALCOHOL REFIN
ING BUILDING IS FOLLOW
ED BY FLAMES.
MARQUETTE, Mich., Jan. 30.—
Five hundred thousand dollars’ dam
age l'esulted to property late yester
day when an explosion followed by
fire occurred in the plant of the Pio
neer Iron P^urnace company here.
The explosion took place in the al
cohol refining building and the flames,
which were occasioned by the explo
sion, destroyed the primary building
and a series of condensers.
No lives were lost.
SERIOUS FIRE RAGES
IN CANADIAN TOWN
SERIOUS CONFLAGRATION IS
SWEEPING THROUGH PETER
BORO, NEAR TORONTO.
TORONTO, Canada., Jan. 26. — A
serious fire is raging in Peterboro, a
great manufacturing town ninety-four
miles northwest of Toronto.
Wire communication is interrupted.
GENE NORTON ARRIVES FROM
MARSHALL AND BRINGS RE
PORTS FROM RECENT STRIKE.
THREE PAY CLAIMS WORKING
Steampeders Should Wait Until Sum
mer for There Is No Wood in Dis
tant Region and Food Supplies Art
Reported Scarce.
! There is no reason for any excite
: ment over the reported placer gold
strike at Good News Bay, according
to Gene Norton, who, with Mrs. Nor
ton, arrived here yesterday over the
trail from Marshall City.
On his way to Anchorage, Mr. Nor
ton met Joe McDowell one of the best
known mining men in the country who
was returning to Marshall from the
scene of the new strike at Good News
bay. According to Mr. McDowell there
are only three pay claims in operation
in the new district.
l Persons intending going to the new
j strike are advised to wait until sum
! mer as there are very few supplies
| and no fuel timber at all in the Good
j News bay country.
Have Taken Options.
Curley Smith and Joe Jean opera
tors in the Marshall City country have
taken options on some claims in the
Good News Bay district and will do
some extensive development work
next summer.
Frank Waskey is operating a
dredge at Marshall and had a success
ful season this past summer. Robei+
Lowry is working a claim at Tolstoi
and is using a five point steam drill.
The feeling in the interior regard
ing the camp at Tolstoi is to the effect
that during the course of the coming
season good pay will be found.
In speaking of trail conditions, Mr.
Norton said that Anderson’s road
house, known as the Fass ci*eek road
house, is flooded and the entire low
. er floor is unfit for occupancy and
guests are required to enter the
road house with the aid of a ladder
through the second-story windows. '
i The waters in Pass creek some time
| ago broke through and inundated the
lower floor of the road house, which
now has the appearance of a small
glacier, explained Mr. Norton.
The trail from Marshall City
through Holy Cross and Takotna to
the Pass creek road house is in ex
; tremely bad condition owing to the
light fall of snow, which has been
i
; much less this year than usual.
Near Marshall City, Mr. Norton
said, there was scarcely sufficient
snow to enable the residents to haul
in their wood supplies.
Marshall City is a camp of old
timers, says Mr. Norton, and stam
peders who were in the front ranks on
most of the big strikes in the coun
try are now wintering there.
Mi*. Norton will leave this week for
Seward for a brief visit, returning
later to Anchorage, where he expects
to make his permanent home. Mr.
Norton is an old-timer in Alaska, hav
ing come north in 1898. He and Mrs.
Norton, are guests of the White
House.
GERMANS REPORT
ITALIAN DEFEAT
ATTACK AGAINST TEUTONS BE
TWEEN ASIAGO AND BRENTA
SAID TO HAVE FAILED.
BERLIN, Jan. 30.—Italian troops
yesterday launched a violent attack
against the German and Austrian and
Hungarian forces on the northern
Italian front between the Asiago and
Brento rivers, says an official state
ment today of the German war office.
The attack was repulsed.
DAUGHTERS OF
CZAR IN FAVOR
YOUNG WOMEN ASSAILED MON
ARCHIAL FACTION IN TI
BOLSK SPEECHES.
EDUCATOR TELLS OF RUSSIA.
Government of Muscovites Is Said to
be Of, By and For People and Not
Subject to Influence of German
Agencies.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30.—Tati
ana Romanoff and Olga Romanoff,
daughters of former Czar Nicholas,
have espoused the cause of the Max
imil ist party in Russia and a meeting
i of so-called radicals recently in To
; bolsk, where the dethroned royal fam
i ilv is living, the two young women
' assailed the principles of the monar
* chial faction, acocrding to Professor
! Edward Ross, a member of the fac
ulty of the University of Wisonsin,
and formerly associated with the
teaching staff at Leland Stanford, jr.,
University in California, who arrived
in San Francisco by way of Vladivos
tok and Japan from Russia.
Need to Revise Opinions.
i
i Many Americans will have to re
: vise their opinions of Russian condi
tons and of the motives that actuate
the Maximilist government in Petro
grad, declared the professor. He spent
five months in Russia and talked with
i all classes of her people. He inter
viewed Leon Trotzky, the Russian
minister of foreign affairs, and other
high Maximilist officials.
The professor stated that the Max
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| imilist movement was not fostered by
German agencies, as has been charged
j and that the Maximilist government,
which now is in control of the Rus
sian nation, is not subject to German
influence.
Movement for People.
The Maximilist movement, he said,
is purely of, by and for the people.
A month or so ago, Tatiana Rom
anoff was reported to have fled from
Tobolsk and a few weeks ago the
former czar was said to have escaped
from his place of exile. The reports
i were not heard by Professor Ross un
til his arrival here, and he declared
there was no truth in them.
GOVERNMENT SPEEDS
UP SHIPBUILDING
ADMIRAL BOWLES IS PLACED IN
CHARGE OF WOfVK IN PHIL
A DELPHI A YARD S.
—
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 29.—
The federal shipping board has des
ignated Admiral Bowles as assistant
} general manager of the emergency
l fleet corporation. He has been dis
i patched to Philadelphia to speed up
; construction in the three fabricated
steel shipyards there.
Admiral Bowles has been in charge
of the commandeered ship construc
i tion department of the emergency
j fleet corporation.
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HOUSE WILL PROBE
ARMY MAIL DELAYS
I LETTERS TO SOLDIERS IN
FRANCE TAKE INCREDIBLE
TIME TO GET THERE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 30.—
Delays in the delivery of mail to
United States troops in France will
be investigated by a committee of the
house of representatives by virtue of
a resolution authorizing the inquiry
adopted today in the house.
Delivery of letters and packages
sent from the United States to Amer
ican troops in France, have been sub
jected to shocking delays.