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VOL. IV. NO. 249 CQRDQVa7 aLASKa7 tHURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 25, 1919 PRICE TEN CENTS
ITALIANS ARE DETERMINED TO RETAIN FIUME AT ANY COST
STRIKE LEADER CHARGES THAT
• HEAD OF GREAT STEEL TRUST
REFUSED TO TREAT WITH MEN
W ASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (by Associated Press).—Chair
man Fitzpatrick of the steel strikers told the senate committee
on labor today that the three hundred and fifty thousand steel
strikers would demand decent justice from the government.
He said the strike could not lie called off even if the Steel Cor
poration representatives should now consent to meet the dele
gates of the steel workers.
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Fitzpatrick said the Steel Corporation had refused to meet
labor’s representatives. Samuel Gompers, he said, had written
to Gary in June, but Gary ignored the letter and had made no
reply. The corporation had jailed and opposed the steel work
%crs* organizers, he said. President Wilson had failed in his
efforts to get a conference with Gary for the unions’ representa
! ives.
fhe newspapers, said Fitzpatrick, controlled by the corpo
ration, had raised the bugaboo that most of the strikers were
aliens. He said that in Clairton, Duquesne and Homestead the
authorities were denying all rights to the strikers, and that
troopers were entering houses and trampling on the men.
A Significant Conference Called
ITTTSBFKGH, Sept. 25 (by Associated Press).—Secre
tary Foster of the strikers’ committee said today that the com
, mittee had appointed a sub-committee to meet the presidents of
the railroad brotherhoods to discuss matters pertaining to the
shike.
Extensive Resumption Claimed in Chicago District
( HICAGO, Sept. 2a (by Associated Press).—It is officially
announced that the slab and rail mills of the United States
hteel Corporation at Gary, Ind., will be operated today, the
most extensive resumption of work in the Chicago district
since the strike started.
One hundred and ninety-five engineers at the plant of the
Illinois Steel Company at Gary have been called out in sym
pathy with the steel workers.
five hundred men at Indiana Harbor attended a meeting
last night at which demands were made for protection on their
return to work. rI he speakers said that 80 per cent of the
twelve thousand strikers there wanted to return.
Indiana Strikers Want to Return
CHICAGO, Sept. 25 (by Associated
Press).—Four hundred strikers, an
swering the ultimatum of the Inland
Steel Company at Indiana Harbor, said
they were willing to return to work
if protection were given.
The mayor and sheriff have prom
ised the men protection.
Confiscating Arms
FARRELL, Pa., Sept. 25 (by Asso
ciated Press).—One hundred pistols,
f rifles and shotguns have been confis
cated in the search of the houses in
the riot zone by the local and state
police.
state trooper was shot and killed
by Lake Grogan, a Serbian striker,
when the police searched his house,
which was believed to be a sniping
post for the strikers.
The city is quiet. Seventy-five per
sons have been arrested for carrying
guns on the streets.
Only One Mill in Operation
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 25 (by
Associated Press).—The bar mill of
the Empire Rolling Mill Company has
closed down, leaving only one small
plant, employing five hundred men,
operating here on the fourth day of
the strike.
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To Vote on Returning to Work
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Sept. 25 (by
A^ociated Press).—All skilled and
semi-skilled employes of the Mahoning
I Valley steel mills will meet tomorrow
to vote on the question of returning to
work.
The strike has spread to the fabri
cation plants, closing two of these
^concerns in Youngstown. The Pressed
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Steel Company also has been forced
to close.
Twelve Hundred to Return
CANTON, Ohio, Sept. 25 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The Canton Sheet
Steel Company announced yesterday
that its men voted yesterday to re
turn to work. Twelve hundred are af
fected.
HY JOHNSON’S
CONSTITUENCY
IS DISPLEASED
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25 (by As
sociated Press).—Thirty-eight promi
nent business men of this city have
telegraphed to Senator Johnson pro
testing against his attitude toward the
peace treaty.
The message declared the belief that
the position of the California senator
did not represent the position of the
people of California.
Will Attempt to Justify Himself
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Senator Johnson will
leave for San Francisco tomorrow to
resume his speaking campaign in op
position to the peace treaty.
FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE, Sept. 25.—Fish prices
here at noon today were as follows:
Halibut, 17c; sablefish, 5c.
ALARMIST STATEMENTS MADE
AS TO JAPANESE AGGRESSIONS
IN BUSINESS OF PACIFIC COAST
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (by Associated Press).—■
V. S. McClatcliy of Sacramento, Cal., and Miller Freeman
I of Seattle, testifying before the immigration committee
| of the house of representatives today, said that Japan
was violating tin* immigration barriers to America in
tended to be raised by the so-called “gentlemen’s agree
ment” between the United States and Japan.
McClatcliy said the United States soon would be
come a Japanese province. The whites, he said, were un
able to compete against the Japanese.
Freeman urged an investigation of the Yokohama
Bank at Seattle, a majority of the stock of which, he said,
was owned by the Japanese imperial family. He declared
that 47 per cent of the Seattle hotels were owned by Jap
anese.
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DENVER, Colo., Sept. 25 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Addressing a great
throng here at noon today, President
Wilson declared that the issue in the
peace treaty discussion had been
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor; Warren Stone, chief of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
and Glenn E. Plumb, general counsel
of the organized railway employes of
America, and author of the “Plumb
plan” for the solution of the railway
problem, have issued a statement in
which they bitterly protest against
those sections of the Cummins reor
ganization bill which prevent railroad
workers from striking.
Discussing the matter yesterday,
Samuel Gompers said he “did not wish
to live one day after that right had
been abolished.”
The statement serves notice on the
interstate commerce committee of the
senate that the law will not be obeyed
if enacted.
Shipyard Unions Dissatisfied
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25 (by As
sociated Press).—The shipyard unions
are planning for a strike on October 1,
instead of awaiting the outcome of the
industrial conference, as requested by
President Wilson. Similar strikes are
to be called at other Pacific coast
points.
The men say that high wages were
promised them but were never granted.
The Shipping Board refuses to grant
increases of wages until President Wil
son’s conference has been held.
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drawn clearly. He said the nation was
facing the question whether it would
keep its pledge to help guarantee the
world’s peace.
All of the minor objections to the
League of Nations had been disposed
of, he said. The adoption of the reser-;
vations proposed in the senate meant
the rejection of the treaty, he de-1
dared.
Insurance Against Barbarism
The President said that the nation
was under a bond to the generations j
to come to make certain that there
would be no more wars. The next war^
should it occur, he declared, would be
more terrible than the' last.
‘‘I am for insurance against such
barbarism,” he concluded.
The crowd of eleven thousand per
sons cheered the President repeat
edly during his address.
President Wilson left for Pueblo,
where he will next speak, this after
noon.
Article 10 Essential to Treaty
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Sept. 25 (by As
sociated Press).—In his speech here
last evening President Wilson declared
that if the reservation proposed by the
majority of the foreign relations com
mittee of the senate, providing that
4he United States declines to assume
the obligation to preserve the terri
torial integrity of other nations, should
be adopted, he would be obliged, as
chief executive of the nation, to re
gard it as a rejection of the treaty.
FRENCH AND GERMANS
IN SERIOUS CLASH
BERLIN, Sept. 25 (by Associated
Press).—Many men have been wound
ed on both sides in an encounter at
Saarbrucken between the bourgeois
and the French soldiers.
Numerous Germans have been ar
rested for attacking the French.
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LEAGUE OF NATIONS IS POSSIBLE
WITHOUT AMERICAN PARTICIPATION
PARIS, Sept. 25 (by Associated Press).—Addressing the chamber
of deputies today, Premier Clem enceau said that if he had any word
for the United States senate it would be to hurry the ratification of
the peace treaty. * I
The League of Nations, said the premier, could exist without the
United States.
He said that it was because the French people felt that the League
of Nations was insufficient guarantee for the years to come that the
protective treaties with Great Britain and the United States had been
prepared.
TACTICS FOLLOWED AT FIUME
EMULATED AT OTHER POINTS
ON DISPUTED ADRIATIC COAST
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PARIS, Sept. 25 (by Associated Press).—Italian leaders,
apparently emulating the example of D’Annunzio, are advan
cing upon Spalato, Sabenico and Trail, important towns on the
Dalmatian coast.
It is rumored that Italians are planning to restore King
Nicholas to the throne of Montenegro. Nicholas is the father
ol Queen Helena of Italy, and was deposed through tin* forma
tion of the new government of the Jugo-Slavs.
Guiseppe Garibaldi, who is at present in Paris, says Italy
intends to keep Finnic, even at the price of war.
D’Annunzio Now Has Navy Behind Him
POLA, Kept. 25 (by Associated Press).—Gabrille d’ An
nunzio claims that the Italian battleship Daide Alighieri and
three destroyers have deserted from the Italian navy and have
become the Fiuniian navy.
The allied naval commanders have withdrawn from the
harbor of Fin me while the Dante Alighieri is there.
Whole Italian Nation Is Affected
ROMP, Kept. 2o (by Associated Press).—'The Finnic situa
tion has been complicated by the strike of metal workers, af
fecting all factories. A general national strike is threatened.
‘ he postal and telegraph employes have taken recourse to
sabotage, delaying letters and telegrams.
OFFERED FOR
AIR FLIGHTS
NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (by Associ
ated Press)—The Aero Club of Amer
ica is planning an aerial Derby around
the world for a million dollars in
prizes. A committee will leave here
immediately for a tour of the world,
during which they will select landing
places and arrange other details of
the race.
Airships of any style are eligible as
entrants, and they may select routes
across the Pacific or may fly direct
from Tokio to Alaska, or from Tokio
to Kamchatka and thence to Alaska.
Big Chance for Canadians
VICTORIA, B. C.. Sept. 25 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Norman Yarrow has
offered a prize of $50,000 for the
first non-stop flight across the Pacific
ocean from Vancouver island to Japan,
in a ship made in Canada and man
aged by Canadians.
GOLDMANHELD
I BONDS FOR
DEPORTATION
JEFFERSON CITY, Sept. 25 (by As
sociated Press).—Emma Goldman will
appear Saturday before a commission
in an effort to be released from the
penitentiary here upon the ground that
she can not pay the $10,000 fine im
posed upon her when sentence was
pronounced.
Proceedings for the deportation of
the noted anarchist have been begun
by the government, and bail has been
fixed at $15,000.
Dr. W. W. Council returned from
his trip of inspection along the rail
road late yesterday evening.
AGAINST ACTS
OF COMMISSION
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NEW YORK, Sept, 25 (by Associ
ated Press).—The Standard Oil Com
pany has been advised that twelve
American steamships, valued at ten
j million dollars, the property of Ger
man subsidiaries of the Standard Oil
Company, have been ordered allocated
among the allies.
This action has been taken, it is re
ported, despite the action of the allied
commission in recognizing the ships
as American property, and not subject
to seizure.
The department of state and the
United States Shipping Board have
protested against the action of the al
lied commission.
SOFT COAL MINERS
HAVE SET DATE FOR
NATION-WIDE STRIKE
BUFFALO, N. Y„ Sept. 25 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A general strike of the
soft coal miners of the United States
has been set tentatively for November
1. Operators and miners are meeting
today with the object of arbitrating
differences.
The men want a 60 per cent increase
in wages, a six-hour day and a five-day
week.
TO INTEREST CAPITAL
IN EXPLOITATION OF
REINDEER OF ALASKA
SEATTLE, Sept. 25 (by Associated
Press).—Lieutenant Storkerson, who
accompanied Steffansson on his last
explorations of the Arctic, is here en
route to Portland and Los Angeles.
Storkerson expects to help Stefans
son to interest New York capital in
developing the reindeer industry in
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Alaska and Yukon territory.