WHERE, RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL III. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1920.
NO. 111.
POLES SEEK PEACE AS WARSAW FALLS
BOLSHEVIK LEADERS ACCUSE POLES OF STALLING
GOVERNOR COX SAYS REPUBLICANS MISREPRESENTED
STATE Will TRY '
10 DEVISE PUN
. TO END STRIKES
TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 14
—Progress is reported in the
movement in the state of
Washington to devise a bet
ter way to settle industrial
disputes than thru strikes
and lookouts.
The Washington Industri
al Code Commission for
y more than a year has been
gathering data from em
ployers and employees to be
used as the basis for a new
law to be presented to the
state Legislature when it
convenes next January. The
Commission was instructed
to frame a law which will
settle disputes between labor
and capital without recourse
, to the cumbersome weapons
of the past that so often
work a hardship on the
public at large.
Before the law is written
this fall the Commission
plans to give a hearing to
every person in Washington
w who thinks he has a solution
and will have studied the
statutes of every state in the
union that has attempted to
better the relations between
labor and capital. Already
hearings have been held in
most of the larger cities of
the state, and the commis
sion made a special trip to
Vancouver, B. C., where
* labor leader and emoloyers
were met and where the Ca
nadian Industrial Disputes
Act was thoroughly dis
cussed.
“It was found in British
Columbia.” Secretary De
Witt M. Evans of the Com
mission said, “that councils
t of employers and employes
with an industry are proving
beneficial. These councils are
more important in getting
the two interests together
than are the tribunals pro
vided in the British Colum
bia Act.”
Naturally, according to
Mr. Evans, there is come dis
crepancy between employers
i? and employes regarding the
best way amicably to settle
disputes, but both are agreed
that the huge economic loss
resultant from strikes should
be prevented. This desire
to abolish strikes and lock
outs, Mr. Evans believes, is
^ the best indication that the
commission will be able to
draw up a workable piece of
legislation.
‘The commision realizes if
cannot create a law that will
abolish the underlying
causes of contention between
labor and capital,” said Mr
r Evans, “but it does believe
it can frame a set of rules
and regulations for handling
disputes so that the interest
of the public and both
\
parties to the contention will
not be disasterouly affected.
The commision expects to
establish in Washington the
machinery which will avoid
the large number of strikes
and lockouts that ^rise pri
marily because there is no
agency to prevent them.”
The members of the Com
mission are Mr. Evans of Ta
coma; Edward P. Blake, Se
attle; H. Alvin Moore, Se
attle; John Pattison, Spo
kane; and W. L. Dimmick,
Yakima. They are employ
ers, employes and repre
sentatives of the public on
the commission.
HARDING CAUTIONS
NATION OF DANGER
MARION, Aug. 14.—Re
plying to the charge, madTi
by the Democratic nominee,
That the Republican party is
‘looking backwards” Senator
Harding declared here today
that although the future
might hold the promise of
new achievements and pro
gress, it would not ao for
.the nation to forget the les
jsons of the past.
| In a talk made before the
jOhio Republican Editorial
'association, Senator Hard
jing advanced a forest policy
jthat would insure an ade
quate supply jof print paper
and pulp.
He also urged an editorial
policy, not partisan, but pa
triotic.
PASSENGERS WILL
COME ON SPECIAL
Fairbanksans who have
jmade reservations on the
j steamer Yukon will come to
iNenana by special train this
|afternoon, leaying the upper
town about three o’clock.
The outgoing list, as report
ed to The News this noon in
cluded: Deputy Marshal and
Mrs. Ed HeDDenstall, Mr.
■and Mrs. Runyun, John
, Strellic, Volney Richmond,
i Howard Turner, Chester
'Hamilton, Mrs. Hal Bailey
and daughter Ethel, Muriel
[Hering, George Hering, Jack
jKinalley, and Harry Patter
son.
DEPARTMENT GETS
WRONG MAN AGAIN
NEW YORK, Aug. 14.
A young man answering the
description of Grover Cleve
land Bergdoll, fugitive drafl
evader, was taken into cus
tody in this state yesterday
by agents of the departmeni
of justice, but was releasee
today when it was prover
conclusively that the wron<
[man had been arrested.
LONDON, Aug. 14.—The
Russian Bolsheviki mission
here has made public a
dispatch signed by Tchit
cherin, soviet foreign minist
er, in which the Poles are ac
cused of continually delay
ing the scheduled meeting at
Minst, to discuss armistice
and peace terms with Russia,
in the hope of forcing the
Allies to come to their res
cue. It was believed in Po
land, the dispatch says, that
the Allies would intervene in
the event of the capture of
Warsaw.
—
TO MAKE PEACE
LONDON, Aug. 14.—A
Polish peace delegation of
sixteen members,, with aides,
clerks and stenographers,
has left for the battlefront to
discuss terms with Russian
representatives. Two repre
sentatives of the American
relief organization obtained
permission from Moscow to
accompany the delegation
for the purpose of confer
ring with the Bolsheviki
{relative to the treatment of
300,000 children who were
formerly cared for by Ameri-i
cans. j
STILL CRITICAL
PARIS, Aug. 14.—The
Warsaw situation continues
critical. The Russian plan of
campaign of delivering sue-';
cesive blows at different
points tends to disorganize
the Polish defense by neces-,
sitating the dispatch of rein-,
forcements to widely separat
ed points of attack. The
northern soviet forces are
now heavily reinforced and
are within thirty miles of
the capital.
CAN HEAR GUNS
WARSAW. Aue. 14.—
The roar of Bolsheviki artil
lery can be plainly heard
here, but the shells are not
yet dropping in the city.
The Russians have worked
well toward the rear of the
Warsaw detenses and are
now attacking Plonsk, with
in a dozen miles of the
Vistula river, northwest of
the city.
IN ACCORD
PARIS, Aug. 14.—T h e
French government has sent
a note to the United States
in which pleasure is express- 1
ed that French and Amer- !
ican views on the Russo-Po
lish situation are in entire '
accord.
DESERTS WITH CASH
SEATTLE, Aug. 14.— '
Local police and federal (
agents are searching for (
Leroy Fleming, boatswain’s ,
mate of the battleship Texas. ‘
who disappeared while the
battleshin was at Bremerton, j
A shortage in the acounts of .
the mail clerk has been dis- ]
covered and it is believed
Fleming got away with the ,
money.
ROME, Aug. 14. — An '
agreement has been reached ]
between the Prague, Bel- ;
grade and Bucharest gover- j
nments for the protection of
Slovakia, Servia and Ru-(
mania against Russian en-s
emies in the Balkons.
LIGHTNING STRIKES J
PATTERSON, N. Y. Aug. I
14.—Richmond J. Foran.P
who survived the world war!'
after having received a total/
of 22 wounds, was killed by I
lightning near this city yes-C
terday. He was a member of
a machine gun battalion dur-v
ing the great struggle andl'
was in the thick of the fight-I
ing much of the time he wasC
overseas. (
iTUKON WILL TAKE
LOAD OUT TONIGHT
The steamer Yukon arriv
:d from Dawson last evening
shortly after eight o’clock
vith a number of passengers
)n board for Nenana and
-airbanks and a barge of
'reight in tow. The entire
rip was made in good time
ind the run up the Tanana
Torn the Tolovana required
)nly about 12 hours, the rec
)rd for the season, being
ibout an hour less then was,
equired by the same boat on
he last trip. Upon arrival
iere, the Yukon was laid up
:or boiler washing and will
tot be ready to sail on the |
eturn trip until some time
tfter ten tonight.
Not many Nenanaites will
eave on the Yukon, but
juite a number of Fairbank
sans are coming down this
ifternoon on a special train
o board the steamer, being
lue to* arrive here about
even o’clock.
The pasengers arriving on
he Yukon for Fairbanks
/ere: Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Liebeg, F. W. Brooks, Mrs.
■T A. Tidbals, Sisiter Louis
Japoleon, Sister Arcadius,
Irs. G. M. McQuarrie, Mrs.
l. M. Fitchell, Mrs. J. J.
igan, A. Zingg, Mrs. G. V.
Joss.
The Nenana passengers
^ere: Mrs. Peter Anderson,
Irs. E. M. Keys, Lure M.
Jondurant, Jennette Beilis,
Charlotte Thompson, C. C.
Jollins, Claud C. Collins,
Cecil J. Bennett, J. P. Lar
son, W. D. Gordon, Mrs.
James Gaudin, E. B. Bar
teau, James Gaudin.
SMUGGLER CAUGHT
CALEXICO, Aug. 14.—
American customs officers
have arrested Col. W. J.
Dodds, a local businessman,
in connection with the
siezure yesterday of an auto
load of carbines and am
munition which was enroute
across the boundry in viola
tion of the ban prohibiting
such exportations. The in
formation upon which Dodds
was taken into custody was
furnished by the Mexican
driver of the auto.
COX SLAMS G. O. P.
IN WHEELING TALK
^ WHEELING, Aug. 14.—
Governor Cox, in his second
campaign speech opened fire
on the Republicans because
of their opposition to the
League of Nations. He
charged that the Republican
leadership “attempted to
trick" the American people
into opposing the league. He
also accused the Republicans
of conducting their cam
paign hebind a smoke screen
in an effort to secure
partisan spoils and the con
trol of the Government.
They are backed, he said, by
a powerful combination of
interests which are prepared
to spend millions to insure
success at the polls in Nov
ember.
Governor Cox referred to
what he termed the Republi
can senatorial oligarchy and
declared that the Democrats
have presented a program
of constructive, progressive
and economic service, pro
mising a definite saving of
two billion annually in Gov
ernment expense.
ROOSEVELT TALKS
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 14.—
In an address delivered in
this city today Franklin D.
Roosevelt declared that the
indorsement of the League
of Nations by the United
States would have saved Po
land from the Bolsheviki.
The moral effect of Amer
ican membership in the
league, he said, would have
halted the Russian armies
without a single American
soldier crossing the seas.
Charles L e c k i e, well
known local accountant, has
re-entered the service of the
Alaskan Engineering com
mission, having joined the
store office force this week.
Banana, wnera Balia and Blvera Kaat
BOTH SIDES CLAIM
THEY IN SUE
IN ISLAND BATTLE
j HONOLULU, T. H. Aug.
114.—The strike of sugar
plantation laborers, princi
pally Japanese and Filipinos,
which began January 19 last,
declared over July 1, follow
ing conference between a
committee of labors and
{John Waterhouse, president
iof the Hawaii Sugar Plant
ers' Association. Immediately
j the striking labors began
j pouring back to the planta
tions and it was expected
.that early this month all the
(approximately 5,000 men still
;out would have returned to
j the fields and mills.
| Upwords of 8,000 workers
(originally joined the strike,
but of these about 2.000
Filipinos returned to work
before the walkout was de
clared over, while several
jhundred Japanese also came
iback.
Officials of the Hawaiian
(Laborers Association, succes
sor to the Federation of Iap
janese labor which called the
(strike, in telling the mem
|bers of the organization to
'return to work, are report
led as having claimed victory
■ for the workers. This view
was also taken in reports of
the strike’s end printed in
jjapanese papers of Honolu
lu, which intimated that cer
tain concessions, presumably
as to wages, bonus rates and
;working hours had been ob
tained from the planters.
President Waterhouse of
the Planter’s Association,
however, emphatically an
nounced that the association
jin dealing with the commit
tee of laborers had not been
dealing with the laborers’
federation, but with the
workers themselves, and that
| no concessions had been
made by the planters associa
tion, and that the strikers
would have to apply for
I work on the status of new
hands.
I In Japanese circles conf
idence is expressed that there
;will be a readjustment of
iwages and other details in
‘the autumn.
j The Planters’ Association
(has made no announcement
[as to the loss in sugar, if
I any, caused by the strike,
iEstimates in sugar and Jap
anese circles place the loss of
ithe Japanese strikers at up
[wards of $4,000,000. This
does not include the losses
suffered by the Filipinoes
and strikers of other na
tionalities.
TEMPERATURES.
Saturday, August 14
Maximum.57
Minimum . 44