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A FORWARD MOVE
Should the American Federation
of Labor be successful in its effort
to have Labor's point of view set
forth fairly and impartially in text
books used in American schools, it
will have accomplished something
worth while. The tast is not a light J
one, as those who have siet out to
inaugurate the reform will learn;
but the benefits to be derived from
such a program are such as to en
courage serious and persistent cam
paigning In fact, in no other wav
can Labor hope to come into its
own. The present system of educa
tion was not designed to benefit |
workers.
ft is not necessary to dig deeply'
to find proof of this. Almost without
exception students, when they take
part at all in industrial disputes,
are found opposing the workers.
So often, in fact, have the doors
of our educational institutions been
thrown open to assist employers to
triumph in wage and other contro
versies that one is forced to the be- J
lief that our boys and girls are j
being taught that workers have no j
rights.
Organization has been a great
help to the workers of the United
States, but more than organization
is necessary to put labor on a
solid footing. There must be a
foundation of pre-organization
training, and the place to begin
that rtaining is in the public schools.
When that is accomplished, work
ers will be in a position to insist
upon a fair share of earnings from
their labor and without resort to
radical methods now too frequently
employed.
Lloyd George should not be in a
hurry to terminate peace negotia
tions with Ireland. Bickering is a
lot cheaper than fighting.
SMYRNA. BASE OF GREEKS,
IS NOT BUSY AS OF OLD
SMYRNA, Aug. 3—Smyrna, ponce
the greatest commercial mart in
Asia, is now like a city dead. There
is little to show that it is the base
of a Greek army of 200.000. For
months no cargo boats have entered
the narbor. Business throughout Asia
Minor is paaralyzed. Americans con
trol the little trading that exists.
There are three reasons for this
stoppage of business. One is the
war. another is the hopeless hope
less rate of exchange (the Turkish
pound is worth about 65 cents),
and a third is lack of demand for
foreign goods.
As there seems little likelihood of
an abatement of the war between
the Greeks and Kemalists, local
merchants can see little hope of a
revival of Smyrna’s commercial su
premacy. Many of them have left
the place for Italy, England and
America, where they hope to find
greater prosperity.
The city itself is so primative
and unattractive that one wonders
why it has been such a bitter bone
of contention between the Greeks
and Turks for so many centuries.
But of course it is the rich agricul
tural lands within the province of
Smyrna that both sides covet. This
area, which the Turks call the
“Pearl of Asia”, is one of the most
fertile and produces some of the!
finest fruit in the world. Smyrna
• i
fips and raisins are household terms, j
The country also yields the finest
leaf tobacco known. The yearly ex
ports to America amount to millions
of dollars.
The Treaty of Sevres placed'
Smyrna under Greek administration
with the proviso that after five!
years the population mieht express
its preference for either Greek or:
Turk control.
Althoug it has a population of up
ward of 400,000 and is considered
by both Turks and Greeks as one
of the most modern cities in Asia,
Smyrna to the visitor is disappoint
ing: and unattractive. Its narrow,
winding, crudely-cobbled streets give
off an offensive odor. Its drainage
system is deplorably inadequate. Its
transportation and lighting facilities
too, are woefully defective. There is !
only a single tram, and that con-!
sists of a single track, one-horse
line along the waterfront.
Then Smyrna’s hotels are sad
affairs. The most modern of them
is 40 years old. Some of them would
do credit to the smallest town in:
the United States.
When King Constantine came
here, the best accommodations the
authorities could get for him was
a small eight-room terra-cotta house
that any farmer in America would
own. The King and his ministers
were not here two days before they
were almost driven out by bugs and
mosquitoes.
The city has few places of amuse
ment. There are two or three in
different moving picture theaters
and numerous coffee houses. All
over the Near East the “coffee
house” is an institution. Here the
population sits all day sipping
Turkish coffee, drinking cozo (a
dr:nk that tastes like aniseed) and
talking politics.
The natives as a rule are primi
tive. indolent and supertitious. They
carry “conversation beads” to be
guile the time. These they finger
and fumble by the hour. The visitor
might imagine the holders of the
beads were at prayer. Even the
horses wear these curious conversa
tion beads. But in these cases they
are used to keep away, as the na
tives believe, the “evil eye” from
the animal.
COAL MINERS PLAN UNITED
EFFORT TO FIX WAGE RATE
INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 9—Expira
tion of wage agreements of both
anthracite and bituminous miners
at the same time, March 31, 1922,!
gives added weight to wage de
mands to be made at the biennial
convention of the United Mine
\\ orkers of America which opens
in this city on September 20. ac
cording to Ellis Searles, editor of
the union’s official journal.
This simultaneous conclusion of
agreements puts the organized min
ers in their best position in years
to support each other in their de
mands, and John L. Lewis, interna
tional president, is authority for the '
statement that the members will
not permit any reduction in wages.
It has been the custom of the!
anthracite miners to frame their
wage demands and have them adopt
ed by a tri-district convention, com
prising the three anthracite districts
after which they were reported to
the union’s national convention for
approval. This year, hoyever, the
procedure is reversed. Anthracite
delegates to the national convention
will prepare their demands for ap
proval by the national body and
the tri-district convention for ratifi
cation will be he’d afterward. .
in this manner, it is pointed out,
any general policy with reference
to wages that may be adopted by
the national convention will govern
ttie miners in their negotiations in
the anthracite region as well as in
the bituminous coal fields of the
country.
Nationalization of mines and idop
tion of the sis hour day and five
day week will be before the conven
tion. These matters were favorably
reported on at the union’s conven
tion in Cleveland two years ago.
Approximately fifteen hundred del
egates will attend the convention,
according to Editor Searles. Two
years ago there were 2,044 dele
gates. The decrease is due to de
pression in coal industry and desire
3n the part of locals to cut ex
penses. Local unions choose dele
gates on a paid-up per capita basis
but two or more locals if they de
sire, may unite and send one repre
sentative, thereby saving the ex
pense of additional delegates. This
is being done in a number of in
stances.
EXTRA POWER PLANT GIVES
PLANE BIG FLYING RANGE
LOS ANGELES, \ug. 27—An
airplane with two power plants j
:hat may be used together or sep
arately, has been perfected and
successfully flown here, remaining
aloft more than four hours in one
Bight. Aircraft engineers say the
successful application of the alter
native power principle in this plane
will enable it to stay aloft as long
as its fuel capacity will permit, be
cause if one engine stalls, the other
can continue the operation of the
plane until repairs are made.
The same plane also has a folding
wing feature that is said by aviat
ors to be new. The wings are so ar
ranged that they “break” aboi.t the
middle and the ends fold back at
right angles, so that the plane ’-ay
oe towed through a city street, or
even loaded on an ordinary truck
for land transportation. Four lock
pins control the folding feature.
G. Edward Barnhart, a young
aeronautical engineer was the de
signer. Barnhart has been flying
-.nee 1910. He is a junior member
of the American Society of Civil
Engineers and an associate fellow
of the Royal Aeronautical Society
of Great Britain. He has been with
numerous airplane construction con
cerns in engineering work and was
a research engineer for the United
States department of military aero
nautics during the World War.
OLDT1MER MEETS DEATH IN
MINE SHAFT ON NIXON
M’GRATH, Aug. 27—Michael Sul
livan, aged 38, an oldtimer of Daw
son and Fairbanks, met death in a
mine shaft on Nixon Fork on Mon
day. Part of the crossheal fell into
the shaft, striking him on the head.
He died a few minutes after the ac
cident occurred, and the body was
brought here for burial.
Four Men Missing
Four men who left Ruby on July
17, are reported missing. They left
Ruby for Ophir with Buckskin Bill,
who was bringing four horses over
For the Road Commission. The driver
arrived at Ophir safely and re
ported that the others had left him
near Cripple. Some of their dis
carded baggage was found a few
niles from Cripple. The men had
runs with them but very little grub,
rhey are now a month overdue and
t is feared they have perished. One
>f the men was Douglas Meade,
but the names of the others are not
mown here.
Tabs—all sizei
I The News
GERMANS USING BAR SILVER
TO PAY WAR BILL TO ALLIES
NEW YORK. Aug. 10—The G« r
man Reichsbank, knowis under tne
Hohenzollern regime as the Imperial
Bank of Germany, has begun to
build up fresh credits here in antici- j
pation of further reparations pay- j
ments to England and France.
Some 200 cases of bar silver val-;
ued at about $850,000 have been re
ceived here by the Equitable Trust
Company, representing the German
government. It is thought that fully
one-quarter of the August repara- i
tions settlement, which may aggre
gate $20,000,000, will be paid in
silver metal, of which Germany isJ
said to have large supplies.
Reports from abroad state thatj
German bankers find it more advan- |
tageous in the present state of ex- j
change to ship silver to this country j
than to hypothecate the metal at ;
home against foreign credits.
Some of the gold which Germany
is to pay through this market this
month is likely to take the form of
bullion melted down from French
and Russian coin. Germany already
has paid to France much of the gold 1
which she extracted from that
country as part of her indemnity
after the Franco-Russian war ar.d
which for many years was part of
the Imperial government's "war
chest".
George Hunter, Fairbanks clothier j
arrived in town this afternoon from
the coast, having made the trip over
to Anchorage and back by way of!
Broad Pass. He says the work is I
going ahead at a rapid rate now and .
he looks for the early closing of;
the gap between steel, unless unfav- i
orable weather conditions should ]
put a stop to work earlier than is
anticipated.
PARIS. Aug. 27—Peter Cooper
Hewitt, American scientist and in-'
ventor, died here yesterday.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To J. H. Patten, A. H. McNeer, N.
C. Stewart, Roger Sherman and
MaybelC. Sherman, their and each
of their heirs, executors, adminis
trators and assigns:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the sum of one hun
dred dollars ($100.00) in labor and
improvements has been expended
upon the Fox Gulch Association
placer mining claim, situate on Fox
Gulch, a tributary of Platt Creek,
in the Xenana mining and Record
ing District, Alaska, in order to
hold said claim under the provisions
of Section 2324 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States and
the amendments thereto concerning
annual labor upon mining claims,
being the amount required to hold
said mining claims for the year
1920; said labor constituting the
annual assessment work for the year
1920; and if wdthin ninety < 90 >
days after the last publication of
this Notice you, and each of you.
as respective co-owners of said
claim, fail or refuse to pay to the
undersigned your respective propor
tion expended by me for said labor
and improvements legally required
to hold said claim as aforesaid for
the year 1920, together with the
cost of this Notice, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under said Section 2324, Revised
Statutes of the United States.
C. C. HEID
First Publication August 13, 1921
Last Publication Nov. 5, 1921
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LOST—Wishbone stick pin. set with
Pearls. Reward for return to
Cooney Hotel.
POUND—Two keys. Call at A. D.
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WANTED—Ford or other chassis.
George Rich, at Nenana Steam
Laundry.
LOST—Lady's engraved wrist watch
Reward for return to Railroad
Cigar Store.
WANTED—Information as to the
whereabouts of our father, Erik
Hartull; last known address was
Nenana. Communicate with Mrs.
M. Silva and Anna Sof:a Hartull,
836 loth. St., Oakland, California
FOR SALE—Four jackhammers and
fittings; 250 feet of hose; six sets
of steel. All in good condition.
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