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SLWYKD, ALASKA. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1919.
VOI.I MK XIII, M’MBKK 120. __
LON POX. Sent.. -!> The railv «y
systems of the whole country, with
tlu* exception of Ireland. *s »t a »v* ’
plete standstill. The great London ter
minals are deseited with th«* ga’ '>
closed.
There is a not** worthy absence of
disorder due to tin* efforts of the
strike letulei < to preserve peace.
The railway stoppage has begun *o
effect other industries and several
mi<nes and other industrial establish*
meats closed today.
The effect of tiie strike on business
is disastrous. Shops and offices are
being operated only by partial forces.
\ shortage of coal promises to cause
a wholesale closing of factories. Th<*
system of food distribution by mail
has been disorganized but th*» govern
ment hopes to have the system operat
ing* soon.
In view of the widespread effect of
tie strike, the ’ ‘udng newspapers,;
like the Times i.u’lures it more than
a strike ami calls ?i “class war again- I
st the government itself.” I
LONDON. Sep'.. Six hundred
thousand railway men of the London
systems have struck. The government
is to carry mails by areoplanes.
LONDON. Sept.. 2!> The ludvays
arc to be brought under government
management . Parliament may be call
ed to the aid of the ministry to solve
the strike trouble.
LONDON. Sept.. 2!>— Ninety per
M-rt of the Scotch railway workers
have struck.
LONDON-, Sept., W— Motor trucks
are bringing L>od to London. Miss Kl
eaeoe Moowoou is directing the dis
ttihution of the food.
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. ,\STI—STRIKK LAW
• IS IT* IN ALABAMA
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.MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Sept.. 29
• — The Alabama legislature has
• passed the anti-strike law provid
• inc for a fine ol $1000 and a pris
• on term. The hill now goes to the
• governor for his signature.
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FARMEBS OPPOSE
UNIONIZING
OF POLICE
KANSAS CITY. Sept.. 20— Hie In
ternational Farm Congress has passed
a resolution deploring strikes except
in a giave emergency. 'Ihe congress
went on record as strongly opposed to
the unionizing of police.
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BRITISH Ql'lT ARCHANGEL
LONDON, Sept.. 29— The British
evacuation of Archangel was complet
ed today when 200 Highlanders left
England.
TO WELCOME KING ALBERT
WASHINGTON, Sept., 29— As
sistant Secretary of State Long will
welcome King Albert at New York,
upon his arrival . Brand Whitlock and
his wife will accompany the Belgian
party on the tour of the United States,
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PARIS, Sept.. *29— Alarming re
ports are current here that a civil war
imminent in Italy between Social
ists. Nationalists and Militarists. It i
reported several generals are plan
ning heading the militarists as thev
believe the government's weak nos
was caused by the recent deadlock. H
is understood the militarists are »r
league with D’Annunzio. It is also re,
ported the navy is dissatisfied with
the lack of consideration of the»r Ang
lo-French colleagues who act as if
they were masters of the Adriatie.
ROME. Sept.,'29— Stefani ha
in semi-officially denied that Pres
r.t Wilson has demanded D’Annun
zio ho expelled from Fiume, or ever
Pa’v. Stefani says Presioent Wilson
threatened an economic blockade
has sent two dispatches, each without
menace, saying a modification of the
Fiume situation is possible if the bas
ic principles are safeguarded.
PARIS, Sept.. 29-* H is under
here this afternoon the Italian
Chamber of Deputies has gone on re
cord dexpanding that Fiume be mad*
an Italian city. The city is guarded to
day by troons, a dispatch saving Rom*
is virtually under martial law.
KOREW POLICE FORCE
INCREASED BY .1 \ PAN ESI
SEOUL. Sept.. 20— It is announce*
that the nolice force of Japan in Ko
roa is to bo increased from 12,000 tr
i 20,000 . One Korean has been arrester
for throwing a bomb recently at (lo^k
ernor Saito. Five alleged accomplice.5
are held.
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According to an Associated IV ‘ss
disnatch received by the Gateway to
day. the Seattle Times yesterday said
.1. 1.. McPherson, manager of the Alas
ka Uurenu * f the Seattle Chamber o'
Commerce, is being strongly consider
ed for the* appointment of Develop
ment and Traffic Manager of the gov
ernment railroad in Alaska. Mr. Mc
Pherson returned to Seattle la<t Sat*
Ujday from Washington. During the
past syv months Mr. McPherson has
been in Washington preparing esti
anl also aiding in legislation for the
railroad. Mr. McPherson’s position
would he for the purpose of encourag
in'/ traffic over the railroad and to de
\ e’opo the nearby country.
According to the same dispatch, it
i rumored *he John K. IJallaine wants
to take charge of the navy depart
m nts* million dollars tor the develop
ment of the coal mines.
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WASHINGTON. Sept., 29— Presi*
! dent Wilson reached home yesterday
1 and is apparently on the road to re*
1 covery from nervous exhaustion
which ended the speaking tour. IK
Grayson says the President -is doing
as well as expected hut all engage
ments for the near future have been
cancelled, the physicians insisted on a
complete vacation.
President Wilson will not receive
the King and Queen ot Belgium until
they return from the tour of the l nit
ed States.
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NEW YOBK CITY THEN BOSTON
WASHINGTON, Sept., 29— It is
announced that alter his arrival at
| New. York City. King Albert and his
party will visit Boston.
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BLAME PEOPLE
! FORM HIGH
! LIVING COSTS
SEATTLE. Sept., 21)— The Federal
Grand Jury lias repoited disapproving
complaints ot profiteering and hoard
ing and said much of the high cost o*
living ,s due to the w reckless extrava
gaut buying of the public which insists
upon having the best quality of every
thing.
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PREMIER NITTI GIVEN
A VOTE OK CONFIDENCE
ROME, Sept., 29— Premier Nittt
was today given a vote of confidence
by the Chamber of Deputies govern
ment receiving 20S votes.
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HIRAM JOHNSON FRGED
TO SFPPORT TREATY
BY FORMER MANAGER
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept.. 29—
, Chester Rowell, former chairman of
the Republican state committee, and
one of Johnson” campaign managers,
i has sent a wire to Senator Hiram
Johnson urging him to support the
treaty.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept., 2D— The em
plovers and the labor unions are mar
Dulling fences for a determined ef
fort i<» ro-opon many mills. The strike
directors arc trying to rally more
v orkers to their flag and effect a vir
tual paralysis of the industry and the
steel corporation is endeavoring to get
more men to return to work.
These were no disorders in the steel
centers yesterday or up to noon today.
BKTHLKHKM. Sept., 2D— The
strike against the Bethlehem company
was in effect today. There has been no
distui banco and the company says no
employees are missing.
PITTSBURGH, Sept., 2D— The
unions report the strike has complete
ly crippled the Bethlehem plants. The
i power plant is closed. The unions
claim 45,000 men are effected by the
; strike order.
WASHINGTON'. Sept.. 2D- Comp
ers says he predicts a victory for the
i steel strikers.
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GOMPEKS (JIVES Ills SIDE
WASHINGTON, Sept., 20— For
i three hours late Saturday afternoon.
| Samuel Gompers testified before the
Senate committee investigating the
; steel strike. Mr. Gompers said the
paramount issue was the right of em
ployees and also to have some voice in
determining conditions under which
they work.
Mr. Gompers said the Steel corpor
ation strongly opposed the attempt of
the men to associate or organize and
that men were discharged for merely
talking of organizing. The company’s
; detectives dogged the men, said Mr.
Gompers and brutally prevented them
from meeting. He said the men were
in such a frame of mind they could
not postpone the strike until after the
! Wilson labor conference as the Presi
dent had requested.
INVITES THE COMMITTEE
PITTSBURGH, Sept., 20— The Na
tional Steel Workers committee ha**
telegraphed to Senator Kenyon asking
the Senate labor committee to come
here and investigate conditions the
strikers complain of.
TWO MEN KILLED WHEN
TRAIN GOES INTO GULLY
SEATTLE, Sept., 2!)— Two men
| were killed and two dozen seriously
injured when a logging train at Goal
field, a mining town near here, ran
away and vaulted an embankment,
rolling down into a gully. The accident
was due to wet rails.
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OMAHA. Sept.. 20 - William Brown
a negro . was dragged from the three
story county jail at 11 o’clock last
night and hung to an electric ligit*
pole in front of the building.
This hanging followed a nine hour
struggle by an immense mob to secure
Brown.
The Sheriff and his deputies held
the fort on the top story of the court
house building, where the jail is lo
cated. until the building was fired by
the mob. Then the mob rushed up
stairs. seized the negro, dragged him
down stairs and quickly swung mm up
to an electric light pole.
The building soon became a seething
mass of Hames and it was half an hour
afterwards before th** fire was
brought under control.
The police were powerless to pre
serve order and 200b soldiers from tin
nearby forts were rushed hero hut d*d
not arrive until 1 o’clock this morning.
The mob committed many do prod a
tions looting over twenty shops in the
hopes of finding firearms with whim
to use on the negro population.
During the riot, Mayor Kd l*. Smith
narrowly escaped lynching because lu*
demanded that the mob disperse and
go home. The mob had put a tope
around the Mayor’.'? neck but he
rescued by police reserves and taken
unconscious to a hospital.
I Brown, the negro lynched by the
mob, was charged with assaulting .1
white girl. It is said he confessed to
the crime.
Today the mayor’s condition is crit
ical. he not having recovered consci
ousness until eight o’clock this morn
ing.
The city is quiet troops patrolling
the streets.
Resides lynching the negro, the mob
killed an unidentified man and in
jured many persons.
OMAHA, Sept., 20— Fereral ami City
\r i ne\ - are planning to investi
gate and prosecute the men responsi
ble for last night’s riot. The police of
ficials are afraid of a repition of the
liot tonight.
General Wood, commander of the
(Vnt :d Popartmont , is expected here
toldght with more troops.
1: is estimated fifty were injured
!n the riot last night.
According to vario|s reports, negro
prisoners in the county jail surrender
ed Rrown to the mob.
DEMOCRATS TO
GO AFTER THE
WOMEN’S VOTE
ATLANTIC CITY, Sept., 29— The
National Democratic Legislation com- j
mittee adjourned Saturday night after
a discussion of plans as to how best
to reach the 14,000,000 women who
may vote at the next Presidential
election.
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PROMINENT JAPANESE IS
COMING TO ATTEND THE
CONFERENCE ABOUT LABOR
TOKIO, Sept., 29— Eikichi Kama
dn, President of the Keid University,
has been named Chief of the Japanese
to the /International Labor Congress
at Washington, Ten advisors and n
party of 100 other officials will ac
company Kamada to the United Stat
NEW, YORK, Sept., 20— Senator
Miles Pointdexter, of the state* of
Washington, speaking to the Repub
licans of Long Island City Saturday
night, characterized the President as
the world’s greatest menace and the
greatest pro-German in the Country.
“The Reds of the world regal'd him
as a leader. His theories and sugges
tions regarding democratization of in
dustry is encouraging the Radicals to
seek a dictatorship of the proletariat,”
said Senator Poindexter.
japTto go
INTO AIR
TOKIO, Sept., 20— The Japanes*
navy is planning extensive maneuvers
dining October under the Emperor’ i
personal supervision. It is understood
Japan is planning to Spend $125,000,
000 on a four year aviation program.
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