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The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-06
FORCED TO GO AROUND
 WORLD TO REACH CITY ONLY
 FEW MILES DISTANT

WASHINGTON, July 6. Charles J. Vopicka. American minister tC Serbia, Bulgaria and Rumania, to day is preparing to leave here ir continuation of his globe-trottine trip from Bucharest to Jassy. cities usually nine hours distant. The minister was in Bucharast when not allowed to pass the lines to his station at Jassy. In order to re- sume his duties in Rumania. he found it necessary to cross Austria Hungary and Germany and embark for America. His route now lies across the Pacific and through Si- beria and Russia.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-06
Personal Mention

On board the Princess Sophia this the past several months has been edi tor of the Daily Alaskan. MT Ham mond has left the northern field and is on his way to New York City where he has secured a position.
 Peter Fuhrken, formerly part own CT of the Circle City Bar, accom- panied by his wife, left for the south this morning on the Alki and intend to locate in the States.
 Mrs. S. Zenger left for the south on the Al-Ki this morning and will visit for several weeks in the south
 Pat Lynch, diamond drill con tractor, left this morning for the South on the Princess Sophia, ac- by Mrs. Lynch. They expect to be away for several weeks before returning to Juneau.
 J. J. Price, who has been here for the past several days with Frank Manley, left for the South this morning on the Princess Sophia. He was accompanied by Mrs. Price Mrs. Lockhart and Mrs Everett who accompanied the party north.
 Dr. R. M. Mellor, of Seattle, ar rived from the South last night on the Prince Rupert and is at the Gastineau.
 Mrs. Carl Hall, who has been wis iting in the East, is expected to return to Juneau on one of the next boats.
 Henry Shattuck has returned from Washington Bay where he has been looking after the inteersts of the Chatham Starits Packing Com pany.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-06
UNITED STATES SOLDIERS SING 4
 PLA|NT|VE FAREWELL TO COUNTRY WHEN TRANSPORTS LEAVE HARBORS

her stealthy role, suddenly raised hel
 voice in great horse roar. The
 brazen note died away-a last fare
 well to the sleeping city left behind
 As the sonorous blast died away
 the ships were lost to view. The sound reached back to the forsaken
 piers. where a vast army of steve dores and commissary troops were
 seeking the nearest corners and were
 soon in deep sleep after a thirty-houl fatigue of final preparation. Drowsy officers, bedragged and GOV cred with sweat from their toll, stag gered into waiting automobiles and were whirled away.
 It was in the first days of June that troop trains began to discharge at this port great swarms of men in khiki. Who they were or where they learn. Tents sprang up over night and small camps spread into great tent cities Less fortunate regiments spent more than a week in cars in the railroad yards.
 The men were still on travel ra tions. hard bread, canned beef, sal mon, jam and coffee, for little cooking
 could be done aboard trains
 Relief came soon from the Red Cross, which sent refreshments, but for the most part the men were un
 complaining, too excited with the prospect of active service to be de pressed. no matter how great the hardship.
 But finally to each cars occupants would come the word for which they
 waited-on event generally welcomed by cheer which could be heard for many miles. The order to move generally came at night on less than 20 minutes notice Men were bus tied aboard the cars. the roll called
 the doors sealed. there as the bumr
 of the engine and the slow roll of wheels, a short run and the doors were opened for the men to file
 down the length of the dock and or board ship
 As the troops found themselves ac tually quartered aboard ship their spirits rose perceptibly. The course
 of "setting up exercises was begun immediately to take the kinks ou! of the mems joints.
 While the ships lay at the dock
 the sides of the vessel swarmed with
 painters and mechanics, while night and day the Quartermaster's army Of stevedoers slung aboard ship the mu
 nitions and materials of war thai
 were a part of the expedition. Outside the harbor naval vessel of every description were sweepin the waters for possible mines am building d cordon against submarine
 attack The careful watch was SC for suspicious vessels and severa
 schooners were stopped and searched The sailing of the fleet was ac cOmpished without an inkling of the actual event reaching the residents of the city until the troops had ac tually departed Even then those wht missed the ships at the docks tho following morning did not know wheI the fleet left these waters.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-06
QUESTION OF BOY LABOR DISCUSSED AT MEETING

WASHINGTON, July 6.-Wartime nation is the purpose of two-day convention of the United States Boy Workers Reserve, which opened in the offices of the Council of National Defense here. The vast labor short. age, which. it is believed, will ensue when the draft goes into effect, is hoped to be partially offset by the utilization of America's youth in agri culture and the industries.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-06
SHOULD PLEASE GOD'-POPE

ROME. July 6. The Observa tore Romano publishes an ency- clical letter from the Pope on preaching in churches. The pontiff traces general lines for the preach CTS to follow, indicates subjects, and adds: Sermons should be exclu- sively religious and seek to please God and not man."
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-06
MISSOURI INVADED
 BY STRANGE MALADY
 IS CHILDREN DEAD

ST. LOUIS, July 6.-Sixteen chill dren are dead and four are serious ly ill, while twenty-five others are affected less seriously by a myster-- ious malady that has invaded the town of Gran, in Scott County. Mo. Every doctor in the town and sur rounding country is said to be pug zled as to the nature of the .diseass.o
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-06
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT
 TO PLACE LARGE ORDER
 FOR RAILROAD MATERIAL

PETROGRAD. July 6. - (via Lon don)-The Russian provisional gov ernment has decided to place a con tract in the United States for 10000 railway cars and 5000 locomotives to he delivered in July. 1918.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-06
SUING FORMER GEAR

PETROGRAD, July G. Nicholas Romanoff is experiencing complica tions as a result of his dethronement. The cooks of the Romanoff Palaces have formed a union. hired law yer and are suing the former Czar for loss of employment and non-ful fillment of contract, it became known today
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-06

AN ATLANTIC PORT,-In the cold before-dawn sea drizzle, transports bearing General Pershing's force oi American soldiers silently slipped from their docks and disappeared seaward
 At the mouth of the channel the great fleet of battleships and destroy CTS waited in the darkness to convoy them safely on their way toward France.
 Aboard, crammed in every corner under matches and in closely hung hammocks above decks. were the soldiers, comprising many regiments ' Reports show that the units came from every quarter in the United States All were sunburned, season ed regulars, picked men-and a ma jOrity of them veterans of the Mex ican campaigns. Men clung to rails and rigging like swarms of kahki clad flies; sailors and marines took the gangways on the run in the UT gent business of casting off.
 Field guns lay in the holds; aero planes were packed on upper decks automobiles and motor trucks formed another item.
 No warning signs betrayed the de parture of the fleet to sinister watch CTS. Ghostly tugs and cutters, loaded with special guards, appeared from nowhere" and as inexplieably van ished. Red flare lights made the waters about the piers a charmed circle into which magical craft were seen for but a passing moment Searchlights filtered, hawsers were splashing and the ships, one after the other, were gone.
 One by one they fell in line while tugs circled about like excited ter riers. But a single lonely green lamp on the masthead of each shir betrayed her presence; fog-tinted war paint blended with the river and night sky. Here a signal light flashed internationally, there a snatch of subdued song was heard across the summer waters from a crowded deck, plaintive farewell to the home land
 The last transport-her name care fully painted out and her lines care fully disguised by false rigging joined the procession. For a mo ment her outlines were clear against the pail of light and smoke that hung above the piers as over the mouth of some titan furnace. Then she became an indistinct mass in the shadows of the stream.
 Propellors thrashed with rythmie joy as the fleet headed into the open sea to face the perilous U-boats. The foremost of the fleet forgetful oi
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-06
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
 OF FOURTH WILL MEET

A meeting of the Fourth of July Executive Committee will be held tt the City Hall Sunday afternoon t which time all bills contracted by hem will be audited and ordered ,aid. The bills which have already been paid will be audited and the ac count gone over. The balance left will be turned over to the local Red Cross.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-06
Steamer For Sale.

Steamer Alice" wooden hull, length 61.6, breadth, 16.2, has an s S%x16x12 compound condensing engine, new Scotch marine boiler, all pumps and other equipment in good working order. For further particulars inquire of Geo. E. James Co.,, Douglas, Alaska. If
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-06
CHICAGO UNIT LEAVES.

LONDON, July 6. The Chicago Red Cross unit has left for France, where it will take over hospital of 500 beds. The unit numbers nearly 200 persons. It was headed by Ma jor Collins.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-06

Uncle Sam is justly proud of his marines. Always the first to respond when danger threat ems, the record established by these doughty sons is we'll merited. Recruiting in this branch of the United States service has been brisk recently. The accompanying pictures show these able defenders of America's cause. busily en- gagged in real defensive war manOeuvres.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-06
COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT

Tonight the regular meeting of the City Council will be held and mat ters of routine business will come up for discussion It is understood floats will come up for final settle ment as several of the council mem bers feel that the proposition should be attended to at once.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-06
REVENUE CUTTER WILL HANDLE REGISTRATION
 OUT TO WESTWARD

Word was received today by Act that the Coast Guard ship Unalga will leave Valdez on the 18th of July and make a tour of all West ward canneries, including all will lages on the Aleutian Peninsula and Bristol Bay for the purpose of regis tcring all residents of those places.
 Old papers for sale at The Empire office, Second and Main streets.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-06
Huge Boats Loaded with Troops Slip. from the. Docks in the Early
 Morning Hours.
DISAPPEAR TO SEAWARD
Units Came from Many Different Parts of United States
 for Service

(The following story was writ ten at the time of the depart ure of the first contingent of American troops for France from an American port and has been held under voluntary censor ship until the War Department at Washington gave permission for it's publicaton.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-06

Phone it to The Empfre. No. 374.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
GENERAL STAFF
WOULD PIN ITS
ROSE ON ALL

/ Observation-Disclosures little mar
ought to be a good littfa s0ddier
thinks the United States army's gen.
eral staff, and it has drawn little
bill to put little miIitarism in every
little home in the country.
The general staff recently present.
ed it's bill to the Senate committee or
military affairs, and the fight is on.
Is this to be nation of soldiers OF
isn't it?
The bill provides six months of mil
itary training for every able-bodied
male during the year in which he
reaches the age of 10.
And General Scott says that six
months training will make mice sol
diers" out of young Americans.
What is more, persons and corpora
tions that attempt to defeat the pur-
poses of the law, by employing eligi-
bles who have not undergone the
training, will be punished under the
terms of the bill.
One of the provisions of this little
bill is for the tagging of every per-
son after training. Each young man
upon completing his six months
training, will have a little rosette
| pinned on him, and this he will be ex-
pected to wear on his citizens clothes
1t will show the year of his training
Certain usual exemptions from ser.
vices are provided for.
1t is expected that this bill will be
the focusing point for the struggle
between the militarists and imperial.
lists and the anti-miitarists before
Congress this winter. The militarists
are going to go the limit to saddle the
country with bayonets and high ex'
plosive ammunition.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
BILL TO NATIONALIST
ALL FRENCH MINES UP

PARIS.-A Dill proposing the ma
tionalization of mines has just been
presented to the French Chamber of
Deputies. This measure provides that
the exploitation of mines shall be ex-
clusively reserved to the government;
that no further mining concessions
shall be granted, and that concessions
already granted but unexpected shall
revert to the state.
The mining concessions that are in
active operation must be transferred
TO state management within six
months after the PRONUNCIATION Of the
proposed law, the government to pay
for the buildings, the equipment and
the existing material at an inven-
toried price determined jointly by
representatives Of the government
and representatives Of the mine own
ers. Payments will be made in credit
instruments to be amortized as rapid
ly as possible by the net yield of the
mines thus brought under government
management.
The law further provides for The
appointment Of :. commission to sett.e
all disputes and controversies grow
ing out Of the scheme Of purchase.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
LABOR DISPUTES
GAIN in NUMBER,
SAYSU. REPORT
Federal Department Finds 1916
Strikes Outnumber 1915
by Three to One

Observation-Disclosures to data
compiled by the United States Depart
ment of Labor, the number of strikes
and lockouts during the six months,
March to August, 1916, inclusive, was
2,006. The number during the CORE
spending months of the year 1915 was
6sS.
There were 3S5 strikes and lockouts
concerning which information was re-
ceived by the bureau during August.
These include, in addition to the 22S
strikes and lockouts which began in
August, 104 strikes and lockouts re-
ported during the month, but which
began earlier.
In 1876 strikes and s lockouts the
employees We're connected with unions;
in 10 strikes and 1 lockout they were
not so connected; in Z strikes they
were not connected with unions at the
time of striking, but became organ
ICED during the course of the strike;
in the remaining 124 strikes it was
not stated whether the strikers had
union affiliation or not.
In 1872 of the strikes the number of
persons involved was reported to be
15S, 293, an average of S24 per strike.
In 33 strikes in each of which the
number involved was over 1000, the
strikers numbered 27,100, thus leav-
ing 31,193 involved in the remaining
159 strikes, or an average of 1876 in
each. In lockouts the number re-
ported to be involved was 4,063, rang
ing from to $500 in each.
In 90 strikes reported as ended in
August, 25 were won, 10 lost, 81 COM
promised; in the strikers returned
to work under promise of the employ
er to arbitrate the matter in dispute;
in 20 the result was not reported
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
WILEY FAVORS
CITY MARKETS

WASHINGTON, D. CDR. Harvey
W. Wiley, "the man who purified the
American table," came out for NUM-
cipal and state control of food sup
plies.
"The people must take this thing
into their own hands," DR.. Wiley de-
clared. Federal control has failed so
far to answer the purpose. Food sup
ply is too vital matter to be banded
about by INSCRIPTIONS spectators
and laxity of Federal administration.
"The total disregard of food dealers
of the existing cold storage and other
food laws and the criminal laxity in
administering these laws indicates
the people must look to other meas
ures for their protection"
Decrying the widespread misrepre-
sentation of cold storage for fresh
eggs in open market, DR.. Wiley ex-
claimed: "Why, l myself, could run
this thing down. Where are the Fed
eral food inspectors? And where are
the men higher up who are supposed
to administer these laws for the peo-
pies protection?"
DR.. Wiley's plan contemplates the
taking over by municipal authorities
of all food supplies and the dispensing
of them to the consumers at treason
able price"
Each community" he explained,
"would provide itself with sort of
clearing house for it's daily food. The
price manipulation would not have a
look-in. And it's coming to just this
thing"
DR.. Wiley declared the American
cook "the most wasteful domestic on
the face of the earth" He urged
5t,icter economy in the kitchen.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
PORTUGALNNEAR
REVOLT OVER WAR
People Starving and Coal Short
age Shuts Industries-Fi-
nances in Chaos.

MADRID -- Portugal is facing a
famine, and industrial and financial
conditions are daily growing worse. 1t
is estimated the present wheat stocks
will hold out only until the end of
February.
The lack of raw materials and the
coal shortage also are contributing to
feeling of unrest. Opposition to
the war is openly asserting itself.
The financial embarrassment of the
government is an open secret, army
contractors are clamoring for the pay
ment of bills, while the shortage of
funds is leaving the public payrolls un
met. The troops are mutinous.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
STEAM ROLLERED

The Democratic Republican House
of Representatives steam-rollered as
flat as a pancake the demand of the
Federal Employees unions for 20
per cent salary raise for government
employees receiving less than 1900 a
year and 10 per cent raise for those
receiving between $1,000 and 1900.
The Federal Employees amendment
was presented by Representative
Heating when the House resumed con-
sidelation Of the legislative, executive
and judicial appropriations bill as a
substitute for the salary boosting
amendment offered by the committee
or appropriations. The committee
amendmendment proposed a 10 per
cent increase for employees receiving
less than $1,000 a year and a 5 per
cent raise for those receiving between
81 200 and $500.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
u. s. DEPT. OF LABOR
SCORES THUGS IN STRIKES

WASHINGTON. - Marshaling of
EARNED thugs to quell labor disputes"
was denounced as a menace to the ma
tons industrial peace and prosperity
in the report of the Department of
Labor to Congress.
If local and state forces cannot
cope with strikes call in the Federal
government, advised the report.
Labor's organization is indispensa-
BILE to attainment of economic import
ance, the report said. Secretary Will
son expressed satisfaction over the
general disposition of employers to
recognize workmen's right to bargain
collectively for better wages" He
said Investigations prove that fair re
lations are maintained under such cir
cumstances, and that unionization of
labor FASTENED to raise the standard
of citizenship.
The report emphasized the good re-
suits that have been accomplished
TIN ough mediation in settlement of
labor disputes. The report cites las
cases out of 1913 controversies being
solved by mediation during the past
year.
The Secretary urges public home
stead lands be dealt out to men out
of work and renews his recommends
ton that a larger employment bureau
be established under control Of The
department.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
HERE'S SLAM AT
LABOR BY HOUSE
Department Appropriations Are
Slashed in Congress-ROll
Workers Over to Finish

The Democratic majority in the
House of Representatives showed its
sympathy for the working people by
Gripping the department of labor in
stingy little appropriation of $685.
120 carried in the legislative, execu-
tive and judicial appropriation bill.
Comparisons are sometimes odious,
although instructive.
The department of commerce is the
recognized governmental agency de-
voted to the interests of the capitalist
class, which thrives on the exploita-
ton of the working class.
The department of labor is the rec
ognized governmental agency devoted
to the interests of the working class
and their efforts to regulate the eX-
ploitation to which they are subjected.
The Democratic House of Represen-
tatives appropriated $3,735,430 to be
expended by the department of com
merce in the interest of the exploiters,
and doled out 1874, 120 to be expended
by the department of labor in the in
terest of the workers.
The committee on appropriations
denied practically every increase de-
manded by Secretary of Labor Wilson
and his associates for the increased
efficiency of the department of labor,
The bureau of labor statistics and
the immigration bureau were denied
by the committee on appropriations
the increases which every bureau
chief declared are absolutely neces-
sary if the bureaus are to do the work
which the development of capitalist
industry imposes upon them.
And the Democratic majority in
the House of Representative approx
ed the parsimony manifested by the
appropriations committee.