The Nome daily nugget., 1918-02-11

HIS IllOIHluS luuuSlIIstl " OIhcl
 prints a sensational story of what is all
 legged to be a "frame-up" to suppress
 or obtain control of that publicat ton.
 The paper alleges that bunch of po- litical parasites and their spineless
 satellites" are behind the plot and ! roundly dcnounces their alleged ma chinations. Rmor 10 the effect that efforts were being made by n cotere tof .politicians to obtain control of the Worker have been in circulation for some time but could not De traced to any definite source by the represen- tatives of the Nugget
 The earlier reports indicated that the would be controllers of the Miners Union publication were seeking to purchase the Worker.
 Gus INnelA at that time employed as linotype operator in the Worker office, was mentioned as the prospective pur- chaser, but is declared by members of the Miners Union to have been merely a go between for others who are closely associated with tho inner circles of the local Democratic machine.
 Lynell is definitely known to have approached the Union seeking to pur- chase but was informed thatthe In- dustrial Worker was not for sale. The purchase price offered the union is said to have been one thousand dollars down and two thousand at some future time Union members assert that the Lynell packers. having failed in their first efforts to obtain control of the Worker, then plotted to force the pa per to suspend by creating various obstacles to successful publication.
 Whether Lynch was mixed up in this alleged plot or not is not deter mined. Lynell, however, notified the Union a few days ago that he had re- ceived an offer to take a position at some indefinite point, vaguely referred to as "up the river" and announced his intention to leave in a few days. As Lynell happens to be the only lino- type operator in Nome aside from those employed on the Nugget, his re- signation left the Worker in a serious predicament as the inability to secure a substitute rendered 1t practically inn possible for the union to continue pub lication.
 This difficulty was later adjusted, however, by the Nugget agreeing to help the Union out in any manner pos sible. thereby enabling the Worker to appear as usual this morning. Mem bers of the union claim that there is not the slightest doubt that efforts were being made to cause the Worker to suspend publication and declare that the packers of the alleged plot were so sure of their game that they hal 1 already selected a new name for the paper. The morning edition of the , publication designates Seward Penin- sula Advocate" as the title chosen to : head the Worker when it was taken over by what the explanatory article . denounces as Malignant ward heelers and their superficial henchmen."
 Regarding the possibilities of the Worker ultimately falling into the hands of the supposed plotters, mem- bers of the Union aver that 1t was the spirit of the members present at the meeting of Local 2iO, Saturday even- Ing that the plant shall be retained by the union at all costs As one of the speakers is reported to have declared: ''The Union will bust up the plant and throw 1t into Boring sea before it will be turned over to any political gang"