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The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-03

ing up to 100 percent for butter and nearly 200 percent for eggs. The paper states that the cost of transportation has increased. The production of coal is asserted to have declined from 190,000,0O0 tons a year before the war to TO- 000,0O0 tons in the first year of the revolution. This is notwith- standing an increase in the number of persons employed in the mining industry, exclusive of war prisoners who now have been sent back to France and Belgium.
 Debts and taxes are declared to be steadily growing into an un- bearable burden for the taxpayer. The paper asserts that Germany's debts will aggregate on April 1, 1920, 212,0O0,00O,0O0 marks, ex- elusive of the debt to the Entente. The deficit of the Prussian railroads for the first year of the revolution is declared to total at least 3,963.- OO0,0OO marks.
 In conclusion, the paper warns the people of Germany that they must pay for these achievements of the revolution"
The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-03
Departnsnt of the Istsrior AsAskAa Essiaeerinx Commis.io,
NOTICE

Passengers are required to pur chase ticksss before entering trains.
 Tickets lean be purchased from the statioh agent, whose office is in the emplo osment office, on the ground floor of Ae General Office Building. Alaskan Engineering Commission, or at Camp 4l5 North Nenana).
 Tickets will be on sale at any time during office hours, and can be purchased in sufficient time before the departure of the trains.
 Regular trains for the south leave the foot of A street on Wednesdays and Saturdays at a. m., and from Camp 415 North Nenana). for Fairbanks, Tuesdays and Fridays, at p. m.
 The following is the schedule be tween North Nenana and Fairbanks, subject to change without notice:
 Leave Fairbanks at 7:00 a. m. arrive North Nenana, II 80 a. m. { Leave North Nenana 200 p. m arrive Fairbanks, 5:30 p. m.
 No tickets will be sold crossing the river. Those intending to tray el to Fairbanks must make their own arrangements for reaching North Nenana.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-03
MEXICAN CAPITAL
 |SS|LENT PLACE
 BEFORE MIDNIGHT

MEXICO CITI.-Mexico City is "a quiet place after dark. Business of practically every sort stops promptly at o'clock at night, when doors are bolted and heavy steel curtains are drawn over the entire front of the buildings. Avenida Francisco Madero, the main thor oughfare. dimly lighted at the best, looks like blind alley after 8 o'clock and is enlivened for a few moments only when. shortly after midnight, the theater crowds hurry home. There is but little after theater life here. Saturday nigh. offers an exception. for two cafes are open then for dancing and drink ing, with foreigners for the most part the patrons.
 The human owls of the United States who turn night into day will find it difficult to believe that Mexico City, which has a population ap- proximating 100000, has no all- night restaurants, and that after , o'clock in the morning it is next to impossible to buy so much as cup of coffee. The "open day and might" cafe is unknown here. and early risers or late retirers face the alternative of carrying a pocket lunch or of finding one of the two outdoor lunch stands that cater to that distinctive class of night work men. the newspaper printers. These two 'pueblitos," as they are called, consist merely of makeshift tents which cover a few boards serving as tables and chairs. They open for business at o'clock a. m., and by 2 o'clock are hauled down. Here one may buy coffee, tamales, tor tillas and meat highly favored with chili.
 Mexico City is not what might be called a "good restaurant town" Although the capital of the repub- lie. it is not as we'll supplied with places to eat as Vera Cruz, which has only one-twenty-fifth the popu- lation. The commercial lunch is al- most unknown here, for the reason
The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-03
COST OF REVOLUTION.

Results of the first year of the revolution in Germany are sum- marized by the Socialist Monthly (BerlinD as comprising a decline in the value of the mark, increase in the cost of living, decreased produc- tion of coal, and steadily mounting public debts. The paper casts a balance for the year in a bitter and sarcastic vein.
 It points out that the mark has declined in value within the year from 72 Swiss francs to 2O.25 cles of food showing increases rang
The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-03
INDUSTRIAL PEACE.

mere can De no permanent in- dustrial peace that is not based on industrial justice, Secretary of La bor Wilson declares in his annual report to Congress, made public re- gently. Reviewing the present dis turbed industrial situation. the sec retary said the means had been found for regulating all the other relations of mankind and that hu- man intelligence could find the meth cd of adjusting the relationship be- tween employer and empIoye with justice to both
 Declaring that just as interna- tional wrongs might reach point making war a necessity. so indus trial wrongs might accumulate until they provoke an industrial conflict. the secretary said the stability of industrial relations rested on mutual counsel.
 Just as the peace of nations is promoted by frank and friendly in tercourse," he said, ''so may the peace of industry be maintained by the same methods. But this inter course cannot come about unless there is first recognized the right of collective bargaining The public interest demands that it be univer- sally recognized, for the primary interest of the public is in peace.
 ''The denial of organization is a denial of the only means of peace able settlement that the wage earn CTS have"
 Calling attention to the present prominence of labor organizations of d revolutionary or iawless type, the secretary declared that the re- sponsibility for them must fall upon the employer who opposes the or ganization of lawleSS trade unions. More and more do industrial dis putes menace the public as well as employer and employe. the secre tary said. adding that the right to strike should be a means of de- fense and not weapon of offense.
 "The right of any man to cease working for another for any reason that is sufficient to himself is the basic element of human liberty" he said. "The right of any person to refuse to operate his plant at any time he desires to do SO is the ex- ercise of a property right guaran- teed by the Constitution. It does not follow that because these rights exist it is necessary to exercise them. They must nevertheless be safeguarded.
 Turning to the question of the high cost of living. the secretary said increased wages did not all ways bring the desired relief. In creased productivity. making more material available. for wages and taking the means of increased com pensation out of the profits of the employer, was the only way in which the standard of living of the wage earner could be improved, he de- clared.
 Reviewing the activities of the various bureaus of the department, the report said 254,27s aliens came to American shores during the fiscal year ended June 30. and that 245,- 647 of them were admitted and 8,626 excluded. The number ad- mitted the year before was 211,853. Aliens departing during the Last fiscal year numbered 216.231, as
The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-03

against 193,26s the year before. | During the last seven years the
 bureau of immigration estimated
 that 36 aliens lefs the country for
 every 100 admitted.
 : Aliens admitted during the past year were in possession of sums of money aggregating s15,S31,247, an
 average of SIP per person. Aliens expelled under department Ial process during the year num- bered 3,O6S, compared with 1,569 in 1918. The total number of aliens deported, including those refused ad- mission and B. Chinese deported under the exclusion laws, was Ill.,
 FPS, as against s,916 in 1918.
 The number of admissions to cit
 izenship during the past year was
 larger than any preceding year,
 amounting to 217,358," the report
 said. Leaving out of consideration
 the year 1918, this was a far great
 CT number than was admitted in any
 two years during Federal super
 vision. Military statistics show 12s,-
 336 aliens who acquired citizenship
 after they assumed the uniform of
 the United States"
 The United States employment
 service at the end of the war had $50 offices with personnel of
 l,700 and an administrative force at
 Washington of 300. During the Ieleven war months of 1918 the service placed 2,69s,ss7 persons in employment out of a registration of '3.G75,s5s. .:.-.... .:... Persons directly affected by labor disputes brought to the attention of the department during the year numbered l,O11,96S, while the num- Der indirectly affected was 1,336,- l072. During the year the depart ment assigned commissioners of con- .ciliation to 1,780 cases, including 5o7 strikes, LIS disputes and threatened strikes, 63 lockouts, and IF walkouts. Of these, 1929 were adjusted, exclusive of 219 referred to the National War Labor board. The commissioners failed to make settlements in III cases.
 l Strong recommendation for the .reviving and continuing of the work ing conditions service, which was in- stituted during the war to investi- gate working conditions and to rec ommend standards for their im- provement, were made by the secre- tary.
 He also urged legislation for the continuation of the U. s. training service. Tt is believed" he said, that increased skill on the part of the workers, and its consequent stimulus towards greater production, is even more important in peace
 than in war
The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-03
OF THE INTERIOR ALASKAN ENGINEERING
 COMMISSION

Office of the Townsite Manager.
 Nenana, Alaska, Dec. 2, 1919. Notice of Delinquency in the Pay mert of Assessments on the Fol- lowing Lots, NenanA IoMn.ite:
The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-03

If the above assessments together with 10 per cent. penalty are not paid on or before January 1, 1920, the lots will be reported for for feiture, and title revert to the Gov ernment according to Circulars Nos. 45S and 554.
 CARL SCHMIDT, kJ-2 Townsite Manager.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-08-06
The Union" Laundry
Is EnjOined By Court

In the early part of this week
Judge Aston, in the superior court,
issued temporary injunction against
Archie Reid, Noyes and Roy Stod-
dard and Carl Peterson, recent al
legged purchasers of the Union Laun-
dry. The court will hear arguments
in the case tomorrow.
The temporary injunction restrains
the defendants from interfering with
routes No. 2 and No of the
Laundry Service Company.
The defendants were formerly en-
ployees of and two of them, the Stod-
dard brothers, were and are stock
holders in the Laundry Service Com
pany, and one of them was secretary
of the company. Archie Reid was
formerly superintendent and later
foreman in the laundry.
These men quit without notice and.
1T is alleged, purchased the Union
Laundry with the aid of a well
known laundry operator in this city.
These men went out on the two
routes named, which they had been
serving and literally "swiped" the
trade, it is claimed, hence the in
junction.
This looks like queer way of do.
ing business.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-08-06
Loyal Legion
Works II Hours

From Timberworkers page in
Union Record of last Saturday:
Eve stand solidly for the eight
hour day." shouts the Loyal Le-
gion, the war baby of the lumber
lords of the northwest. But recent
developments Indicate that their feet
are slipping and slipping badly. Oh,
no, they are not working 10 hours,
but II in the city of Bellingham at
the plant of the Earliest -Cleary Lum-
Der Company, they are working u
hours per day. 1t is claimed by
some of the men who are working
there that they are getting IA hours
pay for the II hours work. But those
making that claim are known as
consistent strike-breakers, so not
very much faith is put in their
claim that they are getting the extra
money.
They also claim that an "emer-
gency" exists. According to Four
L rules no overtime is paid for
emergency" work. The fact of the
matter is that they are deliberately
playing the employers game to get
back to the 10-hour day. A few
weeks work at y hours per day
will make a 10-hour day look pretty
short to bunch that knows no bet
ter than to work II hours per day
And where do they get this "emerg-
ency" dope? The price of lumber
is down, cars are short and there is
a general slump in the condition of
the industry. Their claim will not
hold water; it is about as valid as
most of the claims they make-they
mean nothing.
The Four-L claims 100 per cent or
ganization in the Earles- Cleary mill.
We have been informed quite recent
ly about some nice ice cream parties
that have been held up there, Per-
haps it was at one of those parties
where the emergency" first develop
ed. If it was not for the fact that
quite a large number of men in the
timber industry of the Northwest do
stand for an eight-hour day, and will
fight to keep it if they have to, who
would have to suffer with those who
only put up a smoke screen to hide
the real issues, would say give the
suckers" ~ hours twice a day. They
could not stand it very long and
would soon have to give way to real
men,.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-08-06

The county conventions Of the
NOnpartisan League, the Committee
of AZ, and the Triple Alliance met in
the Labor Temple last Saturday.
The get-together whistle blew and
the harmony bell rang.
The three groups assembled in
joint session an dorganized by the
election of Charles f. Brewer, of
the Railway Mems Welfare League,
the Triple Alliance and Nonpartisan
League, it's chairman, and Miss
Gladys Maloney, secretary of the
Snohomish County Triple Alliance,
its Secretary.
The first order of business after
organization was the hearing of re-
ports from delegates to the Yakima
convention.
The report of the Triple Alliance
delegates was read by the secretary.
The report showed that a spirit of
harmony prevailed in the Yakima
conventions. (See report together
with platform and legislative pro-
gram adopted by the conventions.)
A. G.. Ziebell made a verbal report
for the Nonpartisan League. He
said that if the Nonpartisan League
should be defeated at the primaries
it's members would go down the line
for the Triple Alliance nominees.
Mr.. Ziebell said the report of the
Triple Alliance, read by the secre-
tary, was substantially correct.
The Nonpartisan League and the
Committee Of 48 then retired for sep
arate conferences.
The Triple Alliance was then called
to order and retained Chairman
Brewer and Secretary Maloney as
its permanent officers.
A Conference Committee Dele
gates Morgan, Breslin and SMITH
was appointed to confer with like
committees from the Nonpartisan
League and Committee of 48.
The Nonpartisans instructed their
committee, but the Triple Alliance
and "48" committees were unin-
structed.
While waiting for the report of
the Conference Committee Mr.. E. c..
Daley gave the convention legal in
formation on the State election laws.
Several well timed speeches were
made by men and women delegates,
all favoring a stick-together senti-
ment as a means of rectifying the
rotten conditions which have grown
like noXious weeds in our political
system.
The Conference Committee re-
ported the Triple Alliance and Com
mittee of as favored the third party
idea, but the Nonpartisan League
members of the committee voted to
go into the republican primaries.
However, there was a probability of
the League changing its position.
Delegate A. G. Ziebell then entered
the hall and stated that the League
had, after hearing the report of it's
committee, changed its position and
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-08-06
CHURCH MEN
JUSTIFY GREAT
STEEL STRIKE

NEW YORK, July 31.-Workers
in the steel industry were justified
in their nationwide strike, last
year, according to commission APP
pointed by the Interchurch World
Movement that has just made public
its report.
The report says that unless vital
changes are brought to pass a re-
newal of the conflict in this industry
seems inevitable"
The report is a flat contradiction
to the publicity campaign of indus
trial autocrats and their supporters
that this, strike was the forerunner
of a revolution and was instigated
by "bolsheviks."
Charges of bolshevism or of in
dustrial radicalism in the conduct
of the strike" says the report, "were
without foundation"
1t is declared that the steel COM
panies have most effectively de-
tered men from joining labor or
ganizations. The workers griev-
ances were of long standing, it
showed, but had found no express
sion because "they were limited
largely to foreigners of many races
and languages without industrial
tradition, education or leadership to
organize"
A general summary of the find
ings of the commission showed the
fundamental grievances to be: Excess
sive hours, the boss system, no right
to organize or to representation.
The remedies desired were: Shorter
day and week with living wage;
representation and conferecne; end
to the boss system which so often
subjects common labor to petty
tyrannies and right to unionize and
a substitution of industrial democ-
racy for industrial autocracy.
GAIL the conditions that caused the
steel strike continue to exist" it was
stated. "We feel that unless changes
are made approximating in some
degree the findings here presented
another strike must come. In the
measure that working men become
intelligent and Americanized, will
they refuse to labor under such con-
ditions."
"The arbitrary control of the steel
corporation extended outside the
plants, affecting the workers as
citizens and the social institutions in
the communities.
"The steel industray was under the
domination of a policy whose aim
was to keep out labor unions. In
pursuit of this policy, backlists were
used, workmen were discharged for
union affiliation, 'under-cover men
and labor detectives were employed
and efforts were made to influence
the local press, pulpit and police
authorities.
"Tn western Pennsylvania the civil
rights of free speech and assembly
were abrogated without just cause,
both for individuals and labor or
ganiza tions. Personal rights of
strikers were violated by the state
constabulary and sheriffs' deputies.
Federal authorities in some cases,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-08-06
REGISTER {!

The Registration Books will
be open at the office of the
City Clerk in the City Hall
every Monday night from 1880
to 900 o'clock, and every other
day during the week except
Sunday during regular business
hours. If you are a good citi-
zen you will register so that you
may vote at the primaries on
September IA.
If you want to take part in nom
mating candidates whose names will
be on the official ballot you must
cast your vote at the primaries. You
have no right to complain of unsat-
isfactory political conditions, unless
you exercise your privilege of voting.
If you do not vote you will have
no more voice in your government
than an alien.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-08-06
UNITED WE WIN"
A Call for All Workers tt
Join the
Farmer-LabOr Party

To the Farmers, Railway and Trans
nortation Workers, Trade Union
lists and Sympathizing Friends:
Greeting: AT the State Conven.
lion of the Triple Alliance, held re.
emily at Yakima, it was decided tc
.hange the rame of the organization
% Farmer-Labor Party, and to call
state convention on Primary Day
September 18th to nominate candi'
lates for congressional, state, legisla-
live and county officers, under the
uame of Farmer-Labor Party.
This change of name and policy
is now being voted on by the men,
oers of the Triple Alliance, and the
result of the vote will be announced
from state headquarters on August
Is. There can be no doubt as to how
the members will vote, as several OF
our county organizations have al
ready held meetings and there is
practically unanimous sentiment for
the creation of the new Farmer
Labor party.
Several county conventions of the
Nonpartisan League have been held,
at WHICH Cic pOiiSJ VI liCih oSoSS
convention to support candidates in
the Republican Primaries has been
disapproved, and the farmers have
declared for the Farmer-1abor party,
and a separate ticket for the fall
election. Many members of the rail
way organizations have also an
nounced allegiance to the Farmer
Labor party.
Several of the most prominent can
didates named for state offices by
the Nonpartisan and Railwaymen'
Welfare Leagues have publicly de-
clared that they will not file in the
Republican Primaries and favor the
nominating of Farmer-Labor ticket
on Primary Day.
These events prove that the over
whelming sentiment of the producers
and workers of this state is for a
separate and distinct political organ
ization from the old parties, and
that they will rally to united sup
port of the Farmer-Labor ticket.
AS soon as the result of the Triple
Alliance referendum vote is known
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-08-06

rageous and indefensible price of
$11 to $12 per ton f. o. b. the mines.
The American public is being sand
bagged by these daring commercial
vandals who stagger beneath their
| loot"
Lewis intimated it may be neces-
sary to call a strike of 100000 min
ers in the central bituminous dis
trict in order to protect their rights.
G. F. McGee, former State fuel
administrator of Minnesota, told the
Senate committee that the shortage
of coal in his part of the country is
100000 tons compared with last
year. This coal must be brought by
lake carriers and unless it is trans
ported to lake ports soon that great
region will be without fuel when
winter closes the lake transporta-
tion.
President May Intercede
A committee of shippers and con-
sumers from the West came to
Washington last week and urged
President Wilson to intercede and
exercise his war authority in reliev-
ing the situation. 1t is announced
that the President is studying the
situation and receiving reports from
Government agents. Upon authority
of the President, Secretary Tumulty
sent kilograms to the governors of
North Dakota, South Dakota, Min
nesota and Wisconsin, assuring them
everything that can be done in this
vital matter is being done, and that
coal in sufficient quantities for needs
of their respective communities will
be delivered. From this it may be
inferred that the President is pre-
pairing to take some drastic action
to relieve the present transportation
breakdown.
Attorney General Palmer announc-
ed that he had called a conference
in New York for Tuesday of this
week to consider the coal situation.
He asserted that the coal operators
are chiefly responsible for the excess
sive coal prices and unrest among
the miners, and that the coal opera
tors are obtaining much higher prices
than was expected when the wage
scale was made. The Attorney Gen
eral wired a number of leading coal
operators to attend the New York
conference.
COnciiiatOrs in the Field
Hugh L. Kerwin, chief of the Con-
ciliation Service, Department of La
Dor, has assigned two Government
conciliators to the Illinois district.
They are William H. Rogers and
John J. Walsh. 1t was said that
third conciliator, probably John B.
Lennon, would be sent to Illinois this
week This action was taken upon
the request of President Wilson in
an effort to check the spread of the
present strike into other parts of
the central competitive field, includ-
ing Indiana, Ohio and western Penn
sylvania.