PRICE 10 CEN'
SKAGWAY, ALASKA, SATURDAY. JANUARY 18. 1919
FIRST YEAR
No. 275 TWENTY
Labor Congress Calls Ma
tion-wide Strike July 4
To Paralyze All Industry
Believed Strike Wili Be Means Of Se
curing New Trial For Mooney and
Billings Now In Federal Penitentiary!
Chicago, Jan. IS. The Nat.onfl
Labor Congress, wiiih has been i"
session in this city, announced that
It had been decided by that body to
lavor * geueral strike oi" "li affiliat
ed labor unions throughout the I
tion «o begin on July Fotuth. 191y, j
which is designed to paralyse th0 j
industries of the tuition.
This drastic decision on the
part of the N'atU nal Labor congress
is said to have been clie V>ed as a
<noaus of obtaining a new tri:,l for
Aloouev and Billgins.
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Seattle, Jan. IS.- The end of the
week shews but littie improvement
in the influenza epidemic situation
in this city, and the reports from
centers throughout the entire north
west indicates that this condition
prevails pretty miuli all along the
northern tier of states.
The situation seenia to l>e worse
in Oregon and California, and San
Francisco especially is bei:g hard
hit.
San Francisco and other Cali
fornia cities still require that flu
masks he worn by all who go out on
the streets and other public places.
There were eight deaths and one
hundred a'>d six cases reported
Wednesday at the Seattle health of
fice, with nine deaths and- ninety
nine new cases on Thursday, and
twelve deaths and sixty seven • new
cases on Friday.
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Coponharen, Jan. IS.—Autheutic J
information hag bei.il received here
that the Bolshevik government of
Russia, has aiidrsest £< a nctu to
I Cresidi'i.i Wilson iu which that par*
ty states It it will <ease its world j
i wide tiiopaganda provided the Al-i
i lies will permit it to parti'ij-ate in I
! the peace cou^re-s.
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UNEMPLOYED MEN! STOffi BOSTON
GITY HALL AND DEMAND WORK
Boston, Jan. 18. — Hundreds
of unemployed1 men, including three
hundred former chauffeurs of the
army, today stormed: the
city h»U in a demonstration against
unemployment.
Since the signing of the armistice
many -war industries haye ciosea
down *nd the workment dismissed.
They vers brought from all parts
ol the state and adjacent states,
and now find themselves without
means of returning, and there is nt>
work to he had.
Paris, jan. 18. — The Allied war
office announced late yesteiday that
uie time oi the armistice lPd' been
extended for one month.
New terms were imposed on Ger*
many, araone- which was the agree
ment on the part of Germany to
return aU war loot taken in Bsl
giuui and Franca.
The term$ for the renewal also
provides for further extension from
time to time until tho signing of
the peace treaty.
Thj, present extension provides
that Germany not only turn *>ver
her own merchant ^esseis for trans
portation of food to tlie Central
powers but all ships as well which
have been internedin German wat
ers and which embraces a large
fleet of vessels. . j
Berlin, Jan. 18.—Responding to |
a call lor men, volunteer German ai*(
mieg are arriving in Koanigsbuig j
every hour, * |v(
Til© call was made by the gov*
eminent 111 order to repel the ag
gressivc moves of the Bolshevists
towards the east Prussian frontier
The entire eastern Loftier is
declared to be menaced by Polish J
ttnd Bolsheviki armies, while the'
Czechs wiiu an arniv of mi,re th-n
hal 9 million men are also threaten
ing an invasion acco'ding to re*
ports which have been received i*eie
from kretsu.
Washington, Jan. 18. — Chief of
Staff General March announced' to
day that the American forces now in
German occupied territory are to
be reduced at an early date to
the smallest possible numler c°n"
sistent with our national obligation
*o the Allies in sustaining our part
of the military occupation of belli
gerent country.
BRITISH UVT TO STICK iOIIIO
UNTIL PEACE TREATY IS- SIGHED
London, Jan. 18. — Although the
.German navy is practic&lly obliterat*
ed and t he German merchi nit ma
rine is now in the haoads of the Al*
lies to be used in revituaiing fhe
nations whiuh are starving fo.r want
of food, thera is no immediate pros
pect 'hat the British blockade of
German ports, will be relaxed until
after the peace treaty .has been
signed.
CHAS. COUSINS DEAD
A wire to the Whitehorse Star
iroui Victoria, early Wednesday morn
iug announcing the death in that
:ity irorn pneumonia of Chas. Cou
sins, who l'or the past several years
has Uteu working in the shipyards
,n Whitehorse. The newg caused
deep sorrow to the many friends of
the deceased and his late wide who
wag a victim of the Princess Sophia
ivreck. f
The late Mr. Cousins left White*
lirsu for Juneau, Alaska, a few
lays after the catastrophe at Van*
Jerbilt reef, Lynn canal, in which
so many northern people lost their
ives with the hope of recovering
the remains of his wife and taking
them to her former home in Victoria
for burial. Unfortunately the body
3f Mrs. Cousins was not among
those found, and after stopping for
a short tim$ only in Juneau he
departed for the south, where he
remained until the time of his dea-tb
TO BE NAMED FOH-E. O.
HAWKINS
A new Hawkins Memorial EPis-1
copal church Will be built at Cor*
dova, getting its n'ma from E.
C. Hawkins, formerly chief engi
neer of the Copper River & North j
western railway. Mr. Hawkins was J
also chief engineer of construction
on the "White Pass railway. The'
Kenneeott Copper corporation has1
given, $2,500 toward the construc
tion o* the church. *
Ij -ague of Nations Prtv lem
Goes to; International Com. ,
Paris, Jan. 18.—It was decided
thig afternoon that the League of
Natioas problem is to be commit
ted to an interallied commission!
sitting contemporaneously with the ,
peace congress. ^ ^ |
President Pointcaire Calls T
Peace Delegates To Order
Points Out The Duty Whi
Is Theirs And Leaves The
To Mould Peace That W
Make The World Safe
Pa-ris, Jan. 18.—Delegates rep
resenting twenty five nations met at
three o'clock this afternoon for the
opening conference of the official
peace convention. !
The conference Fas convened in
the janioua clock hall at Quai
d'Orsay,
President Polnteaire made tue
opening address. Representatives ol
tne uross of the world were per"
permitted to be present.
Prior to the opening of the
conference, ail undivided delegates
held tfcat the plan for a League of
Nations De given the first place on
the list of topics and that all ques
tions to come before the peace con
gress will be settled before the dele
gates rpresentfng the enemy nations
oe invited to attend.
The work of the congress is be
lieved to have been made easier
through Germany's overthrow of the
Uolshevlki. „ w ^lu.ifcul
President Pointcairo, in his re
marks which he made at the open
ing oi 'Jie peace conference said
in, addressing the delegates from, the
Allied nations:, iH if*!
"You. hold in your hands the fu
ture cf tlie world. I leave you,
gentlemen, to >our grave delibera
tions, and I now declare the con
ference o° Paris open,"
In welcoming the commissioners
to the oeace congress, President
Pointcaire thanked the nations for
having chosen Paris for the confer*
ence. , 'J If,
"Germany," ,]ie said "willed to
rule t'.» world by; iron, and she per
ished by iron.''
The French president paid Presi
dent Wilson, in the name of France,
and .»f all the countries represented
in the conference ball a glowing tri
bute. He lauded the American peo
Pie and praised the Allied troops
and thp armies of the United' States
for finishing their task which was
'Pointed out to them in such a thor
| ougb. manner.
"Th& victory." President I
. caire declared, "was a total vi
, and the delegates present at
conference ought to draw o
this total victory the total c
quences fOr the associate# pc
jTh© unity for war." he conti
:,'ougnt to contLnue to exist in
'unity tor peace. A spirit of ji
| should guide each member of
j conference in their deliberation
President Pointcaiie, in cor
ing said: "In the decisions of
congress rests the honor of al
| tions.
j ."The Provinces of France,
• declared1, "have been transfc
I into battlefields and systerna
! ly wasted by the invader, and
! France has paid the tribute t«
j inanity to the death. Only
j many herself, is to blame for h
■ perisnod miserably by the swor
RUSSIA if 6
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j Paris, Jan. 18. — The op
| prevails among the delegates t
: p«;u<se congress th't Russia
j be represented at the peace
i ference
j PATROL TO WAIT
PT>R SEVERAL 1
Dawson. Jan. 16.—it may 1
week or more before the patrol
away from Dawson for Fort
Phersor, says Colonel Knight
the vaccine for which it Is ws
is supposed to be in the mail T
was due to reach Skagway the
of this week.
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