The Daily Nome Industrial Worker (Nome, Alaska) 19??-1918
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
749 issues from 1913 to 1918, published in Nome, Alaska, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Nome Industrial Worker was a weekly newspaper owned and produced by the local 240 chapter of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers in cooperation. It began on July 5, 1907 and was printed on the press of the Nome Daily Nugget. It became a daily beginning on March 1, 1911, with a corresponding title change to become the Daily Nome Industrial Worker.
The paper went through a string of editors from 1917 through 1918. John McGivney, editor for several years, left his position in October 1917 to winter in the lower 48. His replacement, Bruce Rogers, was charged by the government with publishing seditious statements in January 1918. The entire Nome Bar Association was tasked with defending him by the Commissioner, but he was found guilty later that month. The succeeding editor, Martin Kennelly, was also charged with violating the sedition act, as well as contempt of court, in April 1918. Kennelly was found innocent of the charges against him in August after a 15-minute deliberation, but had left his position in July, whereupon John McGivney, who had returned to Alaska, resumed his position as editor in late July.
The paper continued as a daily until 1918 when the increased cost of printing forced both the Daily Nome Industrial Worker and the Nome Daily Nugget to become tri-weekly publications. The Industrial Worker issue on April 29, 1918 explained that both papers arranged to print on alternating days so that combined there would still be a new issue…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Nome, Alaska, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress