The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 18, 1917, Page 1

| $S30333533359 stoshesstossst sess test ssssstssss GIVE A LIFT 'f you've got an automobile, see that it’s full all the time. The man who would pass up a pedestrian during a street car tie-up ought to live in Prussia : fi -si sss spsstostotssssssssstsssissstess oo3535255055553352052305533523393535 5501 ‘Tells How Family With on Inadequate Wage Pa by Traction Company. By Echo June Zahl it Children Struggles to Live § G 3REATEST DAILY CIRCULATION ‘OF ANY “NEWSPAPER. "IN. ‘PACIFIC NORTHWEST } SEATTLE, WASH., VOLUME 19 At left, Edward McMorrow of Chicago, international organizer for the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway E ming, and pictures at sides show makeshift auto truck jitneys hauling folks to and from their work. At the right is Jam ECHO ZAHL SEES ‘Stand by the Striking CARMAN'S HOME HE TRACTION COMPANY has in- serted advertisements in the news- papers today stating that “Seattle walks because seven Tacoma carmen lost their jobs.” That is not the reason for the Seattle street car strike. The refusal of the Stone-Webster cor- poration, thru Manager Bean, of the Ta- coma company, to take back the seven [Tacoma men who were fired because they joined the union, was only the spark that touched off the magazine. 4 id Debyin army of 1,600 street car mes Every one in Seattle knows the real who ha 1¢ out on strike, there move: ? another army that is far t vitally con reason why 1,600 employes of the company cerned men are eior. | are on strike in this city. Hei tiie ay Sree | It is because they insist upon their bands conditions are | | American right to organize, so that they scilieaed ae Caacanes Sar. tetra | may get decent working conditions and themselves living wage. ns No amount of bunk, and beating about naceave’ i i, the bush, can change the issue. - 8 8 8 oe ® Westerd el VERY Seattle citizen, every Seattle I pe chind business man, every person except Be the fi osiehins that little handful which believes in the Tt seemed > Bei “aie the trainmen in this strike. of a hill . id, as she asked t f the | that ye e was Mrs. Stiff, wife I tiff, a on the Faur y line Or i om lay two little flaxen-| | haired e¢ them | vi I at the tw eepin ddie | ( 1, me 1 {r | maller one 1 1ocr pple he ve ittle t ed leg ere the t The strike among lumber ha ad 1 take it and pu i pine I thr workers of the state wes spread Peaceful picketing is today h cot the rder that mig Ing. raplely. sven ere) “so | | under the ban in the state of o* i at, in er tt c ©| 47,000 men out and operations about at a | suspended in some of the larg Wan NtGRe tS re alan ri I mur 1, and I think she caught the| est mills of the state, and more mn a_ sensationa m : | trill acceding to the demands placing Washington In a unique pare ot ‘ ve . | position among the states of “Tt ne ghed hy, 11 b and a gir ft thie statement was made by | the Union, the supreme court at hment Olympia yesterday ruled, 8 to Ls nmen J. C. Brown, president of the In- | 5 a ind of picketin “But how do you live?” I asked|doean’t care for anything much ex-| ternational Shingle weavers’ | Me flab A A P 9 her, . union, Wednesday morning y organize “That's it 1 came in while 1 was| He gays such mills as are operat-| An injunction was 0 e\talking to his wife, and told me|ing working on badly crippled! H. St. Germain, of Seattle, a rea-| ex omething about his work | taurant and bakery man, against the Got $60 a Month © Puget Sound Mill and Lum. ( "union and the Bakery He has been With the street ber Co., of Port A ( tlonery Workers’ union vy three vea t largest concer hibiting them from further picket ng his places of business on # wn Tue F t ‘ Haak gh t. and at the Pike place marke hours until @ ume in. a Jometimes he wait (Continued on page 2) would the child after wo. exploitation of the many for the enrich- ment of a few, should be on the side of Hl The court a » tolou Shingleweavers at r tra| had been out since Monday The lect nominal damage against the ; large eyerhaeuser mill, at Ever inions,“and he estimates his actual for] ett Tuesday, when about 600/damages at approximately $20,000 ' (Continued on page 12) | The supreme court decision,! WEDNESDAY, STATE COURT STOPS - PEACEFUL PICKETING nted to N.}the 1916 legislature. and! pro Pike so ruled that he can col JULY 18, 1917 yes, who is in Seattle directing the local strike. Street Car Men pride and eco- Seattle’s community nomic health are involved. For years, the traction company, hold- ing an iron rod over its men, has condemned them to starvation wages. | The issue is whether this is to be known as a cheap, “ham sandwich” town, or whether it is going to be a city of American standards of living. * * * * * * O one is going to be fooled by the traction company advertisement that Seattle walks because seyen Tacoma men lost their jobs.” Seattle walks and smiles—and knows | mighty well why it is walking. Just the United States could no | longer tolerate existing world conditions, and no longer overlook injustice and op- as pression, so Seattle must take its stand for industrial righteousness. | If the men who live in Seattle have | to subsist on miserable, starvation | wages; if they are obliged to work many hours day and night—then Seattle be- | comes un-American and decadent. For Seattle can be no better than its people. ‘CARS MAY RUN No attempt was made Wed nesday by the traction com pany to break the strike called by 1,600 of its employes Tues day morning President Leonard announced this morning that he would ask for “protection” for his cars today or tomorrow, and that he “would have the men to run them.” No car was operated by the company Wed- nesday. aroused among laboring i They point out that the had voted for the right of peac picketing last November by a ma |Jority of thousands of votes when| | they Killed, under the referendum, a} rabid anti-picketing law passed by Calls it Rotten | He would not discuss what “When the supreme court deliber | he considered “adequate pro. ately ignores the vote of the le tection,” but intimated it might in this matter decl « a mean six guards on every car. James Duncan, of a The outstanding features of bor council here, “they ¢ y the strike today are: the rottenest plece of work I have The decision of the street ever heard of in any siate by any| car unions to maintain banner court “Just now (Continued on page 12) | less pickets at all car barns, in when one of the prin spite of the supreme court rul- (Continued on page 12) The center picture shows striking carmen in parade Tuesday eve- uncan, secretary of the Seattle Central Labor council, and one of the leaders in the strike. THURSDAY, SAYS TRACTION HEADS °° CITY MAY OPERATE ALL CARS 1 CAR STRIKERS KEEP UP THEIR PICKETING LAST EDITION ene eee Weather Man Salisbury is doing his part to make walking pleasant. He's promised “fair weather to night and Thursday.” COUNCIL MEETS. TO TAKE ACTION sult of Mayor’s Call. Py: THE CAR STRIKE IN BRIEF | For the sébche day in succession, no street cars operated by the traction company in Seattle. Mayor Gill and council may decide to operate traction: company lines Intimation made that company will attempt to run cars | tomorrow. Scores of jitneys and hundreds of private cars, | by court permission, take place of cars. Unions continue to picket car barns, despite anti-picket- ing ruling of supreme court. Company denies claim that light and power lines will be affected. | Unions deny men have deserted ranks to become strike- breakers. | No violence reported to police. running Municipal operation of the traction Conn R ty lines as a }solution of the street car strike tie-up loomed Wednesday —|when Mayor Gill and the BonRtl) scraneee a conference to j outline a course of action | Phe councilmen were scheduled to meet with the mayor at 2 p.m He was to ask their consideration of the plan of asking the courts to ediately take over the traction company system and operate it thru a receiver, pending revocation of e company’s franchise After the franchise is revoked, linia Gill explained, the any could cither take up its tracks or dispose of its property here “This would leave operation of the city-wide street car system open to a new company or to the city,” Mayor Gill said Councilman Erickson, chairman of the utilities commite |tee, favors Mayor Gill’s proposed plan of procedure | Erickson will propose that the city immediately engage iesesn n 100 to 200 auto busses to serve the Ballard, Fremont Jand Madison districts, which are suffering most from the car strike : ’ Council President Fitzgerald said he would favor the mayor's program if the company fails to make efforts to operate | If the company proves unable neilman Bolton does not fa- den". eid Pitarenally |% lan whereby the city jto 8! bid ieh en ie seh ee a hw tion com. then I'm in favor of prompt ac n't nee HAM ig But I believe we'll have to) th t could consistent Jwait a few days and see how their | ly nt a receiver for efforts to operate with the men |t 1 lines, in the interests ithey've advertised for, work out.) Pany property at intlated figures. lot service to the public (Continued on page 12) _IF YOU WANT TO BE A REAL L. W. W., JOIN THE “I WON'T WASTE” ARMY AND DO YOUR BIT - 'Receivership for Lines and Possible Forfeiture of Franchise Loom as Re-— ae Bs: