The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 21, 1917, Page 1

POLICE CLUB CAR RIOTERS SENATE PASSES FOOD BILL sbeptisssssssssiessiisstessttststssistsssis er mone Eon 1ION al $ $ 8 $ ; ssossessssss tise tists se ststisstissts teste setestsecseritstat tr ties tesnaes bf) BE REASONABLE | 1f you can only take a man half way to where i he works, don’t charge him a nickel, folks. That makes him pay 10 centa for his trip to work, and § ~ even the traction company doesn’t do that } GRE A TEST DAILY CIRCULATION. OF ANY NEWSPAPER ‘IN PACIFIC ‘NORTHWEST 1 a Weather Man Salisbury says # he'll keep the streets free from rain for the jitneys, with “fair weather tonight and Sunday.” sttttetess: @ D [OD & = Go , 2 jp. Le VOLUME 19 SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, Urbs 21, 1917. ! SUPPRESS VIOLENCE! HELP THE CARMEN WIN! | ood ae street car men are striking for the right to organize, so that they may gain | They must help to prevent as the ‘gies oh element of the city from hitting over the ver the al or themselves better hours, better wages, better working conditions. | der of union labor. They must co-operate with the police to preserve order. ged are striking for justice and a square deal. That is the main point to keep in | And you help them, Mr. Seattleite. These men are on strike for the rights which mu | will make them better and more prosperous citizens. Their fight is YOUR fight. YOU Strikers, or strike sympathizers, lose sight of the main point when they throw rocks | do YOUR part by counseling order and obedience to the law. : and eggs at street cars. Strikes are not won by violence. The striking street car men Everybody keep a cool head. Help the carmen win their strike by summarily have the sympathy of the public. This sympathy they must keep, for their fight is a squelching any “rough stuff.” If strike violence should result in bloodshed, there prob- just fight, and a just cause must triumph. ably would go forth to the governor a call for federal troops. AND SEATTLE DOES Strike leaders should use every effort to curb violence. They must fight like men. ' NOT WANT MARTIAL LAW. '20,000 MEN MAY QUIT; GILL ORDERS ARREST OF POLICE STRIKERS THE CAR STRIKE SITUATION IN BRIEF Traction company makes second attempt to operate cars under heavy po- lice guards inside and outside the cars. Fifteen thousand shipyards workers and 32 building trades unions, with 5,000 members, threaten sympathetic strike. Mayor Gill to press prosecution of 13 striking policemen, who are organiz- ing union. Eager) mediatio mediation may be tried following conferences with Immigration ioner White. area tae Ae wing ONE CENT {y rte ia ws saeeseeeesssese Ci ‘SCENES WHEN POLICEMEN WENT ON STRIKE AT CARBARN RATHER THAN RIDE ON STREET CARS AS GUARDS FOR STRIKEBREAKERS | Patriotic Council attempts to bring factions together. omes more general eve refuses to allow its employes Aa First blood was shed in Seattle's street car strike | Dunc |shortly before 1 p. m. Saturday. that A riotér threw a rock, which hit Motorman S. F.| Slater on the head when the car he was piloting Was| heel stopped by a crowd at Second ave. and King st., after|und he had been jeered all the way down Second ave. ave A riot call was turned in to police headquarters for), eserves to reinforce the guards on the car. | Altho the car was filled with 10 policemen, and The shipyards situation is not connected in any way with guarded by auto loads of police, who went in front, 5 oe A ee ni tne Pes dabtee ath ashingtod a ge - j 3 4 3 orks and the general shipyards strike will not be ca to j along the sides and behind it, the mob was able to enforce demands which will be agreed upon August 1. block it. ; Reports that there Is any left that city at 5 p. m. Friday for Eggs, fruit and rocks were pelted thru the windows possibility of a sympathetic Seattle. No confirmation of the Te- ‘ ? ee Strike by firemen was denied jport could be obtained from and against the sides. emphatically by R. C. Hahney, | cials of the traction coompany. The car left North Seattle barns at 12:35 p. m peg hsig A of the Firemen's | : State May Take Hand PY ° . 5 ay: | Attorney Gen os ‘ Hundreds of strike sympathizers followed it thru “Our union laws absolutely | opinion ft ished the Sain vabite the streets. prohobit any such action,” he (service commission at Olympia to P' ee : * said. “Reports that we intend day advised shat it has t) uthori- The police, aided by motorcycle officers, managed! to strike with any policemen |ty to rnestion both centnet Ga ion, to work thru the crowd each time, and finally forced + Se absolutely without founda | traction company and against “any ree Nem ‘ ; a ci pate ‘ Per sie ion.” other parties” to compel street car a a lane thru the Second ave. and King st. crowd. Mediation Talked service Slater, with blood streaming down his face, stuck} ‘he possibility of federal media-| Tanner's opinion was given on re to his post. | tion of the strike arose Friday even-| West of the commission, which had x The police were harge of Serge [ine when a committee of strikers| een asked by the Tacoma city ~ 1€ police were in charge of Sergeant Carr called on Immigration Commission peers to bring arc pro- a <2 get sec ave .|er Henry M. White and talked with Ceedings against the ‘acoma WHE 1 T IS A PPR | VED & rhe car managed to get to Second ave. and Yes ioe ery he feasibility of a settle, DTanch of the Stone & Webster oom Is The police used their riot sticks, right and left, | Harold Preston, head of the coun: t ' — cee —_—_—_——_ 7 " j a, ; ‘ing ray {1 for patriotic service, declined to oie la superior cou! lon re a3 Y PAL | DRAFT and again succeeded in forcing a way thru the crowd. Be wate ycabe bbe tipo ysegecncrton ETE" oa by the Ea Rew WASHINGTON, July aay ‘STAR- LIBERTY WEEKLY SHOWS Fifteen arrests were made, those pulled out of the Jence between members of the coun-| ,, May Reinstate Men America’s first food control bi : aaj_{cil company officials and strikers » effect of Tanner's ruling, om is conte 49 4.0, 00"to crowd being piled into autos and hurried to police head- |Friday evening. The meeting wast (Continued on Page 10) day, by a vote of 8 to 6. ‘ quarters | hel the county-city building eer vote of 8 toc FIRST MOVIES OF CAR STRIKE ‘ : te After getting back to the barns, the same car! a some progress had The senate rejected Herbert vad pore Teper era ahi. ia ae |started to make the rounds again. es Duncan, representir the motio: t we luded the : city iedive Sunday at on tat movies of the, Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder ler way, where the crowd blocked it again. ment of the strike by the govern-| Poration k his communication, Hoover as America’s food com- The Star-Libert u ke The conductor, too, was hit by missiles, and his| strikers. retained C. H. F tt y $ y shows the n s 4 | former chairman of the put ie ye Seattle car strike today announced he had located {face was bleeding when the car got back to the barns |ice commission, Saturday, to fight : CHAMBER T0 END |the city’s attempt to get a recetver| barga situation came on’ the successfully operate cars if Rioting on’ Second — s were broken by bricks, , sed the conn from the No guards which the*car spattered with the two cars t at 2:20 p. n ay The picture below shows ex-Ponceman Willard C. Fisk. one of the officers who quit when ordered to fide as guards on street cars operated out of the North Seattle barn yesterday by nonunion men. Fisk Was the first of the patrolmen to rebel He approached Jacobs, The Star photographer, who was standing by with his camera, and asked: “Do ) you want a picture of a policeman who refuses to guard strikebreakers?” “Jake” did—and snapped him The center picture shows the little group of patrolmen who a pany’s railway superintendent, who had ct erward quit, standing in front of the car barn, talking it over, and (indicated by arrow tn the little group at the right) G. A. Richardson, the com harge of op ng the cars ‘Above, the striking policemen walking away from m the carn barn to join the ranks of the street car strikers, At the right 1s snown a striker rushing with outstretched hand to congratulate one of the patrol i >, { - White said he would see the ».| told the c ission that he ig ready feeling that he needed reinforcements. tion eifichals Seturdas. ‘B® 8° to start action of this kind s ‘ EE A riot call was sent to the police, Sergeant Carr|ment eae sioner br) voting down, 60 | new Dill « € to 23, Shaffroth’s raporangi ont | The animated scenes show President Leonard, of the traction com-| the one missing number in yes. [from the first trip. approving one man for foo the strike leaders ver t car men in wade . gto terday'’s drawing—and with ['wo more cars were sent out after the first one but were [ioe Se ine the cient a = board. hill miss r “pagel DOM 28t Roe . ‘rT! this America’s great lottery [turned back before they reached the business district. When | ceiver. + The wheat amendment was pass-|to be operated during tt rike the North Seattle barn ye yt ‘ z terday afternoon, anc turning wit ywa broken; and strike | passed into history. the first car returned all attempts at operation were aban irman Erickson, of the city ig ipally as & conce fon tg srrounding the policemen Who quit when ordered to ride as] Checking up in sheets has | doned | council publ utilities committee America’s shipbullding pal | steel and { y chliee’ taterdet on cars | been completed, and the official The } those arrested follow | gees ee Pats rege ne pres one of its chief functions Bes. . wit P i inte ” ra 1 c ’ le, Rento! So ail in th i“ Bas been eliminated | The general subjects of the new weekly are | lal adlat db ht el | Frank Daverso, 19, teamster; Peter Greendher, attorneys would this after. ened by shat OF inane 4 $2 Wheat Is Limit ‘ 4 1 Joceupation; F. F. Strelhauer, 29, and A. L. Wood noon, transfers between Division A} and miil k a le all exemption boards before | 1 ; 4 | r : 7 nill workers, according to SEs miberiain AS ERROS The Seattle street car strike ne Pit Wrett Cape as: tat duatanas 4- Go NCGdine naa) ni ; of the municipal Nine and the SR) a telegram received. today” by the president power to fix pri edical corps troops drilling at Ft. aw. The great machinery of calling} M, J, O'Malley, 35; N. A. Wells, 20; Pat O'Conner eS. would be Issued tomorrow| the Chamber of Commerce of ee rot tenet frteyo pone] sian . " 7 the count oung men for phys-|\Wajker, 27; Bert Saunders, 17; N. David, and Joe W parser Seattle, from: Gen, aa No. 1 Northern w equiva-| ton. al examination bet Wal 0 HN laaiaes | 28. clerk y WD Stig” Following an appeal by the ead of the government's emer- Jent. It © power to tbe r of next week. W , § jaborer 3 rk ’ avis, <%,! mayor to Prosecutor Lundin that gency fleet corporation, ss duties ortet te ild- |; Oot ee aie vonat-|electrician; Homer Bounell, 37, painter; W. R. Gibson, 29,| the 13 policemen wno refused | Goethals in his wire asks Assexs duties order to} eattle P | hov issing num 1} Pp t keep the price 1 $2 mint rate wag not disclosed aed rowder| bookkeeper ; ¢ A. Crane , chauffeur; Bert VrgfusSon and to do strike guard duty on chamber to use its inflgence to mum and to purchs quantity |ing tower. aid he could not recollect what the| Bert Lefeosky, 22, mechanics street cars Friday afternoon be | have tho strike settled of wheat he deems nec for 9 ws H $ missing number was Tha 4 = figs ‘ ae > arrested on warrants charging Secretary Corbaley of the cham the public good, He ma to| The Elks’ picnic at Silver lake. Guard Against Attack | The city was confronted with the possibility of a sympa-| malfeasance In office, brother | ber met with Capt. Blaine, local any citizen of the Unite or The pictures will be at the Ldberty, in addition to the regu-] with its location, however, every thetic strike of 20,000 union shipyards workers and building] officers started arresting them | representative of the shipping to any ally a y lar program of the the Wednesday, inclusi . Ai one went to bed, and what number | trades council men Saturday before the traction company re Saturday afternoon, board, this morning and after an- port in hi week from Sunday there v weekly, photographeed t A.lwas hidden in the vagrant pellet} newed its efforts to operate cars under heavy police guards E. W. Benjamin was taken | other meeting this afternoon, may Jacobs, supervised by the editorial department of this newspaper, and) will not be dete mined until the <l k ‘ into custody by Patrolman p ome basis for arbitration ee ting entirely of local pt es lofficials awaken lhe thoroly unionized shipyarc rkers are talking of Frank Fuqua and booked on a_ | to sulmit to both sides. hertties 7 | local boards will send out striking until the traction company grants its employes the] warrant charge shortly before | . word to those who must answer same night to barg ollectively that is enjoyed in the ship-] 2 p.m ++ FOREST FIRE RAGES | : etna | | 3 d the first call, tho the individual |v arde and other Justries of the city A few minutes later Officer | ; DRAFT NAMES FOREST F Fi himestt ie reeppnalbip tat rea'y 21) Phe buildin cou k action Friday night to| &:,P: Jones brought In former PLA A Li A Jota tiat of Seattio and | | 87 Usited Prees Lassed Wire | ker ng whether he ia in the i , : Patrolman B, W. Fisk. 9 hi ach 04 the Kine coumty ‘men who must SANTA ROSA, Cal, July 21-—| firat call [get a formal expression from 00 members on the mat-| — They were booked according | By United Press Leased Wire wey ond incidea his second resent themselves for accep: Sweeping over six miles o ffore As the men are notified they /ter of tying up building operations until unionized trans to form, the same as other | WASHINGTON, July — The wech on the bill in three week He w ts western extremity Heb must present themselves for oO 0 ag able prisoners, deparment of justice today warned . $p in th week®| tance or rejection under the {th 1 n rust Freeevamination: They |Portation is again avail bones RURAL OC “a4 . k vee it has been under discussion. He years today on | at the outskirts of Guereville, a phy x - shipyards workers are 100 pe r rganized a rikebreakers Brought in against purchase of unapproy MUMGe tas etotueers with iotaats || ec tat ke iar. forest fire which is baffling ull ef-| Will be noted as accepted or The shipyards workers a per cent organized and} 4, ‘was reported Saturday that alsticking plasters, as the result of pages 6 and 7 of The Star. forts to extinguish ts doing thou —@' sands of dollars damage today. (Continued on Page Seven) rejected. Then if they have a there is a strong sentiment among them for a strike, accord- train of seven coaches, filled with| official reports on alleged German ing to Secretary James Duncan, of the Central Labor council. strikebreakers recruited in Chicago, | polsoned court plasters, | ing extortionate prices and favored the Pomerene amendment, ecient