The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 26, 1917, Page 1

Women auto drivers are Settlement Peaceful settlement of Seat- tle’s car strike was bright Thursday afternoon Acting on direct orders from Stone & Webster, of Boston, who yielded to pressure from Secretary of Labor Wiliam B. Wilson, President A. W. Leon ard, of the traction company, met seven striking union car- men from Tacoma and Seattle for an hour and a half in the forencon and announced at Moon that another meeting would be held at 2 p. m. Fri- en wore smile y. The striking carm and union buttons when they left Leonard's office. How Leonard hi meeting. whi peace, was disclosed whe gration Commissioner He White anr that Secretar him to learn cials of the com toward settiing t This followed a Wilson, thru a specia mer Congressman House F Boston, bad received ment from Stone & Webster White's report will tel! whether or not St ad agreed to wh: neement that e assumption here attorneys to obtain United States marshals to police their pperties during the car rike by appealing for an in- Junction against molestation have failed. Federal Judge Neterer, in his opinion on their applica tion, declared that the federal court “may not be used as a strikebreaker by either party” by withholding or granting in. junctions, The court will not be moved to step in, he sald, unless the interests of the public, “which Is always the sufferer ina strike,” are violated The out Jed, he pointed « ection and not the aid ot the equitable arm of thi court.” If the request for the injunction against station of operations the court and the to police the 200 orders m ct the Tacoma which Is under th uper. Vision mill, saw mil or indus trial « trie M i n thie time of stress,” the opinion concludes “in this enlightened community of patriotic citizensh! nd a tir when the burdens of governmen must be almost beyond endurance, and when the eyes of a new re- public just struggling to its feet, Blood Be on Your Hands, Mr. Leonard! rT; get wales y Hig gt in rl | YOU are that man, Mr. Leonard. | of starting a riot, spilling blood, and calling by a man named Lynch, are here, not as iag Day apecch, “that secks to Bevan 1c YOU talked patriotism in the issue be- out federal troops. bona fide settlers, but as hawks to snatch our way in this ‘day of high saclation, tween you and your employes, and all | The mayor has put the case mildly, re pcg ra gg so 1 aa a when every principle we hold dearest is to the time you talked you Se p pages v0 Mr. Leonard. ‘ora 99 ? di at YOU ? ho eae: wid be vindicated and made secure for the sal- strikebreakers on New York’s East Side | rhe people will hold you to more se- : a ve pe > Fz losi a ee vation of the nations,” | to come here to take the jobs of Seattle rious account. sag Feast et Bae al : Ponder that well, Mr. Leonard. home owners. YOU refused to treat | If blood spatters the streets of Seat- | Today you were in conference with Woe to the man who stands in the way! | with reed organized employes on the tle, Mr. Leonard, the people are going | : rigs oonnt of pen eae Paige. _ Woe to the man who promotes indus- | eminently fair basis which they offered. to demand that the real murderer—the ee IE PF pen onee aed with on trial unrest and divides the people within You, Mr. Leonard, as president of the man who pulled the bloody strings offer for arbitration. Don’t pass up this our country at a time when they should be Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co, | be brought to justice. And there will chance for peace. a unit in the struggle against a foreign today are in a position where you either | be no mistake as to who that man is, In all earnestness, The Star today foe. Woe to the man who causes internal | ¢@” call forth murder, or halt murder. | Mr. Leonard. | urges you to consider well your decision. strife at such a perilous time by denying Mayor Gill has warned you that if you | The people know that these men whom If that decision means death for simple, fundamental justice to men who | run cars downtown with imported strike- you have brought from the haunts of “Gyp | some, then their blood be on your labor. | breakers, it will be for the “direct purpose” | the Blood” and “Leftie Louie,” captained | hands, Mr. Leonard! MEN ALL HELP | forming a snobbish habit of refusing to pick up tired pedestrians who trudge up and down the hills, according to reports to The Star, But the men! tired young woman they never pass up a j GRI ee, m 6 THE KIND OF MEN LEONARD HAS BROUGHT TO SEATTLE TO|Pyy ining a CEFUL END (OF CRUSH THE CARMEN IN THEIR FIGHT FOR A SQUARE DEAL! Secretary of Labor Wilson Takes Up Traction Strike omises have been carried out, is | There was a decided feeling of | wo optimism at the Labor Temple |durin U, STRKEREAUEN HR t i Spends Night in Company’s Barracks; ic iiss i ode ie i Gh tinction sieeblny | ide “lodKihg to us’ for fn He Tells of What He Heard and Saw ae as disorderly characters the men oper LAST EDITION Regardiess of the attitude of traction company officials, Fore. caster Salisbury insists on fair weather. “No change tonight 6r Friday,” he says. GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN PACI PACIFIC NORTHWEST | } VOLUME 19 SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1917. ‘More Strikebreakers Im- ported. and They Start Riots at Georgetown. a |e— as @ Council to keep “green” trainmen off cars. @ Tacoma and Seattle strikers meet with traction com pany officials and reiterate demands. @ Mayor declares he will arrest trainmen as disorderly” |characters if company operates cars down town. @ One hundred and seventy-five Chicago gangsters af ™ rive at Georgetown barns at 1:30 a. m. without serious) 9 | trouble. ; With S. & W. n and that back wer of men labor aring sumed t potent ent by Peters in ure ir ne & » abandon @ Leonard says, “No cars today.” their arbitrary stand against the here and in Ta-| {@ More strikebreakers coming tonight and tomorrow, iG Intermittent bombardment varied by hose attacks |from barns carried on between strikers and strike= | breakers. ng carm local arged - union rk and an yes who » strike. pend Legislation to bar from Seattle inexperienced ; Street car motormen and conductors was so well agreed: © type of men who faye veen brought to Seattle from New York by the traction company to operate street cars here {Upon by the mayor and council at noon Thursday that rs. The four in the picture were arrested late yesterday afternoon at the direction of local draft officials, and are being |j{s passa and signatur by the r bef he they smiled so held until they can prove their assertions that they ere registered. Left to right, they are: Tom Fischer, M. Schwers, Harry Mat |.) | ge < i signature the mayor before tomor otherwise showed th isowitz and Ben Barredt jrow night seemed assured. This was the most import after an hour and a half confer These men, like the other imported strikebreakers, deny the popular impression in Seattle that they are “Gyp the Bloods”—pro- lant street car strike development Thursday. ence with and Manager| totypes of New York's gangsters and gunmen. They, like practically all the men imported by the company, were recruited on New : 8 1 York's East Side thru a York private detective agency | Other important developments in the last 24% ; : |hours were: taken pi ing arbitration of wages, hours andj working condition r Leonard no kers The conference Thursday morning. between Presi- F e ° - od . c 4 be a staan” Reporter Hires Out as Strikebreaker; ii \iisat veces and aaa union carmen from Tacoma and three from Seattle operation of cars in the downtown section of the city, n@ arrival of a second trainload nd a crafty autocratic f magni men will be required, according to fy over: blance of disagree. ec’ e. Saturday thru a mob of rioters ar nq fof 1 professional plans at noon, to have had experi- ment into national discord, for t By Matt - Connor at 1:30 a. m. from Chicago ence, either here or elsewhere, {i purpose of inspiring its discour A trom his ‘pia eon the front platform, was ther Georgetown barn and the unoffi- running cars, and must be trained aged soldiery to renewed and pro- rh for 12 hours in the North 1 recognized also the conductor of that car, Owen Bib-|cial announcement that three mere for a reasonable time on the care longed combat, and thereby requif| soo it) ¢ day bins, 67, whom the men called Dad trains would arrive before tomor- they will run in Seattle before ing the sacrifice of the flower of I hot bunkhouse, where I slept on the floor in com-| Some of the men looked the part of professional strike- |W night they will be allowed to take the our young manhood, that the par. n eh ot ‘ hesprsi 11 ; t-hand about | breakers. Others looked as out of place as I felt The arrest of 10 slackers among cars from the barns. tl ay not, in the spirit of the| pany with a dozen non-union men, earnec hand abo me ; . " ‘ i. the any’s imported New York Mayor Gill says that the reason provision of the chise ordi-|some of the hazards and inconveniences of being a strike One of these was a high school boy from Burlington,| ang Chicago gangsters no ordinance of this kind is Baim nance et out in t compl breaker who told me he was earning money t to the university The statement of President Leon- on the books is because the com+ and herein, arbitrate all disputes Reha tal Peay; ewe Se plied at the office of the trac-| Two were brothers from California, who had been hired tojard that it was unlikely an attempt pany has always maintained in and grievances Y jreclae " De tee aarle transport imported strikebreakers in autos! from one barn to|to operate cars would be made to- structors who have given new train: , tion comy 1 } nuilding hes | day men a thoro course of instruction. Hold Oregon Priest Employment ntendent ich asked no questions anothe ; ‘ | Rioting at the Georgetown car The cars in, Seattle, according t6 wi waited Donne 2 a Wie wihaee ict rpg ited to be nductor others were old employes of the company who are barns, which police say was begun Gill, are of a different type from ULA 1y3 ies he nd $ to t of tl ethods used by strikers ° @ those used in the East, and he TILLAMOOK, Ore, Ju 6 WW « y ow ou it at the barn, and $1/intolerant of the met } Yather Sherlock, past of the if i while 9 , 1 P None of them paid much attention to me, except to glance ALLNIGHT GANGE FOR says that the grades here make rum: : : an hou u operate car he said You can go to , : S | BENEFIT OF CARMEN x them more difficult than im holic church bere today, is free | 1 ch Maatiie Barnet soe curiously at my horn-rimmed glasses and bow tie, One or] oiber dite in she aan imder $1,000 bail, pending investi. the North attle barn 4 ‘ . 1 . 4 nef . bcs yon 7 . reve " “e Above of : ig le sto the North Seattle barn I went in a Ford furnished |two asked me what was doing outside, and_ the ny from An all-night benefit dance, Manager Kempster sald Seana gation o . : . ; : th a| Burlington. wanted to know how I happened to get work| | under the auspices of the strik- | tho company would be glad to com alleged to have made. The priest) hy the company and passed in the guarded entrance with a 8 ? ° ing street car men, willbe | | sui with Mayor Gill before rum 4 > alleged to 6 threatened g or Pre deve! a < is also alleged to have threatened | so oiing that | was going to have a hard time getting out there held at Dreamland, Seventh | | ting care. The mayor has declare the life of Capt. 8. Johnson, 10th mT and well- cooked supper The cashier of the barn, who in normal times takes the|| anq Union, Friday night. Ad company, coast artillery corps 1 ed that he would expect to be cons of boiled beef, cabbage, corn, potatoes, bread, cake, pie, fruit, nickels from conductors when they come in from runs, was|/ mission is 60 cents, Ladies | | suited before the professional » ? ade { coffee. It was served in the long assembly |in charge of things Wednesday night. He kept me out of| | are to be admitted free. The | strikebreakers take out cars, and NOTION, UO Trae Sve errotane oe y ? {the room where the telephone was, and when I did get in| proceeds will go into the strike | stated that riot would follow any I arrived in time for a genere SCRIBERS room on bare tables, sans napkins and sans flies i ; : fund | attempt to operate down Second On and after August tet, About a dozen men were eating, and discussing the pos-|there in his absence, a guard listened to my conversation le er | ate ' 191 e of The Star, de tit af sides sa 4 After supper, I tried to get some fresh air outside the Hy aninorie erate heduled “If the company wants to avoid 4 t ility of running cars so he city council was scheduled ~ f ' cartier within the rhe mayor's announcement in Wednesday's — Star that front do Guards sent me back inside s “4 hold bap | mecting late in trouble,” he said, “the attempts to ity, Jie, ae peeeer will he kebreakers should not run street cars down Second ave “Whenever any strikebreakers show up here,” they said, |{? NOW A special meets iatt iy run should be made in the outlying Oc per month stri preakers should not ru ars hens Os Better ge ” . I aseeq districts first x i aie P 8s r get back in 0! » will be passed \ o a - / was calling out hot criticism when J took my place at the “the strikers start up a fu ¢ ge il Sage We an agers : i ‘ b Doe The first general attempt to Op CAMP CONTRACT table. No one paid any particular attention to me Another one told me that Dad Bibbins was caught by jrequir ne iuctorn pass an exam.| erate with a large number of striker AWARD a \ Lene. Sone 5 |breakers is expected Friday, anything either of these afternoon picketers one night and only got away by talking spiritualisn WASHINGTON, July 26.-—-Lind “But you can't believe Jination conducted by Superintend . The committee of strikers, meet gren & Co., of San Francisco, have ani 8 one of the men asserted to them is ent of Public Utilities A. L. Val . “s heen awarded the contract for the iedy ‘Jo ee ae the m mee I knew I had seen before | Inside the long “loafing room” the evening dragged by|entine as to their knowledge and |!n& with rh oe ort! have National Guard camp for Palo Alto, Motorman S. F. Slater, who drove the Kinnear car down (Continued on page 10) experience with car operation, The (Continued on page 10) Cal. , '