The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 11, 1917, Page 8

& ORPHEUM EUGENE LEVY, Mor ee Fe New Vaudeville Acts of Class on Sunday and THEDA BARA “Hileart and Soul” 10c BC Manes Matinees, of France and Britain or Tr in N Sunday, 1 to 11 P.M. U.S, COULD GET POLICE CHIEF'S BRITISH LABOR BY ABSOLUTE DE. MAND OF PATRONS OF THIS THEATRE DOUS SUCCESS OF WEEK BEFORE “Common Clay” THE MOST REMARK « DRAMA OF THE AGE—WITH ; PHOEBE HUNT and the WILKES PLAYERS 1 WILKES | THEATRE Pine. MAT. SUNDAY REPEAT THE TRE Last Crowley at at cal th | Other Mats. Wed. ned Sat. P IS BACK Nights, 20¢ to S0c; ah spruce are acceasible in that lo | ham, inspector, | cality. )Parrally, immigration atrested, were expected today Federal officials indicate others | with som ber in the Northwest T ng ‘Grim | as He Persh Discusses War Plans ‘With Joffre When the Sammies take over their sector on French front they will profit by the experience There is scarcely a day that Gen. Pershing is not tn conference with French getting “inside” pointers on how the greatest fight Im the world is being carried on he determination of Pershing that American froops shall not be found wanting at the front is shown the set of his jaw as he listens to Field Marshal Joffre’s description of needs on the We front ‘ote, too, the way their hands are clasped British officers SPRUCE AT $25 MOTHER IS DEAD WILL ASK U. S. PER THOUSAND, ii. ccici<Peces | TOHELP PEACE mother of Chief of Police Beck Ingham, died at her home, 607 15th ave. N., early Friday morn ed Press Lew Wf Uncle Gam would ge inte Ing, following an acute attack ‘CONDON, Ia i catens the spruce logging business on | of neuritis, from which she had induce American, Belgian his own account, he would save | been suffering for two days. | other allied labor to par milfions of dollars in the build. Mra. Reckingham born in tieip. n the socialist confer ing of his Wh A fleet ence at Stockholm, and seeking Me pel nth qepirtia4 a clear ruling on the British This ts the opin H of Clalla | te and was yn G ade, in 1860 {dence in San 1858 the ly | county, who ed as an nment * pgineer | Ame land where ta h the Paris, France, in 1840, and came to rica in 1860 with her p and Mme. La Ch law regarding such sessions, at made their which representatives of the present emp! 0, Cal. In enemy may be present, will be the army ca at to British Columbia, and in the next step of British work n | Crow owns ‘70a they moved to the Sound ere © Hoko river valley, puntry. In British Columbia she; Following the overwhelming vote 00 settlers have homesteads,| was married to George BH. Becking-|of yesterday's conference in favor of the finest spruce tim-| ham, who died tn Seattle in 1900 of sending delegates to Stockholm Besides Chief Beckingham, she|it was admitted much is yet to be He says Clallam county records | leaves two other sons, George A.| done When British delegates jow that 1,000,000,000 feet of} Beckingham and Joseph J. Recking-| planned to leave England on a sim both of whom resided with|!lar mission recently, British sail her at her home ors refused to man the ship on Need Ratlroad A daughter, Mme, Marte Corba-| which they were to sail “” With reports from Italy and Bel HE SEATTLE STAR »/SPEED AHEAD ON WAR PLANS INU. S. TODAY WASHINGTON, While Herbert Hoover toda launched his great drive against the food speculators of the country, and started the work of conservation in every home, the shipping board took further steps to increase Amer! 8 tonnage Food and supplies whip in which to t are the foremost immediate the government Hurley today proved contracts for t immedia struction of 75,000 tons ping, to cost $100,000,000 Millions more in | being prepared The war department }out plans for “National billzation day,” whieh verted into a gala erywhere Governors ed to issue proc statewide patri the occasion BUTTE IS VICTIM OF LIES ABOUT ITS STRIKE OF MINERS * Continued From Page 1° — aaa hes 1\— for allies usport the and the them. demand. Chairman con of ship contracts are has worked Army Mo will be eon celebration ev are « nations urging observation rect in between to make my work as a newspaper man interest.) ing. One friend, who, like myself, depend ely upon certain news rs for his {dea of the strike situation here, advised me to ea of healthy revolvers and a bodyguard Finds Butte Quiet But I was disappointed. 1 found Butte as quiet today as is Portiand or ttle. I have been here four days, a 1 have not seen one riot, nor have I heard one lL W. W peech, The strike leaders, 1 found were the decent sort of fellows who thought about the same about the W. W, as did 1 Believe it or not the truth 1 found that the M union, which is stagin pal «trike, is firmly | pal ses The union refuses to picket the mines or plant street speakers on the corners because {t |fears such action will promote violence. The union instructs its ot to answer the insults or to the blows of the 2,000 men of the mining com-| ay you will, but it al Workers’ the prinel- opposed to panies Strike Is Not Violent Never before did str loa 4 cleaner, a more de | The Metal Mine Workers’ union in not an I W. W. organization. |A great majority of its members| disclaim any sympathy for the | W. W. The striking miners voted down a proposition to affiliate with the I. W. W., altho they were as- | sured that «nch a connection would |give the strikers the backing they CLEMMER attle’s Best Photoplay House e Se Beginning Tomorrow HARRY MOREY “RICHARD, THE BRAZEN” THE STORY OF A TWENTIETH CENTURY KNIGHT ERRANT WHOSE ARMOR WAS “BRASS”—JUST PLAIN BRASS—OR WHAT WE CALL AMERICAN NERVE ANDO PLUCK! ‘That's all that stood’ between Dick Williams, our hero, and disaster. The Question is through? The Answer is (Can even brass and nerve pull a fellow See the play! M. Guterson’s Famous Russian Orchestra DREAM” . “Carmen” SONG” “ELSA'S ‘TOREADOR from ADMISSION 15 CENTS BRITAIN, RULER of the waves. Wilhelm, ruler of the Uncle Sam, ruler of the There being only the earth left, can’t mow heip admiring Mr. Rockefeller for beginning to save pennies early in life, log railroad into the valley bon, wife of Maj. Corbabon, of the that labor from {need so much are implicated, including at least | Would cost the government $10,000,"|French army, resided in Parts,| sium delegates cone man of prominence. They believe they have uncover. }ed not only the “underground” sys) OF SPY EXPOSE os Sear GAN FRANCISCO”, png 11.—Fur terned Germans at Angel Island @rrests in the alleged German and confederates, but have frus- plot, uncovered when P. J. trated a plan for the Franz Bopp, interned German con : sul, and other prominent Germans - a TOMORROW The plan is said to have b | th thi m sp for Bopp’s confederates to secure his release presumably thru brib- | jery and then to make their way | down the coast to Mexico jal ™ IL umber War Grows When Peace Fails) ly Continued From P; 1 F ‘o1 ‘rom Our _ Reg. Price 15¢ | ai | Will exert every effort to reach an adjustment upon this honorable ba sis, and that thus the materials may be supplied for our country in this critical time. Please keep m vised SAMUEL GOMPERS. A committee of the state council of defense, composed of Chairman Suzzallo, W. A. Peters and Charles Hebbard, {ssued the following state: ment, after the council had failed to bring about successful peace ne gotiations Friday: | The conferences of the repre sentatives of employers and em ployes of the lumber industry with committee of neutral parties and the state council of defen termi nated this afternoon without effect ing any settlement of the exising strike in the lumber industry of Washington, which had been called chiefly on the issue of a reduction of the ten-hour working day to elght hours, with no diminution of pay. “The lumber operators presented figures to show what they could not grant an eight-hour day at the present pay, so long as their com. petitors operated on a ten eleven-hour basis. Offered to Reduce Pay | “Various suggestions of compro-| mise and settlement were consid ered by the different parties, frank. | Socialism and the Bible is the stibject of a Lecture to be delivered by H. A. LIVERMORE under the auspices of the Associated Bible Students on Sunday Eve. at 7: BRITISH WAR PICTURES Battle an tr pe m et. m la ch te vo ti e Somme 10 REELS | av th el a or | tt th Taken by the War- ting Nations as a permanent part of their Historical Rec- ords. iP | te th Ww; MOST GIGANTIC SPECTACULAR EVENT IN WORLD'S HISTORY Be % te he pr ec th | in | di {40 Aug. 12, I" 5 at I. B. S. A. Tabernacle, Seventh Avenue near Pike. Mr. Livermore was formerly a | well-known Episcopal minister, and later a prominent Socialist, Seats Are Free. No Collection OUR REGULAR PRICES ADULTS CHILDREN 15c 5c Loge Senta 250 | wi training. Rk ee sald cost $5 per thousand for the rail road, escape of | and paying $105 now could b cantonment at American lake. employes to terminate the present of the pay once demonstrate in a reasonably employers met this with the state. to offer the prolongg! consideration of these and that on |of the employes be taken under the | fense he industry | posal was a pledge of co-operative | effort honr day ators was senting |two labor unions at once oa a next [this proposal to their authoritative | ie gone |tain in t there ion would not go to | Stockholm, and America holding aloof, authorities .are tnelined to believe the conferer may fail from lack of weight where she cou Cross work Mrs. Beckingham was age. Until Wednesday joyed perfect health The funeral has been set for Mon ring, from St. Joseph 18th ave. N. and Aloha st LOCAL MEN WIN PRESIDIO POSTS: Of the 173 Washington men who Mrs. De Bit Blocks have won admission to the next offi . . > cers’ training camp at the Presidio, | Local Court Order The fierce legal battle waged the following are from Seattle Merece MM. Uiltingstoy, during the past five years for cus itody of little J. Calderhead, Arthar not Crowley Logging would in identified with Red $3 per thousand for logs on © cars, $5 stumpage and $5 per| ousand for manufacturing in the {1ls. Allow $5 for extra costa Uncle Sam would get his a thousand. He ts And in the end ¢ would be a railroad the try would be opened 1 Crowley believes the government He logging as systematic as economically as ts the construction of the years of she had en *John D. Hoberts, IP. Robinson, *Hoderick A. Smith, *Charles M. Sergent, *Johe 1. Schacter, M A Sendder, ‘Mont Shugs, Marry . Horatio J. Stetaon, “Virgil € ¥ Derte i. Swen 4 pruce for chapel Terrell, Nenals A. Thornburg, Fr. Totten, *Myles W. Ward, HW, "Arthur K. Wylde. whe are of draft age ly and anaging and patiently weighed, with the vidently sincere desire on the rt of both lumber operators and Norwood W. ffleulty Campbell ‘Amonget these was a proposal representatives of labor for eight-hour day at eight hours the men to return to work at The men asserted that a fal of an eight-hour would short show as of J. Salderhend, Arthur Anael Gerber, age 7 Stephen VF. Chadwick, nor, *duline J. Crell, William J. Cross, tAlfred ©. Dann, Robert Laurence Endicott, Clifford jerbert W. Finck, Walter Horton C. Force, *dohn A. Prate ¢ *Valdemar 1. Georgeson. “Amos S Greniand, *Harold J. ( Ed ward A. Hadeen, *D. It » Marry T. Hanover, "Dwight D thar P. Hightower, "Lennox it Cornetine ¥- ee, *Jumes W is yet ended Rudolph temporary custody Thursday in the coutt, Mrs. Dorothy Alden his divorced wife, obtained of prohibition from the sup court in Olympia. _ ARREST CARPENTER Charles C. Heltsley penter, was arr ling British with n After H. Gerber was nted f child of the superior de Bit a writ reme day t labor could efficiency In a workda in one of ten. period uch ht hours a ent that they bor, preferring neck, would not rms and reopen the industry Plans Suggested “Two suggestions which seemed greatest promise of fa orable results then given The first at the men re m the condi to the strike, 1, 1918, a vote were satisfied that the larger pay return on these Meredith Jones, *Lindolph Kerle: A. Knowlton, A) erick = W. MeCabe, rill, Clarence J Ne "Ralph K. Ormshee, © James BE. Patrick, Frank r Luce, Arthar Millar, 8 car Th for Washington He was cL full sted into ibia. marke optum Colu a bi ETROPOLITAN THEATRE’ SEASON'S NIGHTS Beginning we proposed th urn to work at once ions existing prior January spices of the state council of de to determine whether after date an eight-hour day at an ght-hour pay or a ten-hour day at ten-hour pay should prevail in| Included the pro- | hat THE Six IMPORTANT ATTRACTION Tomorrow Night Wednesday and Saturday HENRY MILLER PRESENTS Ruth Chatterton And the Complete New York Company, INCLUDING BRUCE McRAE In A. E. Thomas’ Delightful Comedy in universalize the eight in the lumber industry of he United States, | “The committee of lumber oper willing to accept this but the committee repre the employes was unwilling y recommend the consideration of née game to the joint council of the | involved | Employers Refuse Last Plan “The other of these proposals | as that the men return to work nine-hour basis with pay, and that on April 1 the industry go on an eight our basis with ten-hour pay. This oposal also included a pledge of operative effort to realize ne eight-hour day in lumber cated its willingness to present | THE KITCHEN” of the to Matine roposal, en hours’ Three-Act int counell for action, but the| ommittee of lumber operators | ould not accept the p powal “HENRY 8 ALLO, State Council Based upon the story same name by ot} Alice Duer Miller. hairman Defense.” REED REPORTS Dr. Hiram M, Reed, physician, has to Fort Riley, where, as cap medical reserve corps, he ve about three SRP | PRICES—Kvenings and Sat urday Matin $2.00 to 60c Wed, Matinee $1.50 to 50c the evening p Ml re o'clock; matinee *\are not on strike TO TACOMA Neither is the Metal Mine Work. ers’ union connected with the In- ternational Mill, Mine and Smelter- men’s union, a branch of the Amer-| jean Federation of Labor. There! is a branch the international fanion in Butte, bat fits members The Metal Mine Workers’ union refused to affiliate with the A. F. of L. i What They Struck for | The strike of the Metal Mine | Workers’ union ts a direct out-| growth of the disaster in the Spec julator mine of June 6, when 162! men we killed. The miners de. jclared the mines were not safe, or-| ganized the Metal Mine Workers’ union, and on June 13 struck, de-| manding | That they ve paid $6 a day. That the “rustling card” be abolished, and that the min be made safe for the workers. The mines modified the “rustling | card” and adopted a wage scale which shifted with the price of cop. per. The miners spurned the com promise offer, and are still out The “rustling card,” which the men are determined to eliminate. is a system by which the mines are able to keep track of all the men| jin the district ach prospective employe is compelled to fill out a eard, containing a record of his activities in recent years. The ap plicant’s re dis in tigated, and finally he is told whether or not he will be employed men say this system enabled the companies to blacklist a man, block efforts to} organize a union and exert undue control over him Lay Murder to Gunmen The murder of Frank Little has not brought about rioting in Butte. It has stirred up deep feeling and some strike leaders, fearing at tempts on their own lives, have been sworn in as deputy sheriffs and are packing guns for self-pro tection A number of the leaders are under guard day and night and sleep in secret places for protec tion The strikers are certain company gunmen killed Little, they are now collecting to prove thelr contention This is the Butte labor situation, as I see it, and I have tried to look at it without bias or prejudice. For the sake of fairness, the men should not be called I. W. W., nor should Butte be described as a city controlled by a mob, with riots after every meal Butte is the world’s bi mining camp and it deserves some consideration 'U. S. TROOPS PATROL STREETS OF BUTTE f, Aug. 11.—Federal troops which today began to partol Butte streets are a forerunner of martial law thruout the elty, according to} the general opinion here today. | | | that and evidence THRU THE WEST PASS Fomorrow TACOMA 1:00 PM n thru the ngore a view » Olala Heula and amping re trip This t* a remarkably done which you will be Ind 2 hoi ma and Dock every AM ROUND TRIP — 600 PUGET SOUND NAVIGATION Co. Colman Dock, Main 3999, nt LAST SUNDAY *e WE TOOK a large *e . AND HAPPY crowd to - eee HOOD CANAL AND THE S. S. City of Angeles rey AND THE folks . oe HAD SUCH a dandy time “28 8 DANCING AT Bangor eee AND BATHING - AND BOATING AND PICNICKING e- Sunday August 12 $1.00 THAT NEXT WE ARE going see TO DO the same thing : ee ALL OVER again. oa WE'RE GONNA leave the eee COLMAN DOCK ee . AT 9:00 a. m. with the 28 e SAME BOATS and go . . WAY UP the canal to “ee UNION CITY . STOPPING AT Bangor . . AND HOODSPORT—returning ee WE'RE GONNA leave Union City eee AT 4:30 p. m., and get you . BACK IN Seattle at 10:30 p. m. THE FARE for the return trip 6% for WILL BE a dollar ee GROWN.-UPS AND fifty cents ee. FOR THE kiddies. We're gonna eee SERVE MEALS and reserve eee STATEROOMS. . BETTER COME to Hood Canal ee 8 NEXT SUNDAY—Angust 12. * *. YOU'LL BE glad you came. . . PUGET SOUND Navigation Co, COLMAN DOCK—Seattle. MAIN 3993,