The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 17, 1917, Page 1

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The Greatest Daily Circulation of Any Paper in the Pacific Northwest MONDAY, Read the Editorial on Page 6 6 PRICE ONE CENT F°gazaam in Seatt COAST SHIP STRIKE SPREADIN G Behind the I 8,000 CAPTIVE GIRLS — pee HELD IN HAREM eecees ; Serbian Maids Deptyt- ed by Bulgar Oppees- sors to Harems in Constantinople, Pro! fessor Declares $ the district appeal poor, cdl and Atty I board being imposed influential and humble, |,..., A upon by rich men and all on the ‘same level | WASHIN me their sons thru false in ce 1 ‘ - dustrial exemption claims? {ERE are a lot of San ¢ It is a strange fact that captains of indus ages of 10 {1 14 have the sons of manufacturers try who } been dey the and merchants have in of the spirit harems of sople. many cases been exempt- letter of this law They Tt i given ed from the draft on the are obsessed with the idea out ‘ } ' ground that they are “in | that THEIR sons, and os Tis af er dispensable” to — their THEIR proteges are en profess ‘ fathers’ businesses In titled to a way out of the sity of Belg ee some cases, the district draft near two yea f 1 board has undoubtedly | Even in the Ur 1 governm eyew been deceived, for many States secret service, we | with the Serbian armies of these “indispensable” | have seen Capt.. Foster | He is 1 i. sons probably have not | sécking an exemption for t t r more than a few | a 21-year-old assistant, on bian legat months real rk n grounds that the boy Yovanoviteh told today how t The distgict board, by he had = a the sect Seah cnuetoerth ot all “Ger holding its Sessions secret, service only a fe mor bias win atrocities surpassing js helping these slackers to + is time ee Mca’ nose of Belgium, get away with the very ] PR ag ase! ef thing against which the nation stopped and | waaningto A Riana ghthn conscription law was the best way to put an_ | charge of s Serbian press ' , aimed end to it is to give the | e a a : bef the dis- his ” was to go thru Bulgar The fashion of buying hearings before }fan, Austrian and Hungarian news substitutes for the draft, trict boards, the widest | papers for news of what was hap as existed in the civil publicity. F ‘ ag ~ — + ein Whi war, has passed stn <p ‘i 2 a ‘B |may be starved and strangled b We do not allow tich looph« or slackers 10 |the Germans, but Serbia being that word “indispensable |crueified by the Austrians and the men to buy themselves out of service—under the law. But when a father can make his son “indis- pensable” to an industry Bul e sald Vhen the Austriar Bulgars get thru, ther Serbian nation Add to the losses in the fight ing. the deaths from s rs,” The district | has not been to stop up tt board needs it can get It need and the may be no »resstons overnight, and the district ith & full publ of Serb he om board permits him to do aa ide Be so disease paths . give from wh € n of RR eats ~ WILL IT. Bi BIG |tensee never before, punished 00 same thing. ENOUGH TO INVITE drastically, and you get an enor The conscription law | pUBLICITY, OR WILL | mous figure hampioned because Mn. ce Population Deci d ne | champ: IT CONTINUE TO LET POE pte yl of ariges Austrians have one-third of | km, was. to place rich and | Pict AND INFLUEN- |my country: the Bulgare hold the | TIAL SLACKERS AND rest. Before the war the popula TRAITORS MAKE A_|tlon was 4,060,000. Serbia's gen ADVERTISING MANAGER'S srai lose in poet Panel Sa ALK | IOKE OF THE CON- hep pres in population amounts to arr SCRIPTION LAW? “According to a statement in the| ment by Otokar ara hi Austrian parli | TERE are some choice op heed aptonet cee Savings ; and about £,000 Serbian girls have the ads in tod Time spent in re: ading the ads is time well spent. | stantinople Because of failure to file briefs,| “They have also deported en the hearing on the appeal of the| masse all business men, officials, Logan Billingsley case, which was re and priests Standard Furniture Co Page 4 Page 3 Serbian is no longer allowed In| hime Grote-Rankin : detied in @ rating Wade by Judge | erntt sno longer allowed tn} his WoodhousePpunbaum Page the schoola—Bulgarians teach the| hodes’ Co. Pa Neterer last spring, scheduled to) fulgar language. In the churches| chief ¥ rane Bb af Page 7|come before the cireuit court of | Bulgarian priests preside Ser veut wong Seon Page 7|aupeals this week, was continued i : whieh ah a Ahh burned ‘rederick & Nelso ‘age 7 ive been converted © pulp for] 6 _— “% court, Monday. The case will be The best offerings of Seat argued in San Franctaco. 5 best stores appear reg in The| The circuit court of appea) RENO RACE MEET OPENS which is in session in Seattle th RENO, Nev., Sept, 17.—The an | week, Is composed of Clreuit Ju nual Reno race meeting opened William H. Hunt, of Washington,| here today and will continue for THE FASTEST-GROWING NEWS. |, (, ca La PAPER IN THE NORTHWEST |ojiinert, of Portland, and Judge|Coast league baseball club owne Wolverton, of Portland. is conducting the meeting, latest and most { zs news pictures received from behind the prisoner-of-war, guard of German appears in bis French uniform passed away and ribbons in one detention g via Holland and Switzerland has told of the s thru Germany ties to which pr are subjected in t first actual photo: DANCE GIVES $57 FOR SMOKES ‘Woman, With Son in Army, Donates enen Savings in Pennies ~ MISS OLIVEREAU SS — OVER federal grand jury DANCE FRIDAY HIGHS | RUSSIAN ARMY GOING TO REGA WASHINGTON, The Russian a back toward Riga along a wide Within the last five days it has advanced more than sev- , the Russian embassy ns have contributed their Russian military establishment is being reorganized under Gen, and discredited com- manders are being ousted dquarters rec , and followed up th grad to the embassy received toda of anarchism ‘fty-seven dollars political den r r admitted having mailed Korniloff rebellion 1 without blood men's Benefit the Maceabees, aa the re cult of the | their benefit dance them to refuse to respond to| ing contractors, including Ira Har | BILLINGSLEY CASE con's Vo ts-"horns ‘oF “stronger than ever.” responsibility lor the Korniloff defection has beet | fixed upon his advisers, elf, is regarde of tho letters cheers for the O houted, as she left th 8 at the front of the British re and Private Flynn y the death penalty of Company ( »’Em a Second Booth Says who fall into the clreumstances Hallington B ; Cireult Judge William B,|/25 days Jack Atkins, former) Volunteers of Mstivain “ DELEGATION TO VISIT ent Narike,” ald. White Mom. Another dance 2 from the Cham ber of Comme night, and will return "Thursday x-|that the shipping board has settled entertainment planned for the men in. Yakims, gether with a check for $40 sent in today by the draftsmen of the Seat (Continued on Page 10) st Baptist church, Sunday evening. STRIKERS GAIN. HERE AS 24,000 QUIT IN FRISCO. Carpenters Determined Enforce 8-Hour Day i Lumber Miils of Nort west. a. Situation i in Coast Ship. Yard Strike Twenty-four datieend lron Trades » Council 0 jers walk out in San Francisco bay region, tying up ship yards in district. | Three thousand Portland ship yard workers sti ‘to enforce closed shop and employers abandon plans ¢ reopen plants with non-union workers, pending fed |mediation. | William Blackman, federal labor mediator handled the longshoremen’s strike here last ycar, assigned by Secretary of Labor Wilson to handle Pacific coast ship industry strike. Sympathetic strike of 5,000 carpenters in |gains new converts to the exclusive use of lumber eight-hour mills, while state council of defense and jeral mediators take up matter-of ending tie-up in” | yards. } Two ship yards and eight contractors sign ment not to use any more lumber from 10-hour | I. W. W. in Seattle vote to return to work in |ber camps and mills but quit work each day when have worked eight hours. Progress in the sympathetic strike of 5,000 Seat#l carpenters and helpers called to aid striking‘ lumi workers to gain their cight-hour-day demands, was ported by the union officials Monday. Following the announcement of strikes in Francisco, Portland and other coast cities, word was f6 ceived here that the Howell Bros. yards at E jemploying 160 carpenters and with two ships on ways, had promised to sign an a ing but lumber cut in eight-hour mill Ss. United States Commissioner of —— Immigration Henry M. Whi r of support for the eight-hour day in the Northwest lumber industry He declared that negotiations “a borne thru seeking the immediate set nt oF of the sympathetic strike, which is seriously handicapping shipyards of L. 3 the city, would be and that the covorn attempt to dissuade their stand for the Dr. Matthews, pastor of the Fal Presbyterian church, is sched o fire the opening gun of the er mayoralty campaign Tuesday, Pick naka cae aniianeihe will ress the Municipal leagu@gm at the Masonic club, at 12:15) 3am cording to J. G. Brown, p of the International Timberworkers union, the union will attempt to ob tain agreements with a sufficient number of mills near the city to supply eleht-hour lumber, and fail ing in this. will negagiate with Master Buildegs’ associatiq blanket agreement to use only eight-hour lumber and to lease or buy mills to supply it Two shipyards have signed SWEDES DEMAND agreements with the ions now and will purchase onl hand may be By Ur ased Wire The League’s Civic Righteousm Duty,” and the secre club says it will have plication to next sprin Dr. Matthews’ speech will q announee t of the meeting. hour lumber now used under the agreement, but no *KHOLN Sept 17.—De- more may be purchased mands of the Swedish people that =a The Seattle Construction and Dry| thelr government “take immediate: measures to convince the-world: Dock Co., operating one of the larg i steel ship plants on the water-| that the 1 the| ly neutra ster mass mee Not all the the thy with such a } wedish people was voiced f est front, Was expected to reement Monday. Two hundred twenty-two workers can then n to their jobs, Agreements ‘ o have been signed by Meact able to press into the auditorium & Babcock, who have leased 4 where the meet was held. The pight-hour mill, and Skinn socialist minister, Branting, Eddy, who have contracts for suf dressed a great overflow meeting im fictent eight-hour lumber to carry|® fleld outside the city Numerous ¢ ings, to protest 4 on their work. In addition, agreements have by seven or eight build been sig were held thruout the city, }dy and Ed Nelson, and work was most| resumed on their “Jobs” about the | anwar ity Monday cl.welve men, constituting the en} Seattle Star Will Ire wood-working force, were or-| 4 ganized Monday and called out on Give the Best strike from the Anderson shipbulld es Usual ing rds, one of the smallest yards 2 se the elty } As usual, The Star's sporting To Tackle Lumber Strike } page will give the best, newsiest, snappiest and most authentle dope on the coming world's series, Next to holding forth In a grandstand seat at the big baseball classic, a perusal of The Star's sport page from now until after the fracas is over is a bet you cannot well afford to hee controversy, we are ready to)} pase up. (Continued on page 10) natal in at entire The government will day. “W dropped negotiations when the metal trades étrike in the shipyards threatened, but now ese igle Harbor, he the first shot of the church forcem rat of the city to correct conditions they fell need correction,” said the re strie a mon | here last nights J sands in sympa. nic move were scattered meet. ainst the course ive government tm — nany’s messenger