The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 29, 1917, Page 1

TED consin Man. ood Press Lensed Wire [ASHINGTON, Sept. 29.— to oust Senator La Fol- from the senate opened to- with the introduction by Kellogg, of Minnesota, Fesolutions adopted by the peli committee of Mii anding La Follette ons were referred on privileges resolution was sicna@ b: A. Burnauist, Attorne: Smith, and the follo’ bers of the commission _ Ames, St. Paul; Jobn Lind po John F. McGee, C. H and A. K. Weiss, Duluth or Kellogg introduced the res- without comment and would ing about it later. Hl make no comment what “1 have just recetv- munication. 1 have not! Mime to read the speech.” se President Marshal! laid be- ged.to him, urging tmpeachment on of La Follette. Y es also were referred Mileges and elections com /One from the Washburn league, said With Regret” are hereby united in ar to the senate of the United ¢ our senator, Robert M jatte, be impeached for his the edad With re. eh “erg the senator | erosection of the reso- da conference attend Vice president, Kellore. ‘Martin, democratic leader. ittee on privileges afd on. Not Present was not tn the se olution and messa ited. He enter 4 He evidently did not what had been done, or if he he displayed no hint of his members of the senat was in the resolution not read. Whe agreement by which It was i ted made it a like an | ordinary petition, many of whic : ted daily, and most of talking among without know? ction senators were themselves clearly edge of Keliocs's : News Spreads Fast r fm groups in the chamber Follette and one or two others alone. La Follette, whose seat ion the aisle in the first row, y lirely isolated. He sat read few Minutes later the senate Into executive session ACTION ON 1S PLANNED By United Press Leased Wire WASHINGTON 7 ‘amination of anti-y will be carried into e¥ clous organization ent of I. \ $s to be followed by any and all people or indire titutions aiding the jals say profeasional intimat and even fists, may be next, of A nation-wide t to discontent over the draft and ott war measures is being carefull Invents Chemical » Gasoline Process BAN FRANCISCO ep 7 Frederick A. Kormann an Francisco, has turned over to the government a chemical proce which, he declares, wil) settle the ¥ problem of America’s gasoline sup i. By treating crude oll components now largely lost with a chemical compound, Kormann says 52 per ; cent of the ga tead of 6 F recent, a at present é from every barrel of er is obtained ~ VOLUME 19 Ubi LEASED Wit Nf Joe’s Some Hustler | | for Tobacco Fund 1‘ arene Safety Com- ion of Minne- Starts Ball ng Against Joe Bernbdaum, of the Keiter Bernbaum Cigar store, who collected Star's tobacco fund. BRINGING. IN = THE DOUGH! Ts OPORT © BY ECHO JUNE ZAHL $23.50 for The | exempe-ty reese of Tarte Ww [now ¢ sen: messages ad-| Eee fear wanna patri Americans » heeded Thousand citizens of this} lerances and disloy-) separated fro Pomerene. chairman of kind of money aS. conference the procedures DREAMLAND DANCE SWELLS SMOKE FUND day that the benefit dance held Friday night for The Star's tobacco $82 over expenses. continued until 4 a the prize waltz held at 12:30 (Continued on page 8) , what d’yuh know about The SeattleStar si The Greatest Daily Circulation of Any Paper in the Pacific Northwest SHIPYARDS ARE CLOSED BY STRIKE IGH T TO EXPEL LA FOLLETTE BEGINS “ALIENS CFT. PART OF 2,000 WHO QUIT DRYDOCK J0B5 LEFT BY DRAFT Seattle Appeal Offi- cial Asks Congress to Pass Law Keep- | ing American Jobs for Americans. 2 law which will Ur ‘ age wh ‘ not c Draf Th 1 bill - ” 1 countries, who were 1g the jobs left vacant by Picture shows shipyard str at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. men's BY CARL D GROAT t t mt 1 WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. 1 American troop transportation «ho now, to Europe during the next six in't have! months may be greatly cur German sed with ess by the narine, the fel t would have the job w before of afted ma allies, is ther workmen severe eat! disposit an tor nage. The United Press | - FORESHADOWED £2 The argume favor of red LONDON ane . 1 me nts to the « ters, date A ds |: eee Bo For France alone has a million cary Dovigh le, tons of supplies tied up on this e '| pide of the ocean, which cannot be moved while American ‘ oe troops are being transported. : age pipesnaticcdent France, Great ®r and sag wing a - Italy need fuel, food, o i etc, © to some big , arsbal sorely, shipment of resaging an 1m TRAINS COLLIDE By United Press Lensed Wire WILL DEFEND I. W. W. TULSA, Okla. Sept, #9—Tw atines f known toll today of the lon ted in Ch ollision of a pa er tra nd lictment equipment. trafy he F » r cord ra ar Kel 1 c m Chi d kmen ull re 0 ¢ ( ing bod rom the d und the ved in t Everett dock | kt for era 1 ttle in their trial here, when| M f the Injured were expect oFEH new ‘GAR BIDS 0: iotiomhe vid opened 1 regar by Engineer board of works Friday for R iN f the tral 1 hi a a mn of the|the reck He {s 1 to have t al rai lines, was $5,735 | beer tructed to take the ng po le and allow a north the board from taking action on tl nt train to pass bid escaped injury with miles from the e in th I put that dollar ina |, demented state. H alleged ment in my heart! | amblel down to the United COVINGTON FUNERAL Cigar store at First and Cher 1 funeral services of J. A ' here I came ac L. M. {Covington, 76, a member of Miller Lynd, manager of the Seattle |Post, G who died at } United Cigar store rome at AF sun lace, will be I've got a hunct 1id he. |held Sunday afternoon, at the Ma “You're among friends,” | sonic temple at Fremont, , SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, SEPT. Itovenforce-wage demands made last August. Dry Dock Co 8 leaving the plant of the Seattie Construction * hour when the biggest strike in Seattle's history began ===“ TROOPS MAY NOT GO TO FRANCE ay May Be Delayed Till 1919, as Ships All summa for |. P?RARAAAA AAR ARARAALS, } \ Wi ise, Wise Judge Is This Old Judge 5 My Untied Press Leased Wire tons annually "\day. ‘contract shops and three shipyards signed the agree- | -,fore the strike hour. nets the ships is the international must be sent over F ‘ood, everything rn must go from and a careful compila completed by ndicated the al weeks ago. the war more thousands of Americans at the sacrifice of facing insufficient supplies thru lack of tonnage Ask 6,000,000 Tons my on this side arching orders as now vital to the " CROOKS COME HERE Powers Believes Strikes Attract Sluggers Scores of thugs and crooks Side of New s for patrolling Eastern cities brought to the Pacific Coast as strikebreakers during the past sponsible for the molestations » tried that system,” } and girls recently explanation of the thought our plain clothes men were ISSUE SUB WARNING By United Press 1 treet car strike Many Foreigners s of Eastern eitie ly all of them Otherwise all wa are foreigner juatlcrease in the military guard !} around the plants ntences Short GIRL DEAD IN Room »}the union leade Friday girl s relative jeame closed shop and working con-| (Continued on Page Seven) creasing southerly winds. T Everywhere, in Seattle PRICE ONE d OOPS AND 12 YARDS. AFFECTED; 8000 MEN OUT; NO VIOLENCE EXPECTED ‘Lumber Situation Appears to Be Most Serious Item, Blocking Any Settlement THE SITUATION IN BRIEF e thousand men str in 12 shipyards and 81 con= in 23 shops and ement ber boycott is Biggest issue ir yards, ¢ @ Shipyard owners declare lum {and wil] not sign agreement ur carpenters agree to return ) work or guarantee of 8-hour lumber is made } @ Duration of strike estimated by owners at two weeks. }@ No attempt at mediati to be made until arrival of } @ Da McKillop, president of Metal Trades, way to } ttle ; 1e as before. : 1 Timberworkers, Nine thousand workers quietly walked out in 12 |shipyards and 81 contract shops at 10 a. m. Saturdays. The strike did not affect four shipyards and 19° contract shops, which had already signed the wage? agreement. Union officials estimated the mumber™ lap ce at work in these yards and shops at 6,885, “contract shop” is a machine shop, or foundry, doing work for a shipyard under contract. After the walkout, agreements were signed between the Metal Trades council and the Isaacson Iron Works, 4 smploying 60 men; the Lane Machine Shops, with 1053 nen, and the Fairbanks Machine shops, with 30 men, 99 The men will return to work in these plants Mona = Lumber Is Issue The Skinner & Eddy yards, the largest steel yards in the city, signed the scale some weeks ago. Sixteen™ nent Friday afternoon, while three more contract shopsy ES esse a a total of 130 men, signed up Saturday bee Not a man walked out in any of the yards ong shops that signed the agreement before 10 a. m, Shipyard ownefs declared Saturday that the one? big issue of the strike was the boycott on 10-hour lumber, declared by the Building Trades council, the™ Central Labor council and the Metal Trades couneil two) “We can’t and won’t sign an agreement with thé Metal Trades on the new wage scale until we have been guaranteed that our men will work on the lumber wé can get,” declared.C. F. Duthie, of the Duthie yards, *}where 1,800 men w alked out. Duthie estimated the length of the strike at twor weeks. C. W. Wiley, of the Seattle Construction && Drydock plant, made the same estimate, while the strike leaders declined to hazard a guess. q Miller Expects It Short os — Secretary A. B. Miller, of the] YO tat | Shipyard Strike Metal Trades, sald, howey n th opinion the strike will be of ~ . . seca eo ces { Scenes Shown in hi 5 declare that Star-Liberty Film the | and the strike The Ster-Liberty motion fie § re separate and|( picture weekly to be shown ‘admitting, however at the Liberty theatre, be- settled before 1 to work on arith ginning Sunday, will have en!) scenes in the shipworkers? strike, called today hye ard owners were em Other pictures show house- in declaring that the issues|} wives and mothers of the University district drilling ither the unions will have to|} on the campus; Miss Eliza {beth Tucker, girl boxing manager, and her protege che federal gore brother, the lightweight who sh it by law in the mills } met Chet Neff here this ing the shipyards with lumber,” week; former Ambassador ba ate Gerard's activities during nak VSIARBA } his visit to Seattle, and the Roth Duthie and Wiley said that|) first football. game of the they anticipated no violence, and|{ leeal season) layed Friday ) afternoon Wetween the i nseparable declare the boycott off ght-he owners grant an ment hey would not ask for an in wat t wane fs an Franklin and Ballard high school elevens, Ry special arrangement with the nionists, three engineers, three electricians and twenty-seven watchmen will be permitted to re-| © Seattle Construction] N ditions that prevailed before it will empts at mediation will be val of the U. 8, justment board uid at strike main at the a and Dry Dock plant to prevent the| made until t machinery from falling into disre-| .) uir during the strike. * The men will receive the new le of wager The ywners, in conference with the | Octe | headquart Sate Commissioner of — Immigration) Henry White said Saturday thats here was nothing he could do tgnenm that when the strike is sett! bi