The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 27, 1919, Page 1

F co ULL Leased Wire of the United Press Association. MPLETE Service of the News- paper Enterprise Associ THE G ATE Roterea as Mecond © Matter May 2, RATT EK, WA a Seceape orange | BIG CONFAB AT TEMPLE Denounce Walkout and Would Withdraw Work Seca tet Se NR TT t Between 300 and 400 officers of Seattle unions gathered in the assembly hall of the Labor temple at noon Monday, to dix cuss the question of a general strike of all union workers in Seattle Saturday, February | A, E. Miller, chairman of the conference committee of the Metal Trades council, said, just before going into the meeting, that his organization would make an appeal for a general walkout in sympathy with the striking shipyard workers. Feeling is running high as the re gult of the United States ship; an Doard’s action in wiring Seatt!> yard owners that the men had violated the agreement under which they were working with tne Mavy wage adjustment board. Statements from government offt cialis, the shipyard owners and the Metal Trades council followed each other rapidly in the past 24 hours, and a mass meeting of 7,000 boller- makers in the Hippodrome Sunday -woted unanimously to support the ‘Metal Trades council, All union) Jeaders in the city are on edge for the discussion of a general strike. Threaten Cancellation Work in Seattle shipyards to the value of $250,000,000 is threatened with cancellation, if the Emergency Fleet corporation orders work on government orders stopped as indi ated by telegrams received by the yard owners from Charlies Piez, ai ~ yector of the fleet corporation Piez has sent wires to the Seattle ‘and Tacoma shipyards, asking for @etailed estimates of the cost of canceling the government ship con tracts. This is taken. by the yard S owners as requiring an estimate of the amount they are entitled to as D reimbutsement for work already done and equipment purchased on behalf of the government Owners and managers yards went into conference (Continued on Page Nine) of the Monday OF FAIR ENTAL IS NOW WITHDRAWN accorded shipyard Protection profiteering land workers against Jords thru the fair rentals ¢ gion of the emergency fleet « tion was withdrawn by wire morning A. M. Taylor, head of the transpor of the Monday tation and housing bureau shipping board, sent the wire from Philadelphia follows “As the war-time emergency # Mow passed, we have ceased to exer ‘cise supervision of rentals thruout the entire country. Hence, no fur ther steps should be taken in behalf of the emergency f corporation with res to either new or pend ing cases While the action applies to the whole country, § ldy, promi nent labor man, official of the Metal frades council and a member of the fair rentals comm m, declared that this was a on the part of the fleet corporation to helt break the spirit of the shipyard workers: | He declared that this telegram gives all landlords who were for | to reduce rents the privilege of rent of their pr raising the tenants or force premises. Work Stopped on 12 Tacoma Hulls; Labor for Action them to vac TACOMA, Jan Tacoma ship yard strikers today considering ways of 1 Irastic actior of th ernment imergency Fleet corporation in or wk stoy ped on _stee constructior The Auexiion of calling for a ger eral strike vote pro will be put up to the Central Labor council at its regul meet Wednesda tion corporation Sunday received telegram from Viez, director of the Fleet corporation, order last order Vamergency ing work stopped on the for 12 hulle U. S. Shipboard Officials’ U.S PROTECTION STRIKERS IN THRONGS AT FUNERAL OF LIEBKNECHT 50,000 in Procession as Radical Leader and 31 Followers Are Buried | STATEMENTS ARE ISSUED CITIZENS ARE ORDERLY | b ‘ BY JOHN GRAUDENZ 1 Press Co (Unite rrespondent) ed) (Dela, Jar for any Karl Liebkr and 3) other Spar tacans passed off quietly More than 60,000 marc in the procession, which was The government and machine guns vals along the route guns frequent inter of the proces sted warnir ns to remain The ege was headed by a band Liebknecht's coffin wax on a separ ate wagon, and was followed by eight uring 71 other coffins bts casket was first be lo into @ monster grave in Luiszeziets cemetery, A brief obitu ary was recited, and 4 hymn sung Liebknecht’s widow and two sons stood near the grave until other cof fins were placed and covered with clods.. Traffic on the subway was | stopped for hours as a tribute by the workers to Winnipeg Troops Fight Socialists in Street Meeting WINNIPEG, Jan. 27.—The city was quiet today following near-riot ing yesterday between returned sol diers and socialists who had at tempted to hold memorial meetings! for Karl Liebknecht After the socialists has nm pre vented from meeting in a theatre they assembled in Market square, but soldiers dispersed them after fist fighting Socialist headquarters were pil laged, literature thrown into the streets and burned and furniture de molished Hamburg Is Placed Under Martial Law BERLIN, Jan. Spartacan riots in been supp under martial jaw today. Czech forces Oderburg, on the German following a bloody fight with Polish troops weed by announe captured border ARMOUR ADMITS PACKER CONTROL WASHINGTON, Jan sckinik “wation- Wide buy: }and cattle, J. Ogden Armour admit \ted, under questioning by Francis J Heney today, before the senate agri cultural committee Chicago packers kept in constant touch with their (buyers at Fort Worth, Kansas City, Omaha, Sioux City and St. Paul, Armour said High Rate May End Copra Shipments that copra may be eliminated Seattle import, are expressed by shippers Monday, following nouncement of a $12-ton rate on that Fear “n commodit siverpool and Caleu tates shipping board's rate from Pacific ports $40 ton, more than three times the British figure For Sale Hotels, Rooming Houses, Machine Shop, Garages, Res- taurants, General Stores, Grocery Stores, Cigar Stores. Full details on the Classified page, un- der Business Oppor- tunities. HARMONY, BOYS, HARMONY SI? 1a Why Do the Olymp Lawmakers Delay? Why has not the Lamping bill, to give every discharged soldier and sai- lor $10 a month for the period of his war service been passed yet? Why the delay? Are our solons at Olympia merely bluffing when they say they want to give immediate relief to the men who donned the uniform? Is it just bunk or camouflage? It took them only a comparatively few minutes to pass a resolution ask- ing congress to give each service man an appropriation of $300. Congress may or may not do it. In the mean- time—what? Shall our Olympia representatives sit calmly back and do nothing? It is easy enough to say: “Let George do it.’”’ But congress is un- certain. At Olympia, there ought to be certainty. Our Washington sol- diers and sailors must not be penniless when they begin civilian life. If it was right to ask congress to give them some ready cash, it is right that Olympia should appropriate money, too. Bring the Lamping Bill out—into daylight. Let us see what’s keeping it from becoming law—immediately. —<—<_<_$<_—_—$$— , HOETZENDORFF TELLS (FOOD ADMINISTRATION WHY HE WAS FREED VIENNA Von Hoetzendorff, former Austrian chief of staff, said in today that he wed to rel command beeca military efforts Against Italy, RANCISCO, a Jar 1.-—Ger SAN I Jan administre it California fe n today unnounced that un interview quish his tha! all concentrated | is going out of vines on uary 31, All other food administrations will take similar action, it was said was fe be ri 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, W. THE LEADING CHORUS > SATTERFIE| D ‘SHIPBUILDING STRIKES START THRU BRITAIN ONDON shipbuilding strikes were under way | toda in Great Britain and Ireland vu AR Jan Y Other industries were Ued up by The city of Belfast was pra paralyzed by a general strike, ri in sympathy with the walkout of Select Committees 40,000 shipyard employes, who de) paris Jan Delegates of the manded a 44-hour week 19 smal) na ns participating in Twelve thousand shipbuilders in| the peace conference were to meet at | London went out today, asking in-|4 o'clock this afternoon for the pur-|} | creased wages. pose of selecting their representa A partial strike was on im the/ tives on the committees to work out Glasgow yards, and threatened to be- | details of the big problems. The su come complete before night. ShiP- | preme war council resumed its ses builders and engin the Leith | sions at 10:30 this morning Edinburg and threatened 4 out of all allie LONDON day sympathetic yar ds A sympathetic , on NORTHWE, ier the Act of Congress March &, , 1919. 1879. i, BRITISHER ; Says World Revolt Will Fol- low if Justice Is Not Given Peoples DEBATE HUN : COLONIES BY LOWE MELLETT (United Press Staff Correspondent.) PARIS, 4: supreme war council was understood to- day to be considering disposi tion of German colonies and other territorial questions. The league of nations, however, was the chief subject under consid eration by the de ates, he principal development was to be selection by the smaller nations of their five delegates on each of the special committees created Sat irday, The league of nations com mission was ac opted as the most important of there. Working alongside this commis unofficial organiza societies, for the league of It held its initial meeting last night and intends to continue in session thruout the con ference with the object of furnish ing a clearing touse for information to ansist the official eormmittee. Urges Just Peace Jamex Thomas, head of the Brit ish railway men, made a strikfng apeech at the first meeting of the allied societies, warning that there is a state of actual “revolt” thruout the world whieh will not end until a sion will be a the alll tion tions. right and just’ peace is establish ed. He recalled President Wilson's statement that “if the contribution of the governments to peace equals the contributions of the people to war there is no doubt about the re sults,” and declared that no British statesman ever more fittingly (Continued on Page Nine) U. S. Peace Agents Send for Families Por Year, _ Weather Forecast: | Home Land Poy United Presp Leased Wire | Direct to The Star | MADRID, Jan. 27.—Ornelas and other Portuguese monarchist leaders were reported today to be under ar- rest at Monsanto. LONDON, Jan Manuel former king of Portugal, that country, according to advices received from Spanish sources today A Vigo message Mino river in the region of Camina Saturday morning Per Manuel in England denied he had ever left his home here to join the monarchist rebellion. A dispatch from Lisbon stated that Pre mier Barbosa had called upon repub- lican political leaders to help form a new coalition cabinet. he situation in the ital was said to have turned in or of the republicans, altho many were killed and wounded on both sides before order was restored. More than 300 officers have been impris- ened. Direct communication with Lisbon js still cut off. Another repert was that monarch- IL, is now in ons clone Portuguese ist forces were dominating Lisbon, and had revoked all the laws. Troops had been sent from there, it was said, to Aveiro, Villereal and other points remaining faithful to the republic. Paiva Conceiro, leader of the roy- | alist revolt, was reported to have sent | two emiensaries to Vigo for the pur pone of opening telegraphic communi cation with Portuguese monarchists } —|PEACE MEN Say Manuel ORDER | i WARNED BY Returns to READY said he crossed the | ® in Madrid. Other advices had it that | monarchist chiefs in Vigo had been arrested Madrid dispatches reported that telegrams from the frontier said the | royalist agitation in Valencia and jother centers was growing, but that, despite this, the monarchist in- surgents apparently had become re- signed to the failure of their revolt ‘SOLDIER LAND | barding. BILL NOW UP y WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—A_ bill WASHINGTON, Jan appropriating $50,000,000 for land Nation-wide | °2'# peace experts expe ® reclamation to provide work for un. |much longer in session than origin-| employed was introduced today by ally anticipated and a number of/ Senator Jones, Washington i‘ them, it was learned today, have) ‘This is the first concrete result being rapidly /sent for their families to go tolof the suggestion of President. Wl strikes. Paris son and Secretary Lane that con. Small Natiode to quit work walk | Three Germans to trades. Seer Attend Labor Meet i PARIS, Jan Germany will be London Policemen represented at the international la Decide to Strike vor ana socialist conference in Berne vay A general|®Y @ majority socialist delegation. of police waa acheduled for to-|/consisting of Molkenbuhr, Weils and Henne ot oe tt at the home office's | Muller, it was announced today by ecognize the Policemen's|Atthur Henderson. Henderson re refusal to 1 unior or land railwa Suffragists Will reinstate discharged Mid turned from Switzerland temporarily to confer with British officials re garding international labor legisla Measure Would Bar gress stimulate reclamation and land development means of caring for returned soldiers and others needing, work Bootblack Hit on Head by Angel; He Calls for Police What's in a name? Nothing, says Juda Hanan ' } Hanan had a partner named $ > Be r 8. Angel in a shoe shining i parlor at 613 Second ave. ‘They § ) had an argument over the ex ; penses of the business, Hanan } told the prosecuting attorney's of- } fice Monday, and hit him { over the head with t blunt end | } of a small knife and then started § } in to beat him up. He says he } called for the police, and Angel } flew on the wings of the wind, { ) sans coat, sans hat { Hanan wants Angel put in jail, { he said Monday, but Angel is still | who Portuguese Royalists Are Arrested One The seattle Star ST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NIGHT EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE by Mail, 16.00 to $9.00 Tonight and Tuesday, rain; ine creasing sout utheasterly Winaals winds STR Executive Says Territories Will Be Defended to Last Man RELATIONS ARE STRAINED Direct to The Star FIUME, rt 27- dent Pogatschrig, of the Sloe — vene government at Laib declared in an interview thi all Jugo-Slav territories be defended against the Ital | ians to the last man.” He said that relations with ‘tna are greatly strained, and ; five classes of Jugo-Slav diers are under arms. RUSSIAN REDS MAKE ADVAN LONDON, Jan. forces, consisting Americans and Russians, retired slightly before a vik advance on the Shonkursé front, it was announced in an official report from Archangel. “The Bolsheviki continued sure on the Shonkurst front nesday and Thursday,” the ment said. “They attacked in ¢ siderable force after three days r By * “Our forces, consisting principally of Americans and Roseiagil were first withdrawn to the Shonkurst de fenses to prevent the town from be: ing outflanked. Later the town defenses were successfully ed and a shorter line taken up te the northward.” TO RUSH YANKS BACK TO HOMES WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Within six months all of America’s soldiers are now in France will have” been returned to the United States, except those left for joint police work, with the allies, Gen. March told the senate military affairs com- mittee today. March said there are 1,800,000 American troops abroad. As soon as German ships, for which Edward Hurley is ni jating, are available, the troops will come home at’ the rate of 300,000 a month, Mareh aaid. He also told the committee that’ by March 1, the 785,000 men remains ing in camps in the lnited States would be demobilized except the few needed to care for the ¢ anton Resale ‘Vv. Debs Launches Attack on Espionage Law WASHINGTON, Jan preme court today heard in the case of Eugene V Debs, found * at large. {| guilty of violation of the espioi | Tour United States ; Peay Gil en {/Sctewn a speech delivered aaa | Wasninoron, Jan. 27-—Twenty-| Immigrant in U. S. Sw | 20, 0. \wix suffragiats who have served pris WASHINGTON, Jan. A bill s Debs is attacking the constitution: nh terms here for demonstrations, | temporarily Closing against the immi-| Funeral services for Joseph Tova: | ality of the espionage act, including? will start February 9, on a national|grant the hitherto open American | row, aged 24, discharged Seattle sol- | the amendment made to it last May, three week tour opening at/| door will be reported to the house to: | dier, who died of influenza Sunday at | which is known as the sedition bill, Charleston, 8. C., and ending in New |day, with the hope of getting favor-| his home, 1412 FE. Union st. were | ‘The attack is the broadest y Sock. Ther't se to campaign for able action before March 4, when con-| scheduled to be held a m. Mon- on the law, but other the suffrage amendment ress adjourns day, at the Bonney-Watson chapel, pending, j ) IN CALIFORNIA THRU impres BY ROB! J. BENDER early in the morning, took lunch at; ‘The president's party spent two (United aff Correspondent) |Chateau Thierry and returned from| hours in the Chateau Thierry eaion PAR President | Rhe ima by train in the ening waco in deans ees Ne V a little Amer! Snow fell most of the time. Ola, Of American Sraves averic ok ne Be cries, miles -of@ desolate | trenches stretched out in thin white | lea wood nile. the stery gett € tryside and scor fr i |lines across the country; abandoned fg a tite Y is hin re ha arta ic ne villages fresh in his mind. camoufla tc ees Su ge Poem rr l= No one can put into words the|wreaths beside the roads, Piles of|Petole for i sions I have received in the|abandoned mats hid their martial aspects Cathedral midst of such nes of desolation | identity under a mantle of white The aged mayor received the party and ruin,” he®declared, after leaving At Rheims the snow swirled) at Rheims in rooms with shell-piere the skeleton of the famous Rheims|against the wrecked buildings and|ed walls and ceilings. The president | cathedral yesterday |splotches of it covered the black-| expressed deep emotion in response | President and Mrs, Wilson spent/ened wounds of the cathed as/to the mayor's welcome, The party the day in. the devastated area.|tho nature were seeking to hide the! then went to the cathedral, passing ‘hey left Paris in an automobile vapdalism of the invaders, reverently thru the ruins. ‘ Wilson Shocked by Sight of War Havoc As the president walked by de of Cardinal Lucien, It the he remark: ed beautiful even tho it's @ ruir The intact circular centerpiece cardinal presented to him an from one the cathedral’s priceless stained glass window Haif an hour was spent in the ea thedral, looking up at the great holes in the roof and inspecting other dam- age Later the party walked in the streets adjoining the cathedral which were bordered by the wrecks of what were once dwellings. They: then motored thru the entire city.