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& ¥ TACOMA STRIKE TACOMA, Feb. 10.—The shipyard strike committee an that the walkout would be over in 48 hours. Proposition to that end has been referred to the unions for 4 4 need A q TACOMA, Feb. 10.—The attempt at a general strike in foredoomed offspring of shipyard strike leaders, ied its last at 8 o’clock Monday morning, after four Ws of dissension that threatened to split the ranks of ed labor wide open. Workers in all unions not affiliated with the Meta! council, who were ordered out last week, returned * Pe oa Es nt. wing statement was fons the executive com and mittee of th organizations which maintain law an » has defeated an attempt Ishevi ed E Mayor t rewolution. Hanson, Chief of Pol Warren and Mody the gre « majority ally back ¢ a conspirac eltizens who stood lo: them, have thwarted to tnaugurate a revolution and reigr of terror In Seattle, which the cor ho} a te in the United States and the of the spirators b their jobs. Benera! strike committee Sunday | job.’ Passed a resolution for all| “Pussed by the general strike com: @rafts to return to work, de-| mittee this, the Sth day ita mission in showing the | “GENERAL STRIKE COMMITTEE of labor.” } C. W. Bryan, Secretary.” union men expected to see —_— —— failure of the attempted gen Strike loft the shipyard strike} y the Central Labor ft last Wednesday night Committee will await joint a da possible settler The fol! of metal trades ur eued today &re not shipyard workers, tied up with the shipyards from the strike order. Sheet Workers are locked out by the committees of the organization commit Ot the general strike committee Fy, Tecommend that the following pc n be passed Whereas, The genert! strike has iy of labor, to show the em of labor that the worker will ¥, use the general strike, independently of Seattle, | action as will put them back on the that “the general strike has) ary, 1919 | Beattie general strike collapse Was before the general walkout | NIPPED IN BUD, ordered by } With the Seattle metal trades Are not employed in contract following resolution was given d this, the %th day of Feb- its mission in showing the W, therefore. be it every accompliah overthrow governm “Seattle han broken a revolution movement with its own police with ot without martial law or ary eturn to trades, retur ietivanth ork at $n. m.. February 10, 1919. ae Phat if any craft or indivi ted against, w strike committer. w TAR'S UNION TEN REMAINED. DN THEIR JOBS Of ali the union men employés Seattle Star, printers, press Mereotypers and mailers, only | @n apprentice etereotyper, on strike. &@ printer in Seattie on any of | ‘papers went on strike. No mail ‘Went on strike and no pressmen. j@ Presamen's union not only dis the strike and refused to go es, but withdrew their from the Central Labor the presence of any essential ruption of the « ity government the sympathetic strike ts ng: an aroused commu rmined that a small per Bolshevists, who of the lead all no longer alien of gained @mporary contr ership of union labor, # block the wheels of industry and the channels of trade. centag: ‘The Rolshevist revolution was prevented because the police author ities of Seattle were abundantly pre pared for it, and Mayor Hanson had the courage and determination to keep Seattle's utilities operating. “A J. RHODES, Chairman.” WATERFRONT Altho the Waterfront Employers’ 4 association voted to begin work Star, during the strike, as al-| Monday with what longshoremen 4m the past, was printed entire- and help were available, the water Union men. front was t up to noon, Union Of the stereotypers employed | Pacific railway activities, in loading P.-I. went,on strike and part Times stéreotype force went ltho the latter paper had a suf.) erew on hand to oper: The; r who did go cn strike de @ their international union in do '§0, and as 4 result their interna Fepresentative, who ts here in ttle, recognized ax union men in standing only those stereotyp- who stayed on their jobs. | trademark known in and throughout the North- west—signifying the most liberal credit-giving and fairest pricings. and unloading, were scheduled to be gin at noon. Longshoremen Sunday voted to Temas * until the general strike was formally called off. m ) One Day Qui- pa the Cough and Headache and works off the Cold. FE. W. GROVE'S signature on each box. 20 Years service to the homefurnisher! steel-covered trunk: special— $19.45 price $24.50 made 4 nize $19.45 5&-ply fiber trunk: special— $22.95 regular price —black veneered 6 fiber; he corners catches an: bie: “TACOMA: 4. SCHOENFELD & SOMA EATTLE- COND AT PINE of Febru | STILL QUIET j | Cheer up, folk! | but there’s a silver lining behind the clouds. v4" SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1919. COME OUT OF IT Things may have looked a bit gloomy the past few days in S Out of the lamentable situation, which ttle, has cost the city and its people countless thousands of dollars, and considerable physical and mental suffering, a brighter and clearer aspect of things is now at hand. This city is going to continue in great strides forward—in a thoroly American way. Democratic government—the government of the majority by the ballot system— stands firmer and securer than ever. GIRL OF 14 1S _ MISSING FROM __ SEATTLE HOME io Killman, schoolgirl, aged 14, is being sought by the police Mon day, at the request of her father, I J. Kiliman, of 513 Third ave. N. Ac cording to Killman, his daughter mysteriously disappeared Sunday afternoon, while on her way hon from a house several blocks distant The time was 4 p.m Mixes Killman was visiting at the home of her sinter, She left shortly before 4, and started to walk to her father’s home, several blocks away She has not been seen since The girl in described jas five feet in height, weig pounds with brunette a in OPEN SHOP TALK IS NOT FAVORED Taking & f the down of the general strike y that many employers under the 4 br antage k from tt thru ary Cook. The owners of the sb will require an apology from the barbers who walked out re allowing them rk, says Cook, and in ev to return to ent they il to do #0, the owners plan open shop. to op erate under th Arrest Manager of International Federal investigation of Aaron ilation manager of yal Weekl ar ted Sunday evening at h ph ou Liberty building. ia under way Mon Fislerman is charged with literature of a dubious na the streets for sale. The f the week alle ed to contain matter inciting Bol shevism and reveral thousand copies of a circular captioned, “Rus sia Did It were seized t the » lice, under the personal supervision of Capt. B. L. Hedges, Fisierman {s held in the city Jail Break a Mayor Treasures ) ire From Union Grove, and Why | { Ameng the congratula of Hanson, of tive to his handling of the 1 atrike sit uation, he prizes most one from ( { the folks in the e town where jhe haunted the 4 swimming hole and had his boyhood scraps ) and affairs of the heart ? } It came from citizens of Union { Wis \ Union Gro non and fe budge an inch are ad of her tizen. Don't American liber- at «take. Hit hard and let them tand that we live in the good old | A., and not in Bolsehevik-ruled Rurata.” } Mayor answered in } revolution had inde Hanson taking a chance this his wife wouldn't mind, aa he explained. UNION GAR MEN RETURN ON ALL SYSTEMS HERE More than 1 of the 0 union street car Puget und Traction re.urned men f company to work Sunday and 95 per cent of the regular Sun da wan extablished by night. The m urned to work in ac cordan th the orders received from th International Street & lectric Raflway Employes’ Amalga m och of America . were operated on city lines to Lake Burien Sunday be cause of the neceasity of repairing cara which had be tampered with in the bar The lines will bt affording usual service shortly intendent of Utilit Seven on thi wing to Super os Murphine. carn ard line system, instead Some were were being operated of the municipal ¢ six as being operated by ” usual, their being old crews operated t Fifteen cars were je others were emergency men in ¢ ation on the Seattle & Rainier Vailey lnos Sunday and they managed to main tain a seven-minute # Cold hedule In Few Hours Relief comes instantly. A dose taken every two hours until three doses are taken will end grippe misery and break up a severe cold either in the head, chest, limbs. 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SHIPWORKERS OF COAST HOLD JOINT SESSION Representatives of all of the ship building crafts of the Pacific Coast will hold a conference in Portland during the coming week, at which & wage plan may be agreed upon which will emable the striking ship builders here to go back to work Shipyard laborers, riggers and fasteners will at a sension ¢ voice their grie the executive nee trict board here today The representatives of all the coast’s bollermakers’ unions, the largest in the metal trades, will hold & conference today at Portland, up on the wage question Wage questions will be discussed at New Ivest at similar meetin: Chicago, Philadelp New Orleans and oth centers, The convention of all the crafts to be held in Portland during the week will vote on the proposition of concerted bargaining, or united ac tion fh behalf of the metal trades workers with employers to re place the Macy award, the govern ment wage stale, which was one of the immediate causes of the local strike Internatior York, n shipbuilding al officers of the var fous unions affecting ahipyard work ers are due for a calling down at the Portland convention, accordin to present indications, because it jasserted by coast metal trades fictals that the 1 agreed to the Macy ne ting their unions not to seek creased wages, without giving th Jonly as a coincidence union membership an opportunity to vote on the question MACY BOARD T0 BE DISSOLVED : SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10.—Ship yard managers and labor leaders were considering, today, the pros pects of an early return to unfet tered collective bargains means to determination of wages The Macy board, which fixed the wage scale to which shipworkers at Seattle, Oakland and elsewhere ot jected, will be dissolved April 1, it waa announced by L. C, Marshal, a member of the board. That date will mark the surrender by the government of its control over the industry neral Manager Pier, of the shipping board rect cor is now in di ARE DEPORTING CHICAGO, guarded ¢ ers were ¢ Feb. 10.—Two heavily rloads of foreign disturb. route to an Atlantis port today for deportation, The men were largely from West Coast cities, where they have been held for various peri od iting ocean transportation In the party were many Russians and a few enemy aliens. All were alleged to be radicals and trouble makers A. D. H. Jackson, of the Seattle office of the immigration depart ment, was.in charge of the party Officials’ here were told the men| |APd) had not been connected officially | |" with the general strike at & tle. Deportation at this time came ORDER CAR LINES CLOSED UP | | | | | | | | cratic type of labor organizatt LW. W. CAT GOT SINGED, SAYS MAYOR “The attempt to overthrow the existing status has proven a complete failure.” So declared Mayor Hanson in a statement today “It was, on « high seale, sabo- tage—the throwing of a wooden shoe, or the ‘eat’ as the 1. W W's terms it, into the gear of an entire community industrial machinery... “Thousands of laborers in Seattle were induced to go into this gene! strike without sensing ite import, its logical consequences and its dangers to organized labor thru a precedent, | which, if successfully practiced, | would invalidate all contracts be | tween employes ayd employers. “The international officers of the American Federation of Labor who refused to sanction this strike ac tion on the part of their Seattle lo cals, knew what tt meant. They saw plainly, I have no doubt, the danger of using the pet weapon of syndicalism and of taking the first step on a road which local radical ers admitted led, they not where And the Bols knew hevint element here well toward what it led—dis n of the American, demc of the present order of government in thin at thou indera must any hful, {nteliig In Seattle who shared t tastic experiences and and read the revolu ments that attempt the credo of a disruy thruout the fundamenta ations on wh heen to plain pernon ity's fan who heard to wet up here ve movement nation—a movement opposed to the found h America has risen tod & protest and a lesson which every American con munity ought to mtudy, with ail the vision and precautionary wisdom it can muster.” ALL SCHOOLS OPENED TODAY Beattie schools Monday lowing the return of the # janitors and engineers ‘oted unanimously to go Work at @ special meeting & While 16 schools, employing non union help, had remained open, 63 had been foreed to close. These were on normal achedule Monday. Night schools will open Monday night, and continue on schedule of Monday, Wednesday and Friday opened who back NO AMATEUR DID THIS JOB That rome person intimate with atreet nechaniam crippled the city's bight Lake Burien street cars so that the city could not operate them during the strike, is the con tention of Superintendent of Utili ties Thomas F. Murphine. day, the others having had their switches molested, air cut off, line switches disconnected and various parts cut off Says Seattle Hot Frederick W. Rouse, D. oD. gregational church, in his morning sermon yesterday declared that Se attic was the hot point of the na- tien, in that the wages have been the highest, organized labor strong est, and most numerous here radicals BANISH CATARRH | Hrenthe Hyomet for ‘Twe Min and ve Stuffed-Up Hen If you want to get relief from ca- tarrh Id in the head or from an irritating cough in the shortest time, breathe Hyome It should clean out your head » minutes, and allow you t athe freely yome) often ends a cold tn one it w ¢ you of disguating tting and of ptic, that icalyptus forests of where catarrh, ption were never othing, nt and easy ¢t ura few drops int nhaler aun breathe the hard rubber ed, and relief over If you own # haler, you can & © of Hyomel at druggists || SHOOTING Pain Bizzy 4 RENTISTS THIRD AND UNION ven MY TEETH © AN OL HAD ey Le HURT A s J TIE-UP BROKEN MAYOR’S STATEMENT } “The mere calling off of the general is not sufficient. BY | strike must clean house. fe onimnste Seattle’s general strike will end Tuesday according to a vote of the 300 dele- gates from the 110 striking unions and the 15 members of the general strike committee, at 1:15 o’clock Monday. In the meantime all of the striking unions including those who had already returned to work, will be called out by the leaders until Tuesday noon. This is to show the solidarity of labor, say the leaders. This will include street cars. The end of the general strike will not af- fect the shipyard workers, according to labor officials. The shipyard workers will still be noon, on strike regardless of crafts. At press time of this edition, the street cars were still Traction officials declared they had not been noti- running. fied of the new strike order. Theatres were scheduled all closed for one more night, Seattle Theatrical federation, stage helpers. Jitneys resumed service Monday but will be idle over night, and most barber shops will close their doors after a short opening. Auto drivers, milk wagon drivers and the teamsters were back on the job in the up the city’s transportation for 24 more hours. stants’ union voted on their own accord to stay on strike as did the longshoremen. Most of the restaurants and the waterfront will be idle for an- Several restaurants opened Monday morning and a number of ships were loaded. The strike was practically broken Sunday when va- rious unions decided to return to work. 600 street car workers weat The Cooks’ and A other night. Twelve hundred of the 1 back to work for the traction three days’ idleness. Association of America. Normal service was resumed late Sunday night, but in all probability Seattle will 24 hours. Barbers, teamsters, jitney men, Seattle Theatrical Fed- /eration, auto drivers and wilg wagon drivers all voted to, go back to work on Sunday, and started work Monday morning only to face the possibility of another day’s idle- Rut one car was operated Satur-| ness, due to the action of the strike committee at the Labor |temple this noon. One of the bitterest meetings ever held in the Labor temple occurred Sunday, conservatives and radicals clash- ing time and again over the settlement issue. es _ six Ego = breaking og 4 <r resented H H y those that voted to continue the strike. Point of Nation, Dissatisfaction over the breaking of the general strike pastor of the Plymouth Con. Was expressed by shipyard workers’ delegates. A campaign to call a strike in every shipyard in the | United States, to “force the issue of our just demands in ;some manner,” is now contemplated by Metal Trades coun- ‘cil officials. Altho they “hope it will soon be settled,” shipyard men’s delegates admit they are no nearer a settlement than when the shipyard strike was called. The final session in the a, m. Sunday, after it had been in session since Saturday The vote taken at that time was to continue morning. the strike. CITIZENSHIP IS DENIED TO THEM Twenty-five Norwegians and all within draft age, who| announced their intentions of giving their first citizenship papers when called to fight, have had the papers canceted in the United States district court here, They are now living in Seattle, but under an emergency law, passed at Washing ton July 9 last, they are forever barred from becoming citizens of | this country The men were presented in court by Jobn C, Smith, chief naturaliza, tion examiner, and their papers de stroyed. Frank Johnson, 61st; Lars Ninth ave. of Sweden, 1 Voge, of Norwa Christian Strand, WwW 16 alias Christian Aspestrand, of Nor-| way, Peteraburg, Alaska; Adolf Bir- ger Pal Olsen, alias Adolf Olson, of Norway, Hotel Livingston; Julian Angel Anderson, alias Julian Ander son, Norway, 1925 Terry ave.; Hal- sten Olsen Kvisvik, of Norway, Port Blakeley, Wa: George Kvalheim, of Norway w Standard hotel; | Halvor Martin Larsen Otnes, alias Halvor M. Otness, of Norway; Burke hotel; Andrew Hansen Killevold, of | Norway, Livingston hotel; John Lud. Olson, of Sweden, Beaver, Wash,; Martinus B. Wick alias Martin Wick, of Norway; 2423 W, 60th; Tore Anderson Ka alias Tore A Kaldset 2 1108 Stewart st.; Ole of Norway, Haram, alias h, of orway, Hanson Skarbo, Ole P. 84 Seneca st.; Ole Pedersen Haram, of Norway, ave.; Marelius Hansen Norway, 1925 Terry ave; Osear Anderson, of Sweden, 401 Fifth ave.; Johan Walfrid Johan. son, alias John Walfrid Johnson, of weden, 511 Seventh ave; Albert Erickson, of Sweden, 1521 Bellevue;! 4404 Raker ot Holkstad, rt Seattle lay prostrate without reason, without fault. forgive but we can never forget.” This action was brought about by a vote of the car men in obedience to the wishes of the Inter- national Street & Electric Railway Employes’ Amalgamated Labor unions We may | the action of theo ther to open today but may be by the order calling out the composed of musicians and morning, but may again tie company Sunday night, after walk again during the next The action Labor temple closed at 4:30 Adolf Wilhelm Johnson, of Sweden, Sixth ave. S.; Edvard Johanson, lias Peter Edward Johnson, of weden, Tolt, Wash.; Karl Axel arison, of Sweden, 318 Howard ave. N.; Christian Olson Fagirvold, alias Chris Olson, of Norway; 424 Fairview ave.; John Carlson, of Sweden, Siemscarey, Wash.; Chris- Wing’s Cafeteria Open Tuesday

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