The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 28, 1919, Page 9

‘ ' ynthia Grey’s Answer to Shipyard Worker’s Wife The Letter | The Reply In the Special Price Basement Saturday First Offering of 50 New Dresses—Just Received at $15.00 Each Dear Miss Grey: Tam @ striking shipyard worker's wife, We have Mis Ga Sine over skhtn Wa Gale te Westin, and we altars thought noe u are right when you say The Star has ever stood as go fair to the working people until now a sturdy champion of the workingman’s cause, You are| t Don't you think The Star has forgotten what the cause of the wrong when you declare that The Star branded the ship was? It was for more money money that in really needed to pro \yard strikers as un-American. But your letter comes straight HARMING new Dresses that are excep- gronny lesa yl tere sagen i from the heart. I am glad you have written—glad to give) . ¢ da ys My husband is « striker and go are many of our friends, They KNOW | tional values for thesprice. They are new what the strike was called for and they wanted it, Now The Star hax/YOU The Star's true position ial ve , , Dranded them over the nation as un-American-—anarchists and LW. W. On the day the shipyard strike was declared, The Star! styles—fresh, new arrivals, just sent out from We do not fee! that the term is properly applied. printed a page | editorial, from which I quote: the st. We rebel against conditions that make it so hard to live and properly “ . cane Thal . var fe con-| etas, crepe de Chines and Georgette F bring up our three children. We realize the need of giving them a good aie It is the low-pay men in the yards that we must con a aeeen, £8 pe hi ,eorg education and other advantages in life It's a struge on the wages |' . : s. : | feceived to barely exist—me © than you know unless have tried it. | “Despite the roseate pictures that have been drawn of —All are new, up-to-the-minute styles, show- ing the strong favor of beaded and embroid ered work. ~-They are in navy blue, bisque, Copenhagen, © deve. We are buying & home here and we couldn't get along on ship-|men, the unskilled labo have had a sharp tussle with the 4 e Dos and other papers |COSt of living. Admittedly it is a heroic struggle to support Don't you think it would be better if ‘Th voted mere space to exposing trusts and monopolies 1 profiteering & family on $°% to $80 a week, * yearl gray, wistaria and turquoise, ae ; ) ; i : Th that make living so high? It soomes to me they are the ones that should “It stands to the credit of the skilled mechanics and the -~Many of the Navy Blue Dr 6 are trim- 1; ia ee renuiae: the be re ve some of those awful names that are ‘« burlet’ machinists who have been drawing higher wages that they! med with touches of the fashionable victory on the heads 0 ere “ of 2 “ie vail Te has been clearly sho t shipbutlders are mat ee profits, Made common cause with the unskilled laborers, refusing a red. Sizes 16 to 44, a What else can the working people do but organize, hold together, and slight increase for themselves while the others were being —Special Price Basement price......$15.00 a strike together? Is there any other way to combat organized capital? 1/denied a justifible raise.” | 7 believe in organized labor and strikes when necessary. it seems the only 4 ie ee 4 , way to gain anything from capital : Wi P d If my views are un-American, more is the shame, for my American The Star printed another editorial a week later. The 35 Women’s Coats Are Price ancestry dates away back. My husband's parents and mine are of oid following paragraph is an extract: | R k bl L $ 4 a New England settlers, My brother and a nephew are still in France. | “This is an American city. It isn’t a Bolshevik center emarkably Low at $15.00 Three cousins are over there. My l2-yearold son haw 815 in W. SS and one Liberty Bond bought with money he earned. Can you believe he has got been taught patriotism at home? wher His father has tried to be a good, self respecting citizen of attle but Because he is a striker, you denounce as some of the big employers contend, neither is it a city! yitalists can crush the last penny out of labor. The Star emphatically says again that the unskilled shipyard ai tee te wer eggs. Tou 1 workers are entitled to more pay.” " the laboring man and his inferests. Think now if you are doing right to The tar DID brand as un-American, Bolshevik, and Brand your fellow cittrens over the world as un-Amer simply because I. W. W., certain leaders of the GENERAL strike who threat- they think it necessary to strike for needed money ened to close down the city light and to tie up the water MRS. LILLIAN WHITE HESE are beautiful Plush, Broadcloth and Velour Coats, and the reason for the exceptionally low price is that the size range is broken. The Plush Coats are trimmed with plush of beaver shade, and the Cloth Coats are trimmed with coney fur. —Favored belted models, with shaw! and con- vertible collars. All are very attractive mod- Oe. Bpecdah G6 ose cine eee 355838% $15.00 100 Waists Priced Low for Quick Clearance $1.50 ORMERLY, Special Price Basement prices have been $1.85 and $2.85. These Waists are all slightly soiled, but otherwise are exceptional val- and vilify him. Tears of grief an ve always seemed fair t system, to leave hospitals to fate, and to paralyze things | without rhyme or reason. THEN THE STAR DID DRAW |Old College Co-Eds TH) LINE BETWEEN AMERICAN AND UN-AMERICAN Return to Complete METHODS. And in that same breath The Star still con- Thei Ed tended that the low-pay men in the shipyards were entitled ir : lucation to more money. The Star only warned them not to seize 1 Ore el 28 wo : anarchistic means of seeking to gain their point-——not to ente who left the Uni versity of Gregon $3 y adopt a plan which would throw public sentiment, heretofore obtained permission from the facu!| With them, against them. ty return a their di yt THOUSANDS OF UNION MEN DID OPPOSE e e . Py |s \s ° ry e oe e e e e . . . Py e e e e iJ e . ° Pd e e ry ry ry ° e ry e e e e e e e e e e e “ : e 1 have taken ip sewing to help out and worked barder than | ought shipyard workers growing wealthy, the vast majority of the|e 2 e e e e e ° e e e ° ae e e e a e i e iJ ° ° e e o e e e e ry ° ° . e e e eo e ry e e e e e e e e plomas by 4 re year of THE GENERAL STRIKE—THAT’S WHY IT FAILED. ues for the price. They are of crepe de Chine and wash silks. in white eam Ga as Cte, “Shee are none icing my many years on The Star I know not of one and flesh, lace and embroidery trimmed,’some plain styles. Sizes 86 to 40. Anna Henderson, of Portiand, and|Single instance when our paper has failed to support any} Special .......sscesecovegdessrecsercencseescecseresceseseteess BLO Miss Anna Coffin, of Seattle. Both |legitimate effort of working men to better their conditions. | weer ieee earn io te university |The Star gave its whole-hearted support to the street car men a different bas from the present |in their strike of a year ago, and the street car men today one, and special faculty action was|recognize this as one of the aces in their winning hand. ; Recessary to permit them to grad-|It supported the teamsters two years before. What it said Se er: Sean exists this year in behalf of decent living wages for shipyard men, Dr. John Straub, dean of the cot | it said for the carmen a year ago, for the teamsters two lege of Mterature, ectence and the|years ago, and for labor during the whole 20 years of its a is the only member of the | existence. ity today, who was here at the > 7 og isk Seen Hebereen and Mien Cot If you had read The Star for a few years instead of a} +fin were students. Dr. Straub|f6W Months you could not possibly reach such false conclu-| New Spring Style Dress Skirts 99.50, $15.00 to $35.00 Each MONG the newly arrived Spring Dress Skirts, plain ! { saw an announcement of Dr.| my own locking-up and keep my | of 1d men like Tommy, | Williams’ Pink Pills tn newspaper | keys with me.” (To Be Continued) af | one and decided to give them a trial. 1] We were standing at the top ot] ccmniilinntitodfetici i D l felt better before I had taken a fuil|the mezzanine stairs. The shop ai wn ental fox. Gradually. .the. pain in faylwidaows at the tar oad of the room | WOMEN IN BUSINESS | oO | ‘ r a | tray... $2.00 100 pairs Pacific School Shoes, 11 to 181%. It’s a Second Floor Eitel Bldg, © tte REMEMBER the best place to buy _ | mer....... 2.8 distress, 1 no longer have smother: daddy hooted when |ijtustrated by the thousands of wom. | Limber Up With Penetrating Ham.| Tes st | ; We save you from BOe || lie sensations and 1 fect much] Mother Lorimer aid) the | place| en who entered almost every tine of | Pan Weare OF 106 COLUMBIA 106 € save 5 ger and do not tire easily at! wouldn't be complete without them,” Musiness to replace men who | stronger an vould r ’ hen who were ¥ ore : 7 to $2.00 on a PAIR OF | tiny work. 1 am always glad to way|y mata |drafted during the war, Health|, 4 harmless and effective prepare | Seattle’s Leading Dentists SHOES. a good word for Dr. Willams’ Pink| “swell, ain't they?” Tommy re-| proved their strongest a Many | t!9n to relieve the pains of Rheuma Established in 1898 if ' Pilis, for 1 know that they helped| garded them with pride. “Jest lke | women, however, developed weak, | U8. Selatica, Lame Back and| THOUT question Early showing of Easter}! me.” |} seen ‘em in New, York! Swell of- | conditions and could not| Lumbago ts Hamlin’s Wizard Oil. It EF he Witette Shoes for Ladies— | it you have of the symptoms | tice, too,” sald the mar strain of a business tife, | Penetrates quickly, drives out sore:| and reasonable Lot that Mrs. Dessel describes, try|the elegance. ‘ Such women should remember there | @8%. and 1 up stiff aching | pental Offices in Seattle. 7 a 6 he ‘ ints and mus These offices have earn- N building up the blood with Dr. Wil-| turned to the cashier etion of the lig one tried and true remedy in| Joints « Ne their good reputation PR OE Fe ° Mars’ Pink Pill Kat nourishing | mezzanine, “and {t's bustin’ with | Lydia B. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com.| You have no {dea how useful it| the dentists doing Lot food, exercine & in the open air | me tonight.” He shook his head! pound, which for forty-five year ee be found in cases of every day | Bhat they say they will le Bs soees 2 cheeks and lips. You run no risk in| profit Just got the cont ot fitting | strength to the women of America | need of an immodiate healir th | Our work % funran~ ] 9 These shoes sell for]|)«iving Dr. W « Pink Pills al the place up off my mind.’ | ne ann “|septic application, as in casos of | teed. and fur husitens te $12.00 on Second avenue | ‘ta! 4% they not injure the| “fiut why-—why didn't you bank | Saket oe i the ‘ains, bruises, cuts, burns, bites! T8thtied patrons. ‘This | 712 Pike St.—Near Seventh Ave. All Tints of Kalsomine Sold Also 5 } most delicate xysterm re " TE * WAY of 1 stings. fs your guarantee that right now. Dr, Williams’ Pink Pilly are sold} “Well, you see, ma'am, I've been STE VENS" | bing | Get it from druggists for 30 cents Best work will be oe the q THE WALL PAPER SHOP . by all draggists, or direct from the|fairly—it was a busy Saturday. 1 Litto Cost, Private Halle | If not satisfied return the bottle | Pour \4 0e-teria No 3 | Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Sehenec-| couldn't find the time,” he ended 4 and get your money back ata J. BROWN bd | tady, N. ¥., at 60 cents per box, «ix | lamely Ever constipated or have sick! Owner and Manager ALL NEW STOCK 1509 FOURTH |hoxes for $2.50. Write for a free} “I get it, ‘Dommy. Your three headache? Just try Wizard Liver AVE. |copy. of the booklet, "Fullding Up| trips out to the asylum on my ao- Whips, pleasant little pink pills, 90 Brown Dental Offices ~ = | the Blood,” é count kept you away from the cents, Guaranteed—<Advertisement.| 406 Columbia At own. Special Purchase Salem Saturday Women's $8.00 Hland Bags $3.98 A [AL purehase just i, bought be low market value, and ofe fered ‘on turday at @ very attractive price, A large assortment of plendid, correct style Hand Bags, a number different styles in genuing. Morocco crepe, pin seale® Flat and envelope, top and. g back strap st 5. # Each is fitted with small; mirror, and some have | powder papers. They are splendid $5, Bags. Special on Saturday MH ocicccccoes oes receiv Barta Spe dat Saturday $39.50 pts S PLENDID, durable, con venient Hartman Wardrobe Trunks, erete lined, fitted with ten ers, shoe compartment and having the well-kno Hartmann features. cial Saturday ....$38 —Steamer Wardrobe to match, special, $36.50 | —Fitth Fieor, Women's Handkerchiefs Special 3 for $1, 00. —A broken line of Initial Handkerchiefs, fine quali-— ties, priced regularly each. Special on Sati iy, —New shipments just ree the favored new slip-on Fat eee eu tmeraity oe | 8Pe8ks highly of their work white in/sions as to The Star's policy and its attitude. Seattle people tailored styles, with pockets and wide belts, are fea- variety of styles in all the iam yeur fat vanish. Rach tablet con- college. * Sines then they have! who know The Star's record extending over a period of 20 tured as well as the graceful pleated models. On the froma 180 0 Wee coe 9 wee efor tat wees Pile onne Setny Pears in the pub-| years have not been deceived, and cannot be deceived, by the|$ various styles trimmings of buttons, pipings and folds of —Fir the eriginal Marmela prescription codiam ‘ “| silly rumors spread by the Bolshevik element, claiming that | § : Georgette are shown. Gagable of reducing the overtat Misw Hend The Star has changed its policy. i j i j j ‘ot the sate of two. thres, of lerson and Miss Coffin e a Ang Pp a. w \s r Soe pounds 0 ook wiihens ioe probably will return next summer, I cannot help but feel that had the shipyard workers|$ ie The ne : materials, silk cote ea Kumsa and trico- Ve ichiec Wh otecte Ame pour BL since the faculty action aftords| folowing the guidance of The Star, they would have been : tte are interesting in themselves, and the favorite neem | prs | on opportunity for early eadua-|tack in the yards before this—and at better pay. , |$ Serges are used in many of the skirts. —A, collection, arreneba aie ai ea eer cone for As The Star stated, I repeat that no strike can be won| ¢ good assortment of the new styles is shown, ranging ance. A variety of kinds # Ege | FORMER RAILWAY CHEF |without the support of ‘the public at large. And when the|$ in price from ........0...........$9.50 to $35.00 qualities in ” desirable Sine | HELD AS BOOTLEGGER | Shipyard strike ingle geen . general cat ecto id 1s Fraser-Paterson:Co, Third Floor. special 6¢ to She ae : all of the radicals an eviks in town, who tac eir|* C x .. e eeveqoeooores eerereey |tor six ear given ees ten enon un-American doctrines onto it, public sentiment was driven | as fast transcontinental train on the|from their cause. 000 Ri | Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, was We of The Star, who, with the rest of REAL Seattle, |60, Rifles on |Wheat Guarantee ern ocing tinge tae cherwed | were forced to make our way thru this unwelcome affair, Way to the Czechs| Passed by Senate! | x ine tender of & wane of) wave done and said exactly what we felt The Star should do| BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Feb. 28—-| WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—The bil- | 3 bootleggers between Chicago and the | a > | Coant and say—-AND JUST AS WE WOULD HAVE TO DO|A shipment of 60,000 rifies, occupy: | ion dollar wheat price guarantee JUST ARRIVED { eee I > si JAR CIRCUMSTANCES. |'ng 30 freight cars, for the Czecho- | bill was in conference today | You E x AGAIN UNDER SIMILAR ~| Slovak forces at Viadivortok, will| ‘The wenate passed it at 12:20 this| The Springiest Spring Styles You Sa start from here tomorrow. Ordered! morning with an amendment, cut-| cores of Styles—More on the Way. for the Kerensky regime, they have ting off payment on a 1919 spring | been In a warehouse here since last| planting unless farmers planted Farly delivery on { July. | spring wheat Inst year, these choice styles ar | ranged for Seattle \ 4 | trade by the local || manager during re: | roe trip to Boston. | ge" -ae STOR A N York, a | 1 SLEEP OVER rae ‘You, ma‘am,” said Tommy help: pedtenys a ple of . ‘D BECOME GU/ AN | lena y |This Mlinois Woman Suffered || “NP MeO Scie Tees s mving ee Until the Tonic Treatment o|_ 1 looked at the safe again—it {2s cur 68 chain-store . |o + "| made me uneasy for the first time S\organization, | Brought Her Relief ‘Tommy put me down on a barrel “tommy, don't think I'm cenay.”| \ turned and locked the door of the|T said, “but honestly, I'd feel a lot) ‘sayor tae gratéat aids to digestion, | © rocery behind us. better if you give that money to me} | but the person who knows that ev-| “Y'aren’t afraid, "ma'am? ne, Laeniean cing Segoerligescaasege | y lery mouthful of food he eats —S asked, making a wide gesture which |, fee, maa nd ease ete, oy tal Neenah. ww pare ye cg 4 Sent ys ae 5 al! included the dimly lighted space of} gery dealing he’ has with me. He | le, perforated g-ineh | is feay veal gt nine | the counters before us and the mes-|minds me like a child. Why, 1 © te & iting, sleeplessness and weakness, | | 6 tt c anticipate meals with pleas-|zanine floor above us. | wonder?” | A. UC and D. | cannot anticip: P “ | Browa Calf. 85.95 i Eating is no joy tor him. It} «No, Tommy,” I said, looking up ; 80 si lugged the heavy cash box} Rinck Catt ... 85.95 pat is something which must be endured | Into the rest room, set it on a chair} +++ 83.95 pate into his face. I can't say I looked | In Gray Kid $5.95 pair & a1 a © head of © eoucl ti ? pal | and there cun be no perfect diges-| of them when he was with the tanks! oyow ma'am, good night!” he ] Orns 3 oesn urt! WOMEN'S 9-1NCH LAC E jtion without an abundant supply of|in Franee and | am_ never eure | paid. ‘Skirmish round for provie-| BOOTS. rich, red blood. In stomach trouble, | which is the good eye. But I'd trust} jions, There's a gaa stove near the ; Mong Tirned Soles, ren therefore, the blood must be looked | them both, anywhere. }xoda fountain. I'll keep away to-| * . . Apt y latter. Proof of the value of the| “Come upstairs, then,” he sald.| Morrow, But phone me if you want Don’t let corns ache twice! Lift any corn or | tonic treatment of the blood in stom-|“When Mrs. Lorimer helped Mr. | anything, And I hope you'll sleep | . » . ech trouble is found in the results| Lorimer fix this place for the girl! \on ma'am. You're sate here | callus off with fingers—Here’s magict | jattained by the use of this particu. | clerks she ire never expected you'd | nothing will ae | e “ Me | | » H De f ° | For a few cents you can| Just think! Not one bit of | Our . $ . jlar tonic by Mrw. Herman Dessel of | sleep her Ps “Tommy,” I sajg with a hysterical ad | Saving hoe Prices 7 Bast Adama street, Springfield “A mighty nice place, tho,” 1 re inde, “Stes ‘Negiiining be Chia coos get @ small bottle of the| pain before applying freezono | Extra—Dark B B Ti. She says: marked as I looked about me. MOth- | moat anything may happe n "tol magic freezone discovered by|or afterwards, It doesn’t and $ J Sh rown Boys’ | “Irregular eating and lack of ex-|er Lorimer had certain ideas about) * | & Cincinnati chemist oven irritate the surround: eaten eta, 87.05 oe, rubber sole and heel, |} ercise brought on my stomach trou | how women ceaployes “cage ier | ysl Liat thpane. htaaee, toe-teicel Just ask at any drug etore| ing skin. } Blo. mite, $5.95, last........ ° |fing anything that would help me. I| to her good taste and common sense, | embarrassed by words. I held out/ Apply a few drops upon a|corns between the toes, also | i It’s a $5.00 shoe in all || suttered intense pain after eating} “The cleaning up i# all done,|my hand to him and he stooped | tender, aching corn and in-|hardened calluses on bottom | i the stores, with shortness of breath and smoth:|ma‘am, and nobod ll bother you| over it in an awkward bow. some stantly that old bothersome | of feet shrivel up and fall otf lering sensations while doing my| unt Monday morning at 6:30. 1|thing hurt my heart. Perhaps tt corn stops hurting, then|without hurting a particle. | Small boys’ Leather Shoe, || work. 1 tired quickly and had we-|don't have an inside watchman. | wa npathy for the unrealized ro: | rhortly you oan lift it out,|Ladies! Keep freezone handy SAMPLE SHOE SHO 7 to 814. Plenty of them || vere headaches lHave a man outside. T like to do|mances—which often spoil the ~" root and all, with the fingers, | on hima dresser, Wonderful! Paper LOWER PRICES