The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 10, 1919, Page 1

ee be @ Treeste ~ § fe J) LONDON | On the issue of LY me Americanism SS there can be no compromise VOLUME 22. NO. 14 Set BY THE EDITOR Shipyard workers have voted to call off their strike. Tomorrow these men, after 42 days of idle- ness, will resume their work. This furnishes the final chapter to the biggest ex- periment that union labor has ever attempted this country—an experiment which started with a le- gitimate but ill-advised strike to increase the wages of the lower-paid shipyard workers. * It was legiti- mate because these lower-pay men were, and are to- day entitled to higher wages. It was ill-advised be- cause, as the government shipyard program is now fix- ed, a change in wage scale was practically impossible. * * © & 8 *& Approximately this strike has cost Seattle as a whole twenty million dollars, and no one can say to- day that the results, and the lessons, do not justify that cost. It is in times of great stress that men de- velop and broaden—so it is with a city. Surely Seattle will havea more liberal mind and more tolerant dis- position as a result of this. Surely Seattle men,work- ers and employers alike, will learn from this that open-minded tolerance and conciliation offer the best way of ending disputes. es Be ewe. The prosperity of a city depends upon the pros- perity of its workers. The workers are in the majori- They are entitled by the American rule of a square deal to fair wages, fair hoursand working con- ditions. Moreover, it is essential to the interests of the entire community that they get all these beyond any question. Cle EB we Some employers do not see that it is necessary from the standpoint of business alone that these be given. On the other hand, there are some labor lead- ers who do not wish to see that the best interests of labor are linked with what is for the best interests of decent, honorable business. * + h# & H & Strikes on the part of the workers are often nec- essary to bring about the proper adjustment of wages and working conditions. The Star has supported many such strikes. No fair-minded person in Seattle, o1 elsewhere, will blame the rank and file of shipyard workers or the other union workers of Seattle for the revolutionary banners that were tacked to the general sympathetic strike. Always there will be cer- tain radicals ready to seize upon any labor difficulty to advance their arguments and their doctrines of a revolution. My Mi ths BO Me A general strike was not justified in our opinion. The Star opposed it from the standpoint of the wel- fare of the city as a whole and from the standpoint of the welfare of the laborers. Until the general strike was called the low-pay shipyard workers did have, as The Star said, public sentiment with them. It is a fact they lost this public sentiment after the general strike, and they lost it because of no fault of their own. They lost it because certain men started a movement which, as they said, will lead to “no one knows where.” Seay) COPS CLUB YANK _ An heaeds ican Paper That Fights for Americanism The SeattleStar ~- THE GREATES( DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE P Antered ae Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at toattle, Wash, ander the Act ACIFIC NORTHWEST Marem 4. 1879. SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1919, “THE END’ EE The Star has made many enemies and many friends by its stand. The Star hopes its new friends understand this newspaper. It fears that many of its enemies do not. The Star has fought always for what it believed the best interests of the majority of the people. The Star will continue to do so, hoping that it will be understood by all interests when it does, but fighting, anyway. In the twenty-one years this news- paper has been published in Seattle it has never dodged what it considered a responsibility or avoided a difficulty. It never will. During these years it has made many enemies, but, looking back, it gives The Star great satisfaction to note that most of these ene- mies have in time given The Star credit for honest motives and for sincere efforts to improve the quali- ties that make a city really great—great not in pop- ulation alone, but great thru the strict application of the American doctrine of the square deal. a ee fe ee ae During the world war we heard much about the principles of Americanism. All during that period and before, The Star was a champion without reser- vation of Americanism as it interpreted it. And The Star’s interpretation of Americanism is not a narrow one. To The Star Americanism embraces everything that is worth while. It means democracy, it means a square deal, it means justice of the 100 per cent kind. It means equality, opportunity, and it means courage and determination to fight for those things. The Star is not much concerned with those extrem- ists who do not wish to understand its, policies and who for personal selfish reasons alone have tried to misinterpret The Star’s stand thruoutthisaffair. The Star repeated time and again that the low-pay ship- yard workers were entitled to more wages. The Star was not opposed to the shipyard strike, but The Star was opposed to the general strike. It was opposed to the general strike, as it has stated, because it believ- ed the general strike was a move against the best in- terests of Seattle and against the best interests of the workers themselves. The Star believes today the same thing . * * * & B® & During the general strike The Star refused to sur- render its American right to publish a newspaper with union men. The Star could easily have closed its plant, as the other papers did, and thus avoided any attacks or criticism of the,most radical leaders. The Star believed that it had a ‘duty to perform and that the best interests of the entire city, the best interests of the workers themselves, demanded that this pa- per continue publication. The Star has no excuses or explanations to give and no credit to ask from, any quarter. The Star believes that results have already proved that it was right and The Star repeats and stands by all it has said; a square deal for all—a square deal for the workers, that square deal to be obtained thru American methods and in accordance with the principles of the American Federation of Labor. There is no place in The Star’s Americanism for the Bolshevik methods on the one hand, or for labor crushing tactics on the other.. That’s where The Star stands—where it always has stood NIGHT EDITION | tg TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE by Mall, $5.00 to $9.00 Weather Forecast “AMERICA’S SUPER-PEN” JO WRITE FOR THE STAR D® FRANK CRANE has been called “America’s Super-Pen.” There is plenty of reason. He writes with a KICK. His articles have the PUNCH. He speaks with authority. Dr. Crane usually has something to say—and he says it well. He tackles his subject in choice English —and tackles it thoroly. He is, by far, the leading editorial writer in the country. And he will write daily for The Star—SOON. Watch for his articles. GF the habit. Many Seattleites already have acquired it. We — mean the Webster habit. The Webster cartoons are another added daily feature of The Star. They appear on the editorial page. Alive with human interest, they are real entertainers. Every Webster cartoon is atonic. Enjoy life. Get acquaint- ed with Webster. Star vi rte for the great. est “kid” feature in % namely, Thornton W. Burgess’ “Lit- — tle S:ories for Bedtime.” Keep the — children amused—and happy. Bur- gess’ stories will do that. If they’re | too young to do it themselves, read the stories to them. They'll enjoy — them just the same. Begin with to- _ day’s story. It’s on page 5. AMERICANS FI BRITISH PO LONDON, March ae —Americ an soldiers were SOnSainen " attacking m ng to information today. rs arrested two Americans hut on a charge of gamblin several military policemen folloy oners be turned over to i id. An argument resulted, rh The military police were clubbed @ hie ohaGn police men, acco! trial, it wa |turned into a fight. put under arrest. The ws 8] |censed, charging the London pe men were over-hasty in using ¢ clubs against military p ns, who really were trying to qi disturbances, The civil authorities make charge that the soldiers tempting. to: storm the jail, anadians and Austra e slightly hurt. pe were calle dd out re WAR CRIMINAL “TREATY DEM BY FRED 8. FERGUSON “din the not { Gara to Be a {| i Wednesday, 3 P. M. | ae | requiring Germany to turn of officials found responsible for crimes, to be tried by an int {/ al tribunal, EE ness Ww hile the responsibility © an y arrive in \| for tat 10 a. m, Wedne eaday, ing to Manager Meldr bas practically been Ne this regard. Regarding the former momittee is expected to oust yesterd ni attechnon {he cannot be legally at 448 and 6:08 p.m, says Mel {) that it will be dittioult to }{ arum. lus pessoal ane oa»