The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 13, 1919, Page 1

Ban Lifted: Shipyards May Now Build Foreign Ship. WASHINGTON, May 13.—(United Press.)—President Wilson has partially lifted the ban against American shipyards accepting foreign contracts. This was announced today by Secretary Tumulty, who said: “Upon the suggestion rd, the president has taken action that will permit shipyards to accept foreign contracts so far as that can be done without interfering with the building program for American registry.” PARRA AAA AA LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE $5.00 to $9.00 of Chairman Hurley of the United States shipping hoa EONS Re OO An American Paper That Fights for Americanism TURSDAY | WHPNRSDAY May 12 May M4 Yet High Tide * : aitiam, Tat | | as High Tide Ist Low Tide am 10.2 Alfram. oi te fed Wiech Tide | “ of ted Low Tite ant V123 pam RG tt Tides in Seattle Per Year, by Mall Entered cx Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the office at Meattie, Wash, unde night and We WASH., TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1919. i Weather Forecast: Tghi*ht,,,0n0 ,Meanendays sessment tS —— — ~ VOLUME 22, NO. 70. RS ne SEAT —TEXPECT TO. Sasiee New comin 7 UNION E TAKE VOTE bor k If there is a street car strike in Seattle, the blame } ; will be on the city. TOMORROW ‘ Let there be no mistake about that. a br have been patient. But patience may cease Street Railway Union Griev-| The carmen are asking for an eight-hour day, with "Seka sene-othno time and a half pay for overtime work—asking the city, iahite | to place itself on the same plane in this regard as the PLAN A REFERENDUM) Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Co. used to be. dita valbeay cakia ected” | Julia O'Connor to Advise Chancellor Rails Local Operators on Walk- | “Severity” of Treaty in out Next Week Assembly Speech WANT WAGE INCREASE GERMANY WON'T OAKLAND, May 13.—United [| BASLE, Mey 13.—The predict a strik: all em Ts and electrical correspondent of th But the city refuses. Not only refuses, but the council ore tt tae hotest Press )}—Telephone and electrical | corres ° is almost insulting in the refusal. Nalwaye Wednesday. | con, California and Nevada wilt | Chancellor Scheidemann had. 4 . : 3 embers 0 grievance com. | terrupted Monday by - mittee of the ‘ jon | strike of 18,000 electrical work- man government will order | They will take up the question in June, the councilmen mikion of the carmen’ entes we irieal work | man governmen declare, when the new budget is to be made up. discuss the line ef action of the car workers, following the re If the question can be taken up in June, it can be taken fusal of the city council Mon = NOW oy i. acorde snd bs on aa A or extra pay for overtiod. e The ae 4 made up in June, does not take effect till bowed Oy "Ceunciman Tg od anuary, . wat, Themen. X, Metanine oe vat | | . Evidently, it is the purpose of the council to deny the [Hemant and sented for the mira} carmen the benefits of an eight-hour day till 1920. This finfince and ublatien 'eolieaneae ol the matter of overtime pay be laid is outrageous. 2 over until buduet making time nea! are no set employes who put in as many gy hoes fewketh ani ton as carmen, for which they get NO pay at all. pan nent ‘ng, sooion Ph . Aman may i“ phone girls for wage increases | terms in their present form. | are granted, is the ultimatum | : issued today by electrical work- BY JOHN GRAUDENZ ets following « big meeting here. (United Press C dalia O'Connor, who directed the BERLIN, May 12.— "This p strike in New England, is re | Ot acceptable,” Chancellor ported en route to the coast. mann declared today in a The girls’ demands were submit-|for the national assembly. ted several weeks ago, but have re| With this utterance, the ai ceived no consideration, according to | Se to its feet and cheered union officials, slastically for several minutes. “We are willing to sign a Detailed arrangements for Seat-|¥Ut Only a peace we can ful fil | tle’e telephone operators’ strike will|that will leave us to work not be made until the arrival in this] P&Y what is just,” said city of Julia O'Connor, international President of the hello girls, early pext. week, according 10 an an-{Drutal militarism leads to, fi mouncement made Wednesday by | *@mple set by the entente, Bs beat A. Duffy, business agent of the: local union. nTime yw ete ay 4 ‘ : Ne ae annie Ce wa PF of ‘ Miss O'Connor is the woman who, cy f pe fg “4 managed or ees strike Ce nom Pr Stevens f Stree : phone girls Fastern o’clock in the afternoon, ae way mploses Loeal 607, eaid. | Mad or rout | When the arrives in Seattie rhe wil Apparently we cannot expect re made acquainted with local con- t ig rush. Thus, in order to put in eight |ite¢ from the city council. We have C il Pi ll dudes bad wih ar Caos hha tuares fade. L tried to be patient, but the council | of the coming coastwide strike, say! “According to the pegs _ hours’ work, he often has to utilize 13 to 14 hours of Se ba? ee eee ounc. cked OU ion tesco “ic oy welt sant. eae time. titien, W hi ti hy on honest is H d k be id fi th idle h overtinne Provisions Tague pense! tr Pretty lucky for the trout up [of — Property, dag ja | pace coast constitute « beginnera| ‘renty as it now stands? the c op. | | Ditingettons way! portion of the’Becond ington wage of $12 a week with gradual! “We want to negotiate, le does not ask to paid for these idle hours, tho traction company when tt @por = peep cage apes, dan Hea nea nl glllettot sealbpbagBt cgay AE of en tt i r 2: i ted the liner. Ow . dack Carreli—beg par- they break up his day in fragments. But he does ask jaced te Niner: OMe amen are 20") gon, Maj. John E. Carroll, coun. |1917. Overseas he wax detached | the end of two years the girls would |1ng aloud their murder plans. If ” climan-eleet—comes back) home | from the Second Washington and'as-| receive $24 per week. They say | treaty be signed, not only will | : A . fe: to pu that after he has put In eight hours—or eight hours and fe: to put in eigat kours only, but) sive 18 months @verseas, and, signed to the great outfittiig post | that they are now «etting $11 a/Mmany's cadaver be lying on we wart fome assurance that when! ‘alles H H rec 0d = after a happy reunion with his at Issur-tille. He was camp cém- week to begin with and that they tlefield of Versailles, but it wil a a half of actual work—he should be paid time and a reauired to work move than eight) Superior 50, per cent and thelr mander during part of his stay’at lreceive $16.4 week at the end of six|De Joined by: that of ‘the i seurntala ; “a charming daughters, Virginia | Is-sur-tille. years’ service. jency of free nations and thelr f half overtime. _— ied al recogniand scale of pay for over) nd Charlette, finds. “that | After an attack of Influenime. Maj.| in the ideais of the entente. This is only fair. This is, in fact, the carmen’s only opts 9 ht POY. 8) his election to the city council | Carroll was Invalided home and ay Bcheldemand's apagun ctl . * . . ° Justa week « 2 | has smashed a well-planned fish- | {CONT'D ON PAGE TWO) | plauded thruout except by the guaranty that the city will not be cutting up his day into et a week ago, at a mass mect-| ing trip into smithereens, | cals, ing of all men} fin toueh, > ng on | Open opposition to the treaty By even worse fragments. vated ther grievance commie” a | ust wear tH borka ob tuition MAJOR NAMED | IN EXPLOSION :: betta mapane csorened 1 e < nc “ efere m strike a, tor the pideate pings Sap | Scheidemann and others, is The city charter provides for an eight-hour day for vote at any time "to. weeure, exits | nich pdr» eteian baits | mented by statements {te . A ri : yay for extra work hat time, | hy co 4 ee ; ? heat Germans. ‘i city employes. If the city cannot live up to this pro- however, At-was Geet@b: $e apata| Sacu- ane toadectiner Cone ON QND VOTE, Are Injured in Q) | “err von Gerlack, one of the iiss if tin city weit have carinen werk. more than try to aecture Justice from, the coun: | lett call him Jack. As we were aa) , |Dozen Are Injured in Quarry ing ‘Democrats, said’ that. while ® a ing, Jack would have given the trout | Blowup Near Dijon favors signing the treaty, he rm: 1 the league of nations will change eight hours from time to time, it must pay extra for such rae oe \ Fun for thelr bat it, after less than |Qyerseas Officer to Fill hardest conditions afterward. - . 24 hours after hia arrival home, the overtime, just as the Puget Sound Traction company Booze in Chicken city dads did not tag him as Roland Vacant Seat | DIJON, France, May 13—dUnited | Said the indemnities are beyond] Gi Cotteril!'s successor boaee | Press.)—Several American quarry-|™&ny’s ability to pay. ° did. 7 House Is Captured ack Carroll ts 41 yeare old, but| Tes than 24 hours alter his | men were killed and a dozen Injured| Part of the lost territories is i * wo 50-gallon barrely of “Grapo eun't look the part. Neverthe ae expioe 5 H If it cannot be a better employer than the old trac- manh, and 16 quarts of the finished fem, he in the Kenerel oversees cata, aFtival In Seattle from overseas [in a dynamite explosion At I8SUr1i calculated to create a Germinal . . product were seized by deputy sher-| son, Chester, whe 18 y service with the A. E. F., Maj. rg ada redenta, was. should be at least as " ' who 4a 18 yeare ¢ IsSur-Tille is ten miles north of \ se company » it good an em {fs in 4 rad on the hog ranch of /and, in addition, ix one of the sorext, John E. Carroll, Seattle attor- | pijon and and 40 miles south of OS reemnes ee ployer. Nick Pieti, two miles east of Me-|doughboys south of the North pole ney, and one-time justice of the | Chaumont. mean slavery and loss of ind fina, on the ea short o ake | Chester got as as Ne ‘ork cl vibe TPR Bie. a. 2c ER dence. Th are a mock Presi: The carmen, who work seven days a week, rain or Washington, Jate ‘Monday evening |ait dolled up in hie A. Ti. hr duce, | peace: was elected a member of G Ww: deat “Wilson. pelsolyieg, oat “a r 4 fs “apd | Piet te held in the cowmty jail, |when the Huns decided that an ar.| ‘tity counell pg eo ermans Want to |basia Germany surrendered, he shine, winter and summer, are entitled to this much con- while @ complaint is veing made out | mintice was the best way out. Ches.| oom to complete the unexpired | Meet Austrians | 2" {"¢cast that the resmit will be” 3 A against him. Chief Deputy Frank| ter wanted to be over there with his| ‘tm ef Roland Ww. esac a sage eee the destruction of European peace, ~ sideration. | Brewer and Deputies Matt Starwich |dad, but chilled pedals on the part of| led st his home last Tuesday. |, VERSAILLES, May 13—(United) He declared “it should be the life | | a ‘ - Only the four members of the|Press.)—The German peace dele-| task of d bef. and Stewart Cz ML conducted |W. Hohenzollern and his underlings | ssewenciieltsial attle walked once ‘ore when the carmen, present- the raid hi conducted |W. Hohenzoliern and bis underiPg§ | councii who had agreed upon Maj.|gates are attempting to arrange a : oe * . “™ Carroll had an idea of who was to be |conference with the Austrian dele-| 1 ing a just grievance against the traction company, were arts quncialel water toe ‘etl Caine Ometante chosen, for he was & “dark horse,” |gates at St. Germain tomorrow, tt| treety gusrantesing : der one ¢ ‘amp Command and Wie name had te ‘besarte: lows Warbed teehee | 000,000 tons of coal from Si) o forced to go on strike. Seattle may walk again in the Town ‘of the} jack Carroll was'ataggering under | ioned unti a few minutes before the |""A courier will leave Versailies to-|well ae minimum amount of Miap order to give the carmen a genuine eight-hour day—the ean on the place, |e welant of three yeaht when his | councit convened. ‘There were more | night carrying a note from Foreign | erals trom Alsace-Loraine. fr P) . , parents trekked west from New Or- | than 30 candidates for the post, and | Minister Brockdorff-Rantzau which| Despite the present wid ps . to feed the swine and fowls: ‘ eight-hour day that is protected by overtime penalties. tai diane tedil leans, his birthplace, and settled in| but few of them were belleved tolwill be transmitted to the Austrian{and spectacular campaign . Ik * * ° ,; Olympia He throve in the p nt/have even the slightest chance of | government signing the treaty, careful inquil And if Seattle walks—it will remember the councilmen ) state capital until 1886 and then|election. The German foreign minister has | among factional leaders hag Oma. hi to blam ' Charges He Was {| Moved to Seattle where he has reald Got Four Votes asked the French foreign office for, Vinced the correspondent that Gers who are to ie. Held i Asyl {,ed ever since. During the 93 years) ya) Carroll was selected on the permission for three German dele-| many will accept the terms when #€) 5 “t uN sylum H pwn wg, — "3 et ected ik uly second ballot, receiving four votes of | gates to meet the Austrians tomor-| comes to a “show down 5 r y s scidattin Se: seven cast rt L. Proctor, pres-|row in St. Germain, where the lat rata LAS snes BAAS oO ine dag nad j| homie town. After practiaing law tigent of the abor counell: | ter will be quartered upon their ar-|Says Portugal Is |} SAN JOSE, Cal, May 13 }! for a few ye James A. Taylor taking | Metal dent of the |rival from Vienna. . ) (United Press) Sensational ele me a Justic of the pea Meta ‘Trades council, ) H CA siaateatt E Meat Holdup Arouses Wide Protest; | Sno otha af genet {lean ht" raone | O'L "hergaoak iS | ee attendants at the Agnew state in- (| five successive terms and was on the |} 917 , “The peace treaty, as it now sane hospital are to be made to ench in March, 1917, when he re : 4 SPS RUSE Re y s Packers Now Sing Different Tune ve ni tei’ | enh nehs ot nen re he eae tt cue ered | Planted! Explosive|sin re eocet ines : fighting for release from the in: ¥\jor in the National Guard of Wash-| stevens, Proctor, Capt. W. J. Coyle | CHICAGO, May 13.—Police hunt: | C&&*s: former premier and metal BY RAYMON APPER =; A statement from league h All unite in recommending sate of |) stitution, and Horace Wilson, a {{ington. During the early dayx of | ina isa 7. Levi, vloe president of che (€d persons fesponsible for the ex.|Of the Portuguese peace delegates United Pre apondent | quarters said there has never Place the eanne t abroad, where they |} director of the asylum | the war, Major Carroll was stationed |General Labor counell Iplosion of a bomb on the steps of | *#/d in an interview today, WASHINGTON, May 13— | time when there was fo little meat) said it wi led far more than on|{ Webster opens a court fight {at Everett, where he was in charge the home of Michael, Ready, presi... The War cost Portugal $400,008 Agreement of the War depart- [*0ld to the poor working people as| this side. The real reason why there|} here today. charging he has been }| —————-——-—-— i dent of the Chicago Contracting |°C0- Economie nents % ment to unload its surplus meat | during the last year. would be no lowering in price if the |} unjustly imprisoned in jails and ‘Sl Court Delay 3 They Think Germans |teim owners’ association, here to. | te War were over $1,500,000; supplies abroad, thus saving | Meantime, today the War depart:|meat went to American dealers j«|) asylums for nine years ow y r day. The bomb was a “home made |More than 60 per cent of the Tomes to big packers in the |ment had begun its efforts to sell|refusal of the average American to|} Wilson alleges he has be Harrison Nuptials Would Better Sign |itiir ana aid tittle damage | public fortune estimated at $2,750. td United States, brought immedi. |#ome 265,000,000 pounds of meat|eat canned meats, they said powerless to take any action re: {| iiNGron, May 19.--(United| PARIS, May 18—The opinion is] Police believe there is some con bootie thease byl ede: be 3 ¢ ate and sharp dissatistaction in | thru Herbert Hoover's foreign relief) Mrs, Caroline president of |} garding the al crucitien to {) WASH arta that the marriage |#towing among British laborites}mection between the bombing and thing whatever, and war debts vd Ss many quarters today, hea the Clean Food club and also prom-|} asylum inmates, because of lack {| Se ranciy Burton Harrison, goyer-|*d the French socialists that Ger-|killing of William Marchand, @!remain saddled on Portugal, | Senator Kenyon, Iowa, declared inent in the Housewives’ league, said |) of support from the other direc: {/ 01 UMN (el phitippines, to|/Many's wisest course is to sign the|teaming uniop worker, Sunday. can the soul pakever?™ a hi 0 the War | HICAG' j sald the canned meat would have no|; t » Wre' 4 irkeley, |Peace treaty, according to informa. $$ ; i 4 intention of looking into the | CHICAGO, May 13.—{United | Miss Betty Wrentmore, of Berkeley, ay au BE department deal by means of a s¢n-| Presn}—Consumers, retail meat [market in this country, except for | ~—~~~-— ~~-~| Gal,, has been postponed, were con: |tlon from, variotts sources today RELEAS! STRIKERS COME BACK . ate rexolution. dealers and refrigerating experts |!2mber camps and other places dit REPORT [8 DENIED |firmed today at the homo of Mrs. | They bélieve it is only a matter of] WASHINGTON, May 13—(United| NEW YORK, May 13.—(U; . | ficult of access | m wr ; ear oO 0 0 o | Pres: »ractici y - | Pres h ‘The National Consumers’ league,| here today declared that the | Mult of # PARIS, May 13,--(Unlted Press.) | Burton Harrison, mother of the pros-|@ year or two or three until: ther Press.)—Practloally all navy offi |Press.)—Striking “employes of of which Secretary of War Baker is| 264,000,000 pound meat surplus In the average American home| ogficinl denial in Made of a report | pective bridegroom s a labor government in Great Bri-|cers holding temporary commissions | American Railway Express com de resident, was aroused by the War) in possession of the government | the fresh meat habit is too stro ivhed Saturday jn L'Intransi-| Harrison's friends here say the de-| tain and @ socialist government in will be releaved within the next six|here today went back*to work p y t's notion. It is hearing| would make little difference in | eveloped to permit purchase of can ant that Foreign Minister Prock- lay is o sned by the slowness of | France, when. it would be possible fweeks if they wish, Acting Secre-|ing action on their demands by the departmen| ' from ite membership thruout the prices If dumped on the domes- ned meat except in rare cases,” said | dorft-Ranteau had sought a personal Califernia’s courts in handing down | to obtain revision of the treaty tary of the Navy Roosevelt an-'lubor board of the railvoad at yr Ae i te market (CONT'D ON PAGE TWO) ‘interview with President Wilson, the Harrison divorce decre> {along more liberal lines. ounced today, + tration at Wasrhingtoa ‘