The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 15, 1919, Page 1

There must be no street car strike in Seatt! can, and must, avert it. e. There is.no need of a genuine eight-hour day, with overtime pay for overtime work. If it does not do so at its meeting Monday, the strike will undoubtedly be called. it. The city council It can still pass the necessary legislation to guaranty the carmen And in the eyes of the public, that strike will be justified. With public opinion behind the car- men, they will win. hour principle now, or be forced to do so later. The council has the opportuni strike. An American Paper That @) The n les in Seattle Ay | FRIDAY tered a Second Clase Ma May 2, 1899, at the Postoftice SATTLE, WASH., VOLUME 22. NO. 72. $ > Fights for Americanism seattlesS At Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March §, 187% The council might as well get itself voluntarily squared with the eight- y to save the city a lot of grief and hardships due to a Not alone that, but it has an opportunity to save its own self-respect. LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Year, by Matl, $5.00 to $9.00 ————— THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1919. Tonight and Friday, probably rain; moderate southerly winds. ——— Weather Forecast: AR MEN SET DATE FOR PROPOSED WALKOU |" Labor Man, Back " From Siberia, Is *~ Labor Man) Flays Russ REFUSE GERMANS’ PLEA PARIS, May 15.—(Unted Press.)—The allies have flat- ¥ refused to consider the German proposal for readjustment of. he labor section of the peace treaty, it was made known “an official statement foday. Three of the seven com- submitted by the enemy delegates thus have| m turned down. The answer to the other four have not n made public. - The German communication, signed by Foreign sisn Brockdorff-Rantzau, said: “With reference to articles 55 and 56 of the proposals Fa -os venypet — 7% ap the establishment of a league of nations submitted | Nenteatys Vanderburgh 'us, we beg herewith to transmit the draft of an inter-| «1 nave been there, and you have labor law, prepared by the German government. nv and I believe we would get far- if the members of organized | _ “The German government is of (Continued on Page 16) | tabor would use their heads instead jot thelr feet. The peasants of Raw Sd ber of the’ Cen | aia are using their feet and not their heads, and that is One reason why | Salone oe ond poe f eee thelr couatry is: ie disorganized. pre a po oa ‘seaniin ‘Wetsientny | night that the Russians are “using their feet and not their heads” and urged that American reforms be gained thru the ballot This ix Ldeut, George Vander- YARD TO TAKE AGREE ON LAND I~GARRISON GIRL RECLAIMING ACT Sag pr Leave for ‘for Walla Walla|Lane and Congress mem-| = ation at the close of hie talk Thursday Night bers Favor Measure Be dapyter, oc Some pe ere think this gov ernment is not the kind they like to WASHINGTON, May 15. (United Press.)—-Agreement ey den tine diets toons cae was reached today between mina« been there, and seeing members of congress and/'* ag hing Oy deny Pdr dg Will Strike “July 4 in Sym-| Secretary of the Interior right here but it is not the fault of Lane on a bill for reclama-| naividuals interpret ae a re ee tion of western arid lands to SAN FRANCISCO, May 15.—(Unit “The blame for conditions Yive work and farms to dis-|rest* with the working class Ja P The Pacific Coast Metal ress.)—The Pacific Coast Metal T trict council, presenting charged soldiers. using their influence at the 150,000 workers in Pacific coast ship box in the yards, has voted favoring a strike July 4, in the effort to obtain a new | trial for Thomas J. Mooney, the In ational Defense league headquar announced today Warned of Holdup; Hides State Money ALEM, Org, May 15.—More than 100,000 in money and securities has disappeared from the state treas artment. seandal nor crime , however, for the spirited away to a secret b place by State Treasurer Hoff Deputy Richardson is unknown there. Every one o Tate and the big trouble seems to be that every one wants to be a ruler * | Ruth Garrison will leave for the e ward of the state penitentiary Walla Walla Thursday evening or y. in the custody of Traveling dH. E. Crosne and a juvenile . Sheriff Stringer announced y morning. The girl was — COMMitted to the pénitentiary insane rd Wednesday by Superior Judge hn &. Jurey. Since Friday, May when the Garrison gir] was found guilty of murdering Mrs. Grace . her lover's wife, by reason of ry insanity, she has been! in a cell in the county ‘The girl will be held at the Walla ) Walla institution untily an order is _ obtained from the state board of con trol, authorizing her removal to the ern Washington hospital, at | Medical Lake, from whieh she may ‘eventually gain her freedom, if she an prove sanity. Crosno, the traveling guard from | the state jail, has a number of male | prisoners to take to Walla Walla at | the same time as the Garrison girl ‘and the handling of these may delay | departure until Friday morning. I've here | for not ballot proper way «Di "Rusia is go be pitied. Bighty-five are peasants, STEAL $60,00 Heavy Truck Wheel Crushes Out Life il., Ba off the truck in which Huge Loss Jumping he was a passenger late Wednesday Bank Suffers mee 2 J, Sinith, 25, 47: th ave backward under the wheels instantly killed at Duy ave. and Carstens place riding with the driver! a jor, 40 Auror ave.,! off to tch street | did not know of the accident until passersby shouted to him. Smith belonged to local 473) 7% of the Plumbers’ union, and is sur:| mp rere: xg At Hr 000 following a tip from Portland vived by a wife and two children, | 7s & hildren. detectives that a holdup of the treas- ury department had been planned for the near future. Dolton, er wamieh ith tichard and lea Major was was CHICAGO, May United Prees)—¥ive masked automobile heriff Stringer said Thursday the mits today escaped with $30, i ons Ie taken difect to Medi! 900 in Liberty bonds, $20,000 in foal Lake without the approval of the| Cettificates of indebtedness and ite board of control. $10,000 in cash from the First PrAttired in the same bive dress and| National bank of Dolton, IML, 16 lack hat she wore during her trial miles from here | th Garrison faced Judge Ju The men forced Assistant Cashier ‘qaimly shortly after 11 a, cn. W Baker to open the vault containing Gesday, smiled, and said “No,” when | the money and securities, They then uaked if she desired to make a stat = p Seine ’ b: wir figoaes . B ce whe left 001 custome eee Steer: entonce she . walked in before the bandits left and ftroom in company with he Fist y, Thomas Askren, and Deputy | hey locked in with the em eriff Matt Starwich. The cornmit ployes | Tuck Timent orders the sheriff to detain Wide sonia Wg rAd aon pris die Bitar | Ruth Garrison until she is called for | Vein bieeysirg Sire hago rested a week ther until she is discharged by legal is in a ting car and SES Mey, Death Stops Trial of Wife Murderer |; PORTLAND, May 15.—Death in in the ¢ of Bugene Heged wife murderer, who his cell at the county jail] Tuck, who was ar-| ago on the charge of suffered a nervous going to jail. His watural causes an arene in him timed ted ar oll ex ela the tails skdown after was going due to 75,000 Union Men Join Great Strike WINNIPEG, Man, May 15 (United Press.)—Industry was prac tically paralyzed today following # walkout ‘of 76,000 union men in the city in ‘sympathy with striking and building trades workers Mayor and lended st Mur public wee In @ letter to Thomas F. phine, superintendent of ; } } § , Dr, Mark A. Matt j } j while the robbery on. of Firat Prosbyte chureh, t asked that str ear men granted an eight hour day with pay for overtime: The let “L most Praane University Will Honor Wilson) PRAGUE, May 15,—(United Pre .) | Prague university has de to confer the degree of doctor honoris | causa upon the following Pre nt Wilson, Premier Lloyd Geor u, Preal dent Poincare ident Masa- |, Premier > kK if representatiy Prague i the capital of Bohemia |) ) lay Getting Ford Jury MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich, May 45.—(United = Press.)—The — million | Vaotlar bet suit of Henry Ford faainst the Chicago Tribune yesumed today with the selection) a jury in 4 far away goal. The ird vanire has heen ca i by Biidge ‘Tucker vy men er follows earnestly you to establish an eight-hour day for street car men, and pay for This is just, equitable 1 righteous. No set of men in this city deserve more respect sympathy and assistance than hard-working, jover-worked and jong-sufferingys street car men I think the authority and power is in you yested. | The city {) the iron overtime a Grey with ‘ minute in’ the ©f | (Czecho-Slovakia), formerly a fox, but the joint defense has not!averung the strike, The Iron work Austra Hangarian empire any of its eight peremptorylers demand recognition of their | a iH alienges and it was believed cer-junion and the builders want higher Better borrow trom 4 pawnbroker | } ‘of these will be dropped. pay. than from a friend, were in the jury hope our the funds have | “City Council cil Should See Duty | Toward Car Men’’ Miss Julia Hold Car = @’Connor Motorman Awaited — ee of Operators in | | to Blame | 'To'BE COAST WALKOUT) All Investigators say that the bic SAN FRANCISCO, May 15.\car was in perteet working order down st no | ‘immediately following the —(United Press.) — Juliajana that the motorman | 0’Connor, head of the tel nae use ot his best safety device, the reverse lever phone operators’ The head-of the city utilities bases | arrive from the SaPEr-| nie contention on reports. recetved | day or Monday + from | from A. D. Campbell, superintendent the strike of Pacific |% *a¥ipment; Albert Pohl, general | foreman of the Georgetown sho j a telephone operators,|ana 1-H. Notbohm. inspector rot | union headquarters AN- | equipment, Wednesday night | nounced today. Miss O’Con-|, These men all say the brakes, | " | brakeshoes and air ry m on the jnor directed the successful) or were in perfect order when in strike of phone operators in| «pected at the shops. New England. A. D. Campbell, superintendent of a equipment, reported to Murphine he Thus far the company has believes the big car which ran away offered no compromsie, aC-| wax in safe condition. He said: cording to the operators, and, “I am positive that car No, 607, in they declare only an advance ite arentes nea gy can be sa ly “ rought the Pine grade jby their employer can avert) vitnout any brakes or trolley on, by la walkout of 18,000 operators simpiy pulling the reverse lever bac and electrical workers all over in contact. ‘Therefore, there ts question but that the car could have the Coast, t f b ht down Pine st * peen safely brought down Pine » | Operators here are 95 Per bet the accident without brakes ‘cent organized, union héads or trotiey, by pplling the reverse leclare. lever back into contact Superintendent of Transportation Henderson reported The motorman, John Hector, of | car No, 607, claims that he reversed the controller of car No. 60 soon as he found that the brakes would not work, but claims that the re | verse refused to work Miss Julia O'Connor, international | president of the telephone operators, | is speeding westward, and ix expect ed to arrive in Seattle within the next few days, according to an an nouncement made Thursday by Miss May A. Duffy, business agent of the From my experience as a motor local union. 1 “ man in the operation of str ‘We are holding up all plans for! can safely say that, regardless of the coming strike until the arrival) whether this car had brakes or not of Miss O'Connor, the woman who |i¢ motors were in good condition, I | managed the successful strike in the | oud operate car down, Pine st, astern tates,” declared = Mist | Weathound, safely by using the re Dufty that is, reversing the control More Rain Is Due Today and Friday) N. Salisbury, official | weathersmith it flat ‘Thursday morning that the hereabouts will be drippy tonight but Friday as well gueased, nay, acientificaily dicted, that would have We y night and he fr 008 why not |weepy clouds tonight | verse ler Must Have Lost Head L. R. Notbohm, inspector of equip ment, reported: I cannot help but think that it is one of those unfortunate circum stances where the motorman on car No. 607 must have lost his head dur ing the excitement, for there is noth ing that T could suggest nor that we could possibly provide, or have done to provide him with any more im proved or safety operating equip: ment “I desire to call your atention to the fact that the weather conditions were clear, also the condition of the rail, as observed after the accident was good. I might mention furth: that there Is a considerable grade all -Dr. Matthews |’ | Sa bana George gave out heavens not only corse pre we in prepare for and Friday? tain in assuring you that this car in) its present condition could be hand this grade in emergency brakes by pulling the allowing the mo: | led down without any erser handle, = to generate,” council should make the pro vision if they see their duty as they ought it and r study the question from an an te gle of fairness, equity, justice T. J. Toyer, insp and righteousness, they — will ploy of the Puget make the provision Light & Power company for the Pending their unnecessarily D ON PAGE TWO) delayed action on the quest —— believe the authority ts vested in you to act, and, in behalf of jus tice, the peace, convertence and comfort of the public, 1 urge you to establish the elght-heur 1 pay for overtime for et railway employes of Tam "Your true friend “M, A, MATTHEWS,” to» ast |Girl Leaps Out of Window to Escape Clad in her night dress, Hazel | Innes, 16, leaped out of the window of the Girls’ Parental home at Ken wood about 1 o'clock Thursday morn and escaped, The girl's "pale | at 1812 Terrace st. The police were asked to aid in the search, FITZGERALD jis | day, the men cannot recognize such | absolutely “ “OVERTIME” B First step toward the granting of street railway em ene Ba omar fox for. pr ne Sey for work OS the: Continence B C. B. Fi Gety dispatched a let |Corporation Counsel Walter F. Meier, asking the cd |poration counsel to prepare an ordinance to pe the street railway department to pay time and © half for overtime work, to be effective on and May 15, 1919. In the meantime, street rajlway employes are making every prepara: | cars they assumed the obligatio tion to walk out next Tuesday or|the Puset Sound Traction, Light & Wednesday in case the council fails | Power company, according to the to take definite action. ‘The workers | ter, and this included the living will meet at 1230 a. m. Friday to| to the terms of an agreement ballot on the referendum strike vote. | between the carmen and the Fitzgerald's letter says: Sosrpetty on August 1, 1918. The “It may be advisable, as a founda-| sential terms of this agreement tion for such ordinance showing the | not been carried out by the city, difference between conditions sur- | communication states. rounding the work of street railway | «- Pm trainmen and other employes of the | on a city, to set out in a preamble that he eight-hour day is & my the city recognizes the eight-hour | With the city carmen at present day, but finds it impossible to make | Stevenson says in the letter. “Time: the street car schedules conform to |and a haif is not being received foe such a day in all cases, owing to length of runs, peak-hour loads, and |OVertme, and the clause. in tie the fact that the street railway day |“STeement which provides that Gas Beg cryponge Freitag men be paid an additional 6 cents “1 would also like to have you pre-| fF every extra hour worked whet pare another ordinance to care | TUDS not completed in 11 houre of overtime for the last half of May, | '* Nt being lived up to. .These come: the amount necessary to be given ditions were fulfilled by the traction you by the superintendent of public Company. The laws of the state aid utilities;.the month of June and sub- | the rter indorse the eight: sequent months to be taken care of | hour law, and yet the city council, in the regular monthly appropria: | "fuses to recognize it for the ear tion ordinance.” ae walle ve ae e m states it is the Don't Want Strike |of the corporation counsel chet her city council has authority to The strike, if called, will be to ob: | Ti (OMe te aetiine cartoon an tain recognition of the railway men's | 1m {he des claims for time-and-a-half pay for in the interests. of fair play ey should do so.” overtime work. Upon recommenda tion of the utilities and finance com mittees of the council, the city fath- ers last Monday agreed to postpone any definite action in the matter un til budget-making time in June. None of the members of Street Railway Employes Le . the Se attle union, are eager to strike, and all hope that the question may again come before the council Monday and a new course of action be taken by that body he strike referendum will pro vide that the walk-out be automatic ally called off in case the council takes favorable ion before the time for the strike,” said J, A, Ste venson, business agent for the car men's union. Streetcar men say that while the | city professes to have an eight-hour are take city ch The first communication relative. to the payment of overtime by other city departments was received by the council Thursday, from Street Super- intendent Case. i In answer to questions propound- ed by the council in its investigation of charges that extra pay is being granted in some departments for overtime work, he said that overtime pay is given day workers, but that the rate of pay in the department for overtime work is the same as for straight time ‘The purpose, linterest of public people he said, was in the “economy in operation, safety, protection of streets, and property.” Air Mail Suevien Permanent in East CHICAGO, May 15.—The first, per manent aerial mail service in United States was started between Cleveland and Chicago, when a ma- chine carrying 450 pounds of mail left here, at 9:32 a, m. today. Tren+ ton Fry was the pilot. Postal authorities said Fry expect claim until the city pays extra com pensation for extra work over eight hours and a half, the carmen being | willing to concede half an hour. The men point out that under | present conditions overtime work is cessary for the opera tion of a traction system, and that | under the city charter they have the | technical right to afandon cars | wherever they happen to be at the | end of their eight-hour day. Keanenth Certice’ tee (aero to leave Cleveland at 930 The carmen's side of the contro-| Two machines will leave each city petween the city and the street With mail for each other every morn=_ tors’ union was pre-|ing, including Sunday, at 9:30, a Central Labor conncil | cording to the plan: Wednesday night, in a communica ny tion from J, A, Stevenson, business |Fiume Question agent for the trainmen’s union. Still Unsettled When the city took over the street | PARIS, May 15.—(United Press),— | Ambassador Page, returning to Rome, admitted today that he had — half hours after he started. HOT RIVET BURNS MAN John Taylor, 32, 1009 Seventh av a polter-up at Duthie's shipyard, was | made no seriously burned Thursday morning | of the Fine question. when struck in the face by a red-hot | he woul make public the compro- rivet, Taylor wag taken to the Se | mise plag he submitted to the wi atue General hospital four,” * ¢ ed to reach Cleveland three and @ A machine bound for Chicago was we ‘ gress toward settlement ES * He declared