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Russell Metal Workers inson, # wocretary union; Brn: retary of the strt tee Wn itor, comprising the strik ing the ter the Rob mmnit Ivens, labor ed bie three” of statement declar no longer a local mat ot trade mark, most liberal ~giving service and fairest pricings, is known in thousands of Seattle “Fight for Rights” homes and throughout the The whole future of organized ta Northwest! bor is at stake, they declared | bi ° We are fighting for our rights! just muoh the strikers they are fighting for theirs,” J. Andrews, attorney of the Citizens league. “We are determined to fight this thing to the last,” Employers mprisve the Cithxens’ league. International officials of the four railroad brotherhoods are here to confer with Winnipeg ders. There workers have not voged on the strike the tasued a strike an rr any | anid A THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1919. MANY TOWNS IN GRIP OF STRIKE Industrial Unrest Growing | Demand Immediate Admis- Thruout Canada OTTAWA, May %—(United Press.) Industrial rest oo tinned in many parts of Can min today, with many strikes cress, and others threat According to reports received here, the situation follows: Winnipeg—General strike uation uncelleved, Toronto—Forty-five thousand men threaten to strike Friday unless cighthour day granted. Kdmonton—Strikes are sald to have practically tied up the elty, Calgary ported out Fifteen hundred men re Lethbridge in Mine workers struck Strikers claim to have alyned the city ttawa—-Small trike partially nettled Montreal — Labor Rbout a vote on a Ke At Regina, Saskatoc in Saskatchewan eral strike tatk G, D. Robertson blames thé the trouble jeals are the te throw constituted authority Quéstioned tn commons last night Premier Borden said law and order af machin inte men talking atrike there is much gen minster of labor “one big union” idea for nd declared a few rad question VANCOUVER MEN VOTE NO STRIKE Postal Workers Decide to Stay at Posts VANCOUVER, B.C. May 28 Vancouver postal workers last night voted against a sympathetic strike at present | The meeting was of a special na |ture, called to discuss the Winnipes |aituation. It went on record an be | Heving that the interests of the mem |bera of their organization could best be served by staying at their posts |for the time being, thus being in a position to discuss with the govern ment the reinstatement of their | striking associates. A meeting of the trades and labor council will be held tonight ‘The following telegram wan sent yesterday to Premier Borden, Otta- | wa, Minister of Labor Robertson at Winnipeg, and various labor councils thruout Canada “Unless government recedes from jit# position in opposing collective bar. | gaining thru joint councila, and ite \expressed determination to replace striking postal Workers at Winnipeg and other places, the workers in this city will declare a general strike.” Other cities in the province are quiet and no strike movements re | ported. a the sur tm economical gas consumption; sav ing will amount to one third other used with splendid enameled to FAVOR TORONTO ranges has cany | ot ee eee | ore jco-operation between strikers in dif "WITH RESPITE |Labor Men Withhold Orders Until Friday Session TORONTO, May 2%—There will be no general strike here today. \The round table conference of em- |ployes and employers, called by the mayor last night, resulted in a respite until Friday, In the inter- val Premier Robert Borden has promised to meet a representative deputation in Ottawa with a view effecting an afnicable adjust- ment of the dimpute. The committee of 15 unionists in whore hands the power of calling the strike was placed, has deciared, stantly killed and several persons |however, that the strike will go l were injured this mérning, when ajinto effect on Friday morning at |large automobile bus overturned as|10 o'clock unless the right of col- the driver attempted to avoid a col-|lective bargaining is granted the! Msion with @ touring car. metal trade workers! and a 44- Held and Miss Gaynor were hour we in ankedy crushed under the bus. None of the| A telegram was recelved here other 14 passengers was fatally burt./laet night from Premier Borden " re ——~~ asking that Mayor Chureh assoct- "When you think of advertising @|8t@ himself with Gen. Gunn ana } think of The Star. | |the president of the board of trade gy [and act an a committer to try and ma nection to a main for PORTLAND, May 24—George C.| | Heid, a motion picture photographer, and Miss Edna Gaynor? 17, were in- MARY "PICKFORD adjust the differences between metal trades workera and employ. ers, which dispute ts at the bo tom of the labor unrest both here lana in Winnipeg. The local typographical union re-| [had seen him. ceived a communication from International President Scott | asking that the local printers re frain from Joining. the “one biel unton.” last night WILKES Mites THIS: WE! K Matinees Todny-Saturday Cohan & Harris’ BIG LAUGH TREAT 1 “It Pays to Advertise” OTH: Thursday Night, Chamber of Commerce Night |county jail May | must be maintained at all costs, that postal emnloyes and other civil ery fee employes on strike in Winnipeg | 4nd elsewhere could not be permit ted to dislocate the public service and must resume work or be dis mined, Collective bargaining, he said, which waa the b of the Win nipes trouble could not be unreserv edly Accepted until Ite full meaning had been defined. The government's Permanent policy, he stated, depends on the findings of the commission now probing relations between cap ital and labor In Winnipeg, according to infor mation available here, the «trilters are holding out for collective bar gaining. A citizens’ committes is maintaining order, but ts denounced by strikers as a union of capitaliats Striking postal, government tele phone and civic employes have been discharged and the «triking firemen repificed by permanent employes who must sign an agreement not to engage in sympathetic strikes or coane work without 10 days’ notice after arbiteation. Mail deliveriée in Winnipeg are being resumed. May Call Troops ‘The council planned to decide to. day whether to attempt to run street cars. The mayor promised adequate protection, saying he was ready to invoke martial law if necessary Advices from Toronto were the proposed strike of 45,000 had been postponed until Friday at 10 a m A deputation, in the mean time, was to urge government ac ceptance of « compulsory #hour day and it was «tated in commons Inet night that the government lacks au thority to enforce such a rule In addition to the strikes in cities the Weatern railways mall clerks are reported to have voted to quit work There have been no serious out ake and so far there in not much that ferent cities, altho Montreal unions voted financial ald to the Winnipeg strikers ANOTHER DEATH DUE TO POISON Unidentified Man Found in Kent R. R. Station The victim of poison, the na- ture of which has not yet been analyzed, an unidentified man, poorly dreased and with » three week growth of beard, dropped dead in the Milwaukee station at Kent late Tuesday. The man had been tn the waiting room for some hour# and was evi- dently ill, according to persons who J. D. Harris, night operator, discovered the man on the floor of the depot and summoned Dr, G. A. MacGregor, of Kent. Dr, Willis H. Corson, chief deputy coroner, held a postsmortem exam- ination Tuesday and found poison in the man’s ftomach. It will be an al ad Wednesday. he man had only 50 cents in his pockets, wore & shabby green cap blue coat and gray trousers JAIL BREAKER IS RECAPTURED Alien Enemy "Brought Back | to Everett Jail Léon Sochaki, one of the five men who broke out of the Snohomish 14, was Arrested in Vancouver, B. C., being brought back to Bverett Deputy Sheriff Jim Hill to a telegram rec afternoon by local ficers from J. P. Boyd, acting in spector, in charge of the Va station The clue to Sochaki's Whereabouts was given by himself when he tele. phone eriff McCulloch at Everett by lon ietance from Vancouver, B. C., ordering th officer to return the $40 which w taken from him at the time of his first arrest deputy sheriff was sent to the given, Sochak! was held y deportation to Austria as a dan: rous# alien enemy by according ved late Tuesday The Star by N. # May 28 (Special to CARDIFF, A) Wales lobks on Promier Lioyd George ite biggest man. The man who comes both’ political and relige is the premiers William Geor, DROPSY *¥: ing brother, few hou awelling reduced in atew dayn reg ulates the liver, kidneys, stomach and he purifies blood, slrengt entir Write ™ the system, ders, seeking to over. | Tuesday and tn} immigration of. | \ | | } | | | relieved in|ored the entire Fs. | fey | forfeited nuver | /AUDUBONS WILL HUNS ARROGANTIREVEAL PLANS | IN PEACE REPLY sion Into League BY OAKL D. GROAT me a Staff Correspondent May 28.—Thoe Ger ter proposals to the peace treaty, made public here today, refuse to surr@pder the kaiser, and demand immedi ate admission of Germany to the leagte of nations with » man- date over former colonies, ‘The Germans agree that Dan- aig shall be « free port with the river Vistula (on which Danzig ts situated) internationalized. It is asked that the entente withd@gaw from occupied terri torles within four months, Willingness to reimburse espe clally France and Beigtnm for damages sustained during the war is expressed. The counter Is state that Germany is willing to pay 70 billion marks (appro: \y $5,000,000,000) by 1926, and an annual sum thereafter, but that the total they will pay ntust not exceed one hundred billion marks (approximately $25,000,000,000), Tegarding the kaiser and others held responsible by the allies, the counter proposals suggest reciprocal trials of persons accused on both widens. A reparations comminsion, with a neutral president, te proposed to de cide specific cases and dixputes. ‘The Germans ask the right to re sure overseas trade, to possenn a merchant marine, and that Germany be permitted to tax German fortunes which have been removed to other Janda President Is Quoted ‘The introduction to the counter Propornje quotes speeches by Presk dent Wileon ‘and others extensively, particularly seeking show that the president’s pledges have not been fulfilled in the treaty, which the Germans claim contains pro- visions contradictory to the prin plee of the league of nations Emphasis ie laid on Wilson's state ment that peoples should not be treated as pawne, and claim i made that the treaty does that in Danzig, Silewia and even in Alsace Lorraine. It is unjust, the counter proposals set forth, to send a reparations commission into Germany without jetting the Germans know what they must pay Stress is laid on Wilson's book “The State,” wherein, the communt cations say, it i pointed out that Nietze valley and Posen are dle tinetly German, whereas the treaty makes them Pelish NAB SEVEN; 11 DRIVERS FINED Police Arrest Speeders: Bail Forfeited by Many With Potles dostice John B. Gordon slapping on heavy fines for violating traffic ordinances, the police antispeed campaign. ers Wednesday morning arrested seven more alleged law-breakers. ‘The police records show a de crease in the number of arrests. The auto drivers nabbed Wednes day are: W. 8. Luke, 49, arrested by Pa troiman §. BE. Jentings, charged with carrying passengers on the run-| ning board. ©. M. Ditto, 22, by Patrotman F.| H. Stocks, charged with driving a commercial vehicle on Washington boulevard. Marie Dale, 22, by Patroimen V. Allemeerch and FP. H. Witttams, charged with driving while intoxicat- ed, at Seventh ave, and Jackson at. Speeding Charged . Falknor, 22, by Motorcycle roiman G. F. Reynolds, charged with driving 90 miles an hour at Third ave. and Stuart st. Nels Larson, 21, by Patrolman W. A. Elliott, charged with driving 83 miles an hour on Whatcom ave, F. W. Nolan, 21, by Patrolman W. | J. Richmire, charged with passing a! street car unloading passengers at| Kighth ave. and Pine st. ©, B. Morford, 41, by Patrolman F. H, Stocks, charged with standing his auto on the parking strip on Frink bivd. Pay Heavy Fines Eleven men were fined in police court Tuesday for speeding and reck- less driving and state warrants were issued for four others who failed to appear and answer to charges of Fonny The men fined yoster:| A. R. Russell, going 29) por an hour, $18; J. P. Stevens, | reckless driving, $25; H. M. Wallser, 29 miles an hour, $20; W. M. Clifton, | 0 miles an hour, $30; W. A. Elli thorp, 28 miles an hour, $16; Charles | Degan, 34 miles an hour, $26: J. P.} | Martin, 35 miles an hour, $30; 0 Schmidt, 20 miles an hour, $i * Lutes, 20 tiles an hour, $15; Edwards, 30 miles an hour, 20: v C. Seott, 30 miles an hour, $20, War ranta were issued for Frank Sprin, charged with reckless driving; H Suess, 28 miles an hour; Phil Bron 30 miles an hour, and H. J. 26 miles an hour. Judge Gordon collected $54 in bail against traffie violators, HEAR BIOLOGIST Dr. Walter P, Taylor, of the bureau of biological survey of tife! United States department of agri- | culture, will speak on the work of the organization at a special meet: | ing of the Seattle Audubon elety Thursday ®vening, May 29, & o'clock in th club rooma in th change building, §& Cherry st Studies of the distribution habits of birds and mammals their relations to agriculture ried on by this bureau continent phases of the work, ing bird and game pro’ fight against rodent and p: animal fs and the Investt on which these are based, will be | at, ‘Transportation Railway Wx. cond ave, and| rent includ. | the “| dealt with, “|there be," FOR SABOTAGE Printed Instructions Intro- duced at Bruce Trial —__—_—_—4 Pate | c ‘ontinued From Page One | " ” inetructions on ax soon as you have memorized them What spy ‘planted’ these inst tions in the filew of the LW, ¥ Vanderveer hotly demanded on crows examination No apy that T know of,” ed Wrank Mave Thelr “Good Win" Coupled with “hints to maboteurs,” 4s identified by Frank, was a photo graphic copy of @ letter which identified by EB. R. Tobgy, deputy United States marshal, révealed the 1 W. W. as “pinying ball” with Germans and proGermans of Seat tle during the war Over Vanderveer’s emphatic pro test, the following letter, typed on @ letter head purporting to be that of the Lumber Workers’ Industrial Union, No, 600 of the Il. W. W, and addressed to Wiliam D. Hay wood, head of the LL W. W., dated Auguat 1917, was read to the jury “Fellow worker; There has considerable agitation among the lumber mills, shipyards and other industries, and the olf bugaboo of ‘patriotian’ is being preached on all sides, The government has been asked to interfere, and it is re ported that government agents here are active, We the good will of the German people here, and we feel sure that they are in sym pathy with our cause. We do not call them Germans, however, but refer to them the same ax we do the others—as fellow workers. We are going to carry our pointe if we have to stop every industry on the Pacific coast As soon as the letter to the jury, Vanderveer 4“ “cold plant.” ‘The seized, Tobey tentified, raided 1, W. W the Union block, on Vanderveer created a Tuerday afternoon when flatly anwerted that the LW. W. organiza: ten, as @ whole, modeled ite philow ophy after the teachings of President Wilson's book, “The New Freedom.” Excerpts from the president's book were read to the jury as examples of radical thought over the strenuous objectioh of Deputy Prosecuting At torney Charles E. Claypool “Admitting the radicaliam found tn Woodrow Wilson's book, if radiealien exclaimed Claypool, “is there anything in his book which ntenances or even remotely sug gests arson and sabotage as curealls for industrial evils? Or can any one find in the president's book a single reference to Joy over the murder of officers of the law who combat the WwW. WP One of the striking excerpts from President Wilson's book, which Van derveer contended was the philoso. phy of the lL. W. W., was read to the Jury as follows “We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most com pletely controled and dominated gov ernments in the civilized worlé—no longer @ government by free opinion, no longer a government by convie- tion and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men. © © ¢* Lat’s go buy Rolat’s French Pas try. Uptown, 1414 3rd Av.; down- town, 913 2nd Av, Dance at Leschi Pavilion My Mesee Drum Corps TEN-PIRCH ORCHESTRA inaton SSe, inetod May ue respond been have war read branded it letter was when he headquarters in Sept. 5, 1917 senmation he J0uN Ne doubt you thought John Bar- ve more sway. | e meets with congress, mock + RESS and HAT, At the FLORENCE UPSTAIRS Second and Unton. THURSDAY Two Shows, 7 and 9 P. M. 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