The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 26, 1919, Page 7

F , Is Now Thing of Past WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June 26 (United Press.) —Winniper's general strike of six weeks’ duration ended at tla. m. today Only the metal trades workers Whose dispute with the ironmasters caused the sympathetic walkout, re-| fused to return to work, It was be lieved they will return in a few days. Two hundred and fifteen members Of the okt police force returned to work, after signing the “loyalty A majority of the telephone girls Went back. Seventeen hundred street railway workers, practically the entire force, again manned the cars and power houses. Building trades workers resumed interrupt ed construction work. From a state of practical demorall zation, Winnipeg today swung back to nearly normal industry and busi. ness, Leaders of the strike, now under arrest, will be tried July 3, officials said. Judge Robson, acting for the fed tral government, will start investi gation of the cause of the strike on July 2, TRY TO SETTLE PHONE STRIKE international — Representa- * tives Are Denounced | Vincent Brown, SAN FRANCISCO, June 26.-—De nouncing their international repre. sentatives as “playing into the hands of the company,” striking telephone company employes here and in Oak») land today vested in the California | Central Strike Committee power to) Negotiate to settle the strike. The mass meeting which took this action also voted to reject the company's compromise offers. | International Vice-Presidents L. C./ G Se tee T'S. HW ane Mies | leMtie Johnson, of the operators’ | | Minion, are the officials denounced by the strikers. They state any appear. | ance of these officials in conferences ‘Will be protested. Representatives of all unions in San Francisco will attend the meet. ing the board of supervisors of San Francisco holds today in an effort to settle the strike. CAPT. J. A. YOUNGER ON CHAMBER STAFF Capt. J. Arthur Younger, formerly | manager of Associated Students of | University of Washington, who | discharged from the army at| Camp Lewis on June 18, has ac Gioted a postion on the statt. of the industrial bureau of the Chamber of Commerce and Commercial! club. PERSHING HONORED BY OXFORD COLLEGE OXFORD, England, ‘June 26.-~ General Pershing, Marshal Joffre, Field Marshal Haig, Admiral Beatty and several other prominent men of | allied countries yesterday received degrees of doctor of civil law at Ox- ford university. The noted visitors were riotously welcomed by the un- WINNIPEG FREE IND OF BIG STRIKE) TO AID SOVIETS Labor Walkout of 6 Weeks! DORSE STRIKE | Labor Council Approves 24- | Hour Walkout A M4-hour general strike as a protest against recognition of the Kolchak government of Rus sia was endorsed by the Central Labor Council Wednesday night. The strike was approved over the objection of delegates who de- clared men on strike in Seattle should be supported bafore the council tried to help the Hus sians, Protests also were votced against the enlisting of American soldiers for service In Russia. Discussion of support for the Rus sians was brought up by & communt cation from the Russian Workers’ Council of Seattle, which stated that “as the intervengjon of the allied tm Pertalists into the internal affairs of Russia ts still continuing and destruc tion of the soviet is sought, and the old tyranny of the crar has been es: tablished in the person of Kolchak be it resolved we declare our deepest indignation upon recognition of the beastly oppressor, Kolchak, and be it Also resolved we protesy against the | sending of arms to Russia and de mand immediate withdrawal of al foreign troops from Russia, and we | request your body to call & one-day General strike to protest against the unjustified crime committed by our government.” Percy May, delegate from the long |shoremen, advocated calling the strike Pcerte, on the Americani- zatior of the counetl, ob- Sec rike for the support of ay country as Russia. to Ais feet and flayed When requested by the chair ‘at least to be a gentleman,” May replied that “he didn't want to be a gentleman.” May was loudly cheered by the gallery. “I am not a bomb-thrower,” “but I believe in ‘mental dynamite.” world has never seen before, and we should support them.” Defending himsetf from the person: al attacks made by May, Fagrte de- clared in favor of the helping Russia, but opposed a strike, William Coffey, butiding delegate, advocated the calling of the strike. The communication and its strike svegestion was endoreed. SEEKS $25,000 FROM COMPANY | Husband Asks Judgment for Death of Wife Charging negligence by a Stand ard Furniture Co, driver caused the death of Mra, Jennie Lancaster, and left her infant son mothertess, Wai ter L. Lancaster, the woman's hus band, started sult in the superior | court for $25,000 Thursday before Judge Jurey. According to the complaint, Mra. Lancaster was run down and killed | by a two-ton auto furniture van, driven by W. H, Raynor, an employe of the company, March 22, near Riv erside. The complaint alleges that the brakes of the heavy machine | were defective, that it was traveling faster than the speed limit, and that the driver was negligent. Thurslay morning was spent se- lecting the jury, with Attorney J. 8. Smith appearing for che defendant, | and George McKay for Lancaster, Lancaster, the plaintiff, is 35 years | a old. His wife was 37 at the time of her death. gin texture. es, said ness Russia is trying) to establish a democracy such as the | pA —and a You will find Snow You wil enjoy immensely their delicious salty crispness and oh Don’t ask for crackers, say Snow Your grocer «an supply you. Gabriele D'Annunatio, story 1 Italy's fire eater, is reported again on the war. | Path, this time against the present government in Italy It is to the effect that he has plotted to force parliament out and He denies the set up a military dictatorship with Senator Clardino at the head, and that jhe has back of him the War Veterans’ Union, YAN BY PEGGY HULL Correspondent of N. FE. A. IN SIBERIA, June 26 joan soldiers in Siberia. ‘The general is homesick. The colo |nel, and other officers are homesick So is everybody else in the American expeditionary force We're all homesick. We'd be 20 glad to seé a clean American city again that we could eat off its streets and not feel half so squeamish as we do when we «it at a@ table in a cafe in Vladivostok. There's no pleasure anywhere in life in Viadivostok. Not even in walk ing along the main thorofares, no matter how bright day. . | One i joatied and bumped and et bowed by warfaring bundles of rags, | whose stench even in passing ts sick jening and depressing. White men and | women can not remain idle in such surroundings fgr any lengthy period without losing their mental poise. catarrh, lung of throat trouble. cities with health and sanitary regu live under thege conditions. The cafes waiters, and It ts prepared.no doubt. by dirtier cooks. The inhabitants are 80 used to grime that they are indif. | ferent to it now Only thru a powerful combination lof the allies, Russian civic control, the American Red Cross and unlim. |ited authority could Viadivostok be | lcleaned up and made fit for ctvilized | folks to live in Americans have the feeling that they have been dumped on a garbage heap and left to exist as best they can, “Think of it? exclaimed a white haired American colonel early in May, “It is springtime in the states @ the country is full of sweet is and—" A gust of wind swept up from the every particular, IKS IN SIBERIA ARE ALL HOMESICK pre ew to cover up his nose! orders of the ( WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY | 894 mouth Homesick: | is an epidemic among the Amer: | and sunny the) | | ‘Three-fourths of the population are Washington Chinese, Manchuriana, Koreans and | sunday, July 6, for American Lake| Mongolians. Over 60 per cent have | ea, Those who have been accustomed 19! sued Wednesday by Brie. Gen [lations find it increasingly difficult wd of tha state are dirty. The food ix served by dirty |a [dusty street. He reached for his One can not breathe the dust of Siberia with impunity The morale of the Americans, Ca- nadians, English, Italians, French! and Caecho-Siovaks began to wane during the spring. Everybody felt the same as the American soldier! who rushed out of his barracks the first warm morning, threw his bat in the alr.and shouted “Heigh-ho! spring has came! out your gas masks!’ Dring ‘GUARD GOES T0 CAMP JULY 6 ‘Will Stay at American Lake) Two* Weeks Officers and men of the Third infantry will entrain two cording weeks’ encampment, ac to mobilisation orders is Har the adjuant general The troops will iand t American Lake about noon Sum vey J. Mons, The National Guard camp at | American Lake will be named Camp | | nection |theft was committed Monday night el most 50 miles. |Galer st |George W. Farwell, in honor of [the memory of Maj. George W. Far well, killed in action in France, while leading a battalion of the 36ist infantry {ata | batts. Says Policemen Are Entitled to Free Car Rides Fireman and policemen are er titled to free transportation on the lines of the Seattle & Rainier Val ley Co, according to an opinion sent to the city council by Assist ant Corporation Counsel Robert H Evans, Evans based his opinion on the fact that the state service commission, in approving the new tariff put into effect June 1 on the Rainier Valley lines, did not consider the franchise provision Gi which required the street car com. pany to extend free transportation to firemen and policemen, and did/ not attempt to cancel or annul this franchise requirement |Candy Haul Found; Six Youths Nabbed Four gunny sacks loaded with candy and valued at $100 were found In a vacant lot in a clump of brush near the Auto Candy com pany’s plant at Westlake ave, and Wednesday Juveniles were arrested and are held in the detention home in con- with the robbery, The ,|GREEN LAKE WANTS A COMMUNITY CLUB) Green Lake wants a community) club house. Two business firms in the district have already subscribed | $500 ench to the project, and the Green Lake Commercial Club is jasking the city council for an ap- Z | Propriation CAN “BIG /BERTHA” FIRE SHELL TO THE STARS? PARIS, June 26—"Big Bertha” guns captured from the Germans may be used in selentific expert ments. The “Journal” says plans have been made to use the big guns’ propulsive power in a study of high atmosphere by means of a special projectile, At a 41-degree angle a “Bertha” can shoot a pro- ‘| jectile 11 miles in the air, and pointed vertically it can shoot al- Scientists planning are wondering the experiment | what the ether is like up there—it | terrestrial attraction whether a projectile exists or freed from it would continue on its way toward the stara, REINDEER DINNERS TO BE THE FASHION OTTAWA, June 26.—Propagation of reindeer in the far northern lands of Canada is the new solution to the high price of meat, A commission 8; | appointed by the Canadian govern THE SEATTLE BTAR—THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1919 SCORE HUN FLEET SINKING oe 7| Italian Fire Eater Now Charged With Trying to Start Revolution la failin, public | aftefnoon. Six | | SEAMEN WILL BE PUNISHED | Allies Dispatch | Sharp Note to German Chiefs PARIS, June 26.—4U nited Pross.)—Sinking of the Germ fleet (in Seapa Flow), is not only « violation of the armisties, but can only be regarded as « deliber: ate breach in advance of the con: ditions of the peace treaty, the allied powers dectared in the note erday id to be K of French je flags In Germany is evident that any repeti tion of acts like those must have fortunate effect upon © operation of the treaty which the Germans are about to sign,” the note said. Notice was given that the allies would de mand reparation for the sinking and trial of responsible, ote follows terma of th by Germany on Novem | provided as follows “ ‘Article XXITI--The German eur. face warshipa which shall be specified by the allies and the United States shall forthwith disarmed nd th after interned in neutral ports. them, in the allied ports by the and the ates, only care and main | "on partion being left on board.’ armistice signed vii, 1918 denignate United “On June 21 the German warships | which b nded over to the allies and associated powers and were at anchor In the rondstead at Seapa flow, with the German officers and maintenance parties on board were sunk by these parties under the jerman admiralty com. mander, according to information |which has been collected and trans | mitted by the Fritish admiralty. The | German admiral has alleged that he acted in the belief the armistice ex pired on June 21, at midday, and con | pequently In hia opinion, the destruc en In question was no violation of its terms. “In law, Germany, by signing the terms of the armistice set out above, entered into an understanding that the ships should remain in the ports | Indicated under such orders as would [insure that the armistice should be | observed. | “The inking of these ships connti- tuted at once a violation of the ar mistice and an act of grons bad faith toward the allied and associated pow ore” “The admiral tn command, while Tecogniaing that the act was a breach of the armistice, attempted to justify it by alleging his belief the armistice had come to an end. This alleged justification is not well founded. According to the munication remned to the Ger- |man government June 16, 1919, the armintice would only terminate on refusal to sign the peace or if no answer were returned Jung 23 at 7 o'clock | Punish Offenders | to been b \ com- “According the International | law, every serious violation of the jarmiatice by one f the parties gives the other the right to de- nounce It, and even In case of ur Kency to recommence hostilities at Jonce. A violation of the terms by |individuals, acting on their own/ initiative, only confers the right of | demanding punishment of those of- fenders, and If necessary, indemnity for lonses wustained. It will, the ye open to the allied and/ Jassociated powers to bring before} military tribunals the persons re- | sponsible for these acts of destruc- | | tion, so that appropriate penalties | | may be imposed. Furthermore, the incident gives the allied and asso- |clated powers a right to reparation for the lons caused. “Lastly, the sinking of the Ger- man fleet is not only a violation of | the armistice, but can only be re- | garded an a deliberate breach in| advance of the conditfons of peace. Furthermore, the incident is not an isolated act. The burning, or per- mission for the burning, of the | French flag whieh Germany has |to restore constitutes another de- | Uberate breach in advance of these| same conditions. Demand Reparation “In consequence, the allied and associated powers declare that they | | take note of these signal facts of| bad faith, and that when the in- vestigations have been coenuatea!t they will e ration, It | tition of aw the necessary repa- dent that any repe- | s like those must have a very unfortunate effect upon the |future operation of the treaty which the Germans about to| sign. They have complaint | of the 15 years’ period of occupa- | tion which the treaty contemplates: | They have made complaint that ad |miasion to the league of nations }may be too long deferred. How rmany put forth such claims ncourages or permits delib: violations of her written en ‘agements. She complain should the all full pow ers conferred them by the| treaty if Jeliberately violates | its provisions | | |ENGINEER IS KILLED BY RUNAWAY LOCOMOTIVE PORT ANGE Wash., June 26. Jack Lambe, nan on a logging | locomotiv: was instantly killed yes. | terday when the « ay | and ne the rail ar | | Camp # of the Puget Sound Mills & | Timber company, Oscar Howard, en kineer, guffered a*broken arm and| burns. Lambe returned last week | from France, where he served for | 22 months in the war zone, | | ‘TO TRY DR. ROBERTS =| ON STATUTORY CHARGE MADISON, Wis, David Roberts, Waukesha, Wis, | veterinarian, must stand trial on a statutory charge involving Grace Lusk, now in state prison for the murder of Mrs, Roberts. The su ‘ourt today reversed the coun cult court, ruling that the sta of limitations prevented prose: ecution for an act alleged to have are made lit she jer cannot the June 26,—Dr. ment is studying possibilities of the scheme, been committed over a year before the complaint was filed FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE—PINE STREET—SIXTH AVENUE Featuring a Dress Silk of Exceptional Merit— Satin Phalanx, $3.00 Yard ON account of its mellow, glowing finish, this Satin might be called ‘satin-taffeta,” for it combines the good qualities of both these weaves, and accompanies this fine appearance with exceptional firmness andy serviceability. 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A New Shipment of Cedar Chests Offers Delightful Choosing C is an unusual require- ment, indeed, that can- not be satisfied from this well-chosen and widely- varied assortment of Cedar Chests. Most attractively de signed, and well-construct- ed from fragrant Tennes- see cedar, they suggest treasured dower chests and valued wedding and anni- versary gifts. THE CHEST PICTURED ABOVE, in solid block pattern, measures 40x19x 19 inches, and is’ equip- ped with substantial hand-grips and dust- guard rim, and mounted on easy-rolling casters. Price $27.50. THE COPPER - BOUND | CHEST PICTURED | ABOVE, measuring 40x | 1814x17 inches, is priced [| at $15.00. Size 42x18x17° inches, $16.50. THE CHEST ABOVE, with copper clips at lock, hinge joint and corners, size 48x1714x17 inches, $21.00. —Upholstery Section, Third Floon New Arrivals in Axminster Rugs HEIR soft, rich color- ings are patterned in Oriental, conventional or Chinese Oriental designs mainly, though there are plain color effects with darker band borders. Their long deep nap, so soft to tread upon, makes them pleasing for living or din- ing room and especially desirable for the chamber. In sizes from the small mat (27x54 inches) to carpet size (9x12) feet. ft —Third Floor,