The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 6, 1919, Page 1

Tides in Seattle bre Viet Law Tide. <:00 8 me O8 ft Second NO. 139. R. SHOP MEN SKINNER-EDDY | RIKE IS TALKED e suddenly found herself facing 7 strike. situations Wednesday ng palling 750 railroad shopworkers, nd at Everett, walked out, and ship- ers at the Skinner-Eddy plant! | out if the corporation car- boule to reduce wages of 1,234 if possible the! Every railway shopman which in Seattle bopman| in number, threw the result of of the wa: his tools at 10) 34 men in the = o'clock gf er eyed mines "& Eddy yard, a con-jin to join the country- Fence between D. E.! hs warthe, of engine 1| inner, president of the|/pairmen, car inspectors, poration, and metaljcar repairers and car) tradesmen will be held at| couplers. . Redes, aft men men, of whom there are incil Tuesday night| 22 ty quit work late d for a special meet- Of the 150 men employed | ing ‘for Wednesday night at the Interbay yards of the| L8 o'clock to hear the re-| Great Northern railway, not) la single man remained after) of the metal trades- 10 o'clock this morning. nt at this con-) One of the most serious setbacks Definite action) to the raitroad company as a direct he strand ard calling the | ‘sult of the strike was t ing of the Great Northern's crack or keeping them fast treignt, No. 401, at Gold Bar The fast freight, carrying hundreds wer men in the yard will be taken of thousands of dollars worth of “at this meeting. If the! vatuabies, ties dead on the tracks | goes at Gold Bar cut into effect Long before the hour set for the Y, and is not) snopmen to walk out at the Inter bay yards, trains rolled in from Ever. | trades-| jett showing the effects of incom | - canceled, metal they will carry) petent banding. Air brakes were threat to call a inot connected in some instances ce and a lack of proper testing was| § + strike pointed out by strikers. ay i Von Carnop, a member Want Wage Increase — | of the board of business} | pr teensy be gpese a oe 4 S, reported at the Met-)tney win not return to work until Trades meeting Tuesday) their demand has been granted | Might, on the negotiations) The principal repair shops of the Which culminated in the cut] Great Northern veiw ev out by a wages involving seven Striker today that unless the Everett “q@zafts at the Skinner- Eddy} yards are maint affic event ’ yard. j watiy will bi 1 mpletely. So thorough was the out at the In Skinner bases the cut ON} terbay yards this morning that even the fact that some men have) the Japanese shopment joined the instructed him to pay , Von Carnop said. 8) COMING TOU. S, Strike of last winter have their wages low- Started Last t Night on Voy-| y been receiving more than the “™ericans if Xer holds that all workers in his yards who have received ered to their former level. Members of the Metal age to Canada emergency fleet corporation ’ BRITISH PRINCE |. blanket raises since the ship- GCM declare they will not a | @ cut In wages at this time PORTSMOUTH, England, Aug. 6.| “A sference was called jast week |—In the absence of any ceremony, | a by Skinner of men in the yard.”|the Prince of Wales sailed for Can Yor Carnop declared. “The object Of ‘this meeting was to ascert ks Whether these m separate agreeme nda at 6 o'clock last night, on the ain 4 British cruiser Renown would make a eager for his visit Skinner The prince ix & Eddy yara in « an Fran, |¥th_ in Canada and the United COMference : *. and ia on ig Been cularly | Met on } jesirous of seeing New Yor | “i other meeting was held Mor (ort ox vacH Two) Cleland Will Take “NOTHING TO SAY NOW” Skinner, when asked for a statement explaining hig version of the situation, Commission Office, NE. Hathee H,. Cle land nt eral, will take Arthur A “© on the Public Service Gov Hart ug. 6 ttorney Lew commission the appointment Lewis resigns Au announced here last night j retary Star thru hig sec. tggh 15 Rae er | . i : “no. statement to dist the eon tig orney and was| BB 8 the present time.” {de t rate hearings | - ae in Portland and Seattle. oS i ” (City | ‘Sale Is on army any of the Everett shop- scheduled to begin Wed- | needed An American Paper That Fights for Americanism ~TheSeattle Star Entered as Becond Class Matter May 3, L099, at ip Postoftic le At Benttle, Waah., under the Act of Congress March %, 1879 SHIPYARD WORKERS MAY STRIKE HERE PPP LPI PLA PA LD PDP LAPP ALPE LAPP PAA PELE PPP APPEL PPD PP PPPP PEPPER PPE PPP PEPPER PP PPP DEPP RUNAWAY WIFE IS CAUGHT Begs to Be Jailed to Save Her Lover LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Year, by Mall, $5.00 to $9.00 ’ , WEDNESDA Y, Al 1G Weather Forecast: warmers ‘gentle westerly w nue ’sFood at 2 Today A_ world-wide resume of the showed the following: GREAT BRITAIN—The gov: ernment is spending $250,000,000 ® year to keep the price of bread down and fixes the price of meat and suger. FRANCE—France's food prob- — is one of quantity rather han price, and the governme: The city’s sale of excess food stuffs was nesday, at 2 , in the, | Westlake an public markets. Acceptance of the city's proffer to buy the stores lo- | cated at the Stacy st. terminal was received by Acting Mayor Lane late Wednesday morning. He immediately Pike Street | got in connection with C. R.| Frasch, of the city health de- partment, who is in charge of | the sale of the food. began immediately to move the food to the markets and} make preparations for the ex-| pected rush. Lane announced that the fot lowing amount of food wax on ‘There are $0,000 hand for sale: sale to each purchaser will be 20 pounds. There are 1,000 cases of corned beef. The cans are six pounds and retail at $2.25 per can, Two cans will be allowed each purchaser. There are 26,064 three-pound cans af tomatoes, selling six cans for $1.00, Only 12 cans will be sold to an in Iman Lane will confer with Assistant Corporation Counsel Thomas J. L. Kennedy Wednesday relative to the proposed opinion per taining to the legalization of the sale| of the food method of 1 and providing for a yment in case such is probabilities are that the entire ount of food will be sold within a few hours after the market is opened. In this instance Kennedy's opinion will not be neces aw the city will have the im mediate cash and ten days are al lowed for payment to the army for the food sary Need New Bill Kennedy said that the sale could not be authorized under the present (CONT'D ON PAGE TWO) “T want to swap my old ice bow’ _ The above is the first line in this week’s Want Ad Rhyme Contest. Frasch , Here is the way one of ]) The Star about it. readers goes Suppose you try: I want to swap my old ice bow For a white reed baby cart; A Star want ad ts just the thing To give the kid a start. Contest ends Friday noon. See particulars on Classified page. BLACK TRAGEDY TODAY—TOMORROW, WHAT? We celebrate this year with riots and shudder- ing, the tercentenary of the landing of the first car- go of negro slaves upon this continent. Like the Erinyes of a Greek tragedy the negro never ceases to avenge his terrible wrongs upon this nation. His forcible importation has become the eternal symbol of inhuman brutality. He was robbed, wronged, beaten tntil he brought a war that nearly ~ destroyed the nation and poured out white blood in floods to compensate each drop drawn by the lash. Even then the most terrible legacy of that war was not the ruin it left, but the almost passive instru- ment of vengeance constituted by the emancipated negro. The Abolitionist thought to solve the riddle and propitiate the fates by conferring liberty, citizenship and a portion of educa- tion upon the former slave. ‘The dark chapters of reconstruc- tion show that it is not so easy for a man to escape the furies their sins have conjured up. ‘We know now that as the South was not the only sinner, so it alone cannot pay the penalty. Out of reconstruction came the sectional politics of the “bloady shirt.” “‘Solid South”. was met by a solid North. While the citizens of the two sections refought the civil war, nationa resources were looted and the problem of predatory wealth created. Presently came a new exodus toward the North Star, an exodus of negroes from the South to the North. Employers, during the war, artificially accelerated this exodus to smash unions and reduce wages. This fanned the slumber- ing embers of race hatred into flickering flames. Crowded into plague-ridden, disease-infected, vice-ruled slums, where constant immigration compelled expansion, it was inevitably written in the book of fate that the negro should some day burst these bonds of locality and visit upon society the bru- tal vengeance there hatched. Driving him back into the slums will not stop the course of the tragedy. Holding him down with troops will but prepare a more lurid chapter. No form of injustice can fend off what the fates have prepared. It is still true that “the chain that holds the slave has its other end fastened to the master.” There is vital need of cool, co-operative study, and firm ad- ministration of what such a study shall show to be justice, apart from the heat of race prejudice and selfish interests. If this is impossible, then the fates must drive us on until we are ready to so act. The negro is now a part of these United States. In the re- cent war they acquitted themselves with honor. Tonight, some of these soldiers are returning to Seattle. They have given this country genuine service. We should in turn give them every recognition possible. AND YET WE FAIL. If it is so difficult to settle their problem, when we owe them our very best ef- fort, how much more serious will the Japanese race problem become unless we face it now—unless we check it now. Today, black tragedy, TOMORROW WHAT? SEATTLE WOMAN IN LOVE TRIANGLE TRIES TO SAVE MAN IN CASE “Arrest me. Let me take the blame. Please! { am to blame. He did not know I was mar- jried.. I paid my own fare and came here to be near him. He expected to marry me. I did not tell him I was not divorced.” Mrs. Margaret Worthington, 26-year-old wife of George Sherrow, Seattle ar wal made ~ plea to United St 1 ‘Walton in Los Angeles when Ro 1 MeW hi ith whom ‘she sailed from here onthe Adder arene | July 21, was arrested on a warrant from Seatde |for violation of the Mi 5 j And at. the Park hotel, Ninth ave., a little eight- year-old girl, Lorine Sherrow, is asking her "father, George |Sherrow: “Where is back ?” McWhithey, who is about 40 years old, met Mrs. Sher- row in Seattle about two months ago. A month ago she left her home and rented an apartment to be near him. But, the call af home drew her once more to her little jgirl and her husband, and she returned, promising to give |McWhithey up. Only a few days later McWhithey boarded the Ad- miral Farragut for Los Angeles. And. Mrs. Sherrow went jwith him, it is charged. my mamma? When's mamma coming In despair, George Sherrow, the row | boat jately sent to the Los Angeles mar- | woman's husband, told his story to| *, D, Simmons, special agent for the ‘ ment of justice lavset@nsient) |whowed Me®Vhithey and Mrs. Sher. T0 CURB JA |ehal's office. McWhithey was ar. | rested nad sailed South on the same and a complaint was immedi: | Official action by Gov. Louis F. | Called to Testify | Hart to’ curb the, activities of Japa time in September, Me : fi will face a jury In the fed.|"e%® here was asked by the Mutual ‘The govern-| Business club Wednesday morning, ment will subpoena the principal| Calling his attention to the fact witness against him. If #he refuses | that Japanese control 47 per cent af ell the whole story, it is prob: | the potels, 250 bls, 25 r she, too, will be prosec for | apartment houses, 186 racy to violate the t. | Sroceries, 89 restaurants, 20 large Sherrows were marr! § stores, 25 theatres, five banks and 1, Mont., and came tc tue | three newspapers, they asked that ly because Sherrow, as an ex-| he immediately protest, on behalf of penter, could command high. | the state, to the federal government Their married life was |0n Japanese conditions here. until Mc Whithey. ap | Violate State Laws “It is believed that the Japan- ese are violating the laws of this state,” the letter states, “which were -designed to prevent the owns ership of lands and the complete jcontrol of corporations by aliens pbjects are accomplished ng, by placing title. of in the names of friendly and by the organization of corporations. result is to give these aliens eral court in Seattle. er wages. siways happy ared | yecial Agent Simmons thinks the | Sherrows will eventually patch up | thetr differences. ses, when the and she sees free from the of the other man--there is itiaffon, 1 think there will be in this case arried Him Young arried when she She's only 26 now ne privileges as American h about the details mary yeas which it is clearly an® of thi e, but it may be she was pelle ane the intention of the state } completely in the power of this man, | ‘0 2° in control of the free et; they are in’ posses- pest farm land adjacent and it is understood } “At present it looks as if the wom: | jan wanted to help this man Me: | Whithey out, ‘That's liable to get | ™ |her in bad with the law, too. But, | tt : I think Sherrow will take her back, | thelr farming activities are extend= In many of these cases, they ‘have |'"& to other parts .of the state, | peak anane avec ane? | particularly. to the Yakima valley, | But MeWhithey faces federal Urge State Protest | prosecution and may be sent to Me “We wish ta call your attention Neil Island for a long term. It/|to the violation of the so-called was pointed out that the law makes | ‘gentlemen's agreement,’ entered it a erime to “entice? a woman] into some years ago by this coun- across a state boundary, whether he | try and Japan, the intention of which was to put | pays her fare or not | a stop to furs ther immigration and colonization of this country Two Men Found i in Field, Strangled ° ° fiscal year ending 7 ere ttle ' nted by Jay f BRAWLEY, Cal, Aug. 6—The|on passports gi Ine |coroner is investixuting the deaths | cluded in this number ¥ 1,882 jof William Bailey a storekeeper women. }and James C. MeUhany, a rancher “It is urged you make immediate whose bodies were found in a field! protest on behalf of the state. You near Rockwood, a settlement a short|are also urged to ask the federal distance from here, The men w government to deny the request of leath with their own belts. | the Japanese now here for citizens pelieve robbers are respon: | ship. “It is requested that the attor- ney general of the state make an merous | investigation of the violations of »mar-|the state land and corporation law, homely |and use the full power of the | state in prosecuting all vio'ations,” r the crime. Nothwithstanding the beautifying preparations o ket, there are still a few | women in the world,