The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 9, 1919, Page 1

PPP PPP PLP PAPA PAPAL PDL LLL PPP PPP PPP PPP COUNCIL MEETS ON CAR STRIKE| —— An American Paper That Fights for Americanism Tides in Seattle : ace ang Bice ston TWO CENTS IN a Hah Tide Seront "Miah ide SEATTLE Kotered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1499, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congross March %, 1879 LATE EDITION << SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1919. _ Weather Forecast: | APS EVADE LAW ———— = Pree 5 NT ’ GINGRESS STARTS PRICE ATTACK WL TR’TOLABORERS COMING HERE —aporoves evr werr AS STUDENTS, IS CHARGE e Real Weapon Wilson’s Does the powerful Oriental Trading Co., a Japanese corpora- aid | Municipal Car Employes|tion, supply the Great Northern Railway and the Northern Pa- | Prepare to Ballot on |cific Railroad Co. with Japanese labor, in violation of the “gen- >| ogee era td gn gio ur Demands Walkout Monday |tleenens — ie ome the United States and Japan? high cost of living tifying. A : rege FERE ‘secti h -gratifying—not because he proposed a sure solution we Grant f aby ‘ogg ial CONFERENCE WELD)‘ “employed at the Interbay .. : i i vas! 0} 7 b ° weg Ris gl ving we were em of Living, Solons Say called fag nage cial watem. suggestions. It is true he or the enactment o a laws. ets | : ray fas. Not only does the Oriental session a p. mM, Satur-| Trading Co, supply cheap Jap |LODGE IN AGREEMENT | 3, to try and prevent a sntse,, labor te _ralreade of WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. Strike of municipal street) Montana and Utah, The Star's |Hoarded food stocks will be|car employes Monday. er ca a ae Pee jtaken over by the govern-| The council meeting was! the Great Northern for Japan- ;ment and placed upon the arranged after a conference! ese section hands are sent di - But we know that there are laws on the statute books that could have reached = ee & most flagrant and food hoarders. Yet they have escaped pun- jf) the) continued. Wages went up, and prices of neces- |supply and demand, the de: President, M. 2. Murray, Bus-| i and | ment of justice made'i tJ. Stevenson | appear mWe — ‘ore tigre = eee least nown today. s \and Besrwtasy E. H. Davey of up again. e ha jaws 0 stop | Preparations for this work|the street car mén’s union, | leo th d J 4 the viciousness of thie never-ending circle. jare now well under way, as|had failed to settle the issue| forwarded to every” Japanese | ifty thousand Japanese are reported to they didn’t do us any good because the right sort | who owes his job to the Take f have been imported into the Northwest dur- ‘part of Attorney Generaf Saturday morning. Tas cemeere a: “ had not been aroused. The president was in |Palmer's countrywide cam-| The union representatives | {eicraing 10 the Japanese section ing the last 10 years to work as railroad in other battles. His- subordinates here Paign against profiteers. jhad announced that Unless | ha who outlined thie eituation| stent for granted. It got so that even the : laborers Palmer today was hourly Superintendent Mur phine for The Star, the Orientad Trading | : * : Ero lexpected to receive news of backed down from his ruling, |Co. ha» supplied approximately 60.) These workers are said to pay five cents ionsumer, soaked at every turn, accepted the situation— ith a groan, perhaps, but not with any loud protest. } n Japanese laborers to the Great| jarrests from district attor-|Eiving cid, municiDaty over Norters and Northern Pacite Hl a day ouf of their wages to the powerful t needed a voice of strength to arouse the country from passive acceptance of an intolerable situation.: That | “bit,” the Oriental ‘Trad- ‘0. deducts 10 cents a day president and treasurer of the Oriental ‘Trading (Co, ts then neys, who have been flooding cat employes seniority Over |tne iust ten years. ‘These laborers, : oa one lhim with telegrams concerre|former Stone-Webster trac-|the Japancee stated, have been die: Oriental Trading Co. for the privilege of working on American railroads, and five ting evidence thi ition men, by Saturday noon, {tributed along sections in Washing: lings mY ** NPT Ithey would ballot on a strike|te., “ato, Cress, Montane srl mi | Monday, and if two-thirds of|uner'tme vast bulk of these ‘cheap Cents a day for a “hospital assessment. a . . os ° | BY L. C. MARTIN the men favored a walkout, | Japanese laborer - ‘poice was Woodrow Wilson's. His interest in the matter Jj woiea Prees’ statt Correspondent) street car strike would be aye ‘Collect $5,000 sdey Importation of Japanese laborers con- ° og? s . " " : Pha othe ords, accordi to * ° what belated, his critics state. But, however late, it J) | WASHINGTON. Aur. 9—Con. {called at midnight Monday. | gguren, the’ Oriental ‘Traaing, co. CiNUES, despite the so-called ‘‘Gentlemen’s come. His voice was needed., His proposals for ad- fj ration of legistation to carry | union would appeal to the city coun a total of $5,000 « day from Agreement” between the United States and lon i laws may or may not be adopted. They may or out, in part, at least, President |<! \ _|eald to supply to the Great North l iy iy A y y | Wilson's recommendedions fer Fred Hoover, international vice |e eee te eacitic | president of the street car men's 4 . h t . . | not be workable. But the fact oy ti if he continues reducting the high cost of living, | union, ix due to reach the city Sat | aoe) Northern and Northern Pa-| plainly of “criminal prices,” if he is determined ous snd senate leaders prom: | rday, in time for the council meet: |Get", Nounern and Neriers Pw Japan, by listing incoming workers as students.—From statement of Japanese em- ployed by Great Northern at Interbay No Japanese working for the Ca } * * * 4 ised today. ing. be Send! tt lead the crusade against extortion, es ‘agg —. a Representative | Mondell, ma He Is Pessimistic aaa sorasion ee Mart SF Yas. 1 H ole, and that wi Jority leader house, said “ © go head with | All h e 4 by of fight among the people as a whole, | that’amy request for money to |strike pana, and do not expect a |C."'TTakahashl, president and } make effective the cam | settlement,” Stevenson said, immedi-|treasurer of the Oriental Trading| against profiteers would | ately after the conference. |Co., with the “proper deduction” of| Note the tremendous activity against profiteers that ily be complied with, Mayor Hanson told the union men (ten cents a day, according to the e ‘ s ’, Hy | “Congress will grant all the money | that he would not be forced into | section hand already set in. In Seattle, we've been selling army fr recsri ian Monde "ie settiemen. by. threats. he ‘union | ee at lower prices this week, while a week ago we Mamet © See bo ceateatties: ta cae | nak pooecinnd What ai. 0M SeCWUUA! | ‘Five chee A aay tooms the; pay i » ° tending the Lever food control act, | street car employes be left on the of every Japanese railroad laborer | still debating whether the city should go into that if that lo betloved actuary.” hold oltp lines, and that the former |ts deaucted ky the Oriental ‘Tradtns| } lof business. And now it is proposed to set aside a Ba Bae er te pemadg| toornee = qallapaatigatintl dla Mcneatalecalamadberste $4 of $50,000 to continue in marketing foodstuffs direct J) _°! think the president made wome| Just before the conference Pesan | 9 4 Sider and there ie hardly a whimper of protest. | (Continued on Page Twenty.) | (CONT'D ON PAGE THIRTEEN) a -ey he pgp ok aga 8 on ay | Thruout the country, similar activity - % ns ee 2 ee ee Charles T Takahashi, American people are beginning to find themselves. | president and treasurer o Every cjvic organization in Seattle has been re- ty had been almost clubbed to insensibility by the hign | the Oriental Trading Co., |! quested by the Mutual Business club to send represen- statement fi » {aque 5 8 ; | The president’s turning to the food problem has Seay othecile could be cb. ||tatives to a mass meeting to discuss the Japanese situ- them. The president’s speech to congress yester- tained today. It was ex- Tbs: in Seattle at 8 p.m. Monday, in the Fine Arts a Fs ‘ype plained that President uilding. ia contributes greatly to THAT splendid result, even if it Takahashi was out of the Goeaine Hart, who had been asked to attend, is in doesn’t add another line to the statutes of the land. city on business. He will ||Eastern Washington. He informed the club committee by is That thi rth while will NOW come out | not return for a month, | |letter Saturday that he has the matter of state investiga- something wo! } it all can be reasonably expected. With the na- _tion’s spirit aroused, American public sentiment | it was said. ° | tion of the Japanese situation “under consideration.” Attorney General L. 1, Thomp-| allen Japanese in Northwest com: _ WILL FIND THE REMEDY. |son, of Olympia, said Saturday that | ™¢relal life. m First Scenes of Seattle ‘DAVID RODGERS | | REMAINS EMPLOYED BY/ne ‘haa not yet received any in-| nsQ ent pee ee rmation at THE RAILROAD, the section hand e by 7 ~| hand will be presented at the mass said, and an additional five cents| ‘ation to attend the meeting. | | meeting Monday night. Miller Free- mains an employe of the railroad| Titers Ltr fhe | | mission, who first called public at- Japa: infiltration into tt ention to the increasing Japanese educted as ospits soss-| * deducted an & hospital asnese | Northwest, he ecommended tha ’ nenace, will present his proposals ag.| the attorne that the government immediately ren | ote steps to | check immigration, and that the Pg | ws which prohibit alfens from state enforce present laws against HE ning property, or holding ma-/| alien ownership and that proper laws THE jority stock in corporations here. be recommended aRN o x Can Be Escheated | ERN OR NORTH- ACCORDING TO} “There fs no criminal provision Mark A. Matthews A JAPA? THE ASSE Movie Her Sund. ernoon id e a Aft } '§ INFORMANT that can be applied to aliens hold- Py es ll opportunity is in store for Seattle Sunday, Monday || nese railroad Jaborer|in& property or majority stock,’ oes ‘oO apita f * orer| said ‘Thompson Saturday. “How-| Rev. Mark A. Matthews, pastof the First F yterlan church, on his way t and will visit ‘ashington, I . It is not | dence, B¥suppose it will be my duty| known locally whether or not he \to escheat property owned by alien| has gone there to present argu- | Japanese, Most of it, I am tnform-| ments against restriction of Japan- j ed, is held in the names of native|ese immigration. | Japanese, born her, who are legal 7" | eltixens. 1e is _ditfieutt to ontain | Portland’s Bread funds to make ap ’ Price Is Raised PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 9%.--The ever, their property can be escheat- y the state. I.can obtain sufficient evt (Continued on Page 20) | the next three days Mr. Public, Mrs. Public ana all the |/Famous Shipbuilder Resigns nag Palen are invited to Weick pont hence’ Porbe hp tsi on “All From Skinner & Eddy Of Seattle,” the big photopiay which will be worked out by hred The scenes will be laid in various parts of the city a time ie fixed for the filming each. the program for Sunday, M nd Tuesday: SUNDAY | David Rodgers, general man- ager of the Skinner & Eddy ship- | yards, who directed the record- breaking construction program IMs. m—Beenes on Seventh ave | of the Skinner & Eddy corpora- ‘120 p ee | br ne during bg ve re » | os signed from his it Saturday, Union st, Scenes In front of the Henry bidg., Fourth ave. near || eM) Just Lesonehr teen the 445 p,m. on ship: “I have an empty room to rent”? — Thé above is the first line in next week’s Want Ad Rhyme Contest. between Union and Univer Scenes at Woodland park near the animal pens. Skinner, -| price of bread will be advanced from Ha, m—te MONDAY 2 ' | M—Beenes at Flymo pe at” eg and Rodgers, majority stock {n cor-/ 10 to 11 cents a loaf within a few 494 University nt, mouth Congregational church, Sixth @ ‘ tatement to make inners 00) 1 know there is a bad| days by Portland bakers, acco | Scenes in front of Liberty theat ¢ the action cituation in Seattle, but it is a to an announcement which was b M—Beenen at postoftice, Third nee. 6 tates ot | hreatened walkout of Skinner In the Want Ad Rhyme |) hard one to deal with made today P MmBoenes at ‘Skinner & Ye nm | Edy employes during Rodgers \|Contest ending this week || To Present Data | 10:45 TUESDAY Hatton celine civukted the fa re printed on Classified || Members of the Mutual Business | qu ©. eusan ng Beene at 40. | Skinner's ruling revoking the pay ‘ Pp club and officers of the American| $% . 4E. Pine oe ‘ y © ggltitomobile department Pine st. in front of Frank Waterhouse |) 1 ny established by Rodgers im B M—Geenes at Becond ave, and P mediately after the February ship- and Pike ot yard strike, Page. Legion have been gathering facts 1\"a, S948 h *, and figures on the ascendency of| 99:84; Victory 4%'s, ‘ =