The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 14, 1919, Page 16

DELEGATES MAD Indorse Plan for One-Day General Strike The action of the American Federation of Labor in threat to revoke the charter of the Washington State Federation of Labor uniess the One Big Union referendum is abandoned, ‘Was condemned by the Central Labor coancil Wednesday night. The delegates were unanimous in Condemning the action of the Amer foan Federation of Labor, but the @iscussion hinged on whether the eounci! should act on the matter or eave it to the executive board of the State federation, which met Thurs @ay morning. L. W. Buck, vice president of the federation, counselled the delegates to wait until the board had acted Federation of Labor before taking Any &teps. Many other delegates supported Buck Pass Resolution More radical delegates did not be in temporizing and advocated action. Tt was pointed Out by others that if the federation to go on with the vote it Would become an outlaw organiza tion and that the best course of Mction would be to let the refer “@ndum drop and then enact O. B. U. that would not conflict the American Federation. Reso were finally passed condemn the American Federation action. Tecommendation from the new temple committee that Bob mamed manager of construction the new labor temple, was not tion of the committee that union appoint one member to committee to further plans the strike. A recommendation that the coun- Mi appoint a committee of ten to entertain the National Editorial on, which opens its conven- m here Friday, was turned down. EMONT CLUB HAS 100 PER CENT SUPPOR vs ednesday evening to cele ‘the club's 100 per cent mem- ‘on the ultimatum of the American | | Judge September 2 When Superior Judge Clay Allen indicted by a grand jury several | weeks ago for alleged unlawful pos- session of intoxicating liquor grow ling out of the wholesale booze lthefts at the county-city lon the night of June 4, geen to trial September 2, he will be called upen to face a battery of D wit nesses. ‘The list of witnesses for the peace; Sherman Rogers, interne at the county hospital, John Reamy, member of the ‘‘whisky® grand jury; John A. Frater, deputy prosecuting attorney; Wilbur Wes- lter of Kirkland, member of grand ljyury; Charles P. Murphy, latenographer; Israel Nelson, Seat- Ue attorney; Dana W. Brown, fore- man of the grand jury; Perey F. }Thomas, county clerk; George A |Grant, chief deputy county clerk; | Robert C. Saunders, United States district attorney; Charlotte F. Kol- | mits, assistant United States dis- trict attorney; Frank W. Campbell, clerk of Judge Allen's court; Joseph |court; Mra. Minnie F, Reavis, court bailiff; Henry Sheehan, court |bailiff; George W. Allen, Pacific Northwest manager of the National +| Surety Co, of New York City. |Bulgarian Treaty PARIS, Aug. 14-—<(United Pree). —The counct! of five today had near. ed a solution of the Thrace ques tion, which has been delaying com pletion of the Bulgarian treaty. As @ means of settling the issue, the peace conference was consider ing internationalizing the eastern threefourths of western Thrace, granting the other fourth, aa weil as the whole of eastern Thrace, to Greece. This would give Bulgaria an outlet to the Aegean sea, but would cut off eastern Thrace from _ the Grecian mainland. In other details, the Bulgarian treaty has been completed. KIRKLAND WILL HAVE | DEHYDRATING PLANT | A Gehydrating plant for the dry. ing of fruit and vegetables by a special process in being erected at been engaged in this business for the | past 35 years. Spawn has estab Nahed similar plants in South Africa and Australia. building | ithe state who have been sub |poenaed inctude | John Stringer, sheriff of King leounty; Albert HH. Hamilton, county-city building elevator opera tor; Chas. H. Phillips, city detec tive; Otis W. Brinker, justice of | court | Hensman, bailiff of Judge Allen's) Nearly Completed Kirkland by A. F. Spawn, who has) THE SEATTLE STAR | mon Viewpoint Impossible PARIS, Aug, 14.—(United Press) Amertean labor is too conservative. in the view of European workers Speaking of president of the American Vedera tion of Labor, Jean Longuet, French deputy and pan European labor lead Samuel Gompers, em said today “Gompers is too conservative, We are unable to reach common ground action, I find him entirely out lof sympathy with our cause | ‘The wide gulf separating the ideas, aims, plans and methods of Amert can and European labor so clearly emphasized at the recent internation al conference at Amsterdam has been even more clearly demonstrated since Gompers came to Parts, He and the French laborites cannot at tain a common viewpoint Gompers was here conferring with | members of the American peace com mission, as well as the French labor ttes. |Poindexter Flays | Gompers’ Demands NEW YORK, Aug. 14-—-fHamuel Gompers' advocacy of nationalization of the railways, as stated in an in | terday, was anmiled by Senator | Miles Poindexter, Washington, at the | Waldorf.Astoria, who charged the labor leader in favoring nothing more jor leas than Bolxhevism. | “The cost of living,” sald Poindex ter, “im due to the demands of rai} way employes and others for con tinued increase in wages. It is due |im part to the abandonment of the | government by the president while |in Europe, and hoarding of food by the government and private dealers and vast appropriations and loans by food and other necensities to feed Burepe, with no appropriation to | feed America, ‘Seattle Man to Appointed special agent of the United States general land office, Walter G. Ronald, brother of Judge | J. T. Ronald, will leave for Wash ington, D. C.. early next week. Ron | ald has been a remident of Seattle |for 36 years, having been engaged in the real omte business for the last toms for this district from 1885 to Ba j prices ‘school clothing. ; from 8 to 15 years. good. sizes from 8 to 15, RGA’ ~ Base 19 ¢ Boys’ School Suits In the Bargain Basement With the boys needing new clothes to start school, and with generally ’way out of sight, we feel sure that many moth- ers in Seattle will welcome this chance to save on their boys’ You know materials, workmanship and styles—you know values—so you'll be very much surprised at the quality of the suits we offer at these low prices. Be sure to see them. Boys’ Suits at $5.95 Serviceable mixtures in medium and dark shades of gray and brown are shown at this price. The coats are Norfolk style and the } knickerbockers are full-lined. Sizes range from 6 to 15 years, Boys’ Suits at $6.98 Norfolk and waist-seam styles are included in this lot, and the } materials are durable gray and brown mixtures, which are espe- cially practical for school-wear. Full-lined knickerbockers. Boys’ Suits at $7.45 Almost all of these snappy suits are in belted models, many with the waist-seam under the belt, which gives two styles in one. There are styles with vertical pockets, others with patch pockets, and still others with regular flap pockets. The styles are unusually The knickerbockers have four pockets, belt straps, buttons that stay on, and are full lined. The materials come in 11 different patterns, all dressy and yet serviceable. Be very sure that you see these suits. They come in all Sizes terview with the United Press you | the government to purchase fuel, | STRIKE RIOTS, CHANGES GAIN } Attack on Plant PHORIA, Tl, Aug. 14—(United Press.)—A truce effective until 6 m, today brought @ temporary end to rioting and hurling of explosives by strikers from the Keystone Steel aw pany here. Reuben and Alvin Somers, cous ins, 1 sons of the two owners of the plant, were believed dying from gunshot wounds sustained Ia night in repelling strikers’ attacks on the plant. Two others were badly injured and numerous per xons bore slight wounds The Tenth regiment, state militia and four companies of. Peorta guardamen under command of Ad jutant General Dick*on, were sta tioned on the company grounds Some damage to buildings occur red when an unknown striker threw eight sticks of dynamite into the/ Balled Up When He Got Married| Paul Bradley had a new way to beat the profiteers Paul married her because he thought "mamma had money,” An nie Bradley said, in asking divorce | before Judge Mitchell Gilliam Wed nesday afternoon, “and when the found out different he told mother and I to get out and hustle @ living for him.” He wanted to reverse the natural order of things,” the complaint com: | plains, “and to set himself up as a consumer, but not a producer. He was also addicted to the habit of fabricating fiction as fact and fala fling fact as fiction.” Police Are Seeking Rollo Bly, Age 15 In order that he may be returned to his home at Touchet, Wash, where there is iliness in his family, police Thursday are seeking Roto Bly, who ts believed to be in Seattle | Rollo ts 15 years old. A telegram was Fill Federal Post) 15 years. He was collector of cum MENT MOTHERS—_ You Can Save Money on received by the police department from the boy's father Wednesday night. Money waa wired for the boy's transportation in case he is) found. in Reparations Avg. 14 (United Cutting off Rumania from PATUS Prens) | participation in the German repara- tions is a weapon the peace confer ence was considering today, unless) Rumania complies with the demands) ¢ the policy allen in her Hungarian |] | why |]) the |] | bullding conditions are improving in |] | the Bast is indicated by the an \||Flying Sparks Set THREAT MAKES ALLENTOFACE 'SAYSGOMPERS ‘TRUCE DELAYS |“MILD” TREATY 20 WITNESSES CONSERVATIVE State Prepares for Trial of! French Laborite Says Com-;Two Near ‘Death in Peoria) Compromise Program May | Be Rushed Thru Senate BY L. ©, MARTIN (United Preas Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Aug, 14.—Demo- cratic overtures have been made for “mild” reservations in the senate for an agreement on reservations to the| peace treaty, It wan learned today An soon as 20 republicans have agreed to the mild reservation pro «ram this program “will go ‘thru all right,” a leading democratic sena tor has told ¢ re Lodge and McNary, acoordin tion Lodge is said to have accepted the program of the “mild” group condition that two Jehanges be made in phraseology ‘The “mild reservationiats,” led by MoNary and Kellogg, are bending every effort to get 20 adherents to their plan and hope to have them by the end of the week, they mild. McNary submitted the proponed reservations to Lodge to a confer jence lasting an hour, Lodge is un derstood to have maid the reserva | tions looked all right to him, but | wuggested a change in one covering withdrawal from the league and an- other in the one on Article 10. Hitchcock Opposed Senator Hitchcock, democratic floor leader, today said he had not engineered the proposal for a com promine He indicated that he will continue his opporition to all reser | vations or amendments Senator Curtis, Republican whip has been instructed to poll repub |lican senators to learn just how many of them would be satisfied 1 wen the mild program. | ‘This mild program calls for reser vations in the resolution of ratificn | tion covering withdrawal, the Mon- | roe doctrine, domestic questions and | Article 10, ‘These reservations have | been phrased so as simply to in terpret the United States’ under | standing of these provisions and are not regarded by their proponents as endangering the treaty or the league | Borah declared today he will vote with reservationiate in the commit- tee to ‘help get the treaty before the senate, with the understanding that be is not bound by his com- | mittee vote to support the treaty with reservations in the senate “1 will never give an affirmative vote for ratification with the league in it.” sald Borah. tenatively on The foreign relations committee | today began considering proposed amendments, On these, of which many will be proponed, the com- mittee vote is expected to be nine to eight in favor of the amend- ments, in mont cases, Rut when the treaty gets into the senate there will not be enough votes to keep these amendments tn | treaty, Senator Hitcheock reiterat- od today. Lodge and other republicans de- clared that there are enough votes for a textual amendment on the Shantung proviston. APARTMENT TO “COST 2 MILLION Rush Construction of Giant Building | WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—That nouncement of a new $2,000,000 apartment hotel, to be erected at once at Washington, D. C., a short | distance from the White House, and in the heart of the fashionable em banay district. | ‘The new structure will be known | as the Washington Properties Apart ment building. It will be eight stor fon in height, and will have 700 rooms arranged in sultes, mostly of a mmall number of rooms, in order to meet the growing demand for | compact living quarters. There will |e a roof garden and cafe seating 300 people. ‘The building will occupy substan tially an entire block. In announcing the deal, 8, W. Strauss & Co. maid: “There is no fundamental reason building operations in the United States should not pick up rapidly. While the costs of building construction have advanced less than the cost of any other commod ity, there is a greater shortage of | buildings than of any other neces sity. There is a growing demand in the leading American cities for high class apartment houses and hotels. People have found that living com pactly has many. advantages and conveniences that can be obtained in no other way. ‘The shortage of ser vant labor is al material factor in these tendencies. We look for a great amount of new apartment house and hotel construction work in all the important American cities.” Gen. Harboard to Study Near East PARIS, Aug. Mm Under direct | orders from President Wilson, Gen eral Harboard with 16 officers and two guard companies, will leave for Constantinople tomorrow to study Constantinople, Armenia and | other Near Eastern problems, ‘They j will return to Paris September 30. Fire to Building Damage estimated at $250 resulted | from a fire at 2508 Jackson st., Wed |nesday night. The building was owned by Mrs. L. Sirrine and occu pled by Mrs. J. C. Ivory, The fire is believed to have been caused by fly ing sparks from the chimney. Dam age to the contents was $50 and is the | » this informa. | | | of the treaty) | | } LABOR COUNCIL CONDEMNS AMERICAN FEDERATION{ | covered by insurance, The BonMarché 60 Silk Suits Reduced One-Half Our Entire Stock of Satin, Poplin and Taffeta Suits 15 Silk Suits Reduced to $12.38 Taffeta Suits in navy, Bel- gian blue and black, made with soft crush belts or nar- row belts of self material. Trimmed with self-covered or bone buttons. 45 Silk Suits Reduced to $17.50 These versatile Suits may be worn as a separate frock during the Fall—so here is your opportunity to get a dress or suit at a reduction. 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