The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 27, 1919, Page 2

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It can be done quickly and satisfactorily. —the new EMPRESS adjustable dress form enables every woman to be her own dressmaker; with this wonderful dress form you can try your dress on your figure. —with ease you ean quickly adjust this form to long or short-waisted figure, broad or narrow at the shoulders or back, large or small neck; you can make one hip higher without altering the other, and also govern the shape; waist independently adjustable without altering bust; hips are low- ered and adjusted from front to back; width of back can be changed, also bust and neck are easily adjusted, independently. is | | | | ___ MAN AND WIFE HELD KB Riley and Dorothy Riley | bound over to the grand jury yesterday, following a hearing | United States Commissioner | on a charge of counterfeit RAIL MEN MAY ACCEPT OFFER ‘Government Offic jals Eager- ly Waiting for Decision IN, Au uw Government officials aad labor here teday were waiting of the effect onthe and file of American labor President Wilson's plea for a truce in industria! disputes. ‘ith President Samuel Gomp- « The vote of 500,000 railroad shopmen on President Wilson's pro- posal that they actept an inerease of 4 cents an hour and abandon théir original demands of a wage increase of approximately 26 per cent #0 as not to interfere with the government's attempt to bring down living conte. 2, What course railway trainmen, conductors and other rall unions will take, now that it has been in dicated that their demands will meet the same answer as that given the ahopmen. | 3. Whether union steel workers | whose committee is in New York seeking @ conference with steel mag- nates, will push their efforts now or awalt normal conditions aa the presi dent has asked . May Avert Strike Officials of the railrond adminis- tration we: xtremely hopeful today that the shopmen’s strike would be javerted. They pointed out that shop- men leaders here were inclined toward.an immediate strike after tho President's rejection of their wage demands. After considering the mat ter overnight, however, the leaders decided to cothply with the prest dent's request that the matter be re submitted to the men and the let ter went out calling for the new vote pointed to possible difficulties in the way of a utrike now, Of. ficiala believe the same reaction will show itself among the shopmen them- selves, Labor ders doubted, however, whether the shop workers will aban. don their demands, even at the in- stance of the president, since their previous vote just completed show. ed they were almost a unit for strik ing if the demands were refused, First results of the vote are ex- pected to begin coming into head- quarters here within the next few days. ‘The courne finally decided upon by the shopmen is expected to greatly affect the course taken by the other railway unions, some of whom are expecting an answer to their de- manda by next week, ‘The decision in the case of the atecl workers is expected to rest almost wholly with the federation execu tive council, wince the federation it- self started the steel workers’ union- ination movement at its recent con- vention at Atlantic City. Director General Hines has noti- fied the shopmerfiat the 4-cent-an- |hour inerease offered by the presi- {dent will be effective trom May 1, 1919. | Women readers of ti tho lived in Seatt Will easily rem estion to wl ‘e a fect fitting gar- M, Diamond's this paper eight years be again be available. the past few years Mr. Dia ms has very successfully nufacturer of ladies" ‘suits, designing models a attention In n he Diamond Women's Wearing op will open in a f ‘s if spacious quattern iA of Pine at. Fourth ave store 13 Pine display room, entrance to the second floor, which be used throughout t anise ding 48 @ salesroom 0) oA | Api pa 4 § mt. When a customer finds jodel whieh pleases her in fabric 8 but not the right size, perlat” will be. immediately for her at @ very #mall ad-~ I price, and the same will where the same style and desired in a different fa e lower cost of the ready Will be combined with the individual of the tailors, Seattle an apparel service equaled few cities in America, Hl details of the opening an- nt will in the Mrs. Johanna Smith, 72, ploneer of Eagle Harbor, who died Monday at the home of her son, Capt. N. A, Smith, 604 Highth ave. will be laid to rest Thursday at Port Blakeley. } ie wow pian of merchan w of me . fi Atlatied that they » He in reewiate the bi t makes possible, Profiteering in Spruce Production x— any remark in the witness’ mouth,” interrupted Lea. “But you did, that is the purpose —of & man of thin clase,” Frear retorted. “Well, I am not passing onthe clase of the witness at all, | imply ask him the question.” Lea re joined “Tt ts an unfair question,” Frear said. “E want to eay again, I think the suggestion is unworthy of the mom ber of any committer marked. “Well, you are entitled to your opinion,” said Lea, “I am not as serting an opinion, I am «imply ask ing whether or not that is @ fact.” “Inside of 10 minutes | am going to call another witness; if this line Of croasexamination ia camtinued, 1 will go on with my Other witness,” threatened Frear, your policy to only permit one of this evidence to be presented, “We Desire Facts” “Just a moment,” shouted Frear, “the record has been shown that in no legislative investigation, to my knowledge, heretofore, has any man attempted to cross-examine witnesses in the manner that has been pur sued by this counsel—because he tx simply acting as counsel. We care not what the Inference may be of things he gets from him, that is to leay, We desire to get the facta; we are going to get them, if we can, but here is a kentleman who stands as high a8 any man, Undoubtedly, in thia community, the brother of one of the most prominent men in t United States, a high-class man, a man who all hid time—not of the clasa of men that came from Portland, but a man who gave all his time and hie money to a propos tion of tht kind, and showed what he waa willing to do with the Blodgett tract, and I say he ts in sulted by language of that kind. For one, IT am very tired of it, and I don't propose to #it here and listen for an hour to cross-examination, “Mr. Chairman, I will be glad if you will allow him to pursue the same just as far as he wants to,” Butler eaid “But the time of this committee is consumed, aa well as your time, by such frivolous cross-examination, and we can't spend the time, if we are going to conduct the investiga tion In an Intelligent way,” Frear re- plied. “It tw not for you to pass upon—I am sorry to say.” “Now, I want to my right here,” Butler said to Lea, “as long as the question you raise—or you have been coached—excuse me--you have been coached—you taise a question of good faith in this matter—I want to may that the loggers of Puget sound have had enough—quite enough of humiliation in connection with this whole matter, and I think it is quite unealied for, “Tt ie insulting, that fs witat ft 19,” Chairman Freat exclaimed. ‘“Noth- ing has ever been more #o that has been put over here.” “I want to go further,” said But- ler, “and tell you further that it te a common rumor, and it is generally believed, that the men that Col. Disque sent to that second meeting were in conference with Mr, Carey the night before; came up there to prevent exactly-—absolutely to pre vent-—the loggers of this state from acting.” Ten Hours a Day Joseph Arthur Mallory, formerly a private of the 138th spruce ¢om pany, stationed at Lake Creseent, told the Investigators a tale of soldier-laborers which aroused the ire of the republican members of the committee. Mallery painted « sordid picture of soldiers who were compelled to work under threat of military punishment, even tho ill; of soldiers denied medical treatment when sick; of soldiers working 10 hours @ day, seven days a week, in the logging camps of the siems- Carey-Kerbaugh corporation under civilian bosses; of soldiers having been fed food whieh was #0 unfit for human consumption that on one oc- casion a civilian bows refused to eat it, when ¢ wed by the dough- boys. ; “The Mies were so thick that + Fb ed into the food,” the committee. Butler re | “That would be in pursuance of | ide | “The potatoes were sour, the bread Was sour, It got so bad that one morning 150 men arose from the breakfast tables and went to work in the woods without having eaten a mouth- ful, Naturally we kicked to our immediate superior officers. Some of the officers sympathized with ux But, as bad as the food was, our after the arm- istice was signed, was even more humiliating. After logging operations ceased ! and we had every reason to believe that we would receive our discharges, we were compelled to work on the right-of-way of the Slems-Carey- Kerbaugh railroad with pick and shovel. If a man were sick, he could not lay off unieas a ‘medic’ admitted the man had » fever.” “By @ ‘medic’ you mean a doctor?” inquired Chairman Pred. 'o, NOt @ dector,” smiled the wit “just a member of the medical | | Couldn't Get Account “Our immediate officers gave us to understand that Gen, Disque was |standing behind the civilian con tractors. Certainly I have seen lew tenanta and sergeants take their orders from civilian bogees. We were robbed by the StemsCarey Ker. baugh comminsaries, We called them ‘robbisaries.’ Just an an ox ample, I was given a check for 7 cents after 20 days of pick and shovel work, after the commismary got thru with me. I, nor any other soldier wae able to obtain an item- ined statement from these commis jmaries, They were all alike, because I deal with seven different outfits, Drilled With Shovel “We never drilled with a gun down there in the spruce camps, but we put in some mighty stiff drilling With shovels. Long before we | Caeaped there ware not one of us who {would far rather have been in the jtrenches in France than in the |camps of the Syeme-Carey Kerbaugh | corporation.” | “We thank you for your exposure | of the peonage syatem as practiced by the SiemsCarey-Kerbaugh out } fit.” Chairman Frear said, as Mallery [left the witnens #tand. Prior to his enlistment, Matlery was a student at the University of Washington. At present he is prin ;cipal of the high school at Cathia- | met, Wash. 'Dia monds Passed | Up by Lone Bandit| Police were marching Wednesday for a jone bandit who, wearing a black mask, entered the Pacific | Pharmacy, 1422 FB. 65th st., Tuesday night and after goine thru an jempty cash register held up J. F |O'Brien, the proprietor. | O'Brien had just emptied the reg ister and was behind the prescrip. tion counter when the burglars en: tered. Ho watched the man rifle the register and then stepped into view. The burglar told him to throw up his hands and went thru his pockets. | O'Brien had placed the day's pro }eeeds upstairs. The man overlooked |a diamond ring in O'Brien's pocket finding no money, gave the job up as hopeless and left the store, | . |Walkout Hinders Santa Fe Busines: KANSAB CITY, Mo, Aug. 27 The Santa Fe railroad has refused all business to points south and west of Barstow, Cal., because of the | fail strike affecting Southern Cali- fornia, it was learned at the office of the division passenger agent here, Traffic to points in California north of Barstow was un npered early today, it wan stated, Officials admitted that all traing running into California may be jOrdered canceled today, because of |the strike, which was reported to |have involved San Francisco, |JOURNALIST GIVES | $20,000 TO ORPHANS LONDON, Aug. 27—To mark hid retirement from newspaper owner ship Frank Floyd, former proprie- tor of the Datly Chronicle and Lioy News, has given 000 to the Institute of Journalists’ Or; phan Fund, and another diamond in his te, and| | | = THREE STATES harged ARE ISOLATED \California, Nevada, Arizona Tied Up by Rail Strike % - —— ——3 Continued From Page One | administration Those on «trike here include yard masters, switchmen, engineers, fire | men and shopmen. The strike began | when 100 men walked out of the | Southern Pacific yards. The strike japread to the entire bay district | within.an hour. It was spontaneous practically without leadership A platoon of state railroad police wae thrown around the Ferry build: ing today and othere were stationed | on the Oakland and Alameda molt» It waa announced they were Ftation ed “as & precautionary measure. 'The strike haw not resulted in any | vtolence | | j | Lint Demands | ‘The men at a meeting last night) formulated a group of demands) which include: | Retnatatement of all strikers of | the Pacific Electric on terms of their original demands; of all Los Angeles | brotherhood men discharged for re-| | fusing to handle cars of the P. E.;| jot all Ban Francisco strikers after | | demands affecting Southern Califor | nia strikers are matiafied, The strike was expected to apread today to Sacramento, Stockton and | other pointa, | The strike has paralyzed Califor nia at a time when thousands of summer tourtats from eastern states | were returning home. | Several hundred tourists § are| stranded at Barstow, a junction point on the Santa Fe in the Mojave desert above Loa Angeles. No supplies have heen received at the hotel there for meveral days and provisions are | ot adequate for the four trainioads of passengers forced to remain there. Lon Angeles itecif is threatened with @ serious food shortage. No re-| lief has been afforded since ite mayor | | two days ago warned that the city must go On war rations, Ocean Travel 0. K. Ocean travel between the two cities has been unhampered but the boats |are inadequate to handie the great [tush of passengers. Mail service in | partially maintained thru the boats, | California's highway—two systems ' |geles and San Francisco—are being utilized to the utmost by trucks and jautos, Stage lines, always busy— }are now swamped. The strike baa spread in the face of the order from the brotherhood ohiefs that the men end the strike. Whereas the Cleveland headquarters of the brotherhoods haa refused to sanction the strike, it has the back | ing of the State Federation of Labor, which has termed Los Angeles the battleground of labor tn California, W. R. Scott, federal manager for the Southern Pacific, today issued & statement denying the report that | | jthe men had been discharged for refusing to handle freight to and from the Pacific Electric in and about Low Angel The statement follows: “I noticed in one evening paper and one morning paper a statement attributed to some of the employes who haye gone on strike to the ef. fect thdt they were striking because some of their membership had been diseharged for refusing to switch cars to and from the Pacific Elec. trie railroad, “L desire to state for the South. orn Pacific that no man has. been discharged for refdsing to handle business to*and from the Pacific Electric. 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CLARK, Masager 1405 Third Avenee N. W. Corner Third and Unies Ta Yivery Respesd fratttes Landing Deetin Desgamiiy Accum ths Mereet Frum to Posteffion Be Bure to Get to the Right Plasn LADY ATTENDANTS ON DUTY AT ALL TIMES NEW CREWS MAY SAYS SERVICE OPERATE TRAINS| TO BE RESUMED Carry Out Contracts, Says| oS ve.; downtown, 913 24 Ave, |ute'sa CLASS ATHEATR 3rd ai Pike Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday PAULINE FREDERICK |Engineers’ Chief States the| Brotherhood Chief Southern Lines Will Start | CLEVELAND, ©, Aug 27-=| LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21—(United (United Prems.)~-Railroad brother. | Press.)—With the announcement by hood officials, may seek to fill the! lL. L. Sanford, Pacific coast represen: places left vacant by strikers on/ tative of the Brotherhood of Locomo- the Pacific coast, it was intimated| tive Engineers, that service would | today by Warren 8. Stone, presi-|be resumed on the Southern Pacific, dent of the Brotherhood of Loco-/Santa Fe and Sait Lake railroads, | tive Hngineers. | union leaders are anxiously awaiting | Stone war asked whether brother-|action today by striking railroad | hood officials were in a position to| men, fulfill their contracts by filling the| Whether or not the men will re-| Pinces made vacant by strikers. He| spond to the order of W. 8. Stone, | = replied: | president of the brotherhood, to re-| “We have carried out our con-| turn to work, is undecided. ity tracts for a good many years and| According to Sanford, strikers in er will continue to do so now.” | San Francisco, who walked out yes- | Stone took the positive stand that|terday, are alteady responding to . the California strikes are without| Stone's order ” the support of the brotherhood instructions will be pre- cbie! sented to a mass meeting of local, railroad strikers this morning. | “We will do our utmost to carry out Our contracts on the Pacific| At the sume time a mass meeting [| They crossed swords— const,” Stone said, “The strikes | Will be held between striking street one fighting for the Were not sanotioned by us. We/|car men of the Los Angeles railway | Honor of a woman, the will tneist that our mei out there) 4Nd officials of that company, in an | . perform their duties in full as apeci.| effort to break the deadiock which |f™ Other fighting for her fied by our contracte.” has effectually ended negotiations. body and soul. Railroad shopmen and not the| The company offers to receive the in- brotherhood chiefs should answer| ‘vidual applications of the strikers. It’s a Paramount Picture The strikers refuse to return unless President Wilson's offer of the wage increase of fout ta taken back as a body and given thelr ‘ Stone eald. Cents an hour, | criginal states, | Christie Comedies “Personally T have no comment], TMs of decaying fruits are either Pathe Review being thrown into the river turned over to the efty’s poor, as a to make on the president's offer,” < he said. “The shopmen can and| will anewer him." jzeeuls of B) stolant tleup tn the) Stone, however, said that in {Peaches paciti sn Sr 3 a creased wages will not solve: the), Auto trucks are sald to be prov- economic question. Me advised im.|{M& able to supply city and outly-| mediate steps to lower the cost of ME districts with gasoline. | Ming as a means of solving the| tnortiey te wala te nave postal problem of strikes for higher wages, ‘ aeaRe ae “ LABOR DAY lockade s “The same problem applien to ali] *h,,,™All blockade in Southern Industry,” he said. “The railroad tea e Bina e workers and other branches of in: Big J eyy ean pre heh yet dustry are facing the common qué#| tema is claimed by road officials | tion of the high cost of living.| F P k | Businessmen admit industry has ps heli oe . living brie el pon slowed up and a general busi } ortuna ar n vag norease = demands! joey dopresslo prevale: 4 oy Pos ake Rp jness depression is prevalent, MONDAY, SEPT. 1 ——S ~ | | . eration of Labor, appeared last night| Races—Free Dancing— A. F. of L. Will and angured the actors that he wound | Races Pree Dancing use his influence to bring about a | ue Support Actors |{i3,0i8 ience to tring about | e . ' NEW YORK, Aug. 27 er|the producing managers’ associa., Take Yesler Way car to jean Mederation of Labor ‘tion, Producers would make no boats. the striking actora of the Actors’ | comment on Gompers’ attitude, The | Hquity association, At the Lexing: | Actors’ Fidelity league, an organiza: | 5 Tr ton theatre, where the strikers are|tion opposed to the Equity associa. 75e Round Trip. &iving benefit performances, Samuel | tion, has announced a membership | Gompers, head of the American Fed or 1,619