The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 24, 1919, Page 2

THE SEATTLE STAR- a ete SEPT, 24, 1919. SS) WA ‘SOLDIERS CLUB (COAL WORKERS ANGERS UNIONS STEEL STRIKERS) MAY QUIT JOBS [ HOMEFURNUSHERS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTHWEST! | wos | TRADE MARK we have helped establish | thousands of homes— let us help you ! the new wonder—the ELECTRIC SWEEPERVAC hour to operate —the best, most practical, most satisfactory vacuum cleaner. the ELECTRIC SWEEPER-VAC ES A NEW WAY OF CLEANING - wins for the housewife ELECTRIC @n unusual victory for rug way of and preserva- the cleaning! tion’ (think of a soft electric —the correctly speeded mo | the pol Steel Strikers Urge Remov- al of State Forces BY FRED 8, FERGUSON United | Statt « spondent PITT 1UHG, Pa, Sept. 24. Action toward end to the avoring bring about removal of state constabulary rone Was scheduled the from the strik to be taken today by committee of 24 recting tt The © ary session here at n heads and organizers di big steel strike, mmittes met in extraorc¥n 1am. Job Fitzpatrick, chairman, was sched to arrive from Chicago during morning. Charges that the state police are abridging the right of free sper clubbing and riding down striker without cause and inciting t will be presented to the commit! It is possible that the attent all organized labor will be « the situation as a means t gaining public sympathy, Should another letter to President Wilson be drafted, it ts certain charges against © will be dealt with The situation in the Pittsburg dis triet was generally unchanged today ommittee Mills in the n of ed to met panies and of the steel com- | part | that men are being| rely being on the | streets, fined $50, and then told that thetr fines will be remitted if they will go back to work TROOPS RULING STRIKE REGION «: \Three Killed; 1; Ten Wounded in Farrell + SHARON, Pa 24.—United Preas)—With the aring in of scores of deputy sheriffs and the plac ing of the strike zone practically un law, the state constad local police authorities were this morning prepared for any Jemergency that may arise im connec arrested for m Sept | tion with the steel strike in the She | the “cooling off" process provided ta | nango valley The record of disorders at Farrell ‘OKLAHOMA RIOT | | ZONE CALMING Women and Children Take, Nation-Wide Strike May ea Troops at Drumright Are! Part in Street Battle | x - ——_§ Continued From Page One Wor f owed in wale t ed out « last night one man was| killed and a number Injured 1 The principal disturbance last night began when the plant euards ¢ tho Lackawanna Steel company made a@ sortie from a gate prepara tory to letting out a few workers were received by a and bricks from and children, ut were fo! In rte The guards shower of 000 men, w guards opened fire with uns At the mame time the other plant) policemen stationed on an embank: | ment inside the fence, began fring their shotguns directly into the rowd. Witnesses estimated that at east 50 shota were fired. TREATY REMEDY FOR LABOR ILLS Wilson Thinks Peace to Aid|’ Industrial Uplift By HUGH BAILLIE United Press Oorrespondent ABOARD THE PRESIDENT TRAIN EN ROUTE TO Y NNE, Wyo., Sept. 24—Ratif of the peace treaty with its labor pro- ixions will enable men to forget war | n working toward industrial oe racy which will prevent labor ashes lke the present steel strike President W em today This can be given as his attitude not toward the steel strike in partiew but toward labor difficulties ta neral, with regard to which he is preserving An attitude of absolute «# lence, Altho there was no hint from oMcial circles, it may be stated that) Wilson, having once already attempt ed to avert that trike, is disposed to | wait until both sides are ready to ask his aid. Then It ts probable he will propose | an armistice until he industrial con | ference meets in Washingtén, Octo- ber 6. 1 belle Cool "Em Off Plan | Wilson ts firm in the belief that the league of nations covenant for) international differences can with Called Nov. 1 CLEVELAND, 0. ed Prosa)—The | sof America « cunt Work clogates of the pt. 24 ited Mine ention 4 all part untry determined t nationwide coal strike on November 1, unless a satinfactor and working agreement ia reached with he coal operators on or before date, The convention adjourned | terday, after indorsing the v hour seale, and clothing their officials with the power all the ntrike flat ie cent in wage for all claswon of work, time-and half for overtime; a six-hour day and @ five-day week will be demanded at the conference of miners and opera tors in Buffalo tomorrow International officers were bour by the action of Ye convention t negotiate, but not fo sign any wage or working agreement. If the ers er declare themaelven satiafied with the agreement offered by the aoae: rs, they must reconvene the conver in Indianapolis for ratify ate yen- wo and conve n also calls fon of all automate penalty clauses JAPAN ARRESTS U, S. CITIZENS 'Secy. Lansing Report Is Re- viewed by Senate WASHINGT Prosa.)—A bearing preased approval of Preside fon, from Secretary Lansing, review ing the treatment by Japanese au |thorities of two Ameri jaries in Korea, was received by the senate today in response to @ resolu: | uon. ey. BE. M. Mowry, harboring Korean propagandists, was brought to trial without being “given |ample opportunity to have an attor ney,” the advance notice being “un | duly short,” Lansing Questions at the trial were put In Japanese inetead of English procedure was conducted with “reas onabdle fairness,” he stated. Mowry, the report observed, neglected to ask for a postponement of the trial Rey, Kugene Bell, whose wife was Sept. 24 report that | but the} broom, many times a min- ute gently agitating your tordriven brush takes up all the surface lint, thread }now stands at three killed and 10/ good results be applied also to indus killed when a train struck an auto- | Used for the 8,000,000 British fighters iy rugs, then a powerful rush of suction just at the point where the soft clectric broom is working! and hair, and the powerful suction removes all the dirt and grit from the rug! } President Is Due in Denver Tonight DENVER, Colo, Sept. 24.—Presi- dent Wilson, in Colorado tomorrow, | will face his frst audience of steel | strikers. 0, nt delivers an dress Thursda afternoon, strikers from the Rocke feller steel works there will attend in & body, Banners will confront the | President, telling of the workers’ do-| mands | The presidential party arrives in Denver from Cheyenne at 11 o'clock tonight. Despite the lateness of the hour, a big crowd is expected to greet | the president. ARNS WORLD BIG 119 PERCENT MENIN | TIMBER VANISHING SUBS WERE KILLED lle gab at eet LONDON, Sept. 24.—The death iebs ‘Feckiosa eave, (72! of British sailors in submarine Ronald ‘gur0 service exceeded 19 per cent, accord Ith. ing to figures compiled by Dr. Mac Namara. This rate is based upon the number killed and dying from ir. Juries sustained in the service com pared with the total number em eae ployed in that branch of service. | MILES RIBBON GLASS STOPS THIEF FOR BRITISH ARMY 10°20" Sent a 24.--When Private n Cashmore of Oxford and Buck» IN, Sept. 24.--Two hundred egal en ae fifty-two miles of ribbon is being | ° Students Strike PASO, Texas, Sept. 24—More| $00 high school students were trike here today, following orders Principal R. W. Fowler that sign an obedience pledge or | mts paraded yesterday, wear red emblems. Red has been as the strikers’ color. The lang has backed Fowler in stand, announcing schools will eines if the students refuse to| 4 ment was stealing a pair of shoes from a shop window, which had been broken during the recent riots at entitled to receive two inches each in| Coventry, some of the glass fell, bad n with the British war med-!ly cutting his face, and he had ¢ id to be} ‘decoration. removed to nompital | | Gladly” | makes it possi- ble for you to buy that “Co- | lumbia” today. | Everyone music Popular, likes — some some With a Gra Classical Columbia nola you have all the best music in the world at your command, | “Columbia” from $26, on very easy terms, | PHONOGRAPH DEPT, | Harbor, Ind fen, wh | groes were dragged to the | the fight that followed two of the ne | wounded by gunshot and scores by clubbing The second fatal | last night when a member of a mob | fred on state troopers, who retu wix volleys, k ling John Bandzak who waa she thru the head, | wounding six others \Extra Guards Are Ordered in “Chi” CHICAGO, Sept. 24—(By United Preas.)—The first violence of the ateec! strike in the Chicago district today | resulted in extra guards being thrown about the plant of the Marks Manufacturing company at Indiana Fight men, badty beat. ma mob of 400 strikers sur. of a changing shift, were taken to an emerge y he The men attacked 5] and | just completed drawing all the Intention of remaining away fre mo | the plant thereafter. The trouble oc- curred at.6 a.m. The strikers, after fering the men, bekan throwing bricks, A few shots were exchanged The Chicago district was calm thruout the night and early today with that one exception. Police said $00 men returned to} where the presi: | work in the slab mills of the Ilinots| Steel Company plant, in South Chi- cago, today. There were signs of re- newed life behind the barricades to bear out the statement. State Troops Are Sent to Lackawanna ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 24—4United Prows.-—-Gov. Smith has ordered a company of state constabulary to ackawanna, where disorders have occurred in connection with the stee! strike. The doetall left here at midnight and was joined by detachments from another company in the western part of the state early today. To Probe Steel Strike Thursday WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Sena tor Kenyon toda ber of the se take part In of the » gin tomorrov representing Judge BE. H. Gary, head of the United States Steel corporation, who also was asked to appear Thursday notified Kenyon he could not o Washington for a week Kenyon, therefore, will proceed with Fitzpat rick. ‘That legisiation may be unneces- sary after full publicity has been | given to the facts, Is his bellef. labor committee to senate inyestigation nich {s to be workers as the fir ne to |Negroes Attacked in Cleveland Row| CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 24 Rioting an here this when a crowd of strikers discovered | several negroes still employed at odd American Steel & The negroes fobs in one of the Wire company plants. were on @ street en The car was stopped and the ne. street. In were #o severely benten that y were removed to ® hospital of the strikers was stabbed by ero and seriously hurt groe th | rived while the batt blast and six of the rested. strikers were ar \Cardinal Mercier Is Not Coming Here Cardinal Mercier, the Belgian pret ate, who gained undying admiration thru his steady defiance of German military governors, when bis native land was occupied during the war, will not visit Seattle next month as proposed. In a telegram to Samuel Hill, Car inal Mercier regretted his inability to visit Seattle thru lack of time, trial disputes, and that if the rep-| mobile which he was driving, war roaentatives of both sides will get|tried on a charge of involuntary urged every mem-| morning | ment will fesult, Should labor anak his intercession tn | the stool strike, Wilson's probable jeourse would be to intimate to| the employers that he ts ready to act if they also request it. There Is a feeling that the president did not Ui was spurned. GARY STRIKERS | “TIGHTEN UP” in Steel Walkout BY J. L. O'SULLIVAN United Press Staff Correspondent. CHICAGO. Sept. | the Calumet district for the first time | to realize the seriousness of the busi- | neas at hand. today, as during the first two days | of the strike, Altho streets were crowded almost constantly, there was little of the |mecurity that wan noticeable pre- | viously. Men were not #pending in| | the free fashion which has long been racteristic of the city’s popula They were saving for the long pull which they believe ts ahead. With the exception of the an- nouncement by 49 rollers employed at the American Sheet & Tin Plate factory that they would return to work today with their crows totaling £00 men, the strike situation was ap parently at a standstill. Whether or not the rollers had been able to@ake back their assistants was still ubt early today eel company officials were jubilant over the rollers’ action. They declared it was the first break in the sof the strikers. ‘The rollérs are st paid skilled workers in lovich was held $10,000 bond today charged distributing Bolshevist ating rthrow ¢ was he seed by the under with Hterature of the ld under a last session logislature /EKSEL WASN'T EVEN AN AMATEUR BANDIT CHEHALIS, Sept. 24 Eeksel Cox fortified himself with two gulps of nquirrel kee and the family horse pistol and sauntered forth to hold up & poolroom. Four hours later he awoke in the county jail. When Eksel poked bh artill the smoke palace, a boot connected with | his wrist and the gat hit the ceiling Several of freckled ‘hands dragged Ekeel into the Nght and |many knuckles smote him. There | wasn’t any holdup. Two Drown Trying to Save Woman SACRAMENTO, Cal, § After two men had drowned * thetr Jefforts to save Mis Kana Longton from the swift current ef the Sacra- |mento river, G Spillman finally rescued the after a bitter atrugele Fred W Strader and Henry | Swetinich, 19, were drowned. All | were en # of the California Na- [Sass Bank, and were picknicking DIVERS SEARCHING FOR 10 SILVER BARS IN BAY SAN FRANGL Bept, 24,—~ | Divers were busy teday off Pier |picking up 10 bars of silver t lipped into the while a $10,000,- {000 shipment of gold and silver bul- |lon was being loaded onto the Pa- |eific Mail Hner Colombe. | The 10 bars are worth $10,000, the manner in which his first offer) Saving Money fo for Long Pull; 4.—Strikers in| wince they walked out today seemed | Gary streets no longer | gave the appearance of a festival in| rioting started| together and talk it over, & settle | nomicide, after he had hinted that he | might sue the Southern Manchuria, |a government-owned road, the report said. Action against Bell was immediate ly begun but a police officer ap [proached him to ascertain whether | the damage suit aaginat the railway company would be pressed. Bell was found guilty and sentenced to a fine, | || KAISER’S WINDOW SHINES DOWN ON GRAVE OF FRYATT LONDON, Sept. 24.—The stained glass window presented to the Dovecourt parish church by for mer Kaiser William of Germany, 20 years ago, will be permitted to remain. The Rev. T. Grey and the | church wardens have decided that it shall not be removed until “an- |] other as good er better is present- 4 to the church.” Capt. Fryatt is buried In the churchyard there. 40 Families Flee MONROVIA, Cal |stable James Quigs |60 men left Monrovia early today ‘or the region of Mount Wilson, fol lowing recéipt of reports that the Mount Wilson solar observatory, containing one of the largest tele pes in North Amertea, is threat Sept. 24—Con. \ened by the forest fire in the Angeles) national forest, During the night the wind drove to the west side of the San Monrovia the fire Gabriel canyon, .and the watershed 1s now threatened both the east and the west About 40 families were driven out of th jfire zone during the early hours \Man Dies Trying to See President SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept ~—{United Press.)—1. H, Fendall, A caterer, died today of cerebal hemorrhage after an unsuccessful attempt to push his way thru the crowd that welcomed President Wi) son yesterday Margaret Beattie, 28, was swept off her feet by the crowd that push ed thru the south gate to the Mor. mon temple grounds, She sustained a broken collar bone, Thief Steals $80 From Cook’s Pants Cook, Shasta hotel, Fourth and Main st. reported to the that his room was entered early Wednesday morning and that the thief stole $80 from his trouser pockets J. Stone, proprietor Pharmacy, 1401 F his drug store y Wednesday morning. table to say what had of the Madison, He was een taken EVEN BEGGARS IN K. C. ARE SMILERS KANSAS CITY, Sept. 24—Rven Kansas City beggars have seized hold the baste principle of successful jadvertising Usually the legless and armless and blind men try th appeal, Not so with K, C, beg They wear signs which read “smile, You'll feel better,” TORONTO TALKS PROHIBITION TORONTO, Ont, Sept, 24.— (United Press.)—The Toronto legisl ture stands dissolyed today and writs have been issued for a general election October 20, when the refer- endum on prohibition will ajso be taken, CANADA WHEAT HEAV y MONTREAL, Que, Sept, 24.—~The yield of wheat thia year in Canada The shipment is consigned to the Orient, by San Francisco banks.” will be 248,000,000 bushels, compared with 189,076,360 last year, Mt. Wilson Fire) and a force of from | morning | entered | | Being Reduced DRUMIUGHT, United l’re ) troops brought stor a radical a gun this morning About | cording morning by Col 1 A sortie into the 1p radic the will be reme is maintained. HUN APPEALS FOR CLEMENCY Von Brincken Awaits De- cision of Labor Secretary Okla, Sept, 24 Reduction of the ere last night to re-| after Mor ht nig und rioting was be troopers will remain, ac to the plan ed thin Adjutant General Bar- Markham will remain in nne rett | flelda, to round 1 preclude any the t head guard if quiet al suspects ar Mi troot , ed tomorrow Witheim von Brincken, ex attache of the former impertal German consulate at San Fran chsco, now completing a two- year sentence in MeNell Island prison for participation in the spiracy, has thrown himself up on the merey of the United States gavernment and is awalt- ing Wednesday the decision of ye secretary of labor as to hie deportation. Von Brineken was the go-between for the German government in the piracy which resulted in the ting of a munitions ship at Sun Francisco which have been sent to India to arm the Hin: dus to fight the British, The ves however, was seized near Ana cortes and Von Brincken, Franz) top ¢ German consul, and a large number of other German |Hindu and Americans arrested, The conspiracy was of the caures of the United 8 entering war againet ( | Warrants Served | Von Brineken and Santokh Jar of the conspirators, were served with a warrant of arrest In |deportation proceedings in MoNei! | Ietand August 26. A hearing ted before Dep- Juty Immigration Commissioner W. P , of Seattle, which lasted two days The charge against Von Brincken that he had been more than tenced more than one nment in the United acts involving moral was to on ates the jermany Singh was con Catlaha year im for terpitude. ‘Transcript of the proceedings is now in the hands of Henry Owens, | a San Fran © attorney, who rep-| resented Von Brincken at the hear- | ing, and who ts naid to be prepar- ing @ brief to present Gecretary of! Labor Wilson, The secretary's! order will determine whether or not| Von Brincken 1s to be allowed to remain In this country, Police Search for | Sailors Who Rob | | Seattle Civilians| Police are ching for hishway- men operating in sailors’ uniform who robbed two Seattle men Tuesday | night. | One of the men, a rent-car driver, was severely beaten after he was robbed, and his car was taken. He} ‘reported to the police that two sall- ors hired his machine from in front jot the Planters’ hotel. After he had! hauled them to Renton Junction, one of them stuck a gun in his face! and demanded his money. Then| they beat him up and left him by/ |the side of the road A Adolph Ludwig, 621 Cherry st., re-| ported he was held up at Sixth ave. and Cherry st. by two sailors who answer the description of the men | who attacked Hase. The highway- men got $18 from him. States Minute Women of | County Organize | The King County Minute Women | organized in Frederick & Nel-| son's auditorium Tuesday afternoon, |to promote Americanism, Mrs, Ed gar Ames was named councilor, Oth: | er officials selected were: Mra, R. C.| Jones and Mra. John W, Blake, vice councilors; Mrs, H, D. Stewart, regis: | trar; Mra, Fred W, Bert, jr. secre: | tary; Mrs. George B. 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