The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 7, 1919, Page 1

FIVE KILLED BY WILD TRAIN; OAKLAND MOB HUNTS CARMEN RAR On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise TheSeattleStar 2 Bovered as Becond Class Mai Tides in Seattle TURSDAY CENTS Late Edition Mail 9.00 ” Fest Lew Tide ote x Second High Tie 2:53 pom, 1 Hereed Lew"Tide 10:26 Bom, 2s fe | Second High Tile inp ft Second Low Tide 11:03 pom, O68 ft Pay, Tet.» May 4, 1899, at the Postoffics at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 8, VOLUME 22. NO. 190. SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, OCTOBER i 1919. and Wednesday, " Weather Foregast: 72n'#h! ‘gentle southerly wind JOB is not an op- portunity these days; it’s a prayer. Some lads think it’s an insult. © YOU remember the em ployment agency boards a few years ago—when jobs were a private graft and there were six men | for a job? Around those boards you would S00 dozens of shabby men waiting for the clerk to post up anything like a job; then, when he it would read like this: “Want- 8, two laborers: out of town: $1.75 & day; board, $4 a week; furnish ‘Own blankets and R. RK. fare.” And ) for this sort of slavery a man had _ to pay the agent $2 or more. And miserable foremen in many fAaMps made a graft of these jobs, and split the fees with employment its. So a stream of sucker job was coming and going all ‘the time. “If you will wander down to the near Pioneer square today, will observe a difference. Em- boards are full of notices 30 feet long are filled tie calls for section work: fi here jobs are listed—free nice jobs, pretty jobs! about these boards are a leisurely gentlemen in over- who deign to glance at these ing boards, overflowing with y jobs. and then they hunt a movie, or a game of solo, to the distasteful thought of out of their shuddering ai the old days, when a worker to town, the bar engulfed savings in from one day to two ‘Weeks, and then he took what he could get, and forgot his troubles fm hard labor. Today the worker can loaf thru the winter on his summer savings, and work in the woods—the wet Fe So the boards are crammed with urgent shrieks from wood and log- .» and then No class has more greatly im- Proved its outlook than the com- Mon laborer these last three years, and whatever the anguished boss May think about it, we are strong for the new order, with the worker getting about what he’s worth, getting his job without a fee, and having a chance to keep his money after he gets it. And now that everything fs fine and dandy, ye honest toller gets “ap stage” and refuses to work for leas than $7 a day. Instead of an even break, he wants the best of it, just as the boss in the old days did. Proving, once more, that we all are human, and that being a hog comes as easy to the lad tn over- alls us the chap in the Prince Al- bert. see OMETIMES we wonder whether a lot of these determined strikers are heroes, or cowards, or just plain, stubborn idjits. We know a fellow who could get his $7.50 a day for what, until re cently, he would have been happy to receive $5 for. But he is on a strike for $10 a day and will not unbend. Meanwhile, he is working at odd fobs for a s little as $2.50 a day, and working at a job that should be worth $2.50 for somebody if it wasn't for his edging in. Now, he has a wife and a few children, who need shoes and gro- ceries, and things like that; and he wouldn't mind working himself if it wasn't that he would be called a seab. So he prefers to sc—well, in”—on some other fellow’s job and eut it down a dollar or « day, and keep the faith with his fellows. And he is rather convinced, after all these weeks, that there is not a chance on earth of the strike, because the a unit in saying the can't 7 New we are lying ix ir they star Ni ge his winning en are the not they and whether I that fellow, know ir lovt cause, along with a far « a sucker to # out of a $7.50 job, or is a coward because he is scared of what some radical would say, or is a patriotic and heroic figure. _ “tick until you starve"’—weil, es TIE IN 8TH; GAME HARD FOUG “Ma” Burdick, Beloved 61-Year-Old Salvation Lassie RIOTIN | Two Autos Struck by il Train; Bodies Scattered for Blocks \CITIZENS ARE ENRAGED OAKLAND, Cal., Oct. 7—(By United Press.}—Three days of ri- oting in the strike of street car men here were brought to a bloody climax teday when a Key Route electric train manned by heavily armed strike-breakers, erashed into two sutomotiles | and killed five persons. Two | others were injured. | The dead are: | A. Markley, Oakland; J. F. Barum,| Berkeley; Mrs. Aloy E. Case, Berke | ley; Raymond White, student, Unt-| versity of California; Warner Van/ Manderachetd. Believed dying Francis Wall, cussion of the brain. Seriously injured: Mixs Irma Warner, concussion of! |the brain and fractured knee | Ag the train sped on without slack: | lening its high speed, bodies were | thrown right and left, and wreckage of the two machines was carried for | blocks. | When the train finally stopped, the |armed guards and the crew fled, car |rying with them their high powered rifles. | | lob Hunts Men | Berkeley, con An enraged mob of citizens is |searching for them. Feeling has been at a high pitch over the impor-| tation of armed guards. Eight of |these were arrested late yesterday after they had fired into a mob of strike sympathizers. Most of the im ported strike-breakers were brought from Los Angeles. | | Onlovkerg estimated the train was | | traveling 50 miles an hour. | | Police commandeered private auto- | |mobiles to carry the injured to hos | pitals. Three of the dead are women. | Expecting Battle Police predicted that if the armed guards are cornered a battle will re- | sult. Meanwhile, were again gathering in the business section. It| | was believed, however, the officials of | jthe San FranciscoOakland terminal railways would avoid further trouble | ltoday by abandoning efforts to run care Righters persons have. been shot | or injured in the strike rioting thus | far, Scores have been arrested, cluding the eight armed guards who|the Toul wants to come to | fired on the crowds yesterday.| seattle to help the Elks raise $250 Probably hundreds have been hit by| 900 during the campaign this week. | | flying miasles. | But “Ma" Burdick, now resting in| The rioting started after United|).. wisconsin home 1 herds | States Judge Van Fleet had issued a! vervice on the battle lines of France |temporary injunction restraining | is too feeble to travel. If “Ma” had jstrikers from attempting to inti! | jer own wa yuld limp to the date employes of the company. nearest railrond station and b Oakland's population has a strong | ticker to Seattle, for there ix a d |percentage of labor sympathizers. |joye in “Ma Burdick’s peart |Among the strike sympathizers are| genttic and a Seattle soldier. 30,000 shipbuilders who struck when | dine: suattia at | | se Jack J an &-cent an hour wage increase was | . - iow Sab es sig and first vice president of the Seattle sol denied them. Fehler Most of the street cars, armored bai Leheton, 1G the, Beattie: Bol or otherwise, that hi been sent | ° nearest to “3 ’ Ci |heart, It was during a soldiers thru the streets have signalled pro-| )eart: tt wae eae ae nareo, N.| gressive riots that have followed the | home-coming reception » cars for blocks. rgt. Sullivan, represent. xe ernment, pinned Ma” Bur- h ¢ Gyerre dick’s breast for 17 months’ continu ous service under fire on the French front. When “Ma” received her cita |tion she reques that the medal vward be made by a “common sol dier” rather than an officer, because her work had been with the men of the ranks, “Ma, who entered the war as Mrs. F. O, Burdick of Texas also awarded two French smacks hot ance the | ‘The kindly ministrations of this job | war heroine made her one of the best | beloved of all women war worke | for she mothered the boys during addest moments of their lives time when their own mothe thousands of miles away, * crowds Ministered to “Ma” | Burdick, 61-year-old Salva-| in-/ tion lassle and shell hole heroine of 0 sector | he | | *P for an torne | Ame ri dier D., whe' ing the Frer |the Croix de George Squleres, motorman of th¢ Re |train, gave himself up. Police said |he admitted being a professional |strikebreaker in New York |Los Angeles. He said the airb failed to work. | that’s all right for a single man, |but “sticking until your kids go |hungry’—that’s different And chiefly because som |head “agent” is going to make strike get over, or ruin every in town As we said, we don’t know: a lot of thoughtful chaps who @ bit pinched in the belt line are not sure, either, too, and ‘she | frying flapjacks for the | from * * ‘Under Fi ire of Hun Guns, She Yanks; Fried Flapjacks in Battle Area braved all dangers in working over a stove fashioned from scrap iron, poys, while German “Big Berthas" burst all around her, Her smile was a bene- diction, She brought this smile back France with her. She also brought a steel helmet which pro- tected her, silvered head from bullets and shell spl Hiram Johnson Is in Portland Today PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 7.—Sena tor Hiram Johnson of California ar: rived in Portland at 8 o'clock this morning. The senator will speak at Chamber of Commi luncheon at noon. His main address in Portland against the League of Nations covenant will be delivered at the public auditorium tonight S. F. Ship Strike Still Continuing ANCISCO, Oct. 71.—The strike of 60,000 shipbuilding employes and metal tradesmen of the Bay dls trict settled down today to a long struggle when both sides reiterated their uncompromising positions, The men refuse to return to work ess the &-cent increase is given. smployers refuse to give the crease, having determined “to stand | by the government in its effort to restore normal conditions.” SAN Federal Jury Goes to McNeil’s Island TACOMA, Oct. 7.—Federal jurors, in session here, bound for the federal jat MeNetl's Island early today. ; Word was circulated in the federal |building that the jurors will make lan investigation of the treatment |there of Hulet M, Wells, former | president of the Seattle Central La bor Council, In solitary confineme: for refusing to obey prison rules. | Wells was sentenced to two years jin prison for issuing a pamphlet jagainst the draft. Are Rushing Aid to American Ship HALIFAX, N. 8, Oct. 7.—Ald being rushed today to th leaking American vessel Pol Land, 1,000 miles east of N York, whose radio reported yester- day that her pumps were unable to control inrushing water. The | r Land is bound for Gibraltar penitentiary was ,|laden with meat, I want to buy a little home— folks, not me, to roam Star Want pursue, Some may care The Ads I will For that’s the proper thing to do. The above rhyme is by Mrs. H. W. Drew, 1728 27th Ave. S. Send in your rhyme. See the show at the Clemmer theatre. Win a cash prize. | grand) took a boat) Prohibits ‘Mooney Parade |Mayor Fears Riot and Blood-. shed May Ensue if the Demonstration Occurs Convinced that "Beattle is in’ no mood to tolerate a demonstration of “anarchists, disturbers and 1 w Mayor C. B. rected Police Chief J. F. Warren Tuesday to “take such steps an are necessary’ to prevent the parade |which was seheduled for Wednesday | junder the direction of the Mooney | Defense league, Permission had been |asked by James Duncan, secretary of | | the Central Labor council! After a conference with Chief War- ren and a of Spanish- Aimerionn War nx, which was attended also by Thomas B. Foster, chief of the secret service in Seat tle, Mayor Fitggerald dictated the following letter to his police chief: “Referring to the attached letter from James A. Duncan, secretary of | the Central Labor council, stating that the Mooney Defense league de | day, October &, as @ protest against |the unjust incarceration of political | jprisoners, it Ix my decision that it] Jof the public peace that this parade be not held, and you will kindly take |such steps as are necessary to see |that it 1s not held.” “It is my judgment that if a/ | parade should be held it would result in the peace being disturbed,” Mayor | Fitzgerald sald following the confer er “My opinion is that the people are jnot in a frame of mind to permit Jsuch a parade at this time, After the meeting at the Arena, last night I am convinced that the people of | attle would not allow anarchists, disturbers and I. W. W.'s from out of town to come here and hold such & parade as they propose.” | Trouble Sure to Ensue Police Chief Warren was even jmore emphatic in his disapproval of the proposed Mooney parade | “If I allowed the, parade, as the |new city ordinance gives me the |power to ro, I am certain that | bloodshed, and even death, might re- sult from it,” Chief Warren sald, rouble would be bound to result from such a demonstration at this time, If somebody were killed, I'd be blamed for allowing the parade, and I don't propose to be the goat |There will be no Mooney parade Wednesday, nor at any other time, 80 long polic Despite the decision of the San Francisco central strike committee |to abandon the nation-wide one-day strike of protest against further con- finement of political prisoners, the ‘All Class War Prisoners’ Defense Committee” of Seattle issued a call jto all workers to lay down their | tools Wednesday. 4,000 Pledged Telegrams, urging workers in other states to go thru with the original plan of a nation-wide strike, were sent broadcast Tuesday by the committee. A mass meeting of work ers who are in favor of the one-day strike will be held Wednesday in front of the Labor Temple at 11 ‘clock Wednesday morning At a mass meeting at the Arena Monday night more than 4,000 men and women pledged themselves to |support the one-day strike of pro- test. ) YOUNG HUSBAND DIES OF WOUNDS Self-Inflicted Bullet Kills Man After Quarrel | 1. L. Bemen, 38, who shot him- self thru the neck Monday following ja quarrel with his wife over money |matters, died Tuesday morning at |7:45 o'clock in the city hospital. | Hospital physicians operated on Bemen Monday, but declared the |wound had become so swollen it wa impossible to probe for the bullet, Fitzgerald di.) as I have my way as chief of | | KNOCK Rl REUTHER, OUT OF THE BE 1234 Chicago...0000 1 6 3 0 The Batteries—Kerr | ther, Ring and Rariden. wo | | Umpires: tional, tional, at’ first ; at third. | iY HENRY L. FARRELL pune Preas Staff Correspondent CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 7.—Ac- claimed by hilarious thousands of their happy fans the Reds went to TE is tao dis cos Gay in the sith game of the wor! series bubbling over with Lc sir, The four-games-toone lead looked |100 per cent safe to the Reds and |their attitude as they took the field indicated they regarded the re| mality. Redland fans followed up the} will be necessary for the preservation “izzy welcome they gyve their he-jeola, L. 1, and San Francisco. roes this morning by flocking to the| field early, Soon after and the big |were packed leading to |for blocks. noon doth pavilions right field bleachers to capacity. Streets the park were The Sox were late arriving at the) battlegrounds. During ing Manager Gleason held an hour's |locked doors, ‘The players were un- smiling when they emerged. It is |known that they are smarting con- siderably under intimations flung at joe in Chicago that they were al- |ready a beaten club. The Sox were in a fighting mood. The Cincinnati players capared about in front of their dugout while waiting for the batting practice to begin. From the bleachers each Red hero was given a mighty cheer, | When the Sox appeared the Band |played softly “Please Go Way and |Let Me Sleep.” The crowds shouted with laughter but none of the smile. When the Sox went out for their batting practice the band plaintively | ed, “I'm Sorry I Made You |Cry,” and the crowd had another | good laugh Gleason’s men went about their work silently. Each man took vicious cuts at the ball, They were plainly in a belligerent mood. The Reds were given a tremendous ovation when they took their places | for fielding practice. THE LINEUP CHICAGO oN J. Coiling, rf the and ference morn- his men ec Daubert, 1b Groh, 3b Rousch, ¢ f Rariden, © Wingo, ¢ Reuther, p Ring, p | First Inning CHICAGO—Reuther's first deliv- ery was a fast one, a few inches outside. J, Collins popped to Rath, who went back into short center to take the ball, E. Collins lined to Rousch, It was a sharp drive, but Rousch had plenty of time to get in front of the ball, Weaver singled to short, Kopf getting in front of the ball, but it was toaifast for him; Jack son drove a tremendous clout to the left field pavilion and then popped 0 Groh, No runs, one hit, no er- rors. Reuther worked very slowly thru- out the inning. He did not show in this session the great speed and dazzling curves he uncorked in his first’ appearance last Wednesday The bleacherites kidded Jackson and chanted in unison, “Hip, Hip, Shipyard Joe’ CINCINNATI—Kerr's first was a curve that cut the plate. Rath popped to Risberg, It was a weak offering, but the Swede nearly lost the ball in the sun, Daubert out, (CONT'D ON PAGE FIFTEEN) crowded | behind | Sox cracked a} Evans, American, at the plate; Quisiey, # Nallin, American, at second; ee cA FOR U, & Two Air Fleets to. Across Continent NEW YORK, Oct. 1— By U: | Press.)—Across the continent sires to hold a parade on Wednes-| mainder of the series a mere for-/then back again is the racing route set for the Will leave simultaneously from o'clock tomorrow morning, nouncement that the tras nental race will be a round test was made here today fi receipt of a telegram from jen. Menoher. The actual flying time round trip is set at about 54 but with compulsory 30-minute at 21 control stations and no fil flying, it is believed the trip jcupy 12 days, including two rest. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7.0 Press.)}—Fifteen army aviators tuning up at the Presidio today what they hope will be the fi round trip ever made across the tinent. At 6 a. m. tomorrow they wil off for New York. Simults ® much greater number will from Mineola field, Long a San Francisco, Under new orders the race completed only when the planes return to their starting after twice having crossed the o nent. ARREST NINE IN RAID ON HO Police Find Forty Whisky Bottles Eight men and one woman arrested early Tuesday morning’ the Success hotel, 2304% First following a police raid on the Guy Greenstreet, 40, the according to the police, was 4 in bed. He was booked on a ¢ of conducting a disorderly Joe Wright, 34, his clerk, a to the officers, was serving to the guests. He was charged violation of the liquor ordinanosy Three of the men were dice when the officers entered managed to “stuff” the dice befo the officers could reach them, The officers found about 40 whisky bottles in the place, and ved there wasn't a regi roomer in the place. They say house was used for bootlegging p poses only. Builders’ Strike Still Unse' Strike of building tradesmen tinued Tuesday, with no meetin tween master builders and ati being held. Indications were that action towards a settlement would taken until after the meeting of Building ‘Trades council, Fri night. Master builders have refi to negotiate with the strikers - less they first return to work, refuse to do this, but ask arbiti on the present status Bi