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lated Profits Would Pay Miners’ Demand BY HARRY B. HUNT WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov, 1- There wilt be no compromise by the United Mine Workers of America jon the principles involved In the ‘Present issue with the bituminous perators,” John L, Lewls, presi Hdent of the miners, dectared here, The operators, Lewis insisted, have ht to mislead the public, both to the nature of the demands of workers and the cost to the con public of their acceptance entire demands, he auld, could ~gshould be met out of tnfinted the operators are now reap and without any matertal in erense in costs to the consuming Continuity of Service Lewis, square-shouldered, square. declared his men wanted no 4 it with the operators, but were | @etermined to get at least approxt fate justice and a living wage, | Continuity of employment, thru the shortening of the workday, and a wage that will alleviate hunger in the mining camps and clothe the families of the workers in comfort the essentials on which the work base their case. “The coal operators have assidu cultivated in the public mind, the instrumentality of thelr gt statistical and press bureaus, by uniimited sums of money, delief that the United Mine are making radical and out LIGNITE FIELDS GLOPEL) The above map shows all the coal fields of the United States. is shown in heavy black. es This includes a small section of All of the Coal s, Declares Pres. J. L. Lewis First U. S. Mine Father Louis Hennepie, Fran 1679 “mine in Tiinols, a map 16 drew, ‘This mine was above Fort Crevecour, near the present site of Ottawa. It Was not until 1750 that coal came into general use, and it ¥ nearly 30 years later before coal mined in Virginia was shipped North, where mines had not been developed then. During the Revolutionary War coal Was used for the first time in & manufacturing plant, Westham, Ve. in the making of shot and hell During the late world war the Price of coal attained ite highest mark. FIREMEN BURNED BAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1—Two firemen were meverely injured today in @ binge that destroyed a five-story |firemen's drill tower, near 17th and Division sts | James Lahey and Lieut. Harry Prown were burt. They may die as a result They were caught when & wall fell upon seven men. Others [were bruised. | Damage was extimated at $50,000. |Cronmed electric wires are believed | |to have started the fire. ‘The tower jwae & 80-foot wooden structure, and was called the “firemen’s enemy lardy fi Anthracite (hard coal) northeastern Pennsylvania. | Used by NONE EXEMPT FROM STRIKE HARDSHIPS RY ¢ B. The coal Y atrike Almont immediate dintrews tn |homes in America, rich ‘nd ‘Those who burn gus, WATERS will cause all the poor kero ganoline and wood will not be | exempt. The miners themselves will likewise undergo their part of the | suffering | There in no better way to deter. {mine how the average person will be | affected t nto take an of coal production and man activities, The year 1915 was about normal in production and also in distribu tion, That year the bituminous fidds produced 443,492,000 tons of coal and only the bituminous fields will be affected by this #trike, if it hap pens. This coal that year was used as follows ‘Tons. Foxported .. 2... e+seeee+++ 18,776,000 Used by domestic ships.. 2,410,009 Used by foreign ships, 8,267,000 Used by coal mines 9,799,000 Manufacturing beehive COMO oc eee eee c eee) sees 42,278,000 Manufacturing byproducts coke .. coves e 19,654,000 « 122,000,000 4,565,000 Iroads. . Making municipal gus Industrial manufacturing (including coal used by electric utilities) ...... .159,745,000 al year | 1 show how | it was distributed in the various hu- but the supply of them would soon be exhausted and no more would be manufactured and transport In the event of @ strike, the | duction in the anthracite fields in non-union bituminous | would speed up of the thing |that has curtailed th produc tion is a shortage of ¢ For the week ending September the mine | worked 72.1 per cent of the thine i per cent of the time lost was on account of car shortages. With 4 strike in two-thirds of the fields there would be 100 per cent car sup | ply in the other fields, ‘The price of coal would go akyhigh and the opera tora in these fields would make bar rela of money ‘There are 7,000 com mercial coal mines in the United | States, pro and center One coal ra. vie |Insurance Man | Faces Charges | At last the man who is «aid to |have worked out the only system of |beating the life insurance com panies is to be brought to Seattle |for trial for grand larceny—it Gov. ernor Hart ts willing Prosecutor Fred ©. the governor Saturday for extra {dition papers for Alien H. Shears |formerly agent for the Philadelphia underwriters here, who was cap. tured fn New York October 20 Brown asked YOUTH SAYS HE WAS KIDNAPED |Was Picked Off Main St. im | Yakima in Broad Daylight Claiming to have been kidnaped by four armed men in an automobile the main street of Yakima in 4 daylight, robbed of $75 on the irts of that city and then held er for more than 24 hours at gun until the “ddnape miles south of on br outs @ priv the point of ing arrived five Georgetown, when he was thrown out, Wesley Butler, 22, 1312 Roose | velt ave, Yakima, reported at the Seattle police station Saturday morn ing. Butler told the police he was in- | vited to take a ride by the men in the machine in Yakima last Thire 4 afternoon | “I had no sooner got into the ear/* he “than two revolvers were | pressed against my ribs and I was wld 1 would ehot if I made an ‘They searched me and took n the car continued towards car sald, outery $75. Th Seattle,” Butler told the police the ear stopped near Cle Elum, where they spent the nignt in an abandoned | cabin in a lonely wood. | “They kept guard over me all night,” said Butler. “I asked them where they were taking me and they. told me it was none of my damned | business, o demands, out of all propor n to the ability of@the mining tn- iry to supply them,” Lewis said. “The demands of the mine workers shorter weekday and substan inereases in wages are the lor 3 outgrowth of a comprehensive | Waderstanding of the needs of the Industry and a knowledge of the eal necessities of the workers the mines. “The compelting force of physteal Becessity requires that a new wage st be negotiated, effective 1, 1919, War Theory is Fiction “Serene in the confidence of their and gloating over their enor. war profits, the operators have Michigan, West Virgin | | in the Big Strike | to enable them the reaping of their pro-| igious profits and to create a panic bag 332 s bei; JOHN L. EWES ~ ieiee institutions of our country; we given our flesh and blood, our DRGESMUNY | Sern atone DANCE HALLS | au ys Future of the Nation Moulded on Instincts future of Seattle is being de in its dance halls, according to Joseph K. Hart, director of the school for training volunteer! ° | which met Friday night in city council chamber. | “I saw the hungry hearts of Seat-| youth seeking expression, when | Visited them again this week,” he) “The most fundamental in-| of human life were there, unknown to the crowds Mileh thronged them, being given J of from which inevitably spring the relations on which the future generations. @ question which I ask you ns is whether the present com: i dance hall is the sort of wherewit is safe to trust the of the city and the nation. "It is up to Seattle to develop a ; nt program. These instincts youth must be expressed and will Be. It is Seattle’s job to find worthy for their expression. In the program, called community serv- is a plan which may solve the lem by developing a pleasant ouse in the schools and parks, Where neighborhoods may meet. “A dance hall is 4 safer investment it securities. Govern. come and go, but the instincts the human race will never That is why they have n into the hands of the money i sere. It is Seattle's task to “Clean up the temple.” ' Service Men Are Halloween Guests Balty gobs and peppery doughboys, by dozens of pretty girls, Halloween eve as guests of the and Sailors’ club, There Witches and red apples and tubs ‘Water and big yellow lights, a Hall Of Mystery, sooth sayers, plenty of Belse and hours of dancing. | May Be Old, But f Has Young Ideas | TERRY, Mont, Nov. 1-~Mrs.|tion, doing most of the work neces- _ Anna M. Scott, 90, in believed to be| sary to obtain title, Mrs. Scott ts “the oldest homesteadet in the coun-|active and strong, does not wear ty. Ghe bas just proved up on her|specacies, and has all her tweth, | free ‘we Secretary of labor, who has not lost hope of bringing miners and op- erators to a compromise, a President of the Mlinols miners, generally regarded as leader of West- ern miners. homestead near Saugas, in thia sec President of the United Mine Work. ers of America, leader of the strikers. s miners continue to work, their contract not expiring until next April. Bituminous (soft coal) fields are shown in diagona lines. stricts of other states. GERMAN PEOPLE | " STAND ACCUSED Hollweg Says They Wanted Unrestricted Warfare | | | ts i} BY CARL D. GROAT (United Press Staff Correspondent, | BERLIN, Oct 31-<Delayed— | Military overlordship was maintained because the German people them | solves wanted it. The charge was dramatically made | jtonight by Dr. Theobold Von Beth /by a single grain of tnd |mann-Hollweg, former chancelidr, jd@uring a hearing of the reichstag| committee investigating the war The grim old diplomat who had | been testifying in a low monotone, suddenly raised his voice to a shout, as he flung this accusation at the committee, pounding a table with his | fist the while. | “Thete was a good part of the people who demanded unrestricted) wubmarine warfare,” he said. “They believed it meant eure victory, An/| overwhelming portion of the preew had the same idea, while a majority of the reichstag was for it.” ‘Von Hollweg placed the burden of | prolongation of the war equally on | the German people and Field Marwhal | Von Hindenburg. “The kaiser was| not In the position, even if he de- sired, to resist Von Hindenburg,” he} declared. ‘The former chancellor said Preaf dent Wilson's mediation offer in De cember, 1916, was ignored because the military command feared he was | being victimized by the entente, who would turn his offer to their own account. the Bible the words: This present ¢ PERSHING URGES PROMOTION PLAN ficers by Selection WASHINGTON, Nov, 1.—Promo- tion of army officers by selection instead of seniority was urged by Gen. John J. Pershing today. Such , a plan would tend to @iminate “dead timber,” he said. Pershing resumed his testimony on the military reorganization bills before a joint meeting of the house and senate military affairs commit tee. He suggested allowing officers re tired under the selection system, 2% | per cent of their pay for each year) of service “If a man had served 10 years, he would be retired at 25 per cent of his pay,” Pershing explained. Pershing’s testimony today turned largely on deta of proposed legisin- tion, and was technical for the most part. Inequalities of promoting have re-| sulted in a great deal of jealousy! between line and staff officers, he} a “Line officers have felt that xtaff| officers, by reason of their services| They are in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas. Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, rt , Kentucky, Missouri and in scattered d Lignite (softest of coal, as yet hardly touched) fields are shown im broken lines. These fields are not included in the strike, First Coal Mined What is probably the first refer. ence to coal as a fuel is found tn (Proverbs xxvi, 21) in “As coals are to burn ing coals and wood to fire, eo tx n contentious manto kindle «trife.” was written In 1016 1 at the Ume King Solomon came into power, Part of his domain |] consisted of Myria and near the ¥ of Heruit coal mines were worked at that time being mined there to this day c Coal ts One ton of water may bé colored) I] SAM! Heating homes, stores, of. fices $4 deeceerces ‘The only item in thin Het that wouldn't affect the average person is the coal that is exported. The people of Canada would mins that fuet the tron foundries would #uffe railroads would be seriously pled, municipal gas plants Dies in Portland PORTLAND, Or, Nov. 1.—Cap- tain William FL Hardy, lest sur jvivor of the Perry expedition to Japan, died here this morning. He was 83 years old. Hardy was one of the much-loved and picturesque figures about Portland for many years, his patriotiom being eh | thruout the war period by hin par of food and clothes and everything {tHeipation in all the loan drives and} j).4+ pr use would be stopped, recruiting campaign [electric Nght and street car systems BE UR, | would shut down and homes, stores POLICE RAID GAMBLERS|* «few wring cou woud be cold . || Forty-five downhearted gentiemen| The thing that looms largest | will be introduced to Police Judge | the stopping of manufacturing and |Gordon Monday, to answer charges | the breaking down of the transporta- of gambling or “Being in a place | tion system. There are few people jwhere gambling is conducted.”|in America who do not use food, Twenty-eight were nabbed in a raid | clothes and other necessities that are |on a Greek coffee house in the Pre-| manufactured and transported jfontaine building. while the others] ple who have previously used arth | Were rounded up in a pool hall at 311 ficial gas or electricity aould not con: | Maynard ave, iday night. tinue, for each in dependent upon “Rollin’ dice,” explained arresting | coal. Those who use electricity | officers lecould have light by burning candles, the crip. would &é in| | Mra. 55,000,000 | Shipping would be harpered, | cease to function, the manufacturing | Be Rid of That Bad Back” [Justice Otis W jurday a Peo- | |she found wormy flour on October| dent | “The men had two suit cases and | two satehels filled with liquor. They drank considerable. When the car Shears, it is charg € poll |eles for large sums, reporting to the company that they were small poll pocketing part of the amount paid in by the policy-holder. Between December 1, 1917, samen they kicked me out, the car disap pearing down the road,” and) futler told the poliee he bummed Beptember 1918, he is said to) hig way into Seattle on a street car have collected $3,500 which he mis/ana slept in a First ave. hotel. The appropriated. A complaint was te-| police are at a loss to explain the sued December 8, 1918, after Bhears| motive for keeping Butler a captive” had disappeared and bringing him to Seattle. s nia license, according to Butler. Hig P Worms in Food Is " [furnished the police with a good” Charge Filed Here | aeseription of ait tour men. Two ot W. H. Coffin, inspector for| ‘hem. he sald, were young the state department of agriculture, | caused complaints to be ixeued in} r: allege the sale of adulteraiay Brinker's court Sat-| plaints inst the Gopd Kats and /| foods E terias, where, she eaid,| Otto H. Wolf is named as presk! of the Good Bats, and the 28. Rhode & Rupert Co. At the Good Eats, $13 Second|owners and G. F. Dartnell, mam ave, Mrs, Coffin said, she alsojager, 1 the complaint agatnet the found wormy peaches. Both com-|¥ s for the cars, which bears a Califor HY be miserable with a bad back? Get rid ef it! You can’t a aS be happy when every day brings morning lameness; sharp, shooting i), N\ = | sh pains, and a dull, nagging, ever-pres- ent ache. There’s surely a reason why you feel so badly. Likely it’s weak kidneys. You may have head- \ aches and dizzy spells, too—a weak, CARLETON AVENUE in Washington, had better opportunt. | tion,” Pershing said. EXPECT A RECORD VOTE One hundred and twenty-eight polling booths, the largest number ever designated for a school election in Seattle, will be ready to r voters for the school election Tuesday, December 2. The decision to prepare so many polling places was made Friday by the school board after the members took cognizance of the abnormal reg- and © order. years olf, I just enee up the pain. wae diMeult to that trouble.” pass. Wallace Pike, 2912 Americus St. says ght a bad cold, which put my kidneys out of very day the trouble became more aggravat- ing until I was finally bent over like a m: uidn't get up, around with my hands pressed on my back trying to My kidneys didn’t act right, the secretions contained a gravel-like sediment which I was about all Really, it was surprising to see how quickly Doan's Kidney Pills helped me. Th “I wot wet Mrs. Chas. back ached day rest. When ni through me Il was nervous and ha n @ hundred ii » Madder. tre le em and would walk etter, 1 and R YEARS LATER, a great deal of trouble wit idney Pills cured me. “I used to hav neys, but Doan's lated my kidn in good health.” played out. ey completely cured me of FOURTH AVENUE N. E. CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES Mre W George W. Foster, 76, a Civil War veteran, who lived in Seattle for 40 years, died at the Tacoma General hospital Thursday. Foster, who was a charter member Stevens post, No. 1, G. A, R., is survived by two sons John H. Foster and George M. For ter—and two daughters—Mrs, Wil liam Handt and Mra, Harry Dure mus, all of Seattle, Funeral arrange- ments have not been completed. 40 JURORS CALLED Forty petit jurors will be sworn in for duty during the November term of the federal court here Tuesday, Novernber 4, Thirteen of the 40 Jurors are from districts outside Se- attle. They’ reeccive a mileage of 6 cents per mile traveled and $3 per day while in attendance at the term of court. through me There are 30 varieties of water ily. ‘Down's Kidney Pills ar and I know what they ar: neys were in bad shape and my back couldn't have ached more if it had been broken. neys was a heavy bearing-down pain, which made me miserable, and every mo I just felt all run down, J. Gallaher, 7420 urth Ave, N. B, says: DOAN n old remedy in our home, Kidney Pills and they cured me. years ago, and since then I have used Doan’s oceasion- ally to regulate my kidneys, and they have prevented any return of the former trouble.” Doan’s Kidney Pills Every Druggist has Doan’s, 60c a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Manufacturing Chemists, Buffalo, N. Y. Some years ago my kid~ Right over my kid- I made sent sharp twinges I used Doan's That was several uine unless it bears the trade-mark and the Doan.” tired, depressed feeling, and perhaps some kidney irregularities. dropsy or serious Bright’s disease to set in. Get back your health and keep it. You can’t afford to lose time experimenting with an unknown remedy. Try a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills. They have done wonders in scores of cases right here in Seattle for people you éither know or can look up. Ask your neighbor! SEATTLE PEOPLE TELL HOW AMERICUS STREET KB. Spink, 6024 Carleton Ave. says: “My and night and I couldn't get thuch I went to straighten sharp pains went daches and 1 used Doan's Kidney Pills and soon finished the third box and I troubled that way at all since then.” F Mrs. Spink said: my kid- , They regu- » strengthened my back and put me O package of Doan’s Kidney Pills is gen- maple-leaf signature — “James Don’t wait for gravel, WEST FIFTY-NINTH STREET J. M. Johnson, carpenter, 2625 W. Fifty-ninth st, says: “I caught a cold which settled on my kidneys and made them weak, After tifmt J hadwa great deal of trouble. My back was lame anf it felt as though the muscles were all drawn up and stiff, My kid- neys didn’t act right at all, and the secretions were highly colored. I had to get up often at night. Dean's Kidney Pills gave me a complete and lasting cure, and since then I have only used them oecasion- ally to keep my kidneys in good order. They have kept me free from kidney trouble, in spite of my age.” rc ELMWOOD PLACE James Cubbon, manager Victor Cleaning and Dye Works, 2712 Elmwood Place, says: “My kidneys were in bad shape and every time I bent over it seemed as though my back would break, The kidney secretions were unnatural, being scanty, painful and irregular in passage. My work as a tailor kept me bent over, and that made me suffer all the more. I was lame and stiff all over and could hardly straighten up. I began using Doan’s Kidney Pills and it wasn't long before they helped me and I was soon cured of every sign of the trouble.” onsid- | reached the outskirts of Georgetown — oad ¥ A city-wide search is being mage” - ‘ae & a i

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