The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 1, 1919, Page 12

“me SEATTLE STAR—SATURD Y, NOVEMBER 1, 1919. — RWAGE HINES NAMES |f STRIKE AIDES <= Miners of Nation Obey Order Committees Will Handle Coal to Strike | Distribution Over Nation BY J. L. O'SULLIVAN ‘ON Vnlted Press Staff Correspondent. , ttooa INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. t —Deprived of the cuir Feadership of their offich federal court order, bituminous eeal miners of the nation offi clally opened their war for Higher wages and shorter hours at 1201 a. m. today The strike called thy entire mem Dership of the United Mine Workers Sf America—351,687—to lay down ‘their tools. Only enough @f mine property Femain at work Waion officials were at work in headquarters here practically Right. No statements were as the miners’ heads evi iy believed that any announce Tegarding the pr of the might be interpreted of the restraining order Miners’ attorneys were preparing appearance before Federal . on a week from today, w on issuance of a temp ion will be held. heads believed that the would “carry on” with instruc now issued, and further orders Not be necessary from general warters, ['ractically al! union are controtied by locals, thru i selt-governmont system tn effect tment of justice agents today Glosely watching for violation | restraining order. SHE ts believed by the miners oo | fight will be short. and they ex- Yietory before it becomes neces for men to receive outside » $25,000,000 st-the fund is tet up| ‘the restraining order. |e HINGT Nov. 1 t (United WA 4 charge take n the eight r istricta have Dir Hines, » railroad ail it at ad nm today will have headquar New York, Philadel Pittsburg, Cleveland Fuel Admin have @ repre it mimittees was it men for protection | Would b f officials were ordered to| Mek r ives. of the committees re turning « fr to Hines f the old tuel adminis distributing coal during in the strike. The tion under Hines No troops nittes will make distribu a priority Ust issued by ral days ago. tating use of ted at the wer ary a., whore a me neratone had t ment this morning, Seer r left for Pottsd: it was stated, he tree ar lay tht to do with strik op, It was de had n. tion t clared. DEAVER TO 60 TO TRIAL ON NOV. 17 Sergeant-Major James R. Deaver ls ® to trial November 17 for the| alleged murder of Henry Clay Holt, Alki grocer, who, Deaver says ed his home. The killing oo curred the night of September 27, | ing near the home of Mra, Deaver in| wedne: ‘West Seatt « 7 ; dent Wilson Presiding upertor Judge A. W. Enjoys Good Night Frater set the date for trial of the} eT , Nov, 1—Preat-|Deaver caso and others Saturday BE. J. Swiger, accused of the mur- | establishment, alarmed at PAINTER TRIES | George L. Rice, 63, a Seattle sign his room in a lodge 1% Western ave. ht. He was sick and! cording to fellow room not appear again k Priday afternoon, J amings, proprietor of the painter, went t pri at house day ni s ers. I At Coal Miners Grouped Round a Bulletin Board at Entrance to Mine | "Continued ‘From Page One) oe “There may be one or ae radicais, but they won't have «4 chanep to start anything. Young Bloods for It (Wilson had a good night and) 4. orm J. Snow, in the Jefferson|the odor of ine gas, broke js condition today was bepregg e car barns here, four months ago,|down the door of Rice's room. He was ona ——, age tftects| Will be tried Me found the 2 unconactous Presid - ~ Superic 2 on he wa. turned i hie exertion in connection with |. 4" S0¥, m indleath tt and coat strike. [lawful possess: Jespondent, bh. 1 suicide. % Rice was to city hos pital, where his condition was said the n charge, George Geu, court to be precar ter we that a att tak the ma [mection wit the _ $0,000 ALABAMANS OUT the cam BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. 1— than 20,000 miners in the Ala coal fields are on strike today leaders estimate AS WILD NIGHT FOR POLICE bailiff, will be tried November 19. and on the following day Deputy Sheriffs Stewart Campbell and Roy | Murdock ' te A jackpot ts 5 weasel sometime nk sed for the cooking of “greens.” loween Crowd Sets Fire to Barn; Students Rush Street Car) is always a morning after everything. night’ was Halloween and 4 to the kids, and the police. morning belongs to a dis- citizenry. police surged thru the nigh’ making any arrests, but, be them, theirs was a trail of over. | garbage cans, uprooted sign and twisted gates. The cops d the kids, who left a trail soaped windows. | The rough stuff started prompt): $ p. m., when the youngest began wg the apartment house district ‘Capitol Hill. The police telephones Se ear. OPPER-KELLY COMPANY OPEN BEAUTIFUL NEW PHONOGRAPH STORE ON THIRD AVENUE “They are wrecking our duflding.” | neighborhood. The flames were ex eishe ene startled call. sguished by the fire department. |The fire Motorcycle officers arrtwed onty to| TD¢ fire department answered five ther alarms, which, according to ind the homewreckers had departed | tire department officials, were all for another district. falne. Street car conductors, too, had| A minguided Halloweener threw a their woes, Many a trolley bigs peor? thru the front window of the pulled from a munictpal ear. nce of Principal L. M. Fllggins Several enthusiastic collegians, adway high school while he participants In the “night shirt pee | rade,” rushed a Cowen Park car and refused to pay their fares ductor refused to start the number of policemen arrived and per suaded the students they were in er ror | and bed. Kids Itving near 29th ave, art E.| And now Seattle ean clean up and | Madison set fire to a barn in that|rest in pence for another year. ot I Sis ponte i The police ri 4 a legion of up turned garbage cans and otherwise ma. emsclves useful. They sigh | kid was routed and sent to his home ja | mor front rootn. | ed sighs of satiafaction when the last | | thing on $5.8 | family. | will be “Two-thirds of the miners in the | Carbonado mine are contract miners. They get paid for the coal they dig Nene of them makes lens than $ n day make $8 and some of ther me me *, the helor. He ke, he anid. | “But there are some of these young ode who are for it,” he They don't know the seriousness { a strike, Of course, it ian't id here as it ts back East, and we an get out most anywhere in this country and cut down a tree if w run out of coal, but it's a shame to think how some of the fotks back in the cold states are going to suf. ter. mine mechanic, ts waen't in favor of the added. 100 Per Cent War Record “Then, there's this way of ae 4. ‘The miners today poorest paid workers, Tee mals come during the In every other line the string. They're entitled to more, | but when they get it, the worker at the other end of the string will | holler for more wages—and so it | will go, each craft pushing the other craft up until nobody knows whai joing to happen. I think there's going to be a show- down pretty soon. Something's going to bust wide open. strike, I'm with them to the last, and being as how I'm not a married man I'll do my share, if it comes that have got kids and a family to |support. I guess that's how the | union figures, too, that us unmarried men will help out the married men if they run out of money. And they'll jrun out, too, becnuse they haven't been saving anything. If you're just day worker you can't mauve any ) a day, if you've got a You're lucky if you can break even with the grocery man.” Won't Try to Break It The Carbonado Coal company ts go- ing to keep all its miners on the ground, if possible, during the strike, according to William Pearce, “There isn't going to be any attempt on our part to break this strike by throwing green hands Into the mine,” he said. “We want our men to stay in the camp. It may cost a little some- thing, but it will pay in the long run, We have no grievance men and they h re against us, We're square with them and they're square with us—good feeling all around.” Mino Is Clear The company has arranged during the strike to continue development in certain areas of the mine where coal “blocked out" but not actu ally mined, and to build some new bunkers. This will keep some of t men employed, Others will be kept at work on repairs and others guard- ing the property of the company. During the last few hours of work | Friday seven cars, or about 350 tons. | of freshly mined coal were shipped to Seattle from Carbonado, and 700 tons were brought to the surf: |Infantrymen Are Sent Into Ohio What is considered to be one of the Gust been opened by the Hopper-Kelly ¢ finest and most complete phonograph stores on the Pacific Coast has at 1421 Third avenue, just one block north of their old location Several months have been spent in planning and doing the actual work of remodeling the entire building to| suit the requirements of the company, and the plans were only O. K.'d after a trip of the entire country had een made inspecting various phonograph stores, One of the top views show the spacious phonograph rooms located on the second floor, while below _ fs pictured one of the Period Rooms, designed and furnished for the display of the many very fine models car Pied in the various makes of phonographs. On the first floor the entire space has been devoted to the record business, _ being available for the selection of new music. in countries is carried, thirty private record rooms The International where the ot is located on the mezzaine floor Department, native music During the five years of the establishment, the Hopper Kelly Co. has grown steadily, and this Donmnenln ef their new and handsome premises is their capshief of achievement, DES MOINES, Ia., Nov. 1 United Press) —The third battalion of the Second infantry has been or dered to report at Camp Sherman Ohio, not military officials at Camp where the unit is now stationed, an }nounced today. Camp authorities |profess to be in ignorance of the reason for the troop movement, The |battalion’s strength is estimated at 200 men. 80,000 ILLINOIS MEN REPORTED IN WALKOUT SPRINGEI Nov. 1 Union leaders claimed the full union strength, 80,000 Tl nois miners, on strike. Oper. ators and state officials said the number cannot be ascertained before Monday, since Saturday is a semi holiday and Sunday a full one, (By | 4) ready to whip “Reing as how the men voted to} to that, to help carry along the men/ i | | TO DIE; ‘TAILS he COAL STRIKE =~ | WILL LAST 10 DAYS « must BE A ‘CANDIDATE! The mine Saturday tn} of movable coal "We allowed the Northern Pacific 100 tons, which will remain at the| Cy until needed,” said Pearce “The rest will stay in our bunkers | ,, jin Beattie to be apportioned out to hospitals first, then to people who need it most to keep them warm. No- body i golne get any of it to hoard away, that’s my policy ‘I've got enough en route from | » make & total of about ne, or nearly enough to run| end our bu: nth during normal times ne, the strike will have jong since passed. x BANDIT ESCAPES. Police detectives have failed to find} & single trace of the lone masked bandit who dimppeared in tho strest crowds after failing tn his attempt to rob the Washington Loan & Trust Co, 111 Stewart st, Friday after- noon. Flourishing a gun, and plain- ly nervous, the bandit walked up to| President Harry Krutz of the bank. | “Hand out your money—quick,” ortered the bandit. “We haven't any money here. Get) out,” Krutz says he replied. The bandit turned around, slipped | off his mask, and lost himself in the} crowds the mlos believe, 40,000 | MEN AT WORK IN INDEPENDENT MINES| UNIONTOWN, Pa. Nov. 1—Inde- pendent coal operators in this so tion expect greatly increased mine) outputs during the coal strike. j Forty thousand miners, employed! lby the H. C. Frick and other inde. | pendent mines, remained at work to- | day. For the first time in a year} |these mines will work a sixday week, beginning Monday, | ‘STATE TROOPS ON JOB | IN OKLAHOMA DISTRICT} OKLAHOMA CITY, Okia., Nov. 1 |—Movement of state troops toward lthe coal flelds for strike duty began |today. By Sunday every coal field! in the Oklahoma mining district will be cupled by Guardsmen. More than 2,000 National Guardsmen as» sembied thruout the state last night, | following the general order of mobil- ization issued by Gov. Robertson late | | yesterday INDIANA MINERS STRIKE, TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Nov, 1 | Practically all coal miners in Dis. |trict No. 11, which * the In diana field, were on strike today, ac cording to reports reaching union |headquarters here today Mine |whistles blew for the men to go to work, but few responded. | 50,000 QUIT IN OHIO COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov, 1.—The} number of miners on strike in the! Ohto district, which o ‘* a small | portion of West Virginia, was pla tween 45,000 and 50,000 by a vage, secretary of the United Mine Workers of America, district No. 6, early today, ISOUTHERN MINES CLOSE) | KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 1—All} coal mines in District No. 19, com prising the Eastern Tennessee and Kentucky fields, were closed today, »rding to union I ers here, Approximately 17,6 “1 to the strike call, J at union headquarters, |STOP IOWA PRODUCTION DES MOLNES, Iowa, Nov. 1.—Pro duction of coal in Towa practically ceased at midnight last night, reports |recelved at miners’ headquarters here | Jearly today indicated. Iowa miners responded 100 per cent to the strike call, unionists claimed, 100,000 QUIT WORK IN PITTSBURG MINE REGION PITTSBURG, Pa, Nov. 1.—(By United Press.)—More than 100,000 union miners tn the Pittsburg and Clearfield districts were on strike today, early reports to union lead- ers indicated, BUTTE, Mont. Nov, 1,—Every mine in the 13 coal camps of Mon- tana is closed today, 4,000 miners having walked out at midnight. CONFESSES TO THEFT OF $250, 000] MAY RESCUE 20 TRIALOF BOY ADMITS TAKING ENTOMBED MEN NEARING END LIBERTY BONDS ¥} bas Are Found Dead in|Charged With Murder of Telegrapher Carried Fortune Ohio Mine Shaft 16-Year-Old Girl | in Overcoat Pocket AMSTERDAM With the recovery of from the Ohio Coal company in Ohto, Nov Nov. 1 two t burning Youghiogheny &| being dered I will be able nena t tion utter him to make th A years couldn't hav or composed nor his « direct fronted at different times with | grewsome exhibits in the case, in cluding Lillian Leuthold’s blood torn clothing, young Howell has| never shown a trace of uneasiness. | roumstant idence has com-| posed the | friends. BAVRLEADER == DEADIN EAS foundry |= 200, Mich., London Preacher avaentine | Pharmacy./Col, James D. Bell Passes $ ntio st, earty| mine here, res 1 January 4 cus forces worked desperately today verty Han Len uthful de hands maintained @ rer to clear the mine of gas and debris | in the hope of saving the lives of 20 men, believed imprisoned further underground, "They “Uncle entered the of tu reentered a the saw a pack up and yvercoat, picked it shabb him the nds, d in nig 0 hours. ; foreman pick atrick been ther Gray, 6 have Jimmy was found in a aitting grasped in one hand. en while throwing earth and cog! ag The barrier was partly A feet away w of a foreign-born miner. a widow and children In the face of asphyxiating vapors, fire and danger of caveins, the res cuers worked unceaxingly all night and finally punched their way thru the tons of rock and coal whiab blocked thelr way thru the eh Heavy clouds of gas and the dying fire wtill bar their way to the inner recesses of the mine elf sent out theft, giving etc. the 25 his shiny posture He was up a barrier of the gases. npleted the body ay loaves caus tradietion ercoat Kennett eaid answers the bonds worrled him continually until be decided to burn them. He thrust them one at a time into a furnace fire until he had but three left. He kept those, Finally, nerved to attempt dis poral of the $30,000, he confided in As a result of an alleged to get them thru the banka, Jeweler, and John superintendent, Kala- vgre apprebended. a state's case Good, BREAK IN DRUG STORE Boys broke the lock from the front} door of the Rainier ave. to Speak Sunday Rev. J. W. H. Theobald, of London, “the Quaker minister with a sense of humor,” will speak at the Y. M, i C. A. Sunday club on “The Present Away in Brooklyn | Religious and Economic Conditions |in England.” ‘al music will be sung by a quartet directed by Prof, bai Saturday morning and stole a large He tert proprietor, quantity jewelry of shaving and emoking E. Valentint, the the report. Motorcycle Fuller invertigated w sup cheap a, C. mate fee G. J put results, James of the Republic, died YORK, Nov. 1 D ander-in-chief Grand Army of the | today at his home in Brooklyn. 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