The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 10, 1919, Page 1

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AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH a the betterciass Second avenue grils, cafes, lunch palaces and res tauFants; "Patrons Expecting to Steal Our Sugar Must Bring Their ‘The onslaught of the sugariess y the cube sugar bowls has tees back the bow! filled with ulated sugar, and it is some difficult to carry off a hand © Bul of ioose sugar; expecially if you ) @hly have a moist pocket at your disposal Fine folks, dressed at the rate of per square inch, emptied the of cubes almost as fast as competent waitresses brought and so the shifting sands in the granulated sugar bow! are with us again, | When a small cafe gets to using eS barrels of cube sugar a week, S to sweeten the coffee of a few ee folks, something's bound occur besides more cubes in the (eo. And that was the rate at Which cube sugar was going. an PEAKING § about. lunch 23 palaces. = Ani dur foreign allios, The French are a won- Sat dertal people. | ‘Their arts, their crafts, their But their pastry is the limit. _ Once in a while they, run out of tin ple at our favorite loot- place, and we hopefully tackle ‘the French pastry platter. _ Maybe it was good eating when ft was made, in far-off Paree; but after being shipped across an Ocean and a continent, it fails to bear its old age gracefully. _ This confection is a great looker; ‘ft is fashioned tn all the architec tural modes known to advanced ¢ivilizations, and it is frosted, and |. and sugared, and painted, varnished, and planed, and grooved, and molded like a pillar the temple of Venus. 4 But as something to eat, it just ‘ain't. Always it, has the same founda- tion—stale sponge cake. Always it is dry as a homiletic Teview, and as flavorless as a mum- my’s kiss. A délight to the eye, a delusion to the stomach and a bandit to the the French keep their pastry hore, and thus tighten the ties amity and concord, eee T PAYS to advertise ‘Three times Saturday we went by that little taxidermist's shop where the “sea serpent” Is dis played. And each, time there was a four deep crowd about the window For months we have wandered First avenue, and we never saw a soul stop to gaze there. before But since this column, in pass wg, mentioned that serpent, hun- reds of folks have gone down and ¥enewed their faith in Jonah, ghosts, sea serpents and other fauna of mystery and romance, yes have they, but they see not.” That's how cometh it that the ad man makes a living. Just a little concen- trated effort to think of a few lines of rhyme and you may receive Free Tickets to the Clemmer. Here is the first line for this week: “Now is the time to buy a farm” ils of Contest on ed Page. This method is taken to call attention to “real buys” in farms. Any day by scanning The Star Classified you may see listed just the place that you have been looking for. LMOST any day now this . Tailors Are Returning toOld Jobs | Employers Claim 40 to 45 | Per Cent of Men Are | Back at Work | 'NEW SCALE $40 A WEEK Accepting the terms offered by their employers, between 40 and 45 per cent of Seattle's striking tailors return to work Monday, to be paid & minimum of $40 for a 4§-hour week, according to EB. C. Alt, secre tary of the Seattle Merchant Tailors’ atsociation The scale in effect at the time the strike was called on September 15 Was $36 for a 44-hour week. De mands of the strikers were $44 for fa 44+hour week “The new scale is practically the same as the old,” said Alt, “except that it provides for increased pro | duction.” | The Seattle Merchant Tallors’ as | soctation comprises 43 firms, who de jelared they would reopen Monday on the open-shop basis. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10.—The fate of that new suit of clothes prob ably depends on meetings today be tween merchant tailors and their former employes. Following the an nouncement of the Pacific Coast Merchant Tailors’ association that all shops would open this morning on “the open-shop” basis, individual em ployers were meeting delegations of their striking employes to explain the new wage seale. | The employers, thru Sam G. Levy president of the Merchant Tailors’ association, said “they had no griev-| ance with legitimate organized labor jand stand ready at all times to deal collectively with employes.” | Claims that the leaders of the) striking tailors are radicals favoring the Russian Soviet form of govern: | ment and that “there absolutely is no doubt the tailors are connected up with the general “red” attempt to control the country,” made today by Levy “The $40 48-hour basis that we are offering the man is four dollars bet ter than the wage scale in effect in ali Eastern cities. A new one-year agreement for’ $36 per 48-hour week was signed up in September between Eastern tailors’ unions and their em ployers,” he said. “The public will be able to got jclothes immediately for we the tallors to go to work this week in spite of the action of their lead Jers,” said Louis Scheeline of Oakland | today | | | j were expect “Brotherly Love” on the Skids in House of Prayer SPOKANE, Nov. 16 Mormons invaded the meeting of the Firat United Presbyterian church } last night and attempted to turn the service inte bate The pastor, Dr. A son, roundly denounced Mormon: jam, drawing from the invaders interruption and objectior Mormons are “profane, obscene and adulterous Stevenson de. “They practice polygamy and the lon’t deny it.” “Oh, yes they do!” ha man in the congregation Referring to Brother Smith Stevenson jeered that “he drove hia wives four abreast.” A bodyguard of his congrega tion, fearing attack, escorted Stev- enson home. SOLDIER HELD vere w Steven clared. FOR ABDUCTION ‘Weds 15-Year-Old Girl and | Papa Is Angered | Walter P. Cockrill, 21, alleged to deserted from Camp Lewis six) hav weeks ago to marry his leweetheart, was arrested on Western ave, by Deputy Sheriff C. H. Beebe |Sunday night on the double charge of abduction and desertion. The abduction charge will ably be dropped by the girl's father, S-year-old \the marriage annulled, Cockrill will jbe vent to Camp Lewis to face court martial. | Beebe refused to divulge the name jof the girl or her parents, The father, he said, is in Tacoma, prob: | who, it is said, will endeavor to have | 1919, INJUNCTIONS U D pitch of patriotic fervor and emotion, labor and capital clasped hands and marched forward together to face a com- mon enemy. There were“optimists who predicted the war would be fol- lowed by a new era of good feeling in America. But they reckoned without human nature. No sooner had the armistice been signed, no sooner had the danger to our civilization been abated, than the old quarrels about economic and industrial conditions began all over again. Fierce battles began to be waged over hours, wages, the right of collective bargaining, all the familiar bones of contention between organized labor and organized capital. These disputes when followed by strikes or lockouts are in- jurious to both parties. There is always a distinct economic loss. Capital loses in curtailed production. Labor loses in cutting off of its pay envelope. But, after all, their suffering is as nothing compared to that of the third party at interest, the innocent bystanders, the great American public, composed of millions of men and women and their children who are allied to neither party to the com- bat. If there is a great steel strike which goes on long enough, all business, all normal life is unsettled because steel is the basic material of our modern, complex, highly industrialized exist- ence. We feel the lack of steel in a thousand ways, from the inability to complete the construction of a necessary building or bridge to a shortage in plows and other farming imple- ments. If there is a great railroad strike, the suffering does not fall alone on the holders of railroad stocks nor upon the men who work on the roads. The American public bears the brunt in the curtailment of its food, its fuel, its clothing, of everything that enters into transportation by freight cars. If there is a great coal miners’ strike, a blow is struck di- rectly at all of us. Factories shut down and we lose our jobs. Gas plants shut down and we have no gas. We freeze in our homes. Our boasted civilization is knocked out of joint. Now the continuation of such conditions is intolerable. It is un-American. It is, to put it bluntly, uncivilized. The trou- ble can’t be cured by repressive legislation. It can’t be abated by passing laws forbidding strikes, for the right of workmen to lay down their tools cannot be taken away from them. It can’t be cured by arbitrary injunctions and technical war powers. It can’t be abated by passing laws forbidding lockouts, for the right of owners to close their plants can’t be taken from them. Some new way must be found; some method not copied from the experiments made in Europe or Canada or Austra- lia. There must be an American way of settling industrial disputes between Americans. That way must be one in which the great American public will be a deciding voice and factor, because when all is said and done the great American public is the goat in all these dis- putes. EF PLEADS guilty to from Patrol- chicken Superior ‘COSTLY PACKAGE FOUND] ROBBED DURING DREAM|CHICKEN THI NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—A casual} Sd Kaston slept and dreamed of Jack Dalton kick at a package wrapped in newa-| Peace in room 29, Hotel F stealing 31 | papers lying beside a wood path near | day night J Fort Lee resulted in a police ser.| But when he awoke he was any-|) 1. geant discovering $35,000 worth of| thing but peaceful. Someone had//Um " ldrugs. ‘The wan turned} entered his room and carried off his|John §. Jurey Monday. Sentence gee who found| trousers with $125 in a rear pocket.|was deferred. Dalton was fined 166 botilen ‘i ‘The police were notified Monday |$160 last spring for stealing rab- bi other drugs. te, pleaded ‘orest, Sun chickens Byers’ before man C. Judg codeine and| | morning. ot heroin, cong at the Postoffics at Beattio, Wash., under the Act of Congréss March 8, 1879 $5.00 to $9.00 Deporting of “Reds” Next Step Raids Against Alleged An-| archists Are Continued in the East ONLY A FEW ARE HELD Preas) and “reds” were still in custody to: day as @ result of raids of federa agents and police of radical head quarters here Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Half of them are held for deportation by the tmmigration au thorities. The others are charged with various offenses. Raids of 71 radical meetings con- ducted Saturday night and Sunday morning resulted in the arrest of than 1,000 but only 37 of these held. Two of these are charged violation of the state law against criminal anarchy. James Larkin, Irish agitator, was arreuted at his home, He is charged with violating the Sullivan law for. ‘bidding possession of weapons, } tate Benator Lusk, who directed , the activities of the raiders, said John Reed, who aided organization of the so-called communists’ party at Chicago September 1, is now en route to Russia. WILL OBSERVE ARMISTICE DAY Veterans to Stage Parade Tuesday Evening One year ago Tuesday, at the 1th of the 11th day of the llth month, Seattle went wild, The armistice had been signed! The streets were filled with wild, cheering humanity; every known vehicle from whéelbarrow to a high-power automobile, Joined in an impromptu parade up and down the main streets. The war was over; the Hun had been licked. Tomorrow, Tuesday, Seattle will again celebrate the signing of the urmistice. tle will celebrate the first an y of the war's virtual end » Irrgest and most inspiring since those days when hun dreds of attle’s sons marched |away, some of them never to return, rding to William A. Gaines, airman of the Armistice day cele- | nive with ¢ | parade bration committee of Roosevelt post, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Tuesday a Holiday Under proclamation by Governor Louis F. Hart and Mayor C. B. Fitz ald, Armistice day will be a legal 1oliday. With the exception of re- tail stores, ttle will take a day off to celebra Federal off and the postoff lopen, Banks, including courts will also remain city and county~@l | fices, and schools will be closed, | «Mayor Fitzgerald has requested |the management of all retajl_stores to halt business long enough at 11 jo’clock Tuesday morning to allow all mployes five minutes in which to |pay silent tribute to the memory of | those sons of America who died that jsuch a thing as Armistice day might arade of veterans will form on Third ave, between Pine and Le-| nora sts, At 8p. m. the parade will proceed down Third ave. to Cherry st, thence to Second ave. and up ‘ond ave, to Crystal Pool, where jevery man in uniform will’ be the guest of Roosevelt post, Veters Foreign Wars, at a smoker vaudeville entertainment, yor Will Speak At Crystal Pool Mayor Fitsgerald will be the principal speaker. ‘The program will include a speech by Charles H, Winders, commander of Roosevelt post; musical numbers by the Knickerbocker” quartet, soldier theatricals, vaudeville acts from the Moore theatre and boxing bouts Col, William M. Inglis will be marshal of the day, Hig aides in- clude Maj. Bert C, Ross, 161st divi- sion; Private C, P. M, Nelson, 1st gas regiment; Capt. Charles Smith, 1st division; Corporal Leonard Rea: an, gas and flame division; Maj, hilip Marion, Washington C. A, C5 ‘ergeant Leonard Varnell, 161st in fantry; Commander Miller Freeman, navy; Gunners Mate B, A, Klebba, nav and ersity of Washington stu: of | Weather Forecast ‘tod history they should comply with t MINE STRIK IS INDORS Striking coal miners, thru their leaders, were to m lay at Indianapolis the most momentous decision « 4 Rain ton moderate Tuesday; win in of American labor. They were to determine whi he NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—(By Unitea | them to call off the national coa’ Seventy four alleged radicals TOW night, or whether they sh yovernment order, req | strike by 6 o'clock tomor= all defy the federal courts, ~ | Fortified by an official statement of the American and denouncin, the miners we _The A, F. of L. statement jfight to the finish. Des that the leaders at Indiana’ of the federal court and issu It then would be up to t | as ‘eration of Labor announcing full support for the mii 4 g the government's injunction, the leaders of - nt into session at Indianapolis today. ° lis would accede to the e the recall order. he miners themselves to decide "© nt was regarded generally as a / ite this, there was some, bli |48 individuals whether they would return to work, BY J. L. O'SULLIVAN United Press Staff Correspondent INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 10.—The showdown of the gov- ernment’s court fight against of miners the national strike ‘Wag at hand today. Two courses lay before the ten | Meaders of the ! | Members of the executive council and scale committee of the central competitive field and several district | presidents met at 10 a, m. to decide upon a policy. | Before the meeting it apparently | Was the sentiment of many of the | Strike officials that a path of non |resistance should be chosen. | The group favoring compliance with the court order took the po- sition that the raflroads would soon jbe returned to private control and that the Lever act, under which the |{njunction is brought, would not be jin effect after peac declared {Grounds upon which Anderson's ruling is based would thus be re- moved. | The group opposing withdrawal of is |“vack-down” on ‘their part. might jhave. They pointed out that if the |miners did not return to work after the strike order had been withdrawn |they would be deprived of the re: straining influence of their leaders 4nd a general reign of lawlessness might result. BLIZZARD CUTS Heavy Snow Storm Breaks News Communication SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10.—All press on the coast were cut off from eastern coynections this morn- | ing. At 7:30 a. m. it was learned |no wires would be working east for | at least two hours. Wires were down on both sides of Denver, where a blizzard has been raging since Friday night. Seven |inches of snow. have fallen about | Denver. Another blizzard {s blowing about Sherman Hill, between Rawlins and Cheyenne. { PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 10.—Wire communication with the East out of Portland this morning was com- pletely interrupted by the blizzard |reported to be raging thru Colorado, | Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska and parts of Montana, | ‘The Union Pacific system had no connections much further east than Salt Lake City. The Postal Telegraph company re- ported all direct wires out with the exception of one from San Franciseo to the East by a more southerly route. The Western Union com {pany said that all of its lines were king but the company was un © to furnish any eastern service a) ing the morning. dents who served during the war will have a place in the parade. They will be led by Dean John F. Condon. Every school in, Seattle will be closed Tuesddy in honor of the day. University classes will be dismissed for the day at 10:30 o'clock ‘Tuesday morning. The Broadway evening schoo) will remain closed Tuesday night. the strike order feared the effect. a/ WIRE SERVICE BY RALPH F. The federation’s su 0 will include funds, Whether action would come within the” diction of Judge Anderson Fe ue to be seen and some labor leadets |here are anxious to know what | federal courts will do about it. There was a distinct a! I f “fight” around headquarters, At the | Same time labor leaders appeared to | realize the seriousness of the pes moment which finds organt | labor practically arrayed against | federal courts. :¢ er | The announcement of the Amerk can Federation of Labor that ft will sive its full support to the striking | miners, followed an all-day session yesterday, during which all phases @ the situation were discussed. Contending thaf to call off strike would be practi¢al and that “government by injune tion” would then be firmly estab- lished, many labor men refused to follow what they considered “the easiest way out,” it was learned fol lowing the conferénce. " The statement issued by the Amer ows Rederation of Labor/sald first at the miners did everythii 7 sible to avoid the eteice, Raa It went on to describe conditions under which the miners work, at — tempting to justify the demands for | higher wages and shorter hours, Would Negotiate Reciting basis for agreement, the statement declared the miners were still willing to enter negotiations “without reservations” in an effort to restore peace. The government's action in getting the injunction at Indianapolis, directing withdrawal of the strike was termed “an invasion of the rights of the miners.” President Wilson's speech made at the Buffalo convention of the labor federation was quoted. The presi- dent declared that the United States is fighting. to free labor and improve working conditions. ta “The autocratic action of our gov- ernment in these proceedings ig of _ such @ nature that it staggers the human mind,” was the declaration in the statement. : ’ Labor Statement The statement of the labor com+ mittee follows: “The executive council is of the opinion that the officers of the United Mine Workers of America did everything in their power to avert this great industrial controversy, Of all the great industries in our coun try, there is none so dahgerous to human life as the coal industry, The men who go down under the ground to dig coal, so that the domestic and industrial needs of the nation may be supplied, are engaged in work more hazardous than any other em- ployment, Due consideration has never been given to the danger sur rounding the coal miners, “There is no other class of employ: ment where each individual worker is so isolated and in whose districts there is such a lack of opportunity’ for social intercourse and enjoys ment ‘ “The condition of the miner and” | his family fs such that he is prag tieally deprived not only of sunshine and fresh air, but to a certain extent jhe is deprived of association and pompantonship of all other human he: ings outside of his own pai a he +j class, who are themselves in.the dang: ‘and ‘Un! 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