The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 21, 1919, Page 16

PAGE 16 THE SEATTLE STAR--FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1919. G-CENT ‘FARES (TREATY FIGHT OFFER MINERS FUEL SHORTAGE | SEEM LIKELY MAY ENTER 1920, WAGE INCREASE) NOW ALARMING Council Adds Paving Costs * to Municipal Railway . i . * Continued From Page One eae ” receipts of our street railway syw tem as you may deem proper, stil! | feel that I must ask you to forget Pour old fight with the street car sys tem and now approach the manage Ment of tho street railway and treat the street railway department as you Mo the water department, for in stance, which, to my mind, is on a par with the street railway system ®s the city has virtually a monopoly Of both, and they are presumed to he operated for the benefit and con Wentence of our citizens. This being the case, onty charge the street rail ‘Way system with these things w hich ‘are an integral part and necessary to the operation of the street railway aystem: “Even if the theories of those bers of your honorable body who Qhink that the revenues of the street allway system shoul! be used for aaa 4 terrupted to say; “For my part, I ether than street railway f are corn as a practical Proposition it is impossible at thir to use the street railway money for paving and paving maintenance “and successfully operate (he system ‘and if they are going (o persist in Dutting their theories | fect, in Palrness they should, at the same ime, provide for additional revenue Because if they do not the street ral ‘way system must necessarily be a failure as far as giving increased ser- | ‘vice or making extensions is con. ‘eerned. The question of what in ‘ereased revenue will be gained by an Mmerease in fares is a problem that “ean be determined only thru actual Ratification May Be Big Is- sue‘of Campaign me 1K) | Continued From Page One ” ” whether the treaty ts to be reported out of the committee or permitted to lie there forever, Cantidates will stand for one or the other of those courses, it was predicted, and the people must decide, Meanwhile, the nation faces months of a technical | state of war-with Germany More Fervid Oratory Material for the political orators eady being prepared. Speechen nf republican senators made during the last hours ef the debate are to} be printed and rent broadcast thru out the country as campaign matert- al, Among these will be a specoh by enator Lenroot, of Wisconsin, and others by Sterling, South Dakota Marding, Ohio, and Kellogg, Minne sota. | Looming In the background today are reports that 35 senators, includ ing three or four democrats, are pledged to remain as the “Rattalion of Death,” to prevent any ratifica tion of the treaty, This is more) than one-third of the senate, and enough to block a two-thirds approv: | al of the treaty. Carter Glass, appotnted senator from Virginia, will take his seat at the beginning of next session, it was | stated at the capital today. He was being held Im readiness to be sworn in on a few minutes’ notice during the final hours of the session had administration forces needed his On no ballot, however, was the vote. tally clone enough to make one sen ator's action decisive. Lodge Gets Surprise Coal, Workers Say Boost Is Not Sufficient BY RALPH PY, COUCH (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, D, ©, Nov, 21 Coal ope 2 and chiefs of 400,000 miners stil! on strike may Agreement here today or tomorrow Miners have ded to recede from thetr demand for 60 per cent ware Increase, accordiny to Secretary Green, of the United Mine Workers. “TL suppose we shall have to #ub mit @ pre to the one the operators made yesterday,” said Gr “It will be an irreducible minimum, It probably will be #ut mitted today,” The proposal which the operators made late youterday was rejected an “entirely in uate,” by the miners It included an offer of 15 cents mare & ton for both machine and powder or pick " “ reach onal counter who now receive 72 And 44 cents a ton, respectively, WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov, t1— Increases offered by miners were “promptly rejected,” ac cording to statement given out at headquarters here late operators to operators’ | yenterday. The proposed increases, actording to the operators, amounted te 15 Nation - Wide Freight Em-| bargo Is Possibility | WASHINGTON, Nov, 21 (tnited Wh coal miners and op 4 debated in Washington on a noveral nections of the middie west facing an in us mit h today aa a result of the fuel shortage. | Curtailment of train servios, aban: donment of non-essential industries, rationing of reserve supplier and re. establighment of lMeht nights were being reported in an effort to conserve the diminishing coal #up ply, In many places only @ few days’ reserve remained. Above all was danger of a nation wide freight embargo, admitted by Rail Director Mines to be a pomal bility should the situation show no improvement within a mpnth, | Suggests Seizure Meanwhile, the proposal of Gov ernor Harding of Iowa that the ehiet » weale, partteularly were J executives of bituminous producing | tates selxo and operate the mines fort to bring about normal production was meeting with varied responses, Governor Cox of Ohio, in & mensage to the United Prens, in an | supported Harding's plan, while Gov ernor Cornwell of West Virginia be Meved it would be playing into the conta a ton for both pick and ma-| bands of the radichla, and Governor chine miners and 20 cents a ton for| the men working by the day, Minera| are paid by the ton. Miners’ officials paid the Increases amounted to about half of what the anked, and declared that they t sufficient to meet increased living costa The operators declared the tn creases offered were more than mine were n experience.” « ‘When Mayor Fitegeral tnquired of! $=The Lode concurrent resolution. gh to meet increased living /Murphine as to the daily receipts of | which declares the war at an end, *. /Jitney busses, Councilman Moore im | can and will be vetoed by President é Wilson in case it is passed by both don’t want Supt. Murphine to bring | house and senate, in the opinion of ‘Up jitney regulation. At his request | high administration officials today I prepared an ordinance regulating | They cited the constitution to prove Gitneys and brovght it to a vote in| that the president has.this power eity council, where it wns de| This case as an evident surprine | tors’ statement mald. feasted. I thought he had enough! to supporters of the Lodg® resolu-/that the advance offered is more ‘Votes to pass it.” tion, which was introduced fn con-| than wuffictent to compensate for Moore's tone indicated that he was| gress just before adjournment. They | the increased cost of living.” tired of tHe jitney bus con e the executive had no author-| ‘The miners declared that with the ' y to interfere with a concurrent | increase offered advances of miners’ | >In response to the mayor's inquiry, | resolution and that the Lodge meas-| wages since 1914 would aggregate ine said that if the jitney bus| ure could be passed by both houses,| 68.4 per cent. For machine mining x ce had been passed by the| thus ending the war without adop | the aggregate was given as 99.8 per ‘oun! it would have added a daily | tion of the peace treaty. cent, and for men working on the 4 Ge of $1,000 to the street rail.| Discovery of the constitutional au-| day basi the figure runs from 9s fund, © sum sufficient to stave) thority which hitherto has seldom,|to 146 per cent. The tncrease in liv the Gcent fare bugaboo. if ever, been exercined by a presi-|ing cost since 1914 t# firured at dent, was considered a blow to their| per cent by the International indus! plans. trial conference, the statement! points out, and at “somewhat higher percentage” by the labor depart mont. ponition of rejects that they are reject @ very # n it would appear ng in posttion to DERMANS FEAR | : WILSON TO WAR ==" then : | national election tn which, howe | be will not participate beyond urging voters, of party affilia tons, to demonstrate they want the United States to join the league. Wilson is antious to go before congress and deliver his message tn This is opposed by his physicians. BY CARL D. BROAT (Ouited Press Staff Correspondent) BERLIN, Nov. 20.—.Delayed)— the American senate to treaty means not nations of Bu- |Will Also Continue Fight for the League BY HUGH BAILLIE nited Pregs Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 21.— sas President Wilson within asys| Franco-British will make his supreme effort to end * inroads of the Rolshevikt into Amer- Treaty in Force, seo fea’s social structure and at the| PARIS, Nov, 21.—(United Press.) “What Germany | same time make the United States a/~The . Franco-British treaty, by pond member of the League of Nations. | Which Great Jiritain agrees to come Germans, however, hail) phe president today was working |to France's ald tn event of unwar- defeat of the treaty in Amer-| vigorously on two state documents |tanted German aggression, became | fea as an opportunity for a separate! which he intends shall be the most effective today when Earl Crewe, peace with the United States, with a| compelling of his administration,|on behalf of Great Britain, and mubsequent German-American alll-/ One of these is @ message to con.|Foreign Minister Pichon, on behalf ance. grees, to be deflvered December 1,|0f France, exchanged formal notices Rejection of the treaty by America| ing the other the message to the |of ratification, Pleased the reactionaries in Germany} new industrial commission, called to| The allied and German commis- as nothing else cou! bring about peace between labor and|#ions held their first Joint session ey capital, which probably will convene | today to consider methods for exe- HIGHWAY MEET OPENS here the same day congress meets, |Cution of the peace treaty and the SPOKANE, Nov. 21.—With 75 del- @gates present, the Eastern Wash Wilson is writing a strong appeal | Protocol. to congress to take up again and/ ington Highway association opened | ratify the pedce treaty. | Nearly 2,000 new kinds of postage its annual meeting here today. The| He is preparing an Carlyon $30,000,000 state road meas-| which the administration hopes will | since argument | stamps have been tasued in Europe December, 1018. Of these, Ure is the principal item “for discus-|bring about a sion. . speedy ratification. compromise and/ 1,500 are the first stampa of the If it doesn't|new European states & high offictal in the for. id. Here Is Interesting News — —40— | Uncalled-For Custom Tailored SUITS] on sale at Half Price Sizes 36 to 46 These Suits represent the very newest in fashion, double and single breasted, conservative and ultra dressy. Good range of materials, blue serge, smart tweeds, silk mixtures and cheviots, in popular colors and patterns. Tailoring is the very best. 7 Lining an finish of unexcelled quality. x “— Uncalled-for Custom Tailored Overcoats At About Half Price The Big Tailor Sho 1104 First Avenue Near Corner of Spring Street f the miners continue tn thetr| stantial increase in| wages and befog the issue by ‘stand: | ing upon thetr conditions,” the opera-| “It will be seen | Sproul of Pennsylvania regarded such action as unconstitutional “If the dixpute affecting the min: ing industry is not settled soon, it will be necessary for governmental interference, to take the shape of operation of mines,” wired Harding . “It would be far better for the fed pvernment to do it, but tf it ot, the responsibility falls to " Sproul merety @ectared Parding’s plan Would be “illegal and unconsti tutional.” Cognwell wired the United Pree» “L have wired Governor Harding that {inasmuch as comparatively few nilnes in this state are idle and pro- duction jg more than 75 per normal, no drastic action is neces wary here. Doubts Authority “Aa to my attitude regarding Gov. ernor Harding's proposal the strike has been declared unlawful by the president and the federal court. A vast majority of the minere of this state accepted that deciaion in good faith. ° © © I would favor clos og Nof-easential Industries, conrery ing the coal supply and fighting it out if it takes all winter, rather than usurp authority not rightly veste in the state, | “Governor Harding’s proposal 1 probably be weleomed by the | al leaders who planned the ete! | od coal strikes, and expected con eral railroad strike to pull them! ac Governor ‘Black ef Kentucky wired: “I will, of course, exercise all the authority I possess in the case of an emergency. Miners are e@radually resuming work tn Ken- tueky RESERVE COAL IS VANISHING Industrial Plants Are Rapid- ly Suspending CHICAGO, Nov, 21.—As the third Week of the coal strike ended today, |reserve supplies of fuel in this eec fon had practically vanished. Wide *pread suspension of industrial works iw already under way, the regional fuel committee announced. The Corn Products plant at Pekin. ML, has closed, and the company an nounced that the Argo plant woutd have to close tomorrow. The com pany employed about 3,000 persons and used 100,00 bushels of corn daily. The Alton Brick company will also suspend tomorrow. Train schedules on ines running from Chicago have been chopped to the minimum, Hundreds of trains faily were suspended. All linea were | affected. The packing plants have a two week's coal suply on hand. MAY LEASE CAR LINE WALLA WALLA, Nov, 21—Wal la Walla will lease her car system for 613,000 @ year fro mthe traction company, if recommendations of the public service commission are fob lowed. An electrical station with a 90.mile transmission to Mejbourne is to be erected in the brown coal flelda of Australia. 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Taste Colorado Strike _ |Overnight Guest Plan Called Off) Leaves With $70) Peter Thorval Nillsven, 1931 First DENVER, Colo, Nov. 21.—(United| Peter Mclain, resident of the|** hopped blightly aboard a street Pyeen)—A threatened new strike ot | Northern hotel, tried to be @ good | car Thursday night to ride inte the Colorado union eoal miners was | eats a eee ee and |city from his heme te 60 the movies called off today by District President |tey with hae are M8lor something. Geo, Johnson. The local district | Peter, ax the host, slept Uke a log,| Peter Thorval Nillesen, same ad court had previously imued « tempor | but awakened Friday morning to dis. |dress, hopped off the seme street ary restraining order against An-| cover he was out $70, and that his other walkout of miners and the| guest had gone jear when It arrived down town, But 4 | Peter wasn’t quite so careftee when state industrial commission had} —_———$—$ also ievued & mandatory order for) Movies are proving to be the best|he reached in his pocket and dos- had picked his rescinding of the strike order pend-!medium for people in South Amer-‘covered someone ing arbitration. fca to know North American ideas. pocketbook, containing $150, It’s so very, very good Many, many folk tell us that SYRO is 80 deliciously good that they like to eat it over their bread. We are flattered by this, and highly appreciate the com- pliment because, though we knew there was no other syrup like SYRO, we did not look to its making such an appeal as this. You may not have made the acquaintance of this most unusual syrup as yet-—you may even be satisfied with the syrup you already know. If so, do not'ask for SYRO. It is only for those whose taste for better things prompts: them to seck out the unusual. ’ RAINIER PRODUCTS CO., ec A, Seattle, U. S.A. Teble Syru v Loses Pocketbook [Canadian Coal Is Sent Into State VANCOUVER, B.C, Nov. 21—Ab tho government lcenses are €4 before coal can be shipped out Canada, there has been no of coal sh{pments into Washingtos state, officials in chefge of exports. said today. x The licenses are freely tssued here since there is no indication that @ shortage of fuel will be felt.