The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1919, Page 1

} 4 Don’t Care, » IsCharged 2,500 SOLDIERS DEMAN Tides in THURSDAY NO. 252. v VOLU ME : 22. Employers by Inglis ants to Know Why Nearly) | Every Elevator in City Is Operated by Women | S TYPICAL EXAMPLE | Handreds of for Jobs have been filed with the Veterans’ Welfare commission when they submit their daily report to cee | Ran by Women Inglis ws pationas to ascertain why elevator in Seatth On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star wattle, Wash, w Seattle FRIDAY Hotered as Second Class Matter May %, 1199, af the Postoffice at Bea SE ATTLE, _ WASE., _THU R SDAY, DEC EMBER 18, 1919, We ather Forecast :? ARE WE “ROTTERS”? Maybe some of you here remember what we said about the sacrifice, the bravery, the heroism of those millions of, Veterans’ Employment Bu- a men who marched away to save us from the Hun. There may be anyhow one business man in the entire city who remembers the large promises so freely broadcast by organized business, by commercial clubs, chambers of commerce, and things D JOBS. CENTS Late Edition Edition Per Year, by, Matt $6.00 to ¥ Tonight and Friday, rain rome 261 rly wind Stetson Promises Pitiless — Publicity reau Director Estimates 2,500 Are Jobless HELP NEEDED AT ONCE Ex-service men’s employment bureau officials quit trying to like that, of what rewards, positions, and emoluments were to be} 4 «| Waiting for the returned saviors after they got thru Over There.| & “ec: Well, they are back; AND THOUSANDS OF THEM THAT VOLUNTEERED, = THAT SOUGHT NO EXEMPTION, THAT WERE IN THE VANGUARD, ARF2= aS | WALKING THE STREETS OF SEATTLE ASKING FOR ANY SORT OF A JOB. =| Do you blame some of these fellows when they wonder if the country was worth: in, | bi looking vainly for the ones who were first to for war and first to fight. vs “Saving? We don’t, and we regard any employer who does not give the ieiarnedicaae “ eae acca wir. a ‘The business man explained that mn are more “tractable,” make employes, pro n eee ae ue te Us vents ob wery man up to 45 oe | De tic = «Soldier first chance, as a slacker, and anything else you may choose to call him. How many Japs are employed in-American:houses in Seattle? In American clubs?) ‘ “:|In American restaurants? Hotels? Probably about as many as there are jobless| = American soldiers wondering where their next meal is coming from. These soldiers had jobs when they went away; most of the men, who today are es ‘ penniless and jobless, are men who went first, who volunteered, who did not wait to/=3"5 S"-2 “= or “| filled, and found their old employers refusing to make good on their war pledges. iis rani fe One large employer, who boasted of his patriotism, and who boasted of his wonder- 2". DESTITUTION IS MATTER OF DAYS . hele a | ‘So Declares J. S. Stack, of| “Everyman’s Club” One of the five | pea: wel- ns in ful Americanism when he “released” all his workers under 45 to serve the country, “| Was asked yesterday if he had given these returning ex-employes their old jobs. ““\be forced in. The irony is that these men were the last to return, found their jobs|": at @ memorandum book full of made during several days’ wasn't too proud to fight. Promises Publicity “A good many of ane ae veterans are expert ai “Well, you see,” he explained, “I find women much more tractable, and it is hardly| i o2...amme Surat we emminor| DOSSIDIe to tear down my organization.” ore He meant that women were cheaper, and that he didn’t give one single hoot for|:*=: *st\the sacrifice of any real man who had jumped into the breach and helped save the day = for civilization. city is rotten somewhere, probably at the top. And the employer who has not made good to those men who went away to save ithe business and homes and happiness of all of us deserves to be publicly pilloried ‘until his mean soul is shamed into justice. And the Seattle citizen that can read the facts and figures of the soldier un- may “2 with the facts before it The Star says that the first big job before this city is to give Give Benefit Ball 4 7 Aid Veterans = = EFFICIENT, WILLING SOLDIER IS WITHOUT WORK AT A GOOD LIVING) “Satie ceil WAGE, Wake up, Seattle! the returned soldiers a square deal; not charity, not dinners or speeches or medals, or bunk, BUT THE OLD JOBS BACK, AND NEW JOBS TOO, UNTIL NOT AN) A nation, or a city, that will not take care of its heroes; a city that will not fulfilllsi2222" its obligations to those who dared all for the common weal---that country and “= And on Page 5 you will find the first of a series of articles on Japan by Rod- ney Gilbert, who Lnowe the Orient. The kiddies will find the the Bedtime is another fea- ture they’re greatly inter- | — ested in. Turn to Page 18. Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children will be found on Page 7. “The Heart of Rachael,” 4 Kathleen Norris—Page Contin Grey's questions and answers are on the Woman’s Page. And the cones a for ree _ on Page