The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 31, 1919, Page 29

BY FRANK C. DOIG At last develop in Seattle tn the large} during the grim winter of 1917.18 be-| get more for every dollar we apend Publicity Director Chamber of feat Warranted by her raw materials! oause the Atlantic was blocked with! for labor than do Hastern manu: | Commerce and climatic advantages } cold and jee, and outdoor work went| facturers in similar line i Beattic, the domestic and foreign | Next to avatiable markets, the]on every day at Seattle, They o Hefore the war the | center, is now becoming Seat: | foundation of industrial development} to such an extent that Seattle centers along the Atlanti | the great industrial center, the} must be labor. ‘That labor is now } aun hed and delivered 20 per cent| hundreds of thousands ¢ It of 60 years’ evolution, }avaitat The census of | of merehant ships obtained a from = Wu There comes a time in the life of 1914 fo: 429 workers in the) fi by our government up to ry city when the mar that | ¢ e wartime | armistice serves are large enough and n from all) As a uit of mobilizing men | th nm its position in world's trade | pa: ntry in order to build) where they could work most effi. | e*tablix innele is central enough to per-|ships in the more favorable climate) ciently, Seattle had approximatety| Ward tn fmt the manufacture of a large pro-|of Seattle, They came by thousands | 48,000 workers in shipyards, metal| Workers to contin Wpertion of the commodities in which —— working plants and the 1,200 indue| Westward movement deais. | . ——H | trial eutablishments of the city With initiative who finally reached! "Phat time is now coming to Be} | Pei sgen HH. BANTE This abnormal expansion of labor | Seattle was efficient but he com 7 sing force cucing the months}*——————— —————" | conditions. Men came who ought not | Wages Aro Equalized loneer ea er h to have come, ‘This wartime situa] Under war conditions, when, the Kovernment became practically th She period of intensive industrial lopment on the Pacific Coast has long delayed because the long | Mey acroas (he continent prevent Mo any large movement of popula The Pacific states have been to develop the immediate con ing market that must be had as foundation for industry. This limited local market was all} More serious because, until the ing of the Panama canal, the cific Coast states were the most | ote of all the great producing tons of the world, That is, they to pay a highet price in freight ites to deliver their preducts in the central markets than did the pro- of Argentine, Australia or the tries that we regard as most re- ; Canal Opens Way | The Panama canal opened the way change this last condition, but it Feally the war that saw the be ing of real industrial develop- : in Seattle. + A part of this war change was the q of Oriental commerce across the . Making available to Seattle ufacturers the raw materials of| trial situation. great body of Beattie today release addith laborera, Thi —Phote by Curtix Studio “There are & good many tmdica-| AMmertca. ¥ an industrial expansion on/the Orient. New railway construc Sound that otherwise would | tion and old railway repairs and re “ipve been a generation in coming. placement, both here and across the | answered > population of Seattle was In-| Pacific, mean extensive employment! “We not only can eompete with|for the purpose of obtaining low: a and the buying power of that/ of tonnage. The demand for Ameri. | them, but If necessary we can ship | Priced power, means @ favorable per- tion was very greatly in-lean machinery of almost every de-|the raw material d by the fact that the allies) scription will increase enormously | «hip the finished product Bast In Payroll of $290,000,000 to Puget Sound to obtain the with the education of the Oriental cartoad lots by express, ets that could be most efficient in the use of the present day equip |have frequently done and met | 1,200 industrial estabDlishments with have prospered before the war.|the old Seattle Spirit will have to|but as thoroly demonstrated fact. to this the fact that Seattle ts | function as it never has before. Seat-|Our employes work every day tn the exchange point with the Ori-|tle is already a world city, and I| the year with comfort and with full! have just enough faith In it and Its| efficiency, unoppreased by the heat people to predict that Seattle will/of summer or the cold of winter.| mote to have witn: the great the markets of the work! at @/ soon rank as one of the greatest; They are physteally fit and men- cost and one has the fun-| commercial and industrial centers of/tally alert. They work with their/such a city would have were it lo- Feasons why industry will| the world.” heads ee wel es thetr Ranta We cated on the Atiantia and that Seattle thru the Pan- canal is now in a position to AND was 1,257,144, at a value of $212,501,489. labor and durin: the labor situation Available men for the expansion of . other industries. ‘The Orient, Alaska and the nat Because these men had the tnitta- tive to travel across the country to Beattie, and because of the — they enjoy and because of the cll- e mate In which they live, they are] Nor nee. in reducing these raw more efficient workers than found | wuypiy on the Pacific const of the in any other Industrial center th | United States and Beatle has cheap all the apparatus | could make tn a specified time, He | of competition, with ene arm of that ing and holding of foreign trade Seattle Fast Beco Great Industrial Center ‘That condition har passed tempted general strike of Mebruary 1919, was a failure because of the fundamental common sense of the industelal workers. is as industrially healthy aa any large city in America The reduction of shipbuilding from an abnormal war bas peace industry already has released & large per cent of the Moating the year 1920 will al mechanics and will help to steady ‘ond take than In any other part of the Orient and opening to these same tions that Seattle te about to enter Competition Is Rasy nufacturers the opportunity to sell the industrial era of its development.| Shortly after the United States | #ystem of hydroelectric plants owned the Orient. | That the commerce of the Pacific is}entered the war, F. J. Simpaon,| by the Pyget Bound Traction, Light ‘The more important change was in| destined in the next few years to as-| general manager of the Klibourne-|and Power company and a system industrial conditions of the Pa-|/sumo gigantic proportions, no one|Clark company, wireless S states themselves. The war was/wili seriously deny. The trade in| ments manufacturers, was war of raw materials and industrial | munitions and other war essentials|how Seattle could } raw materials were and where im | chandise grown in the extensive rato company had just closed ajon the Skagit river, The hydro-elec: MILD CURED SALMON could produce best. This|ricvitural districts of America and|contract with the government for This firm will serve you in that capacity. on was not any more acute to Se attle than it was in other cities, but) One employer, there was an equall bnormal growth demanded ention and magnified » abuses ax did ereep inte the indus ‘The a to inate axked| The latter system is to be tn - compete with War buying went where/ is to be replaced by trade in mer-| Eastern centers. The Kilbourne- the company to Seattle and | Manent supply of electrical energy. GENERAL OFFIC This we today has approximately PETERSBURG, ALASKA produced here. ment. Seattle's professional and busi-|competition. We have approxi-/&n annual payroll of §$200,000,000 WRANGELL, ALASKA Seattle now bas local markets to| ness men appreciate that to secure| mately a 20 per cent margin due to | Aside from shipbuilding and certain 5 va Many industries that could | their share of this enormous trade|climata This ts not guess work | Industries like lumber and flour man- KETCHIKAN, ALASKA G. Batcheller Hall Co. Ocean Freight Brokers Forwarding Agents Marine Insurance For the year 1918 the total tonnage of Foreign Exports through Seattle Foreign Imports through Seattle was 1,081,931, at a value of $368,806,395 Prenipt; economical and reliable handling of goods imported and exported bears an important part in the develop- —ooooEEEEEEEEEEoEEEEEEaaaaoaoaoaaaaaaaaEESESEESESESESESoSaaaSSEE™ENEEHEESESSS— Address all inquiries to the Seattle Office, L. C. 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