The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 9, 1920, Page 15

Section Two T GOVERNM U.S. INVESTORS PROBES The Seattle Star | NMIENT F | WALKOUT CRIPPLES SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, APRIL OUTLAW RAIL SWITCHME BANDIT ROBS Switchmen Want Increased Wage 9, 1920. 'S STRIKE JAP INVASION | Assault Charge IS | | Filed Against Her ‘Old Spanish Pages 15 to 28 WIN B C FIGH | CHICAGO, April 4% vuthaw"" , ° : A 1 sociation, which ortginated the ame aus |Smith, who dangerously wounded | f ess strike now enveloping the entire ‘ , ms County Prosecutor William WJ. Ank-| Ottawa Revokes Decision on |] creases ‘which would bring their | Holds Up Santa Fe Train in 0 e TAM 10 Saturday nigh\. was churued bY| Rainier Valley Citizens to ; wages up to approximately $1 an 4 the ntate with assault in , ly Varden Mine | the first de i Rich Dolly Va |] hour Missouri and Escapes SS HN r= ger PEO AN Convene Tonight = The strike originated with the 1 b ! ecelved a Mre. Sm: fat present under a SCOUVE _ one pumping” — o alates iJ SANGAS CIT oat @ r w je ree tence of from two to five years in . EY go} VE rn B.C. ga 7 pista th wmping” of i fn irunau KANSAS CITY, Mo, Ar A from a my#terious the state penitentiary for perform-| Ten thousa..d circulars, bearing the hat the Canadian courts, ai Vast Food Shi H Id U president of the association, from || tone robber boarded we anta ned ubsconding. bunker” in 4 news ° : ss | I Ar 0]] his Job as service conductor with age . ing an tlle operath he is t 14, “Beware the wily Jap,” were Provincial te must del pments e e P; the Chicago, Milwaukee & St, Pau {/* tain No. 9 last night at Henr A i 1 hoow you only from good |)” ‘Be county Jail without bond distributed among residents of Rat With disputes between companies or Labor Leaders rallroad by a regular conductor etta, Mo, held up the four mat > * Bee 7 “ Z ° ir 4 regular conducto referer the fetter read, “my sad nier Valley yesterday and today, an- subjects In Canada, is, . effect, the pate a whe 4 charg was to owed by a [clerks and rifled the mail car. He situation compels me to reveal to you Leaps to Death | ppunelne a inaes micetiaa asa ruling of an important decision just 1 ore eee kout of a ha ul of men in |) jumped from the train with his loot importa affair, in which you . V 1 & . +. Voodmen’s hall, Columbia, Fri- handed down by the cabinet at Ot BY RALPH, CoucHE | CHICAGO, Apri 9.—Threat || Protest, This was quickly fol Tat sheffield, a Kansas City suburb.) procure a modest fortune From Fire Escape (2 9 ee ene capicen, Of ‘awe, WASHINGTON, April 9.—The | ened by & revolution in its ranles lowed by & strike @¢ switchmen ||.) ofricials aald the extent of the| Mins: a¢ the same time, that of my) Believed to have been demented, |tng Rainier chapter of the AntiJap- The ruling disallowed istation| Gepartment of justice has begun | as a result of the growing strike demanding $1 an hour pay ws teieede Of he! garling dat F. Palmquiat, 40, a guest of the |anese le @nacted by the British Columbia gov an investigation of the strikes in| | of insurgents among railroad | ay a According to the letter, the banker] 04 Geel! hotel mped to his first appeared in Hille - n, if Chicago and other cities, to de | switch ined railroad | * A | oiaia’ a p Doe Magpeerie dF i ho’ jumy Pn ernment, which allowed to stand, . w men, organ railroa | x death from a fourth floar fire escape | cokes ago and scquired Would have taken away from a syn termine whether action can be labor today consideged appealing Burglars Jimmie Jerusalem Quiet staph “mt phen ay night? aah who |B y to bulld a store, it was re dicate of prominent Chic sme, in| S@Ken under the Lever law, it to the government to take dras Jewelr D ear > ha Markle to) vin a restaurant cashier, lived at| ported today, three more homes have ling Louls Swift, Del Smith,| WAS Announced today, at the of | tic steps to quash the strike: y Moors After Riotings «+ ) ‘ ment for! 1 hotel for more than a year, Eim-|been sold to Japs, and an agent ot ? ter Brewster, Gov k Low-| flee of Attorney General Palmer. 8. KE. Heberling, president of the] Burmlare had jimmied open the! ronpon, April 9.—A news ag koin s saat n the] tioyen of the hotel told the police |the Togo Investment company has ae } Gen and others, the rich Dolly Var.|_ The senate today ordered an inves-|Switchmen’s union of North Amert-|front door of the I. J, Victor Jewelry | dispatch from Jerusalem dated Wed- |" me Lan aeba kettva aneueie quired a residence at Dakota st and | Gen silver mine. ‘The property ts jo | tigation of the railroad strike. With-|ca, was ready to go so far as to ap | shop, at 1202 Second ave, early Fri.|nesday sald normal conditions were |, Marl 11d find out more about ie que \Saielart ova eated on Alice Arm, B.C. =< now | Out debate, It adopted the McCormick | pealing to the governemnt for an in |day morning, when an automatic| being restored in the city after two | the case, the letter mays by sending | | ol eid \@ reported to be worth several million |Fetolution directing the senate inter-| junction along the eame lines as the lalarm summoned Policemen 1 J. |days’ rioting between Jews and Mo-|* cabl b fo Amat Manuel, San Burglars Fooled \Di iss Ch | bm state committee thru a sub.commit-|one which which broke up the coal dC. D. Follrich. ‘The burg. |hammedans, in which 250 persons | "der n | Record Visit ismiss arges | In a dispute which aroae between | tee to invtesti¢ate and report tmme-| strike, he indicated In apeeches here. liars fled before the policemen ar.| Were injured | cit's the ld Spasish ewindle,” enld on Neo oral Against Editor | the mine company and its railway ‘ately on the causes and purposes of| “We are still at war with rived. Victor Wee notified ane hur Markle, after roading the letter { Burglars entered the Italian Im-| i nal contractors, under which the con-/e strike |many,” weld Heberling, ‘The Lever | rind to the store, He sald nothing | pj Ed d Dlccrces cor iyears by price: g Co, store at 1041% King st.| Cit tain welvin, editor the tractors there was owing | Officials of the dig unions were | law still exist | was missing rince ward on been rked ears by profes: | we da : ined nothing, The |2kainst Edwin Selvin, editor o the them by th ning ¢ » bitter against the men who quit their) The atrike today had spread prac — Shea Way to Honolulu °°"), “°°: oe ‘ sidsthe 4 Fie bad tee, Selene ae e00.00e w cba without the sanction of head.|tically thruout the whole of the Mid 2 y 10. U tended led on to| Proprietors he police they had |py Judge Mitchell Gilliam Thursday ee Se tenes Se ee een eee ot atid. | 2 E: SMART, has taken an option| SAN DIEGO, April ¥--Prinee Ed-|part wit * been robbed last week A afternoon on motion of Prosecutor 0 legtsl y . on the Buena Vista apartments,| ward of Wales left h vs Brown. Selvin was accused of advor : . e or, |e the lo awaited fight between | dle Weste owns ed switch | ward o ales ere by and had trown. + bedrest ce pe bg fo comer atives wad ant between | men cut. with aympathetic waikouta |{r0™ Margaret Finck, the owner. eboard the British cruiser Fatimated strength of the army on ceipts from t ting violent resistance of radicals enacted the now famous y Var y , The property is t $90,000 r Honoluly. h 16, 1920, was up for th al November 15. den mines act, which gave the min- = ing company some 30 days to pay the | contractors or have the mine taken at hand for control of the trades union was District Attorney Clyne at Chicago | by switch engineers and firemen in many places. MANY CITIES ARE away from: them has been instructed to make a report | NOW AFFECTED bd Dominion authorities at Ottawa | *t once on the strike there. Among cities reporting strikes have the power to disallow any pro. 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Milwaukee, Wisconsin A SAVING Sense of Money en- ables its possessor to» be armed at all times to meet life’s battles successfully. Develop your Saving Sense. Second Avenue st Colambis St Thirty Million Dollars Imer’s absence the Fugitive Shot Leg by Policeman} tUA-) ville and Ogden. C. B. Ames, | samnde of freight care, many a leontaining food for cities where food ldifficulties are threatened if the |atrtke laste three or four days, #tood 1 tracks today n Milinols and ‘Indiana idle on railre Coal mines lowed, it would have a serious effect Said to have been caught stealing | today considered the possiblility of in preventing United States and for- automobile tires fram machines | being Yorced hut down because of eign capital going into Canada. standing beside Rainier club, C. | lack of coal Since the act was put thru, last A. Avery was shot in the leg| The «trike of «witchmen In Rose Year, the mine has developed into|as he attempted to run away by | dale, K a suburb of Kansas City ame of the richest silver camps on Patrolman J. J. Hueghan Thureday | Will be taken before Kansas’ new in the continent. night dustrial court for solution Continuance of the strike further Saturday means hundreds of housands thrown out of work industries today threatened with a shutdown because of inability coal to keep their factories and mils going. CHICAGO STOCK YARDS TIED UP ‘The Chicago stock yards today were practically ted up. More than 50,000 were idle, tt wan sald. At Gary, Ind, nine big blast fur naces at the #tes! mills were put out than | supply by strike of practically all switchmen in local yards, Twelve thousand men were die. med the «trike had reached From now on they expect they said efforts | itm peak }it to recede | Strikebreaking of the lprotherhoods were centered today on Chicago. Reports on the number of men out thruout the country conflicted. The strikers’ extimates placed the total figu an 2 Heber: an than 5,000 were uot ‘out 000 m ling claimed | Predictions that the strike of aw” railroad unian employes will | die out “within a few days, “ were made here today by President 8. E. | Heberting of the Switchmen’s Union | of North America. lhe sald. “Aitho reports seem to tIn- |to many other cities. | the etrih will burn itself out before nigh’ 1 and that it will be all over within a few days.” Heberling was to confer here to- Jay with railroad brotherhood of ficials and later with G. W. W. Han gar, federal labor conciliator, He |denied that government aid would be sought to mediate the strike “The strike is {llegal,” he said “and can't be mediated. i . 1,500 Y pidienems in | Los Angeles Quit LOS ANGELES, April. %—Four- on strike at an early hour today. The walkout, began early yesterfay, had spread to other points in South ern California last night. when rail road officlala reported that service to San Pedro had been entirely cut oft by a strike of engineers and fire men, as well as switehenen Pamenger service was being main- tained, with little interruption, thru out Southern California today . |S. F. Rail Workers SAN — FRANCISCO, Nearly a thousand including yardmen, switchmen and yard engineers employed in the San Francisco bay district railroad | yards are out on strike in sympathy with Eastern ahd Southern Califor nia strikers, according to estimates early today, An perishable freight and livestock was announced sy railroad officials last | | night. | eee ||50 Denver Men in Sympathy Walkout PUEBLO, Col. April 9.—Fifty }union switchmen on the Denver & | Rio Grande railroad, or about | per cent of the switching force here, went out on strike today in sympa thy with the Chicago walkout for $1 April 9. railroad = men, }an hour. 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