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THE 3IORXIXG OREGO.MAX, WEDNESDAY. . FEBRUARY o, 1919. IRISH TROUBLE GROWS SWIFTLY TO CLIMAX Situation Seethes Alarmingly in Belfast and Dublin. SINN FEINERS ARE ACTIVE Industrial and Political Groups in Dublin Unite Apparently and Dis order Seems Close at Xtand. (Copyright, 1919, by the New Tork World. Published by Arrangement. ) LOXDON, Feb. 4. (Special Cable.) "A serious change for the worse has come over the situation here during the last 24 hours.' states a Dublin dispatch to the Daily News. "Information in my possession, which comes from un impeachable sources, makes it clear that we may expect very important de velopments almost at once "While Belfast has been thinking in dustrially, Dublin as usual has been thinking politically, although industry is now the engine of her politics. Her mind and she stands on this for the v-hole of Irish Ireland has been occu pied with the fate of the 90 -German ;lot prisoners In England, 30 of whom !iave been elected members of Parlia ment. Prisoners Yet Detained. "Until Friday night the executive committee o the Sinn Fein to be pre cise, the cabinet for the republican government, had the best possible rea sons for believing that these 30 per ; ona were to be 6et at liberty immedi ately. So thoroughly satisfied were they that this was to be done that no . teps were taken to harass this execu tive act, and their contemplated deter mination was canceled. But the pris oners have not been released. There ,s now no prospect of their being re leased and the position is 10 times worse than If that prospect had never lieen held out. "Tae Sinn Fein executive committee considers that it has been tricked again i nd accordingly will go ahead with ;. lans that were matured some weeks ago to bring this question forcibly into notice. They will be supported in this course by an immense volume of pub lic sentiment that is as profound as it is understandable. For the prisoners have neither been charged witli any of fense nor tried and it i3 known they sire suffering severely in health after liearly nine months in jail "It cannot be doubted that any cam paign of force thus opened will throw tlie whole country once more, into a tate of disorder. Both the political and industrial wings of the republican movement find the moment ripe for a blow. The gravest danger to the gov ernment always has been that these forces would form a temporary union. That union will almost certainly be achieved very shortly, thanks to the unique combination of governmental blundering in Dublin and London. Two Forces United. "The concentration of the two wings upon concrete issues could not have been more skillfully timed by the clev erest generals. With their banner in scribed "Release the Prisoners' and 'A 40-hour Week.' the allied army of pa triots and industrialists would be able to rally three-quarters of the popula tion. "Their line of. action is largely a matter of speculation, but I am cred ibly informed that on the Sinn Fein side the Fenian section has succeeded in securing almost complete control, leaving individual members of the ex ecutive committee with onlj nominal authority. It is common knowledge that on the labor side the power has passed entirely into hands of the ex treme Connollyites and Bolshevists. "It is significant that the Jesuit Fathers in this city, whose church is attended largely by the narrowest sect of the Sinn Fein, are exceedingly un (isy and have been busy warning peo jile to prepare for trouble. Large stocks of flour and candles are being laid in by many Dublin households." than 1000 men are out of work. The management and men agree that tho trouble was caused by refusal of the former to discharge a fire marshal and watchman named Volheim who refused several engineers admission to the yard Sunday when they were supposed tc wash boilers. The men claimed Vol heim abused them for voting '. ? strike. General Manager Kuhn says he shut them out by mistake. Today the en gineers demanded that Voiuelm be dis charged. They say that Mr. Kuhn told them they intended to strike, anyhow, and refused to consider their demand. Mr. Kuhn says they delivered an ultimatum which he couldn't accept and when they walked out, he closed the yard and will keep it closed until the trouble is settled. He had offered to pay the engineers for the time they would have worked Sunday. Another strike vote had been called for tonight and tomorrow, following defeat of the first attempt. It was generally expected that Seattle and Tacoma influence would succee'd in bringing on the strike. Especial ef forts were on foot to force a strike at the Olympia yard, as it is operated un der general directipr of Charles Plea as head of the fleet corporation. The Government took over the yard last year in an effort to protect itself on contracts made with Phillip D. Sloan, which resulted in sensational revelations at Washington, D. C. over the careless use of Federal funds in authorizing emergency shipbuilding. Since that "Sloan is supposed to have been drawing 110,000 a year merely because the Government took over the yard. It has been suspected that the Government would drop the Olympia yard if such an opportunity as the present strike trouble offered. At this time the Olympia yard has 10 wooden ships under construction, three of which are in the water. A crew of caulkers remained at work today, but otherwise the entire work has stopped. SEATTLE DAZED BY MPENDING STRIKE Old Attitude of Indifference Is Not in Evidence. QUICK DECISION EXPECTED ANNEXATION IS PROTESTED HEAD OF LOWER CALIFORNIA ISSUES STATEMENT TO V. S. Governor Cantn Brands More as . Conspiracy to Assail Freedom of Friendly Nation. CALEXICO, Cal., Feb. 4. Governor Esteban Cantu, of Lower California, to day issued a statement to "the people. and Government of the Vnited States" against a continuation of the move to annex Lower California to tho United States and referring to it as "a con spiracy framed by some citizens of the United States to assail the integrity and freedom of a friendly nation." The statement, which took the form of an open letter, said that in the face of "the widespread propaganda some business and political men are making in the United States," he can not refrain, "as a Mexican," from voic ing his emphatic protest against such activities. "I have reason to infer," said the let ter, "that tho malignant propaganda above referred to has extended its action within the boundaries of this district, playing upon the wavering allegiance and sympathy of the foreign population, especially -the Chinese, and trying to create among them a senti ment favorable to annexation. "Not even the most depraved Mex ican would consider the idea of selling a portion of our nation, and whoever dared to propose such a thing would be cpnvicted of high treason. The Mex icans would rather lose a part of their land through forceful and unjustified occupation than as a result of a pre concerted bargain." The Governor's statement then re cites that the annexation propaganda is being carried, on in the United States "in such an Open and undis guised manner" that a convention of the League of the Southwest has been called for the avowed purpose of dis cussing annexation. It recites that the secretary of the league "has surpassed the limits of propriety" by sending a long questionnaire embracing inquiries on all social, political, military, indus trial and economic matters, evidently desiring the answer for the informa tion of the convention. The statement pays tribute to the relations existing between Mexicans of Lower California and Americans in business or visiting there. 65,000 WORKERS TO QUIT (Continued From First Page.) referendum voting on the proposed gen era) strike for Thursday morning. While the council maintained secrecy today as to the returns from various mions, announcing that a tabulated list would not be given out until to morrow night, it is generally predicted 4hat the final result will show a ma jority of the unions against a general walkout, but a majority of membership in its favor. The metal trades, the majority of whom are already out, have an over whelming majority in actual member ship, and the council's decision will be rased on membership, not union ma jority, it is said. The question remaining is as to what extent the council's action will be binding on affiliated unions. Unions voting against a strike point cut tonight that their constitutions pro vide that sympathetic strikes must be taken up with the international bodies end permission secured. Some claim to have agreements they rare not violate. Tacoma workers point to the action of the International Typographical Union threatening to blacklist its Seat tle union should unauthorized action be taken, and the general opinion seems to toe that the international bodies will bave more weight with the anti-strikers than the local Central Labor Coun cil. It is conceded that the arguments tomorrow night of the more radical element will be for "immediate action," v.-hlch permits of "no time to wait" for international sanction, and at this point, it is believed, the break will occur. If so, it will in all likelihood create chaos in Tacoma labor circles, and this chat - effec.ually break a gen eral strike and complete tleup of the city. BODY OF VICTIM IS FOUND First Service Trip by Walla Walla Man Taken on Carruthers. HOQUIAM, Wash., Feb. 4. (Special.) The body of Dewey J. Walker, a member of the crew of the wrecked schooner Janet Carruthers, who was drowned with five others when the life boat was carried away, was found by a small boy on the north beach Monday and was shipped to Mr. Walker's home at Walla Walla today. The body was easily identified by a brother, who has patrolled the beach since he learned of the wreck. Mr. Walker, trained for the merchant marine serv ice, made his first trip on the Car ruthers. The body of another of the victims, picked up one day last week, has been identified by Captain Carrney as that of A. Solders, a seaman. The captain believes the schooner can be saved, but Hoquiam men who have had experience in salvage work on that part of the coast disagree with him. OLYMPIA YARDS ARE CLOSED bteam Engineers Go Out, Despite Majority Vote of Unions. OLYMPIA. Wash., Feb. 4. (Special.) Although by a majority vote the Fhipyard unions of Olympia yesterday announced their opposition to a general strike here, 2C members of the Steam ICngineers Union, which had voted t-olidly for a strike, today succeeded in closinc the yards, probably per manently, according to statements made by J. B. Kuhn, general manager, representing the fleet corporation au thority in charge of the yaru. He de i lared the fleet corporation never would resume operation of the yard at higher wages than now paid, the lowest of which exceeds ft a day. , As a rceult ol tho shutdown.- more HUN DYE WORKS IS SEIZED French Will Export Chemicals to Allied Countries. BERLIN. Feb. 4. (By the Associated Press.) The French forces of occupa tion, according to a special dispatch to the Vossische Zeltung from Frankrort-on-the-Maln, have taken possession of the Hochter Dye & Chemical Works and French chemists are working with German chemists in putting out dyes and certain chemicals to be exported to allied countries. Shipments to points in Germany have been prohibited. EX-SOLDIER KILLS BRIDE Girl, 18, Exclaims, "I Hope He Hangs," and Dies In Few Hours. CHICAGO, Feb. 4. An ante-mortem accusation was made today by Mrs. Celia Haensel, 18-year-old Christmas bride of Arthur Haensel. a discharged soldier of the Eighty-sixth Division, that her husband had shot her and her mother. The police Baid there had been a quarrel over possession of Haensel's government insurance papers. "I hope he hangs!" exclaimed the young wife, who succumbed a few hours afterward from bullet wounds in her breast. Quinine That lxm Not Affect Head Because of Its tonic and laxative effect LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE (Tablets) can be taken by anyone without causing nervousness or ringing in the head. There la only one "Bromo Quinine." E. W. GROVE'S aicnaiure on the box. 30e. Adv. Seasoned slabwood ana Inside, wood, green stamps, for cash. Holmaa luel Co. iUis. 2'ii, A 3353. Adv. Union Officials Declare They Will Not Give In Until Demands of Shipbuilders Are Met. SEATTLE, Wash.. Feb. 4. (Special.) As two Seattle business men swung into Second avenue from the City County building the other afternoon they encountered a group of idle ship yard workers that almost filled ihe east side of the block between James and Jefferson streets. "What are those men hanging around there for? asked the first man, an as sistant cashier In an up-town bank. "I don't know. They must be waiting for some parade to pass, I guess. answered his companion, a lumber broker. When informed later that this group of well-dressed, orderly men was only a small part of the army of 25.000 or 30,000 striking shipyard employes, thev displayed no more interest than if the men had been there waiting for the doors of a picture show to open. Their ignorance and their indifference are typical of the Seattle attitude toward the shipyard strike. Seattle Not Interested. The strikers have their headauar. ters in the Collins building at Second avenue and James street and everv day hundreds of them gather there to discuss tne situation. Their numbers are great and they constantly flow out into tne street and down past the Smith Duuaing, at times almost blocking sidewalk traffic in that nart of town Yet, until the general strike order was flaunted in its face a few days ago. Seattle blissfully disregarded this forceful dc-.monstraticn of the paralysis ui no principal industry. But the situation is different now The general strike order directly, vi tally, seriously affects almost every man. woman and child in Seattle. Al most over night, it seems. Seattle has been dragged into the maelstrom of what at first seemed to be a mere test of strength between the shipyard workers and their emDlovers. but whifh has now developed into a gigantic ttruggie between the powerful forces of organize labor on one side and al most every employer of organised la bor on the other. Issues Now Unimportant. So far as the issues of the shiDvard strike are concerned, they are no longer of importance: suffice it to say that the men were dissatisfied with the wage schedule fixed by the Macy board, al lowing J6.4D a day and upwards for mechanics and J4.18 a day for laborers. They tried to get a readjustment, but failed. So they went on a strike. Charles Plez, Director-General of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, wants the men to go back to work under terms of existing agreements, which expire March 31. promising, meanwhile, to arrange for a joint conference to "determine what is to be done after that ueriod." Piez indicates that it will be impossible for the shipyard owners working on Government contracts to negotiate with the men at all unless they go back to work first and on existing wage scales. This the men positively refuse to do. The shipyard ownrrs have remained discreetly silent throughout the whole controversy. They have allowed Piez to do their talking for them and thus have caused the union leaders to con centrate their fire on that official, who is back in Philadelphia, far from the scene. of strife. In Tact, they have maintained an at titude of real or pretended indifference that must be as exasperating to the directors of the strike as it is inter esting and amusing to that part of the Seattle population not directly involved. Most of the owners have taken advan tage of the present situation to go away on vacation trips. Dave Rogers, the general manager for Skinner & Eddy, who is given credit for the speed performances accomplished at that yard, went to California a day or two after the strike started and has not been back since. Other officials are similarly absent It has been hard to arouse much excitement over the quarrel. The walkout was nearly 100 per cent com plete. None of the yards has at tempted to operate. No strikebreakers, have been employed. Men Saving; Earnlncn. All yards have paid off their men. who are said, for the first time since the shipbuilding boom set in two years ago. to be husbanding their resources. Merchants report a noticeable lack of patronage from those shipyard work ers who heretofore have spent their money with almost sinful extrava gance. The retail grocers have adopted measures of self-protection by refus ing credit to strikers. They justify their position by pointing out that they are allowed only seven days' credit by the wholesalers. Their action has aroused a storm of protests. Officially the grocers are said to be standing firm, but it Is understood that favored customers are maintaining their credit at some stores. The strikers have attempted to meet the grocers' forehandedness by estab lishing a co-operative market, but this involves a problem of distribution that they have not yet bern able to solve. It is reported from various parts of town that the pinch of actual hunger is being felt at many strikers homes. But wherever the attention of the strike committee is called to such cases they seek to remedy them, as they want to hold all their members In line until the big general strike Is "pulled off." ' Seattle Now Dued. Seattle still is dazed and bewildered over the apparent determination of or ganized labor to "pull off" this general strike Thousands of members of those unions that have voted to join In the walkout cannot yet realize what it is all about. At the beginning of the shipyard strike, two weeks ago, many union men and women shared the attitude of the two business men described earlier In this story. They felt that most of the shipyard workers were getting more money than any other class of wage earners in Seattle and that the ship yard owners were getting rich. "Let them fight it out," was the common expression. Officials of the Metal Trades Coun cil, In charge of the strike, admit that public sentiment has not been with them. A strike, regardless of its merits, cannot be won without public senti ment. So the next thing was to call the aren- I eral, or sympathetic, strike. That would involve, .in the aggregate, nearly 60.000 workers, who. with their families would represent more than 200,000 resi dents of Seattle nearly half the city's population. it i f Liu Uk.it. WYta with tlu. "WAR DEPARTMENT GOliFOSSATSOH TTf WTj T OGGING and Lumber Concerns, Con - 1 tractors, Communities and Municipalities proposing or projecting: Loggings Land Clearing, Rec lamation, Irrigation, Road and Highway Building will find in this Government Sale an uncqualed oppor tunity to procure Machinery and Equipment. SEALED BIDS SEALED .BIDS wjn be received on these listed materials, until 11 A. M. Saturday, February 15th, and thereafter opened at the Headquarters of the United States Spruce Production Corporation, Yeon Building, Port land, Oregon Personal inspection of materials is invited to be made at Assembling Depot, Vancouver Barracks, Vancouver, Washington, by securing Creden tials from Sales Board at Headquarters, Yeon Building, Portland. For Terms, Descriptive Catalogue of Materials and Placing of Bids, Address SALES BOARD United States Spruce Production Corporation Yeon Building, Portland, Oregon DONKEY ENGINES Logging, Hoisting ana Loading -Willamette, Tacoma. Smith Watson, Washington and other makes. Sizes rangirg from 64 -in. x 10-in. to 13-in. x 14-in- RAILROAD EQUIPMENT Rails 2Vlb. Re!yer .... 6S4 Tons 20-lb. New 40 Tons S5-lb. Relayer .... 26 Tons 40-lb. Relayer .... 147 Tons 45-lb. New 1727 Tons 45-lb. Relayer .... 499 Tons 54-lb. Relayer 56 Tons 60-lb. New 2581 Tons 67H-lb. New 60S0 Tons 60-lb. New 2910 Tons Locomotives Geared and Rod, SS to 70-Ton. Shays, New Yorks, Baldwins, Heislers, Climax, etc Loggng 'Trucks Connected and disconnected, 60,000 to 80,000 capacity. TRUCKS and AUTOMOBILES Trucks Packard's, 1M to 5-Ton Standards, IVi to 5-Ton Darts, Ton, Denbys, 2-Ton Seldens, 2-ion Velies, lS-Ton Uniteds. IVi-Ton Graram-Bernsteins. 2S-Toa Federals, 3-Ton Garforde, 3Vi-Ton cAutomobiles Cadillacs, Seven-Passenger Dodges, Five-Passenger Fords, FiTe-l'assenger A. C. ELECTRIC MOTORS 440-Tolt, 3-phase, 60-cycle, 3 to 7i H. f, -with or without starters Other Machinery and Equipment for Sale The Sales Board Reserves the right to accept or reject all Bids. I large element of the population di rectly affected by the controversy, the strike is not groins to be popular. Those people not directly affected are going to be hostile toward the strike leaders, and many, who have been disposed to be friendly towara organized labor, will become bitter Joward it. scores or good union men, whose unions have voted to strike, cannot Bee the wisdom or the good morals that force them to quit the sen-ice of an employer with whom they may have been associated for years and years, who always has treated them right, paid them well, against whom they have no grievance whatever and who has permitted his shop to be unionized Irora top to bottom. And the employers are beginning to ask what good is It to make an agree ment with the union, consent to the closed shop plan and give the unions all they ask for, when his employes walk out in case of a pinch. What good is an agreement with a union of that kind, anyway? It is a "sympathetic" strike . these skeptics are told. An official of the Ketail Clerks' union gave a good answer to that explanation the other day when he declared that he can see no display of sympathy for his starv ing brother by agreeing to starve with him. It would be better, he con tended, for him to stay at work and use part of his earnings to provide com forts for those striking shipyard work ers who actually may suffer before the thing is over. Quick Decision Expected. The real test of union strength In Seattle will come, of course, at 10 o'clock Thursday morning when the bis? sympathetic strike is scheduled to take place. Ten o'clock in the morn ing is the fashionable hour now for calling strikes. A little practical psychology Is involved in this. In the first place, stopping work in the middle at a shift provides a more effective visible demonstration than if the men left their work at the regular time in the evening and did not return the next day. In the next place It gives the loyal union men a chance to see, actually, who refuses to join In the strike. This plan was trld when the shipyard strike was called and is said to be re sponsible for the almost universal re sponse on the part of the men.' Of course, everyone knows that a general strike in a, city the size of Seattle is not going to last very long. Something is going to break. One side or'the other will have to give In. The union officials say they will not give in until the shipyard workers get what they are asking for. The shipward owners, through Direc tor Plez. say they will not even ne gotiate with men until they go back to work. UNITS ARE NEWLY LOGfiTED ARMY OF OCCCrATIOX FOHCES REMAIN UNCHANGED. Reassignment of American Corps and Divisions Announced by the War Department. WASHINGTON', Feb. 4. A new table of locations of units of the American expeditionary forces January 16. made public today by the War Department, showed no changes In composition of the Army of occupation, but Indicated that the 60th. 70th. 18th. 3d and 79th divisions of the occupying forces and the 35th and Ssth divisions constituted the Army on the line of communica tions. The Seventh division was at Saizcr ais, having been moved from Euvezin, and the 28th was at Colombey-Les-Bclles, having been transferred since the last announcement from Ileudi court. The only changes In command noted were Major-General Charles H. Martin, assigned to the 90th Division, vice Brigadier-General Joseph P. Neal, and Major-General Peter B. Traub to the 41st Division. No commander was given for the 83d Division, formerly under nnn BREMUPACOLDTABLETS A PREVENTIVE TREATMENT FOR SPAMSH MWZnZA Oat a ox. take ena tablet CTCTS very four hours and two on t . going to bed. 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