VOL. LIX. NO. 18,1 G2.
PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
LOC,in?ITELJTACOffl IDLE, WITH
SPECIAL SESSION OF
HUNGER STALKS ON
1500 SAN FRANCISCO
MACHINISTS STRIKE
FEDERAL TROOPS
ARRIVE III SEATTLE
LEGISLATURE LIKELY
U I I I I I I UJ -- 1
RADICALS AT HELM
TRAIL OF STRIKERS
SO STRIKE IMMIXEXT AMONG
RECOXSTIirCTIOX MEASURES to
SO-CALLED "OfTSlDE SnOPS'
AFFECTED BY WALKOUT.
PORTLAND WORKERS.
BE VOTED CPOX IX JOE.
SEATTLE DAZED AS
STRIKE GRIPS CITY
"This Is Bolshevism "Cit
izens Grimly Mutter.
ALL 1NDUSTHY PARALYZED
Armed Troops and Police With
Machine Guns Ready to
Curb Any Disorder,
PUBLIC BEGINS TO CHAFE
Anger Grows That Seattle
Chosen for Staging of In
itial U. S. 'Red Revolt
Is
Armed Tropps Ready to
Quell Bolshevik Spirit.
Majority, Forcer' 0 Strike by
Minority, Vo;. v Complaint.
Metal Trades Council In session
Considers Seattle Situation
and Effect Here.
Developments in the Seattle strike
situation are said not to have influ
enced members of Portland labor or
ganizations as yet, though the subject TMnilClUnQ IDC
promised to be made part of the pro- IlllUOAllUO AriL
ceedings of the Portland Metal Trades
Council and the Portland Central Labor
Council, which were in session at a
late hour last night.
The opinion expressed among union
men is that there will not be a sym
pathetic strike here unless the situa
tion at Seattle produces conditions ac
cepted as unfair to labor bodies to a
degree that might prompt affiliated
organizations to act in harmony.
With reference to the scale paid In
local shipyards, there is a disposition
among Portland workers to abide by
the existing schedule until the date of
its expiration, March 31, and that is to
be thoroughly threshed out at the an
nual convention of the Pacific Coast
District Metal Trades Council, which
opens its session here February 17.
Co-operation on the part of outside
unions with those at Seattle and Ta-
coma can only be assured, it is declared.
after the matter is voted on by the in
dividuals of the organizations, so can
not be peremptorily ordered by any one
official.
Ff4?lESS
BULLYING METHODS NOTED
Streetcar Men Charge That ThCT
Walked Out Through Threats.
Longshoremen Stay at Posts.
BY BEN HUH LAMPMAX.
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 6. (Spe
cial.) This is a city struck between
the ees. It is dazed by the complete
business paralysis of the general
strike.
Though still smiling a little at its
troubles, Seattle is beginning to mut
ter, for it feels that it has been un-
fairly chosen as the testing ground
for radicalist ideals.
"This is Bolshevism," say its citi
zens.
Called out in sympathy- strike with
the striking shipworkers, who protest
the wage award of the- Macy Board
and who have long since been swal
lowed up in the larger immediate
events of industrial disorder, prac
tically every craft in Seattle has laid
down its tools.
All Industries. Cease.
- At 10 o'clock this morning the cen-
eral gtiike went into effect. All traf
fic, save that of business and pleasure
cars, ceased at that hour. All eating
houses, with very few exceptions,
closed their doors. Industrially the
city became somnolent at the tick of
the second.
While all save the most radical ele
ment of the strikers protest that Seat
tle is not undergoing an initial experi
ment in Soviet power, after the fash
ion of Russia, public sentiment is al
most unanimous in hotly declaring
that the city has been chosen, with
the shipyard strike as a pretext, for
the staging of the "revolution."
Machine Guns Are Ready.
At the doors of the police station
machine guns are mounted. Across
the street lounge hundreds of scowling
strikers just waiting. A single street
car plies on the municipal line on
Fourth avenue. In three or four places
it disnlays large signs, "U. S. Mail."
It is heavily guarded by soldiers with1
loaded rifles. More than 1000 extra
police have been sworn in at the in
stance of Mayor Hanson, who has de
clared that the city is ready for any
emergency and that its officers have
instructions to shoot to kill if rioting
or destruction of property starts.
The executive committee of the gen
eral strike has promised that there
shall be no disorder. "The strike will
be peaceful and effective," is their
manifesto. But with approximately
65,000 strikers from the various crafts
out on strike, it is held to be certt-la
that there is a large element potent
for any sort of disorder.
Municipal Line Is Idle.
An attempt to operate a streetcar
on the municipal line this afternoon
drew at least 5000 strikers to the City
Hall, from which the start was to be
made. The crowd was silent and un
demonstrative, but the attempt was
abandoned. Police graduall. dispersed
the gathering. Mayor Hanson has de
clared that the municipal line shall
operate.
Barricaded trucks, heaped high with
sandbags, have been equipped with
machine eruiis by the police and are
ready ai'anMnstant to move to any
part of the cit.y where disorder may
break out. Practically every business
house and industry in the city is
guarded by its own special police,
sworn in for that duty.
City Kept Lighted.
For tonight at least the strikers are
thwarted in their design to n.ake of
Seattle a city of darkness until the
strike shall pass. Both private and
municipal power plants are under
operation with volunteer workers, as
signed to duty by Mayor Hanson.
When the Electrical Work.rs' Union
struck it was announced that no light
T A COMA, "Wash., Feb. 6. (Special.)
Men with the spirit of the Russian
Bolshevikl are in the saddle in Tacoma
tonight.
Four companies of infantrymen and
io companies of machine gunners
With full aulnmnt nf rifloa and feanri
MPLIIMlji LAUDS KUUStVtLT renades are cordoned about Govern
ment property. Brigadier-General Wat-
English Poet Likens American to
Bunyan's "Greatheart.
(Copyright, 1019. by the New Tork "World.
fuoilstiea by Arrangement.)
LONDON. Feb. 6. (Special Cable.)
The Daily Telegraph announces that it
will publish Saturday a new poem by
Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the
memory of Colonel Roosevelt. The
poem bears the title "Greatheart," and
the author prefaces it with a pregnant
sentence from "Pilgrim's Progress."
i ne interpreter then called for a
man-servant of his, one Greatheart.'
In four-line stanzas of ballad meas
ure, says the Telegraph, Kipling pays
noble tribute to this Greatheart of the
modern world, this son of "plain faith
in plain dealing," expressing with the
vigor and eloquence entirely in his own
the admiration and even affection in
which so many Englishmen held the
memory of the great American.
son is in command.
Thousands are being fed in a hap
hazard fashion in community restau
rants designated by the strike leaders.
And all because 4164 men decreed that a
general strike should be called in sym
pathy with the shipbuilders who could
not agree with the Government.
Metal Trades In Control.
That was the number in 35 unions
who voted for a general strike against
1605 opposed. This vote of 6769 repre
sented a total membership in all unions
affiliated with Central Labor Council
of 22.500. The Metal Trades Council
has 16,000 members and has a prepon
derance of votes in the Central Labor
body, thus overwhelming every other
craft.
Hardly had the gong struck today
than the cooks, waiters and butchers
rolled up their aprons and quit their
jobs. The barbers likewise laid aside
their tools. Three hours later the
streetcar men drove their cars to the
barns under sanction, some of them
said, of J. Hoover, district representa
tive of their irternatl jiial organization,
who came front Vancouver, B. C. Many
other streetcar men openly charged that
they had been bullied into walking out.
Longshoremen on Job.
The longshoremen refused to abro
gate their agreement with their em
ployers and continued on the job be
cause they had fought for the prin
ciple of the closed shop and eight-hour
day for years, and do not Intend to
cast aside the fruits of their struggle,
they say.
Although Tacoma theaters are oper
ated by union help, the places of
amusement are unfair in the eyes o
the Central Council because the musl
clans, stage hands and picture oper
ators refused to join the walkout.
As soon as the cooks and waiters
walked out their committee told the
manae-erf nf thn Hiffrant nl,M. that
- a m mi a s -n I s I I w f I . . .. . u ......
MtnU b bLAT ttl lb MLLtU they would run the houses. The res.
taurant proprietors must pay 10
SEVEN DIE IN SEATTLE FIRE
Causes
Tokyo and Russell Logins
Are Destroyed.
5ISATT1E, Feb. 6. Seven persons
were burned to death in a fire which
destroyed the Tokyo house, a lodging
house in the lower part of Seattle, early
today. Over 12 were reported missing
and 14 injured as a result of the fire.
The dead, missing and injured were
lodgers at the. house and were asleep
when the fire started. The flames, it
was believed, cut them off from the
exits. About 50 other lodgers escaped
down the stairways and through an
adjoining lodging-house.
The Russell house, which adjoined
the Tokyo house, was also destroyed
by the fire. Both were old buildings,
each containing 100 rooms or more,
Commission of Fifteen Members Will
Prepare Programme to-Fur-nlsh
Employment.
STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Or., Feb. 6.
(Special) A special session of the
Legislature will be called by the Gov
ernor about May, when there will be
referred to the people at a special
election, to be held in June, such re
construction measures as a commis
sion of 15 members may prepare.
This decision was made by the Gov
ernor and a delegation from Port
land tonight.
The plan is contingent on the evolv
ing of a practical programme to give
employment through big development
or building work, irrespective of the
amount of bonding necessary for
financing and if conditions in the coun
try are not improved.
This plan was agreed on as most
expeditious, the Governor urging haste
Jay Upton, president of the Oregon
irrigation Congress, will suggest to
the reconstruction committee of the
Legislature tomorrow that the recon
struction commission proposed under
the bill of Representative Sheldon be
created under a joint resolution, and
to be appointed immediately to probe
reconstruction problems from now
until the end of the session.
He then proposes, that the Governor
call a special session of the Legislature
to start its work Immediately after the
session is through late this month
and remain in session for 10 days at
the tail end of this session, instead of
calling a special session late in the
Spring or early in the Summer. He
states that he believes the special ses
slon called at that time would be too
late.
HELENA MAN IS CONVICTED
Former Saloon Proprietor Found
Guilty of Sedition.
HELENA, Mont., Feb. 6. John Milch,
former ealoonman, was found guilty
of sedition by a jury in the District
Court this afternoon and punishment
was left to the court. He will be sen
tenced on Monday. -
Milch is the seventh man of a group
of that number arrested for sedition
here last Spring, each one of whom has
been tried and convicted. He is the
last one of the number to be tried.
11 NATIONS REPRESENTED
s.
Idle, Foodless Men Begin
to Grumble Menacingly.
FEW RESTAURANTS OPENED
Strikers' Soup Kitchens Fail to
Serve Meals.
WAR VETERANS ON GUARD
Mayor Hanson Gets Expert Machine-
gun Operators to Man Weapons
in Case of Outbreak.
and England Send Delegates
to Labor Confe,rence.
BERNE, Wednesday. Feb. 6. The in
ternatlonal trades union conference
opened here tonight with 41 delegates,
representing 11 countries in attend
ance. Delegates were present from the
United States and England.
The conference took up discussion of
international labor legislation in con
junction with the Socialist conference
now being held here.
German
Who Shot Down Quentin
Roosevelt Dead.
BURLINGTON, Vt., Feb. 6. Christian
Donhauser, the German aviator who
shot down Lieutenant Quentin Roose
velt over the German lines on the
Western front, was killed January 13
last, according to word which came to
day from Ben Braker, who was sta
tioned at a. flying field in Germany
and who claims to have witnessed the
death of the German.
He says that the latter's plane be
came uncontrollable and plunged to the
ground.
pe
cent of their receipts to the strike fund
and the employes must pay 2 per cent.
(Concluded on Pane 4. Column 1.
HAVANA WITHOUT PAPERS
Strike of Employes in Mechanical
Departments Continues.
HAVANA. Feb. 6. The strike of the
employes of the mechanical depart
ments of the newspapers continues, and
no newspapers were published today. '
A committee of five, representing the
37 unions which conducted the last gen
eral strike, will call on President Men
ocal today to request him to find a
solution for the strike.
SEATTLE. Wash., Feb. 6. (Special.)
That a certain amount of disorgan
ization or unpreparedness exists in the
strikers' ranks is indicated tonight by
grumbling of hungry men who are de
pendent on the soup kitchens of the
unions for their meals.
Having practically forced every res
taurant in the city to close its doors by
calling out waiters and cooks, the
strikers have in a measure "caught a
tartar." There is no place for them to
eat. Their own kitchens had not de
livered a meal up to 6 o'clock this even
ing and those armchair lunchrooms
whose proprietors had the temerity to
open up today and remain open are
taboo on the union's fair list.
Many such places are open this even
ing and many union men and union
sympathizers are grouped about the
front on the sidewalk. Uniformed po
lice stationed in front on the sidewalk
prevent a demonstration of any kind,
even Jeering at those who go inside.
And in the meantime the strikers stub
bornly refuse to go inside themselves
to eat. Getting something to eat in
downtown Seattle tonight is a bard
matter. Those eating-houses that are
open admit only as many as can be
accommodated at the tables, and in
front of each are many awaiting their
turn to enter. The food supplies are
ample, but the help in preparing them
Is scarce, and aa a result only short
order dishes are being served.
a
If there must be trouble. Chief War
ren believes, aa General Pershing, that
the fittest men possible to obtain must
be on hand, consequently his machine
gun crews are formed of men who have
seen service In France with machine-gun
battalions or in the aerial service. The
machine-guns are manned by three
eight-hour shifts of soldier-policemen,
each 'one of which Is in command of a
former machine gun Lieutenant or
Captain. On one shift Is a Lieutenant
who was an ace with the American
aviation corps, who has seven German
planes to his credit.
a
Wild rumors are even more common
than strikers tonight. Throughout the
day city officials, newspaper offices,
police headquarters and every avail
able source of information has been
plied by persons who have Just heard
of some catastrophe ranging from mur
der td the dynamiting of the city's
water or electric plants. Such rumors
have come from every section of the
ffonclurted on Pin 2. Column 1, .
Between 2500 and 3000 Men Hated
- as Helpers Leave I'o.-ts in Oak
land and Alameda Yards.
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. S. More than
1500 machinists employed In S5 so
called "outside shops" went on strike
here today as a result of a controversy
with their employers involving the
Macy basic wage scale, retroactive pay
and Saturday half holidays.
The walkout does not affect ship
yards. The California Metal Trades Associ
ation asserts it is willing to pay the
Macy award wage scale of $6.40 per
day and also to pay retroactive wages
dating from last October.
The workers. claim they are entitled
to the Increase in wages, retroactive
pay and Saturday half holidays. Ac
cording to the employers the demand
for a half Saturday work day is In vio
lation of an agreement entered into by
the men with their employers.
Between 2500 and 3000 men rated as
"helpers" to other crafts struck in the
Oakland and Alameda shipyards today
for the right to be classed as Journey
men mechanics and to secure an in
crease of from J4.64 to $6.40 a day.
The Oakland boilermakers have de
clared a "holiday" tomorrow to vote on
a strike for a flat wage of Jl an hour.
Executives of the Pacific District
Council of Boilermakers, embracing
twelve unions along the coast, an
nounced today that eight of the unions
had voted a strike on February 10, or
thereafter, for a Jl-an-hour wage.
OAKLAND. Cal., Feb. 6. Four crafts
of the Oakland Boilermakers' Union
struck this morning, demanding full
mechanics' pay.
While only 2500 men walked out, the
strike, if it continues, will tie up the
East Bay section shipyards completely
In the next two days, there being only
enough work on hand to keep the yards
running that time. The men on strike
comprise the plate hangers, signal men
hook tenders, drillers, reamers, burn
ers, welders and sharpeners.
ifty-five Thousand Men
Join in Walkout.
WORKERS INSIST ON BEER
Newark Building Trades Men Con
demn Prohibition.
NEWARK. N. J., Feb. 6. A "no beer,
no work," slogan was announced today
by representatives of 30.000 building
trades workers, who condemed nation
wide prohibition and voted to ask the
Essex Trades Council, comprising many
thousand union men iu Newark and vi
cinity, to start a movement for a strike
throughout the state July 1. when the
temporary war-time prohibition la
becomes effective.
The delegates favored manufacture
and sale of light wines and beer.
SAYS HE TO HIMSELF.
SPEAKERSHIP SOUGHT BY 3
Representative Fcss Enters Race
Against Mann and Gillette.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. Representa
tive Fess, of Ohio, chairman of the I
Republican congressional campaign
committee, announced today that he I
would be a candidate for speaker of I
the House in the next Congress.
The other announced candidates are
Representative Mann, of Illinois, the
Republican leader, and Representative
Gillette, of Massachusetts.
(Concluded on Pass 5, Column 1).
FEATURES IX OREGON LEGIS
LATURE YESTERDAY.
Senate.
Huston's bill limiting powers
of Public Service Commission de
feated. Passes bill to give MuAtnomah.
County exclusive control over
Portland Armory.
House.
Passes workmen's compensa
tion bill, including amendments
sought by employers, employes
and commission.
Representative Kubll attacks
Lime Board and bill providing
that lime may be sold outside of
the state.
Kills bill giving soldiers and
sailors preference on public works
and exempting property of
diers and sailors from taxatio
Resolution introduced by Clat
sop and Washington delegations
to refer all salary measures to
the people. The same move was
defeated in the Senate.
rks T
10I- !
n.
PADEREWSKI IS ELECTED
PolUh Socialists Secure but 15 Per
Cent of Votes.
PARIS. Feb. . The elections In Po
land for members of the constituen
assembly resulted in the list headed
by Premier Paderewskl and M. Dmow
ski obtaining 60 per cent of the total
votes. The Polish Socialist party go
15 per cent and the remainder went to
Jewish candidates, according to a tele
gram from the Polish official new
agency to the Polish committee c
Paris.
Of 435.000 eligible voters, 320.000
voted. Women voted In great numbers.
Consul to Be Honored.
Luncheon and recentlon to T 33ui-t-
I mura. Japanese-Consul, will be tendered
J by the Portland Chamber of Commerce.
I Friday, February 14. The committee
j having in charge arrangements for the
I event is composed of Frank L. Shull.
I R. B. Wilcox. C. E. Dant, A. J. Bale.
I A. C. Callan and Y. Nakiya.
STREETCAR SERVICE HALTS
Newspapers Suspend and
Other Lines of Industry
Are Badly Crippled.
LIGHT PLANT IS IN OPERATION
Mayor Warns That Any Man
Attempting to Take Con
trol of City Will Be Shot.
GENERAL STRIKE SITUATION
SUMMARIZED.
General strike opens in Seattle
with 63.000 men out.
Thousands of men strike at Ta
coma. Industries of both cities par
alyzed. Armed troops aid police to
guard property in both Puget
Sound cities.
Government proffers military
help if railed for by Governor
Lister.
Radicals hall strike as opening
of Bolshevik revolution in United
States.
Thousands In Seattle and Ta
coma go hungry when restau
rants close and communal kitch
ens fail to open.
Mayor Hanson. of Seattle,
threatens to "shoot on sight"
first persons attempting to make
trouble.
Newspapers in Seattle, except
Seattle Star, suspend publication,
and wild rumors circulate.
Seattle municipal light plant In
operation, despite strike. Few
disorders yet reported.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature, 42
degrees; minimum, o7 degrees.
TODAY'S Kaln: fresh to brisk south to
west winds.
Fifteen hundred machinists walk out In San
Francisco. Page 1.
Hunger stalks on trail of Seattle strlKers.
Paia 1.
Seattle dased as strike clutches city. Pag? 1.
Strike not Imminent In Portland. Page 1.
Troops marrh Into Seattle to protect prop
erty If necessary. Page 1.
Governor Lister assured of protection by
Government. Pare 4.
Leglsta tares.
Special session of Oregon Legislature, to be
h-ld In May. rase 1.
Efforts to nullify public utilities art fall.
Face 6.
Blll In Washington Legislature m-ould punish
allon strike agitators. Page 7.
Pacific Coat States launch drive for mer
chant marine. Page 6.
Foreign.
txmdon railway strike settled. Page 2.
Society of nations plan progresses. Page 3.
Rainbow unit quartered In former scene of
splendor. Page 12.
Rare musical comedy written amid din of
battle. Page 18.
Members of first German national assembly
meet at Weimar. Page 3.
Germany would have allies believe her bank
rupt. Page 15.
ra4lonaL
War revenue bill formally presented In
House. Page 2.
Security League defended by Elihu Root-
PXI 15.
Sport.
Contracts to Portland baseball players to be
mailed this week. Page 14.
Camp Lewis basketball title contest ached
uled for tonight. Page 14.
Commercial and Marine.
Grain dealers recommend plan for handling
next wheat crop. Page 21.
Corn market affected by unverified Argen
centlne reports. Pag 21.
Metal stocks weak features of Wall street
trading. Page 21.
New boat service from Portland to San
Iego announced. Page SO.
Portland and Vicinity.
Work priority for soldiers asked. Page ".-
Naval guns work In big drive told by Port
land boy. Page 0.
Labor shortage In 00 days predicted. Page 8.
Emery Olmstead elected bank president.
Page 12.
Weatbar report, data and forecast. Paga 2L
SEATTLE, Feb. 6. A portion of
the troop unit sent here from Camp
Lewis has arrived, Mayor Ole Hanson
announced tonight. Brigadier-General
John L. Hayden, commander of the
troops, would make no statement re
garding the movement.
The troops will be used, according
to Mayor Hanson, in co-operating with
the municipal authorities in keeping
order and protecting property that
might possibly be endangered by the
general strike of Seattle union mem
bers, who, numbering about o0,000.
walked out at 10 A. M. today to aid
25,000 shipyard workers who struck
recently for higher pay.
Mayor Ole Hanson announced to
night that Seattle would continue to
be supplied with light and gas during
the strike.
The Mayor urged the newspapers to
resume publication and the closed
stores to open. He rromised ample
police and troop protection if neces
sary.
"Don't let a few radical union lead
ers move all our industries from their
natural channels," he declared.
Streetcars at Standstill.
Streetcars were not operated today
after 10 o'clock, when the conductors
and motormen took their cars to the
barns. Residents of the outlying sec
tions tonight used many and varied
forms of vehicles to reach their homes.
Horses and buggies appeared on the
streets and old, decrepid automobiles
were brought from retirement.
Municipal streetcars will be oper
ated on the city lines as soon as Chief
of Police J. F. Warren can provide
one and possibly two truckloads of
police to go out with every car, Su
perintendent Murphine, of the munici
pal line announced tonight.
Seattle was lighted by electricity
early tonight, the firemen and en
gineers at the municipal light plant
having refused to strike.
Police Ready for Emergency.
Only one Seattle newspaper ap
peared on the streets today and re
ports said it was printed in Tacoma.
The newspapers were tied up by the
strike of the stereotypers, truck driv
ers and newsboys.
Seattle police said tonight they were
ready for any emergency.
Mayor Hanson expected to increase
the force during the strike by about
1000 men, many of them returned sol
diers. A big truck carrying a machine
gun and with sandbags built up
around its edges stood at the police
station. Three former Army Lieuten-
v a-iclude
d on Fag i. Column i.)
I