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THE MORNING ' O REG ONI AN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1919. GOVERNMENT AID IS ASSURED LISTER Radio Station Installed Roof of Capitol. on REGULARS ARE CALLED OUT Olympia Unions Show No Indica tion of Joining in General Sympathetic Strike. OLTMPIA, Wash., Feb 6. (Special.) Governor Lister has asked the War Department for Federal military co operation in protecting life and prop erty during the general strike at Ta coma and Seattle, if needed. He has been assured oy Secretary of War Baker that this aid would be furnished whenever called for. Late last night the Governor issued a statement that state troops would be promptly employed, if occasion de manded. The Governor's statement of his re quest for Federal co-operation in handling the strike reads: "In response to my request I have been advised by the Secretary of War that the Federal Government will co operate with the state in the protec tion of life and property in case of danger. Property to Be Guarded. "I am also advised that the Federal Government will follow the policy con sistently pursued since the begnning of the war of guarding Government properties and the utilities essential to them." A movement of 20 auto truck loads of regulars from Camp Lewis to Se-. attle was unofficially reported this afternoon. The First Infantry ia Baid to be assigned to this duty. Several hundred marines are reported also to be available at Bremerton, 18 miles from Seattle, and a thousand troops are believed to be at Fort Lawton, which is within the Seattle city limits. Radio Station J n tailed. It Is officially understood that all necessary preparations for dealing with disorder of serious nature have been perfected, but at a late hour this after noon nothing of ominious nature had been reported to the Statehouse. As a precaution against possible in terruption of wire service a radio sta tion was erected on the roof of the Capitol this afternoon in charge of Signal Service men from Camp Lewis. Telegraph and telephone service to and from Olympia operated constantly today, however. No symptoms of joining in the gen eral strike developed among Olympia unions today. The shlpyaids are idle until a settlement is reached at Seattle. OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 6. (Special.) The metal trades strike committee of Tacoma today telegraphed Governor Lister a demand that "during the in ability of Governor Lister to conduct the affairs of his office, Lieutenant Governor Hart act in his stead, and that the Governor dispense with the services of all present in an official capacity who have not been legally elected to transact the business of the state." This is a. protest against the Gover nor's selection of Dr. Henry Suzzalo and Attorney-General W. V. Tanner to represent him at the executive office during the time he Is kept at home by his doctor's orders. The Governor, who is personally is suing every statement and direction as to executive action, replied to the strik ers as follows: "I desire to say that I am thoroughly Informed as to the whole strike situa tion. I expect to keep informed so long as the strike continues. Should the time come when I cannot keep well enough informed to make my own de cisions, I shall consider your suggestions." STRIKE ON AT TACOMA (C-Ttiiued From Klrst Pape.) watchmen, all unionized, should stay on the job in case of trouble, but the watchmen walked out also after paying one of their number J60 to act as press agent. Major General Jesse Leitch, comman der of the 13th Division, prevented the Chauffeurs' Union from getting the best of the Army, for he commandeered the motor buses operating between Camp Lewis and Tacoma today. He wanted his line of communication con tinued without interruption. The chauffeurs and teamsters kept at work, however. At the time the strike was called but 18 men of the 8000 at the Todd yard were making as low as $4.16 a day. These men are the men held up as examples of the low wages paid. The average was $5, $6 and $7 a day, and many men have made as high as $00 and $100 a week on piece work, the -company payrolls show. With normal means of transportation tied up, with restaurants unable to feed the people adequately, and with butcher shops closed, the partial strike is prov ing an annoyance and a hardship. Radi cal leaders of labor are happy and point to the paralysis they have brought about. The soldiers, with their hand grenades stacked and their ma chine guns mounted, protect the prop erty built by Uncle Sam in time of stress. HUNGER STALKS ON TRAIL OF STRIKERS Strikers' Soup Kitchens Fail to Serve Meals. WAR VETERANS ON GUARD TACOMA VXIOXS AKE DIVIDED Two Battalions From Camp Lewis to Protect Industries. TACOMA, Feb. 6. (Special.) Not including the unions affiliated with the Metal Trades Council and which were already on strike, the following' organizations obeyed the strike order today: Meat cutters, timber workers, bar bers and organized retail clerks. The organizations which did not join in the general strike include: Brewery workers, movie operators, stage hands, municipal employes, jani tors and elevator operators, tailors, gas workers, allied printing trades, teamsters and chauffeurs, cereal and flour mill workers, street railway em ployes, boot and shoe workers, long shoremen, smelter workers and car penters. Organizations still undecided on fu ture action, but still at work include laundry workers, cooks and waiters, laundry drivers and bakers. The unions who refused to strike to day take the stand the Central Labor Council has no authority to call a gen eral strike, but that they are to be governed by the instructions of the international unions. Barbers announced they closed for one day and called it a holiday. About five per cent of the retail clerks are out. The Tacoma streetcar men went out at 1:30 P. M., tying up the service. This action was taken after the dis trict representative of their interna tional union sanctioned the strike. It was announced from the Camp Lewis intelligence office this afternoon that as soon as the two battalions arrive in Tacoma they will be sta tioned at the shipyards, power plant sub-stations, Federal building and such other industries as have a di rect effect on the ''industrial life of the city. The action of the Camp Lewis au thorities, it was stated, is predicated entirely on authorization from the War Department at Washington, D. C. The latter is complying with the request made by Governor Ernest Lister, of Washington state, who is In constant touch with strike affairs, both in Se attle and Tacoma. Announcement that the troops had left Camp Lewis was made by the ntelligence department shortly after 2 o'clock. General Watson will select his own ite in Tacoma, he announced, and will make preparations for putting the city under martial law in the event of any menace to society on the part of the trikers. Major Thompson, of the Camp Lewis intelligence department, announced this fternoon that 200 hand grenades had been Issued to the troops. Strike Vote Results Due. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6. Announce ment of the result of the vote by union men employed at shipyards at Long Beach and San Pedro, near here, aa to whether they will strike for a 44-hour week and wages of $1 an hour, prob ably will be made tomorrow night at a meeting at Long Beach, it was stated onight by union officials. But the communal project fell down in Tacoma as it did in Petrograd, and many a man was hungry. The cooks and waiters, working without direction, could not feed the crowds, and they stuck up signs such as "Closed from 4 to T o'clock." The famished ones waited. Many Oppose Strike, ' When the shipbuilders called their etrike 8000 men were employed by the Todd Drydock & Construction Corpora tion, against which most of the action was directed, as that company is build ing ships for the Government. Its con tracts, now under way, call for three scout cruisers for the Navy. Hundreds of members of the metal trades did not favor the strike and openly said so, preferring to await arbitration prom ised by Charles Piez. president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. One of the strongest unions allied with the Central Council which voted for a general strike was that of the boilermakers, with 2450 members al ready off the job. Its delegation helped to swing the central body. The whole strike was accompanied by propaganda. Newsboys were incited to strike, and not a daily newspaper was sold on the streets except the Daily Union Labor .Record of Seattle and the Tacoma Weekly Labor Advo cate. The printing trades disavowed the boys' strike. These crafts signed their new scale this week. The news boys' action keeps strike progress from thousands. Nothing was given in the labor papers but resolutions and action taken by the Central Council. Watchmen Walk Oat. The opponents of the general strike had no hearing and no publicity. The Metal Trades Council and the yard owners were aerreed that the STUFFED UP WITH "A BAD COLD?" Get Busy With a Bottle of Dr, King's New Discovery at Once. Coughs, colds and bronchial attacks they are all likely to result in dan gerous aftermaths unless checked In time. And how effectively and quickly Dr. King's New Discovery helps to do the checking work! Inflamed, irritated membranes are soothed, the mucou phlegm loosened freely, and quiet, rest fui sleep loiiows. All druggists have it. Sold since 1S69. 60c and J1.20. Constipation Emancipation no more lazy Dowels, yeuow com plexion. sick headache, indigestion, embarrassing Dreatn, when you use as a corrective Dr. King's New Life Pills. They systematize the system and keep thu wurld looking cheerful. SSc-dv, PIPE ORGAN CONCERTS SET MAYOR ARRANGES FOR SCXDAY MCSIC AT AUDITORIUM. Mayor Hanson Gets Expert Machlne- Gun Operators to Man Weapons In Case of Outbreak. (Continued From First Pai.) Two Organists and Two Soloists to Appear Afternoon and Evening; Admission Price Low. Popular pipe-organ music at the pop ular price of 10 cents a seat is .the in novation being introduced under the auspices of the city for Sunday after noon and evening concerts at the Audi torium. i'rofessor William R. Boone will bo the organist at the afternoon concert. with Paul Petri as soloist. Professor F. W. Goodrich will be organist in the evening and Mrs. Rose Friedle Gian elli, well-known soprano singer, as the soloist. The concerts were arranged by May or Baker at the suggestion of a large number of music lovers, who declared that Portland will support pipe-organ concerts if low prices govern. We have secured two excellent or ganists and two singers who will ap pear in concerts Sunday afternoon and evening, said Mayor Baker. "The price has been placed within the reach of all, and if the attendance Sunday proves that oPrtland desires these con certs they will be arranged throughout the Summer months." The afternoon concert is scheduled to begin at 3 o'clock and the evening concert at 8:15 o'clock. Y. M. C. A. SECRETARY GOES Successor Sought at University of Oregon. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, reD. b. (special.) William F. Vance war eecreiary lor the x . JM. C A. on the campus since last October, left to day to resume his position as professor of history at the Colleira of Irlnho. Caldwell, Idaho. The Y. M. C. A. board is trying to get a secretary to fill Mr. Vance's place, and hopes to have a man here by next week. Gale Seaman, Pacific Coast eecre tary, is in communication with several men. He hopes to bring D. E. Mullard, now at Bremerton, to the university hut. Mr. Mullard has had over two years' experience as a Y. M. C. A. secre tary. He was in the work at the Uni versity of Minnesota, and for the past eight months directed the work at the Y. M. C. A. where, in addition to his regular secretarial duties, he directed athletics and group singing. Spanish University Barred. MADRID, Feb. 6 Replying to a mes sage sent to him by the University of Salamanca last month, proposing par ticipation by the university at the "con ference of a society of nations," Presi dent Wilson has replied that the pro posal cannot bo entsrUUntd. city. They appear to have been let loose in the Ballard district and at Georgetown. 17 miles from the city, at the same time, or perhaps any two or more other points equally far from each other. Up to the present time there have been no serious disorders. One news boy was roughly handled when he ap peared on the street this afternoon with an armful of papers that appar ently were printed after 10 o'clock, the hour the strikers went out, but which were really made up before the stereo typers went out. The printers are at their posts. Colonel Hayden, First Infantry, ar rived in Seattle this afternoon ahead of 800 of his men. Five hundred are encamped at the Armory and 300 at Fort Lawton. These men will be on hand, it is said, in the event the strike interferes with Federal business. Head quarters have been provided Colonel Hayden in the Postofflce building. The strikers are maintaining a police headquarters of their own at the Labor Temple annex. Four hundred men, many of whom are ex-soldiers or sailors, are on duty. James Duncan, president of the Cen tral Labor Council, and Charles Doyle, secretary, were voted to serve without pay for the duration of the strike by the executive committee of the strike. This displeased both men. labor men say, because they were not given the opportunity of offering their pay to the cause. Reports this evening from the Labor Temple following the afternoon session of the executive committee were that firemen and engineers at the city light plant would be called out tonight. This had not been done up to a late hour. The executive committee are wrathy over Mayor Hanson's attitude toward employes at the lighting plant and his expressed purpose of keeping that plant running with or without union labor. It was planned to start the municipal railway this afternoon, but it -was dropped when Mayor Hanson and Tom Murphlne, superintendent of public util ities, were advised by Chief Warren that he did not consider his policemen ready to handle the situation. The first car will start tomorrow morning at 8:30, said Mayor Hanson tonight. Another incident in connection with the enthusiasm of the strikers with Bolshevik tendencies, who make their headquarters about Tabor Temple, with the red flag, was revealed this morning. The morning paper had for its first page cartoon a skyline of Seattle with a huge flagpole on one of the buildings, from which the American flag was fly ing below the red flag. The purchasers of the first papers rushed into the Labor Temple holding the paper aloft and crying out for all to behold. "The red flag has at last been given its place," cried the first enthusiast. He was surrounded by a group of men who would see the cartoon closer. More careful inspection brought forth a flow of malediction for the paper and yet more for the artist who conceived the picture. They had not seen the caption in black type above, reading, "Not in a Thousand Years." All public buildings are under a heavy guard of police and detectives. Public officials' offices are equally well guarded. To enter newspaper offices tonight requires a pass. Few persons are on the streets. The assembly-room at the police station has assumed the appearance of a demobilization camp. The greater number of the 1000 new policemen added to the force since Wednesday are men who are yet wear ing the olive-drab or navy blue. Stars and hickory clubs which they carry are all that distinguish them from the men in the service. The police guard in the residence districts has been doubled tonight. Several hold-ups and robberies were reported last night. At 6:20 this evening the Post-Intelligencer was informed by representa tives of the International Stereotype that men to take the strikers' places could not be obtained In Seattle tonight. This means no morning paper printed in Seattle. Orders issued by Chief Warren, to night to patrolmen were to allow no congregating on the streets and to keep crowds inclined to loiter slowly or stand in front of stores or other places where trouble might result mov ing on. In the lower section of the city street speaking has been temporarily stopped by police orders. MACniXISTS SET STRIKE DATE Employes Outside of Shipyards Threaten Walkout Tomorrow. . SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 6. Machin ists in shops outside the shipyards here have notified their employers that they would strike tomorrow unless certain differences over the Macy board's award wore adjusted to their satis faction. Eight unions in the Pacific District Council of Boilermakers, covering the Coast, have voted to strike February 10 or thereafter for a flat wage of $1 an hour, it was announced here. Ths Oakland boilermakers have declared a "holiday" tomorrow to vote on a pro posed strike next Monday for the $1 an hour wage. But 120 of the 200 or more boiler makers who were on strike if! the shops outside the shipyards here re mained out today, it was announced. An official of the union said all would be at work in a few days. This official said that the labor situ ation was being rapidly cleared up here and that there would be no strikes in sympathy with tho proposed general walkouts in Seattle and Tacoma. TROOPS APPEAR IX SPOKANE identity of the official asking for the guard, but said it was ordered on his own authority and not on Instructions from Washington. CITY 11USIXESS TO FUNCTION Mayor Hanson Issues Reply to Al leged Threats. . SEATTLE, Feb. 6. "Any man who attempts to take over control of munic ipal government functions here will be shot on sight. Mayor Ole Hanson de- ' clared today when told of Senator Thomas' statement. ( "Strikers have not taken over gov- I ernment functions in Seattle." the ' Mayor said. "They will not be allowed to take over any government functions despite their published statements that they intend to operate the light plant and help police the city. The seat of the city government is still at the City Hall." WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. Senator Thomas, of Colorado, in the Senate propaganda investigating committee to day, denounced the strike now In prog ress in Seattle, declaring that in taking over control of certain government functions, as reported, the strikers were conducting an "experiment on the Northwest Coast In Russian Bol shevism." i In view of what had been done. Sen ator Thomas declared it was safo to assume that if the strike became slate wide the state governmental functions would be assumed by them. All this, he declared, was another "indication of the extreme sinister state of social and industrial conditions In America, and especially in industrial centers," and he urged that prompt steps be taken to prevent further spread of the move ment. The Senator said the time had come when petty party differences should be subordinated to the holding up of the general principles upon which the Government was founded. Extra S.&H. Stamps Today and Saturday Use Coupon, It Means a Cash Reduction on Every Article You Buy 'IIIIIIIlIIIIIIlinniHiilililllNIIill!! H Bring This Coupon g A'n GET 20-EXTRA-20 e ! "S. & H " Trading ! S t a m p s on your ! first Jl cash pur- - ' chase and double on the balance. 1 Good on first floor and In T, basement today and Satur- 7 day, February 7 and S. 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