VOL,. I.IX. 0. 18.103.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
FEDERAL COI
FREIGHT EMBARGO TO
SEATTLE ANNOUNCED
FOOD AXD EXPORT SHIPMENTS
rXDER PERMIT EXCEPTED.
STRIKE'S BACKBONE
FOREIGNERS CHARGED
WITH CAUSING STRIFE
REPRESENTATIVE JOHNSON AD
" VOCATES DEPORTATION.
DOCTORS OF CIVIC
ILLS FILL SEATTLE
MR.PIEZ STANDS PAT,
REFUSING ARBITRATION
NO DISPOSITION MTOWN TO
TREAT WITH STRIKERS.
STRIKE CONFEREES
.WILE ID AGREE
BROKEN
TACOMA
111 SEATTLE LOOMS
i.
Mayor Ole Hanson to Nul
lify General Strike.
ULTIMATUM IS ISSUED
Controversy Between City Of
ficials and Labor Leaders
Comes to End.
STRIKERS HOLD CONFERENCE
Protection, Food, Water and
Other Commodities Guar?
i anteed People of City.
ET BEN HUR LAMPMAN.
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 7. (Spe
cial.) Controversy on the part of
civic officials with the leaders of the
general strike, called in'sympathy with
the strike protest of the shipworkers
against the Macy award and heralded
as the first thrust of the "revolution,"
came to an end today.
"The city of Seattle shall not be
prostrate," declared Mayor Hanson in
his ultimatum to the executive com
mittee of the strike.
"I hereby notify you that unless the
sympathy strike is called off by 8
o'clock Saturday morning," runs the
official notification given by the
Mayor, "I will take advantage of the
assistance and protection offered this
city by the National Government and
operate all essential enterprises."
Mayor Is Commended.
Seattle believes that its chief execu
tive has-the grit and will to carry his
promise to fruition. Hundreds of citi
zens called at the City Hall this after
noon, when the ultimatum became cur
rent, and signed statements expressing
approval of Mayor Hanson's "Ameri
can attitude." As they left the hall
cars of the municipal railway passed
them on Fourth avenue laden with
passengers, and the advo:ates of law
and order cheered repeatedly.
Enmeshed in an admitted attempt at
Soviet control of the municipality,
Seattle will see the issue put to the
test tomorrow, when the city authorities
vow that they will resume transporta
tion facilities, reopen public eating
houses and take every measure es
sential to the uninterrupted continU'
ance of business.
Protection Is Guaranteed.
Acting upon the ultimatum, the
strikers' executive commits 2 met late
this afternoon with a citizens' com
mittee in the executive offic at the
City Hall and later adjourned to La
bor Temple. The nature of any action
that they may take is nov indicated,
but city authorities sU.e positively
that, regardless of an adverse attitude
on the part of the strike committee,
the strike will be to all purposes nulli
fied tomorrow morning.
In a proclamation to the people of
the city Mayor Hanson, guarantees ab
solute and complete protection and
calls upon them to go about their daily
work. If necessary he promises that
every soldier m the Ncrtl. -st will be
called out to protect life, business- and
property.
Business Not at Standstill.
"The anarchists in this community
shall not rule its affairs," reads this
proclamation, "ine time nas come
for the people of Seattle to show their
Americanism. Go about your daily
duties without fear. We will see to
it that you have food, transportation,
light, gas and all necessities."
Business is not by any means at a
standstill, but it is hampered as ef
fectually as though it wore a ball and
chain. With transportation facilities
excepting the municipal line, tied up
by the general strike, with many in
dustries closed and with not more than
six places to turn to for r. sandwich
the city is stagnant save for the un
wholesome stirrings of the most rad
ical labor demonstration ever mani
fest in America.
No Disorder Recorded.
Thus far there has been no disorder,
though the municipal car line began
operation early today. The threat' of
machine guns and loaded rifles, the
presence of Government troops in the
city and the unmistakable intention of
the city authorities to halt at no
measure that will preserve order give
pause to the most radical of the radi
i-.a)5. such as Leon Green, extremist in
the Electricians' Union, is held to be.
Jt is in the Electricians' Union that
rJuncluded ou l'age 5, Column 3.
Consignee Must Satisfy Car Service
Representative of Ability to T7n
' load Goods Promptly.
An embargo was placed on freight
for Seattle yesterday, excepting: food
stuff, either In carload or lesa than
carload consignments. Export freight.
moved under permits, expressly la ex
cepted from the embargo. The only ex
ceptions that can be made are where
the consignee satisfies the car service
representative at Seattle of his ability
to unload cars promptly on arrival. J.
C. Roth is in charge of the car service
office at Seattle. He formerly was in
charge of the office here.
Foodstuff included in less than car
load freight in hands of th railroads
is being segregated and sent on to des
tination at Seattle, but all other freight
Is being held, pending the time when
it can be. promptly handled on arrival.
Carload freight also is being side
tracked and plae.ed.-on holding tracks
to avoid further congestion of termin
als at Seattle.
The embargo does not apply to Ta-
coma and reports indicate that there is
no interference with dispatch of un
loading freight at that point.
ABERDEEN JCALKERS LOSE
Men. Ordered by International to Re
turn to Work.
TACOMA. Feb. 7. A special dispatch
from Aberdeen says:
'Union officials here who, "for obvi
ous reasons," they said, aid not warn
their names mentioned, are authority
for the statement today that the ship
yard calkers in the Grays Harbor
yards who have been on strike re
ceived an order from their interna
tional, last night telling them to either
return to work at tonce or the car
penters who are not on strike and who
are governed by the same international
will be granted permission to do ship
calking.
'The calkers will hold a meeting to
night, it is announced, and this re
ported order will undoubtedly be dis
cussed and acted upon.
'The reported order from the inter
national places the calkers in a. com
plex light, as before the strike they
were getting $8.50 a day "while the
Macy award allows them but $7.52."
POLIGE ACT AS "NEWIES"
One Seattle Newspaper Makes Its
Appearance on Streets.
SEATTLE, Feb. 7. The Seattle Star
made its appearance on the streets to
day. Most of the front page was taken
up by Mayor Hanson's proclamations.
While the papers were being passed
out at the newspaper office police held
back crowds for a block around the
bujlding. Police also rode on the paper
delivery trucks.
East night Mayor Hanson promised
the newspapers all the soldiers and
police needed if they would only pub
lish. Mounted police obtained bundles of
the newspapers anc. rode through the
crowd scattering them. Scores of
armed soldiers and police stood guard
on all sides of the newspaper office.
STRIKERS ASK REVOCATION
Metal Trades Council Committee
Asks Mayor to Alter Ultimatum.
SEATTLE, Feb. 7. A sub-committee
of the conference committee of the
Seattle Metal Trades Council today
called at the City Hall to -ask Mayor
Hanson to revoke his threat to put the
city -under the control of the Federal
Government if the strike is not over
tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock.
The committee called at the Mayor's
office shortly after 1 o'clock this aft
ernoon. Strike leaders, it was said at the La
bor Temple today, considered permit
ting several or me large downtown
cafeterias to open. The strike "soup
kitchens" have been so heavily taxed
by crowds thut not every one can be
served.
REDS REPORTED IN FLIGHT
Coining of Troops Said to Have
v Frightened Leaders.
TACOMA. Feb. 7. Reports from
well-informed union leaders among the
so-called conservatives have it that
"Paddy" Morris and a half dozen other
of the most active members of the ele
ment promoting the general strike in
Tacoma fled in automobiles from Ta
coma last night when it became known
that troops from Camp Lewis had ar
rived in Tacoma.
Further impetus was added to the
flight of the men, it was reported this
morning, when it was discovered that
some of the most prominent and
noisy "Reds" in Tacoma are plain
clothes men in the employ of the Secret
Service Department.
PROTECTION IS PROMISED
Commander of Troops in Tacoma
Announces Purpose.
TACOMA, Feb.. 7. "We are here for
the protection of property and person
and the suppression of all disorder. We
do not intend to take any arbitrary ac
tion, except in case of the gravest
emergency. Any plant -which wants to
reopen will be entitled to and receive
protection, both as to its property and
its employees."
In the above declaration. Brigadier
General Watson, in command of the
United States trocps in Tacoma and vi
cinity, this morning outlined the mili
tary policy to be pursued by men un
der his command.
Return to Work Hastened
by Arrival of Troops,
STREETCARS OPERATE ,i)AY
Ballot at Shipyards- dicates
Walkout Opposed.
MOVE LAID TO TRICKERY
Barbers, Butchers Again in Shops
and Newsboys Sell Papers Un
der Guard of Police.
TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 7. (Special.)
With silent soldiers looking on, the
backbone of the strike is broken in
Tacoma tonight. Streetcars on the trac
tion and municipal lines will be oper
ated . tomorrow. Barbers are back in
their shops. Butchers are cutting meat
at their blocks. Service of electricity,
waterand gas is unimpaired.
. The crest of the wave of sentiment is
past and but little agitation is being
shown. The inconvenience of having no
streetcars was the sole disagreeable
feature of the strike.
Soldiers from Camp Lewis, with
rifles, bayonets, hand grenades and ma
chine guns, under command of Brigadier-General
Frank B. Watson, were
stationed at the Armory. They cooked
their meals in the street, while thou
sands looked on. A spirit of friendli
ness was shown the soldiers by the
civilians.
m Strike Laid to Trickery.
Delegates from the Streetcarmen's
Union, who met with Louis H. Bean,
manager of the Tacoma Railway &
Power Company, declared that they
had been induced by trickery to strike.
They said that they had understood
yesterday that the word caipe from
their international union, through F. D.
Hoover, of Vancouver, B. C., ordering
the walkout. - Mr. Hoover, who is in
ternational vice-president of the car
men, said he came to keep the men on
the job.
The men said they were angered at
the strike vote in the Central Labor
Council, which showed 4 ISO in favor of
the strike and 1605 against. In this
vote 2037 boilermakers voted in the
affirmative and 1 against. The vote
for a general strike was taken after
the boilermakers, and the metal trades
unions, had left the shipyards. The
striking ironworkers thus cast half the
ballots for the general paralysis of
business, while unions not directly af
fected by the Macy wage scale were
against the walkout.
Many norkrra Lratc City.
Joseph II. Lyons, labor leader, was
hard hit by the shipyard strike, for
with the decreased demand for trans
portation on the tide flats Commission
cr Harrison immediately reduced the
force of employes on the line. Mr.
Lyons had been on the payroll as su
perintendent of transportation at $200
a month. He was dropped at once,
together with Chief Inspector Gillman
(Concluded, on Pace 4. Column 1.)
Government Officials Declared to
Have Taken 'o Action Against
Aliens on Pacific Coast.
WASHINGTON'. Feb. 7. Representa
tive Johnson, Of Washington, in a
speech in the House today, declared that
strikes in the Pacific Northwest were
due to foreigners, who should be de
ported, but against whopi no action
was taken by Government officials.
Metal workers ' there, he said, threat-
ended general strikes in the metal in
dustries throughout the country as a
sympathetic movement.
"These great strikes," Representative
Johnson said, "were . preceded by a se
ries of riots on Sundays, and after one
of these authorities in Seattle arrested
13, the leaders whose names were a
great array of Slovinskys aiyl names of
that sort. Out of the 13 there were
two Americans, cf whom one said lt
wished he were not an American. The
other 11- were aliens and more than
half of, the 11 were Russians.
I am informed that the Commis
sioner of Immigration at Seattle, repre
senting the immigration service in that
part of the country, stated he would
take steps to deport these men. If our
Government officials will proceed under
the laws enacted by Congress and de
port those aliens who come here un
dertaking to tell how to run our Gov
ernment and our affairs, we will have
less trouble from these strikes. I was
astonished to read the names and what
they had to say about the United
States and to learn that no steps were
proposed to be taken to deport them."
BAKER SNOWFALL HEAVY
Mountain Blanket Four Feet Deep;
Aid Given to Farmers.
BAKER, Or., Feb. 7. (Special.)
Baker is now enjoying the heaviest
snowfall of the year, varying in depth
from six inches in the city to more than
four feet in the mountains. The miners
in this section have been apprehensive
that there would be Insufficient snow
in the hills to furnish the desired
amount of water in the Spring.
A Sufficient supply of water is now
assured the farmers and miners.
FE.lTl'RKS OF ORKCOV I.KGIS
LATinB YESTERDAY.
, s Senate,
Bill to provide free schooling
in state's educational institutions
introduced in Senate.
Salary bill for Multnomah
County deputies passes in Senate
without opposition.
Adjourns' until Monday.
Houne.
Passes bill making minimum
wage of $75 month for teachers.
Passes bill doing away with
minimum sentence law.
Big $10,000,000 road bond bill
introduced by Roads and High
ways Commission.
Representative Kubli accuses
State Lime Board of law vlola
tion and demands investigation.
Kills Scheubel bill increasing
license fees for domestic corpo
rations. Kills department of agriculture
consolidation measure, which,
members concede, virtually kills
all consolidation for session.
Adjourns until Monday.
CAN'T HE SEE THEY ARE BUSY?
Many Strike Remedies Of
fered to Citizens.
PROPAGANDA DRIVE IS HEAVY
Streets Flooded With Dodgers
Exhorting Men to Keep Nerve.
WILD RUMORS CIRCULATED
Dynamite Outrages and Reports of
Shooting Prove Untrue When Fi
nally Investigated by Officers.
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 7. (Special.)
Today could be called propaganda
Friday in Seattle. The city is flooded
with bulletins, dodgers and newspapers
by the strikers, the citizenry opposed
to the strike and many who have sug
gestions for ending it.
A special edition of an afternooon
newspaper was run off under police
guard, Jn which Mayor Hanson's proc
lamation was printed. The streets down
town were well filled when the paper
appeared. There seemed, to be no hesi
tancy on the part of sympathizers of
either side in expressing their views
of the Mayor's edict upon reading it.
There was an almost audible shout of
approbation and. on the other hand,
many threw the paper on the sidewalk
and trampled on It.
Mayor's Nerve Admired.
"T always knew he had nerve," was
heard In more than one group of men
from men who hoped that the Mayor
would step in with an ultimatum to the
strikers, but who began to believe that
he would not.
"We'll show him," was the commonest
expression to be heard among the
strikers.
There was a noticeable slackening of
spirit among many of the strikers to
day. Whilo the crowd remained as
dense as Jt had ever been about the
Labor Temple, the exchange of confi
dences of Btrikera gathered In knots on
the street indicated a lack of confi
dence on the part of many. To meet a
possible letting up in the morale of the
strikers the Central Labor Council to
day issued another official strike bul
letin in which the strikers are con
gratulated on the way the strike is
going.
Maay llodgers Iaaued.
"Sit tight; don't crowd; pay no at
tention to senseless rumors of riot or
destruction of property; keep sweet."
the bulletin urges. In another part:
"You are doing fine. boys. Keep order.
Don't lose your temper and victory will
be ours."
More thn a dozen different dodgers
are being circulated by citizens who
believe they have found a solution to
the difficulty. Some propose the tak
ing over of the shipyards by the city
government, by the laborers them
selves, by the Mayor, and operated on a
co-operative basis. Others propose that
the shipyard owners dismantlo their
plants and remove them from Seattle
(Concluded on Puff 7. Column .Y
Tacoma Workers, in Reply to Mov j
sage. Ask Copy of Agreement.
Step Toward Settlement Scon.
WASHINGTON. Frh. 7. Shipping
Board Officials indicated tnrlv fliat h-
solutely no change in the policy of re
fusing to arbitrate the controversy
with shipyard strikers at Seattle would
be made. It was said, however, that
the progress of the general strike there
was being closely watched and that
Chairman Hurley, of the Shipping
Board, who will arrive' in New York
Monday, had been fully informed of the
situation and the steps taken.
Director-Generat Pies announced
when the shipyard strike at Seattle
first began that it would be the policy
of the board to "let the job stand" in
those yards where men went on strike
for higher wages. This policy has been
fully reported to Chairm All TTlirli v atirl
he is expected to approve it upon his
a i rival.
TACOMA. Wash.. Feb. 7. Tho first
direct communication from the striking
shipyard workers of Tacoma to the
emergency f leet Corporation against
whose wage scale they are protesting,
was sent tonight by wire in the form
of an answer to the message sent the
Central Labor Council Wednesday night
by Charles Piez, director-general of
the corporation.
The telegram is regarded as a first
step toward strike settlement in that
it ca'lls attention to the lack of any
assurance that a just settlement would
be reached, should the men return to
work pending a conference. The tele
gram says In part:
"We would request a copy of the
agreement you mention by which we
are bound, as we have never been con
sulted in the matter. All we have is
a copy of a memorandum signed by
some of our International presidents
a".dvto wnlcn we have never agreed."
.u inr in your telegram to
issue of a daily paper. Few of
an
our
men are reading tho daily
paper at
this time and no statement published
inrough the press can be taken as offi
cial. Your full pace ad had the effect
of losing what faith we had left in the
public press.
"You mention our going hack to
work during a conference. If we had
somo positive assurance that we were
going to have a just settlement, this
might be possible, but as yet this has
not been offered."
TACOMA BARBERS ON JOB
Hardware Stores Have 'T.un on
Tacks'' and Autos Siifrer.
TACOMA. Wash.. I-'e!.. 7 The bar
bers in Tacoma went back to tluir
chairs today. lcl;verics and transpor
tation between Tacoma and Camp
Lewis were doubly assured when the
teamsters and chatifeurs decided to
stick on the job In defiance of the Cen
tral Labor Council.
All other trades plied busily this
morning and Tacoma appealed a nor
mal city but pr the interruption of
streetcar service.
Hardware ttorcs experienced a "run
on tacks" yesterday afternoon, the re
sult of which was a hundred or more
punctured automobile tires.
LANTERNS ARE INSTALLED
Seattle and Tacoma Harbor Stations,
Prepare for Disturbance.
JM.T. 1 1 L,!.. J-cl. 7. Sixty candle-
, . I
ii.-v. mmn U3 na nccn installed In
, ttiiu i acoma li a r nor
. light stations by order of Robert War.
J rack, lighthouse superintendent, so that
opeiation of the stations will be as
. sured. if the electric nower of sientti.
I 111. wavav.I ....! . n-
and Tacoma is lost during the strike
disturbances in both cities.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTE ft DAY'S Maximum temperature.
46
n"Kr-i; minimum, decrees.
TODAY'S Rain; southeaster. y winds.
M rike.
Seattle strikers morale wants, rage 1.
Mr. Pica firm In rcfusine strike arbitration.
Pace 1.
Forelg-ners held responsible for Seattle strike
Page 1.
Strikers meakentnjr at Seattle. Paj 1.
Backbone of strike broken in Tacoma
Page I.
Seattle Mayor Ipsura ultimatum to strikers,
threatenina- Federal control of city.
Pa are X.
Freight embargo to Seattle announced.
Pajtr 1.
I. W. W. advocate strike In Portland. P.ijo 4.
Lejrlttlatare.
Houm members prefer to rhaope own re
construction commission. F'ajte fi.
Road bond measure reaches House desk.
Pac ti. '
Consolidation plan doomed to defeat. Paso 7.
Washington I-ecUlature may ereate labor
trouble fund for cmercenry ue. Phc .
Korrlsrn.
Amrrlrans heavily bombarded by Bolshevik!.
Pace 2.
Ebcrt warn 5 r"Wfrs not to push Germany
too far. Pms 3.
Progress reported in league of nations
project. Pace 2.
Union orders undon strikers to return to4
Domestic.
Butte lets out firemen and policemen.
Pace -i-
8ikH.
Eddie Tferr sends Salt Lake baseball Hock
upward. Pa qe K'.
James John defeats Hill. 'J; to 1?. Pace 12.
Commercial and Marine.
Flrrt sale of Portland stored wool at Gov
ernment auction. Pajro P..
Oats higher t Chkago on buying by spec
ulators. Page 1H-
Wall-trect trading restricted and prices
lower. Pace
Municipal pier No. 1 practically ready for
buine?- Page IS.
Portland and Vicinity.
We.it her report, data a nd forecat t. Fac 1 r.
Welcome assured troop from OreRon. I'm to IS.
Land Products Show and county f;iir mergvi
advocated. Pajtc
Manv positions are found for unemployed.
Pae 14.
Mayor's Threat to Call
Troops Yet Unheeded.
TIME LIMIT SET T 8 A. M.
Strikers' Committee Not to Re
port to Workers Until. 9
o'clock Today.
SCHOOLS TO OPEN MONDAY
City Electricians Return to
Work Following Mandate
of International Chief.
SEATTLE, -Vah., Feb. 7. After
nearly three hours' discussion between
-Mayor Ole Hansor., J. W. Spanker, a
banker, and Rev. M. A. Matthews an !
a special committee of the general
strike conference committee it was an
nounced late tonijrht that the con
ferees had failed to reach an agree
ment in regard to calling off the sym
pathetic strike atr 8 o'clock Saturday
morning.
The strikers' committee, it was said,
offered to recommend that the sym
pathetic strike of 00,000 workers te
called off if the Mayor's committee
would apree that a committee of busi
ness men would be formed to present
the demands of the 25,000 striking
metal trades workers for higher wapres
to the proper Shipping Board authori
ties and urge that they be granted.
Good Tailh Showing L'rged.
Th Mayor's committee took ths
stand that the shipyard workers were
under a contract with the Government
and nothing could be done until tho
men showed good faith by returning
to work.
Tonight's conference followed ono
this morning after Mayor Hanson is
sued an ultimatum that unless tho
sympathetic strike was called off at
S o'clock Saturday morning be would
operate all essential 'industries with
the aid of nearly 1000 regular Arm.'
soldiers sent here from Camp Lewis
last night. With his. ultimatum thri
Mayor issued a proclamation urging
all citizens to resume their normal
business activities and promising
ample protection wherever a-kcd for.
The conference between the Mayor,
Mr. Spangler, Rev. Mr. Matthews and
the strikers' special committee re
sulted after the Mayor earlier in the
day had issued an ultimatum demand
ing that the sympathetic strike of o0,-
000 Union
mcn, called Thursdav to
support demands of 25.000 striking
metal trades workers of the shipyards
for higher wages, be called off at 8
A. M. tomorrow or he would operate
all essential ind stries with assistance
of Federal troops.
Committee to Report.
The Mayor's ultimatum said S
o'clock. Tonight, after the conference,
it was announced that the strikers
committee would not report back to
the general strike until 0 o'clock Sat
urday. Whether the Mayor would
carry out his plan at the hour he set
or wait until the labor conference an
nounced its answer to his ultimatum
was the point on which all interest
centered.
At 8 o'clock Saturd. y morning, how
ever, it was known tonight, several
wholesale firms will begin deliveries
to their retail customers, relying on
the Mayor's promise. Ample protec
tion has been assured them for
operating trucks.
Soup Kitchens Opened.
The general strike conference com
mittee today issued an "official strike
bulletin" printed in the plant of the
union labor newspaper. Eighteen "soup
kitchens" operated by this committee
to feed strikers and others dependent
upon public eating places today were
increased to 21. Yesterday, according
to the labor bulletin, some 20.000 per
sons were fed at these kitchens. To
day, however, patronage at some was
very small and at others more than
could be handled. Fasteboard plates
were supplied to fill a lack of that
urticle yesterday. The menu remained
the same beef stew, bread and coffee.
Tbi Post-IntcIIigencer, a irtcrning
rew-spaper, appeared tonight with a
fonr-pagf! edition minus advertise
ments and containing only brief Asso
ciated Press dispatches and strike
Concluled "a Tagj 4. Column a. I