VOL. LIX. XO. 18,165. POHTLAXP, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUAKY 11, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS.
COAST BOILERMAKERS
IALL INDUSTRIES IN
LABOR MISLED,. SAYS
MAYOR OF SEATTLE
ROAD PAVING TOPIC
AT NOISY SESSION
GENERAL STRIKE OF
BUILDERS IS CALLED
54 ED AGITATORS
COLLARED BY D. S.
MAY CONVENE HERE
BUTTE SHACKLED
OF SEME
SESSIOX OF DISTRICT XO.
4i
W ALKOUT ORDERED TODAY AF
FECTS 250,000 MEN.
I
I HT MAYOR
Sympathy Strike Will End
at Noon Today.
SHIFWOHKERS REMAIN OUT
Ole Hanson Receives Tele
gram From Boyhood Friend
in Union Grove, Wis. '
MESSAGES DELUGE OFFICE
Seattle Business Men and
Federal Officers Commend
Determined Stand.
BY HUH LAJirJUN.
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 10. (Spe
cial.) Two big moments came to Ole
Hanson, American mayor, at his desk
in the city hall today. One was the
word that the radicalisms of Seattle
organ r.ed labor had been worsted by
the conservatives anc that the gen
eral sympathy strike, tottering for two
days past, was in debris. The other
was a message from the boys he used
to play with, back in the little Wis
consin town of his birth.
At 1 o'clock this afternoon the gen
eral strike committee voted to termi
nate the sympathy strike at noon to
morrow, and called upon those unions
which already have returned and are
at work to lay down their tools until
that time in order to demonstrate the
solidarity of labor. Few are answer
ing the appeal, which is counted to be
the last ruse to save some remnant of
Booming victory for the leaders.
The end of the sympathy strike does
not affect the earlier individual strike
of the 25,000 shipworkers, who struck
in protest against the Macy award.
These will remain out until some def
inite adjustment is reached, it is an
nounced. As for the sympathy strike,
Mayor Hanson maintains that it never
was genuine, so far as its commanding
spirits were concerned, and that they
seized upon it as the pretext for re
bellion and the disruption of govern
ment and industry
Mayor Is Congratulated.
"A few unnaturalized aliens dreamed
that they could overthrow the govern
ment and bring abqut in Seritle the
same conditions that prevailed in Rus
sia, but conservative organized labor
refused to follow their leadership as
soon as its members saw what the
movement meant," said Clarence L.
Keames, special assistant United
States attorney-general.
A delegation of business men called
upon Mayor Hanson this afternoon.
"We are the King County Admiration
irty," they told him, as all shook)
iTT.is. It was a busy moment at the
executive office, and they turned to
go. The mayor halted them at the
door.
"Wait a bit," he said. "Now, there's
just one thing you fellows want to
lemember, and that is not to take ad-
vantage of this in changing any of the
economic conditions or wages that pre
vailed before the strike."
"Of course not, mayor," agreed the
delegation.
Telegrams Pour In.
Among the stack of yellow tele
grams that clutter the desk of Seat
tle's scrapping executive are not a
few that bear names familiar to fame.
All are laudatory of the stand he took
and the fight he waged. But that
message which Myor Ole Hanson
read, again and again with a smile of
reminiscence on his lips and in his
eyes took the wire at Union Grove,
Wis., where he was born about 45
years ago.
"Union Grove is proud of her son
and fellow citizen," read the mayor.
"Don't budge an inch. American lib
erties are at stake. Hit hard and let
that scrofulous crew understand that
we live in the good old United States
and not in bolsheviki-ruled Russia."
It was signed "Floyd Coling and
others."
The lean visage of the reader radi
ated with a very human and appre
ciative grin. He pressed the call but
ton for a stenographer and tilted his
cigar like a seige gun. Ole Hanson
was back in Union Grove, Wis., pud
dling round some chub-haunted creek
or following the brindle home from
the cowslip pasture.
"Floyd Coling," mused the man who
iCuucluiied oil iJjge o, Columu 1.)
NEXT WEEK POSSIBLE.
C
Xcws of Collapse of Sympathetic
Strike In Seattle Received
Quietly in Portland.
Only one ripple appeared on the sur
face of labor circles yesterday in Port
land, that being a report from San
Francisco that there was to be a ses
sion of District No. 4 4 of the coast
boilermakers, which proved erroneous
and, say men identified with the or
ganization here, there has not even
been a call for a district meeting.
"As I am a delegate to district No. 44,
I know there has been no arrangements
for a meeting,- said Archie Allison,
business agent for the boilermakers'
union. "It may be there will be euch
a session next weeic curing the con
vention of the Pacific Coast District
Metal Trades Council, as the delegates
in district No. 44 also are delegates to
the metal trades council."
News of the sympathetic strike at
Seattle being called off was received
quietly here. Men who have been
identified with organized labor for
years expressed themselves before as
dubious regarding the effectiveness of
such sympathetic movements and they
Fay the return to work was a natural
consequence of ill - advised action,
though they are in sympathy with
their colleagues of the Seattle ship
yards in endeavoring to bring their
troubles to the attention of the Emer
gency Fleet Corporation.
LAND RECLAMATION URGED
Senator Borah Wants 550,000,000
Expended in West.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. Senator
Borah of Idaho gave notice in the
senate today that he would seek to
have the rules set aside in order to
add to the rivers and harbors bill when
it is called up an amendment appro
priating J50.000.000 for the resumption
of work on reclamation projects in
western states, suspended during the
war.
Under the amendment men dis
charged from the military and naval
crvice would be given preference in
employment in such work.
CALL FOR WOMEN LESSENS
Demand for Female Help Drops
Since Signing of Armistice.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. Reports to
the federal employment service show
that request from employers for
female help have decreased 48 per cent
since the signing of the armistice,
while registrations by women for em
ployment have decreased only 12 per
cent..
In this connection the service said
it estimated that approximately 11,000,
000 women in the country were depend
ent on their earnings and that they
must be kept permanently employed.
U. S. STEAMER IN DISTRESS
Calls for Help From Communipav
Picked Vp.
HALIFAX. N. S., Feb. 10. Calls for
help from the American tank steamer
Communipaw were picked up here to
day. The message gave the vessel's
position as 'latitude 38:18 north, longi
tude 55:15 west, but did not explain
the nature of her trouble.
The American coast guard steamer
Tallapoosa was dispatched to he as
sistance. The Communipa-- sailed from
New York February 2 for Genoa.
YANKS TO EAT HOOD FRUIT
Government Buys 15,000 Boxes of
Apples for Overseas Army.
.HOOD RIVER, Or., Feb 10. (Spe-ci-1.)
Overseasxsoldiers are to eat Ore
gon apples. H. F. Davidson, who is in
New Tork, today notified the Hood
River Fruit company that he sold 15,
000 boxes of the concern's extra fancy
and fancy Newtowns to the govern
ment. The fruit, according to the telegram,
will be rushed across for the army of
occupation In France and Ger.many.
RECRUITING IN NAVY HEAVY
Portland Leads Western Cities With
Total of 2 8 In Week.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. Enlistments
in the navy during the week ending
February 6 totalled 1637, the highest
weekly figure since voluntary enlist
ments were resumed early in Decem
ber. New York was first among the cities
with 205, and In the west Portland. Or.,
stood first with 28.
IRISH URGE SHORT WEEK
Increase of 150 Per Cent in Wages
Is Recommended.
DUBLIN. Feb. 10. The all-Ireland
labor conference, held here on Satur
day, adopted a programme calling for
a 44-hour week and an, Increase of 150
per cent in wages over pre-war rates
with a minimum, of 50 shillings per
week.
VISCOUNT GREY IS BLIND
Eye Trouble of Years Ends In Total
Loss of Sight.
LONDON, Feb. 10. The aye trouble
with which Viscount Frey, former Brit
ish secretary of state for foreign af
fairs, has been afflicted for years has
culminated in total blindness, says the
Daily Mail today.
12,000 Men Idle as R'it
of Strike.
CITY UNDER MlfiARY RULE
Discharged Soldiers Found Do
ing Picket Duty.
UNIFORM ORDERED DONNED
Men Willing to Work Deterred by
Fear of Radical Element Xo
Demands Presented.
BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 19. Approxi
mately 12,000 men are Idle in Butte to
night and the city is virtually under
the control of the military, due to the
strike of members of the Butte Metal
Miners' union (independent) and of the
Metal Mine Workers' Industrial union
No. 800 of the Industrial Workers of
the World.
Miners who are said not to favor the
strike failed to go to work this morn
ing, due, it was said, to fear of violence.
It also, was asserted that many of
those heretofore against the strike had
decided to Join the strikers this morn
ing. The men are striking against the
recent reduction in wages of Jl a day
and for abolishment of the "rustling"
card system in Vogue here.
Carnti Are Threatened.
Besides the miners affected close to
100 streetcar operatives were compelled
to keep their cars in the barns today
through fear- of alleged intimidation.
The carmen left their cars at the barns
this morning when strikers' committees
surrounded tho barns and, according to
the military authorities, threatened
violence if the cars were run. Only
those possessing automobiles rode to
day. The street carmen's union late today
voted to defer Action on a request that
they walk out in sympathy with the
miners. The request to walk out was
made. Jn an unsigned circular.
: Kewiln With Strikers. -
Late today several hundred newsboys
collected around the office of an even
ing paper anil attempted to prevent the
carrier delivery and sale of the papers.
A squad of soldiers dispersed the boys,
but not before they had seized a bundle
of papers from one carrier and de
stroyed them. The papers were de
livered to subscribers later, but street
sales were virtually prohibited by the
action of the boys, note of whom ap
peared more than 12 years of age.
Mines Cioielj Guarded.
Two companies of the 44th United
States infantry (regulars), under com
mand of Major A. M. Jones, guarded
the approaches to the mines from early
this morning and known strike pickets
were prohibited from gaining access
to the mines, while gangs of pickets
which had been formed in a semi-military
manner were dispersed.
Discharged soldiers who still wore
the uniform and who associated with
those attempting to do picket duty
were singled out and ordered to remove
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J CMON HOME!
CITY'S EXECUTIVE EXPRESSES
GOOD WILL FOR. UNIONISTS.
V
Strike Said to Have Been Brought
About When "Americans Were
Under Terrorists' Influence.
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 10. (Special.)
In a statement issued late this after
noon Mayor Hanson expressed no sur
prise that the general sympathy strike
has come to an end, nor any feeling
save that of good will for the members
of organized labor, who he declares
were misled.
"The attempted reheliion is over,"
said Mayor Hanson. "The misled union
men . and -women are going back to
work. They struck while under the
influence of men who believed fright
fulness - would terrorize Seattle. We
have no quarrel with them. We are
all for them. .We believe in the rights
of its workers. Pcrsorfally, I have al
ways stood for the rights of labor.
Every enemy I have in Seattle was
made fighting their battles.
"I fought this battle for the decent
labor of the country. They struck- this
city prostrate for no fault of its own.
The shipyard workers' strike does not
and cannot enter into this controversy.
That is a strike between the shipyard
workers and the United States. Seat
tle could not, if it would, grant their
demands. The leaders believed that
with the city helpless, the industries
and enterprises of Seattle would one
by one be turned over to the soldiers',
sailors' and workmen's council.
"They were mistaken. Thank God,
Seattle is American through and
through and not ignorant Russia.
"Without a single United States sol
dier on our force, without a shot being
fired we policed the city, controlled it
every bour of the day and ran our industries."
STORM BLOWS OFF COAST
Warnings Placed From Eureka
South Steamer Lale to PorC.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10. A wind
storm starting off the Oregon coast
swept the state today and storm warn
ings were placed along the coast from
Eureka south.
The steamer Congress from Seattle
arrived today, 15 hours late.
FEATURES OF THE OREGON
LEGISLATURE YESTERDAY.
Senate.
Salary bill npponen' win in
senate.
Senate favors capital punish
ment. Bill to abolish Multnomah
county judge passes both houses,
making him circuit judge.
Hone,
Passes bill of Multnomah dele
gation raising salaries of circuit
judges of that county from 14000
to $5000 a year.
Passes bill suspending state
aid to industrial accident com
mission until June 30, 1921.
Kills effort to place school
clerk of Portland school district
on elective basis and decrease his '
salary.
Passes Gordon measure giving
ports power to bond up to 5 per
cent of assessed valuation.
Passes Lewis bill giving power
to Portland to improve peninsu
lar section.
Senate Committee Re
sents Talk by Mr. Dimick.
DOMINATION MOVE IS CHARGED
Clash Develops in Dispute
Over Hard-Surfacing.
$10,000,000 WORK OUTLINED
Amendment by Senator Rimer to
Permit Use of Xon-Patented
Pavement Wins Approval.
STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Feb. 10.
(Special.) After a stormy session
today, the senate roads committee
agreed to start wrangling over the
patented pavement bills Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o"clock. rounding the
table with his fist. Chairman Orton
could not maintain order, for Senator
Dimick talked loudly and violently and
Senators Norblad, Handley and Hurley
resented what they termed Mr. Dlm
ick's attempt to "run the committee"
of which he is not even a member.
Meanwhile, in the house, the 10.000,
000 bond bill was being studied by the
members. A number of features con
nected with the measure are of im
portance to all citizens of the state.
An outline of the bond bill Is set forth.
7,500.000 for Trunk Roads.
Of the total bond issue, 7, 500.000 Is
particularly designated for certain
primary trunk roads. When this money
is exhausted, Oregon will have 713
miles of hard-surfaced pavement dis
tributed thus: Astoria to The Dalles,
19S miles; rortland to the California
line, 354 miles; Portland to Junction
City on fhe west side. 112 miles; Hills
boro loop. 49 miles. This does not take
into account five miles paved in Uma
tilla county nor 12.5 miles to be laid
this year in Coos county. The forego
ing gives an idea of what will be done
fr the Pacific and Columbia river
highways.
Out of the bond issue $3,500,000 is set
aside for other roads. This sum will
be swelled by the receipts from gaso
line tax, millage and surplus license
money, so that the state highway com
mission will have a comfortable bank
account with which to improve the
"other roads." These "other roads" are
in the system already adopted and they
penetrate most of the counties.
Out of the $2,500,000 and such other
sums, the commission intends building
highways to the coast. Included are
the roads from Roseburg out to Coos
Bay; from Eugene part way to Flor
ence; from Corvallis to Toledo and
from McMinnville to Tillamook: the
coastal road first unit from Seaside,
via Elk creek and Cannon Beach to
Nehalem.
Improvement Programme Made.
In the interior, the plan designs im
provement of the central Oregon high
way, which is from Klamath Falls to
Bend and from Bend to The Dalles;
another projected road is from Ontario
to Burns and thence to Bend. In the
Concluded on Page 2. Column 1.)
Action of Union Heads of Construc
' tion Trades Is Expected to
Be Nation-Wide.
NEW TORK. Feb. 10. Union heads
of basic building construction trades
today called a general strike,' which,
beginning tomorrow, will affect all con
tracts throughout the country held by
members of the Building Trades Em
ployers' association, according to an
nouncement here tonight by William J.
Hutcheson, president of the United
Brotherhood of Camenters and Join
ers of America.
Hutcheson said the action was taken
in an attempt to iorce the carpenters'
demands for $1 a duy increase in
wages. He said tne strike order
would affect masons, plasterers, brick
layers, hoisting engineers, elevator
constructors, soft-stone cutters, tile
layers, marble setters and carpenters.
The walkout of these workmen, he
added, will automatically throw out of
work all other workmen employed on
operations of members of the employ
ers' association.
The number of men affected by the
order, he said, is about 250.000, or one
fourth of all union building trades
workmen in the country. Sympathetic
strikes, he predicted, will ultimately
bring the number of strikers to 300,000.
COOS OFFICIALS ASSAILED
Recall of County Judge and Com
missioner Is Advocated.
MARSHFIELD, Or., Feb. 10. (Spe
cial.) At a meeting of the Coos County
Taxpayers' league, held today in Marsh
fleld, it was decided to secure recall
petitions against County Judge James
Watson and Commissioner Archie Philip
of North Bend. The league also went
on record asking the court to provide
a special accountant to expert the road
funds and expenses of the past few
years, with a view to submitting the
findings to the next grand jury ses
sion. No nominations were made to replace
Judge Watson and Commissioner Phil
ip, and this is to be provided for by
the report of the nominating committee,
which will submit a recommendation at
a meeting to be held next week.
BIG FLOUR MILL TO RISE
Contract for $500,000 Structure Is
Awarded at Astoria.
ASTORIA, Or., Feb. 10. Contracts
were signed today between the Port of
Astoria and the Astoria Flouring Mills
company for the erection of a 3000
barrel flour mill at port docks in this
city. Construction is to begin at once.
The flour mill is to be the largest In
the state. The present mill here has
a daily capacity of 1000 barrels. The
daily capacity of the new mill is to be
3000 barrels.
The structure will cost about J500,
000. Six million bushels will be re
quired lo keep the mill in operation
throughout the year. The mill will be
built adjacent to the elevator and million-bushel
grain storage bins recently
constructed by Astoria.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather. 1
TESTE RD AT S Maximum temperature. 50
degrees; minimum. 4li degrees.
TODAY'S Rain; fresh gusty southerly
wind.
Strikes.
Ffghtlnjr mayor of Seattle ts victor. Pace 1.
Butte under milHary rule and 12,000 men
idle. Pave 1.
General strike of buildinc trades workmen
called. Pace 1.
Seattle labor misled, says Mayor Hanson.
Page 1.
Mayor Hanson 'says union labor must clean
house. Page 4.
Metal trades heads explain strike to Gen
eral Morrison. Pace 4.
Tacoma strikers resume work. Pace 5.
Boilermakers roil longshoremen. Page 5.
War.
Official casualty list. Page 1.
jForela-a.
President to Issu invitation to nations to
Join peace league. Page 2.
Lenin looks for revolt to spread to America.
PaKe -
Supreme economic council formed. Pasre 7.
National.
Suffragists lose In senate for ack of one
vote. Page 3. .
Greater navy programme Is combated in the
house. Page o.
Dqmestlc.
United States arrests A4 alien agitators for
deportation. Page 1.
Legislatures.
Road paving- topic of stormy session by
senate committee. Page 1.
Salary increase bill defeated in senate.
Page 6.
Anti-alien bill fought by strong; lobby at
Olympla. Page 6.
Idaho school union bill gets knockout In
legislature. Pace 7.
Sports.
Pittsburg holds Clifford Lee for 1919 team.
Page 14.
McClusky still retains lead in billiard tourna
ment. Pago 15.
Jack Dempsey signs articles for bout with
Willard. Page 14.
Commercial and Marine.
New-crop flour will be cheaper despite fixed
wheat price- Page 21.
Chicago corn advances with export demand.
page
Steel stock gains In face of tonnace decrease.
pace Ji.
Dock commission Is opposed to consolidation
with Port commission. Page 20. 1
Portland and Vicinity.
Coast boilermakers meetinc fails to mate
rialize. Puge 1.
Judge Tazwell Indorses court of domestic
relations. Page 22.
Seattle mayor lauded by Chamber of Com
merce lorum. Page lti.
People to welcome troops home with songs.
Page 13.
Tax collections on opening; day record. Pace
11.
Relatives of returning soldiers ask railroads
to suspend rule. Page 12.
Police hunt three murder suspects.. Pace 12.
New criminal syndicalism act found to be
Inadequate. Page 10.
Mr. Tatt to arrive in Portland Sunday.
Pace 20.
Bricadier-General Mclndoe dies in Pari a
.Pago 16.
"Weather report, data and forecast. Pago 20.
Trainload From Northwest
Sent East for Deporting.
SEATTLE BOLSHEVIKI TAKEN
Majority of Seized Persons Are
Radical Aliens.
RUSSIA TO BE DESTINATION
Government Agents Get Evidence?
Ajrainst Foreigners and Quickly
Put End to Operations.
CHICAGO. Feb. 10. Fifty-four mem
bers of the Industrial Workers of the
World passed through Chicago last
night in a special train under a heavy
Kuard o" their way to an Atlantic port,
where it is said they will bo deported
at once by the immigration authorities.
Forty of the prisoners came direct
from Seattle, where they took part in
fomenting the general strike.
Three leaders of the Seattle strike,
one of the Spokane agitators, an I. ".
W. leader from Denver and five alien
convicts arrested in Chicago were
among the prisoners.
Mont of Prisoners Aliens.
The majority of the men were alien
labor agitators picked up by officer
of the United States immigration serv
ice during a year of secret campaign
ing in industrial centers of the Pacific
coast. A. D. 1. Jackson, chief of the
Seattle office of the immigration serv
ice, was in charse of the party.
"The proceeding against United
Siates enemies of this type is simple."
an official with tho train said. "Juft
two hours before the Seattle strike was
called we gathered 40 agitators into the
cars with everything cleared away be
tween them and the middle of the At
lantic ocean. For more than a. year the
Immigration service ha been working
quietly in all industrial centers check
ing up on the strange aliens who have
appeared, anil gathered evidence against
1. W. W. leaders and trouble makers
who call themselves bolsheviki.
' Quirk Action Obtained.
"When evidence was compiled against
this particular crowd each case was
brought to a federal hearing and all
court findings sent to Washington,
where they were reviewed by Secretary
of Labor Wilson. Tho secretary has the
power to order this type of prisoner de
ported or released and so far thero has
been little trouble in getting ;utck ac
tio n.-'
The majority of the prisoners will be
sent back to Russian provinces. They
are principally Norwegians, Swedes
and Finns, according to guards on the
train.
The only atten.. t at a mob delivery
of the prisoners was frustrated by the
foresight of the federal officials. Be
fore the train reached Butte. Mont..
officers were warned that the I. W.
leaders in that city and Helena
learned ol the deportation and were
massing to deliver their comrades. The
two cars then attached to a regular
train were cut off at a junction and set
into another train which made a wide
detour, missing both Butte and Helena.
One Woman in Party.
Several hundred men gathered at the
railroad station in Butte when the orig
inal train reached that point, accord
ing to reports which reached tl j offi
cials. They were allowed to search the
train and when they found the prison
ers were not on board left without any
trouble.
Only one of the prisoners made seri
ous objection when told of the intention
of the government to deport him. He
swore out a writ of habeas corpus
against deportation which was quashed
by a federal court at Spokane. One
woman, the wife of a Finnish agitator
arretted in Spokane, was in the party.
The five prisoners taken into the
party here are alien convicts who were
sentenced to deportation some time
ago.
The trainload of I. W. W. from Se
attle that picked up five convicts in
Chicago for deportation to the country
of their origin is only the first of a
series of trainloads that will carry un
desirable citizens to coast ports,
whence they will be deported, accord
ing to H. R, Land is, inspector in charge
of immigration here.
Under a congressional act of 1917,
every alien convicted of a crime which
called for more than one year impris
onment must be deported to his native
land.
AGITATORS ARE A HARD LOT
Anarchists to Re Reported Found
'Armed When About to Start East.
SEATTLE. Wash.. Fb. 10. The 40
anarchists and alien labor agitators
sent from here last week by the immi
gration authorities were persons who
had been picked up throughout the
state in raids during the past year,
according to Immigration service offi
cials here. Their departure last Thurs
day was a coincidence not connected
with the general strike called for that
day, as they had been held under de
portation warrants, and the requisite
authority to send them to Ellis island
did not arrive until then. One woman
was in the party.
"The departure of the anarchists
originally was set for January 27," said
Federal Immigration Commissioner
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