Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-19
SAILORS IN RIOTS
AGAINST RED FLAG
Uncle Sans Men Move on In
duStriaI Workers in
Seattle.
JACKIES SACK AND BURN
WHILE POLICE LOOK ON
Secretary Daniels Explains Speech
Said to Have Incited
Outbreak.

SEATTLE. Wash. July l9.-While the
officers of the Pacific fleet reserve OF the
United States Navy were dancing at
the Army and Navy bail In the state
armory late last night and early TODAY
several hundred Of their sailors and
marines were marching through the
streets of the city denouncing the In
dustrial Workers Of the World and the
red flag, sacking and burning socialist
and Industrial Workers headquarters
and in their excitement demolished 4
Salvation Army meeting room before
learning that they had mistaken the
place.
The city headquarters of the moderate
socialists and the radical socialists were
sacked and the books and furniture car
ried into the street and burned. A So
cialist news stand on the principal street
corner of the city was destroyed. anu
the big meeting room of the Industrial
Workers OF the World. in the southern
part of the city, was stripped of It's be-
longings. which We're thrown from a sec
ond-story window and burned I'm the
street. The police offered no resistance to
the rioters. Some of the officers said
that all the force was busy handling
crowds attending the golden potlatch fes
tivities and no reserves We're available TO
cope with the rioters.
Are Aided by Citizens.
The hat bands of the cruisers Charles
ton Colo: ado and California were most
numerous among the sailors. few
uniformed members of the Washington
naval militia joined with the naval men,
though citizens made up most Of the
mob.
The actual destruction OF property was
carried on by uniformed men. including
Of afficees The dam
age is estimated at $4,000.
"A report was widely circulated that
Secretary of the Navy JOSEF Us Daniels
in a speech at the Rainier Club, had
World as his subject and had declared
that they and all other believers in the
red flag should be driven out OF the
country Those who heard the address
of the Secretary say that II was exceed
ingly moderate and had no reference TO
any local trouble Nor did he at any
time mention the industrial workers
Three Soldiers Beaten.
A street fight Thursday night at An
Industrial Workers meeting, in which
three soldiers were beaten, had been
represented to the naval men as direct
attack upon the service. All day some
sort of trouble had been expected.
The rioting began before dark At
first only dozen sailors were engaged.
but later the number increased to
probably three hundred. The crowd
continued marching through the streets
until after midnight. waving American
dustrial Workers of the World.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels was at
the Army and Navy ball when told of the
extent of the damage done by the rioters
to discuss the outbreak, because he
knew nothing about it,
Daniels Statement.
Concerning his speech at the Rainier
Club. in which he glorified the stars and
stripes and condemned the red flag. he
said:
What | said last night concerning pa
triotism had no reference to any local
situation In fact 1 do not know any
thing about local troubles, TX you have
any. / did not mention the lndustriai
Workers of the World, nor did 1 know
hold here / confess that my brief talk
on the flag was not made here fer the
first time. but was a repetition from my
recent address at Erie, Pa.
Rear Admiral Reyno lds. commander Q.
the reserve fleet, expressed regret at the
outbreak, of which he had heard only IN
definite rumors He was. therefore, not IN
a position to discuss the rioting, he said.
Roundup Ordered.
The admiral continued: While | was
at dinner with Secretary Daniels on the
West Virginia word came from CHIEF OF
Police Bannick warning me that ne
feared there might be trouble between
the Sailors and Industrial Workeds, owing
to i'll feeling existing between them. l at
once sent a patrol Of thirty men ashore
armed with night sticks. They We're IN
structed to round up such disorderly men
as might be found and send them to their
ships
Willard Price socialist Leader
whose news stand was wrecked early In
the night said the loss to the socialists
would be about $1,000.
THE socialist party is a national po-
litical party and has nothing TO do with
the red dag" said Mr. Price. Il think
the riot resulted from the way Secre-
tary Daniels speech was reported BY
one of the newspapers. The sailors
were melted to violence and once
started they did not recognize the al,
ference between a national polItlcai
party like the socialists and an unor.
ganized crowd like the Industrial
Workers of the World"