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The Washington times., 1917-06-20
Vital Records.


william L and Mary White. boy.
Charles H. and Hazel A. Snyder, girl
Perry +. ard Irva c. Riley, girl
John ". and Bertha L. Peed, boy.
William Il. and Henrietta s. Maxwell, boy.
Oscar A. and Marion II. McKimmie, boy.
Harry c. and Rita Lamson, girl.
Leo A and Mabel A. KuntI. girl.
william Il. and Annie II. Keen. girl.
Jack A. and Elizabeth c. Hayden, boy.
Ralph W. ard Oracle II. Frey, boy.
George E. and Annie n. Davis, boy.
William B. and Sadie z. Donnelly. girl.
Fenton A. and Anna n Dinsmore, girl
William and Helen Barnett. boy.
John and Helen Shaw. boy.
Charles r. and Emma Shelton, boy.
Herbert and Anna Russell, girl twins.
william H. and Edmonia johnson, girl
Barney NJ and Adrienne B. Gray, girl.
Paxton and Bette Brown. girl
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MRS. KENELRY s SiairT 81, T. l1 w.
Above Lib: true predictions. clear sight.
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REFINED COLoRED GIRL wants position
as chsmbermaid or work in cafe. ISIS sth
81 N. w.
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Joseph H. Farrar. q, AIberine. Va; Winnie
Bayne IS. Clifton Forge. Va The Rev.
Harry d. Mitchell.
r John Black, Is, Park Lane, Va: Rachael
v. Mintzell, 20, Wiehle. Va The Rev.
John B. Clark.
Of Charlottesville, Va. The Rev. Harry D.
Mitchell.
Edwin c. Meade, 30; Evelyn II. CroEgan, a.
The Rev. c. r. StetEon.
Robert c. Meredith. q. Edith g. Walker, Il
The Rev. Francis n Mccoy.
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erences. huFtler. BOX 1OI. Times office.
Female
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All Honor to the
Firms That Dared

Good for the Wheeler Osgood Co., the Dana
her Lumber Co. and the keystone Lumber Co..
They have shown both the nerve and the common
sense to adopt the eight-hour day in their Taco
ma plants
Good sense, because the eight-hour day is COM
ing universally just as certain as winter is going
to succeed summer.
Nerve, because it does require that quality to
step out, to act independently, to defy the meth
dds of your fellows. All the mill men and fac
tory owners with whom Mr.. Wheeler, Mr.. Rip
ley, Mr. Danaher, Mr.. Edwards, and the other
mill executives associate are anti's, contribut-
ors to that 100000 smash the-union fund So
it took nerve, brothers, for them to say, "No,
WE are headed the other way
In so acting they gave the lie to the lumber
mems stock argument, "Oh, we d like to give our
men an eight-hour day, but it can't be done un
less it's done all over the country, or all over the
world at once'
Wheeler-Osgood did it, without waiting for
anybody. The other two companies also acted
promptly and independently. Their mills for
the present will be competing against mills that
work 10 hours.
But they will not lose a cent by the change
instead, they will profit They have today an
organization of happy, enthusiastic proud, loyal
employees. Those boys will clean up in eight
hours as much work as they ever accomplished
in 10. And they will stay cheerful and loyal
Besides, all the other mills will have to come
to the same program. They may come slowly re-
luctantly, obstinately; but they will come
Those that get there first and get there volun-
tarily are the early robins in the big Bing cherry
tree; that Is the difference
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Grand Little Group
of Immigrants, These

Back and forth he strutted among
them, like a general.
When a train pulled in on the
Milwaukee tracks across the
street at 1880 a. m. the gates
swung open, and in a moment,
coming in double-file, the dirti-
est, most sullen, hard, rodent
eyed and soft-handed gang of
toughs have ever seen came hur-
rying thru the gate.
Even the traction company Off
Gals turned their backs, and one
of them said to man named
Lake:
MutiDy Due.
They ought to bust the strike,
but by God, | hate to think of it,"
That is what they are here for,
not to make their homes in the
Sound cities and help build up the
growing west, as A. L. Kempster
of the Seattle Electric says. They
are here to break the backbone
of a Just strike and to earn SO a
day doing it. II they succeed they
get a bonus of so cents day.
It's my guess that there
will be a mutiny among the
strikebreakers when they
learn that local men, who
were promised soft job be-
hind the firing lines are get
ting $5 day for waiting and
81 an hour, in Seattle at
least, while operating cars.
l decided to scout about a
bit.
First tried the mess house. In
the rear of the long room that
used to be the paint shop are the
kitchens. Long cupboards, hold
ing hundreds OF pounds Of food,
have been built, and two big
ranges installed.
Nice Flower Jars.
Stretching toward the front of
Continued on Page Fivo.)
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$500,000 Program
of Lunbernnen Is
Near to Collapse

The $5OO,OO0 program of
u group of lumbermcn TO
fight the cight-hour day,
showed distinct signs of fall
ing TO pieces i'm Tacoma Fri
day.
Following the lead set by
the Wheeler-OsgOOd Co., two
other mills announced Friday
that they would grant the
eight-hOur day to their en-
ployes.
With the lumber industry here
at a standstill other Tacoma lum-
Der mills closed down tight by the
strike of the timberworkers are
understood to be ready to follow.
The Danaher Lumber Co. at the
north end waterfront has agreed
to establish the eight-hour day,
1t was announced Friday.
I'VE expect to resume opera
tions Monday on the eight-hour
day basis" said Cornelius d
Danaher, president.
The keystone Lumber Co. was
operating Friday with the an
nouncement that the eight-hour
day would be established thruodt
the plant beginning Aug. |.
I'VE have felt for some time
that the eight-hour day was in
evita ble." said Manager Edwards
of the Keystone Co., "and we
would rather establish 1t peace
fully than be forced into 1t.
PERSONALLY, ! believe the
men will do more and better
work in an eight-hOur day
than they formerly did in
10 hours"
With the Wheeler-Osgood plant
on the tideflats running at full
blast, employees thruout the plant
held a jubilee at the noon hour in
celebration of the granting of the
day and in honor of
their employers.
II really have no statement to
make" said T. E. Ripley, vice
president of the Wheeler-Osgood
Co., "other than that we have
studied this eight-hour day ques-
tion for some months and that in
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ing street cars.

In his announcement of the
strike settlement, made simultane-
ously in extra editions of one Sc
attic newspaper and two Tacoma
papers, Bean declared that a COM
mittee representing the Tacoma
strikers had met with him Thurs
day night and agreed to end the
strike. With strange similarity
all three extras headlined:
Strike Ended"
This committee, hand-picked by
Bean and containing majority of
street car men who had never
gone on strike and who were not
authorized to represent anyone,
was declared by strikers Friday
to have had no power to bring
about any settlement,
Not Representative.
It did not represent the street
car mems union. Three of the
men on the committee, members
of the striking union, walked out
after hearing Beans proposition.
and left the meeting in control of
nine others who had never gone
on strike, say local street car OPP
orators.
Manager Bean returned from
Tuesdays Seattle conference with
orders from his superior officers
to attempt to effect settlement
here, in accordance. with orders
from Stone & Webster in Boston.
Accounts Tally.
Details of his attempt were CIV
en- out Friday by Vice President
Morgan of the Tacoma street car
union. James e. Duncan, chair
man of the Seattle street car
strike committee and secretary of
the Central Labor council there,
gave out exactly the same infor-
nation to The Times correspond
ent In Seattle.
Manager Bean suggested to
some of the street car men Thurs
day afternoon that a meeting be
held in the evening to iron out
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differences between strikers and
the management.
The street car men replied that
they were willing to meet with
him, and offered the Seattle con-
ference committee--Pace, Sulli-
van and Hopwood---as their rep
resentatives.
Bean refused to deal with
this committee, however, and
personally hand-pickcd ~
men whom he said he would
talk with.
Instead of naming place for
the committee to meet with him,
Manager Bean sent automobiles
around to gather up the ~ men.
They were taken to the Tacoma
Commercial club, where Bean had
gathered together other officials
OF the street railway system, in
Guiding Supt. Thomas r. Marsh,
Claim Agent II. G. Winsor, and
Supt. o. C. Mathis of the Puget
Sound Electric railway.
Won't Tell Names.
Nine or the IL street car men
were not union members and had
no power to represent the strik-
ers, according to Vice President
Morgan.
Bean Immediately put up
proposition to the IL street car
men that he would permit the
strikers to return to work IL they
would abandon all union affili-
ations.
He suggested that the car men
name grievance committee,
which could meet with him and
discuss all differences between
the employees and management.
The proposition named by
Bean was so raw, they say, that
the three union street car men,
William Woods, B. A. Sturmer
and Henry Dieson, got up and
left the room. The remainder of
the committee stayed In confer
Continued on Page Tive.l
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BY a Times Reporter

This is an inside story of
the Chicago and New York
gangsters, now modified at
Stone A. Webster's George
town car barns, eagerly
awaiting a chance to test
the courage of Tacoma and
Seattle strike sympathizers.
First, let ms get the set
ting and the background. 1t
was night. pushed my way
thru a loose fence board and
approached the little knot of
imported New Workers, who
stood inside near the gate,
where 175 Of their fellows
from Chicago would pass as
soon as the crowd of sympa-
thizers waiting outside with
rocks had dispersed.
Their cigarets glowed in the
and as l came nearer /
heard the password of the place
Gully, gimme match! 3"
However generous Stone &
Webster may be to the privates in
their strikebreaker army right
now, let me petition that they
send out a truckload of good
non-union matches. There's an
awful shortage of them there.
The men talked together in low
tones, their ratlike faces illum-
mated periodically as they drew
in great breaths of cigaret smoke.
Each one carried billy made
from a wagon spoke and some of
them knobbed with an iron bolt
and nut. The commander-in-chief
carried long, thin iron bar with
q knob of baling wire around the
end of 1t.
s'Hyenas."
don't blame him. He calls
them ''hysnas!" and he's right
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recognition of the reasonableness
and loyalty of the men who are
working for us, we felt that the
time had come to embark upon
this more or less drastic expert
ment.'
Some of the employees have
worked for the company for
% years, he said.
I'VE have not been conscious of
any great amount of pressure eth
er from the outside or the inside, y
said Ripley. The step was taxi
en- after a great deal of careful
consideration of our relations with
the men and our competitive re
lations with the trade.
All Tacoma mills were closed
Friday, with the exception of the
Wheeler-Osgood plant, which
promised the workers an eight
hour day beginning Aug. /, and
the Keystone Co.
The Addison-Hill Lumber Co. Il,
South Tacoma, which had been
tDtIdtiuS Until uui quay hiShti
closed Friday morning.
"A fire in the woods" was the
reason given by the plant for clos
ing the sawmill.
Employers COnceding.
Pressure has been brought to
bear on employers by the nation
al and state councils of defense in
other parts of the state, it was re-
ported.
This was indicated by a confer
ence at Raymond Friday morning
between Willapa Harbor lumber
men, j. G. Brown, president of the
International Union of Single
weavers, and officials of the TIM
berw orkers' union.
Up to Friday the employers had
absolutely refused to meet with
the strikers.
Altho little more than a week
old, the Tacoma local of the tim
berworkers' union had gained
about 500 members today. Head
quarters of the strike committee
have been established at 1888 Com
merce st.
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FAIL TO
AGREE ON
A JUDGE

After delays which used up
the entire morning, the hearing in
the case of the public service
commission against the T. X. &
p. Co. and striking trainmen was
continued by Judge Chapman, be-
fore whom it came up Friday, un-
til 10 O'Clock Saturday morning
Attorneys say an outside judge
will be called in. The names of
Judge Pemberton and Judge
Hardin of Bellingham were men,
toned as probable choices.
At the beginning Of the hearing
T riday, Attorney Frank d. Oak
ley, for the T. R.-& p, told the
court that while he could not file
another affidavit of prejudice,
having used up his right Thurs
day, he had hoped an outside
judge would be called In.
Even Leonard Denies Ii.
Judge yesterday" said Oak
ley, went outside his authority in
assigning the case to Judge Chap
man after an affidavit of preju-
dice had been filed"
City Attorney Harmon declared
the city was willing to have the
case tried before any judge what
ever, and wanted haste, or account
of the strained conditions in the
community.
Judge Chapman and the attor-
ncys went into conference in the
judges chambers.
During the conference, a ru-
NOR reached the courtroom that
the strike had been ended, and
the conference was delayed to
permit oakley to communicate
with Seattle. Oakley refused to
give out the nature of the infor-
nation he secured. 1t was re-
ported from other sources that
President Leonard had denied
the strike was at an end.
Crowd Present.
At noon, the conference was
terminated and adjournment an
nounced. Oakley stated to re-
porters that Homer T. Bone, at
torney for The trainmen. had OBJ
1ected to Judge Chapman's hear
ing the case.
Bone declared he had no OBJ
lection whatever to Judge Chap
man.
Il find, however," he said,
that all the local judges would
rather have an outside judge.
During the early argument, At
torney General Tanner made the
statement to the court that the
action is based on the presump-
tion that the street car company
has violated law, and not an or
der of the commission.
The courtroom was again
crowded to its limit and many
were unable to get in.
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Third Arbiter at Issue

pany and the striking employees,
brought about near riot in which
20 to so shots we're fired by the
Georgetown car shop guards and
the mob fired a box car of mat
tresses standing on track cut
side the yards, at SIS O'Clock
Thursday night.
Denial that the Seattle and Ia
coma street car strikes have been
settled thru a secret conference
with committee OF employees In
Tacoma, was announced by James
Duncan, head of the strikers con-
ference committee, shortly after
noon today.
just Not SO.
This followed the announce
ment by Manager Louis Bean of
the Tacoma company here today
that "a committee representing
a majority of the strikers have
submitted settlement which has
been accepted by the COMMITTEES"
mo committee that might have
met with Bean in Tacoma last
night" said Duncan. possess
any authority to negotiate for tho
strikers. The only authoritative
committee representing strikers
is scheduled to meet with Presi-
dent Leonard of the traction
company here at 2 o'clock this
afternoon.
The city council will meet this
afternoon In special session %
pass an emergency ordinance pro-
hibitIng inexperienced men q
un cars and providing for cram
to be conducted BY t10
.ity utilities department.
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Young Woman Tells of
Life of Horror She and
Comrades Led Behind
the German Lines.

PARIS, France, July 81. = A
party of 40 French girls, returned
by the Germans out of total OF
5000 taken into virtual slavery
from Lille and nearby territory,
were permitted to make their way
to Paris, because the Germans at
Lille were afraid of the effeA Of
their stories on the civilian popu-
lation there.
Here are extracts from the
diary of Yvonne Treville, one of
the girls, daughter of a physician
of Lille, shown some consideration
by the Germans because of his
usefulness as doctor to the peo-
pie of his parish:
"FEBRUARY 23 - Before I
could answer the loud knock on
my bedroom door it was burst
open. A German soldier brushed
past my mother, shouting: Get
up and dress. You leave Lille in
20 minutes to plant potatoes in
the Ardennes. He did not leave
the room, and-well, / dressed
over my night clothes. Mother
tried to shield me by pretending
to help with my clothes, but she
was weeping SO bitterly she fell on
the floor. Outside the other Ger
mans lined up in the square stared
at me, saying 'Ach! You have
caught pretty one, Fritz They
laughed.
"FEBRUARY 26--It all hap>
pened only two days ago, not two
years. But ! am not 10 now.
am 30. The girls In the cattle
truck with me were all classes.
While we travelled thru the night
German soldiers moved about
among us in the truck. | took the
part of one girl, not educated as
I had been, and dazed. But al
ways | saw my mothers face, as
1t was when the truck left. u
seemed to be becoming shapeless
with grief. may never see it
again. But / shall always see IL.
MARCH 10 - We have
been in an empty house i'm an
Ardennes village more than
a week. Am ! alive or dead
after THAT! When, taken
to the headquarters, another
empty house, the day after
we came, the officers ordered
me to strip. was stunned.
Continued on Page Five.)
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DESERTED, THEY CHARGE

Jesse Il. Litten began suit for
a divorce from Mime A. Litten in
superior court Friday. The Lit
tens were married in January,
1912, and the complaint asserts
that the wife deserted the hus.
band In May, 1912.
Jennie T. Bradley asked for q
divorce from Emery o. Bradley
on the ground of non-support, in
dlgnities. and desertion. They
were married in June, 1900, and
have two children. They have
been living in Monticello Park
addition.
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EAM gave THEM THE
D0UbL E,CRQSS
UNION DENIES
STRIKE ENDED

Tacomas street strike situation was upset Fri
day morning when Manager L. H. Bean of the T. R. b
p Co. gave out statements that definite settlement
between the company and its striking employees had
been reached.
This statement was promptly denied by heads Of
the street union who declared that no settlement
had been made, and that Beans announcement was
trick an attempt to influence Friday afternoons con-
ference in Seattle and to mslead the public into rid
mo street cars
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READY TO START ON
600 CAMP BUILDINGS

tunited Press Iensed Wfre.)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 81. -
Work on the 500 barracks and
camp buildings at Camp Fremont
near Palo Alto, will begin i'm
mediately under the government
contract with Lindgren & Co., 1t
was announced today.
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CHOLERA IN GERMAN?

COPENHAGEN July 27.-Per-
sistent rumors reached here to-
day of cholera epidemic raging
In many German cities, particular
ly Hamburg.
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Anyway, the national guard
boys will be able to enjoy the
waterynelon and green corn
before departing for France.
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What has become of the
old-fashioned crop burning
that Yakima advertised?
AMEN. AMEN. AMEN

eff so per cent Of the lawyers
now in practice were engaged in
some other useful occupation,
general welfare would be immeas-
urably improved, the public hap
pier, the lawyer better off,
Wllmon Tucker to Bar association
meeting in Seattle.
But what do you mean-"Some
OTHER useful occupation?
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Talk o. the Times

Mary had a little car,
The Oldest ever seen,
She turned it to jitney, and
She's as rich as Hetty Green.
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Especial to The Times.

SEATTLE, July 27.-Settle-
ment of the car strike in Tacoma
and Seattle today apparently
hinges on whether third arbiter
can be agreed on at the adjourned
conference set for 2 o'clock this
afternoon between a committee of
carmen and officials of the Taco
ma Railway e. Power Co. and the
Puget Sound Traction, Light &
Power Co.
II no agreement can be reach
ed, negotiations will again be de-
clared off. Both sides, however,
reported progress toward a settle
ment this morning.
No Cars Running.
Until the conference is ended
no cars will be run here.
One hundred and sixty-two
strike-breakers, the third train
load to reach Seattle since the car
strike was declared, came in over
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway last night and detrained
at the Georgetown station.
This makes total of 535 strike
breakers now known to have been
brought in.
Eleven of their number we're
Immediately placed under arrest
as slackers by federal officials.
after the men had failed to pro-
duce their cards.
Duncan Denies It.
Rowdyism on the part of sew
eral hundred youths, the greater
portion OF whom were In no way
connected with the present diff
culties between the traction COM
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"He did not leave the room and
well, l dressed over my night
clothes. Mother tried to shield
me. :. but she was weeping so
bitterly she fell on the floor
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STANIPEDED

STAMPEDED
(From Calgary News-Telegram.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. e. Stink are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. l.. p. Strong
for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. p. Strong have
gone to attend the Medicine Hat
stampede.
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We lodged home last night and
buicked down this morning.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-27

Take a strike-breaker home to
dinner.
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Greetings, do you favor
abolishing street cars for
good?