The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-07-26
Imported Strikebreakers Housed at
Georgetown Barn Are Rough Lot
nv A STAR REPORTER


This 10 an inside story OF the
Chicago and New York gang
sters. now modified az the
Georgetown car barns Of the
traction company. eagerly
awaiting a chance TO test the
courage OF Seattle strike sym.
psthlrers.
President A. W. Leonard. OF
the traction company, refused
20 allow the Star.llberty
Weekly's motion picture man
to make a film OF the lnslde OF
this Industrial fortress, so ia
up 10 mo TO put on@paper what
we can't put on eelluIold.
First. let us Get the settling
and the background. II was
nieht--iast night. 10 be exact
pushed my way thru a loose
fence board and approached
the little knot OF New York
strlkebreakers. who stood In
side near the gate, where iT5
Of their fellows from Chicago
would pses as soon as the
crowd OF sympathixers waiting
outside with rocks had dis.
persed.
Their eigarets glowed In the
darkness. and ar | came nearer
heard the pass word OF the place
Hey Gully. gimme n match
However generous Stone a Web
ster IL to the priyates In It's strike
breaker army right now. let me pc
tition that they send out a truck
load OF good nonunion matches
There's an awful shortage OF them
there.
All Carry Riot Clubs
The men talked together In lov
tones. their evil. ratlike faces II
Illuminated periodically as they
drew In great breaths OF clgare'
smoke.
Each one carried billy maze
from n wagon spoke and some OF
them knohbed with an iron boz
and nut. The communicated
Of the motley gang carried long
thin iron bar with q knob OF hallns
wire around tho end OF H.
don't blame him He calls
them "hyenas and he's ri8ht
Back and forth he strutted among
them. like general lie issued
commands. not To the rank and
file. but to his scrTeants. VINO. IN
turn. curslng and bullying. showed
the men To the places behind the
gate assigned TO them.
They formed lane from the
gates OF the fenced Enclosure
around the barns TO the paint shop
which has been converted into
barracks
when the train pulled in on tho
Milwaukee tracks across the
street at lao a. m Thursday the
gates swung open and in II mo.
ment. coming In double Tie. tho
dirtiest. most sullen. hard. rodent
eyed and solthaudcd gang II
touEhF | have ever seen came nus.
rying thru the gate.
slekens Traction Official
fA'A tuf hAHtAA1A 'tAAl AAF WIZ
eials turned their backs. and Ole
OF them said TO a man named
Lake: ~
They ought TO bust the strike.
but BY God. hate 10 think 81 ~
That ia what they are here for. and
not TO make their homes IL Seattle
and help build up the growins
West. ~ ManaEsr A. I. kempaer
says They are here 20 break tie
backbone Of the strike and 10
earn 81 day doing & II they sue
coed they get bonus Of SO cents
n day
It's my guess that there Will
be a mutlny among the strike
breakers when they learn that
the local men. who were prom
Ised a soft Job behind the firing
lines are getting - day for
waiting and will &c, 81 an hour
while operating cars.
There is a middleman In this
game. too. and In
this case he Is the p r. Bush Co.
OF New York. strikebreaking agency.
The strikebroakcrs were hired
thru advertisements inserted In
the New York papers July 10. The
next day they got their lGentifica-
ton cards (which protect them from
helpg beaten up by their fellows by
mlstakcl and left on special trains
for Georgetown.
Collects $4,000 \ Trainlosd
Bush collects $4,000 trainload
NJ strikebreakers upon delivery.
The mon. upon alightIng from the
train. were hurried thru the Rauntlet
n great. husky guards. wearing enor.
nous special police stars and car.
ryinR raised clubs. and lined up TO
have their select service registra-
ton cards inspected by Repatriation
Officers W. w. Conner aud James
Quigley
In the meantime. secuted
around"