Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-02-14
FEDERAL. TROOPS
GUARD SEATTLE:
Soldiers Ready for Any Emer.
gency as General Strike Is
Inaugurated.
$4,000 WORKERS WALK OUT,
Soup Kitchens Operated by Labor Men
to Feed PubIic-Mechancs De-
mand So Day. and
Laborers $6.
$4,000 WORKERS WALK OUT,

Seattle.-Federal troops from Camp
Lewis are quartered in Seattle ana
Tacoma to "Stand ready for any emer
mency," as army officers said, in con.
nection with the general strike of 45,
600 union men in sympathy with 25,0DG
shipyard workers who walked out Jan
uary q to enforce demands for higher
wages.
Maj. John L. Hayden commands the
contingent Of 800 soldiers in Seattle
and Brig. Gen. Frank B. Watson has
under him in Tacoma, 80 miles from
here, two battalions and machine
gun company. Equipment of the sol.
diers includes 200/hand grenades.
Authority for the use Of troops was
granted by Secretary Of War Baker
upon advices from Governor Lister.
Thirty-tive thousand union mcn in
the vicinity Of Seattle quit work, labor
leaders said, but in Tacoma the re-
sponse was not so general. The prn.
cipal unions involved there were the
carmen, timber workers, BARRIERS and
retail clerks.
Street cars stopped running in Seat
tie, schools closed, restaurants and
theaters suspended and other indus
tries ceased operating.
Twelve "soup kitchens" were estab-
lished by culinary unions to feed
strikers and others who depend upon
restaurants for meals. Patrons of the
kitchens were lined up and served in
military mess fashion. Barber shops
closed and elevators stopped running.
Only emergency telegraph business
from Seattle was handled by the tele.
graph companies.
The city government is prepared fol
any emergency, Mayor Hanson said,
and 10000 extra police will be depu-
tized if necessary.
= Mayor Hanson said the troops prob
ably would be assigned to cooperate
with the police in keeping order and in
guarding public utilities.
Seattle is not under martial law
nor will it be placed under martial
law" Mayor Hanson said "The troops
are coming at the request Of Governor
Lister simply to cooperate with the
municipal authorities and protect
property if need for protection arises"
Only one Seattle newspaper ap.
peared on the streets and reports said
it was printed in Tacoma. The news.
papers were tied up by the strike OF
the stereotypers, truck drivers and
newsbOys ,.
Seattle police said they were ready
for any emergency. A big truck, car.
rying machine gun and with sand
bags built up around its edges, stands
at the police station. Three former
army lieutenants have been assigned
to the truck.
Steamship operators and others
were worried over the handling of
fresh fish shipments due from Alaska
and fruits and vegetables coming from
California because Of the strike of the
longshoremen, who, defying their III
ternational officers, have virtually tied
up coastwise and offshore traffic
The shipyard workers who, are af.
Will lllc ldNIS >ouhShl
asked that mechanics be paid SS day
and helpers and laborers ST and $6
day. The Metal Trades members
made their demands when they an
nounced they were dissatisfied with
the findings Of federal wage adjust
ment commission known as the Macy
Board
Charles Piez, director general of the
Emergency Fleet Corporation, was
quoted in a dispatch from Wilkes
Barre, Pa, as saying that the Seattle
shipyard workers, in striking, had dis
regarded a pledge they made with the
government that they would remain
under the jurisdiction of the Macy
Board until March 81.