Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-02-10
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CRUSHED, SAYS
| MAYOR HANSON
Issue Between Anarchy
and Government, tx
ecutive Declares.
MUNICIPAL UTILITIES
ARE STILL IN OPERATION
Demand Made That y.
@ Il DoL
Demand Made That y.
S. Authorities Punish
Consplrators.

AOIlSplI dlOiS.
Seattle. Feb. 9.-De ecisi0n to remain
out on strike was reached about MID
niqht tonight by the executive board OF
approximately 1000 Iongshoremen and
truckers. The Waterfront EMPLOYERS
association will resume work at DOCKS
and warehouses tomorrow with Whatever
help they can obtain.
Seattle, Feb. Am attempt was to
be made at meeting called for late to-
night to induce the street car men to
rejoin the general strike here, according
TO officials of the Puget Sound Traction,
Light G. Power company the company
said 200 men had returned 20 work
and that the 400 still out were endeavor-
ing to stampede" the others into recon
sidering their vote to resume work
San Francisco. Feb. 9-Word was re-
,eved here tonight by Michael Casey,
vice president of the Brotherhood of
teamsters of America that the Seattle
union teamsters had held conference
today with their employers and decided
to return to work tomorrow morning.
San Francisco. Feb. g-Collapse Of
the general sympathetic strike movement
at Tacoma, renewed hope Of conserVa-
tive labor leaders ut Seattle that the
general strike there would be terminal
ed within the next 24 hours, and arrival
of troops at Butte to suppress possible
disorders growing out Of the strike of
copper miners, featured Sundays strike
activities in western communities.
Labor unrest in the San FRANCISCO bay
cities where machinists and bOilermak-
ers are engaged in controversies with
employers over wage schedules and re
troactive pay, seemed possible Of solu-
tion tonight.
T.. G. Marshwell. member of the fed
eral shipbuiidng labor adjustment com
mittee announced that he was arranging
important conferences for tomorrow to
determine ways and means of ending the
disputes.
With the restoration tomorrow of nor
NAL conditions at Tacoma, chief inter
est centered tonight on Seattle and
Butte. Conservative labor leaders in
Seattle expect tn convince the radical
members of the strike conference that
the sympathetic strike has served Ills
purpose. The city officials, headed hr
Mayor Ole Hanson, have declared that
municipal utilities will be operated if
workmen have to be imported from other
parts of the country.
The Butte strike was called by miner
members of the Industrial Workers of
Il
reduction in pay, which the operating
companies said was occasioned by the
low price Of copper.
The Seattle and Tacoma strikes were
ordered by labor unions to support the
wage demands of shipyard workers On
the Puget sound
BACKBONE BRoKEN'-HANso
Seattle. Feb 9-FormaI statements
issued tonight by Mayor Ole Hanson and
n citizens committee representing 81
civic, patriotic and business organZa-
tions asserted that the backbone of Sc
aattle's general strike Of $1,000 workers,
now in its fourth day, had been cffectu
ally broken. Almost simultaneously it
was announced that the BARRIERS had yot-
ed to return to work Monday morning.
and that several other labor unions were
meeting to consider similar action.
"All city and public utilities are op-
Grating 100 per cent the mayors state
ment said. 'All street ears are running
Gas. light. water, power, garbage collec
tions. hospitals, etc. are fuuctioning All
schools and theaters will open tomorrow.
Seattle, a loyal city, has responded nobly
in this emergency The revolution has
failed. Attempt to establish Y soviet gov
crnment IN control and operate aIl en-
terprses and industries HAS collapsed !
The government should now arrest, try
and punish all leaders in this consni- |
racy. No skinned milk policy should |
be adopted The city authorities have
quelled this rebellion. 1t is now the gov
crnment's duty To punish The white |
wash brush must not be used"
Committee Statement.
The citizens committee statement. /
signed BY a. j. Rhodes chairman. saii
Seattle has defeated IN attempted
bolshevist revolution.
Mayor Hanson. Chief Of Police War +
rem ana the great majority Of citizens +
who stood Loyalty back of them have 1
nipped in the bud Il conspiracy to inaug
urate a revolution and reign of terror +
in Seattle which the conspirators hoped I
would spread to every city in the Unit .
ed States and accomplish the overthrow .
pf the government
"Seattle has broken a revolutionary i
movement with its own police authority, /
with the presence Of troops but without \
martial law or the interruption to ally 4
marked degree of the business of the
city
Not a shot has been fired. To-day
the sympathetic strike is disintegrating;
street cars are operating al over the
m.