The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-02-14
NEEDS MORE THAN
FOOD TO REMEDY
HUN CONDITIONS


Germany cannot be effected alone by
supplying adequate food, in the opin-
ion OF an American trained observer,
who has just completed a tour of
Prussia for the supreme council CT
food and relief of the peace confer
ence- \ letter from him, received by
the council today said he thought the
DISCRIMINATION so great that food i'm
portationS might lead TO new disturb
ances.
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Russia, preaching Bolsheviki doctrines
Practically all guns and ammuni-
tion in the city had been bought up,
whether by strikers sympathi1ers,
other citizens or the police no one
seemed to know.
At the city hall 500 police. motor
cycle and mounted men, armed with
carbineS, waited.
Mayor Ole Hanson had augmented
this force with 100 special deputies.
And organized labor. announcing
that it would help preserve order, had
arranged for its own force of Vigilants,
which leaders asserted would numer
ically equal the city police force
These were the steps
Steps That Led to Strike.
Seattle and Tacoma shipyard work
ers struck for am average II per cent
wage increase above the Macy award.
The owners were not permitted TO
treat with the strikers on order OF ire
Emergency Fleet Corporation when
held that any compromise here would
disrupt the shipbuilding status every
where.
| The metal trades. directly concerned
ground the general strike endorsement
was given by trades unionism after
bitter clashes in secret councils.
| Conservatives denounced tho gen
| eral strike as a dangerous and nom
union weapon. Many locals ut first
refusing sanction. were swept along
| by the tide. Several OVERRIDE the dis
sent of their internationals
Propaganda of all brands was pour
| ed into the funnel and all efforts at
Cancellation failed.
| The extremists had by this time
mustered enough influence to force
a showdown at all costs.
Stores Closed and Food Scarce.
| And so it came at the stroke of 10
on a historical Thursday when a typi-
cal American city of 100000 watched
the wheels stop. walked to its homes
and prepared to defend itself against
| nameIes dangers. Electrical workers
| had voted to provide hospitals and
fire houses with light and power and
to permit street lighting and tele-
phones on certain contingency.
| on the first ray of the strike all
| transportation stopped. There was no
food except that stored in homes AID
few hotels and thVt sold by strikers
commissary in public soup kitchens.
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p power beanie ree ane an 9f on en neat '
Strike committees announced that
milk would be permitted to be sold
only for babies and invalids. urde-
| doctors certificates, at places desiS
mated by the strikers.
| They also advised the public 70 Keep
/ off the streets after o'clock at night
| Many residents left for nearby cit
| les and towns to escape the .nconven-
| fences hardships and dangers of a
| possibly extended siege.
Hotels told their guests to provide
| candles, oil stoves and canned goods,
| since they would not guarantee light
| heat or food 1t was a call for PRINT
tive provisions and resourcefulness,
guests camping out in their rooms
City Put to Sleep.
/ A city of 400 900 going into hiherna-
| ton. \ city that has been one of the
most prosperous in the land. where
| labor. generally speaking. has been
| well paid and environed. where large
numbers of workers go to the job in
their own autos, and where the streets
| around the labor temple are parked
| with the machines of delegates. y
city where there has been no poverty
or working conditions comparable to
patriotic support of Liberty Loans.
those existing in other communities.
A city notable during the war for its