Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-11
Majority of Striking Workmen
Resume Their Jobs and Busi-
ness Slips Into High Gear
Amid Signs of Relief.
TRAFFIC COPS AT POST;
SPEED UP IS THE WORD
Thousands of Laborers and
Clerks Appear at Employ
ments simultaneously and
Everybody in Seattle is Glad.

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Seattle Wash. Feb. 11.--At noon to-
day Seattle footed its whistles and
switched its civic gear into high"
again, as the five days sympathetic
strike of workmen came to an official
close.
The majority Of labor that had re-
NAMED out until then went back to its
job.
Business did its best to make up for
lost time.
Street crowds fastened to deferred
shopping, thronging the avenues and
stores.
There was an almost audible sigh of
relief as wonted activities were re-
sumed.
Markets. shops, groceries ,theaters-
all place sof commerce and amusement
combined to restore the interrupted
social and industrial life Of the harried
northwestern metropolis.
TRAFFIC COPS FUNCTION.
And traffic cops began to function
again.
Speed up" was the word every
where.
Calculated by strike leaders to be as
dramatic a display as they had re-
garded the general sympathetic walk
out in support of shipyard workers
wage demands, thousands of laborers
and clerks appeared at their employ
ment simultaneously.
Thus ended the most portentious un-
dertaking of American industrial life,
began at 10 o'clock Thursday morning,
February 6, characterized by Mayor
Hanson and civic organizations as IAN
abortive attempt to start a revolution"
and by the strike monitors as CON
vincing demonstration OF labor's soli-
darity."
COST OF THE STRIKE.
None of the responsible men In the
city administration nor in commercial
circles was talking open shop" as an
aftermath of the general strike.
Preliminary estimates of gains and
losses to labor and industry in dollers
and cents, although necessarily rough
and more or less speculative, include:
Loss Of $4,000, ,ooo0 in output
Of manufactures-inelud ship
production and based on the an.
nuaI manufacture volume Of $780,
100000 for Seattle.
Loss in wages for 10000 work.
men figured on S. per day aver.
age, was approximately $3.50, 900.
Heavy inroads on union strike
benefit funds and also upon city
treasury due to emergency protee.
tive and other measures.
Since a good share of the paralysis
during the early hours of the strike
was due to fear of rioting, 1t was GER
tain that Seattle would not present this
morning the abnormal appearance It
did last week.
Some of the unions, apparently, had
refused to walk out again. Among
these was the street car union. It's
executive committee ordered the men
to remain at work this morning.
MUSICIANS WALK OUT.
The musicians union. however, act
ed last night and the musicians walked
out after they had returned to work.
Several large theaters were forced TO
refund entrance fees to their audi
ences.
The street cars, regarded by many
unionists as well as the general public,
dS the visible sign Oh OlIIerenCeS IN
side the ranks of the sympathetic
strikers here, were operating on sched-
ule this morning. This was in face of
the plea made yesterday by the general
strike committee that all union men
who had gone back to work go out
again until noon today.
A number of other crafts remained
at work. although the number was in
dispute.
This gave the strike situation today
the aspect of having resolved itself in
to clash as to tactics and policy
among the various elements of the
strikers.
TROOPS GUARD STREETS.
Police. armed with rifles and night
sticks. and United States regulars still
guarded the streets.
Major General John F. Morrison,
commander of the western department..
late yesterday received a committee OF
labor leaders. They outlined labor's
attitude, explained their reasons for
the sympathetic strike and STD their
followers were loyal Americans
The general strike was called In
sympathy with $4,000 striking ship
workers, who refused to accept the
Macy award. The shipworkers' strike
will not end with the sympathy strike
This was the first general strike in