The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-08
TURN TO MOTORS
Jitney Service Started by City
in Seattle Strike.
Government Sends Word 1t Is
Back of the State.

running on regular schedule, he said,
and preparations were under way TO
run cars on the Puget Sound Traction
company's lines.
There is no present intention of
proclaiming martial law in Seattle,
Mayor Hanson declared
There is no such necessity at pres
ent. The city is in entire control of
the situation"
Seattle, Feb. S.-City directed auto
mobile jitney service was inaugurated
in Seattle today to break the strike in
compliance with the mayors ultima
tum that the strikers would have to
call off a sympathetic strike at
o'clock this morning or he would oper-
ate all essential Industries
Striking shipyard, workers of Ia
coma today dispatched their first di-
rect communication to the Emergency
Fleet Corporation at Washington.
The strikers message was regarded
by some as being the first step toward
a settlement, since it declared that If
we had some positive assurance that
we were going to have a just settle
ment it might DE possible to return to
work pending a conference"
1t was an answer to the telegram
from Charles Piez, director of the cor
poration, received by the central la
Dor council just before general strike
was ordered.
Restaurants, stores and barber shops
opened their doors at the regular time.
In some restaurant windows were
signs announcing they We're operating
under the Cooks and Walters union
or ION the permit plan.
Baker Heard From.
Olympia, Wash. Feb. S.-Governor
Ernest Lister has the promise of the
secretary of war that all necessary CO.
operation will be given him, in coping
with possible strike troubles at Seattle
and Tacoma, and the situation is I'M
changed in that regard, a statement
issued from the governors office to-
day said
The Post Intelligencer, a morning
paper, put out four-page paper early
today, distributing free copies The
paper to publish Friday. Armed
soldiers and police with carbines
guarded its plant and accompanied
truck containing papers which were
distributed thru the crowd
Troops Well Armed.
One thousand troops, armed with
bayonetted rifles, hand greaades and
machine guns were on guard here un-
der command of Brig. Gen. Hayden
of Camp Lewis.
One conference Friday and a three
hour conference which lasted until
after midnight today failed to accom-
plish any sort of an agreement be-
tween Mayor Hanson's committee and
that representing the strikers.
The strikers are understood to have
told the mayor that the sympathetic
strike would be called off if a COM
mittee of Seattle business men would
agree to intarcede with the shipping
board and General Manager Piez of
the board, asking higher wages for
ship workers.
Hanson's committee is said to have
refused to agree to this, taking the
stand that the ship workers must re-
turn to work under the Macy award
before any mediation looking toward
an amendment of the award is at
tempted.
Call All Men to Work.
Springfield, Ill, Feb. 81. P.
Noonan, acting president of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers. with offices in this city, in a
telegram today directed all electrical
workers of his organization on sym
PATTY strike at Seattle, Wash, to re-
turn to work.
These Will Not Work.
Vancouver. B. c., Feb. 8.-Vancou-
yer longshoremen have decided to
handle no Seattle freight When the
Arabia Maru and other vessels arrive
here, because of the Seattle tieup they
will take out only Vancouver freight
1t was announced
Will Handle Freight.
Portland. Ore. Feb. S.-Longshore-
men of Portland will handle Seattle
freight, it was announced here today
at least until orders to the contrary are
received from the international offices
Seattle People Move Out.
Portland. Ore, Feb. S-A few
wealthy Seattle families had arrived
here today and had taken up tenn
porary quarters in hotels. They came
to escape the timed food diet now
prevalent in Seattle
Il
ditional arrivals may not find sleep
ing quarters. There has been no gem
eral exodus from Seattle to Portland
All trains and boats are leaving
Seattle on regular schedules, accord
ing to steamship and railroad afficials
here. The Pacific Steamship COM
pany's steamer, Governor. departed
for California ports on time.
Mayor Hanson has reputation for
vigorous action, and few doubt his de-
termination to ask for martial law.
On Hanson's committee are ]. w.
Spangler, a banker, and the Rev NJ
A. Matthews. They met with a spe-
cial committee representing are gem
eral strike committee.
E. B. Ault. spokesman for the strik-
ers, indicated today they would rely
upon the solidity of their ranks to
thwart Mayor Hanson in his attempts
to operate all essential industries be-
ginning this morning.
Ault declared Hanson's ultimatum
'flamboyant" and said .'labor's So
lidity is steadily growing"
The Union Record, of which Auit is
publisher, issued bulletin late Friday
which stated the soup kitchens had
been increased to twenty-one and that
they had fed 10000 persons These
soup kitchens are operated by the
strikers. Patrons who can show a
union card are served for 25 cents.
Others must pay 35 cents.
The menu is beef with bread and
coffee. Long lines stood before some
of these kitchens.
Today was generally regarded as the
most critical period of the general
strike.
Altho both the strikers and the city
administration appears to desire to
avoid violence the CITY has armed its