The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-02-13
GREAT STRIKE At
SEATTLE IS OFF
Thousands of Workers Ordered to
1 Return to Duty.
TROOPS HALT BUTTE MOVE
Army Officer in Charge Says Martial
Law Will Prevail Until Financial
Interests Come to Assistance of
Municipal Administration.

Seattle, Wash, Feb. IL. - Thirty
thousand striking union employees
were ordered back to work here when
the general strike committee called off
the sympathetic strike designed to
help $4,000 striking metal trade work
,ers enforce their demands for higher
wages.
The general strike committee, in
, calling off the sympathetic strike. also
requested that all unions which had
voted to return to work walk out
again and return with the rest.
Unions were asked to take this ac'
ton to prove the solidarity of labor,
members of the committee said.
All public schools most of which
had been closed since Thursday noon.
opened. The janitors voluntarily went
back to work.
Barber Shops and Movies. Open.
Barber shops opened. Milk wagon
drivers, having declared themselves
out of the general strike, were on the
job. Both newspapers and newsboys
were back at work and reported the
usual business.
Moving picture houses and theaters
announced their intention of opening
the theatrical federation having made
good its promise to withdraw from the
general strike.
All except about 400 street car men
returned to work. Transfers, automo-
bile bus and taxicab drivers, garbage
collectors, and several other labor or
CARNATIONS voted TO resume work.
Restaurants are still badly crippled.
Butte, Mont. Feb. 11.-Martial law
will he declared in Butte until finan-
cial interests of the city come to the
rescue with funds to pay the warrants
of city employees, according to state
ment made here by Maj. A. NJ. Jones,
in command of United States troops
on guard duty here.
Discharged soldiers who still wore
army uniforms were among those do
ing pocket duty for the strikers. They
were singled out by the regular army
men and ordered Immediately to dis
card their uniforms or cease partici-
pating in the attempted picketing.
Miners from the southern section of
the city who use the street cars to get
TO their work on the chill were pre-
vented from doing so when strikers
prevented the cars from leaving the
barns. Soldiers cleared the crowd
from the vicinity of the car barns, but
later a committee of union men is I'M
derstood to have called out the union
car men.
Maj. a. NJ. Jones, in command of c
company, Forty-fourth United States
infantry and detachment of + com
pany, same regiment had the streets
leading to the mines pstrOlled long be-
fore time for the early shifts to go to
work, and committees of pickets We're
stopped In some instances as early as
four o'clock.
Congregating is forbidden by the
military and those slow in moving at
the command of the soldiers have been
made to feel the sting of the bayonet's
point.
Denies Firing Over Strikers Heads
Reports were circulated that sol
diers had fired shots over the heads of
the strikers, who prevented the cars
from leaving the barns, but Major
Jones denied this.
Another report that additional
troops had been asked for was also
denied by Major Jones, who said that
he had plenty to cope with the situa-
ton. SO far no violence has been re-
ported
After crowd which filled FINLAND
er hall, began to sing what were said
to be German songs, Capt. w. b. Will
son of f company, ordered the hall
cleared. One woman, said to have
been the leader of the singing, was
taken into custody by the military.
only a few men are at work in the
mines, due to the street car tieup"
John Gillie, manager of mines for the
Anaconda Copper Mining company,
said. Engineers and pumpmen are
working, however. Transfers from
the company's hardware company
were threatened by members of the
Industrial Workers of the World, they
told their employers, and as result
they refused to take out their deliv.
cry machines and teams. Fear of VIC.
lence was the reason given, it was
said.
Mr. Gillie said that no demands of
any kind had been presented to the
Anaconda company.
"The men who were employed have
not struck" Mr.. Gillie said. "They
simply have been prevented from GO
ing to work. We have no need to on
crate our mines at this time because
of the heavy overproduction of copper
but we are willing to operate In order
to give employment to the married
men and returned soldiers. We have
no need to operate other than this"