El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-08
Strike
YET UNSETTLED
Secretary Baker Promised
To Help If Situation
There Demands It.

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service had been started. said plans
I were under way to extend it He
I said cars on all city lines were oper-
I ating and that. unless the private car
/ companies began operation, he would
I order the city cars run over the pri-
/ vate lines with or without their con-
I sent"
Il furthermore mayor Hanson said,
have ordered all union exemption
signs on trucks or cars Of any kind
E removed. We're going 20 operate
without the consent OF any labor
/ union"
No Action or UItImatum.
At s o'clock a. n. today not action had
been taken by the strike committee,
/ representing $4,000 wOrkmen, on may
or Hansou's declaration that unless
I the sympathetic strike was called off
by a m, he would take steps to op-
crate all essential industries under
federal protection
The Post-Intelligencer today put out
a four page publication, distributing
free copies.
First Signs Of Break.
The first signs Of a break IN the
union ranks were marked yesterday
when one union barbershOp reopened
and Is OF the city's 20 schools re-
+ alls-4-NA open through LAe aGLluu OF
their 1anitors and engineers in refus-
ing to heed the strike order. Today
the engineers and janitors union Is
TO consider the ultimatum OF the
school board that school employees on
strike return to work Monday or be
discharged
City directed automobile Iitne
service was inauEurnfed in Seat
tie today TO break the strike in
compliance with the mayors ulfi-
mutum that the strikers would
have to call off a sympathetic
strike ut o'clock this morning, or
he would operate all essential In
dustries.
Protection proposed by mayor Han
son would be extended TO include for
mai request through the ordinary
channels for martial law, should such
a measure become necessary, he said
Late yesterday II was announced there
would be no meeting before a m. OF
the executive committee OF the union
men. which had power 70 call off the
strike.
It was stated last night that n
conference between a committee
Of Businessmen, headed by mayor
Hanson, nnd n committee OF sew
en- representing the strike COM
mittee had failed TO evolve n set
Element.
At the time set by mayor Hanson
the operation OF street cars on the
municipal lines was to be resumed. IN
a proclamation issued yesterday, the
mayor stated that the street cars OF
the municipal line, as wei as the city
light plant and water systems. would
be operated by soldiers. II necessary.
Three Of the IS engineers at the city
light plant quit their posts yesterday,
their places being filled with nom
union volunteer workers, according
10 ]. D. Ross. superintendent Of the
city light department No city light
wires or water mains have been tam
pered with, city officials said
Two Street Cars Sent Out.
Two cars we're sent over the mu-
nicipai lines yesterday under guard.
40 disorder occurred.
The Seattle star was the only even
ing paper TO publish yesterday. Armed
soldiers and police with carbines
guarded its plant and accompanied
truck containing papers, which we're
distributed through the crowd.
Would DepOrt AgitatOrs.
washington, D. C., Feb. &.-Repre-
sentative Johnson. OF WASHINGTON.
in speech in the house Friday,
declared that strikes in the Pacific
northwest were due TO foreigners, I
who should be deported. but against
whom no action was taken BY gov
eminent officials Metal workers /
there, he said, threatened general I
strikes in the metal industries I
throughout the country as sympa- l
thetic movement.
Few Are Americans.
These great strikes" representative I
Johnson said. were preceded bv 4 !
series Of riots on Sundays and after
one Of the authorities in Seattle ar
rested - men, the leaders, whose
names were a great array OF Slovin- /
skys and names Of that sort. Out of |
the 10 there were two Americans, Of /
whom one said he wished he we're I
not an American The other II were
aliens and more than half OF the u 1
were Russians.
Steps May BE Taken.
am Informed that the commits
sioner OF immigration Of Seattle. rep
reseutinE the immigration service in ]
that part OF the country, stated he
would take steps to deDort these men.
IT our government officials viii pro-
ceed under the acts OF congress and I
against those aliens who come under
these acts, we will have less trouble 4.
from these strikes. ] was astonished &
70 read the name and what they had 4
TO say about the United States and TO
learn that no steps were proposed to
be taken to depOrt them"
Calls SEATTLE Strike Unfair.
san Francisco, Calf. Feb. S-The 4
san Francisco Labor council. IL was
announced today after a long debate,
refused last night 10 adopt a resoIu-
ton under which local trade union
lists would have refused to work on
any Job transferred TO San Francisco
from points where a strike was in
progress.
Frank Miller, secretary Of the san
francisco Iron Trades council. said
The strike at Seattle was unfair, that
Z was not sanctioned by an interna-
.lonal council and charged the Seattle
Metal Trades council with a breach Of
-alth- The rank and file Of Seattle
aDor' he asserted had been given no
opportunity TO be heard
Marshall Views Situation.
The United States shipping board
announced here today that L. C. Mar
ihall member Of the federal shin
labor adjustment board. was
n the city to review the strike sltua-
ion in the San Francisco bay district
-Four thousand Of the $500 striking
Mechanics in the shipyards and con-
ract shops here returned to work
oday after their demands had been
granted, Il was announced
BOilermakers Don't Strike.
Journeymen bOilermakers in Oak
and failed TO vote in favor Of q strike
or wage OF 81 an hour. union Off
.ials said The boilermakers yester-
lay took a holiday TO ballot, but the
'ote lacked the necessary two-thirds
majority specified by the rules.
The Oakland Shipyard Laborers' IN
on. with q 5000 membership, voted
o declare Monday a holiday TO take
strike vote The laborers are ask
ng IS daily wage and access to the