Evening star., 1936-08-16
SEATTLE PAPER
REMAINS IDLE
Makes No Effort to Get Out
Edition, Due to Guild
Strike.
nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated freSs.
SEATTLE, August 15.-The Seattle
Post -Inteliigencer, Hearst morning
newspaper, which suspended publica-
ton indefinitely Thursday after men,
bers of the American Newspaper Guild
called a strike, made no effort today to
get out Sunday editions, which have
q circulation of about 100000.
Picket lines blockading the plant
were quiet and police reported no new
violence or further arrests. Only
watchmen were in the building.
j. M. Litonius, president of the Sc
attle Typographical Union, whose
members have refused to 60 through
picket lines into the building, ex-
planned their stand in letter to the
editor of the Seattle Star.
Demands Safety.
He pledged to order his men into
the Star plant or any other printing
ofice the ost-Intelligencer manage
ment might elect to use, provided
safe ingress and egress" is assured,
and added:
However, = you we'll know that
II YOU should avail yourselves of this
offer. or if managers of other plants
should so avail themselves. your plant
or theirs would. in all probability, have
to suspend because of picketine, as did
the Post -Intelligencer.
IF you care to invite that unfor-
tunate situation, shall 60 the whole
distance in cooperating with you and
fulfilling contracts"
Early today Howard G. Costigan.
State director of the Washington
Commonwealth Federation, which had
called a mass meeting for this after
noon to explain" the strike to the
public, postponed the meeting.
Publish Second Paper.
The guild chapter, headed by Rich
ard Seller, former PoSt-Intelligencei
reporter. published its second daily
newspaper today. A boxed announce
ment on the front page referred tc
Il as THE Guild Daily to fill vacuum
In morning field" and said:
From this day on, as long as Will
liam Randolph Hearst fails to give
the citizens of Seattle a morning
paper, the American Newspaper
Guild will"
Oficials of the Post-Intelligencer
the citys oldest paper, said yesterday
the strike had been called after It's
refusal to reinstate two men who
had been discharged. one for waste
and ineficiency" and the other FOL
"gross insubordination."
The guild replied that the two mer
had been discharged for activity ir
organizing the guild chapter. The
Regional Labor Board, directed by
Charles Hope. served complaint or
the newspaper on Thursday. with
o hearing set for September 8.
BY their discharge of said Frank
Lynch and Everhardt Armstrong,
the complaint read, "the respondents
post st-Intelligencer) have interfered
with, restrained and coerced
their employees in the exercise Of
the rights guaranteed in the national
labor relations act"
Is Flying to Seattle.
Jonathan Eddy, national executive
secretary of the guild, is on his way
West by plane. Seller said Eddy
would arrive tomorrow morning.
The guild said Harvey K. Kelly,
former executive secretary Of the
American Newspaper Publishers As
sociation and now a Hearst represen-
tative, was here comforting with
heads of unions affected by the
strike.
The -Intelligencer published its
first issue on October l, 1881, a COM
bination of the Seattle Weekly Post.
which had been started three years
earlier by K. c. and Mark Ward, and
the Intelligencer. a weekly founded
on August 5, 1867, by Samuel L.
Maxwell, San Francisco printer.
Seller said AZ of the Post-Intelli-
eencer's staff of 68 eligible for guild
membership, were on strike. A P.-I.
executive said % news room employees,
Including five reporters, were on