The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-22
Seattle Strike Blamed
On TeamSter Chief


work IL we had a chance, but
your life wouldn't be worth a
cent il you tried to enter that
building"
"Well," I said, 'T would ex-
pect you fellows who belong to
unions to be sympathetic with
q strike effort"
"That isn't uniOnism-that's
racket" he said, and his COM
paniOns nodded approval.
The Industrial Council Of Wash
ington-a Seattle business mems
organization-is concerning itself
over the situation and has COM
municated with Mr.. Hearst, who
has told them that If he cannot
have protection, he does not care
to publish newspaper in Seattle;
that he has always lost money
here and if the city thinks it can
afford to get along without the
three millions and a half of dol
| lars he is spending in Seattle each
year, their decision will be all
right with him. Yesterday the
Hearst organization announced
the indefinite suspension Of the
paper.
Politicians Back Guild
The Guild Daily, the newspaper
issued by the strikers since the
trouble began, lauds Roosevelt and
the New Deal to the skies and car
rieS display advertisements Of New
Deal candidates seeking nomina.
tions under the Democratic party
label. Two New Deal candidates
for Supreme Court judgeships
stress in their advertisements
their loyalty to the forces on strike
and the candidate for the position
Of State school superintendent also
stresses his friendship to the Strik-
ing forces.
In the meantime, what Of Gov
ernor Clarence D. Martin, of Ia
coma? He has been asked to call
out troops, but he does not act. He
is a New Dealer who has flirted
with the radical element in the
State.
AS for Seattle-well, it seems
not to be much perturbed over the
control that the radical element
exercises. Business men probably
wish it were otherwise, but the
old-time spirit of Short-shrift for
outlaws which the history of the
city proves it possessed in the past
is apparently gone and today this
remarkable municipality of nearly
100000 inhabitantS-a really beau
tiful and important city-iS a prey
to labor extremists. The Seattle
Daily Times. in a front page edi-
torial, pTiDts scathing arraign-
ment o. conditions, calls names
and speaks brutally, concluding
with the statement that Seattle is
dead.
Wait "Order" to Quit
It is no secret here that both
The Times and The Star are get
ting ready for the announcement
by Beck that they must submit to
him or close their doors, ond the
people generally say that If Beck
decides that they must quit pub
fishing they will quit.
This is particularly bitter medi-
cine for The Star, which has been
inclined to favor the New Deal.
In today's edition of The Star, a
front page editorial says, among
other things:
"All over the nation the word
is being passed that q new Mus
SOlini is emerging from a chry-
sails in Seattle-that a new
force that recognizes no law but
itself and that has no regard
for any plan or purpose but its
own, is develOping-if this new
dictatorship that has been born
in Seattle can suppress one news
paper, it may not be content
until it has suppressed them
ALL"
have heard a number Of bust
ness and professional men say
that this attack is a New Deal
matter from beginning to end and
| GQdG IL is q special TepE1SdL against
Hearst for his attacks upon the
New Deal.
ALL FOR ROOSEVELT
''What is the political faith
of those on striker" I asked a
reporter who is not on strike.
"They are all for Roosevelt"
he answered.
"How many editorial workers
had the POSt-Intelligencer?"
"It had 81 and the 26 who
went out on strike was made up
in part of six office boys, eight
cub reporters and what would
call the small fry Of the office.
They did not complain Of their
pay-they were all well paid;
somebody just made goats Of
them"
The whole thing is a most as.
founding exhibition of the power
of ruthless element, less than