The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-22

Of the NeU York Sun Nth Spe-
cidl permission of the Sun and the
McNaught Syndicate.
BY GUY w. BEARDSLEY
Special Dispatch to the Sun
SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 2l.-A
New Deal manifestation that Is,
perhaps, significant in many
ways, is in evidence in this city.
The Post Intelligencer Of Seattle,
until its suspension, was morn
ing newspaper owned by Will
liam Randolph Hearst. 1t en-
ployed between $50 and TOO men
and was unionized in all mechani-
cal and photo-engraving and mail
ing departments.
Some weeks ago two men were
by the editors Of the
photographer and q
drama reporter-and Thursday
night, August Is, the Newspaper
Guild called q strike Of its %
members on the Post-Intelligencer
out Of a total Of 81 on the edi-
torial and news force. The claim
was made by the Guild members
that the two discharged men had
been let go because Of affiliation
with the Guild. The manage
ment says they were discharged
for INSTRUMENTATION and incom-
petence.
PicketS in Command
Immediately upon the issuance
Of the strike call, the Post-Intelli-
gencer Building, at Sixth Avenue
and Pine Street, was surrounded
by an estimated 500 longShore-
men, teamSterS and loggerS, mem
bers of a radical labor organiza-
ton in King county, and when
the night shift Of workers arrived
to begin the work Of composing
and printing the next mornings
paper, they were not permitted
to enter the building.
A night Waterman who walked
out on the street was attacked
and beaten, and finally the police
took two Of his aSSailants and
the injured man to the police
station; the magistrate held the
two picketS and the Waterman
went to the hospital. Inside Of
an hour the prisoners had been
released on an order issued by
Mayor Dore, of this city, and
sent to their homes" but were
back on the picket force shortly
after they had been given their
freedom.
Mayor Backs Mob
There has been no issue Of the
Post Intelligencer since the strike
began, and the Guild, in its paper
issued daily since the trouble
started, boasts that $50 members
of the teamsters, longshoremen's
and lumbermen's unions are on
picket duty "a hours. The mayor
addressed the Young Democrats
in Lincoln Park Sunday after
noon, and, as quoted in the Guild
referred to. said:
"This is a union labor admin
istratiOn, and as long as l am
mayor of this city / shall never
permit a member Of the police
department to throw gas bombs
at workers or beat them over
the head"
The mayor mingleS with the
radical forces besieging the Post
Intelligencer Building, and as a
result of his attitude the police
stand about in groups and permit
the mob to intimidate anybody
who approaches the building and
seeks to enter.
Other Papers in Fight
Seattle has two other regular
daily newspapers the Times,
owned by local people, and the
Star, a Scripps-Canfield paper
both in the evening field. Edi-
torials in both The Times and
the Star have bitterly arraigned
the citizens of Seattle for permit
ting a radical mob maSquerading
as unionistS to terrify the whole
city, and the mayor is excoriated
by 5oth papers for his encourage
ment Of the unruly elements that
carry on about the Post-I ntelli-
gencer Building as it sees fit.
I interviewed a pressman be-
longing to the Post-Intelligencer
force. a union man, and when he
talked to me it was in the pres
ence of a union stereotyper, a
union linotype operator and a
union mailer-all Post Intelli-
gencer employees. The four were
in a group across the
street from the besieged building.
Voices Bitterness
Answering my inquiry as to
what was going OIL posed as a
tourist visiting the city-the press
man said:
"That bunch Of rOughnecks
are Dave Beck's strOng-arm fell
lows"
"WhO is Dave Beck?" 1
wanted to know.
Hes the fellow who Is re-
spOnsible for all the trouble
you're looking at; he put his
mob here to show people that
he's the boss. He heads the