Lock the Door and Talk Things Over in War-Time Lumber Row
The Star urges Mr. Grammer and lumber employers to meet with union representatives and government mediators to settle disputes by arbitration. It praises union willingness to conference, notes soldiers leaving Seattle for service, and warns mills must not stay idle as wartime needs loom. A conference could bring peace as in the car strike.
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Mr. Grammer
Northwest
Con
Sam
Star
Citywide Seattle street cars return as 1600 workers resume
After 16 days of strike, 1600 Seattle traction company workers report back to work at 5 with union buttons visible. In Tacoma and Seattle overwhelming ratification of the agreement ends the walkout. 880 to 32 in Seattle and 203 to 2 in Tacoma approve. President Leonard signs the pact, restoring full service across all lines by morning.
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Traction Company
Seattle
Seattle-Tacoma
Tacoma
Carmen
A. W. Leonard
Prac
Cost of Seattle Streetcar Strike Reaches 205000
Estimation shows the Seattle streetcar strike cost the traction company about 205000. Calculations include 2100 per day wages for 16 days and 81000 for a special train fire, plus 67000 net revenue loss at 9000 daily income. Additional costs total 23000 in legal fees and overhead, with idle property depreciation running to a few hundred dollars daily.
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Seattle
Traction Company
Arbitration Set To End Longshore Strike At Georgetown
Dr Henry Suzzallo said an arbitration panel will hear James Duncan for the men and Dr J Franklin for the company with a possible week to ten day session. Wage terms dated back to August 3 were agreed, with Charlies Reynolds representing the strikers. Six hundred strikebreakers were housed in Georgetown barns under police guard as trains prepared to depart for the East.
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Henry Suzzallo
James Duncan
Dc. J. Franklin
Charlies A. Reynolds
Pershing’s Role in the War’s Prolonged Siege
A historical wartime brief compares the Allied struggle to siege warfare against a vast fortress. It outlines a two-keep structure with Germany and Austria-Hungary on one end and Turkey on the other, linked by fortifications. Outworks, built early in the war, stand before the main walls as the Allies press the siege.
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Pershing
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Bulgaria
Turkey
Berlin
Serbia
Romania
Final Action Looms on Food Bill in Congress
Washington August 2 final action by both houses of congress on the food control bill was in sight today. President Wilson hopes to have the measure before him early next week and Senator Chamberlain in charge of the bill in the senate expects to get approval of the conference report early next week.
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Washington
Congress
Wilson
Chamberlain
Senate
New Liberty Loan Set for November 15 Release
Washington officials announced the second liberty loan of 3 billion dollars will be launched November 15. Prior to that date the treasury plans to issue nearly a billion dollars in treasury short time certificates to meet immediate needs.
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Treasury
Wilson orders slackers put into the army
President Wilson directs that all draft slackers who failed to appear for physical exams be reported to the justice department and certified into the national army. If they do not report within five days, they face action by the army adjutant general. Exemption claims will be scrutinized and appeals pursued for uniform rulings nationwide.
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United Press
Washington
Wilson
Department of Justice
National Army
Adjutant General of
State
Adjutant General
Army
Adjutant General of the Army
Maid Attacks Pickford Sisters With Hatpin
Mary Pickford Lottie Pickford and their mother were attacked by a maid after dismissal notices. The assailant Katherine Ripkine lunged with a hat pin but was overpowered and removed from the Pickford bungalow. the sisters and their mother were saved by a chauffeur.
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United Press
Los Angeles
Mary
Lottie Pickford
Katherine Ripkine
Pickford
Two Men Named in Frank Little Lynching Case
Butte Montana August 2 Attorney William Sullivan legal representative of the Butte W W miners union today declared that at least two of the men who participated in the lynching of Frank Little are known. He said their identity was discovered through threats made against Little before he was hanged. Complaint that they have received the 3 7 7 warning of the Montana vigilantes was made today by several other members of the local I W W union.
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United Press
Butte
Mont
William Sullivan
W. W. Miners’ Union
Frank Little
Little
Montana
I. W. W. Union
Americans of Russia mission to visit Seattle Saturday
Members of the American diplomatic mission to Russia will dine and speak in Seattle this Saturday. A public luncheon at 11 30 in the old Commercial Club rooms will cost 75 cents with reservations via Main 5060. If permission is granted a public mass meeting may be held at 12 30 in the Arena. Elohu Root chairs the group and Charles Edward Russell is among the delegation.
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Russia
Seattle
Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club
Commercial Club
Arcade
Main
Ralph Horr
Washington
Congress
Coontz
Bremerton Navy Yard
Gill
Elihu Root
Charles Edward Russell
Star
Sister Papers
Washington authorities probe Frank Little murder
Federal state and city officials began an investigation into the murder of Frank Little, J. W. Leader, though no concrete crew has been found to carry out the work.
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Washington
Frank Little
German Generals Rush to Brussels Meeting
Kaiser Wilhelm convenes a war council in Brussels with Hindenburg Ludendorff and other leaders. The gathering signals high importance amid Allied pressure in Flanders and reports of infighting over progress near the Chemin des Dames.
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Ly United Press
Star
Amsterdam
Flanders
Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
War Council
Field Hindenburg
Ludendorff
Prince
Teutonic
Chemin Des Dames
Allied Drive Delayed by Sea of Mud in Flanders Front
British and German forces clash along the Ypres Roulez railway as rain drenched mud stalls the allied advance. Haig says counterattacks regain lost ground while German forces recapture Westhoek and press near St Julien. American airmen gain fame with French army in the sector.
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Flanders
Kaiser Wilhelm
Brussels
Russia
United Presse
London
Ypres-Roules
Haig
No Man's Land
Hummock
Westhoek
St. Julien
Julien
Ypres-Roulers Railway
Field Marshal
Heat Abates as 500 Die in Heat Wave Across Nation
New York reports continued high temperatures in the 90s across Eastern cities as the long heat wave persists. Officials note signs of abatement and possible relief by week’s end, though daily fatalities rise with the heat.
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United Press
New York
Bargain Friday Tomorrow at Seattle Stores
Bargain Friday sales announced for tomorrow across Seat tle's best stores including Standard Furniture Co. Bartell Drug Stores Grote Rankin Co Woodhouse Grunbaum Rhodes Co Fraser Paterson Frederick Nelson Bon Marche The Star promotes the event as the fastest growing Northwest paper.
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Standard Furniture Co
Bartell Drug Stores
Grote-Rankin Co
Woodhouse- Grunbaum
the Rhodes Co
Fraser-Paterson Co
Frederick & Nelson
Bon Marche
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Lumbermen’s Protective Association
Uncle Sam
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Poland
Volhy Sia Ovtwooork
Attard
Ovis Aue
Asiatic
Caucarus
Kaiser William
Liberty
Maid
Mary Pickford
The
Wilhelm
SEA OF Mud
Allied
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