Bikers Meet Over Yard Wage Cut And Possible Strike
A conference is set for 8 oclock Wednesday afternoon between D E Kinner president of the Skinner Eddy yard and Metal Trades Council members to decide whether workers will accept wage reductions or go on strike. Separately Everetts Great Northern shopmen began a citywide walkout at 10 am demanding a 25 percent raise threatening widespread disruption to rail service.
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D. E. Kinner
Metal Trades
J. von Carnop
Board of Business
Met Trades
Skinner-Eddy
Skinner
Emergency Fleet Corporation
von Carnop
Metal Trades Council
Carnop
Skinner & Eddy Yard
Ban Oisen
Seattle
Everett
Interbay
Great Northern Railway
Great Northern
Gold Bar
Inter Bay
No Statement From Skinner On Situation Wednesday
A brief note shows Skinner declining to issue a statement about the situation, replying that he has no statement to make at the present time.
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Skinner
British Prince Sails to Canada En Route to U S
Prince of Wales leaves Portsmouth for Canada aboard the Renown. He seeks a US visit and especially wants to see New York during the trip.
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Portsmouth
England
Prince of Wales
Canada
Renown
United States
New York
Cleland Named to Public Service Commission Post
Spokane Aug 6 Gov Hart announced Hakee H Cleland assistant attorney general will replace Arthur A Lewis on the Public Service commission. Lewis resigns August 15 Cleland formerly deputy prosecuting attorney and has served as the commission’s attorney and worked on rate hearings in Portland and Seattle.
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Spokane
Hakee H. Cleland
Arthur A. Lewis
Public Service Commission
Hart
Lewis
Cleland
Portland
Seattle
Citywide Food Sale At 2 Today In Public Markets
The city plans a 2 PM sale of surplus army rations at the Westlake on Pike Street markets. Acting Mayor Lane announced quantities including 40,000 pounds bacon at 35 cents a pound, 1,000 cases corned beef, and 26 064 three pound cans tomatoes at six for a dollar. Purchases limited to 20 pounds bacon and two cans corned beef each. six cans tomatoes per person.
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Westlake
Pike Street
Stacy St
Lane
C. R. Frasch
City Health Department
Frasch
Todividual
Counciman Lane
Aesistant Corporation
Thomas J. L. Kennedy
Food and Providen
Kennedy
Want Ad Rhyme Contest Swaps Ice Bow for Baby Cart
This week The Star features reader verses for a Want Ad Rhyme Contest. A reader says they swap an ice bow for a white reed baby cart and notes contest details on the Classified page with Friday noon deadline.
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Want
We Are Victims of Fate and Race in This Century
A historical meditation on slavery, emancipation, and race in America. The piece traces the terrors of the slave trade, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the rise of racial tensions. It argues for cool study and just administration to resolve race and loyalty issues, noting returning Black soldiers from the war. It ends with a warning about the Japanese race problem if unaddressed.
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Nationa
United States
Seattle
Seattle woman in love triangle faces federal probe
A Seattle wife, Margaret Worthington, pleads for the man she left with Roy McWhitney who is jailed in Los Angeles on Mann Act charges. Her husband George Sherrow plans possible reconciliation as McWhitney awaits federal trial in Seattle and possible island confinement.
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Seattle
Margaret Worthington
George Sherrow
United St Walton
Los Angeles
Roy McWhirth
Admiral Arragat
Park Hotel
Ninth Ave
Lorine Sherrow
Mamma
McWhitney
Mrs. Sherrow
Admiral Farragut
D. Simmons
Department of Justice
Mec
Mc Whitney
Sherrows
Laurel
Mont
Sherrow
Simmons
McNeil Island
Two Men Found in Field Choked to Death Near Rockwood
The coroner investigates the deaths of William Bailey a storekeeper and James C Melhany a rancher whose bodies were found in a field near Rockwood. They were strangled with their own belts and officers suspect robbers as the perpetrators.
Homely Women Amid Market Beautifying Preparations
A brief cultural note remarks that despite many beautifying preparations on the market, a minority of women remain unfussy about appearances, suggesting enduring plainness among some individuals.
Hart Asked to Curb Japanese Activities in State
The Mutual Business club urged Governor Louis F. Hart to protest to the federal government against Japanese ownership and control in Washington. The letter cites Japanese dominance in hotels, apartments, groceries, restaurants, theaters, banks, and newspapers and calls for investigation and enforcement of state land and corporation laws to halt alien ownership and “dummy” corporations. It notes 5170 Japanese admitted to Seattle in 1919 and asks denial of naturalization requests.
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Louis F. Hart
Mutual Business Club
Seattle
Yakima Valley
Japan
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