12 Feb 1919
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1919
Page
1
The Polish parliament, meeting in extraordinary session in Warsaw, will consider war against Germany Czecho-Slovakia Ukraine and the Bolsheviks, according to Warsaw advices.
The Association of Northwest shipbuilders met at the Securities Building in Seattle to seek a compromise on the shipyard strike. Tacoma yards employ 14,000 workers affected by the dispute. Plans involve wage increases for lower paid laborers and a potential conference with officials including Charles Pier and Emergency Fleet Corporation leadership to settle by month’s end.
Governor Lister quits work on physician advice and names Lieut. Gov. Hart as acting governor. Hart says he will faithfully perform duties until Lister recovers, stressing the aim of minimal disruption and adherence to Lister’s policies. Lister's letter requests Hart to act until health improves.
Paris dispatch reports a fresh war scare tied to the League of Nations constitution as obstructionists seek a delay before Wilson leaves for the United States. French amendments push for a global army and tighter German Russian limits, while Foch overestimates German mobilization.
Textile workers in Paterson New Jersey will return to mills tomorrow under an agreement reached in Washington. The war labor board will intervene to settle the dispute between strikers and mill owners.
Paris February 12 United Press Wilson postpones leaving France to finish the League of Nations constitution. He plans to return to America after Congress adjourns, with a new timeline if full agreement is not reached. He may depart March 5 or 6, and he is to read the draft to the plenary conference. Gifts for the president and Mrs. Wilson are packed into 23 boxes.
President Wilson plans to take direct charge of unemployment upon returning from France. A governors conference will be held in early March with the president presiding to discuss industry stagnation and rising unemployment, strikes, and a brisk wartime-to-peacetime transition. Roger W Babeon has telegrammed governors to attend, with near-unanimous approval and calls for immediate action.
A defective insulator caused a blackout affecting the University section and part of Queen Anne hill for about ten minutes last night. Crews restored service quickly and investigated the fault.
Paris reports a cooling in Franco American goodwill two months after Woodrow Wilson’s potential reelection. The Paris press questions Wilson’s stance toward Germany and notes a growing quarrel over policy and trust, while British voices downplay the tension as temporary and rooted in national traits.
The Lamp ing bill would allocate 2.5 million state funds to veterans of World War I with payments of 10 dollars per serving month to each man or his dependents. Tax funding would come from a 2 percent mill tax or 25 cents per hundred dollars of property value. Olympia hearings Thursday seek ex soldier input as opposition doubts demand.
An editorial condemns Bolshevik calls for national strikes and worker takeovers as un-American. It contrasts past threats with current justice, urging Seattle labor to reject radicalism and uphold Lincoln Americanism and lawful action.
Washington reporting total American casualties in Russia amount to 324 per a Central Records cable dated February 9. The figures were transmitted by the A. B. K. F. agency and reflect the ongoing military campaign.
At Olympia on February 12 the Washington House passed a traction bill by a wide margin. The measure authorizes a public service commission to raise car fares as needed, scrapping the 5 cent limit, and attaches an emergency clause to bar a popular referendum. Nineteen representatives voted against the bill.
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