Blood on Your Hands Mr Leonard in Puget Sound Strike Row
President warns Mr Leonard of responsibility for violence during labor tensions in Seattle. He cites hiring strikebreakers, calls for arbitration, and suggests bloodshed would fall on Leonard for failing to avert conflict amid efforts to quell industrial unrest. The Star urges peaceful resolution and accountability.
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Mr. Leonard
New York
East Side
Seattle
Leonard
Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co
Gill
Star
Peace talks ease Seattle car strike amid union demands
Peaceful settlement talks in Seattle between Stone Webster officials and a joint Tacoma Seattle carmen committee, ordered from Boston, hint at an end to the strike. Secretary Wilson pressured for a quick accord, with warnings the deadlock could jeopardize Northwest shipbuilding. Union leaders sought reinstatement of discharged workers and amnesty during arbitration. optimism grows as meetings proceed and preparations for new strikebreakers continue.
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Seattle
Stone & Webster
Boston
Wiliam B. Wilson
A. W. Leonard
The
Traction Company
Carmen
Tacoma
Leonard
Henry M White
Wilson
House Peters
White
Labor Temple
Northwest
Peters
Bean
Judge Won't Serve as Strikebreaker in Leonard Case
Federal Judge Neterer rules the court cannot be used to police labor disputes by granting or withholding injunctions. He says police protection, not equity, is the proper remedy when public interests are at stake and warns against broad application to Tacoma street railway or other industry operations amid nationwide strike tensions.
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Seattle
Gill
Kempster
Ave
Leonard
Traction Company
United States
Neterer
Tacoma Street Railway
Priest Father Sherlock Freed on Bail in Unpatriotic Remarks Case
Tillamook Oregon July 26 Father Sherlock pastor of the local Catholic church is free under $1000 bail pending investigation of alleged unpatriotic remarks. He is also alleged to have threatened the life of Capt 3S Johnson of the 10th Coast Artillery Corps.
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United Press
Tillamook
Ore
Father Sherlock
3S. Johnson
10Th Company
Coast Artillery Corps
Notice to Star Sub Scribers August 1917 Price Change
Notice to Star subscribers that starting August 1917 the price of The Star delivered by carrier within Seattle city limits will be 50 cents per month.
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STAR
Seattle
Lind Geren Co Wins Palo Alto National Guard Camp Contract
The firm Lind geren & Co of San Francisco received the award to build the National Guard camp at Palo Alto California. The contract was announced in Washington on July 26.
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Washington
Lindgeren & Co
San Francisco
Palo Alto
Cal
Reporter Hires In as Strikebreaker at North Seattle Barn
A reporter spent 12 hours as a strikebreaker at the North Seattle streetcar barn. He describes bedded bunks, guarded access, a $5 daily wait wage, $1 hourly operation pay, and a crowded hall with non union workers. He notes tension with pickets and observations of workers including Motorman Slater and Dad Bibbins amid a tense, watchful atmosphere.
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Seattle
The
Traction Company
Munich
North Seattle
Second Ave
S. I. Slater
Kinnear
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Dad Bibbins
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