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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1917
Page
1
A 1917 editorial argues Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co must treat girl operators as a union, recognize their organization, and negotiate as equal partners. It warns that despite advanced equipment and systems, human elements cannot be ignored and collective bargaining is essential.
Bond buyers lined up to invest in a 6 percent issue aimed at extending the municipal car line into Ballard. About one third of the 67 subscribers traded Liberty Bonds for cash via a local bank, as officials plan a court action to authorize sale of the 340,000 bond issue.
An unidentified man shot and killed Mrs. Wicka, 36, and her son Harlan, 9, at their Parsons Kansas home. Two daughters were shot, one seriously, as an armed posse from the Anti-Horse Thief association hunts the killer with bloodhounds arriving from Kansas City to track him.
Plans to dynamite the docks of the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Co were revealed during police trials before Commissioner Housen. The docks were to have been blown up on the night of November 2.
Bolshevik claims of a full victory at Petrograd reached London via advices dated November 13. Proclamations boast defeat of Korniloff and Kerensky troops, one signed by Trotsky. Stockholm cables suggested Kerensky forces held part of the city and Bolsheviks retreated to Smolny headquarters.
Petrograd, Nov. 1. Leon Trotzky, Bolsheviki leader, proclaims Kerensky retreating and the revolution on the offensive. He asserts the bourgeois and landlords failed to break the army from the revolution and hails Polkoff’s detachment as a victory for workers and peasants. The proclamation pledges the soviet as an unchangeable fact.
London reports 800 killed and wounded at Petrograd and 700 at Moscow, totaling 1,500 casualties in the Bolshevik government experiments. Fighting around Petrograd is imminent with both sides preparing for engagement while scattered actions occur.
Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson heads toward Seattle for mediation with strikers in Seattle and Tacoma. About 200 Tacoma members will join a city parade and mass meeting at the Labor Temple. Telephone company officials claim service improving and new operators aiding exchanges as a San Francisco inquiry looms.
Stockholm reports Kerensky loyalists entered Petrograd and controlled Nevaky Prospekt as Bolsheviks retreated to the Smolny Institute. Provisional government troops moved along Nevsky Prospekt, with street barricade fighting and heavy casualties noted in dispatches. Kronstadt garrison cadres were among Bolshevik forces formidable with rifles and machine guns.
W J Gwinn a shingle weaver is in City Hospital with a bullet wound to the right shoulder after a late Monday night street gun duel with Deputy Sheriff Eric Abrams who also suffered a flesh wound. James Dawson 29 was with Gwinn and held in county jail as Abrams described the incident on Dearborn and Sixth avenues. Gwinn says they thought Abrams was a highwayman and noted he was born in Buckley with a separated wife and two children in Hoquiam.
The presidential mediation board will issue a decision on the telephone strike this afternoon. It will reportedly not recognize the Telephone Operators' Union, but may affirm the right to form such a union and orders the company to stop discriminatory actions. The Electrical Workers' union is expected to receive a substantial wage increase. Northwest unionists discuss actions in Portland and other cities to pressure households to join the strike.
Army officers in San Francisco say the third officers training camp may move from Camp Lewis to the Presidio. Most trainees will be National Army men and training was planned in cantonments to suit that force.
Italian forces stiffened the front from Gailio to the Alpiano del Settoe, reconquering Gailio after brutal close combat. Italian brigades reclaimed positions amid heavy artillery fire and heavy losses on both sides, while a large Italian detachment broke through a German encirclement by a bayonet assault. Minister Berenini departed for Paris for the inter allied war conference.
Louise Oliveraux, arrested under the espionage act for alleged anti draft literature, pleaded not guilty and told Judge Neterer she would go to trial December 6 without an attorney. John Alexander pleaded guilty to being a slacker and agreed to register after a half hour with the U S marshal.
Chief of Police Beckingham was arrested for contempt of court in a morning appearance before Judge Mackintosh. The warrant was issued in error after a prior case had been settled in a justice court, a mistake the judge acknowledged. Beckingham faced questions about failing to produce two prisoners on a corpus writ.
Maj. Gen. Henry A. Greene of Camp Lewis says Seattle’s cleanup is only a drop in the bucket as officials pursue a quarantine. He cites few arrests among women and vows lenient timing but insists on results, with military police and secret services intensifying actions against vice and German‑linked crime targeting soldiers.
City council resolutions move to Maj. Gen. H A Greene commander of Camp Lewis demanding the proof behind charges that 2300 immoral women bootleggers and gamblers are tied to high authorities in a vice syndicate here The council would use any produced evidence to back an investigation and potential impeachment if Mayor Gill is named The council also threatens to demand Chief Beckingham be fired if cited in Greene’s charges Gill favors the measure with votes split among council members
Armour Grain Co proposes a potato price drop to 50 cents a bushel to curb rotting and waste of the large 164 million bushel farm surplus plus wartime garden crop. Consumers now pay about $1.40 a bushel, limiting purchases to prevent waste.
Storyville in New Orleans closed at midnight after a navy department request. Luxurious resorts and hotels shut their doors as more than a third of the district’s about 2,000 women were estimated to have left the city. A local ministers’ association plans to aid women seeking new employment.
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