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. _«^_^ One Cent Worth Ten 5000 PHONE GIRLS STRIKE TACOMA UNIONS OUT;SUBSTITUTE WORKERS HIRE&i Strike Situation In a Nutshell Delay In sending out instructions from San Francisco t«>«v the Oregon and Washington unions caused all union operators^ and linemen in the two !-tat«'s to go on strike at mtdui___.it Wed nesday, while the California em doves stuck to their posts. L. C. i Grasser, international vice president of the linemen, sent out ! telegraniK at a late hour instructing the unions to postpone I their strikes because the government would force recognition I of the op.'i-ators' union and a mediation of the wage demands. j; His telegrams were not received in Washington and Ore gon until long after the strike had started. Union officials now insist on continuing the strike until the company recog nizes them and consents to negotiate wage scales ad hours. Nearly .'toil telephone op erators nut) linemen employ ed by tbe Pacific Telephone A- Telegraph Co. in 'lacuna, «onipiisiiiy more than tin per rent of till employes of the plume system here, went on Ntrlke at in i< Illicit! Wednes day. With the telephone company giving partial service at Its three central stations by using former employes at its switch boards, announcement was made by Manager John Schlarb that his comany was prepared to stand an Indefinite siege on the part of the strikers. Union men and women, who as sembled at the Central Labor Temple Thursday morning to make detailed plans for carrying oil the strike, announced that there would be no settlement or concessions unless the telephone company grants recognition of the girl operators' union. Messages from officials of the International union at San Fran cisco, asking for a third post ponement of the strike received by Tacoma strike officials at 3:30 Thursday morning, were disre garded because of the lateness of their arrival. Messages Too Late. Other messages came during the U. S. TRANSPORT IS TORPEDOED! (Halted P.raa Lraaed W1r.,1 WASHINGTON, I). C, Nov. I.—The American transport Finland nm torpedoed in for eign waters, homeward bound, Secretary of the Navy Daniels announced today. There was no loss of life and the transport returned to a foreign i»>i•• under her own s(< inn The damage to the ship was alight. Secretary of the Navy Daniels' Itatetnent was as follows: "The navy department has re ceived dispatches stating that the transport Finland was torpedoed while returning from fore'gn wa ters. "The damage to the ship was slight and she returned to port un der her own steam. The Finland was under escort hut no sign of the torpedo or the submarine was Treated Like Slave, Young Wife Declares "Just think, Fern, we've been married five weeks." "Yes, and it's been five weeks of hell," This scrap of conversation was the beginning of the trouble be tween Doris and Fern Mergy, which led Doris to get a divorce in Judge Chapman's court Thurs day^ according to her story. The old story of Interference of parents on one side of the family was told by the young wife, whose baby daughter was in the court room during her testi mony. , "First he made me live with tils parents, then with his slater," The Tacoma Times 4 }25c i A MOVTK. THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA. lc A COPY. *^^*>*^***en^en^*^a*i****i*****+***,n^^^^^o^a**a***ef%enia**i*i*s^^ ~***s**s***s*****imi<~*Am-~*j*—*~m ~ n,r\'lTiT-r,j--u^-i_^ c^ftiS\j^j-Lryj-\^^ TACOAIA, WASHINGTON, TIU TI.SI)AY. NOV KM HI -M 1, I'M?. vol.. \|\. No. Jw. early morning from 1.. 0. Grasser, international vice president of the linemen, instructing the Tacoma unions to return to work. Offi cials of the linemen and operators here replied that the instructions had come too late, and that they would continue the strike, now that it has commenced. Tacoma unions sent out v num ber of messages Thursday asking other teleplioue unions turnout the Northwest for an outline of the'.r plans for carrying on the strike, so that everything could be done In a uniform manner. Union men and women were meeting Thursday afternoon In the Central Labor temple to prepare plans for the strike. Hint at Concessions. "We had orders to call a strike at midnight unless otherwise no tified before 6 p. m. Wednesday," Said President James Stewart of the linemen's union Thursday. "We odd not receive a message, and called the strike. At 3:30 this morning a message came from San Francisco saying that the government had guaranteed that the telephone company would recognize the girls' union in Aberdeen, Seattle and Port land. No mention was made of Tacoma. But even at that, our (Continued on rage 8.) seen." The Finland is the second trans port to be attacked while return ing from its mission to Europe. The Antilles on Oct. 17 was tor pedoed and sank with the loss of G7 lives. The dispatch to the naiiy de partment regarding the attack on the Finland, stated that no sub marine was seen, as was the case in the attack on the Antilles. Whether the Germans are us ing a new system in hiding their assaults on transport ships is a question puzzling naval authori ties. The Finland is a 12,700-ton steamer, commanded by Captain Jensen. She was formerly a Red Star liner and was built by Cramps in Philadelphia in 1902. She is 560 I feet long. she said. "His mother treated me like a slave or family servant. I Implored him to take me to a home of our own, but he wouldn't listen to me. He threatened to kill our baby when it was born." She tie. hired that all her hus band had ever bought for her during their married life was one hat, one aklrt and a pair of shoes. They were married July 7, 1914. Myrtle C. Grey obtained a di vorce from Joseph H. Grey. She ; charged he nan treated her cruel ly, had accused her of Infidelity, and had finally ordered her out of the house. Hello Girls Directing Biggest Switchboard Strike leaders of the telephone Kirls on Mie Pacific coast who rue conducting the largest switchboard strike ever culled in the I'nlted Htates. They are, left to right: Miss Hazel Holmes, Tacoma; Mrs. M. Carleton, Portland; Miss I.IIU.- Kchunke, Seattle, and Miss Maxfielil Miller, Ta coma. "We want to lie regarded as human beings insteail of ma eldnes," they say. Affiliated with the Inter mit hinnl lit Hi In i lio.nl of Klec triral Workers, n number of whose coast locals are also on strike, the "hello girls" de iiiiiikl an 80-ccnt wage In crease, the right of collective bargaining and better work ing conditions. The priwent wage ranges from .til.lii a day to ¥1 no for eight hours' work. SINK TURKISH TORPEDOBOAT .1 ni1..1 Prr«s l.r-nsr.l Wire.) PETROGRAI), Nov. I.—Sink ing of a Turkish torpedo boat in l the Black sea and burning of two steamers was announced officially today. On the Riga front the war of fice said the enemy at some point., was retiring to previously prepar ed positions. U. S. TO GIVE 8-HOUR DAY .1 lill.il !'..«• I .-.■_.. .. Wlr<-.l SHMTTLE, Nov. 1. —"The gov ernment will soon begin operat ing lumber mills In the northwest I wth soldiers," J. C. Brown, presi- j dent of the Shlngleweavers' union, declared today. "Ten thousand soldiers are be ing recruited," declared Brown, "to operate the mi 11... None of them will work more than eight hours." ELGIN BOARD IS ABOLISHED ll i.11.-.l Preaa Leased Wire.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 1. —The Elgin butter board has been abolished. A request by the food administration that the board cease Its price-fixing activi ties for the duration of the war at least, was immediately acceded to by the officers of the board. The suspension is effective at once, and in the future the ordi nary law of supply and demand will determine butter prices. Beersheba Taken United Press Leaned Wire.) LONDON, Nov. I.—Beersheba, of hallowed biblical memory, was occupied by British forces yester day, according to announcement from the Egyptian expeditionary force today. Beersheba is 40 miles south west of Jerusalem in Palestine. It was the southernmost city of the "promised land" of Moses' time. THE PHONE COMPANY'S MISTAKE! The least the Pacific Telephone ft Telegraph Co. can <Io if it wants to be considered truly American in tlie.ie lateral days is to treat its girl operator! as a union. Recognize their organization, meet them, talk matters over, reach some agreement. Collier's this week point! a moral with this story: A boy we once knew was a sprinter on hit. college track team. One day he rushed up to the trainer in great excite ment. "Kay," he burst forth eagerly, "I ililnl, ] have a great idea! .Now I can run a hu"dred yards at top agmmg, can't I.' And the greatest distance anybody can run al ton speed lis about four hundred yards?" The trulncr nodded. "Well, suppose I run fifty ynrdt, today at top speed, and tirt.v-<>uc yards tomorrow, and fifty-two yards the day after tomorrow, and so on. Why can't I get to the point, in aliout four years, where I can run a mile at top speed all the wuy?" The trainer rulilted his chin reflectively, and grinned. "Xo reason at all why not, son. No reason at all. Except that you're a human licing, and can't." The company is making the same mistake the sprint er made—it is forgetting the HUMAN ELEMENT. Its instruments are the best in the world. It hiu jierfected intricately wonderful switchboards. Its ac counting system is mbdertfcto the last minute: Its trans-continental service is one of the marvels of an amazing generation. From the standpoint «.f engineering and bookkeeping formulae, «if cold logic as worked out by the teleplioue headquarters experts, it might, admittedly, be more Satisfactory for the company to go «>n treating its girl operators and its electrical workers in the rigid, card indexed, unsympathetic manner to which it is accus tomed. That was the sprinter's mistakcl Had he tried to develop himself to run a mile at 100-yard speed he 'would have found the trainer WAS right. He was hu man; he would fail. The Pacific teleplioue company must understand that it, too, is human. Its workers are its partners. It nwst so recognize them. The sooner it learns this truth the better service will it be doing for its public and its country. Stenographer Offers Life To Protect Man She Loves (United Press Leased Wire.) i DALLAS, Tex., Nov. I. —Miss Myrtle Cunningham, a stenogra pher, was believed dying in a hospital today because she tried to protect the man she loved from a jealous woman. She was shot last night by Mrs. P. E. Travers when she threw herself in front Of Paul E. Tucker, a business man, who, Mrs. Travers aald, bad promised to marry her.) Tucker was struck by a bullet after Miss Cunningham fell and .was instantly killed. The shoot ing occurred on a crowded down-l ,town corner. Mrs. Travers, who gave herself up, le alleged to have admitted that she shot Tucker Intention ally, but declared that the wound- In., of Miss Cunningham was acci dental. Mrs. Travels, who formerly lived at Sherevoport, La., had met Tucker In that city, where he promised to marry her, she said, I decently, the woman told .the po ll"-. "Tucker ban had nothing to do with me.' The taunts and jibes of both Tucker and Mist. Cun- I uingnam prompted me to shoot." V. \V. WOKKI.It'M ADIO HI'XH INTO JAI-ANKHK Struck by an auto driven by Mrs. Mabel MeßrMe, di rector of Hie V. \V. I. A. lioh tess lions.' nl I'liinii Lewis, 0. Kohla, 14.11 Kant HOtli at., was liadly nrulsotl Thursday MM, 11.- was taken to the Taroinii (li'iicral hospital. The acci dent (H'.'iirrril at 11 111 and Pacific Mrs. MeßrMe waa teeked at the tiollrc station pen ill tin laveatlialloa. BIG T.M. ADDITION PLANNED The TiK.iiiiii V. M. C A. today aiiiioiini <mI its inten tion lo double lis pit-sent Mm Kit street plant. Two bits it(l.i<iiiiiiig its site on the miii'i have been purchased anrl plans made for extensive Improvement. The week «il' Nov. I I-IK, set roiile fur a national caili |knl;'.n to rnlse f*:I.">.0110,000 for Y. M. C. \. war work I lie world over, will lie dev«.t«'«l in Tacoma loan effort lo raise »r _...o<io. .s._'<io.<Mni to be used locally, the remain der to go for the work iibioiiil. The new bulldin.-, as dc_.ii_.netl 'by Architect OtOTga W. Dullard, provide.'! for a three-Htory strue i lure on the pxtrenie southern end lot the newly purchased lots, and | with all the remainder of the site • coveted by a six-story building (Continued on Page Five. ) TALKOTHE TIMES CM'otliiUs, did you phone somehody «-v«»ry once in m while to see if the line was working? The Elgin butter board has been abolished by Hoover. And, the dispatch adds, "In the future the ordinary law of supply and de mand will determine butter prices." What Is the world coming to? The i.l«ins-iill-I...tin-hiili nt" morning puper reports Holt Puyallup s.-li.mis have received their "conversation pledge cards." Probably go ing to have a t.ill.less day. How much war taxes did you pay today? Tacoma stenographers are now teaching men to knit. It's a lilt exciting, hut man is in his greatest danger when some girl teaches him to wash dishes. Says the lady next door. "Lots uv fellers think they're gettln' ejucated when they're learnln' things they oughtn't t' know." U. S. Editor Accurately Foretold Italian Drive When Germany a few days a«<> took Oen. Cadorna'e fierce offensive and crumpled It back upon his Italian army, the allied world gasp ed with pained astonishment. And yet, read tills proph ecy written for last July's Review of Reviews by Frank H. Bimonds, New York edi tor and war expert: "As I write these lines there is the report of a fresh Italian effort along the Tren tlne front—email but Inter esting gains. Yet I'do not think this la more than an effort to forestall ah Austro- German attack later in the year by the Trentine, an at tack like that made by the Night Edition Tonight and Friday s&sjJ; is WHOLE ARMY IS CAPTURED BY GERMANS Ilnllrd l'if« I.rimed Nlrr.l lIKRI.IN, via London. Nov. 1. —-Sixty thousand Italian soldiers "laid tlown their arms east of the lower Tagliniuonto," the official statement announced today. The war office annoiiceil tile to tal of prisoners taken In the great Italian drive had now readied 110,014 men, and l,."iO() nuns were taken The fill,(Mil) men who "laid down their arms" east, of the Tar; llainento river probably refers lo a big body of the troops of the tlilril Italian army, which ills patches have indicated wet" like ly to be trapped near the coast. IN Itwui: <il<' RIVKR Hull. .1 I'r.-BS t*SSmS4 Wlrr.) WASHINGTON, 11. C, Nov. I, - -The great battle of the north"ni Itallaa plains is swinging into th.-i first stages of Its crisis totliiy. Willi yon Macl.ensen's hosts now within range of the Taglia inento river at some points, o*B. Cadorna must soon indicate his plan of defense along that line. Cadorna apparently Is attcmpt liiK lo keep the Herman command In doubt about his forthcoming stand. Only the barest Informa tion Is being given out thru offl ! cial channels here today. Cables indicate the Italians are ' innkin| a desperate effort to out flank the German brigades, taking advantage of every feature of the 'terrain to halt and confuse tho iadvance of the Teutons. It Is now believed the high point in the fighting will not be reached before Nov. 7 or 8. It la expected that the struggle will still be in desperate progress Nov. 15, when the first great allied conference with America participating, is held In Paris. As a result of Germany's strike against Italy an entirely new *_►_'.■ program must be mapped out at this conference. For some days there has been a growing belief BOTTOM OUT OF MARKET (I'nlted Ihess l_eased Wire.) NEW YORK, Nov. I.—The bottom dropped out of the stock market today. Steel sold at 94^4 In the clos ing hour- —a net losb of ti points. In a market more turbulent than that of last February and December, new lows were record ed In Anaconda, American Sugar, Reading and Mlnvale. In the last hour —the weakest of the day—Airbrake yielded 11 points to 100, while Marine Pre ferred, which earlier in the day had shown some strength, broke 4 points from Its high. Heavy liquidation by big Cana dian holders was rumored. CLAIM HE STOLE DIAMOND BROOCH ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Nov. 1. — Joseph N. Glbhs, said to be a son of Sabtn A. Gibbs, wealthy Seattle leather importer, was tinder arrest here today on a charge of having stolen a diamond brooch from Andrew Glargard, ranch owner of Warren, Minn. Außtrians alone in the Ver dun line and pushed the Ital ian frontier almost to the Venetian plain. In my judg ment such an offensive will be made by the central pow ers later in' the summer, if they possibly can risk It. It will be a bid for a moral vic tory like that achieved in Rumania last year. It will be ' designed to counteract the effect of local defeats In France and It will seek to give Germany new prestige on the eve of a new cam paign for peace which will certainly come with the snow. "There Is also a profound Illil I Mil AM) FltKNCll ItUINKOIM'U ITALIANS (lly I'nlted I'rcss.) WASHINGTON. I). C, Nov. I. Ilrll sh and French rein forcements have arrived at the Tagllamento front In Italy, Home cables today stated. the allied troo|w were en thuslar tically welcomed by the Italian populace and sol ill era, riinoiir; military representatives of allied (lowers thai too much im portance must not be laid on tho I weal trout. Com plat* plans for relnfon e jlng Italy will tic made at the con ference. It is said. No matter how 'successfully Cadorna checks yon MrtcKeio-en now, the German* must lie driven out of Italy en tirely, military attaches hero de clare. Otherwise they would have es tablished a baae for new and dan gerous assaults on Italy, Russia and possibly France next sprluf. (JKIIMASH AUK CIIKCKKh ll -illi-d I'r.ss I ,h-. ,1 \\ I re. I l/ONDON Nov. t.—Aiißtro-Oer man forces have reached practical ly the line of Gen. Catlorna's T;r^ liamento river defenses and have been checked there In their for ward advance, according to the in terpretation placed here this after noon on Berlin*! own official slut. - ' ment. The greatest menace to Italian safety Indicated in dispatches was the flanking movement well under way near the Carnlc Alps directed liy an Austrian army under Gen eral yon Krnliiitln. This force la making a desperate thrust to turn the Italian positions on the upper course of the Tagllamento. Success of such an operation would threaten the whole Taglla mento line and force a further Italian retirement, possibly to the line of the Piave river. In nine days the German-Aui trian Invasion has seized more than 1,200 square miles of Aus trian and Italian territory former ly held by the Italians and pene trated at some places as far as 40 miles from the old positions. CADORNA IS COM'TDKNT It "It'll PIMM I ■•..»,-.I Wire.) ROMK, Nov. l. —"The army is determined to resist and conquer —to avenge the cry of pain Issu ing from the country's sacred soil," Gen. Cadorna, Italian gen eralissimo, declared today in a. telegram to Premier Orlando. His message was evoked by the new premier's telegram apprising Cadorna of a inion of all politi cal elements and Rome's unfal tering support and confidence. "Let the country have confi dence," Gen. Cadorna concluded. "BACK ROLL 18 COMING" <i nit.-.l Pkm i.ro»tit Wire.) LONDON. Nov. I.—"The back, roll Is cctolng," Premier Lloyd' George telegraphed Premier Or lando today in expressing the al lies' satisfaction at Italy's cour age under Invasion, and confi dence in her future. German conviction that a reaf Italian disaster would lead to an Italian revolution, like the Russian, and having .... equally serious consequence*" for the foes of the central powers. I do not know whether there is any solid basis for such a conviction —but it exists and will—l _ am satisfied—be acted upon If Germany feels able to 9. strike In the fall." Why, if an American new*. . papcmian could foretell Uw events of this week mouths la adva-nee, could mot Urn hove beea a_sri.__.jf turn mMAaA military leaden Mmismbmi equally alert smmAfwt wsmn the htowT