Show TIMBER AR AREA EA TENSE AFTER STRIKE RIOTS Portland Men V Vote te to Accept Offer of Operators B Br the A Associated Press Pres f 1 SEATTLE July 20 After 20 After a night of rioting ended at Hoquiam lam Wash Vash the Pacific northwest lumber strike today presented a mixed scene scene- mills adding men hopes for foz settlement settlement settlement settle settle- ment voiced and an undercurrent of r restlessness obvious among lamong strikers and sympathizers The violence at Hoquiam on Grays harbor resulted in injuries to at least five persons One was arrested Bitterness between strike pickets and national guard troops on duty was increased The guards broke the riot riot- with fixed bayonets Accept Offer Otter In contrast to the trouble at Hoquiam Ho Ho- Portland Ore became a abright abright abright bright spot when striking Sawmill and Timber Workers union members members mem mem- bers last night voted to accept w with th slight variation an offer by the mill operators Dismissal of nonunion men who worked ot the five pl plants r ts still i idle le there was the only concession asked The Thc other plants made no effort to employ nonunion crews Among the known injured at Hoquiam Hoquiam Hoquiam Ho Ho- were we're were Three mill workers cut and bruised in an attack by a am amob amob m mob b of men waiting at a hotel for the return of men men employed in mills a youth giving givin the name namO of Eddie Howard vard a striker hit on the head with a milk bottle and a nUll worker cut on the forehead by a blackjack Howard was arrested once released released re re- re- re leased to get medical treatment and rearrested when he returned to the fighting in front of the hotel Arrests Kept Quiet Quiet i Other persons were mauled in the general fight and guardsmen es escorted escorted es- es away several se men who it was believed were locked in the armory The rhe guard aid did not in accordance with its policy disclose any ar ar- rests Police Policemen nen trying to stop the riot as it started were overpowered by bythe bythe the thc mob which scattered only when the hc guardsmen The employers' employers offer at P Portland with but one reservation specified a wage increase to approximately 50 cents an hour minimum a 40 hour week and collective bargaining bargain bargain- ing with plant One thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand men will vili return to work if the operators accept the unions union's Continued on Pue Two I I MILL RIOT AR A REMAINS TENS Continued from Irom Pan one ii request for discharge of n non nJ COUNCIL COUNCIL BLUFFS j Ia j UP UP Striking Striking tram workers 1 promised Mayor Hugh Finn pj- do what they could to prevent of rioting in which hicL strikers were Wounded The strikers gave Finerty assurances of peaceful Intent the mayor in a speech from i. i bench threatened t to request of martial martini law Jaw i if order WJ a maintained wi Finerty also aIso warned official the Omaha Council BlUff Sti Railway company that police pollee for their cars ps pi would woul won withheld if they did not b bf agreement under w which a settlement of the three three- mont strike recently WD was re reached Omaha Orders Cars Out The company ordered all aU z I ir cars out of the Council Bluffs Bluff It after a a. a violent demonstration strike sympathizers in which Stephenson and James James' D. D were injured Stephenson Stephenso wounded when W. W R. R Inman Inman strikebreaker fired into 4 cr of ot demonstrators demonstrator Daw Dawson on w was i by a flying staple Inman g fl fir when rioters stoned his automo as he drove to the car car barn TV crowd subsequently overturned tM burned the car Police escorted h man to safety The Tho situation became quiet night although 50 pickets m tamed a Ii watch at the darken darkened cir barns Several bricks were to hur at a a street car in Omaha bu damage was wn done and servi not interrupted there |