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Tough and militant is Seattle Labor. In 1919, the city was the scene of a general strike. This year, the handful of striking Guildsmen could not have closed the P-I without the support of dock workers and truckmen who failed to scare when the town's conservatives, encouraged by such leading citizens as Publisher Clarance Brettun Blethen of the Times, talked of forming vigilante bands to break the picket lines.
Tower of strength to Seattle's uncompromising Labor men was and is Mayor John Francis Dore, one of the most picturesque politicians in the long line of colorful characters who have sat in the city's mayoral chair. When businessmen called for police to stop "violence" at the P-I plant, Mayor Dore said that "while Seattle has a Labor Administration," police would protect no strikebreakers. He is now the objective of a recall petition.
* The Hearst-Guild agreement, fixing minimum wages, hours, sick leaves, vacations, dismissal notice and pay, is substantially the same as that fixed last September between striking Guildsmen and the Hearst Milwaukee Wisconsin News. Last week an agreement was reached between the Guild and the Hearstian San Francisco Examiner.