Word: blethen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...years.* Nevertheless, William Randolph Hearst was not without a voice in Washington's largest city. Open to his almost daily diatribes against his absent employes were the columns of the leading afternoon paper, which had fought him tooth & nail since he invaded Seattle in 1921. Clarance Brettun Blethen's Times not only printed Mr. Hearst's pronouncements, but independently condemned the strikers and their tactics. These, it seemed to rich, reactionary Mr. Blethen, were outrageously irregular. The Hearst pressmen were remaining away from work in violation of their "contractual obligations" and without consent of their international officers...
...Publisher Blethen, the strike marked "the most shameful page in Seattle's his-tory." Snorted he: "The merits of the controversy ... are of no consequence whatsoever. . . . Only two questions are involved: Is the Constitution of the State of Washington valid? Is the Constitution of the United States in effect?" His queries he answered himself: "The Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Washington were suspended by one Dave Beck, head of the Teamsters' Union, and one John Dore, Mayor of Seattle. Gone is constitutional government. Gone is majority rule and the freedom...