The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-01
NILS q BALLARD Nay Close Down
Today indefinitely.
NOT An APRIL FOOLS JOKE.
nknei sasvyers Demand r5.s0 Der Day
go pnrkers yHnst 2 Cents per
TAeaaaaA-Msn Owness Declare
3nat she Advance Cansst De
Heaneea W1thsst mesvy I1sss-
Preseut Margis ~ Prsat Marrow.

rhs s<ms-annuxi strike Of the Ballard
eisingSs weavsrs IN again on. They have
oaruestsd an advance OF wages. 10 take
afYeot to-day, and white nothing has been
said about ssriking. Ii In understood thtt
ehsy vii not wosk today IL iheir DE-
nsrds are not granted. Tas mills had
siaS sh1ng;A bins Cleaned Yesterday ana
SHUT dawn last night prepared TO with
4ssnn : long Siege Of ialeness. IL necessary
tn demand OF The men for more wages
vs. made Wednesday b. means Of q
psslsIen. Ii was eoucsed iE most respect
1ul language. ard asked that In cosss'a-
erstion Of the fact that the price OF sfl.n-
eIHs had advanced and that board MAS
more expressive. the wages Of knot saw
yers be raised from :2zs 10 $40 a day
fhsussnd. In one Of tie petitions was
"a iutimaton that no .sAprfs FOOLS joke"
was EAesut.
II was stated positively yesterday by
the mxna0rs Of two OF the largest mills
IN Ballard that the advance would not
be granted. Those which II Is understood
viii deci:Ge 10 grant the demand are the
6t.mson Mil Company. Seattle Cedar
Lumber COMPANY. Wss; Coast Manufac,-
uripE ard Investment Company. K. f.
Overton and the Danehne~kellogg Mil
Company. The other -sobey 4 Co.
George McDade. winsor Mil comua.a,.
Eureka shinsie Company and ronnor'
IWig1 Ffases-wili probably fan in
line
Ins strike Involves the knet sawy@rs
a1d packers. Their work Is OF a nature
requiring some experience and II Is Inn
p0esibie to MI their places with noxices
FOR the most pars they sre boys ranging
ia age from IL TO ~ Years. The knot
sawyer trims the shingles or any knots
or rottennsss as they come from the saw.
ana the packer puts them ZIP In bundles
ready Tor shipment. AZ cents d thousand
2 swiff packer can make from $3.50 10
&.75 per day. The other employees Of the
mills Are the principal stwyers, who get
the highest wages. and hlers watchmea
ana l0adrfx. who receive the lowest Tn.
Knot xawysrs and packers are an .urerma-
Stats class and are probably the most inn
portant employees OF shingts mill With
cut them u Is. Of course. impossible to
run.
Tire preaem strike Il. In a way. a CON-
rnuation OF the sfrike which took place
about year ago. Al that tine knot saw
yers were getting - a day and packers
cents per thousand. The strike was
cempromised on $z.2s per day ana g..
cents per thousand. the owners promising
~ the same time that when the price
OF shingles AiIouie Justify wages would
% raised to the plane demanded. $3.50
ana cents. Since that time the price
or logs has gone to tGso per Thousand
feet. lad down ut the mill. an advance
o. - 10 90 per cent. and shingles are
down 10 Nsso and $i35 psr thousand. a
decline OF 10 to Is cents since iasf fail
The actual cost OF manufacturing shingles
~ the mill h LIZ per thousand. leaving
very narrow margin of prof, to thr
mill owner.
. In order 10 pay the wages demanded
tne price or shingles would have TO adj
vance - cents 4 thousand said Secra.
tary Fred 3. Stimscn. Of the s,irnaon MIN
company. yesterday. '.ft ~ simply a cues
ton or making shingles or no, making
1ncH. MIL cannot rim for nothing and
- cannot afford 10 lose money At one
time last year, when shingles were dawn
70 N.e a thousand. sawysrs and packers
WcIn paia Just IA Kood wages as they are
Row getting. though Che mills were ,as,n.
money. The present demand is unrsason,
able. Shingles ksve not gone s,p In nrIe-
ana on The contrary legs have. W. uift
not DO Al they ask. ff the men want 10
come TO work TOMORROW Mt the old wac.
the door % the min will moi omen W.
arc IN as good a position to stand a strike
as We ever were aud we 40 not pronose "a
run ntili without profit.
Prastlsa ally the same position Is taken
by President w. H. MeEw1n OF ne g..
aste Cedar Iesnher Company. eve az
uscd te STRIKES" he sasti. a,hrv come
very csten. Whether ihe ren VIZ go On,
somefnow or no. | cannot tell. Thelr pc
tisseh presented Yesterday said nothtpe
about strike. No action has heen ssler
on taefr defnanis, We caano. aosesl, Ia
IL ARD II they d. not Come 10 work TO-
morrew We vii remain closed. Whsf we
viii do ultimately We 20 NOT "a - ~ etate-,
The srikcre themselves were cer, nar-
ecmfrftsAl In rnsponse n the ,a,,srla.
OF observation-disclosures reporter they said
SaeS uid no. kans. and always referred
IN some man In distant part Of the mill
- TIE fotnt Of Information These men