Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
METAL STRIKE IS
NOW A DEADLOCK
Union Leaders Say 1000 Work
ers Are Out, While En-
pIoyerS Say 200
BOTH SIDES ARE OBDURATE
President of Union Tool Company
Admits 106 MachiniStS
and MoIderS Quit
BOTH SIDES ARE 0BDURATE

With the Metal Trades council as
sorting that 1000 metal trades workers,
most of them from the large shops of
Los Angeles and the Craig shipbuild-
ing plant of Long Beach, abandoned
their tools yesterday. and the employ
ers of the large shops asserting that
only a few more than 200 quit their
work, the exact situa ton in the strike
Of the metal workers declared Tues
day night is not to be ascertained.
The metal workers are just as posi-
tive in their belief that the strike is
assuming menacing proportions as the
employers are in maintaining that 1t is
hardly noticeable and that they have
nothing to fear.
Reports from the five or six large
shops and the forty or fifty small ones
affected by the strike at a meeting of
the trades council in the Union Labor
temple last night indicated that 1000
men had quit. John /. Nolan, Pacific
coast representative of the 1nterna-
tional Molders' union, said that this
included 225 molders, between 800 and
600 machinists and 60 patternmakers,
besides a number of men of the allied
trades. At least so, he said, had left
the Llewellyn iron works.
TROUBLE JUST STARTING
Nolan declared that the strike will
become serious If the men are not
granted their demand Of an eight-hour
day and a 81 minimum wage scale.
He said that the metal workers had
only begun to show their power.
According to statements made yes
terday afternoon by the six employ
ing companies supposed to be most
affected by the strike only about 200
men quit work yesterday. There are
a number of small shops which lost
several workers, but inasmuch as the
battle ground is supposed to lie in the
shops of the larger concerns the en-
ployers say that there is hardly any
noticeable result of the strike.
The Union Tool company was the
greatest loser by walkouts yesterday
morning. E. D. Double, president of
the company, admitted last night that
106 machinists and molders had quit
work There are 400 employees in the
Union Tool shops, so the output, he
says, will experience about 25 per
cent hold-up. Mr.. Double expects
most of the men to return within a
short time. He does not think that
any more will leave. He said yester-
day that at least fifty of the men who
left were non-union. All of the union
men, be said, have already gone.
At the Llewellyn iron works it was
reported last evening that only 10 or
IL of the 752 employees left. 1t was ex-
pected that no others would leave.
The managers expect no trouble.
IMMUNE FROM TIE-UP
H. G. Miller, secretary treasurer of
the Union iron works, said that since
the output Of the factory was in the
main structural steel his company
would not be affected by the strike.
The three machinists who were en-
ployed in the shops as toolmakers quit.
President Fred L. Baker of the
Baker iron works said yesterday after
noon that II of his men had left their
work. Four or five CT these, he said,
were machinists and the others only
helpers. He looks for no others to
leave although he admits that in spite
of the fact that he has been through
many strikes he yet knows nothing OF
them and does not know what to ex-
pect He asserted that the Founders
and Employers association as well as
the Merchants and Manufacturers as
sociation is firm in its stand for an
open shop and industrial freedom.
Seventy-five employees of the Craig
shipbuilding plant at Long Beach
Joined the strike yesterday morning,
asking for the same things as the Los
Angeles laborers. The plant, which
employs $50 men, was not seriously
crippled, according to John F. Craig,
who put other men in the strikers
places as rapidly as possible.