Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-20
Leaders of Strike Say Tank
Builders Have Money
to Wage Fight.
QUIT WORK TUESDAY
Manufacturers Say Organ
ized Labor Demands
Strawberries.

W. are ready to go to work for
w any concern or individual
that will pay the union scale and
grant us the privileges we have en-
joyed for the past year, but on the
other hand, we have plenty of money
behind us and we are prepared to
strike as long as the occasion de-
mands,' said the assistant secretary
OF the Tulsa local OF the international
brotherhood Of Boilermakers and
SnlpoulIders and Helpers Of America
aI the union headquarters last night.
Eight hundred of the LOO boiler
makers in the Oklahoma oil field
walked off the job between 10 o'clock
Monday and Tuesday noon, affecting
seven or the thirteen most prominent
TANK building concerns In the coun-
try, and the producers who have con-
tracted with these concerns for new
tanks. II Is alleged by the oil pro-
ducers that due to the overproduc-
ton Of oil in the Gushing field there
has been more tank building going on
In the last three months than at any
other period in tho history Of the
Mid-Continent oil field, and the pres
ent trouble probably will cause n
temporary halt in drilling and many
men being put out Of work.
Employed "Scab" Labor.
The question from which the pres
Crt trouble arose has been hanging
fire" since last December 20. when
several large industrial concerns de-
clared open house" and refused to
employ union labOrers except az in
diVlduals, without recognizing their
organization. The contract between
ibe unions and the contractors has in
cluded a clause which permitted the
contractors TO employ nOn-union men
at times when the unions were un-
able to provide a sufficient force to
meet the demand Non-union men
have always been employed In the
Oklahoma field 10 a greater or less
extent They were paid the union
scale and worked with the union men
under the condition that they pay
into the treasury Of the union 10 per
cent Of their wages 10 was when the
unions were not recognized and the
permit men accepted on common
basis with card men" that the con-
troversy arose ending in the strike
called yesterday.
Many Concerns Affected.
The Petroleum Iron Works at
Sharon. Pa, Warren City Tank and
Boiler Works at Warren, Ohio Ham
mond Iron Works at Hammond, Ind.
Tedweu Iron Works at Midland, Pa.
Standard Boiler and Iron Works at
Miles ohio. and several other ma
tiOnal concerns are affected, with an
their branches in oklahoma and else
where.
The union men maintain that the
10 per cent eXacted OF the non-unlon
labOrers amounts TO no more than tho
regular dues Of the members Of the
union and that the "scab' laborers
were admitted into the union "a rap
idly as they attained efficiency.
Manufacturers Complain.
Representatives Of certain iron
manufacturing concerns state that the
manufacturers have been positively
overrun by the union labor organiza-
tions for the past year and that their
refusal to sign written contract with
the union. providing that they would
continue to be SO Overrun. caused the
spirit OF discomfort on the part OF tho
boilermakers.
They declare that In recent months
they have paid their men on an aver
age OF siI5 per eight hour day aud
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