Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-09-26
MARINES PROTECT
PLANTS IN WEST
TIEDUP BY STRIKE
Fifteen Persons Injured During
Riots at San Francisco.
MANY AFFECTED BY WALKOUT
Owners of Factories Which Have War
Contracts Valued at $150,00O,O 900
Await Action by Federal Gov
ernment-U. S. Willing to
Pay Half of Increase.

Washington, Sept. 20.-The govern
ment opened way for possible settle
ment of strikes in Pacific coast ship
yards by offering to pay half of any
wage increases for companies making
not more than 10 per cent profit on
Communicated ships.
San Francisco builders, in whose
plants a strike of $4,000 iron workers
and shipwrights is in progress, agreed
TO consider the workers demands for
more pay on the shipping boards cost
sharing proposal, and prospects for set
thing the strike were reported bright.
Agents of the board and of the depart
ment of labor in San Francisco report
ed that the employers and men seemed
near an agreement and that work on
the Communicated ships might be re-
sumed within few days.
$4,000 on Strike in West.
San Francisco, Sept. 1S.-Strike riots
and disorders on Monday, in which 10
persons received injuries necessitating
hospital treatment and 80 rioters were
arrested, continued throughout the day
workers and shipbuilders, which
brought work to standstin on more
than $150,000,000 of naval and mer-
chant vessel construction for the gov
eminent. The strike is characterized
as the most extensive in the history of
the Pacific coast.
a company of United States marines
was landed at the Union Iron works
dock, where the men went on strike.
IC is reported another company has
been ordered from Mare Island to the
plant and that the government will
take similar action to protect ship
building plants at other bay points.
Full details of the strike and the de-
mandS of the % unions involved for
higher wages have been reported to
Washington. The employers have
placed the issue squarely up to the
federal officials, closing down their
plants and making no attempt to OPP
crate while they await government &C
ton.
100 Plants Are Affected.
The strikers, some of them skilled
mechanics, started quitting work at
nine o'clock in the morning when the
10000 iron workers in the Oakland and
San Francisco plants of the Union Iron
works laid down their tools. The strike
spread rapidly until every shipyard in
the bay district was closed down and
more than 100 factories, machine
shops, automobile concerns and other
plants were affected.
Fifteen Riots Occur.
Fifteen separate riots occurred dur
ing the day and as many smaller dis
ulrbances in which cars were stoned,
nonuniOn motormen and conductors
dragged from their platforms and beat
en-, passengers, including women, in
jured and cars disabled.
Employers in the iron trades and
shipbuilding industry charged that the
strike of their men was largely
prompted by sympathy for the strik-
ing street-car men.
In statement issued by the Iron
Trades council from union headquar-
tiers this charge was emphatically de-
MED and the mems side of the case
was laid before the public. The
statement claims that the employers
are getting all the war profits while
all the men ask is a wage sufficient to
maintain their families in decent COM
fort