The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-17
SHIP BUILDERS
ASK 50 PERCENT
WAGE INCREASE
Workers in More Than 100
Plants Walk Out.
u. S. AGENTS HANDLE CASE
{ ederaI Contracts Totallng
$l50,000,000 Affected,
BULLETIN.

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Sporadic rioting closely following
the walkou, today Of iron workers
and shipbuilding, sympathiiers Of
one group attacked United Railroad
street cars and beating two substi.
tutes replacing striking platform
men, according to police reports. \
riot call was sent IN and patrol.
men dispersed tho crowd With
drawn revolvers.
The ironworkers' strike spread
today to many shops whore ma
ehinists were employed, Laundry
workers In thirty-one places walked
out, sixty mOldins plants we're lied
up, twelve boiler and garment fac
tories partly suspended operations
and machinish In automobile shops
quit, according to reports Issued
from strike headquarters.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept H.-Ap.
proximatrly 250W iron workers and
metal trades mechanics engaged in var
emergency construction in San FraAs
cisco and hay cities. went on strike a
Q o'clock today, following rejection ol
their demands for a 50 percent increase
in wages The walkou, in more thai
100 plants was carried out without
hitch, it was reported. ......s
Last Hour Efforts Fail
Fcvcrish eleventh hour efforts Il
avert the strike by employers and rep
rcscntativcS OF the United States ship
ping board failed Proposals TO srbi-
tra,e on a basis of 10 percent increase
offered had been rejected by the con.
ference committee of the iron trades
council, composed Of twenty five Unions,
on whose authority the strike was de-
Clared.
The walkout affects more than $780,
WOOm IN government shipbuilding and
engine construction contracts and auto
maiically ties up other constructioa
works.
The Union Iron works, the Moore
Scott Iron works both shipbuildinG
plants, and the Pacific foundry wen
closed Immediately.
In Federal Hands.
Settlement OF the strike, declared b
be San Francisco's largest industrial
trouble. is entirely in the hands OF tn
federal government, employers an
nOunced
In the hope Of adjusting the Difficult.
", further conferences between TN
California metal trades association, tn
organization OF employers and the iron
trades council were to be held today.
In addition to the walkout OF iron and
metal trades, shpyard taboren and
carpenters had voted to stsike
No Violence Reported.
No violence OF any Kind was reported
i, was said that troops would b
called TO guard the shipbuilding plant
as a precautionary measure.
Officials OF the Union Iron work., III
largest Of the concerns affected, In I
public statement asserted that the walk
out was no, for higher wages, but h
support OF the strike OF the men Of u
united railroads here for higher Wages
shorter hours and recognition OF thei
union, which entered its sixth week 10
day
Other Plants Affected.
Among other large plants affected Or
the Union, Atlas and Standard Gas q
gino companies, the Hall Scott EnGin
company, the Byron Jackson and h
Oliver Manufacturing companies, q,
the Der, Gas Traction company.
Employees announced that II the strit
is OF long duration probably 10000 pes
sons, including organized workmsa {
relative trades, and their families vi
be involved.
Must Have Federal Sanction.
K s, Scott OF the Moore Scott CON
pany said that the contracts with tl'
employees were prohibited from grantin
any INCREASES without federal ssrctio'
No attempt will be made to operat
any of the factories or works with suo
stitutes, according 10 announcement
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