New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-18
Pacific Coast Walkout A.
fects $15O,OOO,OOO
Contracts
Shipping Board
Head to Intervene
Hurley Will Hasten West
if Wage Deadlock
Continues
Especial Corrapondsneel

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17.-Twenty-
FIVE thousand workmen, most of them
skilled mechanics, gathered up their
tools and walked out of more than 100
factories. shipyards and machine shops
in the Bay region at 9 o'clock this
morning. Following the strike in the
| larger plants, the walkout extended
rapidly and now threatens to involve
all establishments employing ma
I chinists.
The strike is considered the biggest
in the history of the Pacific Coast.
| Work on more than sl50O00 900 con-
struction of navy and merchant vessels
/ came to standstill in the two most
important plants affected-the Union
Iron Works and the Moore & Scott
Iron Works.
Efforts to break the deadlock between
the employers and the men and avert
the strike continued to the last.
Eleventh hour proposals by both
sides met with refusals. Conference
committees representing the Iron Trades
Council, the central body of the strikers
union, and the California Metal Trade.
Association and California Foundry
mems Association, the employers or
ganization, will continue to meet, how
ever. This course was decided on in
order that every possible development
promising a termination OF the strike
might be acted upon at once,
Capps's Aid at Conferences
James l.. Ackerson, representing Ad-
miral Capps. head of the United States
Shipping Board, will be in attendance
for the purpose of keeping the gov
ernment in immediate touch with the
situation. Mayor James Rolph, jr., was
a. his Office at the City Hall at 8
o'clock this morning. The Mayor de-
clined to state whether he had any plan
for dealing with the strike.
The Mayor later held several con-
ferences on the iron trades and united
railroads strikes and the disorders oc-
curing to-day. The strike spread
rapidly to a number of small shops and
threatens to involve every shop where
machinists or other striking crafts are
employed.
Machinists quit work in thirty-one
steam laundries, sixty moulding shops,
twelve boiler factories, and q number
Of garment and other factories. Al
the Union Iron Works alone, with
more than sl25,000,000 of government
ship construction. and contracts pend
ing for share of the destroyer fleet
programme amounting to millions
more, about $500 men quit.
At the Moore & Scott yards, IN
Oakland, with about 100000 in mer-
chant vessel construction for the gov
ernment, the number of strikers was
about 200. At the local plant about
300 walked out At the Union Iron
Works plant in Oakland, $500 men
walked out.
Aeroplane Machinists Stick TO Work
Contrary to expectations, the 450
machinists employed at the Hall Scott
Motor Company, in Berkeley, manu-
featuring aeroplane engines for the
government, did not strike, and Off
GERS of the company said they expected
no trouble.
Rioting continued this afternoon in
connection with the streetcar strike
with crowds of striking ironworkers
Joining the streetcar strikers IN at
tacks on cars and car crews. The dis
orders became widespread soon after
the ironworkers walked out this morn
ing. Within an hour after the walk
out five riot calls came from different
parts of the city as groups Of strikers
scattered and made succession OF at
tacks