Evening journal., 1917-11-01
local SHIPYARD
Strike Settled
BY arbitration
Workers Accept 10 Per Cent.
Wage Increase and 90
Back Tomorrow
JUDGE CRAY FACTOR
IN The settlement

In special meeting last night and after
= three-hour session during which the
situation was discussed from every angle.
nearly one thousand members Of Local
Union No. 494, International Union of
Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders and
Helpers of America, who have been on
strike for about ten weeks at the plant
of the Harlan and Hollngsworth Cor
poration voted TO accept the plans as
submitted through r. b. Stevens, vice
chairman of the United States Shipping
Board OF the Emergency Fleet Corpora
tion, looking to settlement Of the dis
pute, thereby insuring peace again be-
tween the employer and the employe.
Accordingly the strike will be declared
of tomorrow morning, the men will re-
turn to work and the strike breakers
brought here TO take their places will be
dismissed and sent out of town to the
places from which they came. The set
tlement does not affect the machinists
strike.
The proposition accepted by the union
men follows:
(D An immediate increase of ten per
cent. in wages, being a temporary con
cession pending a final decision BY the
National Ship Yard Labor Adjustment
Board; the wage scale.finaHy settled by
the Adjustment Board to be retroactive,
beginning with the day that the men
return to work.
(2) All professional strike breakers
must leave the Company's works, but
the men who have come to learn the
business and who are not strikebreakers
shall be permitted to remain at work.
l3l There shall be no discrimination
against the men who went out and who
are returning to work.
r. B. STEVENS,
vice-Chairman u. S. Shipping Board.
CHARLES ?. MOUSLEY,
Sect L. 494
It was at the close of the meeting
that Charles p. Mousley, secretary oi
Local No. 494, offered the motion that
the strike be declared off tomorrow
morning and this motion was adopted.
General Organizer William J. Buckley
opened the meeting which was attended
by practically every member Of ths
union in this city. He spoke of--ths
conference held last Monday night in
the law Offices of former Federal Judge
George Gray when representatives, of ths
Harlan and Hollingsworth Corporation
the labor unions and patriotic citizens
interested in the settlement Of the
strike were in conference with r. B. Stew
ems Of the Federal Shipping Board. and
when the local situation was discussed
at length.
Mr.. Buckley then introduced Judge
Gray, the chairman Of the citizens com
mittee which is so largely responsible
for the settlement of the dispute anC
the distinguished jurist was given an
ovation as he rose TO speak. The ap
plause that greeted him was CONTINUED
for nearly five minutes before he coulC
make himself heard and then he saiS
his remarks were to be a heart-to-h heart
man-to-man talk.
Judge Gray first spoke of some o
the details of the settlement of the min
ers' strike in 1902 when arbitration de
cided and the mine operators and miner
got together" and settled their differ
ences. through the aid Of the Govern
ment Arbitration Board of which judy
Gray was chairman. He told of his low
and respect for John Mitchell and. tn
other miners union leaders, and com
pared the situation then with the situa
fion at the H. & II. plant, saying tha
both sides thought they were honest, bu
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