The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17

| Union Iron Works. one tnousahu
iunion iron works strikers paradeo
down Market street jeering at strike
/ breaking motormen and conductors
as they passed on street cars. TIRES
cars were partially wrecked before
/ the iron workers reached the LABOR
| temple.
At 1915 a. m, six riot calls hau
ibeen turned in from the Mission dis.
] trict where it was reported several
street cars had been attacked ana
the crew beaten.
Began at Nine O'clock.
| sAN FRANCISCO, Sept. IA
strike of $4,000 iron workers en-
! ployed in the ship yards of san fran
cisco and the Bay cities, began OH
cialIy at nine a. N. today, II was an
nounced by officials of the iron trades
council.
At the Union Iron works, the lars-
est plant in this section, hundreds OF
men who had entered the plant al
eight O'Clock began to walk out before
nine and for the first time In the
plants history, not hammer was
lifted or a bit OF work done.
The strike is expected to paralyze
completely ship building in San Fran
cisco Bay district, affecting all plants,
large and small, in San Francisco,
Osk Iand and Alameda. 1t was stated
at the headquarters Of the Iron
Trades council that the situation Is
now up TO the federal authorities at
washington and that federal agents
have already begun work towards an
adjustment.
Mayor RoIph, who has taken an &C
tive part in the effort to prevent the
strike and who is himself interested
in ship building, was at his ONCE at
500 a. m. and Immediately plunged
into a series of conferences with both
sides in the controversy.
Mediator Takes Charge.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-William
Blackman, mediator from the depart
ment of labor, today took charge OF
the ship yard labor problem on the
coast. Seattle workers are still out
but 1000 men at Portland, Oregon,
have withheld striking pending an adj
/ justment.
The delegation of Portland men
| who conferred Saturday with Chair
man Hurley of the shipping board and
Rear Admiral Caps, of the Emerg-
epcv Fleet corporation conferred
again today.
Rear Admiral Caps and Mediator
Blackman arrived at decision today
regarding concessions the government
will make. The problem has been
taken from the jurisdiction OF the
wage adjustment department.
Nothing official has been received
! today at shipping board headquarters
regarding the strike OF $4,000 WORK
erg at San Francisco.
Most Serious In History.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1.-THE
most serious strike in the history OF
the Pacific coast began here today
Following the walkout of 24,OOC
members of unions affiliated with the
Iron Trades council which tied VI
every ship building plant in the Sar
| Francisco bay cities, rioting broke
out in many parts of the city. VI
to noon a dozen cars of the United
Railways whose platform men have
been on strike for month, had been
partially wrecked. Half dozen
street car strike breakers had been
beaten, two Of them seriously. A
bomb containing dynamite caps was
also exploded under one street car III
the Mission district, badly damaging
II.
! simultaneously with the wa(kou
of the iron workers and other unior
men employed by the Union 1ror
works here, 10000 ship yard work
ers went on strike in Oakland anc
| Alameda. Employees of the STANDARD
| OH Co, in Richmond were also re
! ported to be on the verge Of strike
| although this was denied by loca
Standard Oil company officials. Gov
ernm ent contracts involving expendi
ture Of s150.000,000 are completely
| tied up by the strike. AS result
direct intervention by the govern
ment is momentarily expected.
! II is believed the federal shipping
board or the federal adjustment board
will demand an immediate settlement
of the troubles which brought on the
| tie up.
Immediately after the ship build
ers walked out, 1000 of these strik
ers paraded down Market street and
/ the Mission district, jeering strike
! breaking car men. An hour after the
/ ship building strike opened, disorders
! in the Mission district began. A hur
ried conference Of police officials was
/ held at noon regarding methods OF
! handling the rioting.
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