Arizona republican., 1917-09-19
GOVERNMENT UNDERTAKES TO SETTLE STRIKES HOLDING UP
 COAST SHIP CONSTRUCTION
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

i WASHINGTON, Sept. 1S.-The gov 1 ernment today undertook to settle the , strike of iron workers at San Fran i cisco ship building plants working on government contracts without await | ing a basic agreement on other strikes | in Seattle ship yards Reports to the 1 shipping board from Captain A. F. | Pillsbury, the boards agent on the Pacific coast, indicated a more favor able outlook on the situation, which is interfering with one-eighth of the | governments ship construction. Chairman Hurley, of the shipping board, expects to leave for San Fran cisco tomorrow with William Black
 mon, department of labor con
 ciliator. Before departing he will confer further with Samuel Gomrers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and chairman of the De
 fense Councils labor committee, to whom he appealed today for aid 1 Secretary Wilson has ordered w. T. Boyce assistant commissioner of inn migration of San Francisco, to offer his services as mediator. Secretary Daniels also has joined in the goT
 ernment's efforts. He conferred dur ing the day with MT. Hurley concern
 ing the effect of wage increases on navy contracts.
 MT. Hurley said tonight he believed
 the strike on the Pacific coast will
 end shortly under an agreement by (which the men will be granted higher pay, the burden of which would De l divided between the ship builders and l the government with the government proportion larger for builders making small profits He will suggest such plan at San Francisco, Seattle, Port land and other coast cities he visits next week.
 Officials of the shipping board hold that the wage problem belongs prl- marily to the workmen and the com panies, and that the governments in terest is only that of the owner of the ships whose construction is held up by the disputes Some officials think
 the ship companies should have made
 more strenuous efforts to reach agree
 ments with their workmen, without
 passing the responsibility to the gov ernment Special resentment is felt over reports that few employers told union leaders the government would not allow wage increases.
 | Secretary Daniels announced tonight that the commandant of the Mare
 Island navy yard had reported work progressing efficiently there without regard to unsettled labor conditions Commandant said all employees of the
 navy yard were loyal
 Seek Strike Solution | SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1S.-Gov- ernment machinery moved rapidly to- day to settle the strike of approXi- mately 25,000 iron workers and ship : builders whose walkout Monday morn
 ing, after rejection of higher wage de mands, paralyzed one hundred or more
 great and small industrial plants in l x-ioir nd tia1 n , war emergency construction totallnS scores of millions of dollars.
 The first concrete result of con-
 ference called by W. T. Boyce, assis- , tant immigration commissioner here. appointed today by Secretary of Labor Wilson as federal mediator and con ,ciliator the committees of the Califor mia Metal Trades association and the Iron Trades Council, the organizations E of employers and employees, respect l lively, was serious discussion of plan t whereby the striking craftsmen, mem bers of 25 unions, might return to work with pay based on the scale of r wages paid at Mare Island navy yard. ? No definite action was taken, the
 conferees adjourning until James L. ; Ackerson, representing the United
 States shipping board, had had oppor- 5 tunity to ascertain the federal wage scale.
 Other representatives, including Cap : tain A. F. Pillsbury, district agent of i the shipping board, and Mayor James
 Rolph, Jr., threw themselves into the
 massed efforts to find a compromise
 course to settle the controversy.
 Leaders of the men expressed will ingness to discuss any reasonable com
 promise which might be offered of
 ficially. It was felt generally at the i headquarters of both factions that
 some method of speedily ending the
 strike would be found.
 To Restrain l. w. w. I PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 1S.-By rec a ommendation of Governor James Withycombe who acted at the request
 of the Hammond Lumber company. e one company of the Third Oregon in fantry was sent to Astoria today by i, Colonel c. E. Dentler, U. S. A., com
 manding the northwest army, to pre-
 1 vent Industrial Workers of the World
 from intimidating workers in the ship
 l yards. The troops are under orders n to protect all work being done for the s government. They will open the ship = yards for work and see that any men s who apply for work are unmolested, s it was said.
 n About half the force of 300 men at q this mill and 20 at another yard are l. on strike.