Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-17
OF $4,000 IN
SHIPYARDS OF BAY CITY
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will demand an immediate settlement
of the troubles which brought on the
tieup. James l.. Ackerson of the Emer-
gency Fleet corporation, who has been
active for two days in seeking a set
tlement of the strike, could not be To-
Gated this morning and was believed to
have gone into conference with feder-
al officials here.
Immediately after the shipbuilders
walked out 1000 of these strikers pa
raded down Market street and the
Mission district jeering ~strikebreaking
carmen. An hour after the shipbuilding
strike opened, disorders in the Mission
district began. A hurried conference
of police officials was held at noon re-
garding methods of handling the riot
ing.
In Oakland and Alameda 5000 men
walked out at the Union Iron Works,
1900 at the Hanlon dry docks, 300 at
the Stone Iron Works and at least
1000 at various small yards in the
trans-ba district.
District Black With Men
During the morning the Mission dis
trict in San Francisco was black with
men. They were Union Iron Works
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100 to 200. At the crest of one steep
hill in this district a crowd boarded a
United Railroads car and dragged the
crew off. A United Railroads guard,
attempting to guide the car, lost con
troll and it plunged down the hill at
tremendous speed. Just as it was about
to tip over with its human freight, a
broken fender became entangled il a
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Chief of Police White announced a,
noon that division commanders had re-
ported the police were rapidly dispers-
ing the crowds in the Mission. A num-
Der of arrests were made.
The strike took on a general char
acter this afternoon when machinists
and stationary engineers in thirty one
steam laundries and all garment fac
tories walked out. All are affiliated
with the Iron Trades Council. 1t was
reported that garment and laundry
workers might strike in sympathy.
San Francisco, Sept. ia strike of
$4,000 ironworkers employed in the
shipvards of San Francisco and the
bay cities began officially at 8 a. IN.
today, it was announced by officials OF
the lrOn lTdueS COuucll.
At the Union Iron Works, the larg-
est plant in this section, hundreds of
men who had entered the plant at 8
o clock began to walk out before nine
and for the first time in the planes
history not a hammer was lifted or a
bit of work done.
The strike is expected to paralyze
completely shipbuilding in the San
Francisco bay district, affecting all
plants, large and small, San Francisco,
Oakland and Alameda. 1t was stated at
the headquarters Of the Iron Trades
Council that the situation is nov up to
the federal authorities at Washington
and that federal agents have already
begun work towards an adjustment.
Mayor Rolph, who has taken an act
i've part in the effort to prevent the
strike and who is himself interested
in shipbuilding was at his office at s
a. m. and Immediately plunged into n
series of conferences with both sides in
the controversy.
Offers Were Fakes
All day Sunday almost without in
| PERMISSION committees of both sides
were in conference attempting vainly
to reach as agreement. Both sides mod
flied their positions slightly during
these conferences. The men offered to
accept 20 per cent of their original de-
mands and the companies affected, a
ten per cent increase over the wage
scale in effect August 81.
Several times the men offered com
promise agreements submitting the dis
pute to arbitration, but these Offers
were rejected because all reserved the
right to strike in case the arbitration
award should prove unsatisfactory:
THE heads of the big shipyards and
ironworkers are standing out for flat
arbitration.
Neither side has yet formally appeal
ed to the government for intervention
according to James L. Ackerson, a
member of the United States Fleet Cor
poration, who represents that body
here. A6kerson believes, however, that
the government will satisfactorily set
tie the controversy through application
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