The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-09-21
Steel SHIPS TO
Be TIED UP BY
STRIKE MONDAY

Steel ship building in Seattle
will be practically at q stand
s,lil BY the middle Of next
week. uniess some settlement
10 made OF the sympathetic
strike Of 5000 carpenters and
Joiners called Sept. Z 20 enforce
eiphthour demands Of $4,000
striking timber workers.
There IA only ono steel ship yard
In the city nov running under nor.
nal conditions. Three others are
being compelled TO lay off steel
workers daily aud II was predicted
Friday that by next Wednesday
practically all construction work
would have TO be suspended.
Won't Move Unfair Lumber
Tho men in the yards are fully
organized and the steel workers
are refusing 10 move staging built
with unfair" lumber.
The steel workers are being kept
at tasks not involving tho use OF
"unfair" lumber. but. according to
shipyard officials. the point IL being
rapidly reached when Il will be i'm.
possible TO carry on the work with.
out the use OF lumber.
Skinner a Eddy Co. yards are
running fun blast. tho company
having signed an agreement with
its carpenters to use only eight
hour lumber.
1900 Near End OF Work
Six hundred riyeters have been
laid off at the J. r. Duthie yards,
and. according 20 c. ID. Bowles,
president OF the company. by Mon.
day 1900 men will be out OF work.
Bowles declared Friday that the
reason for the layoff was that there
were no men available TO move
staging about tho steel hulls.
Il won't AJAX men to punish
themselves working for me-" said
ilowles. These men will be fined
II they touch the lumber we have
to use. and ! don't feel at liberty
to sign the agreement they ask
until tho shipping board empowers
me to do So"
Says Mills Not Hurt
Bowles also issued the following
statement:
THE men laid off have been
forced out by the action OF the
union in refusing To handle stag.
ing. Altho It has been In the plant
and they have been working on II
for more than n year. they now de-
clare 1t unfair. thus automatically
throwing the men out of work.
I'VE have laid off 600 men and
viii be compelled to lay Off at
least that many more before the
week is over. This company and
the men themselves are being in
iured rather than the sawmills at
which the strike Is aimed"
Ames Plant Crippled
AZ the Ames shipbuilding plant.
conditions are similar to those at
the Duthie yards. altho not so many
men have been laid off.
T. A. ID. Jones, assistant TO the
president. declared Friday that the
plant was seriously crippled and
NuhA ~ 'bhih NV bftidNt hlOlt Nlun
n week longer.
I'VE will have TO lay Off large
number Friday and Saturday" he
said, "and by the middle of the
week all erection work will have
to be suspended"
Erection work IL the principal
work in the building OF new ships
Gains Are Reported
The Seattle Construction & Dry
dock plant. according to officials.
has laid Off 80 riveters and Is fac
ing complete paralysis OF new ship
building. altho repair work and
work In the machine shops has not
been greatly affected.
Gain we're made In the lumber
workers strike Thursday and Fri.
day, J. Il. Huff. business agent Of
the union. announcing that two
large lumber camps In the northern
part of the state had resumed CD.
GRAFTON on an eight-hour basis. !