Evening star., 1918-02-16
Officers of Brotherhood of
Carpenters Appeal to Execu-
tive to Intervene,
HURLEY c0NFERS TODAY J
WITH PiEZ AND MACY
Acting Secretary Of Navy Roosevelt
Also in Conference on Sit
uation in Plants.

The shippinE boards wase adjust. !
ment board today agreed to recon.
mend an Increase I'm wages, definite I
working conditions and overtime
pay for all shipyard workers in de !
ing about 60 per cent Of ship work.
ers on the Atlantic coast. 1t Aoes
mot include the striking carpentefA
but fs expected to affect their str1lles
Many Of the striking carpenters.
however, despite the advice Of their
union 0nic8als, have signined their
intention of accepting the award.
The strikers in the New York dis. .
trict have not done 20. but It -
hoped they will. -
The new wnse scale In not n higA
as the Pacific coast rate. nor -
high as the New York strikers De-
mand, but 1t will be the model for
settlements i'm other districts o.
the south Atlantic and gulf coastsss
1t does mot take i'm the striking
carpenters at New York. 1t was sai4s
because they have insisted ON being
dealt with ms n special class, which
the shipping board has been unwtlls
ing to do. The strikers, however,
are perfectly free 60 avail then~
: selves OF the Increases and improved
eoaAitions which the adjustnent
board proposes.
ForHal announcement Of detailD
win be made later.
President Wilson is preparing
to take some action to end the
strikes in Atlantic coast s1ipyards
which threaten to tie up a large
part of the shipbuilding industry
of the east. The President has
given the situation his personal
since yesterday.
A direct appeal to the President
to intervene was made today by
officers of the Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners, approx
mately 50 per cent of whose mem
bers in the New York district are
out today, demanding immediate
assurances of higher wages and
:losed-shop conditions.
Chairman Hurley Of the shipping
board, who last night renewed his de-
nand that William L. Hutcheson, pres-
dent of the Carpenters Brotherhood.
,end the strikers back to work pending
| settlement of their grievances by the
shipping wage adjustment board. took
I'D the situation again today in a con-
'erence with General Manager Piez OF
he Emergency Fleet Corporation; ".
sverit Macy, chairman of the wage adj
ustment board. and Acting Secretary
Roosevelt of the Navy.
Want to Fight Strike.
Managers of shipyards in New York
district and at Baltimore, where the
arpenterS are on strike, have asked
he shipping board to let them fight the
trikes. declaring the time has come
or the issue to be settled. Thus far
Hartman Hurley has refused to permit
his. holding that the troubles can be
ettied by other means.
Shipping board officials today said
hat heads of other unions engaged
SnlpDullClng mad given assurance
hat the related trades would not be
.alled out in sympathetic strikes The
,ther unions. which have agreed to
cave all differences to the adjust.
nent board, are endeavoriNg, shipping
BOARD officials said today, to induce
iutcheson to send his men back to
work, leaving a settlement of diff.
.ulties to the adjustment board.
Rivalry between Hutcheson and
reads of the American Federation of
-abor, some officials today charged,
S at the bottom of much of the trou-
de Hutcheson, it is declared, de-
lined to enter the agreement calling
or settlement of differences by the
board. despite the fact that
le was urged to do SO by federation
hiefS.