The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-02-18
SHIPYARD STRIKE OYER:
WILSON'S WORD EFFECTIVE
National Organizer John Rice Says About 5000
Workers in Atlantic Seaboard Shipyards En-
gagged on Government Contracts Returned
Monday, Result Presidents Telegram.

New York, Feb. p1S.-The strike B,
carpenters in the Atlantic Seaboars
shipyards, engaged on sovernmen
contracts, is over, John Rice, nationa
organizer Of the United Brotherhood
OF Carpenters and Joiners, said today
Several thousand men, who are still
idle, are expected to be at work to
morrow morning.
About 5000 Of the strikers returned
to- work this morning, Mr.. Rice est-
mated.
In yards at Philadelphia, Baltimore
Jersey City, Elizabethport,. Newark
and New York, about six thousand
carpenters quit work this morning,
Mr.. Rice announced, because they
were unaware of the fact that VIM.
IL. Hutcheson, president of the broth
erhood, had responded to President
W iifons itftof st rig bV an
nouncing he would endeavor to in
huence the strikers to resume work
pending settlement of their grievances
by the wage adjustment board.
Seek to Reach Others.
Many of these 5000 were later in
formed of this situation and returned
TO the yards, Mr.. Rice said, and dur
ing the day every effort would be
made to get in touch with the others.
A mass meeting of striking car
penters had been called in Brooklyn
today and at this gathering these men
Will be instructed to return Mr. Rice
said. i
Within twenty minutes after Presi-
dent Wilson'S telegram to VIM. L.
Hutchinson, president of the brother
hood, had been received last night, en-
ergetic steps were taken by union Of
1lces to notify all the workers to obey
the wishes of the president.
While President Hutcheson de-
clined to supplement his, reply to
President Wilson last night, in which
ne said he would use his influence to
induce the strikers to return, T. L.
Guerin, a member of the executive
committee said:
That ls Enough, Men Going Back.
The president has spoken and that
Is enough. The men are going back
Washington. Feb. Is. - Shipping
board officials were confident today
that president Wilson's intervention in
the, strike of carpenters in eastern
'shipyards had had its desired effect and
that the men would go back to york
pending settlement of their grievances
by the wage adjustment board The
president took q hand in the situation
last night and issued sharp rebulse
to VIM. T. Hatchason. president of the
United brotherhood OF Carpenters and
Joiners, who had refused to send the
strikers back to work and requested a
personal conference to lay the matter
before the president. .
The president in his telegram to
Hutcheson. declared if the union leader
did not wish to give aid and comfort
to the enemy he would direct the men
to return to their jobs pending settle
ment. The president declined to see
Hutcheson until he had done so.
This message brought prompt action
from President Hutcheson and local
union officials in affected districts were
notified last night to ask the men un-
der their jurisdiction to return to work
today. The union leader Informed the
men that he wanted the wish of the |
of the United States complied |
with Immediately.