Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-18
men COBACK
ASRESULT0F
WILSON PLEA
Workers Return to Jobs
Trusting in President to
End Dispute.

New York, Feb. 1S.-The strike
by carpenters in the Atlantic sea.
board ship yards engaged on gov.
eminent contracts, Is over, John
Rice, national organizer Of the
United Brotherhood of Carpen.
tiers and Joiners, said today. sew.
eral thousand men who are stil
idle are expected to be at work TO.
morrow morning.
About three thousand Of the
strikers returned to work this
morning, Mr.. Rice estimated. "The
men are going back because they
have every confidence that Presi.
dent Wilson will adjust this mat.
ter to their satisfaction" he said.
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 developments. but
many of these were later informed OF
this situation and returned to the
yards.
A mass meeting Of striking carpen-
ters had been called in Brooklyn to-
day and at this gathering these men
will be instructed to return, Mr. Rice
said; meanwhile kilograms and tele-
phone messages are being sent to the
brotherhood locals in other cities.
The probability that the strike Is
nearing its end was confirmed today
by A. C. Wilkie. district officer here
| for the emergency fleet corporation.
There are indications the entire mat
ter will be adjusted this afternoon"
Mr.. Wilkie said.
The strike of shipyards carpenters
in various yards along the Atlantic
seaboard will be at an end by tonight.
according to statements here early to :
day by officers of the United Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners, who
added that they believed the majority
of workmen would be at their accus-
toned tasks by noon.
"President Has Spoken; Enough"
/ While President Hutcheson declined
to supplement his reply to President
Wilson last night in which he said
The would use his influence to induce
the strikers to return, T. L. Guerin. q
member of the executive committee,
said:
1.-THE president has spoken and that
is enough. The men are going back
Confident OF Settlement.
Washington, Feb. 18.-Shipptne
board officials were confident today
THAT President Wilson's Intervention
) in the strike of carpenters in eastern
: ship Yards had had its desired effect
2 and the men would go back to work
pending settlement Of their grievances
' by the wage adjustment board.
: The president took hand in the
situation last night and issued sharI
rebuke to William l.. Hutcheson, pres
: ident of the United Brotherhood o.
! Carpenters and Joiners, who had re
| fused to send the strikers back tt
work and requested personal con
ference to lay the matter before th'
president. The president in his tele
! gram to Hutchinson declared If thu
union leader did not wish to give all
and comfort to the enemy he woul'
direct the men to return to their job
pending settlement. The presiden
declined to see Hutchinson until n
had done so.
Tells Men to Return.
This message brought prompt actio
from President Hutcheson and loca
union officials in affected district
were notified last night to ask IN
men under their jurisdiction to retur
to work today. The union leader In
formed the men that he wanted tn
W. III of the president os the Unite
States complied with Immediately.
In a formal reply to President Wi
son. Hutchinson asked again that tn
president meet him as the 'only wa
In which to solve the problem"
All to BE Back Tomorrow.
Shipping board officials announce
late today that they had received a
surances that all the striking ca
penters in eastern ship yards wou
be back at work tomorrow. A lari
number, they said, had reported 4
work today.
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