The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17
CARPENTERS UNION PRESIDENT IS STILL
 DEFIANT AND WILSON
 WILL TAKE A HAND
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trades engaged in shipbuilding has de- clined to let it adjust difficulties. Hutcheson, they said, agreed to let tho board fix wages and hours of la Dor but steadfastly refused to leave to 1t the question of conditions of la bor. including the question of the open or closed shop.
 Officers of the American Federation of Labor, it was. declared tonight, have little sympathy with Hutcheson's attitude and are likely to repudiate him.
 Local organizations Of the carpen- ters along the south Atlantic, gulf and Pacific coasts, despite orders from Hutcheson, are leaving to the adjust ment board, it's members said tonight, all questions affecting their relations with their employers.
 SCALE OUTLINED
 The Delaware river and Maryland award, given out today establishes uniform wage scale and working conditions in 60 per cent of the At lantic coast yards. It gives carpenters minimum wage of $560 day and the striking Baltimore carpenters, al- though not parties to the agreement, will be permitted to accept. it's pro- visions if they so desire. The award will be used as a basis for arrang- ing other agreements. The adjustment board will go south next week and the week after expects to take ul consideration of a New York district scale.
 Today's award by establishing identi- cal conditions in all the yards included, Will put a stop, officials said tonight, to most of the unrest in these yards and will check the practice of some employ CTS In hiring away each others men, It establishes eight-hour day prohibits more than 10 hours labor, creates open shop conditions, gives substantial wage increases. takes off the limit on piece work production, assures there will be no reduction in piece work pay and pro- vides for retroactive payment of the wage increases provided.
 The new scale Is not as high as the Pacific coast scale. Carpenters under its provisions will be paid $1 less day. It makes no provisions for bonus pay Elm ployers Will be required in certain in- stances to pay the transportation of the workmen.
 The award provides for Saturday half holiday. time and half pay for ordinary overtime and double pay for Sundays and holidays. Men employed on night shifts will draw per cent higher pay than those employed in the day time.
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 Eight-hour shifts are urged on employ CTS and employees wherever the system can be put into effect.
 In deciding that the limit shall be re- moved from the amount of piece work a workman turns out. the board has taken a long step forward and has opened the way for an increase in production esti- mated at from % to 30 per cent At the same time, in ordering that no piece 1-l~ -I~, I~xx< removed the cause for limiting output Unions heretofore have limited the out put of piece workers on the grounds that as soon as man began to draw unusually high pay the piece rate was reduced
 The piece work arrangement, it was said tonight, probably will be extended to all yards in the country as fast as employers and employees can be induced to agree to it's provisions.
 The new wage rate ranges from $1 S5 an hour minimum for hammer and ma chine forgers to 40 cents for laborers. The average pay is 70 cents an hour
 NO SPECIAL EXCEPTIONS Shipping board officials tonight said that to make special exception of the case of the carpenters, as asked by Hutcheson. would upset their entire labor programme The magnitude of the ship building plans, they said, forced them to deal through the adjustment board with the unions as whole Hutcheson, they said. could not be treated with sepa- rately but must come to the adjustment board, as have the others.
 Members Of the adjustment board to- night said that the assurance of the New York metal workers that they would continue at work made the situation look much less serious than 1t did a day or SO ago. Although officials say the strikes could be broken in short time because of the many idle carpenters who could be employed, they oppose any such steps just as strongly as they do any efforts to force the men to go to work by holding over them the threat of mill itary service. The government, they say, intends .o play fair in its relations with labor. If the strikes were deliberate attempt to cripple the government. they say. then sharp measures would be made necessary.
 HUTCHESON'S ATTITUDE New York. February l6.--Insisting that she was unable to coll off the strike of