The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-02-21
WILSON REFUSES
TO see UNION HEAD
Executive Tells Ship Strikers
That They Are Aiding the
Enemy.
HAD NO RIGHT TO STRIKE
Hutchinson Told by President THAT
Workers Should Not Have Quit
Until Every Method Of Adjust
ment Had Been Tried.

| new YORK, FeD. l9-The Shipyard
| strike, which threatened to tie up the
entire shipbuildlng program of the
| United States on the Atlantic coast
| has been ended at least temporarily
by the personal appeal of President
| Wilson. President William Hutchinson
and the officials of the Brotherhood of
| Carpenters and Joiners telephoned to
| all local officials, asking them to have
the men under their jurisdiction back
| at work at once, and wired union Off
cials in Baltimore and other places that
he wanted the wish of tie president
of the United States complied with inn
mediately.
Washington, Feb. 10. - President
Wilson has telegraphed William l..
Hutchinson, general president of the
! brotherhood Of Carpenters and Join
ers, that he can see nothing OF be
| gained by comforting with him person
ally about the strike of shipyard car.
penters until he has accepted and
acted upon the principle that in the
present circumstances Of the nation
no body of men has the right to strike
until every method of adjustment has
been tried 10 the limit.
The presidents message was sent
in reply to one received from Hutch
eson saying he had been unable to
reach an understanding with ShicialS
of the shipping board but felt that if
given an opportunity TO lay the mat
ter before the president solution
could be arrived at quickly. 1t was
made public on Sunday, as follows:
william l.. Hutchinson.
General President United Brother
hood Of Carpenters and Joiuers of
America.
New York
u have received your telegram Of
yesterday and am very glad TO note
the expression Of your desire as a pa.
triotic citizen to assist In carrying on
the work by which we are trying to
save America and men everywhere
who work and are free.
Taking advantage Of that assur-
ance. ! feel 1t to be my duty to call
your attention to the fact that the
strike of the carpenters In The ship
yards is in marked and painful con
trast to the action of labor In other
trades and places Ships are abso-
lutely necessary for the winning of
this war. No one can strike a dead
Her blow AT the safety of the nation
and its forces on the other side
| than by interfering with or Obstruct-
Ing the shipbuilding program.
"All the other unions engaged In
| this Indispensable work have agreed
! to abide by the decision of the ship
building wage adjustment board.
That board has dealt fairly and lib
orally with all who have resorted to
1t. ! must say 10 you very frankly
that II Is your duty to leave to it the
solution of your present difficulties
with your employers and to advise
the men whom YOU represent 10 re-
turn at once pending the decision.
NO body of men has the moral
right In the present circumstances Of
the nation to strike until every
method of adjustment has been tried
TO the limit. If you do not act upon
this principle you are undoubtedly
giving aid and comfort to the enemy,
whatever may be your own conscious
purpose.
81 do not see that anything will he
gained by my seeing you personally,
until YOU have accepted and acted
upon that principle. 1t Is the duty
of the government to see that the
best possible conditions of labor are
maintained. ms It Is also It's duty TO
see to It that there Is no lawless and
constituencies prohteering and that
duty the government hns accepted
ana VIII perform.
VIII you cooperate or will you OBJ
struCtl
CSgned) WOODROW WILSON,