The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-25
Us. FAILS TO STOP
Big WAR CONTRACTS
Continued from First Pooe.

handed a week ago construction of
The plant in Jersey. where Henry Ford
vas to mako Eagle boats. It was to
cost from s12.oO0,00o to s15.0o0,ooO
and was about 40 per cent completed
The same company has stopped work
nm a :20,000,o00 Government nitrate
plant near Cincinnati.
snare & Triest had the foundation
laid for a 100000 storage building for
e,rplanes in Brooklyn when the con-
.rsct was cancelled Just after the en-
,,,ovees struck because overtime had
,Asn eliminated. No halt has been
called on the Quartermaster depot at
Philadelphia or an Ordnance Depart
ment building near Raritan, n. j.,
which this company ls building.
structural work for the Ordnance
-erartment that lie being done by the
Macarthur Bros. Company, has been
slsckened on orders from Washington,
mn the contract Is not cancelled.
tIaIf Of the 5000 employees are being
aid of gradually and are finding other
Jobs readily.
There Il no hint OF cessation IN con-
nection with the $35,Ooo,o 900 army base
and the 100000 naval base which
me Turner Construction Company is
huilding for the Government in South
BROOKLYN. The army base was to be
finished January and the naval base
is about three-quarters done. On
thursday several thousand workers
vent on strike at the army base be-
cause no overtime, with its pay and
a half" was allowed under the new
Government order. 50 here is curl
ous case in which men are striking,
not for a shorter day but for q longer
one.
compers Asked to Investigate.
Other strikes In the building trades
have little direct relation to the end Of
the war, but are based, union men say,
on the necessity Of UNFOLDING labor
standards in New York city" Tho
csrpenters want q continuance Of
$3.50 O day.
Business Agent Robert p. Brindell
Of the Dock Builders Union said yes
terday that he was preparing to call
out $500 ship carpenters at the Staten
Island shipyards to-day. He said the
strike now affected the piers Of the
standard OIL Company at Bayonne, the
New York Central Railroad at Wee
hawken and the Port Newark Termi-
nal
Ernest Bohm, secretary OF the Cen
trail Federated Union, was instructed
10 telegraph Samuel Gompers for an
investigation of "the general building
strike movement In this city"
The E. W. Bliss Company stirl has
its normal number OF 5000 workers
making shells and torpedoes and ex-
pects to continue this work even after
reace Is signed. The Morse Dry Dock
Company is still building ships and
converting merchant vessels into
transports at its South Brooklyn yards.
It has had the straight eight hour
Jay since November 10 on Govern
,nent work. but Is working overtime
on private contracts and expects no
strikes.
Tho Shswan Dry Dock and Repair
Company, South Brooklyn. has 1000
men on war contracts, and has not
.ound Il necessary to drop any OF
them. At the Tebo Yacht Basin just
rs many workers as ever are building
mine layers and sweepers.
In Queens, where a great deal OF
var work was concentrated, new work
has been practically abandoned and
ne factories are operating only to
finish the material that was in process
n; making at the time Of the signing
o. the armistice. The owners are
waiting to learn from the United
states authorities what is to be done
bout the unfinished part of contracts
Most firms are convinced that the I'M
f2ished part OF their contracts will be
cancelled and therefore they are plan
Ming for future operations along COM
'nercisl lines.
A a result OF this situation about
1000 men and about 400 women have
lost their Jobs within the past two
weeks. Very little employing is being
done in Queens. At the Office of tn,
United States Employment Service If
Long Island City the orders for hell
rom the local establishments have
greatly diminished as q temporary
'onsequence Of the prevailing uncer
talnty.
$500 out at Gao Defence Plant.
Up TO noon yesterday $500 men anC
women out of $4,000 employed at thu
Gas Defence plant had been let out
out Of more than 5000 who had beer
cleared by Friday l.41S got work befor,
they left the plant from the agencies
Tut TO work by the management; "a
refused jobs that had been offered anC
400 refused any assistance In secur
ing future employment. OF this lat
ter number about 80 per cent, ac
cording TO the management, wer'
women who had gone to work from
patriotic motives and who would no
seek other employment. A large For
centage of the others have gone bacl
- old Jobs.
IN this plant only the work starte'
hefore the signing OF the armistic
IS being finished, and as fast as an.
department ends its work II Is closed
i is believed that there will be som
apartments at work until the middl
Of December.
The Wright Martin plant has lai
Of about 800 mechanics and ha
almost completely closed down It
night shift and is operating upon a
eight hour basis. Some OF the mel
IRON the night shift have been take
into the day shift 70 make up for tn
fhortage created by the reduction O
the hours Of employment.
The Victor r. Browning plant a
College Point. which was maxim
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