The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-04

TO END
STRIKE
One Hundred Thousand Car
penters are Asking Wage
Of One Dollar an
Hour.
RAILWAY sHoPMEN OUT
Steel Workers Idle Today Because
Equipment is Not Available
at the Furnaces
Now.
RAILWAY sHoPMEN OUT

CUnited Press Leased Wire Service ]
CHICAGO, Aug. 4.-States Attorney
Maclay Hoyne conferred today with
Chicago building contractors in an
effort to halt the embargo on approx
mately $125, 900 900 worth of building
and allow more than 10G, 900 men to
go back to work.
Building conditions had been tied
up for several weeks. Carpenters
asked 81 an hour.
Hope Thompston, attorney for the
carpenters asked court action today
on what he calls a conspiracy be-
tween contractors and building ma
terial dealers to prevent the sale OF
building material to independent deal
ers until the strike Is over
shopmen's Demand.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-Bert M.
Jewell, president of tha railway de.
partment of the American Federation
OF Labor, announced today he intended
to see President Wilson before night
with regard to the shopmen's wage
demands.
Jewell Is directing the strike vote
now being taken among 100000 rail
way shopmen In the United States
and 100, 900 in Canada
He ordered the vote Saturday when
Rail Director Hines made clear the
railroad administration has no money
to great demands of the shopmen for
increases averaging rs per cent
Hines also urged the shopmen to
await action Of congress upon Pres1.
dent Wilson's plan for special COM
mittee to study wage demands of all
railroad workers.
It was learned that Jewell plans to
tell the president that officials of tho
shopmen's union will be unable to pre-
vent strike unless wages are In
creased Immediately.
Union officials said the shopmen be-
lieye that If the rail administration
has no money to grant demands now,
that congress should make additional
appropriations. Union officials also
said If this is done workers win be
content to await the permanent solu'
ton of the problem of high wages
through the plan proposed by the
president.
Shopmen are dissatisfied, 1t is ex-
planned. because their last wage in
crease was in January, 1918, whereas
creases to other classes OF railroad
workers last September.
Steel Workers Idle.
CHICAGO, Aug. 4.-Ten thousand
steel workers at Gary, Indiana and
other points in the Chicago industrial
districts were idle today, the result OF
the strike Of railway shopmen. 1t
was predicted every steel furnace in
Gary, Joliet and South Chicago will be
closed in q week unless the strike
is settled
The steel workers were forced to
quit because equipment was not avail
able after the shopmen quit. Only
four blast furnaces were going In the
steel city today.
Two thousand five hundred shop
men employed by several roads, at
meeting today renewed their pledge
not to quit until the issue was set
tied. More than 10000 men are on
strike throughout the country, reports
said, 10000 of them being in Chicago
Increased Car Faro.
CHICAGO, Aug. 4.-Seven and eight
cent fares on Chicago surface and
elevated lines will begin tomorrow
in the opinion of authorities here and
officials of the state public utilities
icommisson. The higher fares were de-
clared necessary to pay the increased
wages agreed in settlement Of the
four day traction strike here, last
week. Five cents is the surface car
fare now while six cents is charged
on the elevated lines.
All classes of Turkish women
once wore wells in public, but
among the enlightened women there
Is now a leaning toward the Euro
nean custom.