Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-06-14
FIVE ELECTRICAL MEN
At GOODYEAR WALK
OUT MESA MEN TOO

With the walkout of five electrical
operators at the Goodyear plantation OF
the Southwest Cotton company and
threatened sympathetic strikes by
building trade councils of Phoenix, the
strike situation in the valley again be-
came unsettled yesterday. Five cleo
trical workers at Mesa, including the
city lineman, also joined the list of
strikers yesterday.
At mass meeting of leading mem
bers of the building trade councils OF
Phoenix Thursday evening, ACCESSIBILITY
of calling sympathetic strikes was dis
cussed, it became known last night No
formal action was taken, bat the mat
ter of sympathetic strike will be tax
en- up Tuesday night.
Such sympathetic strikes would have
far-reacii ng effects throughout the
valley and especially in Phoenix whore
the greatest building boom in history
IS now beng experienced. Many mem
bers of the trade council are under con-
tract to their employers, however, and
any strike order sounded would in no
way effect them under the laws of the
different unions, it was announced.
! Insofar as the strike of electrical
workers is concerned, little effect has
/ been noticed. Even with the walkou1
of the five switchboard operators at
the Goodyear plantation yesterday, the
strike had not gained sufficient mo-
mentum to be of any consequence, ac-
cording to the three operating compan-
ies,-the Southwest Cotton company,
the Pacific Gas & Electric company
and the Water Users association.
Pumps at the Goodyear plantation. Of
which there are %, did not stop for a
minute, company officials declared late
last night. Foreman Butterfield contin-
ued in charge of the plants and aided
by two workers, succeeded in keeping
the pumps in operation
"Our electrical employees had only
recently been unionized," declared Ed
ward Parker vice-President and gen.
eral manager of the Southwest Cotton
company, last night. These men, after
attending a union meeting at Phoenix
Thursday night, reported to our fore
man that they had been ordered to
strike against their own wishes; that
they had been voted out after explain
ing to the union that they were salts
fled with existing conditions.
These men are still occupying COM
pany homes at Goodyear. We have
dnlHOlH-c Sc De lac u -trl G, mis- do
nothing against these people and are
not going to put them out in the street
We will allow them a reasonable time
to adjust their affairs after which we
will expect them to vacate," Mr.. Park
er concluded.
Strike of electrical employees at Mesa
also followed the Thursday night meet
ing in Phoenix. Four of the strikers
were in the employ of the South Side
Gas & Electric company. and the fifth
a lineman employed by the city
Threatened spread of the strike Il
the Litchfield plantation of the South.
west Cotton company had not reached
the ears of company officials last night
, 1t was also reported that carpenter.
employed at Litchfield would walk ou
in sympathy with the electrical
| workers. Neither a confirmation or
denial of this report could be secured.
There is little probability of tn,
! strike affecting employees of the Pacific
Gas & Electric company, declared W
I c. Hornberger, an official of the com
s pany, last night. Employees of the com
S pany are not unionized, so far as il
3 known.
There were no new developments il
4 regards the strike of former employee
= OF the Water Users association.