Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-10
EAST DISTRICT
AFFECTED, SAYS
UNION PRESIDENT
Bricklayers and Hosting
Engineers Threaten to
Join Carpenters.
END TACOMA DISPUTE:
SOLDIERS ARE ON GUARD
Law Will Rule" Declares
Army Officer Now in
Command.
SEATTLE MEN ARE RETURNING
Many Locals Follow Example of
Street Car Operators and Re-
sumo Their Positions.
MEN ARE RETURNING
Many Locals Follow Example of
Street Car Operators and Re-
sumo Their Positions.


NEW YORK. Feb. a.-aTore than ..
100000 mon will be on strike to morrow
IN various branches of the building
trades activities. it was unoficislly
estimated tonight. a strike order for
a walkout in sympathy with the strilS
ing carpenters employed by the Build
ing Trades Employers Association will
amecs 'n NJ union oricklayers aud hoist
ing engineers throughout the United
the association.
many workers will walk out to-mor-
row. said William /. Hutcheson, prcsi-S
de- dent o1s Of the ne United Brothsrhood OF car
are demanding 81 a day wage Increase
and the bricklayers and hosting enriNg
pathy. More than n score OF large
%ar,: St.iss VIII ~ be Affected. including New
suna,o ufK, chiIag9 nisv,,, Boston washinEton,
and Terre Haute.'
with the strikers until after the lat
ter have returned to work, was tho
declaration Of Samue! B. Donneiiy, sec-8
The carpenters will not return TO work.
until Until they get the extra dollar" de-
rd used for picket duty. to-morrows in
k-
men was threatened by the employers.
according to Hutcheson. ,asfi.
TACOMA STRIKE CALLED
OFF BY COMMITTEES.
TACOMA. WASH. Feb. 9.-The gen.
fclally called off Taco,na's general
strike. effective tomorrow morning ut
y resolution passed by the geneva,
strike committee says:
whereas the general strike has fu,-
,I,z
daIity Of labor. to show the employer
@. ia labor that the worker will. il neces-
shheS: theSs.fo use the general strike; now
Resolved, That each of the crafts or
the metal tshSes hG are mot aiated wit
8 \, Nj. February 10. 1918. 1919 20 "'Sk at
:, That II any craft or individual is
strike committee: Will take such ae-
tion as will put them back on the ioh
bea GGnera, aSnepr, N Morrison has established
i,eauquarters and assumed direction a.,
the activities Of the troops now on riot
ii am glad TO learn that tbar. h,.
tinued We do not wan, any. We are are
not not taking the side Of amy orsnnizao
return to work. no force viii be ha"u useI Cd
to compel them. They are free born
What we are here to do Is to enforce
me law. and that we shall do. If there
are nIe not enough enough troops here there are
VII he given full protection. and indI-
F'duais viii not be molcsted"
MEN DESERT RANKS
AND RESUME WORK
SEATTLE, WASH, Feb. 9-wh,ls
The strategy OF tnc strike leaders enriy
TINS morning forced through in corr
mittee an official declaration for thc
continuance OF the Seattle general
strike. after assuring the m,inicinni
ana military authorities the sirureJn
would be terminated Saturday at MID
nignt, business raen Tonight saw the
HoVement is in process OF collapse
The withdrawal of the street Gar
mems union. declining longer to s,p-
port the general strike though a syn,
pathetic walkout. is being foilowed hv
other locals. and by Tomorrow IL is
pelicVed the disintegratiun will have
progressed 10 the extent OF leaving ma
general strike such in name only
The street cars have been operated
throughout the day without dist,,r
hance Of any kind. Cars are running
The typographical. pressmen and
other newspaper unions are at work
Win al papers now issuing
All theaters and moving-pictrre
SHOWS VIII! reopen morrow The
ionGshoremen are in session and will
likely vote to return to work but
whether they do or not. water-fron,
activities will be resumed to-morrow
, As the employers union has been given
assurances of absolute protection in
the operation OF their ships which ar
rived in the terminals