The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-10
DOCK WORKERS
TO REMAIN OUT /
Seattle Officials Proceed WIN
Plans for Resuming Indus
trial Activities.
COPPER MINES GUARDED
PickAs Wearing p. 81 Qh1
forms Singled Out BY
Regulars.

Seattle, WASH, Feb. 10.--DecisiCu
to remain out on strike was reachc4
at midnight last night by the execu-
tive board of approximately 1000
longshoremen and truckers. The
Waterfront Employers association
will resume work at docks and ware
houses tomorrow with whatever help
they can obtain. 90
Municipal officials. headed BY
Mayor Hanson and assisted by a.
committee of business men,. turned
their attention today to plans for Inn
mediately resumthg the city's' indus-
trial and commercial activities which
have been deranged since last Thurs
day by general strike OF approxi-
mately $4,000 union men and women,
All Industries affected by the strike
will be resumed with or without the
aid Of union workers, Mayor Hanson
said,' and If need be the city author
tiles will import workers from other
sections of the country to take the
places of the strikers.
A collapse of the strike movement
was confidently expected by officials
today, despite the action of the strik-
ers' committee In refusing to yield on
the question of returning to work.
Conservative leaoers Meet.
Conservative leaders of labor met
at $3.50 o'clock this morning with the
general strike conference In an. ef-
fort to induce the committee to rec
ommend that the general strike in
progress here be called off. 1fl
IS Schools Closed.
Denver, Colo, Feb. 10.-Twenty-
five of the sixty-five public schools
of Denver were closed today as re-
suit of a strike of the stationary engf-
neers employed by the school district,
which went into effect at O'Clock
this morning. The failure of the
school board to meet the demands OF
the engineers for increased salaries
resulted in the strike.
"Rustline" Card System.
Butte, Mont, Feb. 10.-Strikers in
the mines of Butte, who object TO
the recent reduction of 81 a day In
wages and who are insisting on the
abolition of the 'rustllng" card sys-
TEN, were halted on their way to
picket the mines today by guards OF
United States soldiers. Those men
who decided to go to work were per-
mitted to pass.
Discharged soldiers who stif1 wore
army uniforms were among those
They were singled out by the regu-
lar army men and ordered immedi-
ately to discard their uniforms or
cease participation in the attempted
picketing.
Miners who use the street cars to
get to their work were prevented
from doing so when the strikers
stopped the cars at the barns. Sol-
diers cleared the crowd from the <vf-'
cinity of the car barns. but later .
committee of union men is utder<
stood to have called out the E1io4
carmen.
112 Cities Affected.
New York, Feb. 10.-Union bflcx
layers and hosting engineers in IL
cities in the United States. emplose&
by the Building Trades Employe<|
association. were ordered to stff4@
today in sympathy with the striki1I
members of the carpenters urli44
here, according to VIM. L. Hutcn1
son, president of the United Brothe/
hood of Carpenters and Joiners. IN
said that the number of men affectcd
would be between 100000 and 4o0.cpQ..
The carpenters demanded a wage 1n-
crease of 81 day. 49,
Pawtuckett, r. L, Feb. 10.-NeafI
all the textile mills in the Blackstofe
valley started on a forty-eight-no1f
week schedule today.
Columbus. o. Feb. 10.-Thef<<r43'
no strike in Columbus today of |1I11
bricklayers and hoisting engir <@r1 ~
sympathy with striking Ne<<@ Io[
carpenters. local union ofIiciais s<1<<<
today.