The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-08-11
WAGE TROUBLE HITS SEATTLE;
 NO STRIKE YET

SEATTLE Aug 7-(H)-Announcemen was made tonight from the headquarters of the Skinner Eddy ship building corporation that, commencing tomorrow, the wages of its twelve hundred skilled employees would be reduced The reduction affects of the employees than others but ir has the cut exceeded twenty per The wages of the other labor employed in the yards has yet been reduced but 1t expected that will soon be made with them also.
 Most of the skilled laborers employed Skinner Ed dys are members of the metal trades unor consequently when they heard last night that their wages be duced they took their troubles before the council They were advsed however, to continue working and not to strike they had planned pending appeal which will shortly be made to the heads of the international unions who at the present me attempting to negotiate coastwise shpyard wage agreement
 Whether the shipworkers will strke however, re- mains be the greater majority of them in favor of such But it is tot that the council of their leaders will prevail and that they will remain work least tor the present.
 MORE SHOPMEN STRIKE
 SPOKANE, Aug 7.-(4o(- Infringing the total number of strikers in this city 2OOO five hundred shopmen of the Great Northern railroad struck tonight for higher wages The strike is in general accord with formulated plan of railroad shomen turnout the country to tie up the railroads but has yet affected the railroads here any apprcciabe extent All who with local rail road aftars however, concur n the opinion that the stua ton may eventually become very serious
 FREIGHT SERVICE SUSPENDED
 CHICAGO, Aug. 7-QP)- first strike result of apprecabe magnitude being felt here the Chicago Northwestern railroad having been compelled suspend freight service on its Iowa and Minnesota dbisons This has had the effect of taking all freight trains off the line in these divisions while the passenger service the ritory likewise very irregular and may be closed down any tme It IS hoped, however before such condition rives, that settlement of the strike will be arrived
 STILL MORE STRIKING
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 7-(H9-That the strike mania of labor increasing and that the situation is becoming grave every moment is conceded by all government of ficia who with railroad affairs appears however that railroad employees the only branches of labor that particularly affected by the strke aho ot CT unions are talking of wakouts all the country, sequenty official Washington holds hope that solution of the difficulty will be reached and the railroad in duced to go back to work.
 The latest strike talk is to the effect that 45OOOO bers of the brotherhood of railway clerks and freight hand lers will start voting tomorrow the question of striking for an increase in wages Just what they will do is not known but labor leaders here freely predicting that every Der of the brotherhood will be striking within ten days
 WILSON MAY SETTLE TROUBLE
 WASHINGTON, Aug 7-(49-Al eyes turn ed toward President Wilson the possible and probable btrator of the troubles which exist between the railroads and their employees causing the big general strike No