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

SEATTLE, Aug e. -HJ-\ Announcement was made tonight from the headquarters ol the Skinner d,y ship building corporation that, commencing tomorrow the wage, oI Its twelve hundred or more skilled employees would be reduced The reduction affects the employees more than others but i'll has the cut in wages exceeded twenty per cent The wages o the other labor employed in the yards has not yet been reduced but i, expected that cut will soon be made with them also
 Most of the skilled uborcrs employed at Skinner Ed dy are members ol the metal trade, miou consequently when they heard last night that their wage, were be duccd they took their troubles before the council The, were advised, however, to continue working and go strike as they had planned, pending appeal which will shortly be made to the heads o the international union, Who lat the present time, are attempting negotiate coassr .emNard wage agreement.
 Whether not the ,IpWorkcrs will stri>c however, re- mans to be seen as the greater majority them oI ,4ch course But i~ thot that the council their leaders will prevail and that they will remain work least for the present.
 MORE SIIOrAI.N STRIKE
 SIOhANI Aug. Z- lIr-Bruyiug the total number o strikers i'll this city up to 2OD) five hundred suIur ol the Great Northern railroad struck tonight for higher wages The strike is i'll general accord with formulated plan oI railroad shopmcn turnout the country tie up the railroads but 1t has not yet affected the railroads here any apprcclabe extent All who with local rail road affairs, however, ill the opinion that the situa- tion may eventually become very serious
 FREIGHT SERVICE SUSPENDED
 CHICAGO Aug. z.- (LIJ The first strike result ol any aprccabc magnitude being hcre the Chicago Northwestern railroad having been compelled suspend freight service its Iowa and Minnesota diJsous This has had the effect O taking all freight trains of the line these divisions while the passenger service the same ruor likewise very irregular and may be closed down uy tmc It IS hoped however, before such condition ryc that settlement of the strike will be arrived
 STILL, MORE STRIKING
 NANIlINGION, Aug I.-(AO That the strike mania O labor increasing and that the situation becoming grave every moment, conceded by aI government ol IiciaIa who convcrsan with railroad affairs 1t appears howcyer, that railroad employees the only branches of labor that particularly affected by the strkc atho o CT unions are talking Ol Wakouts all the country, stqucul official Washington holds hope that solution ol the difficulty will be reached and the railroad men n duccd to go back to work.
 The latest strike talk is to the c feet that 5OOOO mem bcrs o the brotherhood of railway clerks and freight hand ers will start voting tomorrow the question of striking for an increase ill wages Just what they will do h not known but labor leaders here freely predicting that every mem Der ol the brotherhood will be striking within ten days
 WILSON MAY SETTLE TROUBLE
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.-(4p 4p-AI eyes are turn ed toward President Wilson the possible and probable brator of the troubles which exist between the railroad, and their employees causing the big general strike No Ot settlement be at hand but regardless ot that fact is expected that the President will do something which will hasten conclusions either way or the ohe and probably for the better
 He has already been commissioned by the al- point board for the consideration of the wage question: the interstate committee having directed Chair man Cumins advise the President that he has full thory in the without further legislation. The wage board the Presidents suggestion consequently 1t IS ho that he will possible the advice of the committee
 STRIKERS ARE RIOTING
 NEW YORK. Aug. e. HJ -Rioting and shooting marked the second day of the strike of the employees of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company the strikers being accused of creating the larger part of such troubles Nobody has been injured by the shots fired far is known but the strikers evidently determined keep branch of labor employ ed by the company from working shots fired today WreCkng causing the aborers oHrop their tools and quit work The transportation scheme of both the ee vated and subway lines is already seriously affected by the strike and the strike leaders predicting that fully ninety five per of the system will be parayzed before the end of another tWenty-our hours.
 POSTAL. FNIPI ONEES WANT BIG RAISE