Show t MORE MEN QUIT WORK Employees in Bayview Plant Milwaukee to Strike V t i I I ii I f VICTORY FOR THE STRIKERS I I on the Proposition to Speechmaking te Propositon Abandon the Mill and Render Men Idle Was Discussed for live Hour Secret Ballot Then Taken Showed n Majority in Favor of strkig t fourteen Hundred Mon Will Go V Oat The Big Plant Will Now Bo 1 P Closed Indefinitely I Milwaukee Wls Aug 17The Bay Mlwaukce J view men will atrlkeJ The vote on President Shaffers order Is said to have I unanimous after a session of the I I been nf n ben lodge lasting1 five hours The plant of the Illinois Steel company at Bayvlcw I will be shut down Indefinitely and about 1100 men will bo rendered Idle I When the meeting was called to order or-der this afternoon It Is said that 157 V members of the lodge out of 0 total of I 219 were present I LONG APPEAL ro MEN Assistant SrcrcUiry Michael J Tighe made a long appeal to the men to obey V the mandate of President Shaffer Mr Tlghe was followed by W C Davis of j i South Chicago vlcepre3l ont of tho Fourth district who spoke on the same lines President Joseph Redfern of the Bayvlcw lodge took the negative olde and was followed by others who wen not In favor of going out MAJORITY FAVORED STRIKE The spccchmaklng occupied five hours and It was close upon 9 oclock tonight when a secret ballot was taken J the result Knowing n majority In frAjr of a strike When the result was announced an-nounced a motion to make tin vote i unanimous In favor of obeying the famous a fa-mous order was carried without n dissenting I dis-senting voice The tension throughout j the meeting was great 1 BEARING ON SITUATION I 4 Leaders of the Amalgamated association j associa-tion now In this city declare that the j p action of the Bayview men will have an important bearing on the situation South Chicago will I They claim that Chla H likely bo Influenced In the same direction direc-tion Taking this view association ender gain encouragement In the war V I with the United States Steel corporation V corpora-tion PRAISED ACTION OF LODGE W C Davis of Chicago after the V meeting spoke In strong terms of V praise at the action of the lodjre Mr Davis looks for ftn TrlneiiT Jcl I In the situation at South Chicago when j tho news of the Bayvlcw meeting becomes l i be-comes known to tho men In his city I HOW THE MEN STAND Of the 1100 men employed at the 1 Bayview mills 219 belong to tile Amalgamated j Amal-gamated association They are the toni ton-i i nage men Besides the union men j there were 200 other skilled men employed em-ployed Including roll turners engineers l V J I engi-neers machlnKts carpenters black flmlths pipefitters and men straightening j t t straight-ening plates and working on hotbeds I The engineers and roll turners formerly It belonged to tho Amalgamated association t associa-tion and are In sympathy with It Employment Em-ployment was given to 1000 unskilled J t furnaces men 200 of whom worked In the blast l TIGIIE IS PLEASED I I M F Tlghe expressed himself as beIng be-Ing highly pleased at the outcome of I the meeting folding I always 8 knew the men of Bayvlow to be loyal to the I Amalgamated association and was satisfied sat-isfied all along that when the situation I was thoroughly explained to them they I would stand by the order to strike I I look upon the action of the Bayview lodgo as a great gain in the fight with the steel corporation I leave for South I Chicago Sunday morning where I expect ex-pect to address the men of the Republic Repub-lic Iron and Steel company In the afternoon I after-noon REIS WAS DISAPPOINTED I i Superintendent George L Rcls of the I I Baj lew plant of the Illinois Steel o plant said after the meeting that he wag very much disappointed at the outcome i out-come I fully expected that when the I question came to f vote the men would t stand by their contracts with the Illinois Steel company and refuse to strike Mil Mr Rels The amount ol J wages to bo lost by the men Is going to foot up 50000 per month The foiuf view Plant will be closed down Indcll fliteJy D I l |