Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-01 | Page 4 | Clifton, Arizona, Strike is Settled

GLIFTOU, IZG1, STRIKE IS SETTLED Telephone Walkout on the Coast Postponed; Railroaders Rail-roaders Ask Increase. 1.IFTM. Ariz.. ) t. 21. Kinul .s.ule-ti:-iit of the strike of copper miners in ( 'hKon -More net -.Met call district, which k.ifi been in progress sir.ee July 1. was i'nnoitnced toniuht by Secretary of lihor William K. Wdson. chairman of the federal fed-eral ind ust rial com mission mvestUai ing labor conditions in the Arizona copper camps. Approximately TO 0 men are affected. af-fected. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31. The threatened threat-ened strike of electrical workers and exchange ex-change opoiators of the Pacific -'Telephone A: Telesraph company has been deferred unt il such time a.- Vernon Z. Reed, fed -tral labor mediator, or the full mediation commission named by President Wilson, may thoroughly investigate the points at Ismio and render a decision, according to an ofi'nial statement issued tonight by .Mr. R.jed. CHICACO. Oct. SI. Plans for a formal demand for an increase of wages for 20t,-Ui'O 20t,-Ui'O men will he formulated at a meeting of the delegates from tiie Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and tiie Order of Jiil- ay Conductors, which will begin here tomorrow and proba bly last ten days. Members of the organization, it is said, have voted to demand an increase in wages ranging from 20 to 3a per cent. The organizations are composed of conductors, con-ductors, brakemen. flagmen, baggage men, switchmen and yardmen, excepting those in the Chicago switching district. OAKT,AN, Cal.. Oct. 31. Three hundred hun-dred workmen left the shops of the Southern South-ern Pacific railroad in West Oakland today, to-day, according to union officials, as a result of an alleged refusal of tiie company com-pany to recognize a recently organized union. L'nion officials sav the strike will affect af-fect 9u0 men by night, '500 in Sacramento and 200 in Rosevtlle. Police have been detailed to guard the West Oakland yards at two entrances, but so far no trouble has occurred. Railroad officials said only ninety shopmen shop-men quit work. SEATTLE, Wash.. Oct. 31. As their shifts expired tonight, the girl telephone operators began leaving their switch boards. As each party of girls entered the labor temple annex, where manv of the operators were at an informal meet-they meet-they were given enthusiastic ovations. ova-tions. The telephone service became badlv demoralized de-moralized as the night advanced, although important stations, the city departments and newspapers were able to get connections. connec-tions. It was reported that a few strike breakers break-ers were at work.