Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-02-12 | Page 2 | Track-Laying Gang Strikes in Alaska

STRIKES !i ALASKA I " ! Work on Government Rail- road From Anchorage to i Matanuska Steps. SEWARD, Alaska, Feb. 9, via Valdez, Alaska, Feb. 11. A general gen-eral strike of all laborers employed em-ployed by the government on the construction of the new Alaska railway was called today by -the federal labor union, which was organised or-ganised at a mass meeting of laborers la-borers at Anchorage last night. Six hundred men already have signed the union roll, according to J. A. Ross, who was elected secretary secre-tary of the organization. isEH'AKD, Alaska, Feb. 7, via Valdez. Val-dez. Fob. 11. Track-laying on the government's gov-ernment's railroad from Anchorage to the Matanuska coal fields was stopped yesterday by a strike of the steel gang working at Peter's Creek. Sixty men, mostly Americans, had quit work, demanding de-manding increased pav. The striking track layers demand oO cents an hour. They have been receiving receiv-ing 371;j cents an hour. Lieutenant Frederick Meats, L. S. A., of the Alaska engineering commission today sent three deputy United States marshals to the scene of the strike to preserve order. The boarding car and the track laying outfit was returned to Anchorage. Lieutenant Mears said that he anticipated antici-pated no trouble other than the delay in construction work while securing meu to replace the strikers. Efforts to obtain ob-tain men here today met with little success and the government probably will scud to Seattle for workmen. A I mass meeting of Seward laboring men ! held last night unanimously voted against any present taking jobs as strikebreakers. A committee was appointed by the meeting to ask teamsters team-sters and other men employed on the government railroad work to join the strike. The conservative element was in complete control of the meeting and voted down all radical suggestions. Leaders of the meeting said 700 Seward laborers were present.