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Show STRIKE ORDERED IN SEATTLE SHIPYARDS 15,000 Union Workmen Affected; Af-fected; Government Not Yet Officially Notified. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 13. A strike of more than 5000 union shipwrights and joiners and shipyard laborers has been ordered to begin in the Seattle shipyards tomorrow morning, to enforce a boycott declared September 1 by the Seattle Central Labor council, the Seattle Seat-tle Building Trades Council and the Seattle Se-attle District Council of Carpenters against lumber turned out by mills operating op-erating on a ten-hour workday basis. The general strike was ordered at a conference held today between representatives repre-sentatives of the Seattle Metal Trades council, the International Union of Timber Tim-ber Workers and the Shingle Weavers' international union. The strike would tie up every wooden shipyard in the city, the union representatives repre-sentatives declared, and within less than a week would stop work in all the steel shinvards, as well. The strike action would affect 15,000 union workmen. The purpose of the strike is the enforcement en-forcement of organized labor's demand that the Seattle shipbuilders cease using lumber manufactured by mills that have refused to grant the eight-hour day, for which the union timber workers and shingle weavers of. the state have been on a strike since July 16. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. The threatened strike of Seattle shipyard workers as a protest against a ten-hour work day basis in lumber mills supplying supply-ing the yards has not been brought formally for-mally to the attention of the government. govern-ment. The shipbuilding wage adjustment adjust-ment board, named recently hy President Presi-dent ilson to consider the labor situation situa-tion in shipyards, has before it now a wae increase demanded by workers iu Seattle steel ship building yards. The threat of a strike in the wooden yards, it was said tonight, will be taken up as soon as the board is asked to inter-1 inter-1 venc. ! SEATTLE. Wash.. Sept. 12. Shipyard j workers who haw been pranted exemp-1 exemp-1 tlon from the army dra ft on Industrial grounds who strike tomorrow morning: In obedience to the strike call, will he automatically au-tomatically certified for service, it was announced late tonight by t he district board and Albert Moorilo. r-hiof of registration regis-tration in the state of Washington. |