Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-04-02 | Page 8 | Shipyard Workers Demand More Wages

lira hers ; j DEMAHD MORE WAGES' ; i:y Inten aiiona! News Service. ; NORFOLK. Ya.. April 1. ov rnir.ent war work in ;he Hamilton Roads district dis-trict w;is interru)ted today lt" a strike : of pever.i! thousand carpt-nters and other : workers I'lanis iiivoHd ar the Hampton Hamp-ton Roads naval hase, tlie army d. pot at Hush B.uii and the ordnance depot of i il'ipp 1'oini, all nf-ar Norfolk, and the ' Liinley aviation Held at Hampton. J , The caiicntL-r. inauKiirated the strike ; : fur an increase in p:i. and at some o; j tl plants a synipaihctic strike anions : I metal work- r?, pltimherj- and enuineers ! followed. I'nion l;nh-rs said tonight that ; : thi' Mrike was not a union movement, but.i : Rowrniiiciit oiiichtls and t-oii tractors said , , tiiat most of the im-n involvt-d art union j 'men and that ila'y acctpted this as evi- I flt-nce that the strike was the result of ! i uihmt! t-d union act ion. ! j Ohainnan Kurroulis of th.e Norfolk j county draft hoard annouiUfd tonitrlu I that his hoard imnn diately would review 1 ! 11 !l classifications and that men involed 1 in the .strike who have been Miveii de- j ferred classification by the board would i be placed in class one unless entitled bv treasons other than ihe character of their i work to deferred tiasr-ifuation. j The Mrike started at the "hava! base, where leaders of the strikers claimed sumo :u"n men were out. At Hush Hluff, where an immense army depot is coi j sirticted, .""il t aj-pen ters were said teU have walketl out. followed by men in other tti'des. All carpenters einmed in ; build in a: the ordnance depot ot IM's Point were sa id by union men to have quit work, while some r.m men. prinei -pall v carpenters, employed at 1 .a upley field were reported to have st ruck. Major IPttler, at the army base at Knsh lm':'. said tonight that a few of the sinkers there had been induced to re-' re-' turn to wuil;. It also was annouiuid that .Major Oitchels had been ordered hero from Washington, to attempt to settle set-tle the controversy between the men and the eont raetors. .