Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-07-25 | Page 3 | Paper Makers Fear Strike may Spread

PAPER MAKERS FEAR STRIKE MAY SPREAD Workers Insist on Former Bonus ir Addition to 20 Per Cent Raise Given in June. NEW YORK, July 24. Officials of the International Paper company expressed the fear today that a strike of paper makers and other workers, which has enforced closing of five of their mills, may spread to the lifteen other plants of the corporation, tying up the entire industry. Such a development would seriously curtail cur-tail the operations of a large percentage of American newspapers, winch are dependent de-pendent upon the company for their supplies sup-plies of print paper. The strikers accused the company ol violating a wage-fixing order of the war labor board, made in June, when the board awarded the workers a general 'wage advance approximating 20 per cent. The .company claims that advance substitutes substi-tutes ail bonuses. At that time a 10 per cent bonus was In effect, and the paper mill workers insist tfiat this should stand in addition to ihe increase. The war labor board has been notified of the strike.