Show METAL MEN MENi MENS PLAN TO STRIKE S IN SEATTLE Shipbuilding to Be Crippled Crippled Crippled Crip Crip- pled in Sympathy Move Move- ment By Associated Press SEATTLE Wash Vash July 25 Fifteen 25 Fifteen thousand metal workers are prepared to strike which will cripple the shipbuilding shipbuilding shipbuilding ship ship- building industry here In with the street car men against an any manufacturing concerns using power power o or light furnished by the Puget Sound Traction Light and Power company according to officials of the metal meta trades council who met last night The Th strike order they say will be Issued so soon as organized labor places th the company's power and light on the un unfair unfair un- un fair list un-I un According to a special dispatch re received re- re reI I d here yesterday President VIlson Wilson Wll Wil- son and Secretary Wilson Vilson of the de department department department de- de i of ot labor conferred on th the I street car strike and its connection i with the shipbuilding industry and Secretary Wilson appointed Andrew J J. Peters of Boston to confer in Boston with the owners of the company with witha a view to reaching a settlement Seven carloads of strikebreakers 19 1911 men were imported from the East late lat last night by the company and ar are quartered in a car barn of the company company company com com- pany ready for an effort to operate th the cars The strike called called- out 1600 conductors conductors conductors con con- and motormen No cars were run yester yesterday ay The metal trades council contains representatives of fo fourteen metal meta metalworkers metalworkers' metalworkers metalworkers' workers' workers unions A strike by them would halt local steel shipbuilding en en- President A. A W V Leonard of the traction traction traction trac trac- tion company has declined that provision provision provision provi provi- sion of the arbitration proposal submitted submitted submitted sub sub- by the carmen that the seven men discharged by the Tacoma Railway Railway Rail Rail- way and Power company shortly be before before before be- be fore the carmen of that company Rail Rail-I struck should be reinstated Referring to the remainder of the offer that the local status quo existing before the I Strike be restored and that other differences differences differences dif dif- dif dif- be submitted to three mediators media media- tors President Leonard replied that the company was willing to proceed Immediately to arbitrate of all matters matters matters mat mat- proper subjects of arbitration James A A. Duncan chairman of the strike committee for the strikers de declared declared declared de- de I that this was virtually a refusal of the arbitration offer I |