Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-06 | Page 1 | Agree to Quit on Open Shop Contention

I 1 i I I AGH TO nl ON N OPEN SHOE HOP I I CONTENTION I II I II i I I Wage Schedule Yet V Remains to to Be Adjusted I by Washington Wash Wash- I I m ington g t on Confer Conference nce I SAVANNAH SAVANNAH Ga May 6 Several Several shots were fired at shipping board officials officials officials of of- here today as they were arranging ar ar- arranging ranging to put strikebreaking seamen aboard th the steamship Paulsen No one was injured Bricks were thrown in in the fight I W WASHINGTON May 6 Hope G.-Hope Hope that agreE an be reached between Ad- Ad mir n chairman of tee United Stat ping g b board ard and d striking sean scan engineers was expressed expressed I toda office of Secretary of Labor La- La bor Da La-I La Late I 1 night the leaders of the itle marine manne e a asked for a conference confer confer- conference ence with Secretary Davis is ference lasted until nearly midnight Admiral Benson sat in on part of or it The wage question n ha hag bas been a stumbling block to agreement since the negotiations started Monday Practical Practical Practical cal was reached Tuesday and Wednesday We on the subject of working conditions The employers practically I agreed to give up their demand for open shop and promised to continue I 1 present working conditions which include ir- ir clude the tho hour eight-hour day and arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ments meats for overtime pay 1 ALASKA SUFFERING SEATTLE Wash Vash May 6 The G.-The The seamen's sea sen- I ea-I f mens men's strike today threatened to precipitate pre pre- j a food shortage and seriously disorganize business In do Alaska accor according accord accord- ing to word reaching Seattle I With Alaska practically dependent on shipping from Seattle for its food and for mail not a ship h has s left port I here for the north since the strike be- be began be be- gan the Alaska chamber of commerce com commerce com com- merce sent an appeal to Washington and to commercial bodies in all Pacific Pa Pa- coast ports coast c ast ports asking that every effort ef- ef i fort be made to settle the strike speedily I The appeal said that not only was was was' the movement of food cut off bu but mail mall service hid had b been en disorganized and the territory was facing a business shutdown shut- shut down doWn doyn I S. S F. F OWNERS BACK DOWN I IS S SAN AN FRANCISCO r 1 May y 6 Although G.-Although Although I 1 Ithe the first break brenk in tho ranIs of the occurred late yesterday i seven ships had been added today to th the list of those tied up here by the I seamen's seamen strike Thirty-seven Thirty vessels now are In port without crews They represent an J I aggregate tonnage tonnage of ot approximately 2 The break in the employers' employers ranks I came with the announcement of or the White Flyer nyer line operating the steamer steam steam- er Humboldt between San Francisco and Los Angeles that it had signed an agreement ag for one year at the old wa wage c scale N. N Y RECEIVES PROPOSALS NEW YORK YORE May C 6 G. G A special meeting of ot the executive an and wage committees of tho the American Steamship Owners Owners' association was called today to consider hew Clew proposals for tor settlement settlement settlement settle settle- ment of the marine strike transmitted from Washington by Admiral Benson of if the shipping board The nature or these thes proposals was as not disclosed The shipping board steamer Callao CaIlao left early today for Rio de Janeiro and n Buenos Aires Other steamers departing departing departing depart depart- ing were the for Jacksonville Eastern Pastern Crown for Auckland and F F. F P. P Barstow for Mexican ports NAVAL PROTECTION BALTIMORE May G Three G Three submarine submarine submarine rine chasers attached to the tho naval academy at Annapolis today were in readiness to sail for Baltimore to meet my tny eventuality that might arise from the he marine workers workers' strike at this port All AH boats mount a machine gun gunn our n deck and each contains a a cr crew w of twenty men W V W W. Tingle director tor of ot operations jf of f the shipping board here who had asked for government protection protection declared de- de lared local police pollee protection inadequate quate because of lack of men