Show 1 I WANTS ANTS W OPEN SHOP I IN ISTHMUS WORK YORK Claims of Laborers on Canal to toBe toBe I IBe Be Heard Soon by Secretary Secretary Sec Sec- Taft Washington ton March tarch CS Th S.-Th Tho clIl ht UM served notice that the tho open O shop hop principle must ull uil Kil in tile the machine J shops on tho the isthmus Willie While reports of a strike aman among tho the workmen on tho the canal zone arc are denied atthe atthe at tt the office of lh th the canal commission lon here It ii is tl admitted that a agitators are constantly constantly con con- turning up UI amon among time till men there therea a and c endeavoring to unionize and amid enforce th the lIlI clo closed shop rule Owing inS to the firm stand which the ha has take In the mutter matter this h has ul thus hums far fur been prevented cl but att atthe at ut t the 1 same samu time Urn the labor la situation I is not entirely satisfactory to th those c who have ha to deal with canal mutters matters h Tue b lea in shovel men who are arc now no the demands for Increased wages nages arc aro organized and antl once before have havo In a position to 0 force the government to 10 Increase their thell la pay vai When hen the they to 10 th the several 1 ago oso t the they asked d permission to send a commission lon to toWn Wn Washington to their claims The President however cr replied that Ihn t Secretary Secre tary Taft i was Visa soon to 10 visit the tho und would Imes Investigate ale ls-ale their claims Il would also tio investigate ln lc other oilier phases o othe of tile the labor Jabor situation |