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Show ELEVEN HUNDRED CARMEN STRIKE San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Term-inal Motormen and Conductors Con-ductors to Enforce Closed Shop. SEVEN LINES TIED UP Roads Handle 25,000 Commuters Com-muters Daily Deck Hands Discharged for Joining Join-ing Union. Oakland, Cal.. Sept 17.L-Eleven hundred motormen and conductors of the San Francisco-Oakland terminal railroad operating a local traction system sys-tem and a line of ferries to San Francisco Fran-cisco voted today to strike to enforce a closed shop. The line handles 25,-000 25,-000 commuters dally. The men were at work today pending confirmation of their action by tho Amalgamated Association of Steam and Electric Railroad Employes at Detroit I ines to seven resident suburbs would be tied up by a strike, Oakland, Berkeley, Berke-ley, Alameda, Hayward, San Leandro, Albany and Richmond. According to union officials, two deck hands were discharged from the ferry service of the traction company shortly after they had joined the union. un-ion. . The carmen claim an attempt is being made to break up their organization. or-ganization. Officials Welcome Strike. San Francisco, Cal., Sept 17. It was said here today on well Informed authority that officials of the San Francisco-Oakland terminal railways ("Key Route") would welcome a strike by the carmen, whose high wage scale has long been considered by the company a serious drain upon its resources. The platform men are paid as high as -12 or 45 cents per hour, which was said .to be beyond the highest, if not the highest, hour wage scale in the United States paid to electric trainmen. Tho corporation has been in financial finan-cial straits and recently asked permission per-mission from the state railroad commission com-mission to raise the three dollar monthly commutation rate between San Francisco and Berkeley and Oakland. Oak-land. The commission refused the petition. |