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Show I Negotiations With Iron Workers Deadlocked I HOLlK FAST Adhere to Demand for Six-dollar Six-dollar a Day Minimum Wage. LAWYER APPOINTED Special Representative of Federal Fed-eral Shipping to Aid in , Strike Settlement. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21. Negotiations Nego-tiations looking toward settlement of a strike of 25,000 members of unions affiliated with the Iron Trades' Council, Coun-cil, who walked out a -week ago for higher wages, were deadlocked today after an all night concference between representatives of the men, their em-'ployers em-'ployers and federal meaiators. Tho employer, it was said, offered a twelve and one-half per cent wage increase in-crease if the men return to work immediately im-mediately and submit final adjustment of the difficulties to arbitration. The men, it was understood, stood fast for their demand of a ?6 day minimum, an increase of fifty per cent over the j scale carried in the working agreement agree-ment which expired last Saturday i prior to the walkout. Previous statements- which came krom. the-conference-were to the -effect i that the differences might be settled so speedily as to make unnecessary the coming to San Francisco of a special spe-cial commission appointed yesterday by President Wilson to Investigate labor la-bor conditions'' on the -Pacific coast. . Further conferences were to be held later today. nn |