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4 SEAMEN'S WAGE CUT GOES, SAYS BENSON No Compromise, Declares Shipping Board Chief. UNION LEADER CONFIDENT Prediction Made That Ship Owners Finally Will Yield to Terms . of Striking Workers. WASHINGTON", D. C May 2. In announcing a policy of no compro mis of the 15 per cent wage reduc tipn in the settlement of the contro versy between the shipping board. American steamship owners and ma rine workers. Chairman Benson tO' niprlrt called on "all loyal citizens to rally to the support of their flag. "Full protection." he said, "will be given by the shipping board to all those who come to its assistance in keeping ships in operation." Economic conditions fully justify. he said, the readjustment in wage scales and working conditions as made effective by the board May 1 when the old agreements expired, and the "gratifying success" with whioh the board's efforts to keep its ships in .operation are meeting, he added. indicates that the men aboard ship agree with the position taken by the board. The chairman said he was willing to meet and talk with the union heads here, but not to negoti ated on a wage reduction. Edict Follows Conference. Chairman Benson's statement was made after a conference with Secre taries Davis and Hoover, although none would discuss the conference. Jn spite of the stand taken by Chair man Benson, Secretary Davis con tinued his efforts to settle the dis pute by conciliation. He called W. S. Brown, president of the Marine En gineers' Beneficial association, into conference at which present wage scales and working conditions were discussed. Indications were that the secretary was pursuing the methods he has followed in previous labor dis. putes, of talking separately with rep resentatives of the contending lac. tions in an effort to obtain conces sions from each that would be accept able to the other. No further word on the appoint ment of a wage commission to arbi trate the dispute was forthcoming from the White House beyond a statement by officials that it was their understanding that the matter was In the hands of Secretaries Davis and Hoover. Union Leader Hopeful. Brown predicted today that the ship owners "will come to terms" in a few days. "As yet," he said, "there are comparatively few ships tied up, but as they come into port and are unable to sign crews, the owners will be anxious for a settlement." LCM.BER CARGOES TO MOVE I' oust Steam Schooners Are Xot Af fected by Strike. GRAYS HARBOR, Wash., May 2. (Special.) Regardless of a ship strike, eight large freighters will load 28.000,000 feet of lumber at this harbor this month, according to Hugh M. Delanty, manager of the Grays Harbor Stevedore company and prac tically shipping manager for this port. These vessels, said Mr. Delanty to day, are chartered to come here this month and it Is certain they will come. Some are on the seas now and these will complete their voyages rvvh une'er rules of various seamen's unions, which provide that vessels on the seas during the time of a strike shall complete their voyage. No effect of the strike was notice-I by James W. Crichton, district agent of the operations division of the ship ping board, both from H. H. i.bey, director of operations at San Fran cisco, and R. M. Semmea. director at Seattle, that men manning the ships in the present emergency will be given consideration by the shipping board and its representatives in the matter of future employment. Vancouver Little Affected. VANCOUVER, B. C. May 2. This port will not be greatly affected by the United States shipping strike, shipping men declared today. The only line flying the American flag running into this port is the Admiral line, and officials of that company said that all its coastwise ships would continue to operate. Seamen Sought by Board. SAN FRANCISCO, May 2. H. S. Ebeyr district director of operations for the shipping board, announced today that the board assured effi cient marine men desiring employ ment on shipping board vessels at this time or who stood by such ves sels that they would be accorded fair treatment as to future employment. Victoria Conditions Xormal. ' ' VICTORIA. B. C. May 2. The United States shipping strike has had no effect on shipping here, maritime STRIKE OF PRIRITERS IN BIG CITIES OFF Many Employers Agree to 44 Hour Week. WALKOUT VOTES TAKEN Xation-YVlde Action, However, Ap pears to Have Been Averted. .Trouble Hits Canada. CHICAGO. May 2. Acceptance' by employers in many of the larger cities of the 44-hour week in the printing industry today appeared to have avert ed a nation-wide strike In the book and job printing shops. Local officials agreed upon recommending a 12 per cent wage reduction. Omaha Job Printers Strike. OMAHA, May 2. About 70 Job printers from eight -or ten shops walked out today because of demands for a 44-hour week; John Martin, president of the union announced. Mr. Martin said the men were not on strike, 'but had been -locked out." having been told Saturday not to re port today unless they desired to work under open-shop conditions. MOXTKEAIi ALSO HAS STRIKE Photo Engravers Demand $40 and 44-Hour Week. . ' MONTREAL. May 2. Employers in the photo-engraving departments of most printing establishments here went on strike loday for a 44-hour week and'a 140 a week wage. Em nlovers wish to set the hours at 4 hours and waees at $36. Electrotvpers were waiting word from union headquarters in Chicago for permission to strike for a 44-nou week. Great Falls Unions Stay In GREAT FALLS. Mont., May 2. Job nrlnters in this city did not go ou this morning, on the demand for a PAPER MILL HEN STRIKE ABOCT 180 WORKERS ARE . IDLE IX BOSTOX. More Than 8000 Members of Bro therhood Walk Out in Xew York, Refusing Wage Cut. STRIKE-BOUND STEAMERS MOORED IN PORTLAND HARBOR. - il ! - - &t s. -fX At I - - - - - -. .--"t If From left to right the- uteantem are the Pnmlet, Eastern Guide, West Him rod and 'Wawalona, at the Victoria dolphins, the ahipptng board's moorinir ground for lt Idle Ileet. lie rawiei, oniue ana nm rod are fully laden and awaiting only their crewa to be ready to proceed to aea. The Wawalona la empty and Idle for want of cargo. men said. The arrival of the shipping board steamship West Kedron, due here May 5 from Antwerp via San Francisco, may be delayed by the strike, it was stated. BETWEEN" 25,000 AXD 30,000 STRIKE IX CLEVELAXD. About 5000 Workmen Are Idle in Youngstonn, 6., After Re fusal of Wage Cut. CLEVELAND. May 2. Between 25,- 000 and 30.000 men, employed in more than 20 crafts affiliated with trie Building Trades council, left their able here today. Coast steam schoon- jobs this morning immediately after erj .are not afrecled. for tneir con tracts with the w.orkers do not expire until June. The steamer Willhilo, at the National mill. Hoquiam. will com plete cargo there today and move to morrow to the Wilson mill at Aber deen. There has been no trouble in her case and none is expected. The steamer Kennecott, at the Bay City, expects to complete loading tomor row and no trouble is likely in her Case. 1 The eight steamers due this month nd which Mr. Delanty says- are cer ' tain to come are C. H. Livingston, 11, 000 tons: Willsolo. 10.200 tons: Pacif Ji'O. 8800 tons: West Holbrook, 8800 Ions; West Datance. 8800 tons: Cross Keys, 9600 tons; West Keats, 8800 tons, and Meridian, 5500 tons. At least two other ships may come during the month. This is expected to set a new record In cargo lumber shipments fon this harbor. TIE-VP IS ALMOST COMPLETE Shipping Activity Practically Halt- ed at San Francisco. SAX FRANCISCO, May 2. Deep Vta shipping activities of San Fran cisco bay practically ceased today through refusal of employes to re-i-hip at new wages and conditions which became effective yesterday, shipping men announced tonight. One one vessel, the Pacific Steam ship company liner Admiral Evans, 1 ound for Portland, cleared from this tert, and the marine department of ,the chamber of commerce reported Vetwecn 13 and 20 vessels laid up .lu the bay through failure of the ttion to reship. The crew of the Ad iniral Evans, it -was announced, shipped prior to May 1 under the old 'wage scale and conditions. ' The shipping board vessel Eastern bailor, due to leave for Seattle to fulfill a time charter, failed to sail through Inability to obtain a crew, the marine department said. Both pides to the controversy, according to announcements, had regarded the jiotential sailing of the Eastern Sailor as a test of strength. The Oceanic Steamship company trans-Pacific liner Ventura will sail tomorrow as scheduled to comply with its mail-carrying contract, the company announced. The crew was c btained at the wages and conditions ruling prior to May 1. WEST HIMROD OBTAIXS CREW Mcainer Delayed by Strike Rcport- j- ed Ready to Go. Completion of a crew for the ship ping board steamer West Himrod, "Which has been detained here since phe finished loading last Friday, was 4he only Important new development locally yesterday In the strike of sea farers. A shortage of two men which iad existed nn this vessel since Sat urday was filled yesterday and it was expected last night that the vessel -;would go down the river from her flooring at the Victoria dolphins be jore daylight this morning. The West lllmrod has aboard a full cargo of Jlour for Italy. ; Assurances were received yesterday 1 agreement. reporting for work on building con tracts controlled by the Cleveland Building Trades Employers' associa tion. The employers had cut wages 20 per cent. -- YOUNGSTOWN, O., May 2. About 3000 building trades workmen are idle today as the result of the building unions' refusal to accept a wage re duction. . PHILADELPHIA, May 2. Building operations in Philadelphia were al most at a standstill today because of the 'refusal of employes to accept wage reductions. Employers esti mated the number of men out at 40, 000, while estimates of the workers placed the figures at 60,000. SAX FRANCISCO, May 2. Lockout of workmen of 17 building trades unions Monday was threatened today by employers unless the unions accept an arbitration board ruling reducing wages TVi per cent. The lockout was threatened by the central council of the Builders' Ex change with the further announce ment that future negotiations would not be conducted through the Build ing Trades council the union's cen tral body but would be .discussed with Individual unions involved. The situatiojf will be discussed to morrow night at a meeting of the council. The workmen recently withdrew from an agreement to submit to the decision of the arbitration board, ac cording to the Builders' Exchange announcement. CHICAGO STOCKMEN DOT HANDLERS' CX' I OX .STRIKE IS BACKED BY CARPENTERS. Attempt Made to Have Amalga mated Meat Cutters Abo Join in Walkout. CHICAGO. May 2. Although 150 carpenters today joined the livestock handlers' union on strike at the stock yards in protest against a proposed wage cut of 8 cents an hour, there was no further extension of the walk out. An attempt was made to have the Amalgamated Meat Cutters join with the livestock handlers, but Walter Bcnkowski. secretary of the meat cutters, said: "We're not going out with those fellows. Their quarrel is not ours." Although union leaders claimed 1B00 men were out, the day's receipts of livestock 1300 cars were handled without difficulty, according to the stockyards company. Many farmers accompanied their tMpments. and they, with the help of the railway men, took care of ail receipts. Company officials said they offered to arbitrate, but that this had been rt fused by the men and that the strike was In defiance of the national of the International Typographical union were authorized by interna tional headquarters to call strikes where employers refused to concede the 44-hour week, and at a. number of cities in the east newspapers were suspended by strikes of printers. In several cities strike votes also were being taken by pressmen and other unions allied in the printing Industry. .250 Locals Sign Contracts. . About 250 locals throughout the country had Signed 44-hour week con tracts with employers, including some of the job printing shops in New iiork, Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwaukee and Indianapolis, according to. union statements, but in several cities of the west and south strikes were ex pected today. The strike also spread to Canada, job printers in Halifax and news paper printers in St. Johns. N. F., voting a strike. Newspaper offices in Chambersburg, Lancaster and Butler, Pa., and Glenns Falls, N. Y,, were tied up by strikes of printers, but one paper in Lancaster used electro types made from typewritten copy for Monday's issue. . . i Two Chicago Shopa Open. Only two shops of the 260 union job printing shops in Chicago were working today, according to a state ment by Harry Cantrell. chairman of the committee on industrial relations for the Franklin (closed-shop) divi sion of the Franklin Typothetae. Between 4000 and 6000 are out of work, he asserted. This is said to be about half the number that would b out had the shops been running on full time. PRINTERS WORK AT SEATTLE Secretary of Employers Declares 4 8-Hour Week in Effect. SEATTLE. May 2. Printers em! ployed at job shops here were at work today, with tne 48-hour week still in force, according to R. L. Slo cum. secretary of the Seattle Master Printers' association. Committees representing the association and typo graphical union will meet tomorrow night to discuss wages and working conditions, Mr. Slocum said. Offcials of the international typo graphical union declined to comment on the possibility of a strike here. The master printers' association has gone on record in favor of maintain ing the 48-hour week, Mr. Slocum said. 44-hour week, the unions of the city having a contract with the employers until June 1. The bookbinders, num bering 13, went out in one institution, the only one in the city where the craft Is organized. The pressmen of the city have contracts with the em ployers until July 18. Albapy X". 1"., Situation Serious. ALBANY. N. Y., May 2. With ap proximately 20,000 union workmen In the printing, building and paper trades in northern and eastern New York idle today, the result of strikes. these sections were facing the most serious industrial tie-up in their his tory. Newspapers here were not affected. Louisville Printers Stay Out. LOUISVILLE, May 2. Approxi mately 100 men employed in three comparatively large and a number of smaller printing houses failed to re port for work today, according to employers who said their establish ments henceforth would operated as upeu siiop. Phoenix Workmen Strike, PHOENIX, Ariz., May 2. Fifty union printers failed to report for work in five of the leading job shops of this city this morning because the employers, had refused to accede to the workers' demand for a 44-hour week. 10 00 Quit at Pittsburg. PITTSBURG, May 2. Approximate ly 1000 printers In 131 job printing shops struck here today to enforce their demand' for a 44-hour week. Book binders, it was stated, were voting on the question of joining the strike. 725 on Strike at Denver. . DENVER. May 2. Seven hundred and twenty-five compositors, press men, press feeders, bookbinders and helpers struck today, virtually tying up every large commercial printing establishment in Denver.. 150 STRIKE AT LANCASTER Demands for 44-Hour Week Are Refused by Employers. LANCASTER, Pa.. May 2. Demands for a 44-hour week were refused the Lancaster typographical union by em ploying printers here and as a result 150 journeymen printers are on strike. Job and newspaper plants of the city, are affected. The three newspapers, the Exara-iner-New Era, the Intelligencer and the News-Journal, however, are pub lishing with curtailed forces. The newspaper employes changed their demand late last week from a 44-hour week to a demand for from $3 to J3 more a week. This the publishers re fused to pay and open shops were declared. NEW YORK STRIKE SETTLED Employers Grant 44-Hour Week In Book and Job Plants. XEW YORK, May '2. The 44-hour week has been granted the 15,000 printers employed in the book and job printing plants in New York City, the Employing Printers' league an nounced today. The shorter week becomes effective the first full fiscal week after May 1. League officials pointed out that the question of wage contracts still was pending. The wage arbitration board which has been considering the wage ques 250 Strike at San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, May" 2. Execu tives of the typographical union said that approximately 250 printers or 60 per cent in the commercial Bhops who demand a 44-hour week, went on strike today. Strike Begun at St. Paul. ST. PAUL. May 2. Two hundred printers went on strike In Duluth to day when denied the 44-hour week. At Grand Forks, N. D.. 37 printers, pressmen and bookbinders are on strike. Fargo, N. V., Pressmeu Sign Up. FARGO, N. D.. May 2. Local press men today signed contracts for the 48-hour week, employers announced. Compositors struck for the 44-hour week. , Sacramento Has Walkout. SACRAMENTO, Cal., May 2. About 40 printers employed in all job print ing shops of Sacramento were on strike today. The strike did not af fect the state printing office. St. Louis Printers Walk Out. ST. LOUIS, May 2. About 550 union printers, .employes of 78 job shops, were nott work today. About 100 employers agreed to the 44-hour week and their shops are operating. 1000 Strike at Cleveland. i CLEVELAND, May 2. More than 1000 printers went on strike today when their -demands for a 44-hour work week were refused by master printers. Los Angeles Printers Strike. ' BOSTON. May !. About 1S0O paper workers in New England were idle to day as a result of their refusal to accept wage reductions ranging from 20 to 30 per cent. The International Paper company's plants at Llvermore Falls, Chisholm and Rumford, Me., employing 1500 persons, suspended operations and 30 per cent reduction announced at Franklin. N. H., was rejected by the union there. Employes at several plants ac cepted the new scale! NEW YORK, May 8. More than 8000 members of the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill , Workers have struck against wage reductions in the paper making Industry, the labor bureau an nounced today. The principal companies affected It was stated, were the Minnesota & Ontario Paper company at Interna tional Falls, Minn.; the Fort Frances Pulp & Paper company at Fort Frances, Ont., and the International Paper company with mills in 22 towns in the east. VANCOUVER, B. C. May 2. British Columbia pulp and paper mills will not be affected by the strike of paper workers, Norman Long, manager of the Powell River Paper company, de clared today, . ALBANY, N. Y., May' 2. Approxi mately 12,000 members of the Inter national Brotherhood of Paper work ers are on strike, J. T. Carey, presi dent of the brotherhood, said today. Plants affected are located in the northeast section of the United States and in Canada. Most of the mills are engaged in the production of news print. A few independent companies in this state have signed a wage and working agreement with the union. The strike was called In protest against a wage reduction of approxi mately 30 per cent and a change in working conditions. SPOKANE SHOPS OPERATE Schedule Is Declared Normal in Spite of Walkouts. SPOKANE. Wash.. May 2. Repre sentatives of employing printers and bakers early today declared their shops were operating on a normal schedule, despite walkouts of union employes as a result of disputes over working conditions. Fifteen bakeries of the citv. de clared to have an output of 92 per cent of the bread baked here, were operating on an 'open shop" basis to day and had seven more men than they needed, it was stated by J. C. H. Reynolds, secretary-manager of- the employers' association. T. J. Turner, secretary of the 48- hour league, an organization of em ploying printers, said that only one job shop in the city had granted de mands for a 44-hour week, and that others had "ample help," printers having been made available from out side the city. Information from union and em ployers' sources today indicated that about 100 men in 23 establishments were affected by walkouts. These in cluded 60 bakers, 24 job printers, 10 bookbinders and 10 cooks and waiters in 14 bakeries, eight print shops and one restaurant. The 44-hour week .was the issue in the printing trades. the bakers' disagreement arose over apprenticeship rules and the cooks' nd wafters demands concerned wages. New Orleans Feels Strike. NEW ORLEANS, La.', May 2. The first actual developments in the ma rine strike here came today when the oilers left two -shipping board vessels. 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A Bruns wick dealer will be glad to explain them personally, so as not to divulge the secret. Find out at once about this Mothers' Day Qub. To obtain this information does not place yon under the slightest obligation. The whole plan is arranged for YOU, so as to give you an easy way to make Mothers' Day of 1921 long remembered. Visit a Brunswick Dealer today You'll surely want to join Helena Job Pressmen Out. HELENA, Mont., May 2. Job press men in all printing offices here failed to report for work today but news paper pressmen were working as usual. Bindery employes went to work in several shops, pending settle ment of the 44-hour week controversy. Strike Bejrun in Houston. HOUSTON, Tex., May 2. One hun dred and five persons in eight shops were affected by the allied printing trades' strike which began here today. Vancouver, B. C, Printers Quit. VANCOUVER, B. C, May 2. Be tween 60 and TO job printers struck here today following refusal of their demand for a 44-hour week. 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This matter has been pending before the public health serv ice for some time and today s action was highly gratifying to members of the Oregon delegation. r EXCHANGE RATE FIXED Schedule for First Two Weeks of May Is 11 15-18 Per Cent. OTTAWA. Ont.; May 2. The rate of exchange to be used in connection with shipments of freight between Canadian and United States points for the first two weeks of May was fixed today at 11 15-16 per cent bf the board of railway commissioners. A surcharge of 7 per cent for freight and 12 per cent for passen gers also was announced. Xew Javelin Record Made. PROSSER. Wash.. May 2. (Special.) Sunnyside won the lower Yakima valley track meet at Grandview last Frida. the respective high schools finishine: as follows: Sunnyside, 50 noints: Prosser. 46: Grandview, 28. and Pasco. 3. Prosser and Sunnyside each captured five firsts. Long of Prosser was high point winner, with 15. his javelin throw of 13a feet set ting a new record for the lower val ley. 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