Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1917 — SHIPS STRIKE TO END SOON [ARTICLE]

SHIPS STRIKE TO END SOON

Workers on Wooden Vessels in Oregon Expect to Resume Operations on Monday. Portland, Ore... Sept. 21.—Wooden ship building plants in the Columbia river district at which 2,400 carpenters and 300 machinists and boilermakers are on strike will resume operations Monday, according to an understanding reported to have been reached by operators of the plants. With the arrival of troops to guard the mills and shipyards at Astoria .many strike leaders have left. Pickets have been scattered by the soldiers and mills are operating again. James L. Ackerson. United States shipping board member, said the government’s proposal to- pny half the wage increases granted by firms making less than 10 per cent would soon put the men back to work.