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Show 800 BLACKSMITHS ; GO OUT ON STRIKE Rock Island and Northwestern Sail- road Shops in Chicago Are Crippled. CHICAGO, May 13. Four hundred blacksmiths and their helpers employed in the shops of the Chicago. Rock Island Is-land & Pacific railway and about the same number in the shops of the Chicago Chi-cago & Northwestern railway struck today after being refused an advance in wages. The strike of cable" splicers of the Chicago Telephone company, which has been in progress for several weeks, has spread to the underground cable pullers, pull-ers, the latter having refused today to contfnue at work. |