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Show STRIKE AT THEFAIR Scrcn Hundred Employees of the Portland Show Hare Gone Out. i PORTLAND, Or., March J. A general gen-eral strike of the workmen employed at .the Lewis and Clarke exposition grounds is on. Of the 700 men who last night left their tools only fifty returned to work this morning. The men demand better pay, shorter hours and generally Improved Im-proved working conditions. But two buildings are being worked upon today, the California building and Machinery hall. Several strikes of more or less serious seri-ous import have occurred at the fair grounds within the past month or so, but until this morning there had not been a general d?mard for Improved conditions of labor. The strikers are orderly. |