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Show STRIKE If Reduces Size of Chicago Papers to Four Pages Chicago. March 1. Efforts to settle the strike of the. newspaper linotype operators, who went out on the Hearst papers here yostorday.coutlnued today. to-day. The morning papers issued today, to-day, by agreement, consisted of four pages only. Tho evening .papers promised the same. Tho morning papers made no attempt to print advertising, ad-vertising, and news matter was condensed con-densed so far as possible. The strike works a particular hardship hard-ship on the public at present owing to the primaries and developments In the senate In the Lorimer case. The usual forenoon editions were not Issued. The publishers hoped to put two editions on the street In reduced re-duced form, Instead of the customary half dozen or more. President O'Brien of Chicago Typographical Typo-graphical Union, No. 16, had ordered the strike In only one office Officers ' of the chapels, as the Individual union organization of each office are called, met to consider the situation . The question before them was whether wheth-er to stand by Mr. O'Brien, who or dered the strike, or Join James M Lynch, president of the International Typographical Union, who has officially offici-ally declared the strike to he "unauthorized, "unau-thorized, illegal and unwarranted." While the chapels were In session, a telegram was received from J. W. Hayes, vice-president of the International Interna-tional Union, ordering them to continue con-tinue setting type for tho strike-bound shops. To this they assented. This leaves the original grievance of the one shop to be settled. Pending this, the remaining Chicago newspapers newspa-pers will print no more than they are able to put Into type "tor the Hearst afternoon paper. Mr. Lynch is said to have left Washington Wash-ington for this city A meeting of Typographical Union, No 1G lias been called for this afternoon for further discussion of the situation. |