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Show IRON MILLS SHUTTING DOWN. RiciuithiMrn B-fuaed to Accepts Reduction. Re-duction. Reading, Pa., Feb. 2.-The puddlers of the itrooke iron company at Birds-boro, Birds-boro, this county, have refused to accept ac-cept the proposed reduction of 25 cents per ton and the rolling null closed down this morning. About 450 hands were thrown out of employment. The entire iron works of the Lllis and Leasing steel companv of Pottstown, shut down today throwing 700 men out of employment. This lock-out results from thi) men refusing to accept a reduction re-duction in their wages. President W es-sing es-sing says that the unfavorable and unsatisfactory un-satisfactory condition of the iron trade at the present time justilies the reduction, reduc-tion, if business brightens the company compa-ny promises to raise the wages' |