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Show STRIKE OF TtLEPHOE LIXSME.Y. A Demand for Increased Wages cot Ac- , ceded fo. Five telephone linemen went ou a strike this morning for an Increase of fifty cents a day io their wages. The telephone people refused to accede to accede to this demand, as tbey considered consid-ered that tbey were, paving as trrucb now as either tho electric light or Western West-ern Union companies, which is $2 50 a day. None of the old mcu- joined tbe strikers and the tivo were allowed to go. The telephone companv do not ! anticipate any trouble in filling tbe places of tbe strikers. |