Show FOUR HUNDRED NOW NOV ON STRIKE All of Big Smelter ter at Murray Demand an In Increase Increase Increase crease of Pay Four hundred employed by the American Smelting company at its plant at Murray are out outon outon outon on strike demanding higher wages The strike began be an on Oft Saturday night when fifty Austrians Au tT ans on the charge floor went out Yesterday the strike spread to the other crews at the smelter and last night there was not a man at work A large percentage of the strikers strikers ers ens are foreigners Austrians Greeks Gre kl kland and Italians Italian though there were some Americans who ho have also struck When fien the toe time came carrie for Cor the men on the 7 j shift to go to work yes yesterday yesterday es esterday morning the fifty who struck the night before were at the smelter gate p e and persuaded nearly all of the crew cre to stay away from work worl Some of the workmen avoided the pickets by b entering the smelter by b going over the slag pile These men were put to work banking the eight blast furnaces in or order order order der to keep them theRl from freezing dUring the next few days At 3 1 when the time came for another shift to go goto goto goto to work no one attempted to enter the smelter and from that time on the plant was idle hUe I A committee from the strikers will willII meet with the officials today and It II seems seams probable that arrangements will willbe willbe willbe be made whereby the tM will return to work pending a final settle settlement ment of the wage controversy There has been no violence and no disorder since the commencement of the strike No arrests have hae been made and it is probable that the strike will b be a peaceable one |