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Show SuflVriuc Strikers. r Cbicngo, 20. Six hundred workmen work-men in the stone quarries at Lemont , Ills., who have been working all winter win-ter for a dollar a day, under the promise pro-mise of higher wages further along in the season, struck ye-terday, and became be-came bo boisterous that policemen were summoned from Chicago, who 0 made fifty arrests and quelled the disturbance. dis-turbance. The arrested men were brought to Chicago, and in the justice's jus-tice's court, to-day, were held over for trial on Saturday. They are generally a peaceable set of men, but they say they have heen put ofi in the matter of wages so long that they are on the point of starvation. They cannot support their wives and iargc families on work that pays ou an average lour or live dollars per week. A telegram from the quariiea to-night says the workmen are quiet lor the present. |