Show SAWMILLS SITTING SHUTTING DOWN Lumber Business in Bad Shape at Portland Owing to Strike of Workmen W Portland Ore March 8 Another largo large sawmill and a box factory shut down to today today day ds making in all five lve sawmills and three thre box and lumber mills which are arc tied up up by the strike of or sawmill hands In this city elt In several of the other mills a portion of the walked out today and more are expected to go to It developed tonight that thai th lt the big mill owners held a secret meeting Thursday night at which they decided to shut their mills down No other plans were formu formulated formulated formulated they say sa There Is ls a rumor In circulation that the local detective agencies Is III Importing strike breakers This Is hardly sum sufficient dent clent men to operate one of ot the big mills but It is believed that the scheme is to get one mill In operation in the belief that It will cause the strikers who are mostly foreigners to lose faith In their leaders and desert Because the tho present strike is c being conducted b bf the Indus Industrial trial Workers of the World there I 1 said to be little danger of there being belD a it sym sympathetic sympathetic sympathetic pathetic strike The rhe American Federation of Labor the dominant labor federation In Portland is not in sympathy with the present movement |