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Show THREAT OF A MASTEK WORKMAN Ho Will Cut the West Shore In Two if Mat. ten Don't Change. Albaxy, Aug. 0 Master Workman E. S. Lee this afternoon said if the Central Cen-tral shipped live stock and other perishable per-ishable goods over the West Shore road in any considerable quantity, he would issue an order that would cut that road in two. The situation of tho strike hero is more firm than last night. The only men at wark are tho engineers and a few firemen, only ouo train arriving from the south this morning. The newspaper express from New York was an hour late. Western trains came in before noon, mostly mail and baggage cars. Still, on the first western train was attached attach-ed a passenger coach having aboard General Alger and party on their way to the G. A. R. encampment at Boston. Only ouo train started for tho south made up of mail cars and two passenger passen-ger coaches. The strikers, when tho train was about to bo switched over tho bridge across he river refused to let the switch bo set properly, and the police had to be called on to disperse them. Trains then moved out, but the strikers said they Would not get far. It is said that the West Shore employes will go out before tomorrow. ' Over 1000 men employed in the car shops went out this morning. |