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Show THE GERMAN PRINTERS TO STRIKE. They Want a Nine-Hour Day and an Advance Ad-vance in Wages. Berlin, Oct. 23. A meeting of printers employed in Breslau and in Leipsic, was held today in those cities, and preparations were made for a general strike of the German Ger-man printers, which seems to be determined upon for tomorrow. At the Breslau and Leipsic meetings, the printers resolved to give their support to the resolution arrived at bj- the printers of this city yesterday. This resolution was voiced by -WOO Berlin printers, who decided to ask their union to order a general strike, in case of the refusal of the employers to grant them a working clay of nine hours and an advance of 33 per cent in w ages. It is generally admitted that a wholesale strike of the printers throughout through-out Germany w ill be immediately ordered. The printers of Frankfort, Hainbug, Keo-niirsburg, Keo-niirsburg, Mayenee and Nuremberg have decided de-cided to" join in the general strike of the printers. |