Show lG STRIKE IN BOSTON Eight Thousand STon Involved in a Contest With Two Biff Railroads Boston March 10War between the or g inlzcrt tonmutero freight and express handlers of Boston and two great railroad corporations the New York New Haven Hartford and the New York Central Hudson River the latter locally known ns the Boston Albany broke out to day The strIke which IB a oympathetlc one already involves SOOO men in and about Boston Stopping work because of the discharge or tho union men v ho refused to handle nonunion moved freight tho various organizations or-ganizations now on strike made every 01 t > on today to extend their sphere of Influence In-fluence to affiliated bodies while the corporations cor-porations onergetJcum tried to fill lie strikers plnccs and to receive and dispatch dis-patch goods offered them Both met with some measure of success Tomorrow the local employees of thereat the-reat oxprr33 companies tho Adams and the New York Boston two companies which handle practically all the fast freight in Southern New England will refuse to work while several smaller odks of organized labor such as tho brewery teamsters and pianomovers as well as freight handlers In east Boston will bo Idle On the other hand tho New York New llavco > K Hartford railroad after succeeding suc-ceeding today In moving considerable freight by Italian labor will augment the t force tomorrow and the Boston Albany expects to have a large number of men nt work In Its freight sheds The action of tho expressmen In Join t ny tho freight handlers will quickly affect af-fect tho freight business with nearby buMness Centers like Worcester Spring field f Hartford New Haven Providence Fall River and New Bedford Nearly every labor union In this city m n H tonight to discuss the situation Tho predlcllonn were that tIn longshoremen numbering about 100 would strike together to-gether with 2CO Knights of Labor freight hr inmllors employed by the Boston Maine road and 1000 men In other unions when t heir assistance Is needed If all these l aborers cease work tho striking force will be over 11000 men Tho strike of t ho longshoremen will be for tho purpose of 1 stopping water shipments of freight Already the Htrlkc Is felt at the neigh boring city of Lynn where It may cload shoo factories and thus give thousands of operatives an enforced holiday As tho result of tho strike today 2300 cases of shoes arc held up In the Lynn freight hn h lousc The cut solo and leather firms ore tied up as they cannot get a sup l > Iy of leather The Lynn box factories facto-ries which supply outoftown firms with shoo boxes will have to shut down as they cannot forward boxes made on or lids Tonight the Lynn Toston Steamship Steam-ship company handled an enormous amount of merchandise This avenue of transportation will bo closed tomorrow 1C i the Boston longshoremen go out |