Show ELECTRIC WIRE WORKERS Strike Still on and Contractors Show No Signs of Yielding The electric wire workers who struck a few days ago are still out and It looks as if i they would remain out permanently per-manently The contractors finding plenty of help to fill the vacant places and feel l so complacent over the matter mat-ter that they have eeasad to hold meetIngs meet-Ings I This Is not true of the strikers however how-ever They held a long session lost night at the close of which ft was announced that nothing had been done nor was likely to be A recess was taken for a considerable time while messengers were sent for different pelsons but for what purpose was not disclosed I The employers have been greatly strengthened In their position by the discovery of latent talent In many of the young boys who serve a apprentices appren-tices These youngsters have been entrusted en-trusted with repair Jobs of considerable considera-ble responsibility and have proved themselves s competent that the contractors con-tractors find themselves able to take care of all the work that comes In In the contract presented to the contractors con-tractors for signature the clause most objected to Is the one that provides that each Journeyman sent out on a job ahal have one helper and that no apprentice or helper shall bo sent out on repair work except under the supervision I su-pervision of a journeyman This they say would result In making an amateur ama-teur electrician of every man who owned n battery or an electric light as the cost of repair work would be doubled If It were necessary to send out two workmen on every little Job |