Show S TALKING ABOUT STRIKES S The refusal of W L Robinson of tho Rochester t PlttsburK Coal it Iron cornS corn-S pany to sign the miners scale agreed upon by tim miners and operators of district No 2 may cause a strike of Robinsons several thousand men on April lat At a mecUm of tho executive board of the National Assoclatlonof Blast Furnace Workers it was decided unanimously I that notices should bo sent to all blast fur naco operators on April 5th demanding an elRhlhour day at tho present scale of wages to take cllect May 1st Brewers In Cincinnati yesterday held a meeting and arrangcd to take back nil such men as could bo placed so that tho lockout In Cincinnati CovlnRton and Newport New-port Is I practically over Of tho 1200 men locked out all are provided for except about 150 who still remain unemployed A secret conference of mill agents business busi-ness men and Textile council officers In Lowell Moss hu < been sitting for eleven hours but at 1 oclock this morning had failed to reach an agreement It docs not scorn probable that a strike of 1GCOO operatives oper-atives next7 Monday morning can bo averted A special cull was issued from tho national na-tional headquarters of the United Mine Workors of America by President John Mitchell and Secretary V B Wilson for a meeting of tho national executive board In Indianapolis Ind on Monday April 7th Tho purpose Is to consider tho sit uatton In tho anthracite and soft coalfields coal-fields The telephono linemen who have been on strike In New York city for nearly two months have appealed through President Blmoro of tho Now YOrk branch of the National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Work-ers to the National Civic Federation for aid In settling their differences Tho federation fed-eration cannot deal with strikes of any but national unions |