Show REPUDIATED AGREEMENT Fifteen Thousand Striking Italians Refuse to Return to Work New York May Sweeping aside the pleading of Chevalier Branchl their consul general Port Warden James E March and officials of the Central Federated Union of Labor the 15000 striking Italian laborers voted almost unanimously today not to return to work In the city subway until un-til they arc assured of 2 for eight hours work This means that the arbitration agreement entered Into by the committee commit-tee of the federation and the subway rontraclom on Tuesday IB repudiated Not n tlroHv of work will be dOM In the < < u i lTOTO at m is prom lit I I u > ti s nouU and nnth handicap Is I enforced against the already al-ready crippled building operations of the city Immediately after the meeting the police were called to suppress a demonstration demon-stration at One Hundred and Eighteenth Eigh-teenth street and Second avenue Only one thing remains to be done according to a subcontractor As soon as the formal reply of the union Is received re-ceived they will seek nonunion labor wherever it can be found |