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Show Strike Situation Serious. HAMMOND. Ind.. March 20. The strike situation at East Chicago was In-tensiliof In-tensiliof today, when 8500 men, employed em-ployed by the Tnland Steel company, walked out. The reason for the walkout was the demand of the laborers for an Increase of 25 cents per day. Six hundred hun-dred men struck yesterday at the Interstate Inter-state Steel company and 1200 at tho Re-puhllr Re-puhllr Iron and Steel company, and the walkout today brings the total number of strikers to over 6000 men. Somo rioting riot-ing occurred early today, and ono of the strikers was beaten by one of the guards at the Inland coinpany'n plant. |