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Show FREIGHT HANDLERS PREPARING FOR STRIKE CHICAGO. July 1. Railroad managers man-agers nnd officials of tho freighf handlers' hand-lers' union yesterday made active preparations prep-arations for a strike. Hundreds of laborers la-borers wero hired ar the various froight houses and are being held in readiness by the reads to pick up trucks should tho uniou men decide to walk out. President P. J. Flannel of the International In-ternational uniou will endeavor to confer con-fer with tho railroad managers and get iu writing the assurance that ho says has been verbally given that thore will bo no wago reduction. That, ho do-clarod, do-clarod, was all that tho union is asking for. |