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Show illRES ARE GROSSED IQ TROUBLE yBEIGNS ) ' Peculiar Condition Exists for I Time at Ogden Tacking -"Company's Plant. I Special to The Tribune. OGDEN", Dec. 23. Employees nt Urn Ogden Packing company enme very near declaring In favor of a strike yesterday. I Tliero vras no trouble' about wages, pay- I days camo ns regulnr as tho employees I expected them, and the working hours are I entirely fair and aro satisfactory to tho employees of tho factory. Yel for a tlmo disorder reigned supremo and a- shut-I shut-I down of tho plant was threatened. Tho causo was a peculiar one. In soma I ivay tho electric light wires entering tho I building' had become crossed, or short-' circuited, or something llko that. No body knows what but tho linemen. Tho hlg- sliding steel beams used to hang butchered animals upon became "live." as did oil other metallic fixtures In the building. Every tlmo a butcher stuck his knife into the throat of a gruntcr there were two squeals ono from the porker and another from the butcher. The hog would die and the man would throw the knife on tho floor and blow on his fingers, lie had gotten a shock from tho knife, which had beconre charged with tho ".lulce," which was all about tho building. build-ing. Finally electricians were called In and the wires repaired. |