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Show STATE-WIDE STRIKE I IS fOni ORDER I All Efforts to Settle Labor Trou- H bles in City of Philadel- piiia Have Failed. PHILADELPHIA, March 17. jB Nothing definite having been accom-plished accom-plished by the several conferences held. today by persons interested in trying to bring a settlement of tho street car men's strike, tho committee of ten an-nouueed an-nouueed tonight that E. E. Grceuawalt, president of the slate federation of labor, would call the slate-wide striko Monday. The 'labor leaders announce that they IH havo already received assurance that Pittsburg, Erie Scranton and "Wilkes- Ba barro as well as a number of other BBb points in the state will join the move- HBa All hough State Senator Wolf, ice- BVJ president of the Eapid Trnasit com- pany, announced that as far as tho BBb compnay was concerned, the strike was HHJ over and it was "standing pat.'7 it is HBb believed the. only obstacle between the BBJ men and the company is the disposal Bj of the 17S men whose discharge pre- BBj cipitated the walkout. IBSj City councils at their meeting today jBa refused to receive resolutions calling IBBJ for arbitration of the street car trou- BBj hies, which two of the members tried BBJ to introduce. BBJ PITTSBURG, March 17 Tho Iron City Central Trades Council tonight at BBJ a meeting at which over 10 organiza- BBJ tions wero represented endorsed tho BBJ stale-wide strike recommended by the BBJ convention of the state Federation of BBJ Labor and telegraphed tho labor lead- BBJ crs at Philadelphia that the organiza- BBJ tions represented awaited the word to BBJ go |