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Show tOIILD FORCES lOUTJNSTRIKE IjMi'iii.v of Men Quit Work in l3w ' Sympathy on Friday if Morning. aRTKXDS OVER SYSTEM jf OK MISSOURI PACIFIC jmSciiver & Rio Grande and (he Wesleni Pacific May Join fi Strikers. lSr. LOL'JiS. Out. 21. Approximately i !500 men employed in the mcelianical iradca on tlio Missouri Pacific & Iron jJSj fountain system -walked out in sym- Slhy with tlic striking machinists at j .0 o'clock this morning. The exact lumber of men who quit work will not S ic' known at the road 's headquarters I intil laic in the day. Tho order to I juit work was telegraphed last night to pj ho boilcrmakers, blacksmiths and pipe-Li pipe-Li ion by the bourns of their international Iinioiis after the machinists had i'liileu ,o settle their trouble with General Knnngor Sullivan of the Missouri J'a- lillc. Hero less than :i 00 men arc ema nlovrd in the mechanical departments Z ind thev walked out. Tho principal k iliops of tho road are located at Scdaliu. 1 ilo., and Little Hock. Ark. Shops are S lino maintained at Kansas City, .le(lor-'M .le(lor-'M mi Citv, l)c tfoto and Crane, Mo., Wicli- tu, Jlo'uriiigfon and Con'oyvillc. Kan.: H Cexarkana, I'aragould, Van Uuren and 2 ffcGhce, Ark.; liko Chariots and Kcr- jday. I-a; Omaha, Neb.; Pueblo Colo., I md Dupont. 111. I I Members of thy unions nl&o are cm-lf)loved cm-lf)loved at tho fifty-two division and 7?brminul points of the two lines. ,JTlio union inon sav thai tho road will wot be able to operate their locomotives 5nore than a week without tho nion who Wliit work today. Thoy bay they are Emuicc.sa ry to keep Urn engines iu run-Cpiug run-Cpiug order. Tf tho trouble is not sct-W&ca sct-W&ca within a reasonable time tho heads flpt' the unions have decided to causa u fcrulkout on all tho Gould lines. These Siicludo tho Denver & "Rio Grande, ln-3Bfcriialioii-.il & Great Northern, ltio BSrunric "Western. Western Pacilic and Cotton Hell, railroads. The machinists' Jt. rouble was ciinsed hy a. demand for a jfchhugo in the working conditions, |