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Show LITTLE CHANGE IN '! strike situation; Six hundred smelter hands, includ-! inir 400 strikers, made idle by the! forced closing of tho plant, were paid off by the American Smelting and Be-fining Be-fining company at Murray vesterdav morning. No disorder followed, the distribution of the nay checks, though extra deputy sheriffs were dispatched to the smelter to guard against outbreaks. out-breaks. There has been no conference arranged ar-ranged between the strikers and the smelter officials. C. W. Whitley, general manager pi the America'n Smelting and Refining company, is ex-nocted ex-nocted home from an eastern trip this afternoon. Some dofinitc stops towards the solution of tho predicament tho company has found itself in, because of the strike, will be takon soon after his arrival, it is said, though the officials of-ficials refuse to make any announcement announce-ment of their courso. The strikers have not been declared formally dismissed br the company. J. M. Bidwoll. manager at tho smelter, said last night that no such action was contemplated and that tho strikers could go back to work any time they desire. |