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Show ADMIT THE FAILURE OF GENERAL STRIKE 1 NEW YORK, Oct. 2. Tacit admission admis-sion of the failure of the general sympathetic sym-pathetic strike in New York in behalf of the striking street ear men was made in a report late today to a conference of labor leaders, which discussed the general situation. The leaders recommended recom-mended that every union member in the city be assessed one dollar for the benefit ben-efit of the subway, elevated, and surface sur-face car employees who are on strike in Manhattan, the Bronx and parts of Westchester county. No decision as to further efforts to call out all unionists in sympathy with the strikers was reached and there was no formnl admission that the strike plan had collapsed. In its report to the meeting the gen- i eral strike committee said: j "The committee still believes in the; sincerity of the assurance given by j representatives of important unions. Tt is our opinion that the rank and file of labor is in full sympathy with the street car men in their fight to maintain their riphts." Police headquarters announced that n canvass made by policemen showed that nnlv 408 men had responded to the call for a general strike. More than 1 00. 000 members of the United Hebrew Trades returned to work after their three-day holiday, as did 3500 brewery workers. |