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Show PLAN BLOW AT THE MORBANJNTERESTS 80,000 Workers in Trades Closely Affiliated With Carmen May Strike. NEW YORK, Sept. 15. Eighty thousand thou-sand workers in crafts closely affiliated with the operation of New York's traction trac-tion lines are expected to go on strike by Monday, it was announced at the close of a 'meeting of the Central Federated Fed-erated union here tonight. Representatives Representa-tives of 400,000. unionized employees were at the meeting, it was said, and passed a resolution calling on each trade to ascertain the sentiment of members regarding a general strike in sympathy with the carmen here who quit their places September ti. The trades in which the referendum has been in progress, it is said, Include longshoremen, long-shoremen, teamsters, power-house employees, em-ployees, stationary engineers and firemen and machinists. The omy craTt upon which figures were available toniKht was the machinists, and It was said their vote showed about 70 per cent of I lie memhership favoring a sympathetic strike. Union leaders attach much importance to the action of t lie maenlnlsts, most of whom are employed at plants manufacturing manufac-turing munitions of war for the entente allies. The effect of the strike in that trade, they say. would be a direct blow at the Morgan interests, the largest holders hold-ers of stock in tho Jnterborouph Rapid Transit company. J. P. Morgan & Company Com-pany are the fiscal agents of the British government in this country. Several persons were injured, none of them seriously, in two traction accidents tonight. Although surface car service was much improved over previous days, subway and elevated trains were more crowded today to-day than at any time since the strike was called. Several women fainted and many persons suffered minor bruises in the crush. |