Show bis may end LONDON 13 DON nov 24 21 special it is hoped that the conference which opens today between the striking striding engineers eDgin aers and the employers will mark the beginning ot the end of a struggle egle that has lasted nearly twenty weeks that directly and indirectly has throw men out of work and has involved a loss 1088 or of millions of dollars to the wage jokers and the employers some cha of the magnitude oi of this thia dispute may be gathered from the fact the strike pay for a siegle week aggregated although the allowance to each man was on the basis of but one fourth of his bis weekly wasie wage the st ruggIe has bean the mist anat deeper ate in the history of the worlds trade unionism and it is a remarkably remark abla fact that it has been based on no heavier demands than that hours should constitute a days work and that overtime should count as one and one quarter time the employers contend that acquits pace ence in these demands would put them absolutely at the mercy of their competitors peti tors in continental countries each side has fifteen representative 3 in the conference |