Show Strike Causes Sugar Factory to Shut Down Billings Billing's Bilings Plant May ay N Not at Even Open Next Season BILLINGS Mont Mont Dec 26 AP AP Short lived Short lived negotiations between striking workers of the Great Western Wester Sugar company's factory here and factory officials we were apparently at an end today with wih a statement by Frank A. A Kemp company vice president that hat the sugar factory would not reopen n this season and that the company has not decided on Whether it will wi open next falL lL i iThe The numerous conferences that have taken place since Sunday have all al developed the facts in the situation situa siLt tion lon as a the they stand day Kemps Kemp's statement read read In the time elapsed since the strike took tok place a good many of th the beets which would have been sH sliced ce d dat at Billings have been shipped to Lovell Wyo to minimize mini nI mize shrinkage and deterioration as asfar asfar a far as possible The condition of the factory re resulting resulting re- re re suling from the attempt to o close it ft t down with wih the aid of office oUie and agricultural agri agni- cultural workers unfamiliar with wih plant processes is such that it i is i not practicable to attempt a second cam camp campaign camp cam cam- p l n to slice the small smal tonnage re remaining remaining re- re re in the Billings area Operation of the factory for tor this thi year is at an end and there is I no further further fur fur- ther campaign campain employment possible this thi year to serve as a basis of consideration consideration con con- of ot wage demands The full fuU factory crew to take care of the plant and attend to sugar shipments shIp shipments ship ship- ments ment during the next several months will wi number approximately 65 men a majority of whom ha have haye e remained at their jobs jobs It I will be some time before it I can be whether the mill will decided mi wi op- op crate erate in 1935 and many month months before before be be- be fore wage rates or working conditions condi condi- tons then to prevail can he be determined determined deter deter- mined If IL i operation is i decided on on J 1 I I. I i |