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Show u, - S ' J . ' V M e? A fc ii m Tr.OT, N.Y., May 19. A -general . shut !ovnv of the .extensive sMrt. collar and cu.I factories here Is feared owing to trpuvle which has existed for & fort-nighfr-'between the starchers and' era-, ployees. Nine of the large factories having laundry plants are now 'affect- ! , ', ed and no work Is being laundered In those shops because the starchers .re ,fue the handle the work. If the work . cannot , be laundered business In the factories is likely to halt unless 'the manufacturers decide to utilise non union help, of which there is do Indication. Indi-cation. . The trouble started in the laundry department de-partment of Cluett, Peabody & Co. The employees demanded more wages, which they said had been cut down: also the ; reinstatement of discharged employees. The firm refused, and the starchers quit, together with those In the Ide plant Material from these two waa offered In other plants, but the starchers refused to handle it and left the various shops. ' ' .Thus the trouble spread and, as goods cannot be handled except through the laundering departments about 2000 hands, many of them girls, are now without work. If tha strike continues many thousand mora will be involved. The strike Is also extending along other lines. . . - Teamsters are refusing to .handle goods from the shops while tha manufacturers manu-facturers have been notified by the express ex-press companies' agents that 'they did Hot care to take the goods from the factories and endanger the men working work-ing on their wagons. Many cases that were packed for the expressmen to take away remain unmoved. . ' & . |