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Show PAUPERS GO ON STRIKE Aged Persons . in. Alms-. Alms-. house Make Demands and Cause Merriment. ' NEW YORK, June 9. Considerable merriment has been caused by a strike of paupers in a county almshouse Just outside Jersey City. The men detailed to act as bakers organised and elected a walking delegate, who notified the County. Board In. charge of the. institution institu-tion that his fellows would not knead the almshouse dough until their names were put on the payroll with the attendants at-tendants and other employees. The delegate explained to the committeemen com-mitteemen that the bakers were entitled enti-tled to pay, because, unlike many other paupers," they do not desert the Institution Institu-tion during he summer months to recuperate re-cuperate at 'the seashore and In the mountains, but remain at their duties In the bake shop and work faithfully for the county. .The committee rejected reject-ed the demands and Informed the strikers strik-ers that they would be put to work In the stone quarries If they do not return to work In the bake shop. |