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Show DIAMOND SETTERS ARE OUT ON STRIKE NEW YORK, March 11. All the diamond dia-mond setters and polishers in one of the eight shops in New York are on strike for a 10 per cent increase and shorter hours. The force consists of but fifty-three polishers and ten setters, set-ters, but there are in the entire country coun-try only 260 polishers and not half as many setters. The polishers get an average of $34.50 a week, and the setters $25 a week. It Is feared in the trade that the trouble may spread. |