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Show NO HOPE GIVEN OE SETTLEMENT Employers Refuse to Advance Ad-vance Salaries of Iron Workers. CHICAGO.1 May .4. Hope of an 'early settlement of the bridge and structural Iron-workers' strike came to ait: end yesterday after a Joint meeting,' at which employers in every branch of the trade were represented." It was decided under no." consideration would an increase in wag'es be granted the strikers. .-, It is unlikely, in the light of statements state-ments made by strikers, that the men will return to . work for anythins less than 62Va cents an hour. . , . . Three hundred sausage and butcher workers, employed by , twenty small firms, walked out yesterday after a refusal re-fusal of the employers to grant a . nine-hour nine-hour instead of a ten-hour . day, with the same wages as paid now. , , |