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Show im MY STRIKES OCCUR ALL OVER THE COUNTRY WORKEES IN" MANY LINES LAY DOWN THEIR TOOLS AT BLOOMINQTON, ILL, BLdOMINGTON, 111., May 1. Bloomington witnessed the most extensive exten-sive strike among trades unions today that has been inaugurated In many years. Every member of the Carpenters' Carpen-ters' union, Horseshoers union and several sev-eral minor organizations laid down their tools this morning when the bosses boss-es refused to sign the new scale of wages. OMAHA ay 1. Eighteen hundred men. including teamsters, hotel and rea-. rea-. taurant employees and members of the building trades, went on strike today. Sympathetic strikes are anticipated, which will bring the number of strikers to 3000. The city presented a Sunday appearance appear-ance today. Hardly a wagon waa to be seen on the streets, all the large restaurants res-taurants were closed, and the strikers tood on the corners quietly discussing the situation. The hotels are not directly di-rectly affected, but may be drawn into the trouble. The hotel and restaurant ' ' employees demand a six-day week and other branches of the striking laborers demand an Increase in wages of from 10 to 20 per cent. ,W"0BK ON SUBWAY IN A NEW YORK STOPPED BY ; STRIKE OF LABORERS. 1 1 j NEW YORK, May 1. The strikes of mechanics and laborers which had been looked for today did not materialize to the extent that had been anticipated, I although a great many men. Including 1 30,000 Italian excavators, are on strike. ! The strike ordered by the Teamsters' i union last night has not as yet reached any proportions. The orders were 1s-! 1s-! sued to 4000 members, but not one- fourth of these quit work, j Some 30,000 Italian excavators and I rockmen engaged on the subway an swered the call for a strike by their leader today. They ask $3 a day for all men. experienced and Inexperienced, while the contractors say they can pay this to experienced men only. The " strikers paraded the streets, each waving wav-ing an American flag. This strike practically prac-tically put a stop to work on the subway sub-way and also, on excavations for new buildings. ' In the building trades there is not a strike to interfere with work, the only trouble being that occasioned by the ' differences between the Amalgamated and Brotherhood carpenters. 1 LAUNDRY-WORKERS, TO NUMBER OP 5000, GO ON STRIKE IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO. May '1. Two thousand I five hundred men of the Laundry- Workers' union quit work today. There are 5000 of . these workers, including laundry wagon drivers, and less than one-fifth of the number are men. Chinese Chi-nese laundries, of which it is estimated there are nearly 1000 in Chicago, are to be Involved in this war. The employers employ-ers have Issued a call for a meeting of every laundry proper in the city and I suburbs this afternoon, and efforts are being made to induce the Mongolian j .washermen to stand by the Laundry-; Laundry-; , men's association In Its efforts to withstand with-stand the demands of the workers. The strikers are asking an advance ranging from 10 to 60 per cent, and the proprietors proprie-tors say they cannot afford to pay the advance. |