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Show MEXICAN SMELTER STRIKE REMAINS UNCHANGED. Strikers Remain Firm, ' but No , Trouble Has Come Up. MONTEREY, Mexico, Jan. . The strike situation here remains practically unchanged. The management of smelter No. S has offered to permit the men to return re-turn to work under old conditions; that Is the company to continue the payment ot a premium for twenty-one days' consecutive consecu-tive work. The strikers, however, i o-fuse o-fuse to return to work unless aranted tho increase asked for. No trouble has occurred oc-curred today, aa the police and militia are guarding the plant. Considerable loss has thus far been sustained because of the closing down of the plant, and If present conditions continue the loss will aggregate aggre-gate an enormous sum. t . |