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Show STRIKE CLOSES PRICE LAUNDRY PRICE Although six of the eight-employes eight-employes affected claim to have voted against the strike, the Price Steam laundry waa closed here Tuesday on a ballot of 23 members of local union No. 128. Laundry Workers. Cleaners and Dyers' International In-ternational union. Edward Scherer. president of the rrhm Pnunlv Ontral I.nhnr union reported the strike resulted from Cm Pr.ce laundry's "unwarranted" ; smiss.il of Fred W i n kenwerder, truck driver and president of the i. lion. The dismissal came. Scherer aa-ssrted. aa-ssrted. while negotiations were un-&r un-&r way for a separata labor con-tiict. con-tiict. applying only to drivers. He aserted this is In violation of the labor agreement Arrival of a representative of the s'tite labor relations board to arbitrate arbi-trate the strike waa waited by the union, but Angelos Ceorgides. operator oper-ator of the laundry, said hs expected to reopen his laundry Tuesday afternoon. af-ternoon. He said hs would telephone a list of workers to the stats board aa strikebreakers when the laundry laun-dry reopens. Georgides said Winkenwerder'a duties had been taken over by a man with whom he had recently formed had violated its working agreement ' with the laundry by calling a strike before submitting the dispute to arbitration. ar-bitration. The state labor relations board Tuesday aent an investigator. Harry MrEwen, to Price in an effort to settle the laundry walkout |