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Show "HELLO" GIRLS IN BUTTE STRIKE FOR HIGHER WAGES BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 13. The entire operating force of telephone girls connected con-nected with the Butte exchange of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company com-pany struck today for higher wages. Advances averaging 10 per cent are asked. Negotiations of several weeks have proved fruitless. The strike ties up business throughout through-out this section of the State to a certain cer-tain extent, as several of the larger enterprises en-terprises depend upon long-distance telephones for the transmission of orders. or-ders. There is no indication of a speedy settlement. |