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Show STRIKE OF 15C3 OF PANAMA CANAL : ' W0RUEE3 THREATENS NEW ORLEANS March 27, Bad food, too muca overtime work and low wages are causes which threaten a strike of between 1200 and 1500 trainmen, train-men, engineers, firemen and cranemen employed In digging the Panama canal. Eesignatibns of the : men are ready to be tendered to the Panama Canal commission and are held in abeyance until the arrival 'of Secretary Taf t, who has cabled a committee of the working-men working-men that he will be on the isthmus April 1, to confer with the dissatisfied employees. , This information was brought here today to-day by Charles J. Baker of Danville, 111., a railroad conductor, who arrived on the steamship Ellis from Colon. Baker left a position in this country eight months ago to go to Panama to accept a place there paying $170 per month. Baker savs that the pending strike would resuft in a complete tie-up tie-up of construction work of anywhere from several months to several years. |