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Show DETROIT STREET CAR . liEII STRIKE - ' i i i Seventeen Hundred Men Are Out; Want an Increase In-crease of Waei. DETROIT, if .eh., fVpt; l0.Fiftgi hnsdred - employees of the Detroit tiited Railway company went on strike this moraiug aad ao street cars are running run-ning in the city. The moa get K, 25 and ?8 ecnte an hour. They ask 25 and 30 cents an hour. Last' night the leaders of. he local Ftreet Car Mea t association took up headquarter ia the Knights of Equity hall, fort and Second streets, and soon as crewi flnifihcd their respect ivs runs, thev marched to the hall. Today huedreda of men still wearing their tiei-forma tiei-forma earn. marching in every direct 10a towards th hall. ' Prscticsllr all the men wer at th meeting thi morninf.'1 said oa of th men. ."Or.lv ahont flft, were absent. There waa not a diaoslif volt o the strike firniMwilinn." 1 - Mate fair ofhnala were out earl.y. - aaxiona snd worried about the rondi. tiona at the fair B'O""1'"- With th big fair limler wav only two Hay, and stitK lhoi'?nil ot people expe'teii today and II the rent of th week, it niraaa to them a treat Iowa, (hit of the 24imi men employed hy the romienv ITiiO are memlers of the aeso-. eiation: Th remainla 700 are mra who have hees employed by th torn-psor torn-psor for lee then oiaetv data sad who are not entitled to membernhip Until tbey have worked that length of tim. The men assert, however, th 700 mra will go out. |