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Show II DELAYS S i HIGHWAY I CONTRACTORS ; Iams Will Be Imported ; from (he North and Work to Proceed Rapidly, Ac- ! ccrding to Superintendent ', Between twelve and fifteen ' .-anew operating fifty to sixty '. employed by Strong and : vjn-'on the highway between I ;;e ar.d the Indian reservation, ! -n: oat on strike Monday morn- -i and work has been held up '. week. The men are from - George, Santa Clara and ; a::;:n;r:on. Teams are being sjit in 'rom Enterprise and '? .-.jar City sections and the I :r, ret'iv's horses which are now ' ; Fpringville will be here within with-in ; ::ie next day or two -and op-l op-l :-3::'ons will be resumed. Grad- -i only was affected, the con-l con-l crews staying on the job. Affording to some of the i trikers interviewed Monday, they .-jS because their demands for ; raise from J7.50 to $S.50 per 1 ijv for four-horse teams, were ; met. L. Clark, sttperintend- l ;. tor the company, states that : i demands for a raise were J ade until after the men failed .J i show up for work Monday. same statement is also made : r the foremen under Mr. Clark i vio say they had never received I expressions of dissatisfaction. : Tit first they knew of the strike Q at 7:15 Monday morning, f "it men were to have gone on I at 7:30. ? According to the strikers it .1- a lo.dng proposition to feed .j :;ir horses and make anything - themselves on the wage paid. ; Se Ihe contractor states- that :: w3 agreed at the beginning I ' r. ?5 was to be the price for i i single team and $7.50 for a l tr-un for eight hours. This t they say, prevails through- i e -'fate. According to Su- l ;;-:r.lendent Clark, an 8 a day ; 1 :c for four-tips was authoriz- x '-. to become . effective Mondav 1 ,rnin-?- bat this was not known 5 ' tiie men, due to the fact that ? ! did not take the matter of '""':S P with him. He was im- 2 ; !lnS ""' and oats at cost and "'.'""g to the men without 'Sing commission, but with sl liny coming on the mar-: mar-: this week the price tor J would he. considerably recording re-cording to the contractor, a crew of men and teams from ; "..outside will be employed ,'n a day or two, and to- 'tr with those from Cedar enterprise and other pans ' m county, work will be re-. re-. M on a bigger scale than |