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Show MACHINISTS ON A STRIKE Fifteen Hundred Men go Out at Cleveland. Cleve-land. In accordance -with the decision reached at a meeting which lasted practically throughout the night, the machinists employed in more than fifty establishments in Cleveland, O. , have laid down their tools. It is stated that about 1,500 men are out, including nonunion. non-union. Should the strike continue a few days several thousand men in other trades dependent upon the machinists will become idle. The strikers declare they will remain out until their demand de-mand for a nine-hour day. with ten hours' pay, is granted by the employers. At four establishments the machinists machin-ists were notified early in the day that their demands had been granted. In these shops the men continued to work. President O'Connel of the Interna-tion Interna-tion Machinists union has issued the following statement: "If the nine-hour day is not granted by the emplo3-ers of machinists throug-hout the country by April 1, there will be a general strike, involving involv-ing 200,000 machinists, and not a wheel will be turned until that concession is made." |