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Show A. ftreat SSnilvray Strike. CniCAGo. Feb. 5. A Montreal special spe-cial says a strike of the conductors, brakemen and switchmen on Iho Canadian Pacific Railway i3 threatened threat-ened and may be put into operation at any hour. It will attend from St. John, X. B to Vancouver, British Columbia. Two hundred representatives represen-tatives from all over the line have approached ap-proached tha assistant general manager mana-ger of the road and d?mando1 an increase in-crease of pay. What the company terms a reasonable advance was offered, of-fered, but not accepted. The dsmand of the Canadian Pacific men will probably be followed by one on the part of tha Grand Trunk employees, who belong to tha samn organization, and who aro awaiting to see the upshot up-shot before taking action. Vice-President Shaughnessy was interviewed this afternoon with inference in-ference to the report that tho Canadian Cana-dian Pacific Railway trainmen contemplated con-templated striking: He denied that there whs anj trouble w ith the conductors con-ductors and said certain concessions were made to. the other hands. ! |