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Show TWELVE MEN CAUSE STRIKE.' Not a Single Street Car Is Running Irv j Butte. Ilutte, Mont. Tho Hut to street rail-way rail-way syBtcm suspended all operations Tuesday midnight, In consequence or w a walkout of track and repair men. Thus far no negotiations for a settlement settle-ment hnvo been made. Ono hundred and fifty motormcu nnd conductors nro thrown out by tho striko of tho barn mon, who number only twelvo. The latter ask nn Increase from $3 to $3.50 per day for eight hours' work. These mull belong to tho Worklngmen'j union, tho strongest in tho camp next to tho Minors'. Their demands have been granted by tho telephone companies, com-panies, by tho waterworks, tho lumber lum-ber men and by minor companies, but tho city, tho gus company and tho street railway coinpnny will not pay their demands. The membership Is-mulnly Is-mulnly composed or common Inborers. |