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Show BIG STRIKE IN BUTTE. h.- Newspapers Cease Publication and Telephone Girls Walk Out. Butto, Mont. Tho greatest concerted concert-ed strlko In tho history of tho city, affecting n number of industries and completely closing tho nowspapors of Butto and Anaconda, began Wednesday, Wednes-day, when tho pressmen of tho nows-paper nows-paper and job roomB wont out on a domnnd for an ndvanco in wages, and tho tolophono girl operators In tho employ of tho Rocky Mountain Boll Tolophono company wont out for more pay. On Thursday llnomon employed In tolophono and tolcgraph work went ' out, vWhothor In sympathy with tho tolophono girls or because their own demands for higher pay aro pending, cannot bo loarned at this hour. The Btrlko In Its entirety nffocts about 400 peoplo and may spread. Butto and Ann-couda Ann-couda newspapers havo ceased publication, publi-cation, apparently, for tho next thirty or sixty days at least, and a grim itrugglo Is now on botwoou tho Butto Miner, tho Butto Evening Nows, the Butto Inter-Mountnln, and tho Anaconda Ana-conda Standard on ono sldo, and tho Allied Printing crafts on tho othor. L |