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Show ADVOCATE NATION WIDE STRIKE Pennsylvania Labor Leaders Would Call Out Worklngmen All Over the Country to Help Their Cause. Philadelphia. The promise of help from wlthctt nnd development of strength In Its own field, which appeared ap-peared to take even tho strike leaders by surprise, Injected now life Into tho Philadelphia general strike movement on Wednesday. The labor campaign received Impetus Im-petus from the State Federation of Labor at Newcastle that a nationwide nation-wide tie-up would not be too great a price for tho success of the local cause. The movement in sympathy with the striking employes of tho day Invaded what was supposed to bo a citadel of the opposing forces. Tho strike leaders Induced over one thousand thou-sand employes of tho Baldwin Loco-motlvo Loco-motlvo works to wall: out Tuesday aftornoon, following tho early morning morn-ing desertion of an equal number. To tho threat of a country-wide strike if tho local traction hearts did not agree to arbitration, the company officials made curt response, announcing announc-ing they had said tholr last word on arbitration, and If tho widespread strike depended on their yielding, the strlko would come. Evidences, however, were given by the employes of many classes that they were confident a national strike would not be forced, and that the sympathetic movement here would wear itself out. Sovcral firms announced an-nounced that their hands wore returning re-turning to work. |