Show FACTORY CLOSED BECAUSE OF STRIKE because a large number of the workmen at the lehl lehi sugar factory of the U sugar company went on a strike a number of days ago to force the the adoption of the eight hour schedule the company has closed the factory tor for the balance odthe 0 the season and will ship the beets to other factories ot of the system in consequence of the shut town down some two hundred and fifty men are thrown out of em plo me merit ht according to abe statement of merrill nibley assi assistant stent general manager mn nager it Is impossible for the company to consider the institution ot of the eight hour shift during these times limes and so there was nothing left to do but close down the factory the beets in the lelli lelii district are being snipped shipped to other fac factories of the system which willbe will be able to take care 0 of them because 0 of the great tailing falling off in the tha tonnage of beets everywhere at the local factory a record run la Is being made to date the mill having consumed a great many more tons of 0 beets every twenty tour four hours than it was designed to consume because of 0 the smallness of the beets and the long dry autumn the sugar content is exceptionally high so that what the farmers lose in fit the tonnage shrinkage the they will partly at least get back in the increased sugar content |