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Show SPIRIT OF UNREST STRIKES WORKMEN IN THE EAST Many Thousand Men In Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia Strike for Increase is Wages. Pittsburg. Between 25,000 and 30,-000 30,-000 workmen coal miners, tin and sb,eet plate workers and members of the various steel crafts are on strike throughout western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia. A majority of the idle men are in the Pittsburg district. Excepting the strike at the Pressed Steel Car com-i pany at McKee's Rocks, where rioting riot-ing occurred Wednesday and Thursday, Thurs-day, resulting in the shooting and beating of thirty persons, the strikers ara orderly. The situation in the Pittsburg district dis-trict is unusual, treading as it doss on the heels of an apparent wave of prosperity. Resumptions have been ordered in all trades and men who have been without work for many months are being afforded employment. In several instances the men claim' their employers are offering them too low wages for their work. The officials offi-cials assert conditions do not warrant higher pay at this time. Other grievances include the alleged al-leged violation of the eight-hour workday work-day and recognition of organized labor. The trouble is spreading to the independent in-dependent sheet and tin plate jfants and there is apparently no hope for adjustment. |