Show r EIGHTY MEN ON ONI I STRIKE E AT MURRAY RRAY I f I Smelters Forced to Close Down Five Out of Eight Furnaces DEMAND 25 CENTS RAISE Management Time Tune Not Given GUon Fur For Proposal Ii tu o i I lend i Proper u Authorities I I Eighty rappers PPl'S employed at tho smelters in Murray operated by hy tho the American Sm Smelling Refining compan company com corn com pany pan w went ent nt on a strike yesterday mornInE mornIng morn- morn big Ing for tor a 3 raise in itt YR wages es of or 2 25 cents n n. day a The men are arc alleged h by the smelter smeller operators to have walked out without five minutes' minutes notice and anel to toha ha have practically crippled the tho smelters at nt Murray for fot the time being Superintendent Norton when seen at the smelters yesterday refused e flatly flat Ilat- ly IJ 1310 to 10 discuss s the tIme matter Turin run v titan than to say s-ay that eighty ht of th the men employed employ employ- ed ell mit Time the I smelters r refused fused to go to work when shen the 7 o'clock shift was due lue to go AO on The rime strikers r held a a meeting al nl Murray Murray Mur Mur- ra ray In the afternoon to agree e on a n aPlan Plan j-ilau of oC action Ju Just t what hat decision was reached by tho m inert n was to o be l' l learned thoU though h It is well under under- stog that they have o agreed to give give the company compan- until ra l May Ma- 1 to come to their theft terms Claim No o Chance to Speak According to the statements made mae by lW several of the striking smelter smelter- men they he were wore given no opportunity It ity to speak before Superintendent Norton orton at it tho the time their demands were pre presented One of or the strikers ers Is IR responsible to for 1 tho the statement that Friday mornIng morning morn morn- ing lug a petition was Jre presented to the superintendent a raise In the wage stale The They were tol told to come back I tIle thc f for yesterday Yesterday they came r their answer and antI Superintendent Norton orton Is reported to have lm refused to discuss I tho the matter with them thorn The eighty men then refused to go goto goto 0 to work and announced that they would give the company until May Ia 1 to come com to the terms of If the UlI There Thre is a discrepancy in statements state tate meats ments regarding the time wage scale calt as made by the striking men an antho and tho the operators olle The strikers say that they are art getting from tm-on rom to per day General Manager Whitley that the m men n ore are r receiving from O to 20 per pel da day It Is understood that th these se latter figures are a r correct ct I Mr II Whitley's Hoy's Hoys Statement Mr r fJ stat sta stated ted 11 yesterday est rda that thal on Friday the men ha lund had pre presented a n petition asking for an advance all in h the wage scale Krale He lie said Id that there was no time specified In which to come comets cometo ts to the terms of the I s ers The ofIl of- of Il of ot tho the company to whom this pl petition was n presented told the committee com corn mittet of or the striking who n ted t a thy thy- tS gl i th j i matter careful a api duel pi- pi consideration l but that It would take time for tor the matter to togo go 11 through h the tilt regular channels of ofle th time le company Mr rr said further that the strikers gave the company no time cr but that when the 7 o'clock shirt shift lift was due to go o to work they pre pre- rc- rc themselves es at nl the works work and upon pon learning that no decision hu had hadeen been heen een reached In th the matter m refused to o go o on shift Cripple Ct the thc Smelter This leaves Ica the smelters crippled Three o of ot tho thu eight furnaces are being boIng bong bo bo- Ing ng worked and amid the results of oC th the tho theres hi-es hi res being allowed to go out in the theother other and the consequent loss In output out- out lut puI put by hy the smelters smellers is expected to amount t to a. a large loss before the trouble rouble is hi adjusted l The rhe comm committee ll e of or strikers Is om om- omos os cd of oC nine men mm being three c men from each of the three shifts It Is IsI I understood that the men are not embers s n of any organized la lab ir r body I jut but that thc they have associated themselves themselves them them- selves el e to together for COt the tho purpose e of so- so o- o curing the advance demanded A leaden eader of or the strikers ta stated ted yesterday yester- yester lay day that the si-ike si was in e eat earnest and that the they would not yield to any concessions whereby their thell demands were vere not granted I |