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Show TOILERS IN NEW YORKjm STRIKE GREAT STRIKE IN SYMPATHY WITH CARMEN IS PLANNED BY LABOR LEADERS. Fourth Day of Street Railway Trouble Finds Every Surface Line in Greater City in Crippled Condition; Con-dition; Jitneys Popular, New York A strike of stage employees, em-ployees, longshoremen, brewery workers, work-ers, machinists, bartenders, moulders and printers, in sympathy with the . unionized carmen who quit their places last week, was decided upon at a meeting of the heads of the unions Sunday, according to an announcement an-nouncement by Hugh Frayne, state organizer of the American Federation of Labor. A resolution was adopted calling on aU unionized wage-earners in Greater New York, Yonkers, Mount Vernon, White Plains and New Rochelle to sanction a strike "in support of the contention of the street railway men of their right to organize." The resolution reso-lution recommended that the workers in the various trades "lay down their tools until the companies are forced to recognize the carmen's union." Before a sympathetic strike can be declared, however, it was explained by the union leaders, it will be necessary nec-essary for tlieni to call mass meetings meet-ings of their respective unions and put the proposition to a vote of the membership. The delegates at the meeting Sunday night, it was said, assured as-sured William B. Fitzgerald, organizer organ-izer of the carmen's union, that their members were "willing to 'fight to a finish, morally, physically and financially finan-cially in the interest of trade unionism." |