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Show GOTHAM TO FACE GENERAL STRIKE UNION HEADS AGREE TO CALL OUT 700,000 WORKERS TO AID TRACTION MEN. President of Rapid Transit Company Issues Statement Refusing to Confer Con-fer With Strikers and Hopes of Peace Are Lessened. New York. F'ailure of negotiations being conducted by Mayor Mitcliel to provide a basis of settlement of the traction strike in this city will result in a call for a sympathetic strike ot approximately 700,000 workers, union leaders declared after a conference Monday between representatives of several crafts. The call will be issued, it was stated, stat-ed, to all unions affiliated with the Central Federated Union of New York, the Central Labor Union of Brooklyn and the Federated Union of the Bronx Westchester and Yonkers. Some ol the unions already have authorized a strike, union leaders said, and refer-endums refer-endums are In progress in others. Theodore P. Shonts, president of the Interborough Rapid Transit company com-pany and the New York Railway com pany, has issued a statement in which he said the companies would refuse to confer further with the strikers. This announcement was made after Mr. .Shonts had been informed that Mayor Mitchel had agreed to act with Oscar S. Straus, chairman of the public pub-lic service commission, in an attempt to bring. the strikers and companies together. The United Hebrew Trades, representing repre-senting a membership of 200,000 organized or-ganized workmen, has voted to go on a sympathetic strike to aid the striking strik-ing carmen, if they are called upon to do so by the Central 'Federated union. |