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Show MOBS CONTROL MONTREAL CITY Police and Firemen Go on Strike for Increased Wages. Montreal. More than 1500 men or the four organized city, services struck Thursday for higher wages. The official estimate by E. It. Decary, chairman of the city commission, of the number out was: Police, S44 ; firemen, 550; garbage incineration department. 150; engineers and others employed at the low-level pumping station in the waterworks, wa-terworks, 10. With every policeman and virtually every fireman in the city on strike for higher wages, Montreal is helpless in the hands of rioters. Fire stations have been wrecked, citizens robbed and stores looted. Saloons and disorderly dis-orderly resorts are wide open. Law- abiding citizens are helpless to prevent the depredations of gangs of hoodlums. hood-lums. Mayor Martin has been in conference confer-ence with representatives of the policemen po-licemen and firemen in an effort to reach a settlement. The men are said to have agreed to accept a yearly wage of ,1200, $i:-;00 and $1400, ' according to length of service. They also want the double-shift system. The trades and labor council is said to have offered to act as a mediating body between the city administration and the strikers. |