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Show COMPANY'S STATEMENT. j. NEW YORK, May 1-Tho Pennsyl- jj g' vania company issued a statement to- I mu night authorized by S. C. Long, its 1 Wih general manager, fixing the number IWj; ot striking shopmen at less than two ttj thousand and reviewing tho circum- sHi stancos preceding the strike. H1 The statement says a satisfactory -j ? ? settlement of differences was reached j B In Philadelphia on April 25. when a ftv committee of employes conferred with ' jET Mr. Long. This committee later ask- git ed for a conference between Mr. Lons Sj and their international officers to ad- rjro Just matters. This he refused. 5& "Owing to the depression in busl- X ness It has leen necessary for the JUi company to economize In every pos jjC( sible way," the statement continues 5m ' This has resulted In a reduction of j-Rt forebs and working time, making an ?i equivalont of some twenty thousand iijjt moii who have been furioughod in 0.11 t grtl departments of tho lines east of lpi Pittsburg and Erie. " ; "Forces at all shops or the system JgU have been reduced gradually and It ? was because of this reduction that : , j shopmen in the Pittsburg district ' 2,$ sent a committee to Philadelphia." l(i nn ' lOih. |