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Show uu - . TRAMP STEAMERS ARE TIED UP BY UNION New York, Aug. 7. Fifty British tramp steamers, which are now in port, here have been tied up indefinite!" by orders of the Sailors and Fire-' men's union of Great Britain Wliilo sailors on vessels of the Trans-Atlantic company sign for tho trip, the sailors on most of the tramp steamers sign separately for the Journey each way. The union has Issued a new wage scale embodying an advance all around and the seamen are instructed to refuse to sign except under the new scale Members of the American union are not allowed to take the places of the strikers. |