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Show STRIKERS ARE REFUSED WATER Tucson, Ariz. Nov S Striking railroad shopmen at Gila, Ariz., aro facing a Southern Pacific order thut all water be cut off fiom their homes and that they be forbidden to get drinking water from water cars, according ac-cording to telegrams from W. J.. Stewart, a union labor officer there, to the Tucson branch of the Federation Federa-tion of Shopmen. According to the telegram the order or-der has already gono into effect, causing a serious problem for the strikers to solve as Gila Is situated on the desert and the only two wells thero are owned by the railroad and produco water unfit for domestic use. It Is said that the railroad for twenty years has followed the custom of carrying drinking water to Gila and allowing the residents there the free uso of 1L Officials of the Federation of Shopmen Shop-men announced they would take Immediate Im-mediate action. The absence of railroad rail-road officials from this city prevented prevent-ed any statement being obtained regarding re-garding the order. |