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Show Fourteen Hundred Union Un-ion Workers Quit-Demand Higher Pay Kansas City, May 7. Fourteen hundred brewery workers, constituting constitut-ing the union workers of all breweries brew-eries and brewer agencies In the city, weni on a strike today owing to tho failure of the companies to grant demands de-mands for increased wages and a revised re-vised working schedule. During the morning thoro was no violence at any of the breweries Officials Of-ficials of the Kansas City Breweries company announced that beer valued at $500,000 is In storage and that deliveries de-liveries will be mado as usual Tho chief contention is between the companies and the bottlers and drivers. driv-ers. They demand an incrcaso of about 10 per cent In wages," pay by the week Instead of monthly, and an 8-hour 8-hour day Instead of ten hours. Engineers, En-gineers, firemen, electricians, brewers and maltsters In the employ of the companies hud no direct grievance. Thoy struck ln sympathy. A statement Issued on behalf of the workers by Joseph Procbstlc of Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, Oho., international secretary' of the Brewery "Wohkmen's union, today to-day assorted that "tho brewers live. In mansions and luxury, and have grown rich through the exploitation of their employes." It added that "more beer 1g produced pro-duced per man in the Kansas City breweries than in any other city in the United States. |