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Show WEST MAI BE TIEO UP Strike on the Colorado Southern Ral road May Spread to Other Roads Unless Settlement Is Reached. Denver- If la not expected tbal Martin A Knapp. chairman of the Interstate In-terstate Commerce commission, and Chart V .Will commissioner of labor, la-bor, will come 19 Denver In connec Hon with Ihe atrlke puliation on tbi. Colorado A Southern railroad So far no progress toward a settlement has been made, and tho outlook Is that Ibe strike will spread tlrletanr committees of the Den vcr & Hlo tirande and other roads are In the clt) nnd they will make a demand de-mand for nn additional 2 cents an hour for the yardmen If this Is done. It will either end the present strike or cause It to spread to other roadu livery rallrond In the west la threat encil Sixteen of Ihe larger mines-nar mines-nar Trinidad, depending dlreclly on Ihe Colorado A. Southern for hand ling their product. Wednesday closed down tndi finitely aa a nsiilt nf the switchmen's strike The shutdown will throw some .1.000 men out of em- plo) ment. To prevent I he rinsing of their mines which would entail n lose of thousands of dollar, and to relieve a threHtenul coal famine at Central OH), ten of Ceritrgl Cll)'a moat prom tnent illlaena turned 'braklea" and manned n Itnln of fuel ileatliii.fu;-s -that district The) took charge of the frelaht al (li lilen. where 11 had belli laid out since the calling nf Ihn general atrlke of trainmen on the Colorado K .Southern laat week |