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Show GREAT MACHINISTS STI1IKB INAUOURATBP' fitly Thod llin UU Mork lha n, j.;ail l.r ,rsioer III l'tn. Approilinately so.ooo maehlhVla throughout the country struck i in-day in-day for a nine-hour day. a seat, of nagea cpul to the present ten Ijrjira per day aeale and other demands. fls Is a rough eatlinale of I'reaklentO'ijau nail of the National Assoolatlonoi Jio-chlntsts, Jio-chlntsts, baseJ oil telegraphla adYlKS that have reached him from the na-chlulsta' na-chlulsta' headijuartera In the vatUia cities. The atrlke thus far haa not extertfed to the allied trades, nave In one orlmro Instances as at Bcranton, l'n., nktre men In a part ot the allied trades Ire ouL No machinists engaged In pv eminent work are affected This la due to the fact that on audi work a u elght-hour-a-day schedule already prevails pre-vails Itallroad machinists, as a rule, Ire not Involved In the strike, though the men on several roads are ouL Ihe Central Vermont shop mschlnlstsjSt BL Albans, numbering probably 0, have atruck, The Lehigh alley rill road machinists at HurTalo, Sayre, Wllkeaharre and Klmlra are out, (g grrgatlng 600 all told. The Delaware, Lackawanna .. Western men at JlnJa lo, Bcranton, tVllkesbarre and Inter mediate points are out. The Unlf, Colorado A Banta Fe men are also ouL The atrlke order, however, doe not apply lo the railroads generally At Ban Francisco o.WI men are out, In eluding those of the I'lilon Iron works. Tho number of strikers, their leaders claim, will Increase dally until the demandesra compiled with, end the atrlke la llkoly to pass Into history aa the greatest on recoi'l Tho ncn are orderly and no violence Is anticipated. |