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Show STRIKE AT DIAMONDVILLK. ail llno.IrM Miners (jail Work anil !. anil 111(1.. r W.,m. Dlamoudvllle Wyo . Nur, St. Hlx hundred miners are nut on a strike here. The union demanded a raise of 10 rents per ton, also lu per cent raise on day wages, and also thnl two men, Alf llohert and William McCallliler, the latter president of the miner's union, be re-employed by the company. They were formerly employed by the roinpany, but Itobert had quit on ao-count ao-count of aome grlevenre which he had and McCalllster was discharged for being be-ing absent from duty for nine dnyi without leave and without eacuse. Al the conference the company granted the men n raise of three cenU per ton, but refused to re-employ the men mentioned men-tioned At the meeting of the union that nlghl this was apparently agreed to, as the threatened strike waa declared de-clared off and the men returnrd to work as usual Hut during the past week the men demanded that the two men mentioned be placed on the day roll of the company com-pany as check welghinrn nt mlnea two and three. This the company refused and at a meeting of the miners' union held yesterday, a atrlke was declared, to take effect Immediately. |