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Show oo DENY STRIKERS ANY ARBITRATION Boston, Auc V Two hundred strikers from two Hyde Park manufacturing manu-facturing plants controlled by Oover i'or ESugene N Fo6s, stormed the stato house today demanding an lm mediate hearing of their grievances bj the tat board of arbitration. Chairman Howiand refused to receive the party, explaining that the ho.ml a occupied with othor matters. The strikers then appealed to Gov ornor Foes. Insisting that he order the 6tate board to receive the petitioners peti-tioners at onco. The governor replied that he had no authority In the matter. The strikers arrived ar the south' Motion late In the forenoon and paraded pa-raded up Beacon Hill. ei young women bearing American flags headed head-ed th line. Others carried sin1 reading "We want a living wage.' We want justice ' "We demand arbitration" ar-bitration" and ' We srp the FO88 strikers from Hyde Park " Statehouso Guarded. The coming of the men, whose rjuarrel with the governor has been bitter since they wont out several weeks ago. had been heralded, and at the capltol they found policemen stationed sta-tioned at ell the entrances So they halted under the archway A moment later a sergeant at arms appeared and warned the strikers that the must not block the arch-wa. arch-wa. He added, however, thai all who could be vouched fnr as strikers strik-ers at the F06S plants would be admitted ad-mitted to the building The men then filed into the capltol, and a committee of four entered th office of the state board When chairman , Howiand appeared the leader of tin-delegation tin-delegation said: 'We, the Fobs strikers, demand a public hearing. ' , "It will not be granted,'' tho chair man replied We are now considering consider-ing other matters Usually when there is a desire for a public hearing those interested sbow us the cour-j cour-j tesy of asking for a formal date.' The committee then withdrew and the stril-ers marched to a hotel in the vicinity |