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Show ju ARE SHUT DOWN Lead and Zinc Miners Strike and Many Men Are Made Idle. Output of Ore Greatly Curtailed Curtail-ed Independent Organization Organi-zation Is Being Formed. Joplin. Mo,, July 1 More than forty mines in Webb City and Joplin now are shut clown, the result of the strike of the lead and zinc miners which began be-gan last Monday. Ten more mines, among" the heavi--est producers of the Joplin district were closed today. The week's output out-put of ore will be greatly curtailed. Three thousand men, or more, are out of employment. At a meeting held here last night, the first held in the Joplin district by the strikers, it was decided to organize organ-ize and Independent union. At the meeting it was decided to march upon other mines today demanding that they close. .Operators have said that if the strike continues there will be few mines in southwestern Missouri operating op-erating by the end of the week. Miners Mi-ners of the Joplin district have never before been affiliated with other labor la-bor organizations and no foreign miners mi-ners are employed in the mines. Miners Mi-ners sav they will attempt to organize locals in every city of the district. They are opposing federation with the Western Federation of Miners |