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Show MACHINISTS GO OUT ON STRIKE Pierce Arrow Automobile Company and Other Concerns Con-cerns Face Demands of 10,000 Men. , Buffalo, Ny., March 2 Five hundred hun-dred machinists of the Pierce-Arrow Automobile company went out on strike today in response to tho strike vote taken at a meeting of the machinists ma-chinists union More than 1,500 machinists ma-chinists remained at work. The plant has large war orders for motor trucks. Two hundred of 900 employed at the Curtis Aeroplane company joined the strikers Several other small concerns con-cerns machinists walked out. Union officials would not state how many men had answered the strike call, but predicted that 10,000 men would be affectod by Saturday. The men demand an eight hour day, time and a half for overtime, no Sunday Sun-day work, and a wage scale .with a minimum of forty cents an hour. |