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Show uu iSroads New York, Aug. 7. The strike on the surface railway lines hero, which threaten to extend to the subway and elevated systems and thus completely tie up transportation facilities in Greater New York virtually came to an end tonight. Directors of the Now York Railways company and the Third Avenue Railway Rail-way company, the two principal lines affected, voted after being deadlocked for twelve hours, to accept a plan of settlement proposed by Mayor Mltchel and Oscar S. Straus, chairman of the public service commission, after representatives rep-resentatives of the strikers had agreed to it. It was then "announced that normal service would be resumed to-' to-' morrow morning on the lines which ratified tho agreement One of the chief concessions in tho settlement gives to the employes the right to organize, which was the Issue the strike leaders said they were determined de-termined should be fought to the end. The companies agreed to treat with grievance committees of their employes em-ployes Irrepectlve of the fact that they may belong to a union. Wage demands will be arbitrated. |