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Show STRIKE OF SHOPMEN DOES NOT EXTEND TO OGDEN The nationwide strike of railroad shopmen, which was called at 10 o'clock, Chicago time this morning, has not affected Ogden as far as known up to 2 o'clock this afternoon When asked regarding tho strike, Master Mechanic David Hickey of the Southern ParWie shops said that no word had been received in Ogden of a 6trike, as far as he knew. The news of the strike of the Federated shopmen shop-men in the east, as conveed by the Standard, was the first he had heard of the strike. Mr Hickey said According to the reports from Chicago, Chi-cago, it is said a request was made of the railroad administration on January' 1 last, for an increase in wages from 63 cents an hour to S2 cents an hour for mechanics and from I B cents to 60 cents an hour for helpers. |