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Show oo 'QUIET REIGNS AFTER FIGHT AT j ARGO PLANT I HICAGO, July 9. Quiet reigned to-da to-da at the plant of the Corn Products Refining company at Arc:", ill. where yesterday two persons were K'Hed and I a score wounded in a fight between armed guards of the company and Striker. Sheriff Charles W Peters . r.nd ninety deputies were at the plant to preserve order. The plant has been closed down lem-poraril) lem-poraril) and it is said no attempt will I be made to resume operations for several sev-eral days. About two thousand workmen are on a strike to enforce their demand for a closed shop There is no dispute over wages or hours of labor as the men have on eight-hour day and were given a voluntary increase in wages July 1. Two hundred employes, it Is said, refused to join the strikers. The plant Is plckt ted by strikers who held several meetings during the daV. Peoria, ill . July 9. majority oi Dip 1 9nfl unnltvai ni tV..-, I v,-r. !-,-, ..1 ucts Refining company plant at Perm, Pe-rm, ill., went on strike today when time limit given the officials to accede to their demand for a "closed shop" expired. The plant opened for operation as urual this morning and a part of the dn shift appeared for work More than a hundred strikers gathered in front of the plant and held a demon-; stralion In protest. There was some I jeering but no violence. The officials declared they antici-p antici-p te no trouble, but they have taken' precautionary measures for the safeguarding safe-guarding of men w ho did not join trie I strike. CHICAGO, July 9 Several thousand men and women, employes of Chicagoj candy factories, went on strike today, for higher wages and better working conditions When police attempted to disperse a crowd of strikers at the National Na-tional Candy company one of the strikers fired a shot and the police fired several shots in the air No one was injured, fine arrest was made CTnw "" 1 1 |