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Show STRIKE Shopmen Expect Walkout Walk-out Will Become Nation-wide Today. EXTEND TO ALLR.R. Strike Against Delays In Consideration of Demands. CHICAGO. Aug 2. Leaders of the Federated Railway Shopmen's union today predict that the strike which -tarted yesterday- would become the nationwide movement that it was ev pected to be when it was called. A1 present the strike is for the most part confined to points in the middle wosl and southeast, with some of the craftsmen crafts-men nut at points outside that terri-tor terri-tor . In the middk west some 30,000 men were reported out. with a like number, in Ihe south and southeast sections.1 j Those affected are car repairers, inspectors, in-spectors, machinists, electricians, blacksmiths and sheet metal workers. jThey demand a wage increase from the present scale of 88 cents an hour ! to 85 cents with 60 cents an hour for helpers and thatthe increase be ef-j feciive from January 1, 1919. 'fEvery railroad Bystem In the eoun- j try will be affected by night," John j D. Saunders, secretary of the council directing the Chicago situation said. I ' The strike was ordered as a protest against Ihe many delays in our demands de-mands Negotiations in Washington have been without avail We will make a clean sweep of every road in the country." Violated Orders DEM ER. Colo , Aug 2 That the strike of railroad shopmen declared yesterday Is in direct violation of orders or-ders insued by the grand lodge of the! railway department of the American! 'Federation of Labor, was the state-! . ment made toda by F. E fifties gen-' eral chairman of district 20. of the in-' ternational Association of Machinists I District l'ii i nniprix-s Colorado, Wyoni-' ling and New Mexico, i "The railwaj department of the American Federation of Labor Is the parent body of all organizations of railway employes," said Mr. Miles "ln view of that fact. I an. doing my utmost ut-most tn keep the men at work In my 1 district, since the eight grand lodges Of Ihe railway departmmt have pressed their wishes that there b1' no strike." oo |