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Show STRIKE AFFECTS TWO MILLION DAYWORKERS NEW YORK. Aucr 18. More thanj two million persons who ordinarly travel daily over the Interborough Rapid Transit Company's subway and elevated lines in Manhattan, the Bronx. Brooklyn and Queens, today either took slow moving surface ears and improvised conveyances or -walked to their work as a result of the strike of the company s 11.000 employes em-ployes for a fifty per cent increase in wages. As on Sunday when the strike became effective, not a wheel turned on the company's 250 miles of track age. The stopping of the main arteries of travel caused the worst traffic snarl in the history of the city. A pouring rain added to the discomfort. Thousands of Jitneys and buses, op. rated rat-ed by the city, filled beyond capacity with workers, clogged the thorough-far. thorough-far. Thousands fought in vein for standing room on each overloaded trolly car. |