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Show uu VIRGINIA CITY MINERS STRIKE: 350 MEN IDLE VIRGINIA CITY, Nev.. Sept. 7. When their request for an Increase of $1 a day, In wages making the It ila for miners and top-men JC a shift, was denied, about 350 miner worl In in the Virginia City mines walked out! i losing down nearly all the properties' Sunday. At :i mass meeting in the ball park the walkout was discussed by the ml- ners and it was decided to remain out 1 until the demand for increase was I met. A committor of five was np- J pointed to confer with the operators. The walkout is not sanctioned by the miners' union. It Is understood, as the union has a working agreement witli th- operators which holds until i January 1. |