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Show PACKERS' EMPLOYES TO FIGHT WAGE CUT CHICAGO. Mar. f Charging that; the packers are preparing to reduce the wages of their 200.000 employes, throughout the country a call was Is-' sudd Friday for a national conference of packing houso workers. Tho meeting will be held in Oma-i ha on March 9 and 10, it was stated and will tako ' such action as will protect pro-tect tho Interests of employes in view of the recent withdrawal of the packers pack-ers from the war time arbitration ugreemcni " In a statement issued by Dennis Lane, president of the Amalgamated Meat Cutting and Butcher. Workmen of America, it was charged thut the cancellation of the agreement was a violation of the packers' pact with the government. |