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Show STRIKES BEGIN TO HURT TRADE ,'Much Idle Money in Banks Reflected By Prices of Bonds NEW YORK. July 24 fBy tho Associated As-sociated Press.) Signs were not wanting want-ing In the country's markots during the past week that the coal and railroad rail-road strikes hav begun to impose an appreciate chccK on the rates of in-duetrlal in-duetrlal activity Addly eucugh it la the shopmen .m strike which has been considered relatively unimportant an an immediate disturbing factor, that has caused a further Important loss in 1 oa production. CROP PRICKS yUIET. In the steel industry It Is estimated thai Ingot production has been reduced reduc-ed l about i. pur cent, which puts the industry on something like a 70 per cent of rapacity basis A decline In car loading also reveals j tin effect!" ot the walkout A part of the general slackness of activity might bo explained on the basis of mid-summer season, It Is quite clear, hnwer. that the strikes are becoming serious factors In business affairs. The markets for agricultural prod-i prod-i 1 continue to he quiet affairs, influence in-fluence by the day-to-day changes in the we.it her reports with the price of wheal below $1 n bushel at primary points. MONEY STILL BA8HBR, Renewed ease In money meanwhllo has be. n keeping the security mark, is firm, bond price.-, reflecting the greater, great-er, supply of Idle Juno's with a rather Vigorous advance. Four per cent has now been established as the ruling rate on the best grades of commerclai paper Willi 'he revival having as vet ma le no appreciable new demands on the banks however, and with the strikes restricting business and Or. .it Hrltaln ihipplng gold In this dlrctlon. mo.st Observers dp not onsider anv tightening tighten-ing In the money market to'be Imminent. Immi-nent. 00 |