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Show FARMERS WILL j FEED STRIKERS I LINCOLN. Neb.. July 8. Food will jbe supplied to 2.000 Idle railroad shopmen shop-men and their families of Havelock and Loncoln if tho strike lasts ten. v e ars. j lhat p'eds v. is made to the strikers tonight by farmers of Lancaster Lan-caster and Clay counties in a mass mi eting that overflowed Havelock city (park. More than n.Ooo heard repre-Latlvee repre-Latlvee of every grange organization in the state promise to help the shop-' ment win their battle "at any cost." After pledging themselves to back 1 he strikers to the limit the farmers 'and cltlbehs demanded government ln-' ln-' vestitratlon of charges that millions of dollars worth of equipment had been removed from rolling stock during government gov-ernment control of railroads and casb-ed casb-ed away in shops throughout tho country coun-try to bo brought out and used when the roads were returned to private ownership. The resolutions, copies of which were sent to Nebraska's dele-' gation in congress, denounce the ef-fOTl ef-fOTl Of railroad officials to re-open shops with strike-breakers. While the mass meeting was In progress the Havelock city council adopted a resolution urging the Burlington Burl-ington officials to prevent the bring-"' inu; into the community of "undeii -able citizens" as strtke-brcakora. |