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Show oo BOSTON RATS GLAD; CATCHERS ON STRIKE BOSTON. Oct. 4. The rats squeak- ',-'1 with gb-u today The rat rat, hers are on strike. In department stores, railroad terminals, ter-minals, buslnes buildings and confectionery con-fectionery and other stores served by tho only two companies In the city .that make a business of rat catching, catch-ing, protection was only partial or 1 passive. I All the rat catchers employed by 'the companies the men. that ls 'were on strike for more money, short-er short-er hours and workless Sundays The .dogs, t ruined to work only with tho i men assigned as their masters, were little good. The ferrets, similarly in need of trained hands to direct them could not be used effectively. W. G. Geekie. head of the W. O. Geokie Sanitary Kngincering organization, organi-zation, said that the men of his company com-pany and those men of the othci rat niching concern, apparenily got together, to-gether, formed a little union nnd set about to chango the conditions of inelr calling. |