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Show NO PAPERS Arbitrary Action of a Union Closes the Big Plants Denver, Colo., Jan. 15. The following follow-ing announcement was made Jointly today by tho publishers of tho Times. Post, News and Republican: "The Union Trsssmea hero have gone on a strike, and as a result all of the Denver newspapers have suspended sus-pended publication. The strikers de- . manded an increase n wages amounting amount-ing to 47 per rent and the caeh sum of $18:00O. The pressmen contend that the 47 per cent Increase phouM have gone Into effect on Jdarch. 1st lest, when tho demand was made and the $18,000 demanded Is called baclc pay. "Tho old scale under which tho Denver proesmen worked expired lat March, at which time a new scale was presented by them, calling for an Increase of 47 per cent. "The publishers held that this increase in-crease was excessive and announced that they would take advantage of the arbitration clause in the old teale. "A week ago, a national representative represen-tative of the pressmen came to Denver Den-ver and unnounced that the new scale must be acceded to immediately. immediate-ly. The Denver publishers all signed the scale under protost, whereupon the union gave the papers five days In which to pay over the cash, which was not done, and the men then struck." |