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Show HAS BEEHSETTLED j MEN DECIDE TO RETURN TO JOBS AFTER BEING OUT FOR BUT FOUR DAYS. Practically Paralyzed Industry While Trouble Lasted, Business Being Almost Completely Suspended, Even Sohools Closed. Seattle. The general sympathetic strike of 30,000 union employes of Seattle is at an end. The men were ordered to return to work at noon Tuesday, February 11, when the general gen-eral strike committee nt 1 o'clock on Monday called off the sympathetic strike designed to help 25.000 striking metal trade workers to enforce a demand de-mand for higher wnces. The strike practically paralyzed in-: in-: dustry at Seattle while it lasted. Business Busi-ness in every line was suspended, even the schools being compelled to close, and the street cars were not running. Newspapers, restaurants, barber shops, in fact almost every business venture in the city, were put out of business for the time. The strike lasted four days, soldiers having been sent into Seattle the first day of the strike to maintain order. There was no rioting, and but few arrests ar-rests as a result of the strike, which while it lasted was one of the most complete, in its efforts to tie up Industry, Indus-try, ever inaugurated in the west. The resolution by which the strike was declared off contained a statement advising all labor unions which, returned re-turned to work Sunday or Monday to go on strike again until Tuesday noon, as a demonstration of the solidarity solid-arity of labor, so that all would return re-turn to work together. The general strike at Tacoma, called in sympathy with the ship yard workers' strike, ended Monday, when union workers returned to work in all places except the ship yards. United States soldiers prevented pickets in Butte from stopping men who wanted to work in the mines in defiance of the strike call of the I. W. Vf. members. |