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Show The Great "Cig-ar Lockout" Begun. New Yobk, January 20. At 5 o'clock yesterday yes-terday afternoon the employes of fifteen of the sixteen factories of the Cigar Manufacturers' Manufac-turers' Association were told there was no more "stock." The men gathered up their tools and belongings and quietly left the shops. THE LOCKOUT WAS BEGUN. The sixteenth firm of the Association is Hirsch & Co., who will confer at 11 a. m. today to-day with their men and doubtless adjust prices to suit. Two hundred men will be thus saved from the lockout. A BOYCOTT. THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES Will at once go into effect against the firms locking out their men. It is stated that the Knights of Labor have levied $3 on each j member to support the striking cigar mak- j ers. |