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Show Have Put on the Brakes. New Orleans, February 15. Thirty-five freight brakemen on the Morgan Railroad struck work last night. . They had been receiving re-ceiving $54 per month, and demanded $65, which sum the managers refused to pay. The brakemen stopped all freight trains at Gretna, outside of the city limits, and will not allow them to proceed. Though there are only about forty brakemen on the road, yet at Gretna a crowd of 150 to 200 men assembled. as-sembled. No further attempt will be made to move the freight trains without police protection. |