BULLETIN.

Union officials in charge of the strike claimed at 2 o’clock this afternoon that nearly every man employed in the Standard Steel Car Company, Forged Steel Wheel Company, and subsidiary plants, had quit work in response to the strike order issued this morning.

Two thousand strikers held a mass meeting at 1:30 this afternoon on the hill near the Harmony street car station, Lyndora. The speakers included H. F. Liley, chief representative here of the American Federation of Labor, and C. E. Parker, president of the United Metal Workers Council. The men were urged to hold out for their demands and to get non-members to join their unions. There was no disorder.

Demanding a recognition of their unions and the right of collective bargaining, an increase of wages amounting to between 25 and 50 per cent, and double time for holidays and overtime, over 3,000 employees of the Standard Steel Car Company and its subsidiary plants walked out at 11:30 o’clock this morning.

(“)Union officials claimed this afternoon that bewfore night every man in all the departments will have quit work.

Between 4,000 and 5,000 men will be affected by the general strike today,” according to C. E. Parker, president of the United Metal Workers Council.