The strike leaders marched with several hundred of their men to the Army headquarters and demanded an increase in wages of 50 per cent., threatening to down tools unless it was forthcoming immediately. M. Krassin met the leaders and asked if they had any other demands, and when they replied in thie negative, he ordered them to report back to the men that not only were the demands refused, but that if work was not resumed within two hours, all the} members of the striking organiza-an
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