The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-20
twenty Thousand Men Paid OF This
Morning and Told That They
Were no Longer
Needed.
OTHERS ARE INVOLVED
More Men Affected Than Any Similar
Labor Trouble In Chicago and
Future ls Prob
3 Iematlcal.

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CHICAGO June 2o.--With 10000 to
10000 building workmen locked out
by the building construction employ
ers association today and work on
sS0,00O,0O0 Of construction work sus-
pended, Chicago today faced the most
serious building strike since 1900.
Twenty thousand workmen were
PAID off when they reported for work
this morning and told they were no
longer needed. They Joined the 1000
who were ordered to quit by contrac-
tors yesterday,
Work on the s3,000,ooo Conway
building across from the city hall
the sky scraper Continental National
bank; two big additions to Marshall
Field stores, work on the county hos
pital, dozen smaller buildings In
the loop district, and scores of apart
ment houses and buildings in suburbs
was stopped and may be halted for
several weeks.
Between 10000 and $4,000 other
workers not directly interested In the
labor dispute but whose work neces-
sarily dovetails with the men thrown
out Of employment, will be forced In
10 idleness automatically. The lock-
out viii affect more men than any
similar move in the history Of labor
troubles in Chicago
By many labor leaders the strug-
gle that began today marks q crisis
In the battles between the building
construction employers association
composed of nearly 500 Chicago con-
tractors and the building trades coun-
Gil representing all the union men en-
gagged in construction work. The en-
ployers frankly admit they will at
tempt to @starve OUT the union men.
They will make no attempts to put
non-,nion workmen on the buildings
under construction but allow the
work to be halted. I'VE will simply
wait until the marble workers who
quit work on the Continental and Com
mercial bank building return said
q. M. Craig, secretary OF the employ
ers' association, today. I'VE are IN
better position to wait than the mer
are and if the building trades coun
Gil does not settle the trouble we vii
not allow one man to go to work. Oul
members are under bond to keel
their contract with the association
and If any member of the seventeen
unions locked out Is permitted to q
back to work we shall declare th1
contractors bond forfeited The lock
out was precipitated by the action o
4 the union marble workers on the Con
tinental and Commercial bank builc
ing who walked out because th'
Thompson Starrett Co., contractors TO
the bank building, permitted non-uniol
men to work ON the new F1el'
museum. No effort was made by tn
building trades council to avert tn
lockout order of the employers an
the secretary of the council declare
today that the men could stand an e,
tended strike II the employers force
It. DESPITE the fact that consider
able violence marked the big buildin
strike in 1900 the police have take
no extra precaution to prevent tro'
BILE. Chief McWeeney said today h
bad received no official notice Of tn
lockout and did not expect any di
order. Officers of three employe
associations indirectly affiliated wit
the building construction employer
association assured the union men t
day that they would take no part
the lock out. These were the carpel
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