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Show E STRIKE ; IN CiCAGO Thousands of Garment Workers Have Quit Their Work ' Chicago, Oct. 27. A call for every non-union garment worker In the city t.. come out on a general strike for the betterment of conditions under which lliey have been laborlug. was issued .slerJay by Robert Boron, president of the ChlCHgo local of the 1'n lied. Garment Workers' union. This cull came after l..T"0 men and women had struck durlnu the day, swelling the total nv on strike to 20. nun. If the garment workers still employ. e,j answer the call, u will nmre thnn double the number of strikers. Officers Offi-cers of the union stated emphatically yesterdav that they would effect uallv tie up the clothing houses of Chicago today in carrying en the battle for a dosed shop and more agreeable working work-ing conditions. Twelve large shops and twice as mrniv smaller ones now are practically rinsed as a result of the strike and thoj-e which nre open ate mostly small places. |