Show t lim i i b Ill J i j COMMERCIAL CLUB BUILDING J tt STRIKE A STUBBORN AFFAIR I fi 11 i r i iti T ti r rI I I r rI 1 4 j 1 1 I C t d i I I fi i iI i I f f 11 I I IL I t j jk i i Th k jf Ii r J p 7 J a aI 1 a I i J t i t tI b I f fi i i s I 4 IL L I r I I if 1 a I L 4 j H HI HJ U I I J If I t r rI i I c r rI 01 I Ii t 2 I tt X 4 i Photo by b i Nonunion foreign laborers at work on the Commercial Club building at Cactus street and Exchange place ni I j Ten en deputy deput sheriffs guarded six ix nonI non HJ I muon laborers at the nev DeW Commercial i i U crab eb building afternoon while J Ii I Ii 1 J n structural iron workers looked lOOk ed over Lj H the fence and smiled at the clumsy chima I I work of the novices vho were attempt attempting I ing hE I to hoist the steel into place The i representatives of the Minneapolis P steel Sted tt I Machinery lII company made a abran brave bran attempt to proceed p with the work w rk L if but little was wu accomplished U ti During the forenoon Japan Japa Japanese j II I f ese and ad Greek laborer were put to 10 toI I i ii work hoisting the iron In addition r i t f 1 W there were for tor a short time seven Aus Austrian i trian at work Nick Kick Butkovich the ther r dean clear of the th Austrian colony went to tu 4 1 4 work and after a word ord or two 0 with the i seven sev Austrians persuaded them to toI I I ii I work ork At noon the union iron ironworkers ironworkers t workers talked to tl the Japanese and andi i f I Greeks while they were eating lunch t They were told the th conditions under I which they the were working and immedi immediately Immediately Immediately left the place At 1 there were only four men menat menat menat at work Later Iter In the afternoon two more were ere added and the six workmen raised two to steel beams during the aft afternoon E A Franks Franka formerly former a member of the police poll force has charge of the strikebreaking forte force forc e for the Minneapolis olis otia Steel teel Machinery company compan He i occupied a similar position for the Den Denver Denver ver vcr A Rio Grande railroad in the recent strike of the machinists and has lias se so secured secured cured workmen ItS as on the Commercial club building some of the men employed to break the th railroad strike Representatives of f the Minneapolis Steel St 1 Machinery company said yes yesterday yesterday yesterday afternoon that strikebreakers would be imported from Chicago and andSt andSt St 81 Louis and that no trouble would be experienced in getting a number of I competent men to work forthe amount I paid by the company com pan President VT V Y J Halloran and Fisher Harris of the Commercial club visited the work yesterday ye They have been asked by representatives of the union and others to use Ulle their influence to have hav only union men employed in the con construction of the building The representatives of ot the union de declare declare clare dare that ninety days notice had been b n given giveR the Minneapolis Steel Machin Machinery ery cry company of the proposed ed advance in scale from 4 I to a day dar but that this notice was received by b the com corn company company pany long before it made its bid on the steel work of the Commercial club The scale asked by b the men so they say is III less than is j paid paki structural iron work workers ers era all through the east In Salt Lake Lakeit it is asserted the th iron workers are being paid 4 6 a day da at every new building I save only the tIll Commercial club building |