Show CHICAGO LABOR TROUBLES Leaders of Workmen Says the Contractors Con-tractors are Weakening Chicago Feb 12Of the 7000 building I build-ing tradesmen who look their half holiday I holi-day afternoon in defiance of the now rules of the Building Contractors council onehalf it was announced by the labor leaders resumed work as usual on tho big buildings This Is regarded re-garded by the labor Interests as Indicating Indi-cating weakness In the building contractors con-tractors agreement to stand by one another At the headquarters of the contractors it was declared that tho mon silli at work were doing so under special agreements In order to complete certain portions of the work Operations on numerous smaller structures are at a standstill and will remain ao the bosses say until the planes of the locked out mon are filled To guard against othcra taking their places the union men have 1000 pickets stationed about the city A message waa received here today from St Louis announcing that all unions in the country alHllated with MX the National Building Trades council had been notllled to withhold their members from Chicago until a settlement settle-ment had been made here The Building Material Trades council t with a membership of uoOOO has an iiounseil that It will support Ito Build lug Trades council NO material will be furnished to contractors employing l nonunion labor |