Show MOUNTAIN AND COAST SEATTLE WORKMEN OUT Thirteen Hundred Trades Unionists Quit Work Seattle Wash Oct 8From 1100 to 1300 trade unionists Idle work stopped In over thirty residence buildings and six large brick business blocks under process of eonstruotion and a threatened threat-ened paralysis of nearly the entire building Industry in the city Is the ic sult thus far of the light between the Trades Council and Builders Exchange of Seattle a light that has been brewing brew-ing for several weeks There seems to be a determination on both sides to hold out neither one being willing to yield a point The main point in the controversy is the demand on the part of the trades unionists that contractors of the Builders Build-ers Exchange sign an agreement to pay a certain scale of wages for one year Many of the members of the exchange ex-change arc already paying the scale and others have been for some time but they object to tying themselves up to nn agreement reaching so far ahead Those contractors who have yielded and signed the agreement are having no trouble |