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Show MANY WORKMEN MAY BE MADE IDLE Labor Troubles in Chicago Which Likely Cause 50,000 Men to Be Thrown Out. CHICAGO. May 4. Fifty thousand workmen employed ln the building trades ln this city will be thrown out of employment within forty-eight forty-eight hours, according to the statement of the Association of Manufacturers and Builders In building materials unless un-less a speedy f-ottlement is reached between be-tween the stone, limp and cement workers work-ers and their employers. Nearly 1000 teamsters hauling building and street work material were locked out todny because tho union hnd called a strike in two cnues and work on a number of buildings was stopped because tho supply sup-ply of building material had been ex-haust6d. |