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Show LOCKOUT OF' 50,000 I1IB llEfflEB Building Trades Employees of Chicago Are Confronted by Serious Trouble. CHICAGO, Oct. 12. A lockout of 50.000 buildings trado employees is threatened as the result of numerous sympathetic strikes on vr.rious buildings build-ings now being erected in tho downtown down-town district. At a couferenco today botwe.cn the union representatives and several contractors, con-tractors, no solution of tho difficulties was reached and at thc closo tho contractors con-tractors issued an ultimatum, which was in effect: "Return to work or stay away forever. for-ever. ' ' Tho strikes are said io have been caused by rivalry between tho Steam-litters' Steam-litters' and Plumbers' unions as to which trado shall install pneumatic tu.bing. Among thc structures affected aro tho now county courthouse, the Commercial National' bank building and tho new Marshall Field structure. It is said that close to $3,000,000 worth of contracts aro tied up pending a settlement set-tlement of the difficulty. |