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Show THOILSANDslmTpm" BUSY SEASON Trouble Between Plumbers wR fitters in Chicago H)iflj Building Trades. By Leased Wire to The TribuMar CHICAGO. May 13,-FIfteenK men are Idle today In the builBi of the year and buildings contK to cost $35,000,000 are proetlME up as thc result of the pettK tional war being waged betwaSC crp. and steamfitters. Everv tr9d buildlnpr Industry Is paralvzcdMP on 1200 buildings Is halted.' The strike of brlckmakers atflp Ing greatly to the tieup. HdKji men reported for work totfaBw be told that there was nothlnME ' We have no brick." was tjHS of the foreman. .9r Th brlckmakers' strike, wliIcHI? a radius of seventy miles fronK began three weeks ago, wheaE wont on strike. At that tlme-'Bt a two weeks' supply oiv hand'iMp ply was exhausted last MondflH'i John A. Alpine. InternatiohalR'f of tlic plumbers, and Simon' ''Ei business agent of that unioniC appear al tlic conference scluS' Friday afternoon. :yw Another chance will be gUft plumbers' representatives toitE) mediation committee In an cffoK tie the difficulties. Unless tlie'iMf representatives arc present Rt'jBS ing, which has been set for nW day. drastic action will be takpri employers- ;3Slf |