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Show CHICAGO CLOTHING WORKERS! STRIKE CHICAGO, Sept. 27. Between 4000 and 4500 clothing workers in this city obeyed the initial order of their union to go on strike today, according to a statement issued tonight by officials of the Amalgamated Association of Garment Gar-ment Workers. About 450 other employees em-ployees were atfected by a resultant lockout. The statement contained the further furth-er assertion that unless some move was made by the manufacturers before midnight a "general strike order would be issued, affecting between 20,000 and 25,000 garment workers and others employed em-ployed in the big tailoring establishments establish-ments here. Sydney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Association of Garment Workers, said tonight that the initial order was issued merely for the purpose of demonstrating to the emplovers that the union was determined and that it reallv controlled the clothing workers of the city. He said a general strike order was not issued in the hope that the manufacturers "might see the light." Labor leaders in other cities tonight were awaiting the outcome of the controversy, con-troversy, with no little interest, it was said, and a general strike of clothing makers was one possibility with which they were confronted. Chief of Police Healy took precautions precau-tions against possible trouble today and a large force of police was kept in reserve for emergency. Five alleged pickets were taken into custody shortly after noon and twenty-seven strikers were arrested tonight. Seven of those taken into custody were passing out handbills in the vicinity of the shops affected by the walkout and refused to desist when ordered away. |