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Show BUILDING INDUSTRY- MAY BE TIED UP IN CHICAGO ' BY LABOR-DISTURBANCES , SB BBBBB BBS BBS BBB1 . CHICAGO. May Wust as the wreckers wreck-ers started the demolition of old structures struc-tures yesterday to make room for" $8,000,000 of new buildings In the loop district a strike was , called which promises to tie up the building Industry of Chicago. One thousand structural iron-workers. following orders, will drop work today and their Idleness will precipitate the first important labor disturbance in the building trades since the 1900 lockout ' The strike promises to stop nearly all construction work of a large character. Skyscrapers and other large buildings in the way downtown district especially will suffer a setback. Delay also Is In store for the new county courthouse, where the Iron-workers were preparing to begin work next week. The 16,000,000 figure on proposed new buildings - accounts only for improvements improve-ments to follow wrecking operations actually begun yesterday. In the city's n district the summer promised an l Investment of $15,000,000 In new The walkout of the Iron-workers was voted last night. Arbitration offers, made at the last moment, failed to avert it. ' The Iron-workers Insist on a wage of $5 a day for eight hours work. The contractors' offer of $4.60 for four months and $4.80 for the rest of the coming year was rejected. Aside from affecting directly four-fifths four-fifths of the mechanics engaged in steel and-iron rrtslructlon work the strike will throw out of employment several thousand other building workmen, such a. carnenterf., bricklayers, hod carriers and stoneru era. |