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Show BIG STRIKE IS ORDERED Building: Trades of Chicago Chi-cago Arc Called Out in Sympathy. CHICAGO, March 24. A general strike of the building trades was ordered or-dered by the advisory board of . the Building Trades Council last night on all structures on which members of the International Association of Sheet Metal Workers are employed. This step was taken to support 500 sheet metal worker -who .went on-strike on the 10th of March because the Sheet Metal Contractors' association bad signed an , agreement with another union. Four, hundred bricklayers' and their helpers, employed in the erection of a new building in South Chicago, have gone on strike. The trouble came about when it was discovered that some of the men employed upon the structural iron work were not union men. |