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Show UNION MEN TO DIG IN PANAMA CANAL CHICAGO, Nov. 26. Two dredgemen, the first engaged for work on the fsth-' fsth-' mlan canal, have left Chicago for Panama. Pan-ama. They were William Bates, dredge engineer, and Phillip Bates, his brother, craneman. They were engaged through the office of the International Brotherhood Brother-hood of Steam Shovel and Dredgemen, the members of which organization will be hired for the work. Withln eighteen months," said Secretary Sec-retary T. J. Dolan, Jr., of the brotherhood. brother-hood. "I expect that 200 dredgemen will be working on the canal on sixty steam shovels." |