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Show f tabor notes. 1 , Meetings will be held In Federation of Labor halls tonight as follows: Maxwell post. G. A R. hall No. 1; Barbers' union, hall No. 2; Brotherhood of Carpenters, hall No. S; Lathers' union, hall No. 4. and the Carriage and Wagon-Workers' union, in hall No. 6. ' Chicago trade unions are in danger of losing the right to demand the employment employ-ment of their own members exclusively. The Chicago board of arbitration, which Is composed of seven employer and seven union teamsters, has Just decided that a union cannot demand that an employer must give all his work to union men. The case In which the decision was made was that of the elevator men who struck in several skyscrapers. The board gave the strikers an Increase In- wages, but graded the workmen. All employed In buildings nine stories and over are to be known as class A. and In buildings eight stories high as class B. The difference In mage is from $2.60 to 27.60. The board then declared that the building managers were not required to employ union men exclusively. They are simply forbidden to discriminate aeainst union men. H. O. Selfrldge of Marshall Field & Co., the chairman of the board, state that the decision de-cision will establish a-precedent that will be followed by all arbitration boards In he future. |