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Show VANCOUVER WORKMEN "CEASE FROM LABOR" VANCOUVER, June 8. Thirty-five hundred men of tba bnilding trades quit work today, which they technically techni-cally describe as "cessation from labor." la-bor." To strike ia illegal by federal lnw; hence every man ncted individually individu-ally nnd failed to nppcar for work. All union carpenters are out, but the bricklayers refused to join them in various vari-ous parts of the eity. It is estimated that work has been stopped on two-thirds two-thirds of the buildings, but. many nonunion non-union earpentera are working and all bricklayers apparently are employed. Htrret "railway men, teamsters, etc.," re fi'Ked to ioin the atrike. htrike leaders asserted that they had gained their cad as well as they expected. ex-pected. . Leaders of master buildings declare that they had more men apply for work thie, morning for open shop jobs than they could provide work fur. |