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Show Mckinley a stonemason. His Membership Likely to Cause Trouble In Laying Corner Stone of Chicago PoBtofflce. Chicago, Sept. 9. President McKin-ley McKin-ley is now a trades union man. He has been elected a member of the Bricklayers' Brick-layers' and Stone Masons' International Internation-al union No. 21 of Chicago. President Gubbins of the union said that since the chief executive was to lay the corner cor-ner stone of the new postoffice it was necessary that the president join the union before he is allowed to handle a trowel in Cook county. A card of honorary membership was made out for the president, but it will not be forwarded to him until the matter has been further discussed. "We will have to take the card away from him," said Secretary Starn, "if Mr. McKinley sets a stone prepared by non-union labor, which the stone intended in-tended for the corner of the new post-office post-office is, and as a national organization organiza-tion we will strike on any building in any part of the United States at which he lays a corner stone or does any construction con-struction work." |