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Show ONE MIGHTY UNION. Proposed Amalgamation of the Building Build-ing Trades. PittsburgT Aug: 30. According to Frank Buchanan, president of the International Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, it is planned -to amalgamate the six powerful power-ful structural' trades into almighty national na-tional building trades "council of m,vti workmen and the absorption by the smaller building trades, such as granite cutters, marble polishers, stone cutters, etc. A meeting to. further, tnl sobject will be held at Indianapolis on Oct. 7 and will be attended by national officers rep-resenting rep-resenting the carpenters, bricklayers and masons, the plumbers and gas fitters, painters and decorators and the Building Trade Laborers International union. At the root of the proposed organization organiza-tion is a decision of its promoters to in a great, measure abolish strikes. |