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Show oo- LABOR TROUBLES BLOCK LAYING OF INDOOR TRACK BOSTON. Mass , Feb. 5 The Bos-I ton Athletic association, shifting the scene today of its annual indoor games from the Mechanics building, found labor troubles Interfering with tho in-tallmeat in-tallmeat of its running track at the Boston arena. As the engagement of unior. carpenters carpen-ters at rates demanded would cause conflict with employers many of whom are members of the club, and the hiring of non-union men would mean taking sides with the employers, the management enlisted club mcm-bers, mcm-bers, students of nearby colleges and other friends of athletics as volunteers to install the track sections. The games of tonight will marlt the indoor season's most representative competition of club, college and unaffiliated un-affiliated athletes. Champions of the Olympiad, of the country and of its svveral sections were among the six hundred athletes who wore in the city Mday, a bit fretful for lack of opportunity oppor-tunity to limber up until the track was laid. |