Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1915 — Strike Menaces Chicago. [ARTICLE]

Strike Menaces Chicago.

Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Thomas Williams, head of the building trades department, attended a meeting in Chicago Friday of the union labor leaders in an effort to bring about peace between warring factions and prevent a threatened tieup of building operations in Chicago May Ist, when a number of agreements with contractors expire. The threatened tie-up would affect more than 100,000 workmen.