Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1915 — CHICAGO CARPENTERS STRIKE [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO CARPENTERS STRIKE

Sixteen Thousand Lay Down Tools; 100,000 Men May Join in Labor Fight. Chicago, April 16. —Sixteen thousand carpenters have been declared on strike here. This move on the part of the union carpenters is taken as an Indication of the beginning of a determined fight between contactors and 100,000 building trades workmen. A number of carpenters will remain at work for Independent contractors, but they, too, may be drawn into the fight because of strikes of other trades. The carpenters are asking an increase from 65 to 70 cents an hour. General paralysis of the largest part of Chicago’s building Industry during a long strike seems inevitable.