Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1898 — Chicago Carpenters Strike. [ARTICLE]

Chicago Carpenters Strike.

Chicago, April 5. —Complying with instructions from their local unions, 5,000 carpenters on Monday laid aside their tools and walked out to join in a general strike. This means the opening of serious labor troubles and forebodes n repetition of the strikes and walkouts declared at the beginning of building operations the Inst two or three rears.