Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1900 — TO EXTEND GREAT STRIKE. [ARTICLE]

TO EXTEND GREAT STRIKE.

All Men Working for Chicago Contract* ora to Be Culled Out. At a meeting of the business agents of the Chicago Building Trades Council a committee was appointed to make arrangements to declare strikes on all buildings in the United States and Canada where Chicago contractors taking part in the lockout are interested. . The union officials claim that contractors have failed to get competent non-union workmen. The contractors have advertised for men throughout the United Stntes. Present indications are that the struggle will not open up in euroest for some time to come. Both sides are strengthening their forces in preparation for a long struggle. Both the Building Trades Council and the Building Contractors’ Council have established pickets at all buildings in the process of construction. It is not probable that the trouble will end until either the contractors’ organization or the union is disrupted.