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jfRS! - -j- sfifr' 'Qam .wsaj---. tat funding the bosses" association lias violated its agreement with the county and has imperiled the lives , of Chicago's poor. President McCormick seemed to a think the point well taken and prom " ised that the matter would be laid before the County Board this after noon and immediate action taken. Trouble also has cropped up in the architectural Iron line, doing its crop ping in the camp of the bosses. P. E. Thoman, business agent of Architectural Iron Workers' Union, Local No. 63, has written P. P. Smith, business agent of the bosses' archi tectural iron league, pointing out that by locking out the members of the union, the bosses' league had vio lated the agreement entered into be tween the union and the league, March 16, i912. This agreement expressly pro vides that the union shall not go on a. sympathy strike nor the bosses in dulge in a sympathy lockout during thejife of the contract. "Seems to me," said Edward Ryan, president of the Architectural Iron Workers, today, "that some people just can't help going out of their way to horn into trouble. "Now you take some of these big architectural iron firms. They have work in other cities than Chicago, of course, and When they locked us out here we just had to call out our men in Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and Mil waukee. "Isn't it funny the way some peo ple aren't funny unless they're hunt ing right behind the tail of trouble?" ''Anything new today?" a reporter asked Craig, the bosses' walking delegate. "YeS," he gaid dully, "haven't you heard, about it? Twenty-five thou sand .men have been locked out by the huilding employers. In doing this the employers have been doing just is the Tribune explained using the tactics of the union N6w we have locked 6Ut twenty-five thousand men and that means that twenty thousand more will be forced to qmt work indirectly." It became evident here that Mi. Craig had been reading the Tribune not wisely but tod believingly and that the accuracy of his statements must therefore be doubted. So the reporter tried a neck tack. v "Aren't you ashamed to have forc ed all these thousands and thousands of men to starvation?' he asked. "It's horrible," said Craig, sighing gently. "Well, don't you think you ought to call the lockout off?" "What difference would that make?" demanded Craig, indig nantly. "Well," said the reporter, "ail these thousands and thousands of men would go back to work and earn money and be able to eat again, you know." "Sure," said Craig, "sure. I forgot about that. I was thinking of some thing else." "Well,, why don't you cali the iock out off?" "Ye eh," said Craig, very myster iously, "why dbn't we?" There was silence for a few min utes. ''Say, young man," said Craig, brightening, "did you hear what the Building Trades Council did when it called a strike on the Children's Memorial Hospital" "Yes," said the reporter, gently. "I heard that one." "That's all then," said the bosses' walking delegate, sadly shaking his head. George Beck, MO Caffield pi., Wil mette, and Charles - Lapp drove motorcycle into drainage canal, near Lincoln St. and Railroad av. to avoid policeman. Finally caught. Dr. Lauro Miller, Brazilian minister of foreign affairs, left Chicago after cMS.U ,,iatp44p4orU, buwi! couldn't Ibhs forced Itron lis. neip it, ine unit m t .j.: -..